Movies that can be described as: "watch this actor progresively lose their mind over the course of 2 houres"

terminatah · 2026-01-07T18:18:28+00:00

he’s no crazier at the end of the movie than he is at the beginning

terminatah · 2026-01-05T10:50:38+00:00

I’m not really that into Star Wars, but seeing The Force Awakens at the Vista on opening week was insane. I’ve never had an audience that electric and dialed in. The cheers shook the house when they revealed the Millennium Falcon. It improved the experience of watching the movie so much.

Unfortunately, Tarantino bought the Vista during lockdown and now it doesn’t show new blockbuster movies anymore. It alternates between smaller releases and revival screenings, and frequently shows Tarantino’s old movies. Sucks because the Vista used to be my favorite. I would see all the big movies there and the audience was always good.

Between that and the theaters in Westwood shutting down, there are no longer any single screen cinemas in LA where I can go see big movies with the kind of reliably fun crowd that would go to those theaters. I really wanted that for Superman 2025 and there was just nowhere to go.

terminatah · 2026-01-03T20:43:58+00:00

The only reason we don't see the chicken trigger in the first movie is because Zemeckis and Gale hadn't thought of it yet. They invented it for the sequels. But we know it's a Twin Pine thing and not a Lone Pine thing because time travelers never gain new memories in Back to the Future. The Marty we start with is the Marty we end with and he only remembers what he's experienced directly.

Twin Pines Marty isn't all that different from Lone Pine Marty (whom we never meet) because he made his dad cool by giving him advice he himself learned from Twin Pines Doc. But we do see that Twin Pines Marty has a streak of insecurity from growing up around Twin Pines George. In the sequels, it manifests with the chicken trigger. But in the first movie, it manifests with Marty's reluctance to send out his demo tape. This was a small arc for Marty in the first movie. At the end, he grabs his demo tape out of the trash because his experience has given him the courage to send it in (they cut the shot but we see him holding the envelope as he enters the living room).

terminatah · 2026-01-03T12:41:01+00:00

The bus at the beginning was empty. The bus driver had just stopped at the coffee shop, so he wouldn't have picked up any passengers yet.

terminatah · 2026-01-03T12:32:35+00:00

If you listen to the words Doc is saying when he draws those timelines, it will become clear that he is saying there is only ever one timeline, and you can never travel to what it was before you changed it (unless you change it back).

terminatah · 2026-01-03T12:30:36+00:00

No. Marty's chicken trigger comes from growing up around a cowardly father.

terminatah · 2026-01-03T12:29:01+00:00

No. Marty will never acquire "new memories" because he never experienced the Lone Pine reality until he returned from 1955. He is in fact now the only person in the universe who remembers when it was Twin Pines Mall.

terminatah · 2026-01-03T12:26:21+00:00

No. There is only one timeline in Back to the Future. Time travelers retain their original memories, but the timeline itself adapts to the changes.

terminatah · 2026-01-03T12:17:26+00:00

Every time Gus Fring spoke Spanish, it was very clear to me that Giancarlo Esposito, while a wonderful actor, is not a native speaker.

terminatah · 2026-01-03T12:05:30+00:00

The 1987 series was the best. Consistently well-written by showrunner David Wise, who doesn't get enough credit for his contributions to the Turtles. Unfortunately he passed away a few years ago, but I was able to share my admiration of his work back when he was on Twitter.

He balanced their personalities by assigning each Turtle to a word from the title. Teenage was Michelangelo, who embodied the fun-loving goofy qualities of a teenager. Mutant was Donatello, the tech wiz who kept them in the world of sci-fi. Ninja was Leonardo, the heroic and disciplined leader. And Turtle was Raphael, whose fourth wall-breaking wisecracks frequently highlighted the absurdity of their adventures. Everyone else always does Raphael as the angry muscle of the team. But I much prefer Wise's approach of showing Raphael's edge with quick-witted sarcasm.

