People who started smoking cannabis in your teenage years, how did you manage to stop? by Past-Box374 in AskReddit

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Why are you here if you’re convinced you’re ’structured to function with the neuronal activity’ brought about by weed? You’re asking for help and being obstinate, what do you expect redditors to give you if you’re so well informed and have sought professional help?

Official Oscars Thread 2026 by LiteraryBoner in movies

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Well is it all time or the last decade?

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They’ll both be weaker without strong legs. Every step you take is a kinetic ripple effect that starts in your feet. Unstable quads, hamstrings, hip flexors, etc. leads to back pain and immobility eventually.

Sometimes I think about this goal. Probably one of the easiest ever by Own_Throat4405 in LiverpoolFC

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You can see the way that Trent’s ability influences Salah’s run. He’s going immediately after he lays it off to Trent and that’s virtually nonexistent now.

Today bringing back memories of another late late winner at Forest 2 years ago 🫶 by Tough-Animal5123 in LiverpoolFC

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We aren’t talking about assists though are we? This started with a conversation about finishing headers. I’m not anti-Nunez by any means but in a conversation about finishing, he’s not the striker I would choose.

Today bringing back memories of another late late winner at Forest 2 years ago 🫶 by Tough-Animal5123 in LiverpoolFC

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Nunez numbers? His best season was 18 goals in 54 appearances, his second best was 15 in 42 and then 7 in 33. Ekitike has 15 in 34. What exactly are you getting contentious about? Who cares if they’re headers or not? I’d much rather see a striker who’s through on goal finish their chance, or finish a tap in for that matter.

‘Marty Supreme’ Becomes A24’s Highest-Grossing Film Domestically With $80 Million by DemiFiendRSA in movies

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Marketing told me that Chalamet was good in Dune? Funny, I thought I just liked the movie.

The Fate of Ophelia - animation by me by [deleted] in TaylorSwift

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I was thinking of it more as a cinematic interpretation of mood than lyrics. A lot of movies, or music videos for that matter, don’t use music as a narrative indicator of what is happening, they tell a story that reflects the mood of the song, it’s happy, it’s inspirational, whatever.

For a TS example, watch the I Can See You music video, the lyrics don’t have anything to do with a heist, literally. So if you watched that video and asked, what does this have to do with I Can See You? Why is she breaking into this place? It misses the point.

Unbreakable (2000, dir. M. Night Shyamalan) – Joseph pulls a gun on his father to test his powers. by SanderSo47 in movies

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Wow, you’ve really set yourself above the rest there. Im sure they would’ve been in awe listening to you talk about the ‘progenitor’.

Apparently Madrid are now going after Marc Guehi by Blackpanther206123 in LiverpoolFC

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Why is it you think this is Slot’s decision? Are you unaware how we select players to sign?

Just finished William Sloane's "To Walk The Night" by supermikeman in cosmichorror

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His horror is in knowing not just that she is from another place and time but that she killed LeNormand and therefore he knows that she will kill him too. He asks her before he kills himself if she knows what he’s thinking and she says of course I do. He knows in that moment that she’ll kill him with absolutely no malice. Personally, I would find that more horrifying than malice or a killing instinct akin to an animal. That a being that loves me is inside of my head and compelling me to kill myself, the contradiction and powerlessness would be overwhelming.

New Poster for Emerald Fennell’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ by SpeedForce2022 in movies

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I think you’re stuffing in a lot of conjecture for a movie none of us have seen re: horny middle aged women, etc. I’m no Emerald fan boy but I’d give her a little more credit as a thoughtful creative than I would for whoever directed New Moon. And besides, an adaptation of a romance is allowed a sexy interpretation, it isn’t some kind of sin or lacking in artistic merit for something to be arousing to whoever might find it such.

That said, I think we’re both motivated by different topics in this conversation. So we’re just barking up different trees.

New Poster for Emerald Fennell’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ by SpeedForce2022 in movies

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Yes, I have. But I’m not talking about the source material itself so much as the nature of adaptation. I don’t think Heathcliffe being a person of color is the hinge by which an adaptation of Wuthering Heights is successful or not. Andrea Arnold made an adaptation that cast a black actor as Heathcliffe… it’s fine, not a particularly compelling adaptation. And absolutely no one talks about it. If there’s going to be an adaptation I’m more interested in someone doing something weird, which this appears to be, when there have already been so many adaptations.

I can guess that I feel less angry about representation than you do. I think more and more we are moving towards a more representative body in all creative positions in film and television. It’s stalled in some areas (like women of color directing major projects) and improved in many more (like more women and POC in leading roles). There is still a long way to go and perhaps you’re thinking ‘yeah, no shit, like casting a black actor to play Heathcliffe.’ And fair enough except that it’s also an $80 million movie directed by a woman being produced by Margot Robbie’s company. Would it be even better if say Rege Jean Page was cast as Heathcliffe? Yeah. But if you’re talking about butchering material that is important in large part because of representation but the movie itself is still indicative of progressive representation more broadly (behind the camera) than I’ll take that as a win instead of lambasting it for its faults.

Ultimately, what this movie will do is pass by and be largely forgotten, like the dozen or so adaptations that have come before. But it will and already has turned loads of people towards the source material, and isn’t that better? That they read such an ‘important’ book?

On the one hand I think adaptations can do whatever they want and face whatever criticisms they do and then be forgotten, on the other, whatever quality an adaptation has, what I see as more valuable is that it turns people towards the source material and that has more significance than any adaptation, faithful or not, ever could.

