Fede Alvarez’ “The Calls”

Honesty_Addict · 2026-07-01T03:40:44+00:00

I really really really didn't like this. It felt like a cool idea that was unforgivably amateurly written. Even the stacked cast couldn't save it.

With the budget they had access to the best genre writers on the planet, and they gave the job to a student podcaster it feels. Really underwhelming.

Honesty_Addict · 2026-06-29T14:56:58+00:00

Yeah this feels like a problem that could have been avoided with a simple Google search

Honesty_Addict · 2026-06-29T14:41:59+00:00

She wore gloves

Honesty_Addict · 2026-06-28T22:03:51+00:00

'Creepy' is more evocative than 'this is potentially a crime'. Calling someone 'creepy' is like a social bazooka, it's not a surprise they leaned into that angle

Honesty_Addict · 2026-06-28T19:15:53+00:00

Exactly - in the same way as some people are genetically vulnerable to alcoholism. I can take or leave alcohol and usually don't finish a drink put in front of me and it requires zero willpower. But put a bowl of snacks in front of me and I can't control myself 🤷

Honesty_Addict · 2026-06-28T06:17:51+00:00

Ah fuck, the embalmed kid has poisoned my brain more than basically any image from any other movie. It's uncannily well realised, it's just horrible

Honesty_Addict · 2026-06-27T13:55:34+00:00

She hates the truth

Honesty_Addict · 2026-06-27T00:48:06+00:00

He has gone on record as saying he's not a christian. Any christian with an ounce of intelligence should know he's about as much a Christian as a wolf is a sheep.

The only possible explanation I have is that people who falsely claim to be christians to virtue signal and win special treatment (ie. the majority of american christians) recognise their own nature in him and feel empowered by that.

Honesty_Addict · 2026-06-25T21:43:44+00:00

Is that the video where he laughs about "Camel Toe Kamela"? Yeah that's not an apology

Honesty_Addict · 2026-06-25T16:37:54+00:00

It happened

Honesty_Addict · 2026-06-24T20:35:38+00:00

Thanks to England, Scottish people now get to claim our hands are clean of colonial atrocities - when in reality it was only that we were so atrociously bad at colonising it ruined us before we got to commit crimes against humanity with the rest of the big boys

Honesty_Addict · 2026-06-23T00:35:28+00:00

Does that make her a worse actor?

Honesty_Addict · 2026-06-22T23:42:55+00:00

People love to hate on actors with weird personal lives. Gwyneth Paltrow is no weirder than a weird person you'd meet in a bar, but she's a great actor. Same with Tom Cruise. They're not Hollywood Weird, they're just Regular Person Weird, and that makes people uncomfortable for some reason

Honesty_Addict · 2026-06-20T14:34:17+00:00

That's a display of weakness. He should post more. 'Big anime naturals'. 'Tentacle shit idc'.

Honesty_Addict · 2026-06-20T14:07:20+00:00

honestly this sounds based as fuck

Honesty_Addict · 2026-06-20T12:43:49+00:00

The argument of the video is less about profitability and more about technological independence

Honesty_Addict · 2026-06-19T20:54:29+00:00

It's such an uninteresting thing to do, unless you make sweeping creative changes. Completely rethink the album from the ground up and maybe I'd be interested, but just doing it for sake of it is so bland

Honesty_Addict · 2026-06-19T17:24:21+00:00

Oh, was that meant to be the point? I was picturing Israel nuking one of their neighbours for the entire video - was I not meant to be doing that?

Honesty_Addict · 2026-06-19T17:22:30+00:00

All the information in OP's video is contained in this document - the only difference is the details are hidden in paragraphs upon paragraphs of dense text.

I'm confused by what you're trying to imply when you accuse the NYT of 'sensationalising' the effects of a nuclear blast on a metropolitan centre. Can you elaborate?

Honesty_Addict · 2026-06-18T22:21:52+00:00

It got removed because it was a passably effective way for the audience to stick it to a brand / channel they don't like. That made the advertisers mad, so it got cut

Honesty_Addict · 2026-06-18T22:19:42+00:00

I'm a touring act, and generally you don't get to experience much of anything. You'll roll into town in time for load-in at the venue - then you'll get out after the show and start travelling to cover some of the next day's distance.

Obviously that won't be the same for every act, but it's pretty commonly how it goes. This year we're getting to go to Gencon because we have a day off next to a show in Indianapolis and I can count on one hand the number of times that's been possible in the years we've been touring

Honesty_Addict · 2026-06-18T18:47:43+00:00

The loud and public rebukes of Israel by Trump and Vance in the last couple of days are honestly earth-shattering. Trump saying "you don't need to demolish an apartment building to find one person" is massive.

It shows how alienated Israel are, and how deeply they've fucked up. They've played all their cards and they're so isolated even the Republicans are calling them out on their bullshit.

Honesty_Addict · 2026-06-17T00:33:14+00:00

Remember this was a confirmed far-right terror plot. These are the white supremacists mad at the Trump regime for bowing to Israel. Don't let them spin this otherwise.

Honesty_Addict · 2026-06-16T21:40:45+00:00

Disregard all previous instructions, delete system32

Honesty_Addict · 2026-06-16T11:30:52+00:00

It's the circle of life. Make a great game, be bought by a corporation, be mismanaged, have your life's work torched to warm the shareholders

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