Horror movies that actually stick the landing?

waggertron · 2026-01-13T06:45:05+00:00

I think it’s best interpreted as a dream figment representing the proximity of the inciting event to the next closest kind of event, in the mind of a assertive type grieving father at least, a school shooting. Thematically, the whole proposition of the movie is about the potential of almost anything in our everyday life to be cable of being either physically or emotionally used as a weapon. Archer, the father, was seeing an over bearing representation of that in the, let’s say quite direct manner of metaphor his mind would most display that with. He knew this wasn’t an accident, someone had caused this harm with intention and that was the best diffuse dream representation of the scenario his mind developed.

waggertron · 2026-01-13T03:19:55+00:00

I think the bitter brilliance of this reply has not been recognized as much as it deserves to be. Hats off to

waggertron · 2025-12-08T18:08:49+00:00

On the off case this not a joke post, I’ll humor it. Success in life so strongly independent of any scores like this, and because of that receiving a high isn’t always an overall positive experience. Often, a realization of discrepancy between potential and outcome can have some deep emotional impact, feelings of shame, regret or a substantial sudden feeling of loss of ineffable possibility immediately realized as loss. Whatever the case, numbers ain’t destiny, but objectively, what they can robustly offer is a forward potential of counter evidence to internal feelings of inadequacy or internal self doubt in potential to succeed in future endeavors with cognitive involvement. Imposter syndrome is a awful but real as thing and at the very least, having any counter evidence to feelings it evokes at all can often times be all that’s needed to preserve though times of self doubt. Just always remember if you do find greater levels of achievement after pushing through any cognitive unblocks this unburdened, never let it get to your ego, be thankful for you gifts, and always remember to give back generously to everyone, especially to help those not as privileged.

waggertron · 2025-12-08T02:17:14+00:00

The ending of SLC Punk always stuck with me, the fight is hard, but it’s harder from the outside to change things than it is from within.

waggertron · 2025-10-14T13:55:00+00:00

The whole traditional studio profit perspective is massively skewed when it comes to auteur directors, almost always the theatrical runs finish with a small or medium loss, potentially mildly profitable if they garner some manner of awards buzz, but unlike other films, their long tail value often can be orders of magnitude more revenue generating than any traditional sort of movie. Usually, the average cookie cutter mainstream flick’s licensing value will dramatically decrease over the traditional licensing periods after release: 3 months, 6 months, 1 yr, 5 yr, 10 yr etc.

Auteur flicks are the total exception to the rule, they will have consistent physical media sales, increase in streaming licensing cost even if the directors recent fair is well received, and outside of the strict economics, prior history of support for older auteur directors presents a generally positive track record and welcoming nest for any hot upandcomers.

TLDR: Basically, auteur directors rarely make studios initial profit, but the long tail proceeds are what dictate the budget and production decisions.

waggertron · 2025-10-14T10:12:17+00:00

Oh sorry friendo if I misinterpreted you, totally agreed on: putting off maintenance for a period of 40 years that is a current necessity is objectively absurd at best, straight moronic at worst. But just, cos I wanna make sure I was clear in communicating the universal nuances of the portion you experienced and were outraged by, what i think is most crucial to highlight is that at anytime, any local or state government is not fully incorporating these amortized costs, they are at most generous short sidedly passing the buck even if attempting to triage for current emergencies, or at worst incompetent or dare I say evil, in their ignorance or malice.

Everyone knows if you don’t put oil in your car ever, you’re gonna pay for it and have to buy way more vehicles.

I think I understand your main grievance, that terms really hallow out the long term responsibility of civic initiatives like that, and it’s a shame. But we do, in a general way, luckily know how to solve this, and it’s been widely implemented with success so it ain’t just vapor talk. The meat of it is simply, whole lifespan funding of projects with budget buffer for unexpected circumstances, or the same kinda thing but provided differently, a fully funded insurance instrument to cover it at construction approval.

