Jacksonβs Lord of the Rings. All three are the absolute pinnacle of every craft represented in them. (i.e.: camera work, costumes, casting, CG, practical effects, soundtrack, and all the rest.)
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That was not the first film adapatation
I thought it was a huge disappointment, most of all due to the CG.
- Everything looks hueless, often with only a few colors, with weird light angles and enemies often shown as a blur. As if it was made to put everyone on the same level as those who are colorblind and visiually impaired.
- Soundtrack was a dissonance of what went on on screen.
- The towns and villages were beautifully animated and showed wide shots of them, so one could be sure that they were missing any signs of food production or water sources.
- The world did not just look dry in color, but also literally dry. Especially the shire which gives it a plastic feel to it.
All of those put together made me feel it was taking place on a pre-dinosaur earth or not yet fully terraformed planet Mars, rather than a place of fantasy and wonder.
And Saruman's death was absent in the theatrical cut. One of the most important parts of the story was simply cut out.
The Princess Bride.
Inconceivable!
Inconceivaballs
In this thread: people living in fantasy lands.
The first twilight zone. All the followups just lacked the stark yet innocent tone of a someone reasoning with an unjust reality.
I've been making my way through the original recently, one-by-one and though some of them are hit and miss, even the misses are doing something amazing cinematically.
You dawg; you're perfect!
Tetris
You're welcome
You can't take credit when you're the 11th attempt.
No no, that's not 11, that's one one
So the third attempt? My binary is rusty.
I think it's 1 of 1.
Itβs the closest thing to a βperfectβ game I can think of. Every new iteration is just fancy bells and whistles on the same perfect core.
I remember watching a documentary about it, and I think even tetris was based on one of those physical puzzle games with the same pieces, that you had to fit correctly into a square.
Dragon age origins
Alien. Maybe my only 10 out of 10 movie, and not my favorite!
We've all seen it so many times it loses it's luster. Wife had never seen it so I sat with her in the dark and watched it for the first time in decades. Jesus. She was about to tear through the couch cushion in stress. I knew what was going to happen and couldn't peel my eyes off the TV.
Pandorum re-awakened that feeling for me. I also that feeling was dead, but nope still Alice and well
Truly one of the best movies ever made.
Splatoon. The design, the music, the art, the gameplay and the idea was executed so well.
Instant Pot.
Apparently they went bankrupt because they built their units too well. Everyone bought one and never needed to buy a replacement.
Same with Saab cars
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Batman hitting his target with a batterang.
Diablo 1 and 2 by Blizzard. I guess maybe the 2nd time around was perfection but between those two, nothin further was needed.
If you haven't played it, path of Diablo is a really fun Diablo 2 mod.
Hadn't heard of it before. Searched for it, and came across both Path of Diablo, and Project diablo. Some polls suggested preferring the latter 2:1. I haven't played D2 in a few decades (sheesh). Any thoughts on comparing those mods?
Diablo 2 also had an expansion... and balance patches... But I agree.
I bought the whole battle chest back in the early 2000s (well my parents did for me). I consider those to be part of Diablo 2 broadly speaking
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