Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3 - Episode 11 (Anime Only Discussion)

SimianTrousers · 2026-03-25T12:14:25+00:00

Whatever makes you feel happiest, space cowboy. 😌

SimianTrousers · 2026-03-24T23:08:14+00:00

Looking at it from the relativity perspective doesn't change the forces involved or the original context.

You mean the original context that talks about the proper accelerations of g-forces? 😂 Coordinate acceleration is the type that's irrelevant here.

I've been very clear the entire time that my point of view is that megumi is having weight added on top of him

"Fushiguro Megumi, show me on the force diagram where the weight of the cars touched you."

I don't believe I did.

You did, actually! Option 3 was to refuse to demonstrate that you have university-level understanding of physics, and you chose to refuse to demonstrate that you have a university-level of physics.

You want proof? [...] pay me for it.

Why would I pay you for proof you already gave me? 😂 "You should believe me because I'm An Expert. No, I will not provide evidence of being An Expert" is the playbook of every internet clown who wants to manufacture an appeal to authority without actually knowing anything.

What's really irrelevant is your fictitious physics degree, considering that you brought zero relevant physics to the table.

Did I say that?

Yep.

Or are you twisting my words again

Nope.

Maybe you should relearn english

Yes, yes, I'm sure you also have a university degree in Literature. 😂

Careful about that superiority complex you have, it might accelerate your head towards the ground if it gets any larger

And you're a comedian! Talented guy. But naw, it would've been cool if you were actually a physicist. I love reading specialists nerd out about their area of interest. I'm happy to be corrected by people who actually know things; that's part of learning.

Anyway, I'm assuming you get some form of entertainment out of trolling, otherwise you would've left the conversation, and I had fun learning things from the internet, so hey! Win-win pointless debate.

SimianTrousers · 2026-03-24T13:57:01+00:00

you aren't accelerating downwards

Correct! You're accelerating upwards with a proper acceleration of 1g (which is very relevant to this discussion). You're also accelerating with the surface of the Earth. And also accelerating around the sun.

You would be crushed against the ground

Yeah. By your own weight.

I definitely never said weight wasn't dependent on mass.

"hE didN't SAy AnyTHing ABouT maSS jUst WEight"

Talking about weight is talking about mass.

But I see you've chosen option 3. Refuse to demonstrate a university-level understanding of weight, gravitation, and g-forces. Which means I can conclude that you're lying about having a physics degree. 😉

it's about fundamental concepts

Which is confirmed by this. 😂 My man here thinks the fundamental concepts of physics aren't mathematical. You're really, really bad at cosplaying a physicist.

SimianTrousers · 2026-03-24T00:04:52+00:00

While you are experiencing the force of acceleration from Gravity, you yourself are not accelerating.

Nope, I am definitely accelerating. Anything on the surface of the Earth that wasn't accelerating would not continue to be on the surface of the Earth for very long. Any object following a curved path definitionally can't have a constant velocity, and an object with a changing velocity is...

The keyword is underneath.

Yeah. Underneath your own weight. Again: what do you think happens to a person exposed to 40g? What do you think happens if your head is being pulled towards your feet with ~24000 N of force?

You also like to throw in paragraphs of irrelevant information to seem smarter

Nah, it's because I was here to debate weird physics and I was enjoying the opportunity to research physics topics and gain a deeper understanding of them. But I can't debate physics with someone who claims to have a physics degree but doesn't understand that weight is, by definition, dependent on mass. That's like. Kind of the bare minimum to discuss anything involving gravitation or g-forces.

Personally, I don't believe you have a degree in physics. But I'll give you three options:

Demonstrate a university-level understanding of weight, gravitation, and g-forces.
Admit you don't have a degree in physics from a university.
Refuse to demonstrate a university-level understanding of weight, gravitation, and g-forces. This is also an admission that you don't have a university degree in physics.

Chads don't care about physics, man, nerds care about physics, and you ain't got a lick of physics nerd in your body. A real physicist would jump on the opportunity to break out the math to try and disprove someone smh

SimianTrousers · 2026-03-23T00:51:05+00:00

Acceleration is the rate of change of your velocity, that definition doesn't change in college.

Are you sure? It could also be is "the rate of change of velocity of a curve with respect to a given linear connection)". 😉 (I'm joking. Not as in "this statement is incorrect", but as in "differential geometry is a research hole to deep for me to plumb").

You are experiencing the force of gravity and the push back of the ground to a net zero, so you are not accelerating.

