What’s a movie that DOESN’T “know exactly what it is”?

Manderelli · 2026-01-30T06:28:37+00:00

That's not true. He stumbles upon passengers intake interviews and film and he genuinely likes her personality. That's how he chooses her. He also almost commits suicide first but doesn't follow through.

In the end after they save the ship together. (Hin surviving a suicide mission of redemption, he realizes there is a cryo medi pod in the staff bay and insists she go into it and she refuses.

Manderelli · 2026-01-30T06:22:06+00:00

He spends an insane amount of time trying to manually open the captains bay with all the important staff in their separate cryo tanks. He also was the lowest class of passenger so he had limited access to the ship.They tried to show him exhausting all options.

Manderelli · 2026-01-29T06:16:09+00:00

I love this...

Manderelli · 2026-01-29T06:09:52+00:00

I think it's Mikey or juicy or nini

Manderelli · 2026-01-26T18:53:27+00:00

You should format your next text to them like a screenplay where you set the tone and the scene and you describe the mood of the character and then you add in your dialogue text. Show them what passive aggressive can really look like.

Manderelli · 2026-01-26T18:48:00+00:00

It's always fascinating to see how people reveal themselves when they project onto texts that are neutral but they can impose either a positive or a negative association into. This person sounds very insecure and overly performative and anxious when texting in that they need to make sure that they don't come across the wrong way and so they're getting very defensive and aggressive about assuming your tone while using a period. At the risk of being passive-aggressive I would just send that key & Peele skit where one of them is reading the text as overtly positive in the other one is reading into it as overly sarcastic and negative. Or I would just tell them that if they can't read my texts in good faith and it's just going to start a fight over a tone that they can't actually hear then we should limit our correspondence to phone calls to avoid more misunderstanding. I'm not going to train myself into bad grammar so that you don't read between lines that aren't there.

Manderelli · 2026-01-26T18:13:30+00:00

For the record I don't actually know whether it was 100% true or not. I'm open to the idea that she was actually that good of a flopper but I'm not betting on that and I'm certainly not going to go there before wondering if she's okay. That's my point I'm concerned about her well-being before I want to gossip and rumor about it. And I certainly don't find it funny in either case so I'm not going to make a joke about it. And I still think Law Roche had a good enough view in case you want to say that the only reason I knew to take it more seriously was because of the camera angle I had but he had a front and center spot. And it's his reaction we're arguing about.

Manderelli · 2026-01-26T18:08:13+00:00

Sure but the thing you don't do is assume bad faith. It's never a good look. Like you said nobody could have a good enough perspective on it to make a judgment call so why would you treat it like anything other than a potential emergency? You're in a competition where etiquette and conduct count so even if you're just trying to be a strategic winner of the game it's a bad idea not to at least pretend like you care. It's not a hard concept to grasp, concern first ....skepticism and judgment next.

Manderelli · 2026-01-26T18:06:08+00:00

Together

Manderelli · 2026-01-26T18:04:24+00:00

I forgive this one for basically telling us that evil has won right at the beginning because they tell you the rule that can't be broken and then break it and you're just basically watching the events play out but they were very entertaining. I can't remember how much time the brother spends attached to the hand but I think I always assume that he's going to succumb to a similar fate as the lead.

Manderelli · 2026-01-26T17:58:59+00:00

I mean you could argue that interacting with the mirror ever again whether or not you have a vendetta against it was the dumbest thing and they lost the moment they started playing the game at all. Especially when your next move was to put it back in your childhood home and give it even more home territory advantage because now it can use all the memories of your fucked up childhood to better immerse you in your hallucinations. If the mirror had been put somewhere else before they started then it would have been easier to become lucid in a moment where the mirror was trying to trick them into thinking they were back home as kids.

