>is the Moby Dick of Cinema (long, purple (visual) prose, engaging throughout, philosophical and epic, cyclical)>gets shelved by the massesHow come?
>>217223139How many people have read Moby Dick?
>>217223209Before mass dumbification? Almost everyone.
>>217223286When do you think mass dumbification started?
Flat, unlikable characters besides Stephen Langcameron also took too long with the second.I get he was building new tech, but there needed to be some series inbetween 1 & 2 for people (normalfags) to stay in touch with the series.
>>217223139Difference is Moby Dick is incredibly good, perhaps the greatest novel to come out of muttland, and these blockbuster movies are not even remotely good.
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>>217223363Fair
>>217223139Whales are its biggest problem, I loved them in The Way of Water but they had no business being as prominent in a movie called Fire and Ash. The final battle should've taken place in a volcanic region instead of the reef again.
>>217223319Reddit post.
>shelved by the massesDidn't they make 6 billion combined?
>>217223139You assume that purple prose means words you dont know and sentence structure too difficult for you to parse, but there are actually some of us out there still literate, so the phrase has turned into a kind of shibboleth to quickly detect opinions that can be discarded out of hand.In other words, you are a fag.
>>217223723It's another "no cultural impact" thread.
>>2172231396 bilies, anon. This is the most popular trilogy of movies ever made.
>>217223738>intricate, overwhelming colorful visualsthere you go, assuming faggot.
>>217223759What's popular about it?being a gargling vegetable in the seat for the event and then forgetting about it?