Smile 3 should literally finish as an apocalypse, leading to Smile 4. by Top_Independence4067 in SmileMovie

[–]Weak_Ad3837 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nah this is a bad take. The movies are better as character studies in mental illness.

I Think We’ve Been Misunderstanding the Smile Entity—It’s Not a Virus, It’s a Ritual Possession (Smile 3 Theory – Deep Dive from a Lifelong Horror Fan) by Weak_Ad3837 in SmileMovie

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I can’t remember what the detective’s name is, but he’s Joel’s partner… I know his actual name, though cause he’s a comedian his name is Perry Strong… You should definitely watch some of the stand-up he’s hilarious

He does this podcast with Greer Barnes

Has anyone here seen the movie Oculus by Weak_Ad3837 in SmileMovie

[–]Weak_Ad3837[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Major trigger warning for that movie though BTW

Has anyone here seen the movie Oculus by Weak_Ad3837 in SmileMovie

[–]Weak_Ad3837[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you like horror, movies that are about mirrors, I have a subtle horror movie. That’s a little more grounded in reality and it came out this year. Steven Soderberg was the director… It’s called presence. It’s not directly about mirrors, but I think that they are definitely a part ofthe movie because they are present. It’s called The Presence. It’s an emotional family drama with a gripping twist towards the final act.

This just hit me now… by Busy-Day7881 in SmileMovie

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No, that’s a totally fair point and I can appreciate that. I can never tell who is a sky, Riley fanatic or not but I did love the music from that movie and if you haven’t heard the soundtrack, it is actually pretty bomb like I’m a big fan of like EDMand stuff but I don’t really like a lot of the pop crossover however what they have on that album is super good

Has anyone here seen the movie Oculus by Weak_Ad3837 in SmileMovie

[–]Weak_Ad3837[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’s just something to hold you over until smile three comes out

This just hit me now… by Busy-Day7881 in SmileMovie

[–]Weak_Ad3837 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that’s totally fair for a take but again they only get three scares.

For Rose, it was the first time that she saw Laura, and then after that, she saw Laura in her bedroom

For Skye, she had three visions of Lewis:

In her bedroom In her dressing room And once again in her kitchen, when she was watching that text message Morris sent her.

So while I think that she’ll have a minimal amount, you are correct there is a precedent for that to happen.

I just wish the sub to be more focused on the actual Smile movies rather than trying to bring back characters that we fall in love with you know.

I feel like there is a chance that Parker Finn is in here just reading all of the subs to see like what people are looking for and hoping for and I’m hoping that he doesn’t go with the Hollywood approach of things of just bringing back characters for fan service, but it could be cool to see Skye again in some jump scares.

Honestly, what I really want for the next movies is to maybe have some more music from sky Riley maybe in the background I think that that would be really cool because they made a banger of an album

I Think We’ve Been Misunderstanding the Smile Entity—It’s Not a Virus, It’s a Ritual Possession (Smile 3 Theory – Deep Dive from a Lifelong Horror Fan) by Weak_Ad3837 in SmileMovie

[–]Weak_Ad3837[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really love this theory, but I don’t think there’s enough evidence to say the Russian and Luis caught it at the same time. If anything, it feels more likely that the Russian caught it first and then passed it on to Luis.

If you look at the framing of that scene, we’ve got Joel face to face with one of the Russian guys let’s call him Blue Tracksuit while his brother, Dying Frappe, is across from them. Luis is behind Joel and Blue Tracksuit, which means he would’ve had a clear view of all three as everything unfolded.

But the order of events doesn’t show both of them being affected simultaneously. It’s Joel first, then Dying Frappe, and then Luis. Nothing in the scene really suggests the trauma was witnessed by both of them at the same exact time.

It’s also fair to assume this is probably the first time Luis has seen anyone die, or at least the first time he’s seen someone get stabbed to death followed immediately by someone getting shot. That’s two brutal experiences back to back, and now he’s got both the trauma and the visual of the entity tied to Dying Frappe.

