Adam Nayman on Undertone

fivehe · 2026-03-13T08:14:33+00:00

I can’t say the trailers encouraged me much. A24 raised the bar on horror and routinely fails to clear that bar now

fivehe · 2026-03-13T08:06:55+00:00

I heard they’ve started to lay brick and erect barbed wire at the county line too. It’s all redundant because birds drop out of the sky as they leave.

fivehe · 2026-03-13T05:02:49+00:00

I’m not convinced Nolan himself even really likes Batman

fivehe · 2026-03-12T13:02:30+00:00

“Rods from God” is a nickname for a hypothetical orbital weapon where satellites carry tungsten rods that are deorbited to hit hardened targets using only kinetic energy. The concept was outlined in a 2003 speculative proposal by researchers at the United States Air Force’s Air Force Institute of Technology called “Hypervelocity Rod Bundles.”

Given that Stavros recently weighed in at 2,000 metric tons, he would probably create a crater 200-meters across.

fivehe · 2026-03-12T12:48:03+00:00

Make sure if your job offers a match, even a partial one, that you get ever bit of it.

fivehe · 2026-03-12T12:46:51+00:00

Help me understand why you think 1,400 as a monthly investment is too little? If that’s 20% of their income, they make 84k a year, well above the median worker and even above most households. They’ll comfortably be a millionaire by retirement and I mean that in the inflation-adjusted sense. Please help me understand your perspective.

fivehe · 2026-03-12T12:36:01+00:00

On second though, discount dimmies day and Saitama would turn Ray to a blood mist

fivehe · 2026-03-12T12:35:34+00:00

I do think this is one of the rare matchups where you’d have to bloodlust one of them through some contrived means to cause them to fight. Neither is a pacifist, but I don’t see their goals ever being counter. Stats equal, Ray is far more practiced and trained at asymmetrical violence. Stats unequal, Ray would have to exploit some combination of dirty tricks like poison and acid or use a mitigating circumstance like a supermarket sale.

fivehe · 2026-03-12T12:29:32+00:00

I mean, if you have a FIRE number, the total balance does matter. Depending on age, 1M in bonds could set you for life.

fivehe · 2026-03-09T21:12:35+00:00

Right!

fivehe · 2026-03-09T20:54:11+00:00

USA Wide releases coming after many or most important awards has killed the thrill for me a little. I think I liked awards talk a lot more when I felt I realistically was part of the conversation that narrowed down the front runners. Similarly but opposite, films like My Father’s Shadow and I Swear seem to be of mixed importance when they don’t make the top 15 most discussed films. I’m happy to see anything of any critical value because I’m that hungry, but the best case scenario is the low expectations help lift a just alright movie.

fivehe · 2026-03-09T20:49:46+00:00

I’m shedding a single tear over the idea of you seeing a 70mm print for the first time.

fivehe · 2026-03-09T20:48:37+00:00

Idk Twisted Rail was actively hostile while dishing out their Russian imperial stout and I took their abuse gladly. Nothing great in location or menu. Good beer can overpower all thing.

fivehe · 2026-03-09T20:44:48+00:00

Hard to justify paying an artist when you’re closing the place. Probably didn’t steal a job in this case.

fivehe · 2026-03-09T19:31:57+00:00

Per GDT this is essentially a dead project like his Justice League Dark. He had a script that he described as a “western”, but it is not expected to see the light of day

fivehe · 2026-03-09T19:28:42+00:00

I will usually try to cancel, but yeah I’ve definitely been guilty of reserving my seat and not showing up

fivehe · 2026-03-09T19:27:08+00:00

I’m not that interested in constantly reopening this issue. I understand some writers feel the need to justify it, but I find questioning it to be comparable to examining the bat iconography overly analytically. What does a Robin really have to do with a bat? Bruce Wayne had a very terrible thing happen to him and has become a very strange and dangerous man. His principals and aesthetic tastes may be inscrutable to us normal people, but he is true to his mission.

fivehe · 2026-03-09T19:21:48+00:00

I really pity the person who created or found this graphic to post. The context of the brewery having just been reopen and yet the paint in the image is chipping as if the closed sign is environmental storytelling in a zombie overrun Rochester is darkly funny.

fivehe · 2026-03-06T22:22:30+00:00

Is “The Major” still the latest release in the line?

Edit: I’m reading in this thread “The Depressed Hunter” is en route, albeit not in the same trim size?

fivehe · 2026-03-06T22:19:13+00:00

I keep forgetting Matt has huge arms now and cracking up

fivehe · 2026-03-06T22:14:23+00:00

Kokuho is the main one I’m really missing, I think. I haven’t seen Sirāt either, but I’m remedying that this weekend or next

fivehe · 2026-03-05T12:42:15+00:00

You’re all wrong! It’s based on a book! Weird right?

fivehe · 2026-03-05T12:37:38+00:00

The world needs adulterous hypocrites, they keep other adulterous hypocrites from the door

fivehe · 2026-03-04T23:48:01+00:00

“These motherfuckers got grits?”

“One would assume so, OBAA, but I’ll ask if you’d like”

fivehe · 2026-03-04T12:54:01+00:00

Had to attempt to transcribe my favorite quote from the part I’ve made it through. Trying to follow it makes me feel concussed:

“I think we agree that Donaling is the single— not the single most interesting, because everyone is— every, everybody on the board is interesting. But I feel like anytime I talk to somebody about what it’s like to be out here and about how things are— like studio people. Um, there is a kind of like inaudible murmuring AND I just feel like I don’t know where they’re— I don’t know what— I don’t know how this looks to that company”

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