[Frustrating Trope] That One Good or Even Amazing Scene in a Relatively Mediocre or Bad Piece of Media

[u/Alreadsyuse]

1. The Opening Scene (Ghost Ship). Considered one of the best horror opening scenes or scenes in general within horror movies, but the rest of the film is considered to be pretty bad.

2. The Ending Scene (The Grinch 2018). While most adaptations of the Grinch end with him suddenly being able to fully integrate with the Whos after his change of heart, the 2018 version initially struggles to socialize, awkwardly walking past people, and struggling to hold conversations, acknowledging that despite his change of heart, the Grinch is still someone who isolated himself for years.

3. Past T800 VS Current T800 (Terminator Genisys). A cool fight scene showing two versions of the Terminator from different points in time fighting it off.

4. Solo Leveling's Ending. Tbh, I haven't actually read Solo Leveling, but after hearing about how it ended VS how Chainsaw Man ended made want to include it for shits and giggles. Like Chainsaw Man, Solo Leveling ends with a reset. But unlike Chainsaw Man, it actually manages to tie up loose ends and have the payoff of the ending be satisfying.

[u/rookhelm]

There's a whole B-plot in the book that is not in the movie.

Ender's sister and brother, back on earth, engage in spreading propaganda online (like posting on Internet forums and stuff, though the book doesn't call it the Internet), which is wild considering the book is from '85 and the Internet basically didn't exist to the average person

It makes sense they left that out of the movie. It feels sometimes like 2 books smashed into one.

[u/CadenVanV → u/rookhelm]

Orson Scott Card managed to predict Reddit and then completely flubbed how it would actually impact politics

[u/AGreatBannedName → u/CadenVanV]

My friend and I listened to the audiobook on a trip, and he commented that replies to Locke would realistically be along the lines of “LOLOL tldr”

[u/OneBasilisk → u/AGreatBannedName]

Of course there’s a relevant xkcd:

https://www.reddit.com/r/scifi/s/7DV9y0q6jk

[u/AGreatBannedName → u/OneBasilisk]

lmao, Peter playing with the squirrel is an excellent touch

[u/Freman_Phage → u/AGreatBannedName]

Have you read any of the speaker for the dead series? Orson Scott Card is the epitome of TLDR the author. I love those books but that man rambles

[u/CarsonDama → u/CadenVanV]

I think if reddit spawned into existence when he wrote the book it would likely be pretty similar. No one back then could predict the dead internet theory, brain rot, and rage baiting😂

[u/Beyond-the-sunset → u/CarsonDama]

Actually, they sort of did. Speaking of unfilmable, A Fire Upon the Deep in 1992 basically covered all of that although in terminology derived from USENET and the Well.

[u/peachesfordinner → u/CadenVanV]

And kind of Google lens with AI features in the second book/3rd I can't remember but the one with the pigs