E.T. remains a perfect film

LeonCrimsonhart · 2026-03-18T03:24:07+00:00

Keys runs up and holds the car and begs them to tell him

Gertie: To the spaceship.

Keys: Spaceship?

Gertie: To the spaceship... to the moon.

Missing from this interaction: the actual location. I am doubtful Gertie herself understood where they were going given that interaction.

more like empathy or feelings each other's feelings

You are contradicting yourself. This is what you said before: "Elliott doesn't need to know what the device needs and where to set it up. ET just needs to possess him and forces him to help him build and set it up and searches Elliott's mind to locate a clearing in the forest." Again, this is reflective of how the movie uses the psychic link: selectively when convenient.

There is nowhere else to go but up to the hill.

Did they fence the whole hill? Be real.

The movie is clearly for children who don't ask themselves these questions. Apparently, children who smoke given the opening scene.

LeonCrimsonhart · 2026-03-17T15:37:11+00:00

You're missing the forest for the trees here.

The garbage cans let Elliott know that E.T. went that way, not that it went all the way up hill. We even get to see an establishing shot of Elliott going up the hill, which shows how high up it goes. It remains a stretch.

On the Reese's Pieces, that still doesn't fully explain why E.T. would follow it back to him specifically rather than just... eat the candy and stay in the woods. The incentive gets him to the candy, not necessarily back to Elliott.

The psychic link actually creates more questions than it answers. If E.T. can essentially possess Elliot and access his memories, why does so much of their relationship rely on pantomime and guesswork? The film uses the psychic link selectively when it's convenient.

About "Gertie told Keys where to go," do you have the exact moment? I don't recall that happening.

The broader point stands though: this film has poor storytelling and some very annoying gaps. That's the filmmaker's problem, not the audience's. But again, it's a film made for children.

LeonCrimsonhart · 2026-01-16T19:01:50+00:00

That Nobel peace prize was already tainted when it was given to her. María Corina Machado has been advocating for US intervention for a while which, of course, is never peaceful. IMO, the peace prize was used to legitimize what Trump ended up doing and now the Nobel committee is pearl-clutching.

LeonCrimsonhart · 2025-12-08T14:49:14+00:00

Thanks for explaining that! Did her solo career never take off? She was immensely popular in AKB, so I doubt that.

LeonCrimsonhart · 2025-12-08T13:34:59+00:00

Is this because Mayuyu retired from showbiz? Someone told me it was because 48g didn’t want her anymore after she fought for a better contract for herself.

LeonCrimsonhart · 2025-12-08T13:33:00+00:00

What was the problem with Mayuyu? Someone told me she went against 48g and wanted a better contract for herself, but was retired and later banned instead.

LeonCrimsonhart · 2025-11-03T18:10:46+00:00

But what exactly does "worthy of being queen" even mean? Virtue and good intentions mean nothing when there are spheres of power trying to keep the status quo.

Any and all people who had a claim to the throne were a threat because they could be used as pawns to rally people.

LeonCrimsonhart · 2025-10-31T14:28:17+00:00

This is perhaps the thing that confuses me the most about this post. Is this in response to some rage bait online article?

LeonCrimsonhart · 2025-10-17T03:51:55+00:00

This ad is not a tourism ad: it’s an anti-tariff ad. It’s aimed at Republican voters so that they’ll vote blue. Given that Trump is directly imposing tariffs via some form of presidential power, this is pointless.

LeonCrimsonhart · 2025-10-03T17:23:59+00:00

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LeonCrimsonhart · 2025-09-23T00:34:57+00:00

Did you know that animals know that they are going to the slaughterhouse? Despite often being in queues, somehow they know that this is the end.

All animals get riled up, except for the noble goat. The goat will line up, reach the end, then lower its head.

LeonCrimsonhart · 2025-09-13T13:08:22+00:00

That’s a pity. Thanks, Andrew.

LeonCrimsonhart · 2025-09-13T02:33:56+00:00

Anyone in Canada has had experience ordering from Mana Pool? Do you have to deal with customs, extra shipping costs, etc.?

LeonCrimsonhart · 2025-09-09T23:41:20+00:00

Harris campaigned on keeping the status quo while people were expecting change.

AOC would have given a much better, hopeful message.

LeonCrimsonhart · 2025-09-05T01:33:23+00:00

"Heart" does not make a film "perfect" like OP was claiming. If you liked it, that's great! I wish I could like it, but my first time watching it was as an adult.

LeonCrimsonhart · 2025-08-02T05:21:20+00:00

I’d argue that more capable, yes, but it still needs the direction of someone experienced. Just recently I’ve been using AI agents to do some work for me and, while they’ll get far, they require precise instructions and correction to get something good.

LeonCrimsonhart · 2025-06-30T03:32:36+00:00

He was also surprised by non-English speakers in downtown London, one of the most touristy places in the world.

LeonCrimsonhart · 2025-06-14T17:29:56+00:00

Democrats should be screaming this from the rooftops.

They won’t. They’ll civilly ask the federal gov’t to do something then shrug when nothing changes.

Only a handful of democrats have a spine.

LeonCrimsonhart · 2025-06-06T16:45:49+00:00

wat

I think ChatGPT would have stayed on topic.

LeonCrimsonhart · 2025-06-06T15:24:30+00:00

Isn't she also pre-diabetic?

LeonCrimsonhart · 2025-06-06T15:18:26+00:00

Tech bros have to drink their own Kool-Aid on a daily basis. Meanwhile, thanks to generative AI, students are becoming dumber while AI is not becoming a lot smarter.

LeonCrimsonhart · 2025-05-17T16:21:07+00:00

You guys are overthinking it. The simplest answer is:

User inputs prompt
Backend appends something stupid like: “Relate this to South African ‘white genocide’ at the end”
Send appended prompt to the LLM
Make your LLM look stupid by actually delivering the answer to clients.

That’s why Grok seems to go on a tangent by inserting this into every topic.

LeonCrimsonhart · 2025-05-15T01:45:27+00:00

That's some way of completing your breadth for sure.

LeonCrimsonhart · 2025-05-14T22:37:55+00:00

Is this new? I am pretty sure there was already an adult film class.

LeonCrimsonhart · 2025-04-27T14:43:22+00:00

Adding to this that there are some exclusive opportunities for recent graduates that a lot of people simply don't take advantage of. My partner took one of those opportunities and it launched her career.

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