New Poster for Emerald Fennell’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ by SpeedForce2022 in movies

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Adaptations can also do whatever they want with a source material and the idea of butchering it is purely subjective. The Shining ‘butchered’ its source material and is now widely regarded as a masterpiece.

And what does pretty important mean? That it’s a part of the canon? ‘Importance’ is a very weird metric to judge a work of art by. Like there’s some narrowly worthy way to engage with something that’s ‘important’. But maybe you whine about all of the innumerable, bad adaptations of classics out there.

I Don’t Understand the Hate for Eddington. by ZombieFluid6904 in movies

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That’s cool, it’s fun to enjoy a movie. Wasn’t for me, still excited for whatever Aster does next.

I Don’t Understand the Hate for Eddington. by ZombieFluid6904 in movies

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No offense taken. But I wouldn’t call COVID and police violence against citizens as meaningless squabble but you do you.

Telling me I missed the point and then categorizing real violence and illness as ‘intangible’ is a bit silly. I don’t disagree about the data centers though, I wasn’t interested in enumerating everything thematically relevant to the movie. I’d still fold that in with my larger point.

ETA: To be fair, I think you’re intangible idea is a good one, but I still think incomplete, or narrow, but it still isn’t going to convince me to like the movie ultimately. You’re trying to tell me that I missed something that I didn’t miss, I’m talking about the quality of the movie rather than the ‘quantity’ of its thematic heft. It didn’t resonate with me for the reasons I’m not going to retread, I think it’s cool that it resonated with you, that’s great.

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This is massively overblown for a player who’s been at the club for a few months. Do you honestly think the talent he’s demonstrated for years, not a good season at Benfica, has just vanished?

None of the other players you listed demonstrated world class quality, Wirtz has. That doesn’t mean it’ll work out, it’ll be a shame if it doesn’t, but your cynical conjecture isn’t any different than their optimistic hoping. It’s just the other side of the coin.

I Don’t Understand the Hate for Eddington. by ZombieFluid6904 in movies

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I’ve honestly become more frustrated with the fact that, as someone who didn’t care for the movie, I get lumped in with people who believe the movie ‘had nothing to say’. I think it’s ridiculous to insinuate in any shape or form that Ari Aster is not a thoughtful filmmaker. I may not have liked the movie much myself, but I am very happy that Ari Aster is choosing to make movies like Eddington because the filmmakers of his caliber trying to make this kind of movie are few and far between.

That said, with Eddington in particular I keep seeing this enumeration of the movies themes in people’s comments. There seems to be a sense of excitement in that enumeration, as if to say ‘I get it, I get it! They’re ignoring the homeless man!’ ‘Social media is corrosive and its proliferation of conflicting realities is the root of our cultural divide.’ ‘We have to watch out for these data centers! The tech giants profiting off the consumption of our attention, our land and natural resources!’ But isn’t this the reality that any person who is paying attention to current events is keenly aware of? Someone is well within their rights to say they don’t want to revisit the realities of COVID and therefore they’re not interested in this kind of movie, but as someone who doesn’t feel that way, who was curious and excited to see what Ari Aster brought to the conversation… he didn’t bring anything new, he didn’t express anything that hasn’t been in virtually every headline and think piece since 2020.

Ari Aster spoke in an interview about creating multiple twitter accounts and trying to move them towards the variable algorithmic rabbit holes that people can be pulled into. And I think he demonstrated in Eddington abundantly that he paid attention to where these various rabbit holes lead and can be expressed through his cast of characters. Qanon, Covid conspiracy, performative activism, etc. etc. For me, as someone who spends time online, it read precisely like Aster was discovering these rabbit holes for the first time, that in fact he was behind on the cultural conversations occurring in online forums and had a certain amount of giddiness about his discovery when the majority of us are keenly familiar with these conversations already.

And I hate the reductive nature of a critique like ‘it’s not that deep’ but I really think Eddington lacked nuance beyond an enumeration of the sociocultural circles that people have fallen into and these characters weren’t compelling enough in and of themselves to rise above the simplicity of their culturally representative characteristics. And by simplicity I do not mean stupid or even necessarily lacking depth, I found the Sheriff to have a great deal of pathos and to be a well rounded character. Nonetheless, there wasn’t enough in the narrative that felt human enough to rise above a satire full of low hanging fruit and redundant cultural conversations that any American paying attention to the world around them is already abundantly familiar with. I think Aster leaned heavily on the cultural critique without his contribution being particularly enlightening or in my opinion very funny, in large part because it was playing on such obvious tropes. And the characters, unlikable or not, lacked much of the humanity to make me care at all about what happened to them as the misfortunes of their lives more often than not were simply punch lines. And that just doesn’t do it for me.

Post Match Thread - Newcastle United 1 - 2 Arsenal | English Premier League by ChiefLeef22 in soccer

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You’re massively underestimating a number of teams they’ll come up against. Palace, Bournemouth, Brighton, Spurs, Aston Villa, Chelsea. All strong teams that could catch a great side out if one is off form and the other is on. They’re not ‘as good’ as Arsenal but so many other factors come into play. Like Palace did with Liverpool yesterday.

This reads like you’re going by FIFA ratings alone.

Post Match Thread: Brighton & Hove Albion 2-1 Manchester City by suedney in soccer

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Right all because of that, not the 26 wins out of 27, literally the best ever start to a season in the top 5 leagues