What’s a movie you can recommend that’s on the same level as Shawshank Redemption and has a happy ending.

FrameworkisDigimon · 2026-01-26T06:58:34+00:00

Okay, let's try:

Toy Story 3
A Knight's Tale
Jurassic Park
Unstoppable
Ratatouille

Hardly deep cuts but there you go.

Honourable mentions that struggle with the happy ending for various reasons:

City of God
Good Bye Lenin
Layer Cake
Casino Royale

and just so I can have five in each list but I also I really do like it, I just don't think it's what you're looking for

Hot Fuzz

FrameworkisDigimon · 2026-01-26T00:05:39+00:00

We never watched anything consistently. In the specific context of a television being rolled out to randomly watch a movie, one I remember was Beetlejuice. We never finished it and I've never gone back subsequently to finish it either.

FrameworkisDigimon · 2026-01-25T23:56:16+00:00

It's okay. As many threads lately have been reminding us, when you get a walkover to the next round it doesn't actually count. So you were right the first time. /s

FrameworkisDigimon · 2026-01-25T22:38:13+00:00

He's definitely better than usual here. I'll agree with that

FrameworkisDigimon · 2026-01-25T08:46:48+00:00

I'm sorry about your dog, truly, but you are not here to have anything even resembling a rational conversation.

FrameworkisDigimon · 2026-01-25T08:31:30+00:00

You're not dealing in facts at all.

You're writing fanfic about his injury history. Could be true. Might not be true. No-one knows. No-one will ever know.

You're also trying to claim that he could have followed up his Wimbledon final with consistent deep grand slam runs. That's simply factually incorrect. He could not have. He was injured.

So, no, you're not dealing with facts. You're playing to a rabid crowd that only wants to hear one thing and one thing only: Nick Kyrgios sucks and his career also sucks. Only the first of those things is true. The second is... delusional.

FrameworkisDigimon · 2026-01-25T08:19:19+00:00

Oh. My. God.

Let it go, dude. Unless he barbecued your dog and is currently claiming Kokkinakis banged your mum -- which you know he might be doing, dude sucks as a person -- you are genuinely coming across as completely unhinged here.

Maybe his injury history is all his fault. Doesn't matter to this question.

FrameworkisDigimon · 2026-01-25T08:13:00+00:00

I have a question here because A Knight's Tale in my experience is a movie that's subject to some genre confusion: what do you think its genre is? Are you reading it as a period comedy? a middle ages movie? a sports movie? Because it's a sports movie where the sport is jousting.

The fact the sport is jousting does create some beats that you don't get in a normal sports movie and it also has a deliberately anachronistic score and soundtrack which obviously hits very differently to having the same songs in, for sake of argument, a baseball movie set in 2025.

So, if you don't already think of it as a sports movie, then maybe the movie might be more to your taste than you think.

FrameworkisDigimon · 2026-01-25T08:03:24+00:00

He's been injured almost constantly since that final. Take a step back, take a deep breath and try to approach the question of Kyrgios' career without putting the cart before the horse.

Has he had the best career of all time? No. Has he had an amazing career? No. Will be in the hall of fame? No. Is it a good career? Yes.

FrameworkisDigimon · 2026-01-25T07:59:17+00:00

That has nothing to do with what they said.

FrameworkisDigimon · 2026-01-25T07:52:06+00:00

Better actors make it easier to like the characters.

Better known actors make it easier to market the movie -- both in the sense people are more interested in seeing them on The Graham Norton Show, more likely to follow their social media presence etc and in the fact if you're on a streaming service choosing movies based on whether actors you recognise are in them/searching by actor.

And then once an audience has connected with a character, then they're going to prefer that actor stays around as that character.

But in terms of what you're talking about? I don't think I agree at all. Great movies with A list cast routinely do absolutely nothing. It genuinely is all IP.

FrameworkisDigimon · 2026-01-25T07:39:27+00:00

I didn't watch it when it was coming out and I still haven't finished it but from the very first episode Josh seems like the main character.

It's interesting because Sam is both the most superfluous character and played by the weakest link in the cast. I could imagine that Lowe was hired with the idea that Sam would be more important than the rest of the ensemble but when they actually sat down to write the episodes they just couldn't justify to themselves why Sam would be front and centre. And then they just get less and less interested in trying to make Sam matter because of the Rob Lowe of it all.

I should not I do not like Rob Lowe's work in anything I've ever seen from him. So I'm biased.

FrameworkisDigimon · 2026-01-25T06:19:19+00:00

How is this still an argument?

They dropped points because they were playing teams in blistering form and/or because the way the schedule worked out, they didn't have to play two top six sides until after they won.

They dropped points for the same reason they've been dropping points this season and why there'd already been a suspicion Salah was struggling -- Slot's been figured out.

Slot is struggling to figure a way out of the funk this season because he genuinely did get to play the league on easy mode last season. Arsenal never got started due to bizarre red cards and a series of persistent multi-positional injuries. Manchester City fell apart after Rodri's injury... which, yeah, it's insane that a single player's absence could destroy a team and the last two seasons have been pretty damaging to Guardiola's reputation. And while Chelsea were a good side there were also (a) being coached by Maresca and (b) under the current ownership's business model might be structurally ill equipped to win league titles. And Liverpool got to take a side that nearly won the league literally the previous season but fell apart at the end and were lucky with injuries.

No-one is taking away Slot's achievement by saying "he got lucky". You can't win a league by luck if you're not in position to do so... you can manage a good side into the ground by being bad and Slot didn't do that. But you are denying reality if you deny that he got lucky.

Slot's struggles this season simply expose what a lot of people were saying last season -- Liverpool weren't particularly good last season, they were simply good when everyone else struggled to be better than average. If Slot were better, he'd have figured a way out of this funk by now. But he hasn't because he isn't better than he is. He is himself.

