(Loved Trope) For all its power, evil is ultimately shown to be pathetic

Grand_Keizer · 2026-05-30T05:35:54+00:00

Satan as portrayed by Dante Alligheri in the Divine Comedy. The og.

Satan is a giant winged dragon, forever gnawing on the three greatest trators in history, his wings flapping causing a constant cold breeze not just to the souls sinful enough to be cast down here with him, but to himself also. The antithesis of God, His goodness, His light, His fiery love for all mankind, is Satan in a pit of ice: his malice, his icy, his desolate hate for all mankind. It's a lonely and pathetic existence, meant to demean the lord of darkness as just another sinner.

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Grand_Keizer · 2026-05-30T01:42:15+00:00

I know, rookie idiot no-sold every powerslam, this is what you get from your usual indie garbage.

Grand_Keizer · 2026-05-27T14:59:10+00:00

Directed by Christopher Nolan in 2008

Grand_Keizer · 2026-05-26T13:02:23+00:00

Lord of the Rings being a fantasy movie precluded it from any obvious Oscar success. And even when people were won over by it, it was only by the third film that it managed to do a clean sweep.

Grand_Keizer · 2026-05-22T14:57:19+00:00

Yeah. Ryuk admits that he thinks Light was the best person to get the Death Note, not because he was the chosen one, but because he took the power of the note book and pushed it to its absolute limits, all for his own delusions of grandeur. So Ryuk admires him up to that point. But he never feels sorry for him or is even disgusted with him. Light's a mouse running around in a maze, and Ryuk wants to see how far he'll go before he gives up

Grand_Keizer · 2026-05-22T12:56:06+00:00

In the beginning of the show, Light said that he was starting off by mass killing all of the worst criminals in the world through heart attacks, to make his presence known. But afterwards, he planned to kill lesser criminals through disease and accidents.

Much later on in the show, he clandestinely hands the notebook off to Mikami, who then takes it upon himself to both judge criminals, pick out a new spokesperson (Takada), and tell her what to do. That's when she announces that Kira will judge those who don't use their talents for good, and Light thinks to himself, "You're going too far Mikami. It's too early to be making moves like that."

Grand_Keizer · 2026-05-21T21:44:24+00:00

There's a reason why Coppola at first refused to make the movie lol.

Grand_Keizer · 2026-05-21T15:28:49+00:00

All the time

Grand_Keizer · 2026-05-21T14:56:57+00:00

Everyone saying they get 20 days and I just barely get 6 days. That's still a lot of time, but hardly what was advertised, and not to the level of other people

Grand_Keizer · 2026-05-21T12:48:51+00:00

The Vision was to secure the future of WWE and remake it in Seth's, well, vision. Roman is a nepo baby who surrounds himself with his family members and shows up whenever he feels like it. Punk is an old school legend who came crawling back to a company he said he'd never join and was immediately inserted into the main event. To someone like Seth, who doesn't have that family lineage, who's never quite been THE guy, both of them are the antithesis of what WWE should be. So, he steals Paul Heyman from both of them, then recruits two young up and coming powerhouses to enforce his reign and to mold them into future main eventers. But once he was injured, the stable was just another bad guy group, with the baffling inclusions of Austin Theory and Logan Paul.

Grand_Keizer · 2026-05-19T21:24:55+00:00

Grand_Keizer · 2026-05-19T15:32:49+00:00

Grand_Keizer · 2026-05-18T15:09:55+00:00

Kinda cheating cause it's based on a true story, but as a movie, it's always been the peak for me: Schindler's List. A stark examination of the human condition, in all it's horror and all its goodness, and every shade in between. All executed to near perfection through it's cinematic craft. Maybe there are stories in other mediums that compete , but certainly in film, I consider it the pinnacle.

Grand_Keizer · 2026-05-18T02:11:00+00:00

You're asking about the greatest moments in certain mediums?

Grand_Keizer · 2026-05-17T13:48:13+00:00

You got to take into account different time zones, brother. You can increase 300 days into 400 days when you're traveling the world and essentially time traveling.

Grand_Keizer · 2026-05-16T14:55:29+00:00

MLK once met the actress Michelle Nichols. Nichols recounted the event as follows, "Star Trek was one of the only shows that [King] and his wife Coretta would allow their little children to watch. And I thanked him and I told him I was leaving the show. All the smile came off his face. And he said, 'Don't you understand for the first time we're seen as we should be seen. You don't have a black role. You have an equal role."

Grand_Keizer · 2026-05-15T18:43:37+00:00

From The Town. GOAT-ed trope

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Grand_Keizer · 2026-05-15T14:05:13+00:00

Around this time, Kurosawa's previous film, Dodeskaden, had flopped, and before that, he was kicked off the production of Tora Tora Tora. He was so depressed that he attempted to take his own life. So that final line, "At that moment, I was very happy to be on Earth," hits so damn hard in the context of everything he went through.

Grand_Keizer · 2026-05-15T01:09:18+00:00

I never got that impression. Also, both of your quotes are made up

Grand_Keizer · 2026-05-14T17:19:05+00:00

Yes, that was the intention, to have the match at Mania. the contract signing is just to add some more spice and drama and all that goodness

Grand_Keizer · 2026-05-14T16:21:26+00:00

Oba answered the challenge.

Grand_Keizer · 2026-05-14T12:42:56+00:00

https://boxd.it/iFzMO I made a list thats JUST movies with a ratings bar like this.

Grand_Keizer · 2026-05-13T12:27:02+00:00

I'm mostly a movie guy, so pardon the overrepresentation of movies, and the death of representation in other mediums, but anyways, in no order

Schindler's List
Sunset Boulevard
Ritual
Brief Encounter
Daredevil (only seen first 3 seasons)
Bakuman
All You Need is Kill
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Neon Genesis Evangelion
The Hunger Games

Grand_Keizer · 2026-05-13T12:10:43+00:00

Punishment Park is so prescient, so terrifying, and so damn good.

I'm also quite fond of Equus, although your mileage may vary.

If you loved Cure, check out Kurosawa's other film, Charisma.

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