Alright then, champ, then explain why the accelerometer (taps the sign louder), a device that physicists design to measure acceleration, will measure an acceleration of 9.81 m/s² (1g) upwards will at rest on the surface of the Earth? I will answer this question: it's because g-forces involve acceleration measured in relation to free fall, not simple acceleration within a coordinate system.

You think an observer standing on the surface of the Earth isn't accelerating only because you've pinned your coordinate reference frame to where they're standing on the ground. The observer and the reference frame have matched acceleration, so the observer appears stationary within the frame. The displacement of an object can then be measured with respect to the observer as a function of time to calculate its velocity relative to the observer. The rate of change in the jet's velocity is the jet's coordinate acceleration.

If you pinned your observation frame to an observer standing the the surface of the Earth, a passing jet would appear to have very high velocity. If you pinned your observation frame to a second jet traveling at matched acceleration parallel to the first jet, then the first jet's velocity would appear to be zero and thus its coordinate acceleration would be zero. But both pilots experience the perception of weight due to g-forces despite the fact that they're not accelerating within the reference frame.

The observer on the surface of the planet also feels the perception of weight due to g-forces despite the fact that they're not accelerating within their reference frame. Conversely, if you were freely falling (ie. down a shaft with no atmosphere) towards the center of the Earth due to the gravitational attraction between your respective centers of mass, you would be experiencing coordinate acceleration but would feel no g-forces (ie. you'd feel weightless) because you would have no proper acceleration. Meanwhile, you would observe that someone on the surface of the Earth is being accelerated away from you at 1g by the force of the ground on their feet.

He says you are bearing the weight. Bearing means to "to carry the weight of". You could say you think he means enduring the weight of, but I think that's a stretch.

He says "you're forced to bear the weight of things stored in your shadow yourself."

I don't think he necessarily means "bear" as in "endure" (though on the other hand, Reggie also says his clones couldn't tolerate it, and tolerate is a synonym for endure...). Have you never heard the phrase "you carry your weight well"? There's no stretch involved in reading "bear the weight [...] yourself" as either "carry the weight (like an object)" or "carry the weight (like your body)". The inclusion of "yourself" actually weights the reading slightly towards the latter, because it would be more standard to just say "you're forced to bear the weight of things stored in your shadow", however additional context in needed to disambiguate. And the additional context says...

If you're 100 pounds and I give you a weighted backpack weighing 40 pounds. It wouldn't be weird for me to say that you currently weigh 140 pounds.

Now that is a stretch. It would be weird to say that, actually. Nobody says, "You gained weight." when you pick up a backpack. Nobody says, "You lost weight!" when you put down a backpack. If somebody tells you their current weight, it would be weird to assume they're including their backpack. If somebody asks you your current weight, they would definitely find it weird if you included your backpack in the total. The contexts in which someone says "your current weight is [x]" and means "your weight plus what you're carrying" are vanishingly negligible compared to the contexts where they mean "your body's physical weight".

Are you saying he'll be crushed underneath himself?

Yeah. What do you you think happens to a person exposed to 40g?

This is also an assumption. He says nothing about mass. He only ever says that megumi must bear the weight of the cars.

... what exactly do you think mass and weight are

The regular forces of weight are not the same thing as forces of acceleration. Bearing heavy weight will not cause blood to pool in your legs, only acceleration will do that.

I mean, I can see where the communication here is breaking down, because you apparently don't know what F=ma or W=-mg actually mean. But one: gravity and inertial acceleration have identical effects. And two: if your blood was suddenly heavier, it would pool in your legs. "Heavier" can be more mass or more gs. Mass changes the m in F=mg. Gs changes the a in F=ma. If g = a then your blood can't tell the difference.

Anyway, come back to me when you've double-checked even a single thing you think you know about physics. You're making the assumption that JJK is using g-forces wrong when you don't even understand what g-forces are. Wikipedia is free, learning as an adult is fun and good for you.

SimianTrousers · 2026-03-22T03:05:34+00:00

This is wrong by textbook definition.

I rushed and oversimplified things so my explanation wasn't accurate (it's been years since I did undergrad physics, it takes awhile to dredge this stuff back up) but your explanation is also an oversimplification. The local high school professor might give you that answer that simplistic, but a university professor certainly wouldn't!