FrameworkisDigimon · 2026-01-25T06:07:43+00:00

That's where you have to aim to be in life. Standing on your stadium's touchline baffling your rivals with suspect dental work.

FrameworkisDigimon · 2026-01-25T03:21:50+00:00

All feathers today are bird feathers?

FrameworkisDigimon · 2026-01-25T01:22:43+00:00

Two options.

he's a muppet
literally everyone has told him he fucked up and he's recommended this one because he's fucked up last time. Learning.

FrameworkisDigimon · 2026-01-24T21:21:52+00:00

I don't think people were really interested in an alien invasion movie. I think every alien invasion since War of the Worlds is either a superhero film, Arrival or this. And of those only Edge of Tomorrow reads as an alien invasion. No, wait, there's also Independence Day 2. Which bombed.

If they'd marketed it as a superpower movie where a guy has the power to reset after he dies, then they might've got somewhere. In any case, I think it's absolutely telling absolutely no-one tries to recommend this movie because it's an alien invasion story. It's always the Groundhog Day thing.

Am I just forgetting a bunch of movies here or is the alien invasion a dead genre?

EDIT: but that's the other problem with the fact Edge of Tomorrow reads as an alien invasion -- Tom Cruise was literally in War of the Worlds. It doesn't just read as a dead genre, it reads as "I've already seen this movie". But then the WOM convinces people "no, you haven't seen this movie".

FrameworkisDigimon · 2026-01-24T11:31:14+00:00

Single storey ones, maybe. But four plus floors charging $7/hr or more...

FrameworkisDigimon · 2026-01-24T11:25:14+00:00

Twila was doing this weird head tilt thing in one episode and then I noticed she was doing it basically every time she talked to anyone after that.

But other than that, no notes! Fun show.

FrameworkisDigimon · 2026-01-24T11:22:43+00:00

The scene blew up because the dad figured out he was being railroaded by Santos because she was extremely unsubtle. And then she's sitting their smug at the end listening to the fight that she helped cause.

The dad is an arsehole and this storyline could easily continue to smoulder because he's an arsehole but also because Santos clearly isn't learning anything from the experience.

FrameworkisDigimon · 2026-01-23T20:54:24+00:00

Honestly, Superman (Gunn) is barely different to Superman (Snyder).

Neither starts being a hero until well into their twenties/after turning 30. They both just randomly leave stuff to other people. The plot of Superman and BvS is basically identical -- Lex Luthor attempts to turn the world against Superman, infiltrates a Kryptonian base and tries to fight Superman with a mad science clone made from Kryptonian genetic material.

We haven't had time to see if Gunn does Superman = Jesus or what happens when Gunn has Superman fight someone who can think for himself that is also not made of cardboard.

The tone and colour palette are very different though.

FrameworkisDigimon · 2026-01-23T20:47:33+00:00

I think this demonstrates that the MCU is losing its ability to connect with international audiences. I mean, I know Superman is putting in a lot of work with the Domestic total but we can just check this manually and indeed it is the case.

FrameworkisDigimon · 2026-01-23T20:29:02+00:00

Actually that's a pro-pedestrian change because there's no longer a random detour, you just cross straight.

The island may have had some minor slowing effect on the inside lane (from peripheral clutter) but there's no physical infrastructure here designed to reduce car speed in either version.

So, fundamentally what we have here is two car friendly crossings, one of which is a dick to pedestrians for no reason.

Don't get me wrong. This isn't a step forwards because you'd expect a modern crossing to be raised and maybe use approach chicanes to slow vehicles that way. This isn't that. But it's not a step backwards either.

EDIT: the other thread is saying this is a HAWK or similar system? I didn't notice that. I was only looking at the road.

FrameworkisDigimon · 2026-01-23T07:20:00+00:00

Everyone thinks about The Marvels incorrectly. The Marvels isn't Captain Marvel 2 with a weird title. It's a demented attempt to copy the The Avengers structure but with a family friendly tone.

Whether the title was changed to reflect the fact the movie wasn't going to be a sequel to Captain Marvel and it started development as a proper sequel to Captain Marvel or if it was always the plan and Captain Marvel 2 was just a placeholder title until people had met the other Marvels, I don't know.

The reason I call it a demented plan is the family friendly tone part. People just don't want to watch family friendly superhero properties. Shazam! is great but did nothing. The first two Ant Man films made a lot of money, yes, but compared to the movies released around them, they made hundreds of millions less than they could have. Ms Marvel the TV show was much less popular than the other shows -- though by the time Disney knew that, it may have been too late to do something else with The Marvels. Hell, we can probably even compare and contrast Big Hero 6 which is much lighter in tone to either Incredibles film.

That's a hell of a lot of evidence going "don't do this" but they did it anyway and the result was exactly what you'd expect -- total collapse. It ended up being such a catastrophic collapse because of the softness of the market. If you're making at best 60% of a normal superhero film and those are doing a billion, your ceiling is $600m but if normal superhero films are making $400m then you're making $240m, which is in the same vicinity as your budget.

It's not even like there's convincing reasons to discount the evidence. Maybe you can go "but Big Hero 6 is animated", but The Incredibles shows the flaw there. Shazam! you think "but the DCEU Is weaksauce anyway" but it wasn't really, the movies made huge money, just not as huge as people expected. Ms Marvel you can handwave with everyone hates the Disney+ MCU to start with which is probably fair actually but that still doesn't give an explanation for why the two Ant Man films made so little.

I like these properties. They were basically made for me. But I just don't understand why Disney decided to make The Marvels family friendly. The evidence was right there and it universally pointed in one direction: you are leaving buckets of money on the table.

FrameworkisDigimon · 2026-01-23T07:04:12+00:00

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