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Why do people like American Psycho?
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I recently watched the lion king and was whelmed.
Story telling has just evolved. The pacing of modern movies is more finely tuned. I can see how these movies used to be good but we're just spoiled by better movies.
wait you can be whelmed? I had never considered that I had only ever heard people say underwhelmed.
There's also overwhelm as well! Cool thing about most prefixes in English is that they can be changed out for other prefixes or completely removed. Though, one wouldn't quite hear somebody say antiwhelmed there's still nothing against it.
I think you can in Europe.
Idon't think so seems like whelemed and overwhelmed mean the same thing but whelm is out of usage https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/19430/why-do-people-say-over-and-underwhelmed-but-never-just-whelmed
It is a quote from the movie "10 Things I Hate About You" which I have seen more times than I can count.
You're free to be overwhelmed, whelmed, or underwhelmed in any country! It's just uncommon to remove any prefix from whelm.
It is a quote from the movie "10 Things I Hate About You" which I have seen more times than I can count.
Whelmed is a perfect description for how I felt about many movies (thanks for that!), but this one just underwhelmed me.
The original, or the CGI product?
The original.
Don't get me wrong, the songs are lit, but when Nala tries to eat Pumba and then the next scene they just brush that off in 3 seconds I realized the movie is taking a backseat as a vehicle for the songs. Actually most of the movie is filled with these fast moving segways to the next scene... and the next song, and the story suffers for it.
Believe it or not, "segues."
I am reminded of the sheer optimism of a late-90s American search engine called Beaucoup, which assumed English speakers had any god-dang idea how to spell Beaucoup.
Anyway, yeah, it takes some railroading to make kids sit through Hamlet.
...In my defense, Segway is a real word that is a form of transportation, and I meant "move from one scene to the next", I guess I just never questioned if there's a different word.
Edit: after some quick googling, the company did that on purpose. https://eu-en.segway.com/about-the-brand bastards. Lmao.
Haitian Creole is always fun to see because the whole language is like that. It's nearly French, but it's spelled according to English spelling rules... unlike English.