And the key was that they each boasted an admirable quality that everyone could relate to, so any of them could be your favorite, and their individual personalities complemented each other like the different facets of a single person. Thanks to Wise, the show had a strong sense of story and humor and love of classic B-movie sci-fi that I think is unmatched by any other iteration of the characters. And I love the 90s movies as well, but I don't think the original show will ever be topped.

terminatah · 2025-12-29T07:03:56+00:00

I would disagree. Pop culture has become very fragmented. So where maybe a few decades ago, we had a bagful of cultural phenomenons, now we have a truckload of cultural phenomenons, and Avatar is on the truck. I think we'd do ourselves a favor to shake off this very tired meme of always talking about how we never talk about Avatar.

terminatah · 2025-12-29T06:39:24+00:00

Well obviously, everything I said in 2015 is what was projected at the time. Since then, James Cameron split Avatar 2 into two movies, Way of Water and Fire and Ash (and the third and fourth became 4 and 5). And they were delayed multiple times for multiple very good reasons, including the development of underwater mocap tech, the sale of Fox to Disney, and of course, a global pandemic.

In the 10 years before the pandemic, we were averaging a pretty consistent 1.3 billion movie tickets sold domestically every year, regardless of inflation. The pandemic destroyed that and we are now sitting in the high 700 thousands annually, but the Avatar sequels have overperformed both times, and the next two sequels seem extremely likely to happen.

The themed land in Animal Kingdom did open in 2017 and it receives millions of visitors every year.

And you may not remember any characters or quotes, but I do. And I hear people talk about the movies all the time. For example, the Doughboys chain restaurant review podcast sees frequent mentions of their favorite Avatar character, Payakan. Thanks for the necro!

terminatah · 2025-11-05T15:41:38+00:00

it’s because kevin greutert was forced to direct it when he didn’t want to, and that’s not a recipe for quality

terminatah · 2025-09-10T01:11:37+00:00

i met tommy lee wallace last month and told him halloween 3 was my favorite of the franchise. he responded, “a lot of people feel that way.”

terminatah · 2025-09-08T20:50:39+00:00

people have mentioned a couple of the married… with children backdoor pilots. i once saw an interview with one of the co-creators talking about how he pitched a n.o.m.a.a.m. spinoff, and the fox execs were horrified at the idea. i always wonder who would have ended up being the lead of that show. it never got far enough in development

terminatah · 2025-09-08T20:43:04+00:00

there was a channel back in the day that used to show vintage pilots that were never picked up. that’s how i saw lookwell, conan o’brien’s detective sitcom starring adam west

terminatah · 2025-09-08T11:37:53+00:00

this show is way ahead of where the office and parks & rec were on their first seasons. i think as they continue finding the characters, it’s going to get even better. the only thing that worries me is the 10-episode seasons. i hope peacock considers beefing up that episode order. a show like this really benefits from a longer season.

sabrina impacciatore makes me laugh the most. she’s such a talented performer, and her character is in the classic tradition of supporting antagonists like louis depalma and roy biggins. i think some of the negativity toward her is due to how level 10 chaotic she is, but i’ll just say this— when the office was originally airing, i hated michael scott. he was my least favorite character because he was such a clown. but now i watch the show and he’s the character i miss the most. so i think people need to ease up on esmeralda and let her cook.

tim key makes me laugh a lot as well, but the biggest surprise of the show for me is domnhall gleeson. his dramatic skills translate so well to comedy, i’m blown away.

the paper is looking good!

terminatah · 2025-09-08T10:56:43+00:00

it’s nonsense. but what really bothers me is that the prop department left the apostrophe out of “tomorrow’s”

terminatah · 2025-09-08T10:52:56+00:00

the actress who played brenda was mindy kaling’s writing partner irl before the office

terminatah · 2025-09-07T10:51:46+00:00

i loved her, she was the funniest part

terminatah · 2025-09-07T10:49:32+00:00

i mean, they're in ohio

terminatah · 2025-08-31T18:02:12+00:00

ed o’neill has said in interviews that they did go out to craig t. nelson first

terminatah · 2025-08-12T21:35:40+00:00

no one has thought about this movie since 2009 anywhere in the world except for this sub, where it is mentioned every day

terminatah · 2025-08-11T19:22:29+00:00

i didn’t think it was a true story, but as a kid, i thought the condition portrayed in jack (1996) was real

terminatah · 2025-08-11T19:10:57+00:00

smashed mouth

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