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Lord Of The Rings Memes

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[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 42 points 2 weeks ago

Karl Urban vs Karl Rural

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

He just absolutely disappears into roles. Such a good actor.

What's the top right?

[–] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 9 points 2 weeks ago

Absolutely! I never even realised all these roles (and others mentioned in the comments) were the same guy!

[–] Hasherm0n@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's this one. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0446013/

[–] CuddlesMcBubblefun@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Holy shit, I hadn't thought about Pathfinder since it first came out on DVD... I remember it being great, gonna have to go hunting now!

[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I just watched Ghost Ship again and totally forgot he was in it.

[–] formergijoe@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

His Riddick Mullet tracks, as that is Science Fantasy.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Sci-fi is fiction with science and could be reality

Fantasy is fiction with magic that you wish was reality

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 5 points 2 weeks ago

you wish was reality

So def not Game of Thrones then

[–] West_of_West@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Star wars - not sci fi

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Science Fantasy.

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[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I don’t agree. Yes it’s fantasy but the “science” term there comes directly from “science fiction”

That is to say, “science fiction” means “fiction but taking into account at least some level of scientific understanding”

While “science fantasy” means “fantasy but with the trappings of science fiction”. It’s a perfectly good name for the genre

The phrasing is similar and it uses the same word, but a different route to get there.

Edit: on the other hand hand username checks out. Maybe I just fell for the bait.

[–] plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Are you suggesting that nothing in Star Wars is based on science? Than Star Trek isn’t fiction either, phasers, teleportation, grav generators. Oddly enough, those exist in both universes. The only fantasy about Star Wars is the force, and that’s an analogy for religion.

Yet Star Trek has telekinesis, telepathy and other outwardly abilities, just like Star Wars! Do you notice a trend yet…?

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Read more of the books, there’s plenty of science lol.

[–] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well that's not at all the same thing

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Why not? What definition are you using for science fiction, because if Star Wars isn’t fiction, than neither is Star Trek, they have more or less the same fake technology, they both have strange powers, hive minds exist, aliens, cyborgs, AI, the list of comparisons go on.

So what’s the metric you are using?

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I want some hard sci-fi

[–] anthropomorphized@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I want some high fantasy

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I want Karl Urban's hard fantasy

[–] zedgeist@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

😏

[–] Ayako@troet.cafe 2 points 2 weeks ago

@PugJesus 😂👍

[–] Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

Fantasy is when we pretend Urban looks good in long hair