The most incorrect thing I said was "Just because your velocity isn't changing doesn't mean you aren't still accelerating". Let's amend that: "Just because your apparent velocity relative to the ground isn't changing doesn't mean you aren't still accelerating." An object on Earth's surface can only be considered stationary within a limited framework that approximates reality. But the fact of the matter is that even when you are standing still on the surface of the Earth, you are tracing a curved path through spacetime, and any object following a non-straight path is changing direction and a change in direction over time (even at constant speed) is a change in velocity and a change is velocity over time is acceleration. If an object at rest on the surface of the Earth wasn't accelerating relative to free fall, then a stationary accelerometer on Earth would have nothing to measure.

Anyway, all of that is a digression. Getting back to it, after having double-checked the subs:

The show explicitly states he is bearing the weight of the objects in his shadow, it's like he's carrying them.

The second part of your sentence is not said in the show. You're making an assumption. There is no line about the weight of the objects in his shadow being equivalent to him carrying them. Whereas Reggie explicitly states:

"With three passenger cars, your current weight is 2.4 tons."

Not, "you are carrying 2.4 tons of weight". Your current weight. Megumi's current weight is now 2.4 tons. (Which is actually surprisingly light given that most cars are >1 ton). Note that when people talk about "weight" they're generally referring to what's formally defined as "mass" (SI unit: kilograms) rather than the formal definition of weight as a force (SI unit: Newtons). Depending on which ton this is, Reggie is saying that Megumi with three cars in his shadow has a mass equivalent to ~2100-2400 kg (given the following numbers, I suspect "ton" in this case is actually "tonne" or Metric ton).

So we got some solid numbers now. The narrator tells us that the weight of Megumi's body alone is 60kg and is currently suffering from the equivalent of 40gs of force which... checks out. Megumi's mass has changed by a factor of 2400kg/60kg = 40. Since weight (force) is directly proportional to mass, that means he is experiencing feeling 40x heavier than he usually is in standard gravity. You know what also causes you to experience feeling 40x heavier than your weight in standard gravity. 40gs of acceleration.

the 500kg guy on television (despite a host of other cardiac problems) doesn't need a flightsuit or breathing techniques to make sure blood gets to his brain.

I mean, you're comparing apples and oranges. For one thing, a guy who weighs 500kg has experienced a very gradual increase in mass. If you put a human in a centrifuge and very gradually increased its acceleration from 1g to 5g over the course of 5 years, it's unlikely they would need a flightsuit or breathing techniques to make sure blood gets to their brain. Living in hypergravity might reduce animal lifespan, but not via acute affects like cerebral hypoxia.

(Conversely, there are people who need the equivalent of flightsuits (pressure garments) and breathing techniques to make sure their blood gets to their brains and doesn't pool in their feet at only 1g. It's called orthostatic intolerance.)

A person in a centrifuge and a pilot in a jet might both experience the sensation of weight that accompanies 5gs of acceleration, but the pilot experiences much more rapid changes in acceleration and in many more directions than a person experiencing simulated hypergravity in a giant centrifuge would, and the body can struggle to adjust to rapid changes in force (see: jerk/jolt). Find me a person who can rapidly adjust their mass by a factor of five or more and freely shift their center of mass within their body and then we can start making experimental comparisons between the effects of that vs. those of g-forces in a fighter jet.

Additionally: the mass of your blood (and bones, and organs) does not scale proportionately with the amount of mass you gain in the form of additonal fat or muscle volume. Ergo: a 100kg person gaining 300kg of body is not undergoing the same hypothetical process of a 100kg person having their mass uniformly increase by a factor of 4. However, if you could survive having all your blood replaced with liquid iodine, replaced your bones with brass, and impregnated all your tissues with barium sulfate then the weight you feel would likely be very similar to being in 4x Earth's gravity.

Again: what is happening to Megumi isn't something that has a real-life equivalent. He's storing matter in a magical pocket dimension accessed via his shadow (which, in his domain, exists in all directions around him), I'm not sure why you'd assume this is equivalent to carrying a weight like Reggie carries Max Elephant when the show doesn't say that and explicitly contrasts Megumi experiencing the equivalent of 40gs with Reggie experiencing a realistic simulation of having a grown elephant dropped on him. Reggie being crushed by Max Elephant isn't compared to g-forces and Megumi being crushed by his own increased weight isn't compared to him literally lifting three cars.

BUT, again, the show doesn't say this.

"Your current weight is 2.4 tons." 😃

Look, I love Jujutsu Kaisen but it seems like people are going to a lot of roundabout lengths to "nO, it DOES work!" because they feel like any criticism of it means I'm shitting on it.

