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I'm wondering if movie rankings might be a real easy way to see who's on the same page as you. So movies might be:
1- Terminator 2: Judgement Day
2- 300
3- Road Warrior
4- Gladiator
5- Aliens
6- Predator
7- Rambo: First Blood
8- Raiders Of The Lost Ark
9- Die Hard
10- The couple of Star Wars
movies that were good.
So you'd be given a list, drag them around to your preference and get an agreement ranking.
Only vaguely related, I like your idea better
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[normzone, Mar 19 2026]
Yes, we are in a simulation ...
https://www.earlymo...fs/berkeley1713.pdf
... according to George Berkeley in 1713 [pertinax, Mar 22 2026]
Other people have disagreed.
https://en.wikipedi...Subjective_idealism
It's complicated. [pertinax, Mar 22 2026]
My re-write of, in my opinion, one of the worst movies in history.
Indiana_20Jones_20A...e_20Crystal_20Skull
I like Shia LaBoof’s character in this one. [doctorremulac3, Mar 22 2026]
The last Star Wars I ever saw.
https://www.youtube...watch?v=3lPG1u6EbiY
Looks like I wasn't the only one. [doctorremulac3, Mar 23 2026]
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The 6th Sense has to be in there somewhere... |
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Definitely #1 for ghost stories. Put it at #6 on this list. Best twist of any movie. |
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I dunno dude. Seems divisive. I like hanging around people who's interests are different than my own. |
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That's how I learn new shit. |
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Unless they like Inception. |
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Hey they might have valid points to make. You don't know. |
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I have yet to meet anybody who liked that movie. At a quiet part in the film I said "Wow, this movie sucks." to my wife and was a bit too loud evidently because to my wife's horror everybody around us started talking. As she crouched down in her seat in embarrassment she said "They're all talking about how you were talking in the theater." but they talking continued through the whole film and spread throughout the theater. Yea, could have been talking about that obnoxious guy in 36A but through the entire film? There was also laughing, chatting, continuing conversations which I assume were about how horrible this movie was. A guy saying "This movie sucks", while a fascinating topic of conversation, probably wouldn't last through the whole last hour of the movie. Everybody was totally checked out. |
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Actually maybe a "films you hate" Venn diagram thing would be more telling. |
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Meh, I liked the whole potentially existing in a simulation aspect. I liked the CGI. |
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It was a bit drawn out but I dug the overall concept. |
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I can't think of a way to prove that we are all not within a simulation. I've spent a few years on it now. I don't 'feel' like I'm within a simulation. |
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See link: Berkeley believed that we are indeed living in a simulation, in the sense that everything around us exists primarily as a collection of ideas in the mind of God, and not as a truly independent material reality. |
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The simulation theory sounds far-fetched until you look at it like this: is it possible that we could create an entity such as advanced AI that becomes sentient but is unaware that it’s a simulation of a life form in its own universe? How about in 1,000 years from now? How about a million years from now? When you look at it that way saying that it’s NOT possible actually looks a little silly. So if that is possible, it’s possible that we are a simulation as well since it’s very possible that other entities might have evolved like us and done just that. So it certainly is plausible, more plausible than some religions that say we live on top of an elephant standing on top of a turtle or whatever. |
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That’s the reason I say I’m not 100% sure of anything, even the Earth being spheroid because if we’re a simulation it might not exist at all. |
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That being said, the movie had an interesting premise, so interesting that the creators I feel didn’t think they had to do anything in terms of skillful storytelling. It was just meandering, boring and pointless. In my opinion anyway. But OK, I’ll give them credit for an interesting overall concept. |
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Howabout movies that took a great thing and utterly trashed it: |
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The obvious...
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
The Last Jedi
The Phantom Menace
The Rise of Skywalker
The Force Awakens
Caddyshack 2
Rocky V
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Nevermind this list could go on forever... |
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The simulation speculation thing I see as just a human construct of a mind looking for something useful to do. If it is all just a construct, then its a shabby one that let its creations discover it as such. |
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See link about my screenplay for “Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull 2: The Actual Story”. |
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Your list looks good, but I haven't seen most of them, I stopped watching the Star Wars franchise after they introduced the stupid Jamaican accented lizard whatever his name was. I seem to remember it featured a scene where they all got together and did some kind of meeting. A supposed adventure featuring an auditorium full of politicians or whatever sitting around talking for what felt like forever. I would have had a scene where the janitor was neatening up Darth Vader's office for about 20 minutes to make it more exciting. |
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// in the sense that everything around us exists primarily as a collection of ideas in the mind of God, and not as a truly independent material reality.// |
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That's what I keep coming back to. |
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There is only perception, but perception changes depending upon reality. Reality changes because of perception. Perception of reality changes what it is. |
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GOD is the culminations of all of those changed perceptions at the same time. |
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Time is static for GOD...only possibilities within the matrix exist. |
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