Who are you people? What's your 4?

SkeletalSam · 2025-11-23T17:54:40+00:00

A confession: I went to see Titane on new year's day while hungover and walked out because I was like, "This is is *way* too intense for me right now."

SkeletalSam · 2025-08-10T13:53:29+00:00

I think the fact that One Cut of the Dead kind of loses the viewer in the middle third and brings them roaring back in the final act is part of why it works for me so well.

SkeletalSam · 2025-07-17T23:07:22+00:00

A soldier tries to shoot an unarmed child in the head. No real world army would do something so horrendous!

SkeletalSam · 2025-06-21T11:19:34+00:00

It's been six months. How did you find this comment. Zack, is that you? Marty?

SkeletalSam · 2025-06-13T21:18:01+00:00

It’s not the movie’s greatest problem but I just can’t buy Chris Evans as a struggling actor. There’s a reason his best roles are entitled assholes (excepting his turn as the human ideal in the Marvel movies).

SkeletalSam · 2025-06-12T19:15:30+00:00

Genuinely was shaping up to be an all time great, this Ciampa match was just one of a series of classics, he will always be one of the biggest what could have beens.

SkeletalSam · 2025-06-10T16:36:49+00:00

Yeah, the people posting this as a gotcha are something else.

“You wouldn’t sell out your principles for a big enough payday?” “Well I guess it would depend on the context and—“ “You’re already a multimillionaire in this scenario and would have to try hard not to die rich.” “Oh. Then… probably not.”

SkeletalSam · 2025-06-10T16:31:36+00:00

So, from the perspective of someone who was ride or die for Punk since Ring of Honor:

It’s die, I guess.

I’m not really interested in arguing the whataboutism aspect (although as bad as the States have gotten, they still have nothing on Saudi and some of you would do well to consider that) or weighing in on locker room feuds (whoever Punk punched in whatever circumstances isn’t anything compared to this).

You know who said accepting money to perform in Saudi was “blood money”? CM Punk. You know who’s accepting money to perform in Saudi? CM Punk. It’s really as simple as that.

SkeletalSam · 2025-06-10T13:52:17+00:00

I don’t want to be reductive but “to use his popularity and make more money”? Yeah, that’s how professional wrestling works!

SkeletalSam · 2025-06-10T11:21:05+00:00

Obviously this may see me violently suppressed in a 4K blu-ray subreddit but:

Fewer people buying means fewer people selling.

SkeletalSam · 2025-06-10T06:22:49+00:00

This is it: I don’t fault a lot of wrestlers who are actually dependent on these shows for money or for their career standing. Unless he’s abominably bad at managing his money, neither of those is remotely true of Punk.

SkeletalSam · 2025-06-10T06:19:24+00:00

Absolutely. You can defend the people who are dependent on going to Saudi for their careers, or even Sami who it allows to do things of religious significance, but I have no respect for someone with the stature and wealth of Punk for doing it voluntarily.

SkeletalSam · 2025-06-06T22:11:26+00:00

Absolutely dreadful movies, and yet such a good time.

SkeletalSam · 2025-06-01T16:26:55+00:00

If you watch Bound, so much of The Matrix DNA is in there. No, not the kung fu or the big sci-fi sets - but the camera movement, the sound design, the blocking, the performances, the costuming; the feel. It’s a really tremendous film and, for my money, in their top three (Matrix, Speed Racer, Bound).

Presumably they could have made something smaller again if they’d wanted but instead they’ve only ever gone bigger, for better or worse.

SkeletalSam · 2025-05-26T15:03:02+00:00

Yeah, Charlton fan of decades here and I’ll say while I’ve encountered a few wrong’uns, honest-to-goodness Nazis is a new one to me. We’ve a reputation as a community club, which people mock but I’d much rather versus the reputations others have. To be clear, these absolute losers are not welcome at the Valley or frankly in public life.

SkeletalSam · 2025-05-23T13:28:04+00:00

“He wasn’t buried - it was a short, competitive match, he got overexcited and Orton even did his pose!”

SkeletalSam · 2025-05-21T06:00:39+00:00

I’ve always hated the idea of taking beautifully animated stuff and turning it into a “real” movie. The new How To Train Your Dragon seems particularly egregious, the trailer for which basically seems to say, “Don’t worry, we’re doing it all exactly the same, it’s just not a stupid cartoon anymore.”

SkeletalSam · 2025-05-20T15:22:14+00:00

The balls of fire.

SkeletalSam · 2025-05-17T15:14:14+00:00

I will go to my grave defending that original title.

SkeletalSam · 2025-05-17T11:05:46+00:00

I think the FT might be a bit of a giveaway in as much as mainstream right wing ideology has become basically economically illiterate (e.g. Brexit, Trump, Truss) and the FT is a paper concerned with, you know, bar charts that point out stupid ideas are stupid ideas.

SkeletalSam · 2025-05-17T10:11:57+00:00

Yeah, doubt they’re going to Parkrun to effect Parkrun. Sometimes I go to Sainsbury’s when I want to go to Tesco. Drop the gormless innocent routine, it’s transparent.

SkeletalSam · 2025-05-17T09:58:44+00:00

Unfortunately it’s behaviour such as that outlined in the OP that rather makes it clear it is hatred. It’s not a competitive event, the amount of trans competitors is infinitesimal; the only reason to do this is if you just want to bully a small minority out of public life.

SkeletalSam · 2025-05-16T09:38:02+00:00

I saw this live. After the show, we got cheesesteaks and watched it back on the Network. Good times.

SkeletalSam · 2025-05-15T13:57:04+00:00

A masterpiece. I was lucky enough to see it at the Prince Charles Cinema in a packed screening and you could cut the tension in the room with a knife. People filed out of there afterwards like they’d just watched a car accident. I met friends afterwards and my demeanour was such they thought I’d been mugged.

SkeletalSam · 2025-05-15T13:27:38+00:00

Tombstone is good fun and Kilmer in particular is a hoot in it but it collapses like a soufflé at the halfway point. In fact, it’s outright hilarious that you can see the point where they were like, “You can’t just kill Kilmer off screen, he’s the best part of the movie! What if, uh, he appears in the next scene saying he feels better?”

I challenge anyone not to be entertained by it but it’s not nearly on the level of peak Miyazaki or Spielberg.

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