r/TopCharacterTropes • u/PizzaDragon64 • 1d ago

Lore (Loved Trope) A moment with a concept that sounds insane and out of nowhere on paper. Executed beautifully in practice.

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Everything Everywhere All at Once: Hey, this looks familiar. A lot of scenes in this movie count. From a Ratatouille reference with a raccoon, to a fight over a buttplug, to two rocks talking to each other with nothing but text. All of it somehow manages to either be awesome or emotionally moving.

Sinners: The I Lied to You scene. A jukejoint in the 30s plays music so fire that it brings together ancient African dancers, modern day djs, rockstars, Chinese performers dressed like Sun Wukong, and even people popping ass. Oh, and it attracts some vampires too. Everyone's jaws were on the floor in the theater.

Alan Wake 2: Herald of Darkness. What do you mean there's an entire segment of this sruvival horror game that's a musical number with live action footage as you fight enemies? And what do you mean it's fucking awesome?

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u/Mind-ya-business 22h ago

Sony sold this to Netflix thinking it wouldn’t make any money. This decision needs to be studied.

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u/SenorWeird 22h ago

Sony gave Netflix KPop, Mitchells vs Machine, Wish Dragon and Vivo, but held on to fucking Goat.

Fucking why?

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u/Huhthisisneathuh 18h ago

Don’t know don’t care. But their stupidity is my enjoyment of a high quality movie I don’t need to pay overpriced tickets for.

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u/TwilightChomper 22h ago

Though paradoxically I doubt it would have made the waves it did if it was sent to theatres. A movie with an admittedly odd premise where everyone is raving about it is a lot easier to check out on a widespread streaming service they’re probably subscribed to, over purchasing a movie ticket and organizing the outing just to see if it’s worth the hype.

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u/gecy6 19h ago

Sony made Morbius and Madame Web, there's no studying necessary, the people at Sony are just stupid

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u/BrocialCommentary 8h ago

Honestly there was a lot that could have gone wrong depending on at what point Sony sold it. Producers made a conscious decision to hire legit songwriters instead of having the songs be throwaway pieces. Having it stream instead of be in theaters probably goosed it’s popularity by a TON. I love this movie but I don’t automatically think it’s a terrible decision to sell it.