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2001: A Space Odyssey

1968 · Science fiction · Stanley Kubrick · 2h 29m

A strange black slab turns up at three points in human history, and a ship heads for Jupiter to find out why. Very little is explained, and long stretches carry no dialogue at all.

  • Strongly epic
  • Strongly complicated
  • Strongly slow

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  • Dune

    87% alike

    2021 · Science fiction

    A noble family is handed control of a desert planet that supplies the most valuable substance in the universe, which the family it was taken from has no intention of accepting. It is long, slow, and heavy on names and factions.

    • Strongly epic
    • Strongly fantastic
    • Strongly complicated

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    Describe: Dune

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

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  • 2017 · Science fiction

    A police officer whose job is retiring old synthetic humans turns up a buried secret and goes looking for a man who disappeared thirty years earlier. Slow, very large, and mostly quiet.

    • Strongly fantastic
    • Clearly epic
    • Clearly slow
    • Clearly complicated

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    Describe: Blade Runner 2049

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

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  • Arrival

    81% alike

    2016 · Science fiction

    Twelve alien craft arrive without explanation, and a linguist is brought in to work out how to ask them what they want. Most of it is the slow business of translation.

    • Strongly complicated
    • Clearly fantastic

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    Describe: Arrival

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