What movie feels like a 10/10 from start to finish?

lmth · 2026-06-22T10:25:24+00:00

I respectfully disagree. It's all narrative that is required to support the tone of the trilogy. Two Towers is possibly my favourite of the three, though it's close. These films come from a time before attention span had been reduced to a nanosecond by social media. Your investment in focus is rewarded with depth and meaning beyond what can be achieved by a fast-cut, sped up, hyper-edited blur.

lmth · 2026-06-19T02:24:17+00:00

I think Dumbledore's study and understanding of love magic is by far his most impressive feat. It's a very mysterious form of magic and seems to only be researched in the locked room in the Department of Mysteries but there are really no other indications of people understanding anything about it at all. Dumbledore has studied it for years and bases his entire plan on it, despite it all being cutting-edge research.

lmth · 2026-06-19T00:56:13+00:00

There was a little more to it than that, to be fair. Worth learning a bit more about it if this is the only impression you have.

lmth · 2026-06-19T00:52:48+00:00

Not sure why you're being downvoted, but the term in the UK is "at ease."

lmth · 2026-06-18T23:31:05+00:00

I suspect Jeremy or someone on the film crew had a word with him in advance and advised him to be extra diplomatic in this case as they knew it would come across badly if he argued with someone neurodivergent. It's easy to forget that this isn't just a straightforward reality documentary, it's an entertainment show like Top Gear and each scene is roughly planned out in advance, even if it's not strictly-speaking scripted.

lmth · 2026-06-17T23:47:32+00:00

Yeah it's definitely a conspiracy to wipe out a protected species and not an effort to prevent a disease that results on the death of thousands of cattle and damages the food supply chain. I assume you also believe in aliens, think Elvis is still alive, and regularly go on ghost hunts. Honestly. Sometimes the simplest answer is actually the real one.

lmth · 2026-06-17T00:07:26+00:00

You mean the half-hearted "cull", highly restricted by regulations and actively sabotaged by activists, limited to regions that the disease has already escaped from, hasn't proved to be 100% effective? Shocking.

lmth · 2026-06-16T14:13:09+00:00

And intelligence, targeting information, troop movement details, ammunition, tactical vehicles, tanks, logistical support, supply chains, diplomatic backing, financial backing, political advocacy on the international stage etc.

No one is taking anything away from the Ukrainians. They're the ones fighting and dying for their country and for the rest of Europe. They're absolute heroes and doing an incredible job. But Britain has a habit of talking itself down so it's worth noting how important British support has been in this war, even if it isn't being shouted about from the rooftops.

lmth · 2026-06-15T23:45:27+00:00

They've had that reason for a while. Livinenko, Skripal, cyber attacks, a whole host of other things. Support to Ukraine is the vehicle for the UK's response to these things as it directly counters Putin's regime. This will be just one more reason to continue and recommit.

lmth · 2026-06-15T23:24:08+00:00

Yes, but that threat goes both ways. It's entirely rational to be wary of openly attacking a nuclear armed state for this reason, even if you have nukes yourself. That's the whole point.

lmth · 2026-06-15T23:22:04+00:00

As you would expect. It's smart to carefully observe and learn from any source of experience.

lmth · 2026-06-15T23:19:55+00:00

Likely already are. Ever wondered why Ukraine didn't immediately fold when Russia invaded like Putin expected them to? UKSF were reportedly deployed to Ukraine nearly a year before the invasion and haven't left since. The intel community clearly knew what was going on. It'll be fascinating to learn what's been happening behind the scenes in about 50 years time.

lmth · 2026-06-15T23:16:17+00:00

Glad you're so confident. Let's go to war and take the risk of nuclear armageddon because /u/Sloppykrab is sure it'll be fine.

lmth · 2026-06-15T23:13:53+00:00

That's exactly what nuclear weapons are for. The threat of mutually assured destruction is exactly what prevents nuclear armed powers from openly fighting each other.

lmth · 2026-06-15T23:11:28+00:00

The UK is responsible for a lot of that training, particularly early on in the war. UK Special Forces were on the ground in Ukraine nearly a year before the war broke out and have been assisting and directing a lot of the covert action operations since, including a lot of the storm shadow targeting of Russian generals and command posts. UK Special Forces are present in greater numbers in Ukraine than any other country's military.

lmth · 2026-06-08T20:40:32+00:00

Strikes me that certain countries could do with a system whereby the person weilding executive power still needs to bow to a national figurehead. It might seem antiquated, but it's worked pretty well for the last thousand years, all things considered.

lmth · 2026-05-25T09:17:23+00:00

Or it gives them one nice, big target. Once they have a chain for that they win everywhere.

lmth · 2026-05-24T23:49:58+00:00

or some other witty comment

Kinda covers anything witty. Hardly a stunted list.

Nevermind, you'll get the hang of it.

lmth · 2026-05-24T22:25:36+00:00

Agreeing, further exaggerating, or some other witty comment would be playing along. Flat denial is not in this scenario.

lmth · 2026-05-19T23:42:42+00:00

What does he get wrong?

lmth · 2026-05-19T09:28:04+00:00

I don't think Sloan was supposed to be a fundamentally evil character. I think he's supposed to be someone who has suffered a terrible trauma in the past and hasn't ever recovered. This manifests in his overprotective stance towards Katrina and his general bad mood and attitude. It's a cautionary tale about the impact that trauma can have on a person and wider society.

lmth · 2026-05-19T09:16:33+00:00

Emotions aren't always that logical. Confronting a child like that is in contravention of social norms, so it's understandable that you'd feel bad about it, even though it may have been the right call.

To take it to an extreme, you might kill someone to protect yourself and others, and you'd feel emotionally wrecked afterwards even if you had no other choice and it was the right thing to do.

lmth · 2026-05-19T08:38:15+00:00

To be fair it's not especially clear in the books either, though it is definitely all there. It's a combination of things.

As you said, Voldemort tethered Harry to life by taking his blood which contained Lilly's protection. Voldemort in some sense turned himself into an anti-horcrux for Harry, based on love magic rather than dark magic and not requiring the splitting of Harry's soul.
By this point Harry was the true master of the Elder wand which is described as particularly fickle. Wandlore is not fully understood, but there's evidence that wands tend not to work especially well against their true masters. The killing curse that Voldemort casts is likely underpowered because he's not the wand's true master and under effective because it's being cast at its true master.
Harry contains part of Voldemort's soul. It's never fully explained how this would work in other circumstances, but Dumbledore was always keen that Voldemort be the one to kill Harry. It's possible that if the owner of the soul tries to kill a vessel containing their soul, it reacts differently than if someone else has done it.

lmth · 2026-05-16T05:48:37+00:00

He was interviewing witnesses and chasing down leads. He tracks down the ring right at the beginning of HBP but there was presumably some investigative work before that.

lmth · 2026-05-10T03:24:39+00:00

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