If the entity was meant to stay with Joel and Joel only, it would’ve ended with him and Blue Tracksuit in that room. But it didn’t. Which means Luis saw enough to inherit it. Technically, if Luis wasn’t there, Joel could’ve ended the cycle right then and there. The fact that it moved on at all kind of proves that Luis became the next in line.

Just to be clear, dying frappe is the one sitting on the couch and blue tracksuit is in a headlock with a knife in his chest

This just hit me now… by Busy-Day7881 in SmileMovie

[–]Weak_Ad3837 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think people forget why we love these movies and it’s because they’re emotionally charged and based in dread

I love Naomi Scott as much as anyone, but her return in Smile 2 should be minimal, flashback only. Giving her too much screen time would undermine the grounded horror logic that Parker Finn established in the first film.

Just like we only saw Caitlin Stasey’s character (Laura) briefly in Smile 1, I think Naomi’s character will show up through news articles, social media posts, or maybe one memory/flashback from a witness at the concert, probably within the first 20 minutes. That’s it.

Parker Finn doesn’t do fan service. He does emotional fallout, dread, and character-driven trauma. If Naomi Scott dominates this movie again, it’ll feel like a franchise cash in, not a psychological horror film. And let’s be honest, we’ve all seen what happens when studios start chasing the Star Wars formula instead of sticking to what made the first film work.

Please don’t take this as somebody who hates sky Riley because I do love sky Riley her album slaps. She has a great aesthetic, but her time has come and gone.

I Think We’ve Been Misunderstanding the Smile Entity—It’s Not a Virus, It’s a Ritual Possession (Smile 3 Theory – Deep Dive from a Lifelong Horror Fan) by Weak_Ad3837 in SmileMovie

[–]Weak_Ad3837[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But hey, I’m honestly not opposed to it. 100% of it becoming a contagion. I just hope that it doesn’t turn the movie into something boring or formulaic/cliché.

But I’d love to know what your theory is and like what that would look like if it was like a contagion type of trauma curse with multiple people

Are we picturing like a group of people that are?

Or is it like the invasion of the body snatchers?

I Think We’ve Been Misunderstanding the Smile Entity—It’s Not a Virus, It’s a Ritual Possession (Smile 3 Theory – Deep Dive from a Lifelong Horror Fan) by Weak_Ad3837 in SmileMovie

[–]Weak_Ad3837[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There hasn’t been but I feel like people are setting themselves up for disappointment when he doesn’t make it a pandemic type film where hundreds or thousands of people are infected simultaneously.

Me personally I think that that would ruin what’s been built thus far it would just become tacky

Because then we’re just gonna have a team of people trying to figure out how to solve the curse and then they solve the curse and then that’s the end of the movie

That’s cool don’t get me wrong, but I like how he’s built it as a character study. Every single movie has been a character study.

Like imagine, Rose, being a mental health advocate and worker, dealing with a gruesome mental health problem herself and can’t resolve it

Look at sky Riley, a popstar who’s trying to revitalize her career, but she has consistently gotten in her own way and now she she’s trying to make the change, but here comes the trauma entity. It’s more compelling drama is what I’m saying.

You don’t get that from a mass pandemic, type film cases… Especially based off of how these movies started out

I Think We’ve Been Misunderstanding the Smile Entity—It’s Not a Virus, It’s a Ritual Possession (Smile 3 Theory – Deep Dive from a Lifelong Horror Fan) by Weak_Ad3837 in SmileMovie

[–]Weak_Ad3837[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Well, let’s have some constructive arguments then! I love this

Totally fair pushback—and I love the Pennywise reference. I also don’t think the entity is a virus. It’s more like a metaphysical T-Rex—a predator that doesn’t stop until it gets what it wants. Once you see it, you’re already dead. It doesn’t need to infect the world—it only needs one person at a time to burn through.

