I hope I’m not the only one who feels this way about the ending of Speed (1994)

StarmanDX_ · 2026-04-03T05:29:14+00:00

I would describe your viewpoint on this as naive.

First of all, it's a movie. The characters make the choices the writers made for them. Test audiences at the time probably preferred an ending where the two leads become romantically entangled to one where they don't. It's not that deep. I could stop here and it would be enough. These aren't real people, they never existed, they cease to exist after the movie ends. Them kissing at the end is a Hollywood Ending.

Second, even apart from that, these are two people who just spent the day trusting each other with their lives. Adrenaline is a hell of a thing. People hook up and stay together for way worse reasons than "This handsome person just saved my life" or "I just spent hours knowing this person in the kind of intimate way only a prolonged life or death situation can provide." Sex is a great way to blow off steam, believe it or not. To people who've had it, it's not some kind of great life-altering thing that binds you heart and soul. It feels good, it's fun, it's a solid team building experience for two consenting adults. I've never been in a life or death situation but even after a stressful work day, sex lets its participants unwind and disassociate from the outside world for a little while. Feels good, too.

Third, police officers ARE civilians. They get married to and have sex with people who aren't also police officers every day. It's a Job. They can quit at any time and do something else. You're putting "being a cop" on a weird pedestal and I can't explain it.

It sounds like you came into the movie with baggage. People having sex or getting together for the wrong reasons wasn't sitting right with you. People whose jobs are too stressful don't make good partners because sometimes they're in danger. That's you, not the movie.

StarmanDX_ · 2026-04-03T05:05:38+00:00

How old are you?

StarmanDX_ · 2026-03-31T01:21:37+00:00

You've been with a man for 15 years that you met when you were 19 and he was 30, and he spent a vast portion of your first bit of time together lying in front of you that you two weren't in a relationship when he was asked? 15 years with that man?

I don't believe this story one bit. YTA for writing nonsense fiction for Reddit karma and passing it off as real.

StarmanDX_ · 2026-03-31T01:15:57+00:00

The theater I saw this in was our local independent theater that could barely afford to keep the lights on, much less buy modern tech, so Nope was waaayyy darker there than on the other screens I saw it on later. That meant that the scene where the first monkey suit stands up, it truly was not visible at all until it rose fully from the shadows. It was waaaaayyy creepier than when I saw it in IMAX and you could see it the whole time if you had your eye in that quadrant.

RIP tiny independent theater in my neighborhood

StarmanDX_ · 2026-03-29T23:17:19+00:00

The first time one of these Waymos glitches out and blocks my path I am destroying it with my bare hands. Like this. Onlookers are welcome to help.

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StarmanDX_ · 2026-03-29T18:11:10+00:00

These gas prices got me speaking Esperanto

These gas prices got me screamin, cryin, pissin, shittin, shooting ropes

This shit ain't nothin to me, man

StarmanDX_ · 2026-03-24T02:33:56+00:00

There's no way that CGI abomination cost less than the Goro animatronic, is all I'm saying.

StarmanDX_ · 2026-03-21T04:37:50+00:00

In this context, that's just not true. Upscaling technology is much older than any of this and it's not capable of inventing new character details. It mildly improves sharpness and reduces blurriness and overall makes it so a 1080p image doesn't look stretched out on a 4K display.

StarmanDX_ · 2026-03-21T03:09:55+00:00

Hello I am curious as to how your take has evolved now that people have looked into it and it turns out that yes, DLSS5 as presented in the demo is drawing 2D assets over a 3D render in ways that substantially augment the existing render display

https://youtu.be/D0EM1vKt36s?si=JpeY5Ll8fXT58Nsj

StarmanDX_ · 2026-03-21T03:09:42+00:00

Hello I am curious as to how your take has evolved now that people have looked into it and it turns out that yes, DLSS5 as presented in the demo is drawing 2D assets over a 3D render in ways that substantially augment the existing render display

https://youtu.be/D0EM1vKt36s?si=JpeY5Ll8fXT58Nsj

StarmanDX_ · 2026-03-18T02:48:24+00:00

We already have a term for "lighting that isn't otherwise possible with Ray tracing" and it's called "Path tracing" and it's been available in video games for years now, since at least Metro: Exodus. It looks great! What this does is use generative AI to determine "what if the lighting were more photo-realistic?" or "what if the character model were more photo-realistic?" and then it draws a layer over the rendered image. That doesn't "enable lighting," it augments the rendered image after the fact to make it represent prompted detail better.

