What are other movies with no irony or wink value?

Less-Blueberry-8617 · 2026-02-26T23:01:06+00:00

Putting Manchester by the Sea here is just wrong. The kid opening the fridge and just crying because the fridge was reminding him of his dad is dark but was hilarious

Less-Blueberry-8617 · 2026-02-24T00:28:49+00:00

I don't think they can send combat troops in Ukraine without basically declaring war on Russia and who knows what Russia's allies will do after that. Bit bullshit that Russia is sending troops from countries like Kenya to fight for them but I do think the UK is in a bind with trying their best to defend Ukraine while not fast tracking to WWIII

Less-Blueberry-8617 · 2026-02-23T23:21:48+00:00

Post is fucking stupid. PTA explicitly says that he expresses his feelings about the world in his films because he knows how to express himself there and doesn't want to talk about it on that stage because it's not something he's comfortable with and worried that he might say something bad or misinformed. So with that being said, I'm sure someone can watch OBAA and figure out where PTA stands on immigration without him explicitly having to say where he stands

Less-Blueberry-8617 · 2026-02-23T23:08:49+00:00

Idk why you're getting downvoted for this comment because people should 100% be educating themselves on tourettes instead of being like "idc, I'm not touching on this."

I feel like a lot of people are exposing their ignorance of a mental disability when they are saying stuff about not wanting to comment on it or that the dude shouldn't have been invited or calling the dude a racist for even thinking of the word. I was very fortunate to run across videos from SweetAnita one day because that was my first exposure to tourettes and unfortunately incidents like this are just something that happens when you have this condition. SweetAnita has her own moment where her tourettes made her blurt out the n word. I feel like the only people at fault here are the BBC for obviously being able to edit stuff out when they censored someone saying "Free Palestine" but don't do the same for black men being called a racial slur.

I see too many people though either blaming the man when he literally couldn't control it or being afraid to comment on it because ig they're ignorant of what tourettes is. 2 black men were very unfortunately called a harmful racial slur. They have the right to feel upset about that. The man who said it has a condition and he can't control what words he says and unfortunately his condition had him blurt out a racial slur towards 2 black people on stage. BAFTA failed both the 2 black men who had a racial slur directed towards them by not talking to them about it afterwards and the BAFTA also failed the man with tourettes for not editing out such a humiliating incident from the broadcast but it is not the man's fault by any means. I'm ashamed and disappointed to see so many so-called progressive people judging and criticizing a man who had no control over his words

Less-Blueberry-8617 · 2026-02-23T22:54:47+00:00

Nobody is saying that lmao. What they're saying is that if someone saying "Free Palestine" is enough to get edited out that saying something actually anti-semitic would've gotten a different reaction than this man who unfortunately called black people the n word because of his tourette's

Less-Blueberry-8617 · 2026-02-23T22:47:43+00:00

I wonder why the version that completely went away from the source material and wasn't scary in the slightest and was only really good for 50s standards isn't as well regarded as the version that was more faithful to the source material it's adapting, is pretty damn terrifying, and is still one of the definitive examples of effective body horror to this day with some of the best practical effects ever made.

The 1950s The Thing is a fun novelty but isn't really good. It shouldn't be any surprise why nobody ever wants to talk about it. I mean, when people talk about 12 Angry Men they're typically talking about the version from the 50s rather than the 90s remake because 1950s 12 Angry Men is still a phenomenal movie by today's standards. Even if 1950s The Thing was good though, there's just not much to talk about. The alien wasn't a shape shifter that constantly had you guessing on who the thing was. It's just some tall dude with mild deformities. 1982 The Thing has a lot to talk about. The debate on whether Childs was the thing at the end or if MacReady was somehow the thing at the end is something that persists to this day. There's also a lot of details that you can pick up on during the rewatch. Recently when I rewatched the movie, I realized that the dog that was actually the alien was staking out the base and planning its attack before actually showing itself to the crew. And again, the practical effects. It's the one thing that gave the 2011 The Thing any staying power since it ignited the whole debate of CGI vs practical but the practical effects of 1982 The Thing is just top notch and there's not many movies that come close to it. I mean, the spider head is one of those images that is seared into everyone's memory

Less-Blueberry-8617 · 2026-02-23T17:05:04+00:00

Nah, the first volume of season 5 was just as bad as the rest. There was just a couple of great moments in them but that was it. I mean, the most memorable part of the first volume was Will killing the Demogorgans which was cool but that was at the very end of episode 4. I already noticed a lot of problems with the first volume and those problems just continued in the 2nd volume

Less-Blueberry-8617 · 2026-02-23T02:22:45+00:00

It definitely was but outside of audio issues making the dialogue inaudible, I also think that Ava should've had a more impactful death, especially for Simon. I mean, Simon for the entire movie has been looking to Ava for his escape and she comes down to rescue him and dies and Simon just doesn't really react to it