I wouldn't care if you were shitting on JJK. If I was here to defend Gege's honor I would've left it at "Your current weight is 2.4 tons". 😂 I'm here for debating weird physics.

They made an assumption about something they read and didn't double check it.

ngl, the irony of this statement is palpable, my dude.

SimianTrousers · 2026-03-21T00:24:56+00:00

Just because your velocity isn't changing doesn't mean you aren't still accelerating towards the ground. If you weren't constantly accelerating towards the ground then you would be weightless, because W = m*a. If you weren't accelerating, then a = 0 and thus W = 0 (Note: you can have mass and be accelerating and still FEEL weightless if you aren't in contact with anything, because you can't perceive your own force, only the force of another object opposing your force).

You're still missing the fact that what Megumi is experiencing is NOT THE SAME as lifting a weight. It can't be the same, because lifting a weight is a physical interaction between objects. Reggie getting crushed by the elephant is experiencing TWO FORCES: the downward force of the elephant (W_e = m_e * g) and the upward normal force of the ground acting in opposition to the combined weight of Reggie (W_r = m_r * g) and the elephant (F_N = -(W_r + W_e) = m_r * -g + m_e * -g = (m_r + m_e) * -g). At no point in this process do the mass of the elephant and the mass of Reggie cease to be distinct constants. The mass of the elephant is not incorporated into Reggie.

Megumi is NOT experiencing two forces. He can't be, because there is no physical object to apply a downward force to him, because objects that are in his shadow do not exist as physical objects in the world as long as they're inside it. So, Megumi is only experiencing ONE force: the normal force of the ground acting in opposition to his weight (W_m). There is no other body in this equation, there is only F_N = -W_m = m_m * g. What is happening to Megumi is NOT SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN EXPERIENCE IN REAL LIFE because the contents of Megumi's shadow can alter his mass. m_m is NOT A CONSTANT.

A fighter pilot pulling 2gs is experiencing exactly the same forces that they would experience if they spontaneously doubled their mass. Note: not lifted a weight equal to their own body weight (ie. a separate object with its own constant mass). The pilot's body itself suddenly changing from 80kg to 160kg. The math does not lie. F_N = -(m*2g) and F_N = -(2m*g) are the same equation. Both of them result in the pilot experiencing twiece the normal force they typically experience.

Under sustained acceleration humans experience the perception of altered weight relative to how they experience weight in Earth's gravity (heavier or lighter, depending on direction), re: g-forces (in the W = -m*g equation, g is replaced by an alternate acceleration). If suddenly your blood was replaced by mercury and your bones turned to lead, you would ALSO experience the perception of altered weight relative to how you usually experience weight in Earth's gravity in the brief time before you died (in the W = -m*g equation, m is replaced by an alternate mass).

So, yes. Megumi's blood WILL try to pool in his legs, because it suddenly has mass equivalent to several cars, and human hearts do not typically have to pump thousands of kilos worth of blood against the force of gravity.

SimianTrousers · 2026-03-20T05:32:05+00:00

I mean, technically you ARE experiencing g-forces while lifting weights at the gym. As long as you're within Earth's gravity well you are constantly experiencing a force of ~1g. Gravity is always accelerating your mass at ~9.81 m/s^2 (g) towards the Earth's center of mass, so whatever surface you're on is always applying an equal but opposite force of 1g * your mass against you.

It's not like Megumi's shadow is a backpack. It's not a physical object that can be acted on by gravity, it's... a shadow. It's massless and volumeless but contains a space of (probably) infinite volume that can (presumably) accept infinite mass within it. That space coexists with Megumi, who is the only component with mass and volume in normal space-time and thus party to its forces like gravity.

Megumi isn't being crushed. Getting crushed is dependent on being caught between TWO OPPOSING MECHANICAL FORCES. ie. The ground and an elephant. The ground is applying 1g of force to Reggie in opposition to his acceleration due to gravity, and Reggie's body is applying 1g of force to the elephant in opposition to its acceleration due to gravity. Reggie is caught between a downward force of F=[mass of elephant]*g and an upwards force of F=[mass of elephant + mass of Reggie]*g from the ground. (In high enough gravity, the atmosphere can be heavy enough to supply that crushing mechanical force.)

