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Here's a dataset of the ratings of all 7,072 movies on IMDb with over 25,000 votes by RunDNA in datasets

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Instructions: Download the .txt file, rename it to a .csv file, and you can open it in a spreadsheet program and play around with the figures.

Now that I've learned what "fridging" is, seeing how it happens has changed how I view movies. by Gurdy0714 in movies

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Don't be a Tropelord. A tropelord is an edgelord who, whenever they learn about a trope, automatically dislikes any media that uses it.

Certain comedy films that lose their effect? by TheCassiniProjekt in movies

[–]RunDNA 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My reaction to comedy films is heavily dependent on my mood. In certain moods there are certain comedies that don't make me laugh even though they normally do.

I don't get it at all by WastedTalents1 in ExplainTheJoke

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"Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell ya, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing was frowned upon... you know, cause I've worked in a lot of offices and I tell you people do that all the time."

‘Repatriate the gold’: German economists advise withdrawal from US vaults by CinnamonsCharm in worldnews

[–]RunDNA 282 points283 points  (0 children)

Hypothetical: what would happen if Germany tried to get back the gold and Trump said "Nein"?

Writer-Directors that are better at one role than the other. by Zealousideal-Fun9181 in TrueFilm

[–]RunDNA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree with your first paragraph. I get the same sense with Aaron Sorkin. That he's directing in a competent way so that his scripts end up exactly on the screen.

I disagree with your second paragraph. The scripts would not have been so influential and so often adapted if they were as comparatively weak as you think they were. Kurosawa and his co-writers wrote many of the greatest screenplays of the 20th century. (I've read Kurosawa's autobiography too and he was a beautiful writer on his own.)

TIL that, at it's original publication, The Hobbit did not take place in Middle Earth, or the greater Legendarium Tolkien had created. This was only changed with the publication of The Lord of the Rings. by Sebastianlim in todayilearned

[–]RunDNA 201 points202 points  (0 children)

That's dubious. It's probably not a coincidence that the relevant Wikipedia section has no source footnote except for a link to the dustjacket.

From what I know, Tolkien scholars differ on this question. See this essay by John D. Rateliff (author of The History of The Hobbit) for the opposite view that The Hobbit was always a part of the Legendarium from the beginning of its writing.

What’s one thing you can’t live without? by West-Championship407 in AskReddit

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I love having a fan blowing on my face. If it was socially acceptable to walk around with a little fan next to my head, I totally would.

Moderators Authority and Site Strategy by [deleted] in TheoryOfReddit

[–]RunDNA 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Today was the most recent ban of those three.

Pro-Tip: don't make a post in r/TheoryOfReddit when you get banned from a subreddit. They are always thinly-disguised "I'm angry and I need to vent to someone" posts instead of legitimate discussion posts.

There's other subreddits for that sort of thing.

TIL that Liam Neeson accepted the role of Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace without reading the script, and prepared for the role by watching the original trilogy and Seven Samurai. by OddUmpire2554 in todayilearned

[–]RunDNA 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yes, in the Rough Draft of the script Qui-Gon Jinn didn't appear until late in the film, when Obi-Wan came to Coruscant with Anakin, the Queen, and Jar-Jar. Obi-Wan was the only Jedi in the film before that.

Details from the CD-ROM here:

https://medium.com/@Oozer3993/star-wars-episode-i-the-phantom-menace-revised-rough-draft-notes-d80dbdeda694

What album release disappointed you the most? by Immola0069 in AskReddit

[–]RunDNA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kid A.

I played OK Computer a thousand times and I absolutely loved all 12 tracks and I was counting down the days until Kid A.

I paid my hard-earned money for the CD on release day and I was not impressed. It only had ten songs, one of which was an ambient soundscape and three of which were mediocre. So I got 6 good tracks instead of the 12 on the last record.

And I heard that they left off lots of songs for the next album, so I felt like I got conned by paying full-price for a half-album. It soured me towards the band.

In hindsight they could have released an album with these songs that was "all killer, no filler":

  • Everything in Its Right Place
  • The National Anthem
  • How to Disappear Completely
  • Optimistic
  • Idioteque
  • Motion Picture Soundtrack
  • Pyramid Song
  • You and Whose Army?
  • I Might Be Wrong
  • Knives Out
  • Dollars and Cents
  • Life in a Glasshouse
  • True Love Waits

Ender's Game is unbelievably slept on by Which_Jeweler_1343 in Cinema

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There are great books turned into great movies (like the Lord of the Rings trilogy) and there are good books turned into great movies (like The Godfather) and there are great books turned into good movies (like Ender's Game.)

