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Funko Pops, to me.

I understand that some of them are fairly overpriced, but I also really like them as is. It doesn't work on all characters, but it sometimes work on a lot and there's so much representation and variety that it's good to have a few.

If people want to talk about waste of plastic and vinyl, they should bark at the companies who make teeny tiny figurines that serve no purpose and have so little detail that spending any money on them is a waste.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

Waterworld is a fantastic movie. Creative world-building, unbelievable sets, stunts and performances (Dennis Hoper as an over the top villain? Yes please) I just can't understand all of the hate it received!

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Best complaint I heard was "it's just mad max on water" .

WTF? That sounds awesome.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

Right?? How could you not be entertained by that??

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

I don't think I'm quite as effusive about it as you, but it was a good movie and I don't understand the hate either

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I’ma put Super Mario Bros. up as a contender too. Doesn’t get much better than Dennis Hopper and Bob Hoskins.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I fucking love that movie. Blade Runners set designer worked on that too

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I'll put the movie as more ambitious than anything else.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

I’ll talk all kinds of shit about that movie, but I’ve watched it end to end more times than most movies I’ve seen, and it’s never been a hate watch.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

I love Dennis Hopper as Bowser in the Super Mario Brothers

:::

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Finally someone likes this movie I loved it. I need to watch the ulysses cut sometime

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Where did they get the cigarettes? Were they 20 year old stale cigarettes?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I found it quite preachy, but still watchable if you don't think about it too hard.

"Oil = bad". "Smokers = bad". Hopper aside, the bad guys were as shallow as you can get in character development.

Plus at 2h15m it was about 45 minutes longer than it should have been, and Kevin Costner is a polarising actor for some due to his lack of charisma.

All that said, I watched it twice. Once partly to admire Jeanne Tripplehorn's dress, which should have got a best supporting role.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

May I see your Waterworld and raise you a Poseidon Adventure?

A lot of fun movies get a bad wrap for being unserious and I fucking hate it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Poseidon Adventure

Which of the 3 movies and 1 book we talking here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Spin the roulette wheel and accept any outcome.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

it was bad for the studio. its production budget ballooned to $175M, total cost $235M. the most expensive movie ever made at the time. it lost money at the box office.

i enjoyed it.