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The new literalism plaguing today’s movies

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231 points frogulis | 3 comments | 15 Jul 25 03:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.745s | source
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zoklet-enjoyer ◴[15 Jul 25 04:12 UTC] No.44567759[source]▶
Most movies are pretty bad. Always have been. I feel like I got scammed for paying to see 28 Years Later.
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1. plantwallshoe ◴[15 Jul 25 04:16 UTC] No.44567771[source]▶
The threequel zombie movie lacked too much subtlety for you?
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2. senectus1 ◴[15 Jul 25 05:25 UTC] No.44568070[source]▶
Quadquel?

There is another (and supposedly final) in January 2026.

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3. IAmBroom ◴[15 Jul 25 12:56 UTC] No.44570657[source]▶
It's actually a sort of standing joke that trilogies are sometimes 4-fold. Trivial Pursuit used that answer as one of their copyright test questions (if your game replicates our bad answer, you stole our product).