• Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    1 day ago

    I was very disapointed in that scene. "Dream bigger" and all you come up with is a grenade launcher? No magic wand? No plasma gun? No giant boot descending from the heavens?

    It was a very austere vision of what it is to dream.

    • LisaTrevor [she/her, they/them]
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      1 day ago

      something about how anything too unrealistic will alert the target's subconscious to being inside of a dream

      idk inception doesn't really make sense and is basically just the matrix but straight

      • Esoteir [he/him]
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        1 day ago

        basically just the matrix but straight

        stealing this spaghetti-code

      • Are_Euclidding_Me [e/em/eir]
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        1 day ago

        Oh, is this Inception? I was vaguely excited to find out what it is and watch it, because I (for some reason, it certainly isn't because he's a good actor) enjoy Joseph Gordon-Levitt in things, and, well, of course you gotta love Tom Hardy. But I've already seen Inception (before I knew who these two people were, clearly), and, like, meh, it's really not that good. "Matrix but straight" might honestly be overselling it. Damn. Here I was hoping for schlocky action with actors I like that I'd somehow missed out on and instead it's takes-itself-too-seriously action with actors I like but I've already seen it and it's not that good. Shucks.

    • Riffraffintheroom [none/use name]
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      1 day ago

      Nolan’s rule: the blandest possible interpretation of fantastical ideas will one net you genre money without locking you out of an Oscar one day.

  • penquin@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    Why do some memes make no sense to me? Is this referencing a movie or something?

    • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]
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      1 day ago

      Look into the Year of Four Emperors, one of the episodes in the fall of Rome

      The Year Of Four Presidents is a rif on that. All it takes is Biden to die/step down/be removed from office, Kamala gets sworn in before Trump's inauguration, Trump dies after his inauguration, and Vance brings us to president four in less than a year. Of course this has the downside of leaving us with president Vance which has lead people to not stop at 4 Presidents. The Year of No Presidents presumably being after the dissolution of the United $$tate$$ of Amerikkka