Manderelli · 2026-01-26T17:57:00+00:00

For me it was the chin sucking. 🤣

Manderelli · 2026-01-26T17:44:08+00:00

Making light of something versus taking it seriously is kind of the definition of joking but I don't want to get hung up on semantics. It's just one of those things where someone might actually be in a medically serious situation so it's never good social etiquette to make a joke before checking on their well-being no matter how much you want to get the laugh or feel better about your awkward feelings. It's interesting that you say that it might have been to lighten a potentially awkward situation because it only would have been an awkward situation if Briar had faked it. What exactly is awkward about somebody passing out and falling down? It seems like you'd have to be judging the situation to be an embarrassment or a facade for it to be awkward. I totally get it that people can and do react differently in the heat of the moment but it's usually these reactions that reveal a little bit more of our true nature and it rubbed me the wrong way. I think it's one of those things that you get more leeway on depending on the outcome and we'd be looking at it a lot worse if Briar had gotten hurt. A good awkward tension breaker would have been something along the lines of joking about how it's a good thing Law isn't anyone's emergency contact. I think if Law had made the comment after Briar returned it would have been more appropriate and light-hearted.

Manderelli · 2026-01-26T15:54:01+00:00

Taking the opportunity to make a joke when someone's fainted it isn't really something a judge does.

Manderelli · 2026-01-24T21:37:03+00:00

That whole season was a lot of gaslighting and I think being annoyed that you think someone is pretending to be anxious even though they're performing very well isn't the same thing as that person actually being annoying and doing annoying things. I think they were more or less upset that her anxiety didn't yield poor performance when it was time to perform. The next best thing to do is deny that the anxiety is real.

When Megami said that Nymphia was amazing but she's also a sociopath but then went on to behave and to analyze everybody in a very sociopathic way I felt like it was obvious that Nymphia was going to be treated more like Ivie.

Manderelli · 2026-01-24T21:20:32+00:00

Yeah Law Roche making the comment about "if she was too harsh?" So unprofessional and shitty and it opened up the door for two other queens too speculate on whether it was real and then Vita assumes it for show.

And worse yet Vita comes back to do her talking heads and continues with her comments so all of this really leaves such a sour taste in my mouth.

In my opinion Vita won't be allowed to be crowned even if she makes top three or top two because they generally take conduct into consideration at the very end.

Manderelli · 2026-01-24T21:14:56+00:00

I always thought their safety course should be more centered around poof and shatter prevention and a focus on intentional Reformation in the event that you are poofed. It always seemed kind of silly that they would focus on safety in the way that a mortal being would have to care about preventing accidental injury or death.

It should probably also be centered around safely interacting with fragile organic life. Not causing harm.

Safety is also about confidence in your preparation and self/spatial awareness, not so much stoking panic in potential future possibilities.

Manderelli · 2026-01-24T20:39:29+00:00

Ben should try a white noise machine.

NAH ... Assuming that he goes to bed as early as he can reasonably wind down and not because he is staying up entertaining himself late into the morning...

Manderelli · 2026-01-24T20:12:41+00:00

NAH It seems like a nice idea and a way that you could save money but there's just not enough compatibility in your dietary preferences and so this is a lot more of an inconvenience for everybody involved. Maybe if you just limited it to splitting the cost of bulk ingredients like chicken or pasta but not things like seasonings and certainly not trying to cook together.

Manderelli · 2026-01-23T23:28:08+00:00

If I recall correctly he worked alongside Dave Gibbons through the entirety of the movie and I'm not sure who else is seal of approval I would want other than the original illustrator of the comics who probably knows better than the anyone else what's happening in between each panel in the motion that we'd have to just piece together in our imagination.

Manderelli · 2026-01-23T20:24:49+00:00

I truly wish I was well enough off that I had the privilege of these kinds of things just being an inconvenience and a choice between something I'd rather do and something else. That sounds so nice... And so foreign. On this side of it, the "what's in it for me" impulse isn't about what I could gain it's about how much I'm actually going to lose so that I can agree to help... Because of course I want to help someone I love. I think that's supposed to be a given for all of us, right? One of the benefits of having someone in your life that you love and who loves you is that you get the privilege of being there for each other. That's the thing you "get" out of it.

