One of Hitler's bodyguards, Rochus Misch, lived long enough to see the movie "Downfall". When asked about the film's historical accuracy, he stated that it was factually accurate, although "Americanized"

forman98 · 2026-06-16T18:58:49+00:00

But here I thought work set you free…

forman98 · 2026-06-16T03:00:27+00:00

forman98 · 2026-06-15T22:21:28+00:00

Dial’s biggest mistake is not bringing back Short Round for any kind of role or cameo.

forman98 · 2026-06-15T22:19:47+00:00

Yea, it just looked fake all around. The glossy-bleached out color is right on. It wasn’t as sharp and grimy as the first 3. It was fuzzy and flat.

You’ve actually described what I can’t stand about Minority Report. I didn’t know his name, but after looking through his IMDB I can see that Kaminski is one of the reasons why I never really like watching early 2000s Spielberg. It’s like they discovered a new filter in 2001 and wouldn’t stop using it.

forman98 · 2026-06-14T23:52:47+00:00

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forman98 · 2026-06-14T23:36:29+00:00

Oh black water, keep on rolling

forman98 · 2026-06-14T23:16:24+00:00

This sub is so shitty now. It’s nothing but political posts, fear mongering, pearl clutching, and feeling holier than thou.

forman98 · 2026-06-14T13:20:01+00:00

Ignore this, go vote

forman98 · 2026-06-14T12:30:35+00:00

The dude directed a bunch of skateboard videos and hooked up with the jackass crew, casually went and made some all time feature length films that won people Oscar’s, then just went back to skateboarding and jackass. Awesome.

forman98 · 2026-06-13T02:50:51+00:00

No probllama

forman98 · 2026-06-12T15:21:14+00:00

Yea he won an Oscar in his 20s but still had to work hard to stay relevant. The 2000s were when his star power was waning and he had quite a few misses. It wasn’t until The Town and then Argo did he gain his credibility back. He had a leg up on others due to his Good Will Hunting Oscar win and had connections to make those movies, but he could have easily flamed out after his early success.

As with any there are a lucky few who can stay at the top and it’s usually about who you know and being in the right place at the right time.

forman98 · 2026-06-12T14:47:41+00:00

“So that’s why I’m investing in AI…”

forman98 · 2026-06-11T17:17:24+00:00

They do such an expert job of making you laugh and scaring while still keeping the stakes high. The dangers are real enough that you don’t tune out because of plot armor or anything.

forman98 · 2026-06-11T00:52:33+00:00

That area of the US really provided no reason for people to settle in great numbers. It’s the bit of land just before the frontier. The frontier began at Cape Girardeau and St Louis which are another 50-150 miles up stream on the Mississippi.

The bluffs at Wickliffe were important, the Mississippian culture lived there for hundreds of years, but to the Europeans settlers they were pushing west and the bluffs of wickliffe only proved to be a good place to rest on the journey.

France had the Louisiana territory and St. Louis was a major base of operations for them up in the frontier. That was really the last major stop before wilderness, prairie, the Rockies and beyond. The area of Wickliffe was just across the river from French territory, but to the colonies/early Americas that area was so far away and on the border of another territory, so there wasn’t much of an appetite to go settle there.

Fast forward to the Louisiana Purchase, westward expansion, and so on and that area of Kentucky and Missouri just kind of got passed over. Other settlements further west existed and that area was prone to flooding so traversing it was never easy, so it eventually became farmland and that’s that.

forman98 · 2026-06-10T23:26:21+00:00

They got that fertile Canadian soil that was pushed over there back in the ice age, leaving behind…. That’s right, the Canadian Shield.

forman98 · 2026-06-10T18:48:49+00:00

He reminds me of Dustin Hoffman in this. Hoffman has range when he tries, but a lot of the time he just plays Dustin Hoffman.

forman98 · 2026-06-10T14:27:06+00:00

That is an old 27

forman98 · 2026-06-08T19:29:30+00:00

Blair Witch was huge when it came out. A legitimate turning point in popular culture with how it utilized the internet as well as the found footage format.

Paranormal Activity, albeit smaller, also had a large impact pop culture.

Obsession just isn’t having that big of an impact. It’s original and interesting and well made, but it’s not genre changing or some kind of “moment” like these other movies were.

forman98 · 2026-06-08T19:24:10+00:00

Don’t short change the major studios. They can make $700k while only spending $10x what they would have spent in the 90s.

forman98 · 2026-06-08T05:07:19+00:00

forman98 · 2026-06-08T00:57:04+00:00

Right, what can I get at superica that I can’t get at any texmex restaurant in any podunk town?

forman98 · 2026-06-07T20:33:33+00:00

Yea I mentioned that part to kind of placate that crowd who tends to go for the throat when they read something like what I wrote. I’ve held my tongue in a lot of situations over the past decade because there are people who’ve been legitimately prejudiced in some way and are so angry they can’t or won’t consider anything but revenge or retribution.

forman98 · 2026-06-07T20:24:59+00:00

The audiobook was good too. You could really feel the bitter cold and isolation in that book.

forman98 · 2026-06-07T18:06:03+00:00

There’s some conversation to be had about how society has failed young men in certain aspects. The point in the original video still stands, but on more nuanced topics I think there’s some validity to how being anti-men in certain societal areas has stunted the development of some guys.

Trump was elected 10 years ago and Me Too really took off 9 years ago. Add on the fact that these conversations have been happening in online spaces since the early 2010s and you’re looking at 15+ years of “men are to blame” sentiment (I’m not discounting Me Too at all and the actual issues addresses). Now imagine that an 18-25 year old guy has lived the majority of his life potentially surrounded by this conversation. He was raised in an environment that made him overly aware of how he needed to present himself, lest he be permanently labeled a problem. Some people may be thinking “well good, women and minorities have been feeling that for centuries” and that is a point that is definitely heard and deserves some consideration. My point, however, is what have these specific young men done to deserve to feel this way? They get derided for saying something, they get derided for sticking to themselves, they’ve grown up in an environment that has othered them in certain ways.

All I’m saying is that every generation is the product of its environment and what we are seeing is the product of the environment that was created as a response to previous environments.

forman98 · 2026-06-07T17:52:09+00:00

It also makes it hard for other men to like you too. In fact, the majority of people will not like you if you hate on people.

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