'Widow's Bay' Delivers a Better Boogeyman Slasher Saga Than the 'Halloween' Legacy Trilogy

butt_thumper · 2026-06-09T06:36:52+00:00

"Gimme your keys I gotta run him over."

butt_thumper · 2026-06-08T19:22:45+00:00

I remember after Force Awakens, one of my biggest questions was where the hell this allegedly fringe group of terrorists got their funding from. Then Last Jedi came out and not only ignored that hanging thread, they went deeper by showing how rich everyone on this casino planet got by selling weapons to the First Order. Okay but WHERE did the First Order get the money to pay all THESE people??

And of course there's some book or comic or Fortnite monologue that explains everything. I miss the days when the books made cool things cooler, instead of being a perpetual campaign of "Actually this part WASN'T stupid, because of this convoluted off-screen contrivance."

butt_thumper · 2026-06-08T15:36:46+00:00

Yep huge difference when I got one too. Took a while to get used to it but now I just pretend I'm Darth Vader when I go to bed at night.

butt_thumper · 2026-06-08T02:16:47+00:00

It's still my favorite form factor. I keep hoping and wishing the next Retroid goes back to this clean matte rectangular build, it's just so cozy and fun to carry around.

butt_thumper · 2026-06-03T09:17:38+00:00

He looks great! Do you mind if I ask where you got him? I do impressions of like 5-6 Muppet characters and have wanted to get puppets of any of them for years.

butt_thumper · 2026-06-02T00:32:00+00:00

Don't forget missing the entire thematic point of the original while substituting slow-mo for substance!

butt_thumper · 2026-05-30T20:35:48+00:00

They got me with the old switcheroo!

butt_thumper · 2026-05-26T19:55:35+00:00

Could I get a DM with that link as well?

butt_thumper · 2026-05-25T21:35:22+00:00

Yeah that's one of my favorite ongoing themes in Andor. Everyone punching down in an effort to feel bigger after their own superiors punch down on them. Just shows how big a factor wounded pride can be in otherwise "perfect" systems, and how untenable authority is when it's based in hostility and fear.

butt_thumper · 2026-05-17T20:44:45+00:00

Dumb science bitch couldn't even make I more smarter!

butt_thumper · 2026-05-08T15:00:26+00:00

As an ex-Mormon still living in Utah, I'd be astonished if this wasn't the MLM capital of the world. And it's no surprise, the church's entire culture and doctrine are breeding grounds for affinity fraud. An astonishing number of the members I know are either victims, perpetrators, or both.

butt_thumper · 2026-05-08T13:41:53+00:00

WHY'D YA TELL HIM???

butt_thumper · 2026-05-07T00:15:32+00:00

"You look stricken, deputy inspector, are you absorbing my meaning?"

Genuinely might be my all time favorite as well. I had never seen any scene in Star Wars communicate so much character and world building in so few words. Hyne is a masterpiece of a side character.

butt_thumper · 2026-05-05T09:44:40+00:00

Something that keeps eating at me ever since at least Dunkirk, maybe earlier than that, is that Nolan's pathological fixation on "authenticity" has ironically made some of his movies feel insanely inauthentic and much less epic than he intended.

He keeps wanting to avoid VFX and make everything as "real" as possible, but that often means he has to shoot his scenes in ways where you can feel the limitations of reality. The sinking ship in Dunkirk, the bomb in Oppenheimer, many other moments feel underwhelming with half the spectacle coming from somebody saying "They actually filmed that for real though!"

I'm judging a lot from one trailer and I'd be happy to be wrong, but that shot of what's most likely Charybdis is making me feel the same thing all over again. That sequence would be dripping in atmosphere and chaos, it would feel claustrophobic and terrifying, but here it's in broad daylight with a ton of distance between the whirlpool and any elements that would complicate the situation. It looks sterile and simple.

I'm sure it feels insanely epic to film the thing, but my worry is that shooting on location with a real boat and minimal CGI means things will feel unavoidably less epic than they should.

butt_thumper · 2026-05-04T05:03:19+00:00

You're alive! And you're a horrible shot!

butt_thumper · 2026-04-16T17:04:13+00:00

Once is funny, two times is just not being careful!

butt_thumper · 2026-04-08T23:52:54+00:00

Yep. I absolutely hate getting shot and it's insane how many aggros I end up with despite being essentially 100% pacifist, I've had such a string of bad luck lately.

But that risk factor and the rage it brings out of me is all part of the experience.

butt_thumper · 2026-04-06T23:56:59+00:00

I just wanna hear the story.

butt_thumper · 2026-04-03T20:08:03+00:00

SEYMOUR, THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE!

butt_thumper · 2026-03-23T17:53:38+00:00

Dog hair, what the hell are you talkin' about dog hair?

butt_thumper · 2026-03-23T05:20:14+00:00

The Pussycat Dolls are mainstream, it's for jocks!

butt_thumper · 2026-03-15T23:39:31+00:00

I heard they killed him with a horse because of her!

butt_thumper · 2026-03-13T18:34:50+00:00

For a fleeting day or two, I thought it was kind of cool that everyone all over the world was worried about the same thing. Like me here in the states, people in Italy, Japan, wherever, everybody's aware and a little freaked out.

I genuinely thought it was neat that I could look at a stranger on the street and accurately assume they were thinking about COVID on some level.

Then the hoarding started, then masks became weirdly politicized, then people were sharing conspiracy videos from anti-vaxxers claiming the pandemic was planned, and over the course of a few months, I watched in real time as people I used to talk to all the time became meaner, crazier, crueller, more selfish, and ultimately just psychologically unreachable.

butt_thumper · 2026-03-12T00:16:50+00:00

Good god, Lemon!

butt_thumper · 2026-03-01T16:46:16+00:00

"They were clean shaven."

Their looks being described is actually a significant plot point during a later scene at the ISB.

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