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Re: Do you like the Multiverse in movies/games/tv ?
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:09 am
by Victor Mildew
Somehow christ returned.
Re: Do you like the Multiverse in movies/games/tv ?
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:33 am
by Barnsy!
Tomous wrote:Barnsy! wrote:Tomous wrote:I wouldn't say I liked it or disliked it. It's kinda strawberry floating the MCU up at the moment but also Spiderverse is brilliant.
Unfortunately I can't really say one of my favourite uses of the multiverse because it would be a huge spoiler if you ever did watch the film.
I'm curious, would you mind saying and spoiling tagging please? Obviously I accept all responsibility if I get a film spoilt for me.
Sure, it is a low budget 2013 film called
Coherencethat is very well done. I believe it's on Prime (or at least it was while I watched it) and while it is better going in knowing absolute nothing, I'd still recommend giving it a watch because it's very well done.
Thanks.
I love that film! Really cleaver, disturbing and thought provoking. I actually watched it, read the wiki plot summary and watched it again the following night when I knew what the heck was going on.
To anyone else, it is indeed better to watch it without knowing anything. Whilst, if you unspoil the title in Tomous post you'll know a little just because it's being discussed in the context of this thread and as you're quite unlikely to stumble on this film otherwise....I would recommend un-spoilling the title and checking the film out, well worth a watch.
Re: Do you like the Multiverse in movies/games/tv ?
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:54 am
by Ploiper
i thought it was neat at first, but it's been so overdone now it no longer feels special when it happens.
Re: Do you like the Multiverse in movies/games/tv ?
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:28 am
by Rubix
Moggy wrote:Rubix wrote:Not for me, it seems to be an excuse to bring back dead characters.
It's Easter this weekend, you can't say things like that.
Re: Do you like the Multiverse in movies/games/tv ?
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:31 am
by Squinty
Hate most multiverse things. Although that Spiderman movie with Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garland in it was pretty good.
Re: Do you like the Multiverse in movies/games/tv ?
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:40 am
by Knoyleo
Knoyleo wrote:I honestly can't think of much that I've consumed media wise that uses multiverse theory. Spiderverse was great, and it's obviously pretty central to that, but it was also pretty central to Bioshock Infinite, and that turned out to be a bit gooseberry fool, so I don't think it's the concept of a multiverse that's the problem, but more likely just bad storytelling in general.
I voted no in the poll, because I hadn't read the opening post, and had initially assumed this was about extended universes like the marvel franchise, so knock one off no and add it to depends, I guess.
Oh, I also forgot that multiverse was a plot point in the third part of Garth Marenghi's Terror Tome, The Dark Fraction. It was fine as a plot point that served its purpose of providing a massive horde of enemies in amusing variations for the story at hand, but definitely suffered from being the third instance of functionality the same scenario in that book.
Re: Do you like the Multiverse in movies/games/tv ?
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:52 am
by Tomous
I did absolutely adore what No Way Home did. In a way it was a hot mess, but it was so gloriously fun.
I just wish things weren't spoilt in advance of seeing the film. I know that's pretty much impossible in this day and age even if you do your best to avoid trailers but it would have been such a moment in the cinema to watch that unfold without any idea.
Re: Do you like the Multiverse in movies/games/tv ?
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:56 am
by Curls
Depends, if Stephen King starts writing himself into his own multi-verse to somehow cross over with Salems lot and the Stand, I do get a bit lost.
Marvel can absolutely do one with it.
Re: Do you like the Multiverse in movies/games/tv ?
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:22 pm
by Squinty
Curls wrote:Depends, if Stephen King starts writing himself into his own multi-verse to somehow cross over with Salems lot and the Stand, I do get a bit lost.
Marvel can absolutely do one with it.
I thought the Stephen King implementation of it worked in some ways, and didn't in others.
That Dark Tower book series is probably the most interesting I've read. It's a total trainwreck towards the end. I have no idea what he was doing with that.
Re: Do you like the Multiverse in movies/games/tv ?
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:25 pm
by Carlos
If it’s the point, absolutely. Sliders and Fringe are two of my favourite science fiction shows of all time but with them the multiverse is kind of the point. Spiderverse is brilliant.
As an excuse for a one-off crossover it can be a useful foil. I recall quite enjoying the Ben 10/Generator Rex crossover episode with my son back in the day yet I really disliked No Way Home.
If it’s something that’s thrown in for the hell of it I like it a lot less. The MCU has been markedly worse since the multiverse came along.
Re: Do you like the Multiverse in movies/games/tv ?
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:47 pm
by Vermilion
It's been done too many times now, and Family Guy's episode was always the definitive.
Re: Do you like the Multiverse in movies/games/tv ?
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:48 pm
by site23
I'm not sure this is always actually a "multiverse" (it's often more like a shared universe), but I really like it when apparently disparate stories from the same author eventually link up in some subtle way. It tickles something in my brain and I find it fun and satisfying.
I don't find superhero (/ Bioshock Infinite) style multiverses very interesting. There's nothing wrong with it but I feel like I've seen it a million times. Or maybe a million slightly different mes have seen it once.
Re: Do you like the Multiverse in movies/games/tv ?
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2024 2:57 pm
by FatDaz
Sliders did multiverse before it became the in thing. And I loved those early series of it.
Re: Do you like the Multiverse in movies/games/tv ?
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2024 3:24 pm
by Memento Mori
Squinty wrote:Curls wrote:Depends, if Stephen King starts writing himself into his own multi-verse to somehow cross over with Salems lot and the Stand, I do get a bit lost.
Marvel can absolutely do one with it.
I thought the Stephen King implementation of it worked in some ways, and didn't in others.
That Dark Tower book series is probably the most interesting I've read. It's a total trainwreck towards the end. I have no idea what he was doing with that.
After he got hit by a car, King worried that he might die before finishing The Dark Tower so he rushed the final books to get them published.
Re: Do you like the Multiverse in movies/games/tv ?
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2024 9:54 pm
by shy guy 64
ah the multiverse. i'm definitely in the "it depends" camp. i've seen people who just have fun with it and people who do do much with it.
Re: Do you like the Multiverse in movies/games/tv ?
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2024 11:27 pm
by deathofcows
site23 wrote:I don't find superhero (/ Bioshock Infinite) style multiverses very interesting. There's nothing wrong with it but I feel like I've seen it a million times. Or maybe a million slightly different mes have seen it once.
Re: Do you like the Multiverse in movies/games/tv ?
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2024 11:32 pm
by Moggy
site23 wrote: Or maybe a million slightly different mes have seen it once.
Re: Do you like the Multiverse in movies/games/tv ?
Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2024 1:17 am
by OrangeRKN
Into the Spiderverse is an amazing movie. Everything Everywhere All at Once is similarly great.
Remedial Chaos Theory is one of my favourite episodes of Community. I like Rick and Morty. Future Trunks is a cool character in Dragon Ball Z.
Dragon's Dogma uses the multiverse in a very cool way to explain it's multiplayer functionality. The split timeline of Zelda is really interesting and then the Hyrule Warriors games make full use of it.
So yeah I definitely can like the multiverse!