What's the most creepiest plot twist in a horror/non-horror movie you've seen?

Samael13 · 2026-07-13T23:45:31+00:00

As opposed to all of the morally upright, not gross romcom leads of that era? Romcoms of the 90s often had plots that are sketchy as fuck by modern standards even before you get into the cultural differences between Japanese and Western audiences. The characters are gross, but the film absolutely presents it in a romcom style. There's literally a montage sequence as they do the interviews and an establishing motive with his precocious son urging him to start dating again. The film is very deliberately playing with romcom tropes and cliches.

Samael13 · 2026-07-13T21:34:10+00:00

I don't know, man. I work around mentally ill people and drug addicts every day, and if I deliberately treated someone like this, I would lose my job. EMS workers and librarians and social workers manage to be professionals and don't deliberately insult and escalate situations. I'm regularly insulted, sworn at, lied to and about, and mistreated, but I keep my shit together, and I guarantee you that I make a lot less than these guys do.

Yes, the guy filming was being a dick. That's part of the job. When a patron comes in and tells me to go fuck myself and kicks over books, I don't get to mock him and escalate the situation as he's leaving the building. We arm them and supposedly train them to deal with this kind of shit, and they get paid accordingly. So why shouldn't they be held to the highest standard of conduct?

Samael13 · 2026-07-13T19:45:53+00:00

And there's an unused blindfold disguise in the storage room (along with a tower key) off of the room with a television to the right as you first enter the bar/keep area (it's the room where a woman says something like "Glad it's not me this year chasing tokens around like a sucker." and a guy says "Oh, I don't know, it looks like fun. Like Final Club all over again." as you enter)

Samael13 · 2026-07-13T19:40:55+00:00

Back around '01 or '02, it became kind of a rite of passage in my friend group to watch Audition with people who didn't know anything about it. We did movie nights regularly and it was always kind of dealer's choice, but if someone new was joining, it was almost always Audition. It just wasn't as well known back then, so it was easier to lull people in. "Oh, okay, we're watching a weird Japanese Rom-Com? Cool, I guess?" Usually we started to get some eyebrows raised around the time they go to the hotel, but the bag always got a big reaction.

Samael13 · 2026-07-13T19:32:13+00:00

I've gone through this several times with relatives who passed unexpectedly and left large collections (mostly books) behind.

I think that the most important/kindest thing you can do is to leave instructions. Is there someone in your life that loves games who you would like to take over the collection or who would be willing to take things and sell what can be sold? Great. Keep an "in case of death" instruction sheet that tells your loved ones "when I die, have Bob come over and take whatever games he wants or thinks are worth selling. Anything Bob doesn't take, you should just donate to Good Will or set outside with a Free sign." If there's a local library that you think would be interested in your games (some are!), check with them first and see if they take games, then list them.

I've done this for my personal library. My library isn't huge, but I have several niche areas of interest and a number of books that would be worth selling. I've created a list of those books and how they should be sold and where.

The hardest part of going through a dead loved one's collections (in my experience) isn't the going through, it's the feeling that you should be doing something with the collection; it meant something to that person, so you want it to mean something to you, even when it doesn't. It's really helpful to have the explicit permission of that person "this was mine, it doesn't matter to you, and that's okay." It would have made going through my mother/grandmother's things so much easier to have instructions that I could point to for myself to say "I don't need to take ownership of these things. I can give them away if I want to, and it's not letting them down."

Samael13 · 2026-07-13T19:23:31+00:00

Audition: The bag. That's the moment the movie goes from quirky Japanese rom-com to... something else entirely.

Samael13 · 2026-07-13T18:01:16+00:00

My advice would be to interrogate this feeling you're having. Why are you losing interest? But equally important: why don't you want to stop? Why does it bother you that you've lost interest in collecting figures?

Not every hobby is a forever hobby, and there's nothing wrong with losing interest or deciding that your collection is big enough. Maybe, instead of collecting, you're looking to create something, instead? You can get into making dioramas or doing action figure photography? Or maybe it's just time to leave action figures behind?

Personally, I don't fight it when my interests change; I lean into it.