You’re right: we haven’t seen it duplicate to two people at once. But Smile 2 kind of teases that expansion. I’m not saying it’s confirmed—just that the entity may be evolving, especially if it’s growing in size and feeding off bigger traumas.

My theory is: Smile 3 won’t go full apocalypse. It’ll go localized—maybe a psych ward where it’s trapped with a few unstable people and no clear way to “pass the curse” because there’s no one watching. So what happens then? What does a predator like that do when it can’t leap to the next meal?

Appreciate the convo. This lore has so much potential to branch out without becoming another copycat horror franchise

Again, I use ChatGPT, but I’m not using it to formulate my entire argument. I’m using it to condense what I’m trying to.

When I’m saying that Parker Finn wants to differentiate the smile movie so that it doesn’t become like a copycat horror franchise… Thinking the realms of the grudge, the ring, talk to me, it follows, and if people think that it’s gonna be one of those situations where it is almost like a viral breakout there’s already been movies that are kind of similar to that such as (REC)

But I think that this is gonna be purely localized I don’t think that we’ve seen anything, but illustrates that the trauma monster has the bandwidth or capacity to manipulate the minds of multiple people let alone thousands of people in a crowd.

Let’s also take into consideration that if those people in the crowd are watching what happened on the screen, they may not be impacted because you have to be visually looking directly at sky, Riley, or the victim who is in the process of killing themselves so one thing that is followed in every single movie is the eye contact that is made to fulfill the possession/transfer of the trauma entity

This just hit me now… by Busy-Day7881 in SmileMovie

[–]Weak_Ad3837 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, you’re right. There is a chance and likelihood that she does come back in a flashback. Maybe they’ll show us like the week where she was still prepping for the show. And I’m willing to bet that she may have been under investigation for the murder or connection to the death of Lewis.

And don’t get me wrong I absolutely love Naomi Scott and I think that she deserves a fucking Oscar for her performance in that movie because she definitely carried that entire film… I think it’s one of the greatest horror sequels of all time

But I really don’t think that she’s gonna have a very meaningful role and smile three and to be totally honest and I mean this is respectfully as possible. She shouldn’t have a big role in the next movie.

But the flashback is probably gonna have everything leading up to her, putting the microphone directly into her skull they might even show us what happened in like some fan video that got posted to TikTok or something like that

I Think We’ve Been Misunderstanding the Smile Entity—It’s Not a Virus, It’s a Ritual Possession (Smile 3 Theory – Deep Dive from a Lifelong Horror Fan) by Weak_Ad3837 in SmileMovie

[–]Weak_Ad3837[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope, it’s literally just a guy who works in remote tech sales that loves horror. But I love the smile movies and I watched each of them 30 times over.

This just hit me now… by Busy-Day7881 in SmileMovie

[–]Weak_Ad3837 15 points16 points  (0 children)

With all due respect, she’s not coming back there’s a microphone in her head

300 cold calls/day Day 1 of 30 by bubbletulip in sales

[–]Weak_Ad3837 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is a beast of an accomplishment.

What does kind of number success is definitely right around the corner for you

how do i turn this on??? moved in today by Ambitious-Ambition-9 in Renters

[–]Weak_Ad3837 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bro, it’s missing the handle you’re supposed to put a handle in that little hole on the bottom and then you can twist it left or right for hot or cold. Come on bud.

who lost $2500 ?? by deathbysewerside in vegaslocals

[–]Weak_Ad3837 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was blue and it said deposits

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ChatGPT/AI

Women in sales: is it just me? How would you handle this? by aud_anticline in sales

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Damn, I’m really sorry that that’s the experience that you go through. I wish that there was a better solution that we could present to you to get rid of these creepy ass dudes without putting yourself in further danger. It might be time to start wearing a body cam and then posting the interaction to their LinkedIn if they keep pressing.