Time travel. It's almost always a mess, especially the "oh no we altered time on accident, quick everyone LARP as the event that was supposed to happen, that will fix everything. Butterfly effect don't real" story arcs.
Disclaimer: I know there's other models for how time travel can work, such as "every time travel is actually a one way trip to another universe/another universe made" but for plot points about "altering the timeline" my rant applies.
This is why Assassin 33 A.D. was unironically brilliant, they just said "Since we're in timeline C, everything just wraps up neatly so this isn't a problem"
For my birthday this year I had a movie day where I just picked a list of movies I wanted to watch; good, bad, and ugly; and subjected a group of my friends to them. Some of them weren't bad (Prey, Everything Everywhere, All at Once) others were like this one lol. Assasin 33 A.D. was an old Chapo movie review episode and it made the list. It was actually not bad, ideology aside it was probably on par with marvel slop and like I said there was an actual consideration for the sci-fi shenanigans even if it was so that they could be hand-waved away.
All in all for a time travel movie I gave it a solid 7.5 out of 10
10 out of 10 if we're only considering Christofascist propaganda.
Exactly, me and my friends spent the whole movie trying to pick holes in the time travel stuff and it all checked out they wrapped up every loose end down to the bracelet.
The Chapo review of it made me want to watch it, they legitimately consider it an amazing film because how many movies do you see where Jesus of Nazareth gets fucking domed?
When time travel is introduced into a story that previously didn't have it, it's very easy for it to fuck everything up. But on the other hand Dark is all about time travel and is one of my favorite pieces of sci-fi media, cuz they thought the whole thing out
Time travel. It's almost always a mess, especially the "oh no we altered time on accident, quick everyone LARP as the event that was supposed to happen, that will fix everything. Butterfly effect don't real" story arcs.
Disclaimer: I know there's other models for how time travel can work, such as "every time travel is actually a one way trip to another universe/another universe made" but for plot points about "altering the timeline" my rant applies.
This is why Assassin 33 A.D. was unironically brilliant, they just said "Since we're in timeline C, everything just wraps up neatly so this isn't a problem"
I had to look up that movie because I never heard of it.
https://www.cracked.com/article_28629_we-canE28099t-believe-this-dumb-movie-real-assassin-33-a.d..html
I FEEL THE WARP OVERTAKING ME :sus-torment:
For my birthday this year I had a movie day where I just picked a list of movies I wanted to watch; good, bad, and ugly; and subjected a group of my friends to them. Some of them weren't bad (Prey, Everything Everywhere, All at Once) others were like this one lol. Assasin 33 A.D. was an old Chapo movie review episode and it made the list. It was actually not bad, ideology aside it was probably on par with marvel slop and like I said there was an actual consideration for the sci-fi shenanigans even if it was so that they could be hand-waved away.
All in all for a time travel movie I gave it a solid 7.5 out of 10
10 out of 10 if we're only considering Christofascist propaganda.
Them making a genuinely reasonable explanation for the random naked guy in one line of the Passion is worth 10/10 on its own
Exactly, me and my friends spent the whole movie trying to pick holes in the time travel stuff and it all checked out they wrapped up every loose end down to the bracelet.
The Chapo review of it made me want to watch it, they legitimately consider it an amazing film because how many movies do you see where Jesus of Nazareth gets fucking domed?
That is wild, even if it's from a chud source.
When time travel is introduced into a story that previously didn't have it, it's very easy for it to fuck everything up. But on the other hand Dark is all about time travel and is one of my favorite pieces of sci-fi media, cuz they thought the whole thing out
Ever read Timeline by Michael Crichton? He starts with the alternate universe thing but (spoiler) forgets that by the end of the book.
Crichton was appointed as a science advisor during :no-oil: 's regime. That summarizes him well.