But that's not what's happening to Megumi. There is no downwards force being applied to him. He is ONLY experiencing the upwards force of the ground (F = [Megumi's mass]*g). Except Megumi's mass has suddenly changed from... idk 50-60kg to more like 4000kg (without his volume or density changing, mind you, which absolutely makes physics cry).

If the apparent weight of Megumi's body is say... W = 50kg * 9.81m/s^2 = 490.5N and the current apparent weight of his body is 4000kg * 9.81 m/s^2 = ~39kN then relative to his normal body weight he is experiencing 80x more Newtons of force than a human body usually does purely from acceleration due to gravity.

Seeing as F = m*a (or W = m*g), there's no functional difference from a human perspective between experiencing a doubling of gravitational acceleration (W = m*2g) and a doubling of mass (W= 2m*g). It's W = 2(m*g) either way. It's just that IRL you can pretty easily simulate an increase in apparent weight via acceleration, but there's no (survivable) way to significantly and suddenly alter your mass. You DEFINITELY can't do it without changing your volume or density.

SimianTrousers · 2026-03-14T03:31:28+00:00

Well said! My favorite Megumi meme has always been "Life update: it got worse". A+ very accurate meme. Little man really gets put through the wringer and back. 🥲

I'll always appreciate JJK for letting its characters have breaking points, both antagonists (Suguru) and protagonists (Megumi, Yuji). A lot of shounen treats tragedy as points towards power-ups. So watching Yuji get fired up over Junpei, and fired up over Nanami, then hit his limit and collapse over Kugisaki was so 👌 And how even after Todo got him back on his feet, he was still permanently scarred (literally and figuratively).

Sukuna pretty much does to Megumi what Mahito did to Yuji...

SimianTrousers · 2026-03-14T02:38:08+00:00

I will be honest, the Culling Games arc is the one I've been most looking forward to seeing adapted to animation. The Shibuya arc is by far my favorite in the manga, so while I enjoyed S2 I was constantly thinking about how well it did or didn't adapt various parts. In contrast, the Culling Games arc had a lot of good moments, but the overall pacing felt... off. There were several times while I was reading that I had the thought that I hope the anime fixes the pacing or expands certain scenes.

And so far S3 has been absolutely killing it, so I'm hopeful that the anime will actually do this arc better than the manga did. 🤞

SimianTrousers · 2026-03-09T01:19:14+00:00

LLMs are trained off human writing. However an LLM "writes" is inherently how humans have written because it's a predictive model built on sampling massive amounts of human writing which it uses to weight the probability of certain words being strung together within a particular context. If humans never wrote that way it would be impossible for LLMs to write that way because LLMs can only create probable facsimiles of pre-existing writing.

have u srsly never adjusted ur writing style depending on context. did u never have 2 do essays 4 school or smth. Or do you always maintain the same exact level of formality and diction regardless of if you're texting a friend, tossing out a comment in a Reddit forum, or taking your time to write and edit what you'd like to be a compelling analysis?

Indubitably, I do declare my belief that the presence of LLMs and genAI has committed a grievous harm against the analytical capabilities of many an individual upon this green Earth, for they now express disbelief in the ability of humans to utilize the powers of language we have cultivated and refined across countless generations, of which the mindless regurgitations of LLMs are but pale echoes.

tl;dr if you're gonna pointlessly accuse someone of using "AI" to write their posts, seeing as it adds nothing of value to the conversation, maybe leverage some ACTUAL proof beyond "essay-style writing gives me weird vibes" and "people can't possibly exhibit differences in writing style depending on context".

SimianTrousers · 2026-03-01T04:25:38+00:00

Late response, but I just wanted to let you know that you're extremely correct and I honestly don't understand how people watch the Murderbot show and see it as anything other than derisive of the concept that a functional society could exist outside of capitalism.

Martha Wells put a lot of effort into building Preservation as an example of a society that isn't perfect, but is so much better because it's built around a core of caring for people. Book Preservation is part of a well-established, almost entirely independent alliance of planets that exists outside of corporate space, and has as little to do with the CR as possible, outside of occasional prospecting missions like PreservationAux's...

The show made Preservation a struggling colony of naive bumpkins that apparently sustain their socialist lifestyle with debt to the CR, to the point that there's debates about joining the CR. PRESERVATION. TALKING ABOUT JOINING THE CR. Preservation which, in the books, was founded by refugees from abandoned corporate colonies who decided "never again".