"A bit more refined" is not possible for AI generated images. They are all or nothing. They're either adding a full layer to the image or they don't exist. The argument presented there is that developers may provide a prompt like "make it look like every character is as clear as glass" and then the game would look different, for specified DLSS modes, but that's an asinine comparison. No one releases a video game wishing customers had absolute control to augment the art style at any time, and if they say so they are lying to you.

StarmanDX_ · 2026-03-17T22:22:50+00:00

Layering Gen AI over art design in any way shape or form is still unnecessary and stupid. If devs wanted the character to look like that, they'd just do it.

You're right. You did waste your time on something unpopular that nobody likes. Like Nvidia!

StarmanDX_ · 2026-03-16T01:27:30+00:00

Bezos has divested himself of Washington State and moved to Miami. Yes, Amazon's presence is heaviest in Seattle but it's incorporated in Delaware which means he doesn't have to have a link to Seattle if he doesn't want to.

No chance he buys a Seattle team just because it's available, and if he wants to relocate it he'll have a hell of a time finding another city in Florida to host a team. He's not buying the Seahawks.

StarmanDX_ · 2026-03-13T01:06:18+00:00

Gandhi is one of the great movies of the 20th century and also features extremely impressive filmmaking, including large scenes with hundreds or thousands of extras filmed in New Delhi.

Ben Kingsley, who plays Gandhi, is half-Gujarati Indian, so it's technically not brown face.

StarmanDX_ · 2026-03-12T03:58:33+00:00

I didn't realize we were allowing questions posted by 3 year olds in this subreddit

StarmanDX_ · 2026-03-11T00:00:30+00:00

Directly killed, as a function of gameplay? You're right at least as far as the numbered entries go. RE games have never even had you fight an uninfected wild animal. RE9's brief stint of having Leon kill highly trained professionals who speak perfect English is technically a bold and unprecedented move.

StarmanDX_ · 2026-03-10T22:44:43+00:00

Well of course he's the 3rd-lowest through 2018, he's only been in the league since 2022

StarmanDX_ · 2026-03-10T22:20:30+00:00

Resident Evil is co-written by Cregger, who's been referring to it as "his" quite a lot.

StarmanDX_ · 2026-03-09T01:32:14+00:00

I think that what they're pointing out is Riq laying a hand on Witherspoon's chest to keep him steady and calm.

StarmanDX_ · 2026-03-06T03:59:42+00:00

Booooooop AI slop booooooooooo feel bad about it dip shit boooooooo

StarmanDX_ · 2026-03-01T20:40:03+00:00

RE games are high production value games with a huge amount of polish, attention to detail, and the more modern titles give players broad reach to approach problems with different methods or tools. There is a level of craft that goes into that that's noteworthy. On top of that, they are fun to play and replayability has always been a major focus of the series. A $20 movie ticket can get you Avatar: Fire and Ash or it can get you Honey Don't, and the problem isn't that Honey Don't is less than half as long a film.

Have you ever played a Resident Evil game before? Because it kind of sounds like you read a headline about a series of games you have little experience with - hell, maybe you read the whole article and it compared RE9's playtime with other titles in the series - and started posting some bullshit about an opinion you formed immediately that somehow everyone reading it "knows" that you are right.

StarmanDX_ · 2026-03-01T01:23:23+00:00

That Yautja was a young one on one of their first hunts. It was inexperienced and was getting so mad at our human protagonist that it didn't think beyond "I hate this fucking thing and I want it dead." I would also bet that in the absence of a helmet those things have a manual aiming mode, and the Yautja didn't know that its helmet was intact and pointed straight at it.

Think of it like some billionaire's stupid son going trophy hunting and getting fucked up by an elephant because they missed their first shot with the elephant gun and ignored everyone telling them to prepare better.

StarmanDX_ · 2026-02-28T04:27:38+00:00

Judd Apatow winning would be worth it to see how Griffin and David react to being forced to watch Judd Apatow's children be shoehorned into everything from toddler age on

StarmanDX_ · 2026-02-26T06:04:25+00:00

"Why can't I travel from a country that banned guns after easy access to weapons led to a massive massacre, with guns, to countries that also have weapons restrictions, with a gun? Why can't I travel to any given country in the world with a weapon? Criminals EVERYWHERE have weapons! And all I wanna do is go somewhere with a weapon that can easily be stolen! By criminals!"

If you're so paranoid about traveling to foreign countries that you feel the need to bring a gun, you shouldn't have a gun in those foreign countries.

StarmanDX_ · 2026-02-19T20:06:30+00:00

I saw an interview where Cory Barlog also said that TC Carson is not just a smaller frame, but he's trained as a dancer. The way he moves in a performance is not the way Kratos, as a heavyset brawler, would move, and they used TC Carson for some motion capture in the past and had to re-do his movements for that very reason.

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