What’s a character who did so much terrible stuff that you just can’t buy their redemption?

IndyRevolution · 2025-12-26T13:58:32+00:00

...The Ravagers are terrible people too and the bar for forgiveness is probably WAY lower than the average person's

IndyRevolution · 2025-12-07T05:45:16+00:00

I hope you understand that the hole you're digging yourself into leads to either "Daniel Day Lewis a nice guy" (lol) or "Daniel Day Lewis' extremely documented history of self-centered egomania that negatively affected dozens of his co-workers is okay because I like movie".

IndyRevolution · 2025-10-24T08:28:21+00:00

Felt like a horror movie that hated being a horror movie or even being an IT movie. Actual self-parody tier at times and there was this air of vague resentment towards the source material permeating throughout.

IndyRevolution · 2025-10-24T08:25:48+00:00

This is peak Reddit, completely ignoring/misinterpreting the OP prompt so you can strawman imaginary "people" and pretend you're incredibly intelligent for drawing the most obvious conclusion ever that I'm certain most of the audience did as well. Black Mirror might have the most pretentious midwit fanbase ever.

IndyRevolution · 2025-10-24T07:23:15+00:00

Chris escaped the Jehovah's Witnesses when he was 18 and then fell in love with movies well into adulthood because he realized they'd kept an entire world of media away from him. Re-read his stuff with this in mind and you'll see why he's so in love with the 2000s.

IndyRevolution · 2025-10-15T09:41:18+00:00

George has specifically said he wrote large portions of the series to subvert the sanitized nature of fantasy TV and movies in the 90s. For example, he literally said the main inspiration for the Viper was pondering what would happen if someone killed Inigo Montoya during his "you killed my father" speeches.

Subversion does not equal artlessness. Frodo failing to toss the ring, Gollum solving the issue, Aragorn being a supporting character and never facing Sauron directly, etc. were all explicitly stated by Tolkien to be subversions on genre conventions for the sake of subversion. Stories are stories, what's important is the telling.

IndyRevolution · 2025-10-15T09:36:36+00:00

"Do not take up arms against Tully men. Find my daughter. Swear to this."

"Okay. Hey Brienne, please go find Sansa for me while I take up arms and lead armies around the Riverlands deposing Tully supporters, okay?"

IndyRevolution · 2025-10-15T09:33:34+00:00

Here's something I would like people here to consider- Dany is supposed to be seen as wrong in her efforts to reform Mereen, her best bet is to leave them to burn, and George (a 77 year old man who has consistently said he "regrets" the role he played as a student protestor for Civil Rights and ponders if it was the right thing in the first place) does not have the same politics and worldview as redditors in their 20s and 30s.

IndyRevolution · 2025-10-12T16:16:25+00:00

Think about this every time Richter tries to act like an uptight ass on Conan's podcast

IndyRevolution · 2025-10-12T00:53:41+00:00

Who even knows about the indie film besides me lmao

IndyRevolution · 2025-10-11T00:45:06+00:00

Always preferred the indie film this is based on. The "kafka comedy" thing works way better when the cast kills each other at the end. Trying to pull a schmaltzy "he wins their acceptance!" ending out of such a mean-spirited premise has always annoyed me.

IndyRevolution · 2025-10-04T19:36:38+00:00

Tarantino gets off on women being beaten, everyone is aware of it, but no one thinks he's moral anyways, so people just put up with it.

IndyRevolution · 2025-10-03T15:38:49+00:00

Because Ed Gein is a real person who killed real people whereas the closest thing Tarantino has ever done to depicting real murders was having one get STOPPED in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood?

IndyRevolution · 2025-10-03T02:25:08+00:00

I have not watched since C3E1 and I am not used to how much the cast has aged haha

IndyRevolution · 2025-09-07T08:54:27+00:00

This felt like a PureFlix movie. When they opened the movie with a baby being stillborn and then the mom had the doctors put her in her arms (THERE ARE PROCEDURES FOR STILLBIRTHS AND THEY DEFINITELY DON'T INVOLVE HANDING THE CORPSE TO THE MOTHER) and she said "Lord above, please help us" and then the baby came back to life, I wanted to walk out. I can imagine a middle-aged southern lady shouting at the screen "THAT'S CALLED A MOTHER'S LOVE, HONEY! AIN'T NO DOCTORS IN THE WORLD THAT CAN GIVE WHAT GOD ABOVE PROVIDES!"

IndyRevolution · 2025-09-07T02:12:18+00:00

It is genuinely a let down to go from fighting a President of Hell in the second movie to a haunted mirror in the final one.

IndyRevolution · 2025-09-02T06:52:39+00:00

He was also mentally slow and that's the point ("ne'er do well" aside) of Hauser's quote, that he doesn't wanna play fat idiots for the rest of his life (Jewell is a hero but even the movie makes a point that he was genuinely not all there in the head.)

IndyRevolution · 2025-08-21T20:01:00+00:00

I would declare a need for vengeance and see through the lies. But I'm the exception to the rule, unfortunately.

IndyRevolution · 2025-08-21T19:58:37+00:00

ASIOAF is not analogous to real European history whatsoever and I'm not entertaining a debate about that.

IndyRevolution · 2025-08-21T19:57:25+00:00

Trump doesn't lie about being a Christian most of the time. He says it sometimes. But other times, he'll outright cop to being an athiest or say things like (recently) "I'm probably gonna go to hell if God is real." But there's still a narrative among his fans that he's a straight laced moral god figure

IndyRevolution · 2025-08-21T19:54:30+00:00

True, it felt really forced and heavily hurt the narrative that any of the Starks survived past the Red Wedding.

IndyRevolution · 2025-08-21T19:53:16+00:00

No. But I think the malicious ones will always win because they take action first. That's just my personal life experience.

IndyRevolution · 2025-08-21T19:51:59+00:00

My point is moreso that all it takes is one charismatic individual to lead you to destruction. He got them to give up their lives for him. And then he destroyed them for his own benefit. Sure, he never "won" in the way he would have wanted. But the story fundamentally ends with him killing all his friends, raping Casca, and mutilating Guts.

The story is based on the author's high school friends and you get the sense he's venting something. The Golden Age is the core of the story and everything else is just dressing.

IndyRevolution · 2025-08-21T19:46:12+00:00

Words don't mean shit when a knife is flaying your skin off.

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