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Relax, they wouldn’t give those seats to paying customers.
It’s just a bunch of make-a-wish kids.
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Ugh, when am I going to get MY autism superpowers?
So far, it’s just having a hard time completing projects and getting that feeling like you forgot why you walked into a room.
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Oh, honey… I know that feeling so well.
But here’s the important thing, and it took me years to realize it…
You are definitely annoying and weird.
There’s no way around it, so just rip that band-aid off and ask anyway.
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Depends on the context.
Was there specific question in your mind when you did the draw?
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It’s that rare ending that is a bit inconclusive…
But you don’t mind because that just means there are MORE stories out there.
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For years, they tried to do some new stuff with the lore, and I think they’re finally approaching it in a way that works.
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With one notable exception- ‘The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence’, because he’s just a supporting role and Jimmy Stewart rocks.
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Little too hipster-y to fit the ‘dad movie’ vibe.
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Yup. Just two.
High agency.
Males.
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I disapoof
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I say we give them knives.
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You know.
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As an experiment.
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You’re not wrong, but it is so weird to me as an adult that younger generations classify “classics“ as “films my dad watches“ and uses that as criteria for dismissal.
I mean… damn. Dirty Dozen? A Bridge too Far? High Plains Drifter? That shit’s FOUNDATIONAL.
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What, exactly, is a “dad movie“?
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Flat-out would have become a serial killer if he hadn’t joined the army during war time.
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Oh yeah. ‘The O’ slaps.
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I need to replay this so I may share the suffering.
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As always, the man was even handed and humanitarian.
Damn, I miss him.
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For me, it was right around when the Titans pulled that stunt with his mom.
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I suspect I’ve gotten a peek, and it’s fucking beautiful.
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Really, you could teach an entire course on filmmaking based on this one movie.
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And that’s the real difference…
Pathos.
What they experience and how they react to it makes them fully developed characters in a way that most westerns don’t have the opportunity to.
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Bro’s made of Krell metal.
None of that stuff is going to do anything more than make him slightly warmer on the surface as he gradually walks through your defenses.
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Your PC:
“Huh? What was THAT noise?”
*game sprints past under an orange crate
“Guess it was nothing…”
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The joy of subjectivity.
Just because it’s not real doesn’t mean it’s not important to you.
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In my opinion, it has one of the top 5 final lines from a novel.
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Agreed. The only major issue is that the storytelling is so condensed and rushed, things arrive at warp speed.
But the conclusions they reach flow from everything else.
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Millenium series Gamera managed to make the ‘human’ stories as cool and compelling as the Kaiju action.
You genuinely felt like the human characters had an impact on the story.
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Gilliam is one of those rare filmmakers whose work isn’t an attempt to communicate a story to an audience, but rather just presents that audience with a window into their mind.
It may seem like splitting a hair, but I feel it’s an important distinction.
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He’s lucky.
Any self-respecting adult would have had to fight not to hang themselves in a closet after that SuperBowl halftime show.
Closest we’re ever going to get to seeing a live, televised Mortal Kombat fatality.
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My pants are weighed down by gravity.
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Gotta admit, I kind of like the orchestral one.
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Ahhh, Victor. If life had been a bit kinder, he might have already won his utopia.
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Agreed. I dug the more ‘Metroid’ inspired SNES one though.
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I swear he deliberately greenlights inadequately tested ones for a tax write-off when they detonate.
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I’ve always felt like Leland was fighting tooth and nail ever since Laura’s death.
Maybe not in control, but able to distract and sabotage BOB a little.
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Agreed. I think that Ray tracing has its place with real time light, but there are some environments that absolutely needed to be painted before hand for the appropriate visual effect.
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I think it’s theoretically possible to see and comprehend. What’s going on, but to really “understand“ it, you need to see 0079 at a MINIMUM.
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*O’Brien kicks down your door, wrench in hand
“SOMEONE BLOODY MENTION UPPER PYLON 3?!???”
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Here lies Sarah Essen- sacrificed on the altar of character development.
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Agreed. I watched it after Zeta, and at the end I suddenly went ‘Ohhhhh. THAT’S how things went so bad so fast in the Federation.’
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Course they did.
‘Tis realism.
Every guy’s does that, right?
Dudes?
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“You sent her to the MORGUE?!?!?”
“Yes, I’m so sorry.”
“SHE’LL BE FURIOUS!!!”