• Machinist@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    It’s a terrible movie. Verges on so bad it’s good. Uses more dutch angles than a crooked windmill.

    Book was mediocre with a Mary Sue main that had Goodboy for a last name.

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      5 hours ago

      I never saw the movie, but I can accept mediocre for the book. I thought it was a fun take aliens and alternative history. The writing style is a bit like a morally superior american, but I can read past that (…I guess, because I completely forgot that part).

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        1 hour ago

        It’s been a long time since I read the book, but I remeber it being medicore late golden era. Hubbard had no understanding of radiation and his characters tended to be good or evil without a lot of nuance.

        *Hubbard/Herbert

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      8 hours ago

      “verges on so bad it’s good” so to me that says that it’s about as bad as it can possibly get, before crossing the line into something I can laugh at, would that be an accurate representation?