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Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by Pandabob »

apengwin wrote: post #3

LeBron James was touted as the Next Great Hope for basketball, was on the cover of Sports Illustrated at age 17, and his high school games were televised on ESPN. Since then he's won 4 NBA championships, opened a school in his hometown, and become arguably the greatest basketball player of all time.

Looking forward to the next two seasons to see if he catches MJ. The Lakers have a scary team again this season.

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by st1x7 »

kyriakos wrote: post #7
cheschire wrote: post #4

The 2020 elections.

Good entertainment value for the whole world. During pandemic as someone who doesn't live in the US,I actually followed the US election on a daily basis for the first time.

I was checking the live results page more times an hour than is reasonable for someone who isn't American and doesn't live in the US.

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by Veen »

Causality1 wrote: post #39
keiferski wrote: post #16

- A lot of people watch it with no background knowledge and subsequently don’t quite understand the “best film ever” label, but Citizen Kane is indeed a fantastic film. Just read about Orson Welles first. - Most religious books that have stood the test of time have lived up to the hype. The Bible (especially certain books like Ecclesiastes or Proverbs), The Quran, The Upanishads, to name a few. Again, don’t just go i…

How can a movie be a fantastic movie if it requires background reading? That's a failure of storytelling.

I think Citizen Kane stands alone. It can be understood as an architypal "power and wealth corrupts" narrative. But our appreciation of art benefits from an understanding of its context and the history of the genre/medium. Citizen Kane may be more meaningful to you if you are aware of Hearst and the related social history in the same way that Wagner's music is wonderful in its own terms, but possibly richer and more meaningful when you understand the philosophy, social context, theology, and mythology he was engaging with as well as the composers he was influenced by and their thinking.

All art is produced in a specific historical moment.

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by mellosouls »

Causality1 wrote: post #39
keiferski wrote: post #16

- A lot of people watch it with no background knowledge and subsequently don’t quite understand the “best film ever” label, but Citizen Kane is indeed a fantastic film. Just read about Orson Welles first. - Most religious books that have stood the test of time have lived up to the hype. The Bible (especially certain books like Ecclesiastes or Proverbs), The Quran, The Upanishads, to name a few. Again, don’t just go i…

How can a movie be a fantastic movie if it requires background reading? That's a failure of storytelling.

It doesn't require background reading at all.

But like many great works of art context can add even more to their enjoyment and impact.

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by em500 »

iPhone (2007)

Ok, maybe not so much the original 2007 model, arguably it wasn't until the iPhone 4 (2010) until it really came into its own. But few products released in my lifetime changed modern life as the iPhone did. And unlike most other seismic tech products (world-wide-web, linux) that took years to build momentum, it had lots of pre-release hype.

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by DonHopkins »

kyriakos wrote: post #7
cheschire wrote: post #4

The 2020 elections.

Good entertainment value for the whole world. During pandemic as someone who doesn't live in the US,I actually followed the US election on a daily basis for the first time.

Giuliani farting in court made it all worth it.
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