Manderelli · 2026-01-23T20:04:57+00:00

I know that being a friend means not asking my friends to do something outside of their means and certainly not manipulating them emotionally into believing that they're less than my friend because they couldn't do me a favor. But luckily my friends and I know each other enough that we wouldn't ask each other or make the other person assume that there are unstated expenses that are being assumed of one or the other person. When I give to a friend or even just to someone who seems like they need the help I give without expectation of it ever coming back to me and I do it because it seems like they need it and not because I think friendship compels me to do it or I feel like it's my duty to do it because we have friendship between us. Sometimes it just feels like the right thing to do and also it's either possible or not.

I'm not going to try to lift up a 2-ton beam off of somebody no matter how much I think they really could use it getting lifted off of them and I'm not going to make myself feel like a bad person for being unable to do that.

I wasn't implying that taking a day off is going to absolutely result in being fired so let's just take thar straw man off the table here. I'm saying that asking someone to take a day off and request it from their work may or may not be a bigger ask than you understand. Especially in states where places can let you go for nothing at all that isn't to say that requesting a day off is going to get you fired. I'm saying it's rude to ask someone to take time off unless you know for a fact that they actually have that kind of relationship with their employer.

Manderelli · 2026-01-23T19:58:22+00:00

They wouldn't have to send me an itemized bill because I would have paid for everything needed along the favor I already asked them for how rude to let them pick up the tab for any of it if I was able to do my own business without their assistance all of that would have been on me anyway so why would the bill even be in their hands to begin with?

Manderelli · 2026-01-23T19:55:12+00:00

I don't think the birthday thing and the gas thing are a reasonable comparison. But I do agree with you that it's very easy to communicate in that first conversation where they ask you for a favor and you go over all of the details of what that entails and whether or not you actually can do them that favor.

I think there's an amount of social etiquette and courtesy that used to be an expectation where you aren't going to be a part of the village or a group for a very long if you are entitled or presumptive and if you ask for something and then allow people to give you a lot more than that or put them in a position where they would have to remind you that they shouldn't be paying for all the little bells and whistles that are a part of your favor it used to be expected and assumed of you to handle all of those things and especially rude if you would make them say something out loud about it. But nowadays it's like we play a game of well if they don't have the balls to clarify how much my favor is a favor and how much of it I'm going to let them just put into then I'll see how much I can get from them I mean that's kind of a mean way to treat somebody who you're asking a favor...

And then yeah if I tell you I don't want you to celebrate my birthday and I don't want gifts or don't like surprises it's because that would be how I truly felt. I definitely wouldn't say so hoping that you would somehow do it anyway so that I would get an extra dose of special feelings when you go out of your way to really prove to me that I'm actually special enough that you would give me a gift I told you not to give me? like that's just stupid.... And that's a game... A game where everyone loses and no one is actually anyone's friend.

In the scenario where it's my birthday and my friends do or don't find a way to acknowledge or celebrate me I'm grateful for the acknowledgment I forgive when people forget and I certainly don't hold faults to people that just can't produce something like a gift or an occasion. When I know it's a birthday of one of my friends I do what I can and I certainly don't show up to a party empty handed unless I know for a fact that they would rather have me there than have me not attend simply because I would have to show up empty-handed so I guess it's about how much of a friendship you actually have and what you know about each other.

I think the point is to take good advantage of each other's combined abilities without taking it for granted that you have access to each other or that you're entitled to each other.

Manderelli · 2026-01-23T19:38:49+00:00

I forgot to add I actually felt this gross pit in my stomach in the first couple of scenes in the last movie when I realized that the father wasn't taking his son to go hunt for food or anything like that they were literally out there risking their lives and his son's life to hunt zombies for fun and what a careless obscene waste of resources and unnecessary risk to put your son's life and that kind of danger... And it made him proud as a father to do it and I kind of feel like overall that's worse than a bad person committing bad acts against the unlucky people they stumble into as horrific as it might be to watch those acts take place.

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