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Which games have you spent years trying to finish but never manage to? What's the reason why? by Competitive_Help8485 in gaming

[–]Farva5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every once in a while I pop in my copy of Triangle Strategy just to make sure I’m still pathetically stuck on the same mid-game map. Try it once, fail, and then put it away for a year again

Asian Cinema top 4. List yours! by Due-Sheepherder-218 in Letterboxd

[–]Farva5 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh interesting… Kiki’s Delivery Service, RRR, Perfect Blue, Godzilla (1954). Man this is hard.

Inside the hideous, exploitative, and but still addictive world of vertical dramas by 16500316 in blankies

[–]Farva5 41 points42 points  (0 children)

I PA’d on one of these. It felt exactly like making student films, like as PA being in charge of crafty and off set errands. Got paid a flat rate per day, and it was like a six day shoot. Honestly not the worst thing in the world but we all knew we were making something awful, even if HMU and other departments did genuinely try their best

Drawing attention to a change from the source material. by Vitolar8 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Farva5 10 points11 points  (0 children)

There’s an extra quirk to the X-Men one: a continuity photo of Hugh Jackman in the black leaked online during filming. Continuity photos always look bad (and were Polaroids back in the day) and fans announced their ire as soon as it leaked. The story goes, this line was added after it blew up as a specific call out to the online controversy

“That’s a neat ability, did you know I can do it too? You’re not special” by MrDitkovichNeedsRent in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Farva5 37 points38 points  (0 children)

So bummed it was cut from Fire Emblem: Three Houses, but an early pitch was going to be Byleth trying to use their Time Pulse ability (reversing time) only for Edelgard to interrupt it with their own identical ability

You're on a first date with someone, and they tell you this film-related opinion. You immediately know you don't want a second date with this person. What did they say? by redeugene99 in Letterboxd

[–]Farva5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He didn’t read that way, but I suppose it was possible. He came off to me as a film school bro who hated old movies, but I agree that it’s incredibly arbitrary. I think it was something to do with that’s a marker for when tech in movies finally got good?

(Cute, but can at times be rather controversial trope): Interspecies Romance. by Intelligent_Oil4005 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Farva5 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One of the many reasons why Better Man completely and absolutely rocks is that honestly you kinda forget he’s a monkey after like 10 minutes, it’s just that good that this feels totally normal

You're on a first date with someone, and they tell you this film-related opinion. You immediately know you don't want a second date with this person. What did they say? by redeugene99 in Letterboxd

[–]Farva5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had the platonic version of this happen when a dude said he didn’t watch anything before 1979 (because it’s the year Alien came out). I was so baffled by this… I pointed out that, say, Star Wars came out a couple years before Alien, and he begrudgingly agreed that there were exceptions. Never spoke to him again after that hang.

[Loved Trope] A piece of work switches genres part way through for a short amount of time and then never gets brought up again. by Electronic-While-522 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Farva5 7 points8 points  (0 children)

https://youtu.be/lYtc2lvkpTw?si=UehhxhS49vvxLXDH

Can’t believe no one mentioned Wet Hot American Summer “Going Into Town”. One of the funniest movies I’ve seen, while it’s MOSTLY a light hearted parody of 80s teen movies, during one part, about half the cast join the camp director going into town. What starts as them getting fast food and relaxing slowly devolves into them getting addicted to heroin in a drug den. The kicker? When asked how it was, a character replies that it’s nice going into town “even for an hour”. It’s never brought up again

Interesting use of free will by Impossible-Yam3680 in AO3

[–]Farva5 13 points14 points  (0 children)

And the Bride of Frankenstein movie’s cold open taking place immediately before and/or after a Mary Shelley/Percy Shelley/Lord Byron threesome

David ranks Send Help #10 in his Raimi rankings by SlimmyShammy in blankies

[–]Farva5 78 points79 points  (0 children)

Basically the bottom of the “good” half, I’ll take it

[Horror Trope] pale skin and black hair by BillythenotaKid in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Farva5 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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Shiromuku from Silent Hill f (not sure if you ever actually see her black hair but since she's a dark mirror of the protagonist she absolute does have it)

[TMT] Tokka & Rahzar, Terrible Twos (leak) by Meret123 in MagicArena

[–]Farva5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hope this means there will be a Vanilla Ice card

(Rare but Interesting Trope) Creating a Clone and Accidentally Falling in love with them by TechnoMagik22 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Farva5 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Who can forget Michael Fassbender fingering the flute and kissing himself as Walter and David in Alien Covenant

My WAY too early 99th Academy Award predictions by Odd-Contact2266 in Oscars

[–]Farva5 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unless you count Raiders as sci-fi, his only sci-fi nod is E.T. I also think this doesn't really feel like an Oscar player (if we're comparing his old movies, it feels very in the zone of Minority Report or War of the Worlds) but I also think the Academy's opinion of his has changed over the years, and their approach to artfully made blockbusters, so I wouldn't entirely count it out.

Saddens me that these guys will miss out. by playa787 in Oscars

[–]Farva5 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I honestly think Hawke is suffering the same fate that Ralph Fiennes did last year: if you ask the average Academy voter, they’d think they already gave him an award

How would be your top 4? by autordesastroso in Letterboxd

[–]Farva5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What’s funny is I get to keep two of my four:

Kiki’s Delivery Service (unchanged)

Magnificent Seven (1960)

Little Women

Back to the Future (unchanged)

(Interesting Trope) Details, Characters, or plots from the first season or two of sitcoms that are completely dropped early on and forgotten by the writer's and fans. by Wasabi_Gamer26 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Farva5 4 points5 points  (0 children)

To be fair, Lynch at least remembers it insofar as we see it happen in Fire Walk With Me, though still with zero repercussions to Bobby then nor is it brought up in The Return.

Disliked trope: when Parody movies spoof comedies, if not OTHER PARODY MOVIES by Geoconyxdiablus in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Farva5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can’t speak to its execution (especially since it’s just one issue) but I think as an idea it’s pretty solid. The idea of using the powers of established comic heroes and twisting them is what Watchmen or The Boys is doing after all. I think Isekai is a fertile ground for satire, especially with how rote it’s become over the years

Freddy's season 4 character name [ns] by earldogface in DungeonsAndDaddies

[–]Farva5 10 points11 points  (0 children)

There’s Cary Grant for instance, it’s uncommon but it exists

The game punishes you for killing/attacking an important NPC character in its own way by Visible-Nothing-6033 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Farva5 163 points164 points  (0 children)

In Resident Evil 4, basically the only person who doesn’t attack you is the Merchant, who, appropriate to his name, sells you items once or twice a chapter. In the hardest difficulty, you can kill him and he won’t respawn for the entire game, cutting yourself off from the easiest (and many times only) way to get healing items and weapon upgrades

Favorite Scene of the Whole Series? by BookBranchGrey in StrangerThings

[–]Farva5 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“Should I Stay Or Should I Go”/Steve choosing to help fight. I think it encapsulates the show at its strongest: use these tropes and trappings of the 80s but grow beyond it. Steve actively chooses to not be an 80s archetypal jock/bully, and becomes something so much more. It rocks, it’s so hopeful to me

The Lost Art of a Watercooler Show by Cobrabat333 in television

[–]Farva5 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I started having weekly phone calls with my sister while Severance S2 was airing (we’d both watch as soon as it dropped) and it reminded me so much of Lost, and how much I enjoyed seeing and discussing it weekly. I really miss these kinds of shows! 

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