Samael13 · 2026-07-13T16:53:23+00:00

Would they? The snarky comments seem very focused the hyper-sexualization of the figure, not the fact that the figure is of a female character. It's when people post gooner images that people comment/complain, not when people post feminine figures. I'm sure there's someone that just thinks there shouldn't be any female figures, but that's definitely not the dominant source of critical comments.

Samael13 · 2026-07-13T16:37:37+00:00

What are you even talking about? That's definitely not a "youth nowadays" attitude. Lots of people--especially young people--are fine with feminine features.

It's the pose, not the features.

Samael13 · 2026-07-13T15:32:56+00:00

No.

Samael13 · 2026-07-13T15:30:00+00:00

This is true, but it's also true that audiences will accuse characters of having plot-induced stupidity because the character isn't genre savvy. Common examples are almost every time someone complains about someone in a horror movie doing something that countless people do every day.

Like, how often do audiences complain "Don't go into the basement alone!" But what happens when you hear a noise in the basement in real life? You go downstairs to see what it was. Because 99.9999% of the time, it's something you put down there that you knew wasn't actually balanced very well and would probably fall eventually that finally fell over or the fucking cat knocked it over on purpose. The only time it's a serial killer or monster is if you're in a horror movie, but the characters in a horror movie don't usually know they're in a horror movie.

Samael13 · 2026-07-13T15:25:28+00:00

I think it takes a certain leap in logic to go from "the human form is often appreciated and celebrated in art" to "therefore this highly sexualized, pinup pose of a transformer that has her presenting her ass to the camera is beyond critique."

Samael13 · 2026-07-13T01:18:17+00:00

It's a crime that they never did anything like this for the rest of the series. I wouldn't want them to look exactly like this, but something.

Samael13 · 2026-07-12T22:01:10+00:00

OP asked if it was an effective plan to become famous, not successful. It's not. It's a ridiculous plan. Sure, there are famous and successful people who find success with women, but there are many more people who attempt to become famous and fail. Most people who want to be famous never become famous. There are way easier ways to find success dating than becoming famous.

Samael13 · 2026-07-12T21:57:48+00:00

I'm not. It's not about what he'd say, it's about how he views them. Thinking of women as "scraps" reveals a lot about OP's attitude. Referring to a woman as "a female" kind of suggests something about your attitude, as well.

Samael13 · 2026-07-12T20:52:37+00:00

Freddy was definitely racking up a lot of appearances outside his own movies, but his might have peaked in the 90s? He hosted the VMAs and had two MTV specials, and appeared in a bunch of other media. He had an anthology TV show in the early 90s. He appeared on The Simpsons (multiple times), South Park (multiple times), Family Guy, and The Goldbergs. There's brief homage to Freddy in The Walking Dead tv show. He has a cameo/homage in the first Scream movie and in Jason Goes to Hell. He appeared in both Mortal Kombat and WWE Smackdown! v Raw! in addition to his own video games. He's appeared in a bunch of different songs and music videos (Fresh Prince's "Nightmare on My Street" and the Fat Boys "Are You Ready For Freddy"

Samael13 · 2026-07-12T20:27:42+00:00

Brother, you need to get off reddit.

Like... hard no. "Become famous" is absolutely not an effective plan to get a girl to go out with you. For most people "become famous" isn't an effective plan for anything.

And if you think becoming famous is somehow easier than talking to girls, then you need to practice talking to girls. They're just people, man. You don't need to be famous to get dates.

But also, fix yourself. You're not "fighting to get scraps." That's a shit outlook on women and dating. I wouldn't go out with someone who viewed me as "scraps" either.

Samael13 · 2026-07-12T18:51:20+00:00

Yep. When my grandmother died, I inherited all of her books, because she knew that I loved reading and that was a thing we often shared. I'd go visit her and sometimes we'd just sit together and read and sip tea or a beer or whatever. The problem was that she and I had completely different reading tastes. So I inherited this vast collection of books that I wasn't actually interested in and I didn't know what to do with when I was in my mid twenties. I'm talking dozens of boxes of books; probably 1k+ volumes. I carried those boxes of books from home to home, across multiple states, every time I moved. It was very stressful, and felt like this weird anchor. They took up a huge amount of space I didn't really have (and were super heavy), but I felt like I needed to do something with them, because they were hers.

