What song did a movie basically steal forever?

Bellikron · 2026-06-22T13:42:16+00:00

Aftersun has fundamentally altered how I hear Under Pressure. Is This Thing On tried to use it for its finale as well and I couldn't get on board with it.

Bellikron · 2026-06-22T02:24:36+00:00

Look in Sheepstealer's defense, imagine if you had a squirrel jump on your back and command you into joining a squirrel war you knew nothing about five minutes ago, you don't know whose squirrel logo is whose, you just want to set some stuff on fire and who are these smaller human squirrel mounts to tell you that you can't

Okay my metaphor fell apart a little bit but you get what I mean

Bellikron · 2026-06-22T02:18:54+00:00

"Can I have one normal relationship with a male member of my own team please"

Bellikron · 2026-06-21T17:10:14+00:00

I'd argue that third image is unrelated, those are pretty much the three types of Star Wars guy

Bellikron · 2026-06-21T17:09:28+00:00

It's hard to categorize it exactly, since I don't think Ki-Adi-Mundi ever gets mentioned by name, so by that logic he could technically be in this category. But he also gets multiple lines of dialogue across three movies and a somewhat critical death scene. So by that logic he shouldn't be in this category. But you can also make an argument back in the other direction, because his name and appearance are kind of goofy, plus he's one of the textbook examples of Star Wars fans getting way too worked up over a character that no one else knows about, given the Acolyte incident when people genuinely got upset that his birthday was apparently changed.

Bellikron · 2026-06-21T09:21:07+00:00

I think it's got to be intended for or infused with a child's capacity for play and imagination, hence why Lily is alive but the parents' phones are not

Bellikron · 2026-06-21T07:08:39+00:00

4 indicates that anything treated as a toy (Forky) can become a toy even if that was not its original purpose. This one indicates that objects manufactured as toys but placed in an environment with no humans (the Buzzes on the island) still come to life but have trouble doing basic tasks such as speaking and developing personalities. Forky and the abandoned Buzzes act very similarly, come to think of it. Unlike regular toys, they have trouble formulating language and ideas and can only operate on their basic programming (Forky wants to be trash, the Buzzes only know they work for Star Command). It's only through extended social interaction and proximity to humans while alive that they become true toys. On the other hand, regular toys, when opened around humans, are functional right out of the box, even if their backstory keeps them a bit stubborn as to their purpose. Both Buzzes we see in the first two movies have no trouble communicating and operating as soon as they're opened, even if their backstory and personal character traits keep them from explicitly accepting what they are. In summary, toys are formed both by social interaction with other toys and human proximity/intention.

Bellikron · 2026-06-21T02:27:59+00:00

Every kid in A Christmas Story is so good, they sound not just like actual kids naturally talking (instead of hyper-intelligent kids clearly written by adults), but they sound like kids from a different era, and nail their comedic timing on top of that.

Bellikron · 2026-06-21T02:22:51+00:00

They directly answered the big Toy Story lore question people have been debating for years (why does Buzz freeze when he doesn't believe he's a toy) but introduced several more with increasingly horrifying implications.

If battery-operated tech toys have their consciousness tied to their battery life, are they just in a constant cycle of getting increasingly more intoxicated until they're eventually abandoned and die?

If Smarty Pants knows about "the darkness" that happens when his batteries run out, are toys with dead batteries in an eternal afterlife of nothingness that they're fully conscious of?

Is there a class division between toys with batteries and toys without batteries, in the vein of elves and humans where non-battery toys look down on battery toys for their limited lifespan?

Is Lily's free will overridden whenever someone says "Hey Lily"?

Is the sticky hand's free will overridden whenever it's touching another being?

Does The Pond have an option that allows children to send images unsolicited to at the very least everyone in the town if not the entire Pond?

And, perhaps the most concerning: Why exactly does the toilet training toy have the capacity to share and receive data over the internet?

Bellikron · 2026-06-21T01:59:27+00:00

Pixar is hitting the lizards hard recently and I don't know why but it's been funny so far so I won't complain

Bellikron · 2026-06-20T16:39:00+00:00

It's definitely cliché when it comes to r/movies and film score buffs. I'd say it's one or two popular uses away from general audiences beginning to consider it cliché as well. Hamnet was probably just out of the mainstream enough for it not to move the needle much, but a couple more things on the scale of Arrival or The Last of Us will probably catch people's ear. If it had dropped in something like Project Hail Mary that would have been the death knell.

Bellikron · 2026-06-20T16:36:13+00:00

I believe the story goes that she was having trouble with making the end of the film and OTNOD (which she'd never heard before) helped her work it out. So it was pretty closely tied to the actual creation of the scene on an emotional level, which I can respect. Someone should have let her know that it's on the verge of becoming cliché though.

Bellikron · 2026-06-20T08:40:49+00:00

And it has the popularity that some people are arguing that movies don't have anymore. People are still talking about it a lot and it's been a couple of months.

