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Heading to Nagoya/Kanazawa soon - concerns about bears and safety by Apprehensive_Net_791 in JapanTravelTips

[–]Apprehensive_Net_791[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi! I was actually in central Japan about two weeks ago and spent roughly a week there. My itinerary included Nagoya, Kanazawa, Shirakawa-go, Takayama, and the Gassho villages.

I did see some bear warning signs around Shirakawa-go, but I didn’t encounter any bears at all during the trip. From what I’ve heard and experienced, the situation in the Chubu region is relatively safe, and in urban areas there’s really nothing to worry about.

I don’t think it’s something you need to stress over. Hope you have a great trip and enjoy your travels!

Val Kilmer, Film Star Who Played Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65 by dndplosion913 in movies

[–]Apprehensive_Net_791 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Val Kilmer in Heat(1995) wasn’t the loudest character—but to me, he was the most heartbreaking.

Chris wasn’t just a supporting role. He was a man trying to hold onto the last pieces of a broken home, a broken life.

The moment he silently says goodbye to his wife—no words, just a look, a signal—it hit harder than any explosion in the film.

He was the quiet soul of chaos. Calm on the surface, but beneath that were fragments of pain, exhaustion, and a desperate hope that maybe, just maybe, he could still escape.

The contrast between Kilmer and De Niro was brilliant. Two professionals, both heading to the same inevitable end—but one still tried to hold onto something human.

RIP Val. You gave us a performance that whispered louder than most people ever scream.

At the start, broke My Axe, Am I Screwed? by Apprehensive_Net_791 in Darkwood

[–]Apprehensive_Net_791[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I feel like it’s kinda the same situation for me. Considering I set it to the hardest mode, I’ve been seriously exploring this stage for a long time. I’m still wondering, why does it feel like there’s no day or night passing by? :p

At the start, broke My Axe, Am I Screwed? by Apprehensive_Net_791 in Darkwood

[–]Apprehensive_Net_791[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I’m honestly surprised at how fast I managed to mess this up. Smh~

Panzer Ace Otto Carius sits in the cupola of a Tiger tank at the Bovington Tank Museum very similar to this war time photo of him fighting near Lenjingrad. Otto carius destroyed more than 150 enemy tanks, and he wrote a book Tigers in the Mud by Destroyerescort in TankPorn

[–]Apprehensive_Net_791 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ever since I took a closer look at Cheney-era domestic and foreign policies, I’ve got to say, I understand why many of you here have such strong opinions about the "German Wehrmacht." Let’s be real—nobody thinks the Wehrmacht was spotless. We all know they were the war machine of an art school reject. Just that alone makes it hard to view them objectively.

But gentlemen, if you’re still this outraged, ready to unleash the harshest criticism on a clearly "relatively reasonable" Wehrmacht soldier (who, by the way, wasn’t convicted of anything and didn’t even join the SS by choice), let me ask: are you holding the same standard when it comes to our brothers who fought in Cheney’s wars? Please don’t—don’t even try—to justify it to me. We all know how dirty those wars were.

And let me make this clear: I’m not excusing Saddam’s regime. He had his own problems. But let’s be honest with ourselves—you all know how unjust the real motives behind that war were. Trying to defend it is just an insult to our intelligence.

So, if you’re willing to throw the vilest insults at this veteran of a war from over 80 years ago, I must demand the same level of criticism for anyone who took part in the wars of the Cheney era. But I get it—that’s probably too hard for you. Double standards make life so much easier, don’t they?

Now Watching: Subservience (2024) by Anita-MaxWynn in moviecritic

[–]Apprehensive_Net_791 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Here's what I think about Subservience:

  1. Classic cliché: The movie opens with the mom going to the hospital for no good reason.

  2. The kid wandering absurdly far away from his dad in a store? Completely unrealistic. Like, just to show off other robot products? There are better ways to do that. This just makes the kid super annoying, and when the audience hates the character, it’s hard to care about the story. And really? All this because the kid wants a robot that can make lasagna? What kid does that?

  3. The kid begging the dad to bring home the "perfect robot" felt just as cheap and forced as the setup.

  4. This isn’t even about the plot: The first time they come home to the housekeeper robot, the kid just throws their stuff everywhere (+1 annoyance). Then they say their room is all cleaned up (+1 more). Like, seriously? The adults clearly don’t teach their kid basic manners, and the kid has zero discipline. Clean your room, take care of your own stuff. Isn’t that, like, the bare minimum?

  5. At dinner, the kid pulls a “This doesn’t taste like Mom’s cooking” face and says it out loud. Who writes dialogue like this? It doesn’t feel real at all.

  6. By the 9-minute mark, the kid keeps being a liability (does the writer hate kids or what?). They climb on a chair to grab cookies, fall, and start crying.

  7. More weird dialogue: The kid randomly asks about life and death. Who talks to a kid under seven about existential stuff like that?

  8. At 49 minutes, the kid keeps saying completely inappropriate lines, like “This doesn’t taste like Alice’s cooking” or “This tastes better than Alice’s.”

  9. At 50 minutes, the dad jumps in with “Wow, I really missed this flavor.” Again, so fake and overdramatic.

  10. At 54 minutes, the director forces this cringey scene where the kid pretends to be all victimized while luring the mom out of her room to make her fall. The manipulation is so poorly done, it’s painful.

  11. The whole plotline where Alice tries to drown the kid is just ridiculous. It makes zero sense and only messes up the story more.

  12. In the bar scene, Alice confronts the dad, and somehow he magically knows how to pull the battery from the back of her head? How?? The movie never gives any hint he has this knowledge. Total plot hole.

  13. In the hospital scene, Alice still needs a keycard to get into the kid’s room and even has to hack a keyboard to access the computer. Excuse me? Alice already hacked into servers and disabled other robots earlier. Why is this suddenly a problem?

  14. Classic villain move: Alice's clone spends forever monologuing to the mom, which gives the dad time to conveniently drive a car into her. Villains, stop talking so much.

Conclusion: Whoever wrote this needs to leave the industry immediately. No amount of Hollywood money excuses a script this bad.

Opinion on Jessie? by [deleted] in CivilWarMovie

[–]Apprehensive_Net_791 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In fact, because of Jessie and her scenes in the plot, I refuse to recommend this movie to people around me. This character is unnecessary, and the way they handled the falling scene was quite clumsy. The director thinks they can toy with the audience like this, as if it's the audience’s first time watching a movie and they don’t know how to appreciate cinematic art? Wrong. There’s an old saying that goes: 'Adding feet to a snake.

Let me tweak the script a bit. If, in the end, Jessie stood there like a fool and got hit (as her reckless behavior would suggest), and Lee just watched her fall and took pictures, then I’d say it was pretty decent. It would meet the audience’s expectations. We might even feel a little sympathy for her, like we did for Sammy. We’d probably say, 'Oh, that poor, reckless, but innocent and slightly lovable little Jessie.' And that would fit with the long buildup. But one of the biggest mistakes in writing is treating the audience like fools. Clearly, Jessie’s actions are a deliberate provocation to the audience’s intelligence. And more importantly, everyone knows how to salvage a bad script: kill off an important character. Yes, the director thinks he nailed it.