Dream Worlds

[PhroX]

You don't have the Avatar world on your list. Movie #3 is out.

I was nodding along as I was reading this, thinking, that yeah, Avatar has a cool world. Then you got to the third movie bit and I realised you were talking about Dances with Smurfs...

 

[Thorgalaeg]

Ok, adding avatar by popular petition (don't like it but I am in minority apparently)

 

[Akka]

Howard deserves the credit of making a world before the LotR though, and not being under the shadow of Tolkien.

 

[Kyriakos]

I never liked Tolkien, though I have only read the Hobbit and a few parts of Lotr. But I was surprised to read here that he is supposed to be critically acclaimed; if anything, at least before the internet era which diluted the meaning of what a critic is (or, if you will, threw shade on the validity of examining whether there are any prerequisites profession or university-degree wise to count as one), Tolkien was never said to be liked by literary critics.
And historically he did overshadow some actually serious writers of the fantasy genre (which at the time wasn't distinct from a subtype of romanticism), like Lord Dunsany (very popular in his day) and Arthur Machen.

 

[Fippy]

I felt similar with the lotr movie triology.
The first one was great..spot on atmo (i still admire the hobbit village vibes), interesting story telling.

The Two Towers & Return of the King are rough for me.
There are so many cringey lines and scenes..and little new / interesting development.
You already know how things will play out, it's all about bombastic battles (but the good folks always win) or sentimental speeches.

 

[Moriarte]

Not really a "Dream"world but Blade Runners are excellent example of world building. After thinking about it for some time, I'd say it's the soundscapes that did it. And Rutger Hauer's artificial human. Hundreds of videos on the Internet, trying to improvise soundscapes of blade runner in meditative videos for work and play. Many people trying to replicate the Great Dystopian Meditation!

 

[r16]

yeah . DON'T READ THEM ! But , yeah , multipage BS from an expert on how Tolkien builds up from Howard . You will have nausea to begin with .

 

[Thorgalaeg]

I felt similar with the lotr movie triology.
The first one was great..spot on atmo (i still admire the hobbit village vibes), interesting story telling.

The Two Towers & Return of the King are rough for me.
There are so many cringey lines and scenes..and little new / interesting development.
You already know how things will play out, it's all about bombastic battles (but the good folks always win) or sentimental speeches.

LOTR is more than the movies though, even the LOTR trilogy being great movies IMO are only a small part of the whole thing. In fact Sauron is a nobody compared with the real dark lord Melkor/Morgoth. I find funny how in the movies, the screenwriters are especially careful that Morgoth is not mentioned at any point, so that the casual viewer doesn't know they're watching a second-division game.

The best of Tolkien world is not LOTR specifically but the universe where it does happen. The cosmology, the races, the history... It is not by chance that all modern high fantasy worlds are inspired by Tolkien.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

Not really a "Dream"world but Blade Runners are excellent example of world building. After thinking about it for some time, I'd say it's the soundscapes that did it. And Rutger Hauer's artificial human. Hundreds of videos on the Internet, trying to improvise soundscapes of blade runner in meditative videos for work and play. Many people trying to replicate the Great Dystopian Meditation!

I thought about adding Blade Runner, but perhaps the lore isn't big enough to call it an imaginary universe, at least as far as I know.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

I thought about adding Blade Runner, but perhaps the lore isn't big enough to call it an imaginary universe, at least as far as I know.

Yeah it gets tough. There are two movies, an anime, a few short films, 5 books, almost a dozen comics, and a couple video games. 25 years ago that would be a lot. By today’s standards where everything is a franchise it’s almost quaint.

 

[Kyriakos]

It doesn't help that Blade Runner is a very unfaithful adaptation of a book itself.

 

[Broken_Erika]

It doesn't help that Blade Runner it is a very unfaithful adaptation of a book itself.

Ever read or watched Silent Mobius?
Magic in a blade-runner style universe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Möbius

 

[Kyriakos]

Ever read or watched Silent Mobius?
Magic in a blade-runner style universe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Möbius

No, is it good?

 

[Broken_Erika]

No, is it good?

It's a cult classic cyberpunk series, i have most of the graphic novels, one of my favorites.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Hmmmm, seems like the only place to find it now is on youtube, unless you want to spend hundreds on used physical copies.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLhOnau-tupQyMlAMUqFepqUolMCoJ0qP