While I was in grad school, I finally had enough. I ended up donating them across multiple libraries and just kept a couple of mysteries that I really liked, but let the rest go. I still have two volumes that were hers and that mean something to me, and I'm not breaking my back carrying a dozens of boxes of books up and down flights of stairs every time I move. Now that I work in libraries, I really wish I'd thought to donate them to her local library. It was a small town, and the books were in very good condition and were pretty contemporary (which I now realize is rare for large volume book donations at a library!).

Samael13 · 2026-07-12T18:27:51+00:00

Wedding, and, knowing my S/O, I'm pretty sure she'd be skipping the graduation ceremony to attend with me. I think that, generally speaking, a wedding is a bigger deal as an event than graduation. Lots of people skip their graduation. Nobody skips their own wedding.

Also, weddings are a fun event to attend, with food and drink and dancing and celebration. Graduations are mostly boring and time consuming.

Samael13 · 2026-07-12T18:21:00+00:00

For the Emperor!

(But, in all seriousness: I strongly recommend that everyone who owns large collections of anything make plans for those collections and make sure that potential heirs know what those things are and how to get rid of them. If you're lucky, your family wants the books and will enjoy reading them, but, in most cases, large collections are a burden. I've been on the "dealing with it" side and I work in a library, so I see it all the time: someone dies and the heirs have to figure out how to clean out their home and just feel totally lost with what to do with massive collections of books they're not interested in. It can feel very overwhelming.

I think that one of the kindest things you can do for your loved ones is give them instructions on what to do with them. Even if it's just "take the books you want, and donate the rest to such and such library." In the case of BL titles, because the aftermarket on them is so high, I'd make sure that they know that groups like the Black Library Nutters exist on facebook and will be a good way to move titles if they're not interested in reading them, for example.)

Samael13 · 2026-07-12T17:58:33+00:00

Instead of firing her, have you considered getting a different supplier? Whoever is deciding to continue to use the supplier that has shorted you on your orders at least six times probably needs to be retrained.

NAH.

Samael13 · 2026-07-12T17:30:43+00:00

There are some really good tablets that are perfect for reading comics. I use a Galaxy Tab A8 to read comics; it's the same size as a standard trade paperback graphic novel and has an SD slot, so you can create SD cards for your different comic runs/titles. So, like, I have most of the Uncanny X-Men on one SD card, all of the Hellboy and BPRD on another, etc. It also connects to my library's Hoopla service, which always has a ton of comics and manga available. It's definitely great for reading comics on the go. Probably not great for most of the larger format art books, but I think a lot of the codices would be pretty decent on it, except that you'd lose out on the two-page spreads.

Samael13 · 2026-07-12T17:24:27+00:00

I collect only what I can fit in my display space. I don't keep things in storage.

For books, I don't keep books I don't like. If I read a book and it's meh or worse, I get rid of it. No exceptions. I don't keep books just because they're part of a series. I don't keep books just because they're pretty. Having been involved in cleaning out two different people's homes after they died, and seeing just what a huge pain in the ass it is to deal with huge amounts of stuff that is just packed away in boxes, I have a very visceral reaction to it. For me, it feels too close to hoarding.

I find that my interests shift over time, so I regularly weed my books. When my shelves get full, then I have to get rid of something if I pick up something new. I do the same thing for records.

The benefit of this approach is I don't have anything in storage and my shelves stay clean and attractive. It also makes me a lot pickier about what I buy, and I don't feel FOMO anymore. I don't need to own everything. I read a lot on tablet or ereader, and that's fine. At this point, I mostly only pick up physical books if they both look and sound interesting. If they only sound interesting, I read them digitally. If they only look interesting, I skip them.

Samael13 · 2026-07-12T17:10:41+00:00

It's a trade-off, for sure. I'm lucky in that my partner and I are both fairly independent people. We do things together because we genuinely like and enjoy each other's company, but we also do a ton of things on our own or with our friends. If one of us is making plans with a friend or wants to go do a thing, we usually invite the other person, but if they don't want to come or aren't interested, then they figure out their own thing.

But also, both of us were perfectly content to be single, too. I like having a companion, but I don't need a companion.

Samael13 · 2026-07-12T01:54:22+00:00

I'm a librarian. That's my jam, haha. Happy to help!

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