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Friday Fun Thread for November 6, 2026

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Do you usually not like films with a more measured pace? Any examples of other "everyone loves this" movies that you are meh on?

Pretty much. I also thought Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) was slow and boring despite its 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. I much prefer Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986), Princess Mononoke (1997) and Grave of the Fireflies (1988) from the same studio.

On the other hand, I have also seen movies ruined by too fast pacing, such as Armageddon (1998). Deep Impact (1998) is better, despite being slower.

From "Reasons Hataraku Maou-sama is Objectively Good" by suntzuanime:

A show can be thought of as a collection of interesting bits, things which advance the plot, develop a character, introduce an idea, make you laugh make you cry, and so on. (This may not apply to slice-of-life shows, whose selling point is how uninteresting they are.) After each interesting bit happens, it takes you time to process what’s going on with the plot, or dry your tears, or whatever. If the next interesting bit happens before you finish, you won’t be able to keep up, and you’ll find the show bewildering. If the next interesting bit hasn’t started yet by the time you’re done, your mind will wander, and you’ll find the show boring. There’s a narrow window that the show has to hit for maximum enjoyment. In practice most shows err on the side of slow pacing, because interesting bits are hard to come up with. (Consider shows like Dragonball Z, which when they run out of content from the manga resort to shots of people yelling to charge up their spirit for minutes on end.) Because of this, as a general rule, the faster a show is paced, the better it is.

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