The Internet becoming mass market. In the early to mid 90s there was a lot of very recognisable hype about online shopping, TV streaming, use of it for phone/video calls etc. And a lot of skeptics too.
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#62- 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…
Casablanca for me. Oddly I can't think of many stand-out moments in it. If you asked me why you would enjoy it, I couldn't say. But you would.
I watched this for the first time last week and I was surprised that the plot has remained pretty novel. It's one thing to watch an old movie and recognize it for first producing a certain story (or at least capturing it on film) but I can't think of a similar story to Casablanca and that impressed me.
It was also neat to see the film shot just like a play where there are very particular sets each scene. I wish I could have the scene the original play once.
A few things I didn't like though was the flashback. There was no subtlety and poor writing. They could have started the film with their time in France. The real plot point wasn't that the two characters knew each other but _why_ she left him.
And it was also odd to me that the general was in his headquarters when he learned about the escape attempt but then showed up at the airport... without any men.
Anyway, I did enjoy the movie and am grateful to it for introducing As Time Goes By.
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#63The stock market hype during the beginning of the pandemic.
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#64Bitcoin
Did it though? I acknowledge the price is still climbing. Originally we thought it would have replaced credit cards which are a monopoly but it stayed a niche payment method and high risk investment target.
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#65Half Life Alyx did, and in my opinion exceeded it.
Was there hype for this? As far as I remember this only turned out to be impressive after reviews started rolling in. (not contesting thr experience itself, I just don't remember the pre-release hype)
It came out of nowhere and nobody ever expected Valve to come back to the Half-Life series.
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#66I'd say Avengers: Endgame lived up to the decade of hype, which is no small feat. LotR sequels probably had a lot of hype prior to release. The latest God of War had a great release afaik. To be honest, it's hard to remember which things were really hyped up before release and met expectations. I keep thinking of stuff I heard was good after it was release, and things which were hyped and failed, or havr not yet full…
> I'd say Avengers: Endgame
It really didn't. "Let's take a compelling villain and a nice-ish philosophical dilemma, create a world that's reeling in the aftermath of said villain's actions... and just quantum time travel kill the villain with no effort and literally exactly zero consequences for anyone involved." Oh. Right. Boohoo exactly one single character died with exactly zero consequences for anyone because his contract with the studio ran out.
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#69Interstellar.
Tool's Fear Inoculum.
The Expanse.
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#70Deadwood: The Movie
Holy s* this completely flew under my radar. Thanks, I loved that TV show!