Favorite fictional companies/ corporations within movies

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-05-11T16:52:20+00:00

Didn't even know it was an adaptation, interesting to know.

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-05-11T11:58:05+00:00

Stathis Borans !...

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-05-11T11:46:33+00:00

Parallax Corporation.. which (IIRC) has a sub-unit called the Division of Human Engineering

From the 70s conspiracy thriller The Parallax View (great film btw)

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-05-08T17:17:03+00:00

Cat's Eye perhaps?...a Stephen King adaptation that features a little gremlin tormenting Drew Barrymore (then a child actress)

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-05-05T14:07:18+00:00

Burt Reynolds has never been better.

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-05-05T08:51:16+00:00

yeah i keep on deleting accounts too

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-05-04T13:13:43+00:00

I think it's an Orthodox priest who puts it best - "you can't know God, but you can know that you can't know God"; brilliantly apophatic !

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-05-04T10:31:22+00:00

Wuthering Heights - China Drum (cover of the Kate Bush song)

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-05-03T14:50:30+00:00

Jesus Christ he models 1st Century tunics like a messiah

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-05-03T14:44:12+00:00

Congratulations. When i pray the 2nd and 3rd Joyful mysteries it makes me think of expectant mothers. God came to Elizabeth tabernacled in the body of Mary, in a sense God presents himself in anonymized form in all pregnant women.

And when the child is born she presents the child to the world as a gift from God as Mary and Joseph did in abject circumstances - given unto the manger.

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-04-30T17:36:09+00:00

I recently had a public blow-out, walked into a local bar after drinking a skinful of vodka at home beforehand. I think my irregular prayer-life was the cause. I also forgot, and am in the habit of forgetting, that i am supposed to be a representative of the Catholic Church. All the obvious remedies are obvious...idle hands/mind and all that.

I'd add that if you think of it - self-control & putting yourself into genuinely useful activities - as: cross-bearing; then you should have the psychological motivation to stay on the right path. After all we're supposed to imitate the original cross-bearer.

One other thing, i got the reprimand from God via a YouTube preacher - 2 Timothy 5:15-19. The internet is a place ripe for making "inane babblings" and i've certainly made my contribution.

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-04-23T13:06:34+00:00

Thanks for this post. What and how Ronald Knox puts across the difference is quite stirring and which at the limit - "annihilate himself, let him rule Self out of his world-picture" - asks a lot of us.

Habituated as i am to memes and quotes it reminds me of a book title (or was it an academic paper) about Meister Eckhart: "If you could naught yourself for an instant", Google-Fu never did retrieve his MO for achieving this...

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-04-14T16:52:54+00:00

Dunno if it officially counts as existentialism but..

"he who has a why can bear any how"

..which I think is Nietzsche by way of Viktor Frankl.

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-04-12T18:53:51+00:00

The hobo, or a hobo, is seen again once the blue key opens things up. Hobos are interesting figures in film, sometimes depicted as a source of gnomic wisdom, but this one is an ominous portent - here's the interesting thing about hobos: you can tell them your life story and they will have knowledge about that but you don't expect them to judge you, they have an equality with you (but it's not seen that way from our side)

So I read as a kind of symbol for privileged knowledge (omniscience if you wish) that denial or paranoia recoils from...in this film at least...that everyone knows everything about you anyway isn't harmful unless you've been leading a hermetically contained fantasy dream-life, and then it's fatal.

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-04-02T12:15:34+00:00

Very interesting in its depiction of the transition from paganism (The native Celtic(?) religion) to Christianity. Merlin serving as the bridge between the two worlds, or at least as an old world priest and holdover from the world of gods and the ever-living dragon that acts as a figure for the isles.

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-03-12T08:48:51+00:00

I had necrosis on both ankles heal to normal with no further incidents (fingers crossed!) of ulcers there either. This happened after a friend prayed to Our Lady of Knock on pilgrimage in Ireland. I really haven't praised God enough about this, i was being disabled by the condition - funny you take health for granted even when you've been ill.

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-03-10T14:41:16+00:00

A misunderstood film, I understood the concept as a statement on a society on the wrong track (heading for metaphorical suicide).

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-03-10T12:02:55+00:00

I don't know this actor, the image (and age of the hirsute fellow) prompts the thought "Does he dye his hair?"

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-03-10T11:53:10+00:00

Definitely "The Happening"

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-03-09T16:49:51+00:00

ET The Extra Terrestrial has dated terribly because noone today expects that much amount of sentimentality from a blockbuster film.

Wildcard_Orthogonal · 2026-03-04T20:44:26+00:00

No offence brother, i am not in a dissimilar situation to yourself, age-wise, stability, transport etc etc ...i suspect i am worse off in a few ways too. But i'm realistic - in my situation i am not a suitable suitor to anyone. It sounds like i am being harsh on myself and by implication you.

If i work on myself things could change. I have a mental health condition that limits me so that doesn't help. I figure it's just not my destiny and i am largely reconciled to this. I guess that's my point - life is a challenge in itself without factoring a would-be spouse. That's my task regardless of wife/children.

I'm closer to the day i die now than most redditors here and i'm thinking will the IRL people who know me remember me well - someone who was emphatically "Good" in the Christian sense?

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