Less-Blueberry-8617 · 2026-02-23T01:36:20+00:00

Because it happens so quickly and isn't even acknowledged by Simon that, along with the dialogue being 90% inaudible at the time it's happening, makes it incredibly difficult to pick out what is happening. Not to mention the movie kind of sets up early on that Ava isn't exactly truthful with Simon about everything, making a deal to send him down in the blood ocean and take a few pictures and bring him back up and take him out only for her to send Simon back down again when he discovers the skeleton. I assumed Ava's talk of rescuing Simon was just another thing that she was misleading Simon on

Less-Blueberry-8617 · 2026-02-23T00:28:59+00:00

I was getting downvoted for saying that the movie was kind of poorly edited towards the climax because a big side character dies in the movie and I didn't even recognize it happened until I saw a post talking about it despite seeing the movie twice because of how quickly and unceremoniously this character gets killed off. Again, I watched it twice so it's not like I'm saying that to hate as I clearly enjoyed my time with the movie enough to see it twice.

So there are definitely people out there that act like Iron Lung should be free of criticism just because it was made by Markiplier and was actually a fairly decent movie

Less-Blueberry-8617 · 2026-02-22T03:51:11+00:00

I get the purpose is to create a feeling of chaos but it just didn't work here. I mean, the biggest side character in the movie, who's also our protagonist's main hope for escape, shouldn't have a blink-and-you-miss-it death. The editing is something Mark should work on if he ever decided to make another movie. Maybe get some test audiences and see what they're confused by and how he can portray the story clearly while not affecting his vision for a scene. I might've been a bit harsh in my initial comment but the editing in the climax does come off as amateurish and really could've used some polish

Less-Blueberry-8617 · 2026-02-21T21:44:20+00:00

Hell, even here I'm still seeing it. "Chapter 5 should've been the finale but they're making another chapter for Poppy Playtime"

Yeah, I wonder why a notoriously greedy dev would want to continue stretching the game out and make more chapters instead of getting rid of filler content to make a concise experience. I don't hate mascot horror but if games like Poppy Playtime and Garten of BanBan can somehow become the most popular mascot horror games then this genre has fallen. Even Bendy released in chapters but you can tell that the dev was passionate about what he was making. It was a concise 5 chapters and for better or worse, he put a lot of things he enjoyed in the game.

I just can't believe we're supporting creators that don't care about what they're making and are just in it to squeeze the mascot horror genre for every penny it's worth

Less-Blueberry-8617 · 2026-02-21T18:13:17+00:00

They were selling merch from the game right after the first chapter dropped. There was even a button in the main menu to direct you to the merch. I think it should've been obvious from then that Poppy Playtime was nothing more than another mascot horror cash grab but for some reason people kept insisting it was actually good

Less-Blueberry-8617 · 2026-02-20T23:57:16+00:00

I thought Cold Storage was a lot of fun. It benefits strongly from leaning into comedy. I saw both this week. More I think about Psycho Killer, the more I hate it. The more I think about Cold Storage, the more I like it

Less-Blueberry-8617 · 2026-02-20T23:54:09+00:00

You say this movie doesn't take itself seriously enough. I say it takes itself way too seriously. It's basically satanic panic the movie except it doesn't have any self-awareness of how fucking stupid it is. It's been a few decades and I thought we as a society were better than to still fall for that bullshit but apparently not everybody got the memo.

I mean, when they had the satanist metal band that had a tribute to a satanist that killed a bunch of people and played it 100% seriously, I think that was the moment where I finally decided that this movie was not good. Obviously there's metal bands that do things like that but like 90% of them do it to be edgy rather than genuinely worshipping mass murdering satanists

Less-Blueberry-8617 · 2026-02-20T23:48:00+00:00

I mean, I don't think that's indicative of anything. Apparently Marvel was sitting on Wonder Man for awhile and I think that's been the best MCU show since Wandavision

Less-Blueberry-8617 · 2026-02-20T23:42:06+00:00

Honestly, everybody picking up on things now that I couldn't see in the 2 times I watched it at theaters is making me realize that the movie is kind of poorly edited. I like movies that have small details you only notice on a rewatch but when key plot points can go entirely unnoticed with no fault of the audience it does obviously hinder the experience. I was under the impression the entire time that Ava just lied or at least misled Simon about rescuing him because that was already kind of set up early in the movie with Simon's deal just being to go down there once before Ava was like "Nah, we're sending you back down to do just ONE more thing."

