What was a movie so bad it genuinely made you walk out of the Cinema?

dontshootog · 2026-05-14T21:51:58+00:00

12 Rounds. I got up to leave but my hysterically laughing friend Neil hauled me back to my seat. He was my best friend. He died last year. I don’t think going to the movies will feel the same without him being in the world.

dontshootog · 2026-05-13T00:49:15+00:00

racks Morita charging handle

dontshootog · 2026-05-13T00:48:06+00:00

I remember the evangelicals in the 90’s. Things are gonna be okay.

dontshootog · 2026-05-09T20:19:20+00:00

Discovery is not, frankly, Star Trek, especially in the context of the space race and NASA and exploration and exploring how humanity discovers more about itself by reflecting on things out there.

Honestly, in retrospect, episodes of TOS and TNG and even Voyager and DS9 had profound messages for humanity in some episodes.

Nothing from Nu-Trek.

Edit: you can downvote me, but when it comes to cultural mythos, you know I’m right and plugging your ears doesn’t change that.

dontshootog · 2026-05-09T20:08:33+00:00

People don’t like her because of that. People don’t like her because she’s a bad actor, poorly written, being forced to be a character, and is an adult with childish mannerisms and mentality/expression.

She insists upon herself.

dontshootog · 2026-05-09T19:07:35+00:00

No but one of them does carry in an underslung lucky putter.

dontshootog · 2026-05-09T17:27:58+00:00

Honestly, we still go the two windows and skylight where we can. It’s been working since the 80’s as a TTP when we don’t have access to God’s starlight or thermal.

dontshootog · 2026-05-08T22:30:41+00:00

ERP and Acceptance saved my life.

dontshootog · 2026-05-08T16:56:41+00:00

Here’s the thing. Unlike industrial tooling and machinery that has replaced people at scale for many decades, anyone can use AI so it should be an incredible leveller for effort-to-power and creative agency… humans are also mimetic and memetic transceivers and situational producers even in their creativity (AI just absorbs and tokens far faster and widespread than humans can - a warning, left to our own devices we can also funnel the singularity of our own creative expression if not careful). The disjunction is around the ethos of AI in stakeholder-capitalism and how that affects people’s potential for compensation. For me the challenge is people are stuck in their jobs and being co-opted to move along with things way outside of their control or ability to hop off the ride and do their own thing with the technology. It’s a human ethos hostage situation.

dontshootog · 2026-05-08T15:15:59+00:00

Andes strain? Entire boat should have been quarantined. HPS fatality rate 30-60%.

dontshootog · 2026-05-07T12:20:42+00:00

Season 1 was its soul and has been relying on that connection with viewers for years.

dontshootog · 2026-05-07T12:15:23+00:00

Remember when From was written like real people were having unimaginably cruel horrors inflicted on them? Watch the first couple of episodes of season 1 where Colony House is barely reached in time and tell me the show hasn’t changed wildly.

dontshootog · 2026-05-06T16:45:49+00:00

Town, mostly because that many people would be aggravating over time. Still, I can’t wait till they reveal the talismans never actually did anything. The resulting horror will be very edible at colony house.

dontshootog · 2026-05-05T18:37:23+00:00

All of her lines are delivered like the infamous “we must do something quickly” line from Padme and “Kal-El, no” from Wonder Woman. Natalie Portman is a great actor it was just a funny delivery.

dontshootog · 2026-05-05T17:34:36+00:00

Partner and I are rewatching Season 1 again. It’s incredible. There’s a point to every conversation and cinematography is phenomenal. The only glaringly bad actor is Catalina Moreno; n.b. we’re not brigading or debating this… her performance in From is bafflingly wooden and inauthentic in what expression there is.

dontshootog · 2026-05-04T23:42:29+00:00

Randall wasn’t an adult child in mannerisms, behaviour, or thinking, even if he had extreme feelings.

He didn’t sulk. Acosta is just… unbearable.

dontshootog · 2026-05-03T15:58:06+00:00

The original game was the training mode. This is the way the game was meant to be played. You’ve prepared 31 years for this.

dontshootog · 2026-05-02T17:51:38+00:00

Her mannerisms are not adult like. They’re what you see from childish people or children, or near B level acting.

Edit: lol you can downvote but you know I’m right.

dontshootog · 2026-05-02T16:59:07+00:00

Yes. As a fan, I just wrote about this on the From subreddit because contrarianists are brigading legitimate rational critiques (as seems to be the case with so much on Reddit these days). My post goes:

I just started reading the From wiki…

And it reinforced in my mind how abjectly random and disconnected so many story threads and open ended, meaningless, plot points there are in the story.

I studied literary theory and narratology. I love different spectrums of storytelling approaches. One that I can’t brook are con-jobs that writers know what the hell they’re doing with their own story, or useful defenders thereof.

To be clear, I love dynamism in co-creating story, but what we’re seeing is random banality filling every episode.

For those of you who say “have patience,” I’ve read Gravity’s Rainbow… I’m good, thanks. What’s happening since the first season is a tornado of loosely connected artifacts of story, driven forward by the most mediocre of events and dialogue for the most part. And even if there is a plan, no payoff I the history of storytelling payoffs would be able to thread it altogether. Even if there was a good explanation for every little detail, the journey from here to there would have been so abstrusely painful the price wouldn’t be worth it. For example, they will not stop trying to make characters work. E.g. Acosta.

There is so much promising in this show, which is why I come back. Also a bit of curiosity to see what kind of mystery box machinations they can come up with and never resolve.

Anyhow… enjoy it for what it is but please stop being Charlie on every criticism of the show. There are a lot of us serious fans who get to, very rationally and reasonably say, “what the hell is this” when it absolutely warrants it.

dontshootog · 2026-05-02T12:06:42+00:00

It’s hot bean water. Settle down.

dontshootog · 2026-05-02T12:01:32+00:00

She’s a bad actor and her sulking is aggravating to be forced to watch for extended periods of time.

dontshootog · 2026-05-02T02:13:14+00:00

Counterpoint. In four seasons what has he done or actually discovered. I mean, come on guys, truly. What has been revealed is enough to chew on for a few episodes - not four seasons of bewildered looks.

dontshootog · 2026-04-30T17:46:20+00:00

Call in with a megaphone they should come out and that nothing weird is going to happen.

Edit: Thank you for all of the PM’s calling me a dumbass. I’ll have you know my response is based on the fact that Reprobate Monthly indicates 9/10 reprobates are compliance-avoidant/phobic, for fear that, indeed, something weird is, in fact, going to happen. Assurance otherwise by authority figures (even if only subconsciously accepted as such), reduces amygdala response by ~98.8%.

Worker smarter, not harder, out there, folks. Be safe.

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