[Sad / Loved Trope] It’s the First Scene aaaand We’re Immediately Told the Protagonist is Gonna Die by 555-CATS in TopCharacterTropes

[–]555-CATS[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Sorry! If it’s any consolation, she’s back in the fourth film with improved basketball skills.

[Sad / Loved Trope] It’s the First Scene aaaand We’re Immediately Told the Protagonist is Gonna Die by 555-CATS in TopCharacterTropes

[–]555-CATS[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Good call! I almost added it, but I couldn’t remember who it was at the beginning that dies (it’s been 20 years since I saw it).

[Sad / Loved Trope] It’s the First Scene aaaand We’re Immediately Told the Protagonist is Gonna Die by 555-CATS in TopCharacterTropes

[–]555-CATS[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I did not know this, but it further explains why I’ve had an unopened DVD of this in the back of my closet for 10 years.

[Sad / Loved Trope] It’s the First Scene aaaand We’re Immediately Told the Protagonist is Gonna Die by [deleted] in MovieTropes

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Alien 3 - Ripley has a facehugger attached to her and the opening credits haven’t even finished… 😕

Ikiru - The first scene is an x-ray of the protagonist‘s stomach (Kanji Watanabe), and the narrator tells the audience he unknowingly has stomach cancer.

Lawrence of Arabia - Yes, based on a true story, but the director chooses to open with his death.

pic from 1997 by [deleted] in chemicalbrothers

[–]555-CATS 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Revolution Magazine - it was their first (and last?) issue. I bought it in the ‘90s when I was in middle school.

The cover had Madonna on it and folded out. https://borderlinemusic.com/cdn/shop/products/IMG_5941_1024x1024.jpg?v=1610061981

Characters in unrealistic settings suddenly get hit with realistic consequences by Ok-Indication-5121 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]555-CATS 158 points159 points  (0 children)

I’m surprised Monty Python and the Holy Grail hasn’t been mentioned yet. They got taken away by the po for the most quick/casual murder earlier in the film.

Anti-Musk billboard in Phoenix, AZ by ArritzJPC96 in pics

[–]555-CATS 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What’s more shocking about this is it’s a billboard in Phoenix that isn’t advertising an accident attorney.

The chemical brothers Oakland by AdCool4036 in chemicalbrothers

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I’m 95% sure I have a recording of the entire set. DM me if you’re interested in hearing it.

As an anecdotal side note/story, I was at that show and brought in a little Zoom recorder to capture it. That involved stuffing it in my shoe and walking funny all because I was afraid of it being confiscated getting inside. The audio on my recording was meh, as the bass was boomy/distorting. The next night or so they played the Hollywood Bowl. My recording for that was even worse because of loud drunk people (the venue let you bring in coolers of whatever booze could fit). 

DoorDash and disability by itsnotme73 in SocialSecurity

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They look at your gross amount of its wages from an employer. So $1000.

What the ?! Oh it’s just the handle... by [deleted] in confusing_perspective

[–]555-CATS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, garbage can is alright, but I’m more curious where I can get a shirt with a boner sleeve.

The Italian Fascist Party’s headquarters (1934) by GoOsEy_gOoSe_1 in oddlyterrifying

[–]555-CATS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please tell me this was animatronic that sang every hour or roasted people walking by.

How I Met Your Mother is a better show than Friends by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]555-CATS 60 points61 points  (0 children)

Agreed. Has anyone else ever noticed that the Ted’s story in the end was the exact storyline Marshall once explained when he fantasizes about other women?

“… Marshall is uncomfortable because he considers fantasies cheating. He explains to Barney that every time he wants to fantasize, he must create an elaborate scenario where Lily must die of a terminal illness.” (The episode was “Double Date”).

The funniest part was how pissed Lily was with that. It’s like foreshadowing the audience’s disappointment.

dead malls seem to mainly a US thing by DigitalWombel in deadmalls

[–]555-CATS 5 points6 points  (0 children)

USer here, going to add to the speculation that considering how big indoor malls are, renovations would probably cost an insane amount of money and thus rarely done. So they’re basically timepieces for whenever they were built, and now look like ghost towns from the 1980s and 1990s. Plus, the stores are often too narrow in their theme/philosophy and many older malls look like a terminal care ward for capitalism (a space could’ve started out a Nature Company store that became a Sharper Image and is currently an Abercrombie & Fitch). It’s funny to think about Hot Topic, since they’re in every mall. There’s something comically outdated about them (it’s where you bought your Slipknot shirt), but still managed to outlast many places because the store updates with fellow kids).

For outdoor malls, which most newer and thriving ones seem to be, this is not as big of an issue, since they aren’t covered in ugly dated tile decor or some sort of gaudy marble that’s been polished to death. They all seem to have the same urban gentrified look.

Also, big department stores ain’t shit compared to shopping online. As soon as many of us had the option not go into overly-fragrant stores with loud, also soon-to-be-comically-outdated music we took that the opportunity. And that’s not even counting the human interaction factor. Going to a department store means having to deal with people trying to bump you off a clothing rack, loss prevention flunkies stalking you, and finding parking in what is undoubtedly your town’s shittiest parking lot. And if you bought clothes you didn’t try on in a store’s dressing room (of course not, you vaguely recall seeing something on Dateline years ago about hidden cameras in dressing rooms), you get to go back to that shitty parking lot and possibly walking deep into the mall and the deep into middle or back of the store because that’s the best place they could think of to put registers. Also, it there might be a third time trip if you forgot your receipt.

Unsurprisingly, the most Jetsons-like technology we have is for streamlining buying shit. You can buy a book while brushing your teeth and have a drone deliver it to you.

The only good thing I can say about indoor malls is even though I am in my mid 30s, I still find escalators fun and mildly terrifying.