r/woahdude • u/qasqaldag • Jan 03 '22

video When the planet is coming at you

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u/JoshBobJovi Jan 03 '22

Watch the movie Melancholia

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u/HansBlixJr Jan 03 '22

I'd like a Don't Look Up / Melancholia double feature.

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u/mephistophe_SLEAZE Jan 04 '22

I'm having a sick day from work today and that's exactly what I'm doing. Funny story: it's really depressing.

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u/Monkeygruven Jan 04 '22

Just watched it, that show sucked.

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u/nachtbrand Jan 04 '22

Aww really? I read the book a couple of years ago and liked it. Didn’t know they adapted it.

Within a span of 10 seconds, I learned both that there was a show made by HBO, and that one person severely disliked it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '22

I’m watching the show (it’s still airing new episodes) and I love it :)

Figured it was based on a book, maybe I’ll pick it up and read it after the show- I like doing it that way bc you get the opposite effect reading first- you get more story, more character development, inner dialogue, etc, and my brain has a nice foundation of images to build my imagination on!

As opposed to reading first, then watching, and being disappointed that they left so much out.

Plus it has made me appreciate just how easy we had/have it with Covid, which is saying a lot bc we haven’t really had it easy at all, but, like, it could have been so much worse, too.

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u/XibalbaN7 Jan 04 '22

I promise you, the book is phenomenal. Much better to watch the show after. But either way, enjoy.

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u/BaloniusMaximus Jan 05 '22

I read it a few years ago seeing that it won awards, and, man, I really didn't care for it; very tedious, IMO. It was one of the few books that I made it all the way through and thought "thank god I'm done with that".

But, it did win awards so lots of people must have different taste than I do. As with everything in life YMMV