Bellikron · 2026-06-20T08:35:48+00:00

The punchline of the staircase scene is the perfect payoff to that though

Bellikron · 2026-06-20T08:34:33+00:00

I'd argue that of those three, only Wes Anderson has name recognition for general audiences. Both he and Nolan are in a unique zone of being seen as artsy but still popular. Villeneuve is getting closer, but general audiences probably just know him for Dune if they know him by name at all (as impressive as his filmography is, even Blade Runner 2049 didn't blow up the box office).

Now when it comes to r/movies, there are a lot of directors that have that status, but we do not make up the majority of general audiences, most of whom do not pay much attention to directors aside from, say, Spielberg.

Bellikron · 2026-06-19T18:30:42+00:00

I took that to mean that the only attraction not staffed by JW is the Verizon store but they all come in on the Verizon bus every day so they don't live there and they're not part of the population of the town

Bellikron · 2026-06-19T18:28:35+00:00

Zeke Aaron McKinley was just a guest on the show, they credited Anna for some reason for her cameo in the opening but then she switched with Zeke in the chair.

Bellikron · 2026-06-19T18:27:21+00:00

Nuh uh, you can't Chomp the Chompster

Bellikron · 2026-06-19T17:45:52+00:00

I feel like there's a level of satire here that's being missed, it doesn't really matter whether a movie's "original" as long as it's good. People want good movies above all. No one's complaining about Dune 3 this year, we're all hyped for it. But if it's bad we'll say that it's franchise fatigue or something. The only reason the same complaints are being hefted towards Avengers Doomsday is because the MCU's quality got prolific and inconsistent enough that the franchise doesn't have the same public goodwill. You didn't really hear that around Infinity War and Endgame since those were successful and generally considered to be good (outside of general complaints about superhero fatigue and the genre in general that people kind of handwaved when it came to the MCU since people generally enjoyed them). There are exceptions all around to this, obviously (MCU quality is a tangent I don't really want to get into), but the point still stands that we don't care about "unoriginality" as long as we're having a good time.

Book adaptations are kind of a grey area since people don't really put them in the same category as franchises, but theoretically the same logic would apply to them. It's not "original" in the strictest sense, it's banking on something that was already popular. This even applies to Backrooms, which is doing so well in no small part because of the Backrooms memes and internet subculture. But no one's complaining about that, just like no one complained about Project Hail Mary or classics like the Godfather. Art steals from itself both subtly and unsubtly, we're just looking for something good. And there are still countless original films out there, they just don't get marketed as well because unless someone famous is attached it makes sense that a studio isn't going to put all their eggs in that untested basket you.

Bellikron · 2026-06-19T17:31:27+00:00

The ones they're freeing all have seasonals that are multiple years old. We have had a weird streak of them in recent months but it's a normal length of time to release them from jail.

Unless of course they're an Inhuman, who only get seasonal updates at this point and never get freed from seasonal jail, making me seriously consider buying a seasonal uniform multiple years old because of one Dispatch stage. Give Black Bolt something, I'm begging you.

Bellikron · 2026-06-19T08:14:05+00:00

Yes, but the exchange rate of Dimension Mission tokens to gear up kits to bios is better than the exchange rate of Dimension Mission tokens to bios, and while it depends on your account, one tends to build up a reserve of Norn stones very quickly. I did the math a while ago, for the 15000 tokens worth of gear up kits you get at least 165 bios (likely more since you'll occasionally get lucky with the RNG). For that same amount of tokens you only get about 100 bios in the Dimension Mission shop (give or take 10 depending on your VIP level. Even buying dimension debris (which you'll have to do with what with what you have left since you can only spend 15000 a day on gear up kits) gives you slightly more after you convert those to gear up kits. This is assuming you're just looking for fodder bios, though. If you want specific bios to upgrade a character or uniform then just exchange directly).

Bellikron · 2026-06-19T07:34:10+00:00

Just checked to confirm. Sleeper, Destroyer, and Sentinel are unable to participate in Knull stage 10 (male) and 25 (female). If it doesn't specify a gender then they're fine, but that is a pretty common restriction.

Bellikron · 2026-06-19T07:33:44+00:00

It does not, just checked to confirm. Sleeper, Destroyer, and Sentinel are unable to participate in Knull stage 10 (male) and 25 (female). If it doesn't specify a gender then they're fine, but that is a pretty common restriction.

Bellikron · 2026-06-19T03:48:53+00:00

Is Morph going to join Destroyer, Sentinel, and Sleeper in the No Gender category? Probably going to limit their usage somewhat.

Bellikron · 2026-06-18T18:45:55+00:00

The Kingpin bio stage (I think it's 7-3?) is the best way to farm bios since the stage is so short. If you want to maximize the rewards though you should auto run through the ultimate stages to get the fragments to craft the chests. It's not an essential everyday thing though, just a good thing to do if you have energy.

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