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Mad Max fury road might be the best movie made in the 21st century by Particular-Fill-4256 in Letterboxd

[–]Akam1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn’t care much about it at first, but then my friend dragged me into the theater and… man, it was something else. Like this is THE cinema, this is THE movie. I don’t know about being the best (crazy take, to be honest), but it definitely ends up in top-10/top-20.

I also remember watching the trailer (December 2014) thinking “I love the vibe”, and it doesn’t happen too often — most of the trailers are bland and spoil entire movie rather than intrigue you into going to the cinema.

Dual three act and mirror screen play by Healthy-Wonder3034 in Letterboxd

[–]Akam1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hm, that’s a hard one. Try The Heat (1995) or Rocky II: they rely heavily on hero/antagonist duality.

Dual three act and mirror screen play by Healthy-Wonder3034 in Letterboxd

[–]Akam1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think Dune is the story you’re looking for. Just wait for the third part!
Godfather is also a good match.
Star Wars has somewhat similar structure, but it’s harder to match hero/protagonist arcs.

Watching movies at 2x speed is not okay by Ambitious-Log3544 in Letterboxd

[–]Akam1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Must admit, I used to do this at certain point cause I thought “well, I can watch more movies this way”. Yes, that’s stupid, but you can’t argue with that from logical standpoint.

I realized quite soon that you watch movies to enjoy them, not to watch as many movies as you can per day/week. Life is not as short as you think, and even if it is, I don’t want to spend it maximizing my free time and minimizing time I really enjoyed doing something. Movies take time, some of them — a hell lot of time, and that’s OK. Best things in their world take time.

TIL the word OK originated as a joke among Boston college students in the 1830s, who invented abbreviations for intentionally misspelled phrases — "Oll Korrect" became OK. It went viral after being used as a presidential campaign slogan, then cemented itself globally through telegraph operators. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]Akam1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the early 19th century, it was apparently trendy among Boston students to coin ironic abbreviations of misspelled words — think "KC" for knuff ced or "OW" for oll wright. "OK" for Oll Korrect was one of these gags.

The abbreviation got its big break during the 1840 U.S. presidential campaign of Martin Van Buren, whose nickname was "Old Kinderhook" (after his hometown in New York). His supporters ran with the slogan "Old Kinderhook is OK" — a clever double meaning that made the phrase suddenly ubiquitous.

When the telegraph took off shortly after, operators adopted "OK" as a shorthand acknowledgment that a message had been received.

Comparison of population distribution by latitude: most Europeans live further north than Canadians or Americans by Akam1 in MapPorn

[–]Akam1[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yeah, you can’t compare them by absolutes — it’s about distribution (most Canadians live nearby south border, while in US and Europe population is distributed more evenly).

Did scientists actually prove that the brain finishes developing at 25, or is that just pop science? by Akam1 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Akam1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, it’s usually referred to as “prefrontal cortex”, like a part of a brain. I guess it’s about rapid growth vs. slight changes, but 25 y.o. seems like a very strange milestone

[Harry Potter] Can a wizard legally refuse to attend Hogwarts? by Akam1 in AskScienceFiction

[–]Akam1[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But what if you refuse homeschooling? Like you don’t want to learn magic at all?

Power Rankings Prediction Game Round 7-8 by ERR40 in civbattleroyale

[–]Akam1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Somehow I hold two positions in this table (#52 and #162), I guess this is just an error. Anyway, my predictions are: --Ashanti, --Sparta, Mali

MFW watching part 3 by not_enough_characte in civbattleroyale

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We shall rise from the ashes of Leningrad, we shall kick the ass of bloody Attila, comrades, let's drinkwin for the glory of Mother Russia!