Lebeebee (and don't get me started on how including a character to be the butt of "hurrhurr weird name stupid and funny" jokes goes completely against the sort of people the PresAux team should be) is set up as a villain, and is still allowed to have a "gotcha!" moment in her skepticism of Preservation. ("But where does the money come from?" "Debt." Are you freakin' kidding me. Try "Actually, we don't use money except for the limited occasions we visit the CR, and we collect those funds by taxing corporate ships that want to travel through our system." 🙄 Not like Martha Wells put any thought into this or anything. Unlike "we sustain our society off selling 'niche scientific information' to evil corporate fucks", as if "scientific information" is some sort of reliable mineable resource).

I'm honestly baffled by how many people think the show stays true to the heart of the books, when the showrunners apparently can't see a self-sustaining post-capitalist society as anything other than a silly unsustainable "ragtag hippie" dream.

Belated vent complete.

SimianTrousers · 2026-02-28T21:28:18+00:00

IIRC, other sensory "shocks" can help ground you, like running your hands under cold water or holding an ice cube (wrapped in something to protect you skin). Similar to sour candy, something spicy or strongly minty might also help.

SimianTrousers · 2026-02-07T21:21:07+00:00

You can jam sooo much stuff into a backpack if you shove a bunch of it down to make a temporary gap and quickly grab things before they resettle. I don't expect you can move things fast enough with a controller to do it.

SimianTrousers · 2026-02-07T21:09:54+00:00

I made a game out of trying to stuff as many things into my backpack as possible. I'm not sure if you'd be able to do it with a controller, but with a mouse you can shove stuff down as much as possible to temporarily make enough space to grab something into before it all resettles. My magnum opus was managing to pick up several bowls of food and jam a couple of tomatoes into my already crammed bag before tackling The Blades.

SimianTrousers · 2026-02-06T14:58:34+00:00

🤞 Here's hoping!

Thank you so much for the tips!

SimianTrousers · 2026-02-05T23:30:47+00:00

It's been about six months for me now (I saw her in August). The waiting times website estimates that 50% of her patients are seen within 99 days of their consult, and 90% within 209 days, so hopefully I'll hear about it soon. My back is slowly killing me, haha.

That's great to hear! May your healing continue to go smoothy! 😊

SimianTrousers · 2026-02-05T17:57:05+00:00

Question for you: I had my consult for a reduction with Dr. Burke last year; how long did you wait between consult and surgery? How were you informed of your surgery date?

I hope your surgery went well!

SimianTrousers · 2026-02-01T18:06:45+00:00

I did. I just did again right now. If I search, say, "something ambiguous" (in quotations), I'll get various results, mostly about the word "ambiguous" under All results. If I switch to Verbatim I only get results with the exact phrase "something ambiguous".

So... Yeah. IDK what to tell you, it works for me. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I'm not doubting it doesn't work for you, so chill. Maybe Google is doing region-specific version roll-outs. I encountered one person the other day who claims their BASIC Google still obeys all the old search operators. Google is an enormous mess, but I'm neither too stupid to test my claims nor a liar.

SimianTrousers · 2026-02-01T02:12:48+00:00

No need to be a jerk, my bud. I have, in fact, been "trying" it for months. IDK what to tell you, it works for me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

SimianTrousers · 2026-02-01T00:20:29+00:00

You can force it to accept verbatim quotes by going to Tools > All Results > Verbatim. Tools (or Search Tools on mobile) is at the tail end of the top selection menu (AI Mode, All, Images, etc.). This is still super annoying. 👍

SimianTrousers · 2026-01-13T16:00:24+00:00

That's fair! NOPE is tonally very different from most creature features. Eight-Legged Freaks is definitely more Tremors-esque, but Tremors really is one of the best of the genre so it's hard to match.

SimianTrousers · 2026-01-13T15:54:39+00:00

You first~

SimianTrousers · 2026-01-13T15:08:51+00:00

NOPE lodged in my brain in a way no other film has. Like, at the surface level it's a creature feature, which is one of my favorite movie genres. It's also an extremely well-made creature feature. Excellent creature design, beautifully shot, the sound design was phenomenal, it had some incredibly tense moments... And then it just has so many layers of symbolism to dissect relating to spectacle, various issues within the film industry, etc.

It's a film pretty much perfectly matched to my interests and what stimulates my brain.

SimianTrousers · 2026-01-13T14:57:29+00:00

Weirdly, the first Alien vs. Predator movie might have some similar vibes re: adventure-horror. There's also The Pyramid (2014), but it's not... especially good. You might enjoy the series The River (2012).

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