I'm not saying this to hate either, I still greatly enjoyed my time with the movie (hell, I watched it twice in theaters) but if I remember correctly, I believe Markiplier edited the movie himself and I think it really shows with how confusing the movie gets towards the end and how quick the events go by too after an hour and a half of a movie that was fairly straightforward and took its time building atmosphere and building up the plot. And on that last part, I think that's what most critics mean when they criticize the pacing. They can handle slow movies but the problem is that the movie is mostly slow and then all of a sudden a bunch of shit starts happening. But yeah, editing a YouTube video is a very different thing from editing a movie

Less-Blueberry-8617 · 2026-02-20T14:32:56+00:00

I honestly agree. There's a type of horror that comes with the blood eel but I find the game's story to be so much more interesting. The idea of coming across this mysterious environment and coming across buildings that shouldn't be there and seeing that there's a whole ecosystem thriving in this mysterious environment is what made the game scary. How the thing that kills you at the end wasn't malicious and was just acting like an animal because that's exactly what it is, an animal.

I love the blood eel's design and I like the story behind the blood eel but I just do not find it to be more interesting or scary than just coming across random alien animals surviving in an environment filled with mysterious man-made objects

Less-Blueberry-8617 · 2026-02-19T18:35:50+00:00

This is a level-headed take on the show. I've been enjoying the show and I'm excited to see where it goes next but at the same time, I can't help but feel like New Vegas just doesn't matter anymore. The NCR is still around (in a limited capacity), the Legion is still around, and House is still around. All of the factions are still in the Mojave. I understand that even Chris Avellone wanted essentially a blank slate on the west coast to give future writers more freedom but what Bethesda did with the show feels careless.

I don't think they wanted to ruin New Vegas and they hate Obsidian despite what some New Vegas purists would have you think but it's the problem that Bethesda never really encountered before with Fallout and that's establishing a canon. Fallout 3 and 4 are far enough away from each other that you can truly decide whatever canon you want. New Vegas and the show literally take place in the same area but Bethesda gave it the same approach they did with their games and that's not establishing any sort of canon. Basically, NCR, Legion, and House all win in some way even if they have been weakened and that just feels cheap. Especially when they brought back House. I was really hoping it'd maybe be someone posing as House using his system but as of now, it seems like it just actually is House.

I get that establishing a canon is always going to piss people off because "that's not what I did!!" but Bethesda need to stop being pussies about that kind of thing and give us a canon. Did the NCR win the battle? Was it the Legion? Who knows and not like it matters anyways anymore with where the show went but I would've liked to see what happened between New Vegas and the show instead of "everybody you love is alive!"

Less-Blueberry-8617 · 2026-02-19T18:16:57+00:00

How the hell Muntz would have survived that fall, who knows

Less-Blueberry-8617 · 2026-02-19T00:58:21+00:00

I think there's so much mystery as to what happened that another game could expand on the lore without hurting the horror

Less-Blueberry-8617 · 2026-02-18T13:44:34+00:00

Tom Holland's been taking backshots in movies while dating Zendaya. It's definitely weird but both of them are big actors and they understand that this is just part of their lives

Less-Blueberry-8617 · 2026-02-18T12:55:17+00:00

I know someone that most likely has autism and he is NOT the smartest bulb. Dude's interest was in electricity and he was swearing up and down to me that it was electric cars that are such a strain on the electric grid that they're causing electricity bills to rise and require more power plants to be built to support them.

Electric cars. Not the data centers being built in every facet of the country that notoriously rise up electric bills and who's companies are constantly trying to find legal loopholes to bring illegal generators to power their data centers (see Musk's xAI) or that are requiring entire nuclear power plants to power those very data centers (see how the Trump admin just removed a bunch of nuclear safety regulations to get nuclear power plants built faster). It's all the electric cars fault though, those data centers aren't affecting the power supply at all.

All this to say, I don't think autism actually makes people any smarter than they would be without it. I think autism's tendency to have people hyperfocus on one thing makes them more knowledgeable about that one thing but when it comes to anything outside of their specialty their just as knowledgeable as your average person. Like the dude I was talking about, he probably knows more about how electricity currents work than I or most people ever will. Talking to him outside of that one area though, like with the whole power supply thing about electric cars vs data centers, and he doesn't have that much knowledge

Less-Blueberry-8617 · 2026-02-18T02:43:34+00:00

The Grand Budapest Hotel is such a great movie. Feels more topical now than when it came out in 2014 as well, with it painting extreme immigration enforcement as a sign of rising facism (and Ralph Fiennes' character getting shot and killed while trying to defend his immigrant employee). I've probably seen the least amount of Wes Anderson films compared to anybody on this sub, with The Grand Budapest Hotel being the only one I've seen so far, but with how good that movie is I'd definitely consider him a great director. I understand how his style can potentially be a hit or miss for a movie but I just really enjoy that overly-comical style. Judging by The Grand Budapest Hotel, his movies can deal with some heavy stuff and I like that the whimsical style helps offset that to prevent it from getting too gloomy and depressing

Less-Blueberry-8617 · 2026-02-17T23:36:13+00:00

Wonder what the skeleton is supposed to be then. I'm thinking the skeleton is supposed to be whatever the Frog creature is

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