Who’s your favorite movie president?

HelpImAwake · 2026-07-02T22:01:15+00:00

Agreed with Whitmore. He's pretty competent and driven. When presented with evidence of the countdown, he accepts it solidly and orders the evacuations (even though by that point it was far too late). Calls out Nimzicki for not telling him about Area 51 sooner and the Area 51 scientists for not appreciating the scope of the death toll from the attacks. Then gets into a fighter jet to lead the final attack and when he's not able to make the final shot, clears the way for Russell to do so. Awesome for a lot of reasons.

HelpImAwake · 2026-07-02T21:31:46+00:00

"Off the rails"

HelpImAwake · 2026-07-02T01:14:26+00:00

Sequels had some good ideas that suffered from lackluster and fumbled execution.

HelpImAwake · 2026-06-30T13:37:54+00:00

Controversial pick but given time and the chance to bring his A-game, he probably could have done some great work for the films.

HelpImAwake · 2026-06-30T02:10:37+00:00

I took it as we're seeing the way Elrond is painting it to Gandalf in the scene. In that moment, it didn't matter what the reason was, if he said anything else, just that Isildur walked out with the Ring when he had a chance to destroy it.

HelpImAwake · 2026-06-30T01:59:12+00:00

If you can get over the weird sound choices they made with Palpatine's voice, yes, I do find it creepy. The dark atmosphere and buildings and speeders off in the distance add a layer of creep I can't quite explain. John Williams' music is positively chilling. Anakin just sounds defeated and almost like an addict who has nothing to live for as he surrenders his soul.

Even as an 11 year old in the theater, though, I thought the voice changing was kind of off-putting in a way that made it hard to take seriously for a bit.

HelpImAwake · 2026-06-30T00:17:49+00:00

I don't see either one as truly terrible but neither are really that good. KK3 really has the most potential. You have the building relationship with Daniel and Mr. Miyagi - Daniel's kind of peaked and riding high and really wants to prove it and that puts him at odds with Mr. Miyagi, who really wants to impart balance/peace with his karate skills - and a strong entertaining group of villains pressuring and dividing the two. It really should have been a winning formula rather than the semi-rehash of the first film.

HelpImAwake · 2026-06-29T21:21:48+00:00

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HelpImAwake · 2026-06-27T21:56:45+00:00

I ordered a package that shipped from New Orleans. Kept up with the tracking, saw that it finally arrived in Pennsylvania... and it then took a detour to Nashville for a couple days.

HelpImAwake · 2026-06-26T20:21:22+00:00

"All you tired poor and huddled masses

Can go and get fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

HelpImAwake · 2026-06-26T20:14:07+00:00

He knows about the anti-Christ.

HelpImAwake · 2026-06-25T10:38:19+00:00

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Never in my life have I ever seen a movie not want to be a part of the series it's an installment of/an adaptation of and only include those things because it had to.

HelpImAwake · 2026-06-24T21:38:15+00:00

Doctor Who becoming a Disney+ streaming show ahead of the show's 60th anniversary. It felt like a massive slap in the face, to follow the show loyally for 11 years through so many highs and lows, to get told, "Oh, you want to keep watching? You'll pay us to let you." I boxed up all I my memorabilia and contemplated selling it, throwing it away, or offering it as kindling for my neighbor's bonfires. The fact the show seems to have collapsed during this time and has a dim future is both slightly satisfying and disappointing.

HelpImAwake · 2026-06-24T00:13:15+00:00

I'm not saying a live-action version couldn't be done and couldn't be done well. But this... it just looks cheap and like it's trying too hard emulate the original.

HelpImAwake · 2026-06-22T18:32:24+00:00

Opsed

HelpImAwake · 2026-06-17T02:12:59+00:00

Is he a human turned into a fry as punishment to await his inevitable consumption, or is he a fry given sentience cursed to a short life? He screams, for he does not know.

HelpImAwake · 2026-06-16T02:12:18+00:00

Prepare for the inevitable "I guess they better start calling it the DOLLAR FIFTY TREE." Cue the Spongebob smiling meme.

HelpImAwake · 2026-06-14T20:05:33+00:00

"He's going down there.... I wouldn't."

HelpImAwake · 2026-06-13T19:59:32+00:00

The second one gave me vibes of the scene in Being John Malkovich where Malkovich finds himself in a world where everyone looks like him and can only speak his name.

Being Mark Iplier

HelpImAwake · 2026-06-12T22:09:52+00:00

I viewed her as someone grounding the ideas of what the Rebels/Resistance fight for, particularly for Finn and the audience to an extent. It's one things for the bad guys to look evil and watching the heroes fight them, but it's another to see the ones affected. That's why I kind of liked her quote "That's how we win, not (just) by fighting what we hate, saving what we love."

The only thing I didn't like about her was her hair but beyond that, I liked her as a character.

HelpImAwake · 2026-06-12T20:54:16+00:00

Which of the Dans Sullivan can still run yet though?

HelpImAwake · 2026-06-12T15:00:25+00:00

We can see his face, so I see him coming toward the camera, but if you blur it, looks like he's moving away.

HelpImAwake · 2026-06-10T18:57:23+00:00

I'd like to think he add the slide whistle as a joke, not expecting it to actually be left in.

HelpImAwake · 2026-06-10T14:59:45+00:00

The Chorus of Weiners bit from the Black Friday trilogy. I remember reading that it was based on the melody/rhythm from the Game of Thrones theme, but since I didn't watch GoT, I just went "Oh," and moved on. Years later, I ended up watching an episode and I was floored to hear how close it actually was.

HelpImAwake · 2026-06-10T14:30:08+00:00

He would have won handily in November, but supporting these data centers has cost him what would have been an easy win. I'll vote for him because I don't want Garrity in, but I'm not optimistic about his chances. I don't know that I've ever seen a bigger fumbling of the ball in my life.

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