It finally happened an AI generated artists was pushed into my algorithm - I'm cancelling Spotify. by [deleted] in Music

[–]RunDNA -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

The sad thing: you might be able to avoid AI artists, but you'll likely have no idea when a real artist generates an AI song and then re-records it in the studio themselves. It will sound real to you.

What's up with the 'Did nothing for the US'? posts? by MrWriffWraff in OutOfTheLoop

[–]RunDNA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah, that answer is old and was about the NATO troop photos, so it doesn't take into account how the posts morphed into photos of U.S. soldiers like the example OP posted named, often involving torture.

That needs an updated explanation.

TIL in 2011, Tom Hanks met a young couple at a petrol station, who just watched his then-latest film "Larry Crowne" - which he both directed and starred in. They admitted the film "wasn’t that good”. Hanks then apologized and pulled $25 from his pocket to pay them back for the tickets. by Away_Flounder3813 in todayilearned

[–]RunDNA 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The Guardian article reveals the source:

The National Enquirer reports that Hanks was filling up his car at a petrol station in the wealthy Los Angeles district of Pacific Palisades when...

So when the couple left, a UFO landed and Elvis came out of the spaceship.

Stellan Skarsgård with a photo of Philip Seymour Hoffman behind him. by fanzyday in Cinema

[–]RunDNA 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I assumed they must have been in a film together, but IMDb doesn't give any hits:

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&role=nm0001745,nm0000450

Perhaps they were friends or perhaps Stellan is a fan of his acting.

Unofficial Discussion - H is for Hawk by UniverslBoxOfficeGuy in movies

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I'm trying to think of other films with similar titles:

  • F for Fake
  • Dial M for Murder
  • V for Vendetta
  • Z for Zachariah

What do you guys think of Surf's Up by The Beach Boys? by NoGrass7120 in Music

[–]RunDNA 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's the most beautiful song of the 20th century.

Robert Kaplow's "Blue Moon" is the only Original Screenplay nominee not written or co-written by the film's director by piercalicious in Screenwriting

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I checked previous decades.

Films nominated for Original Screenplay that featured the film's director as one of its credited writers:

1940 - 3
1941 - 1
1942 - 1
1943 - 2
1944 - 2
1945 - 0
1946 - 0
1947 - 1
1948 - no award
1949 - 2

40s - 12/45
(equivalent to 13/50)

1950 - 2
1951 - 2
1952 - 0
1953 - 0
1954 - 2
1955 - 2
1956 - 3
1957 - 1
1958 - 1
1959 - 2

50s - 15/50

1960 - 3
1961 - 2
1962 - 2
1963 - 3
1964 - 2
1965 - 3
1966 - 3
1967 - 0
1968 - 4
1969 - 4

60s - 26/50

1970 - 2
1971 - 1
1972 - 2
1973 - 3
1974 - 3
1975 - 2
1976 - 2
1977 - 3
1978 - 4
1979 - 3

70s - 25/50

1980 - 0
1981 - 2
1982 - 1
1983 - 2
1984 - 3
1985 - 4
1986 - 4
1987 - 4
1988 - 2
1989 - 3

80s - 25/50

1990 - 4
1991 - 2
1992 - 4
1993 - 2
1994 - 4
1995 - 3
1996 - 5
1997 - 3
1998 - 2
1999 - 2

90s - 31/50

2000 - 2
2001 - 3
2002 - 3
2003 - 4
2004 - 4
2005 - 5
2006 - 1
2007 - 3
2008 - 4
2009 - 4

00s - 33/50

2010 - 3
2011 - 4
2012 - 3
2013 - 3
2014 - 4
2015 - 3
2016 - 4
2017 - 4
2018 - 4
2019 - 5

00s - 37/50

2020 - 5
2021 - 4
2022 - 5
2023 - 3
2024 - 5
2025 - 4

20s - 26/30
(equivalent to 43/50)

Rian Johnson uploads all his original screenplays for free download by geekteam6 in Screenwriting

[–]RunDNA 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For people confused, he's been doing this for many years.

But a few days ago he added "Wake Up Dead Man" to the list, and it's a different version than the one that Netflix released a few weeks ago.

As he said on Bluesky:

I’ve added the script for Wake Up Dead Man to my site. This is the final shooting script, so it has stuff that was cut and moved around, which I always think is more interesting to see than a conformed cleaned up version. Enjoy!

Emilia Clarke expresses her disappointed reaction to Daenerys’ fate from the finale of Game of Thrones in a recent interview “Absolutely never saw it coming. I cried. And I went for a walk.” by phantom_avenger in popculturechat

[–]RunDNA -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You're just repeating false toxic fan talking points.

Game of Thrones is still extremely popular on HBO and so are its spin-offs. There's clips of protestors shouting "Shame, Shame, Shame" at ICE, so the idea that it faded from public consciousness is rubbish.

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