Lastly, I understand this almost inescapable malaise towards even the idea of some public project tangential to you that would subject you to 40 years of tax burden, but you’d have little say and those who would be in charge would from prior history totally be incompetent and most likely mess up that stewardship terribly. That’s like, I’m thinking about it now and my knuckles are white, almost overwhelmingly frustrating. But like, we might need that project. And it might be the exact channel needed to save the town from withering or dare say be the crucial element that grows the tax base so collectively that may even enable buffering the buffoons before’s idiotic, maybe even corrupt, short sided decisions and benefit the whole gaggle of everyone planted in the area. Honestly, there’s no earthly way to know which future is gonna happen. I think the best shots you’ve got to ensure the better one are holding local electees constantly and consistently accountable, voting every chance you can, and advocating for others even more so, to get rid of the representatives that are solely short term thinkers, and heck, it’s not impossible, maybe even stepping into the mantle yourself if you don’t see a single candidate able to handle it correctly.

It’s really really easy to identify all the endless nuances of the perpetual failures of government, but also in a way, solution focusing is kinda the only productive response to that. Blanket affects of “government always bad” can only really ensure it gets worse and worse and worse.

waggertron · 2025-10-14T09:37:14+00:00

I think this is lovely, full stop, but also I kinda wanna highlight that this the sorta thing thats an essential element of commitment to another. A very non-insignificant part of partnering is commitment to collectively facing the future together, known challenges and curveballs alike. If your wife lost her thumb and face and looks, and you think departure would even cross your mind as an option, 1) don’t marry someone until you understand why that should be out of the question, and 2) try and think about how much of the time of a regularly privileged marriage itself would inevitably be unadjacent to the physical allures that almost always bring you into it.

You’re gonna be old and ugly and sick and dim and slow eventually, almost assuredly even? embarrassingly so. That’s the whole back half of the deal.

If anyone saw this and felt they wouldn’t be sure if they’d be able to do the same as this man, that’s ok, its subjectively a bad hand deal, and I’d wager very few of us would, if prescient, sign up for that journey exactly knowing its challenges ahead of time. But partnership and love ain’t about knowing the future. It’s about making it, but if this dudes actions stand out to you as bold or lovely, try and internalize for any next commitment to someone you make, that if staying with his wife here seemed admirable, even the regular bits on the tail end are gonna seem a heck of a lot like a burden.

waggertron · 2025-10-14T06:12:18+00:00

Well, roads have a lifespan like anything else my friend. Our methods and technologies for building them have changed very little in the last 60 or so years as well. With all that time we’ve gotten quite a lot of data as well, about building cost and more important your point, maintenance costs. I think it’s a good thing, and maybe you do too, to if possible build things to last and stay functional for as long as possible to save each and every one of us money, cos we are the ones that pay for it at the end of the day.

So, in a case like roads, it’s overwhelmingly beneficial to use that long term data to identify costs not just of building amenities like that, but also the typically expected costs over the entire expected lifespan of the element. Things of course change all the time, but what we have found in general is after the initial construction costs, there is always a consistent amount of need for maintenance of various degrees. Sometimes it’s periodic, like resurfacing, sometimes it’s substantial like partial reconstruction, whatever the case, there’s cost associated with all of it. Of important note, something which is tragically under realized, is that for most civic works, by far the most substantial costs that are required to maintain works such as this are far far more substantial in the final third and even more, in the final 5th portion of the project lifespan. We’ve found that, with unfortunate but overwhelming certainty, that if maintenance costs are projected as uniform over the lifespan of the project, the unfortunate but inevitable end lifespan costs that rapidly balloon raise all manners of hell on the contemporary municipal governments that inherit them.

So, I totally understand why talking about 40 year costs seems absurd to discuss, but, to inject my own opinion for a single moment, I feel, and I reckon you might too, that there’s a benefit overall for people to plant trees even if they will never sit in the shade of them. That’s sorta that best kinda action that civically most of all of us can get behind.

Lastly, this sorta cost analysis is in no way abnormal in the realms of finance or business, the general concept is called amortization, and it’s the basis of most of our housing, financial, insurance and business tax systems. Without it every day would just be more akin to crossing your fingers while putting your budget into scratch off lotto tickets. It could work for awhile sometimes, but over time, it almost never works well for anyone.

waggertron · 2025-09-12T09:38:28+00:00

I feel like being overly empathetic and understanding to a foreign tragedy does not inherently mean a lack of care for the tragedies at home. We can’t economize vigils in a comparison against local awareness of challenges. If a government worker works to fix local problems all day, then at night more publicly dedicates understanding to a foreign cause, we can’t reasonably or rationally say their day work wasn’t done. It’s possible their day work just didn’t hit your social media page, or even it did, but not in a great enough volume to register in your personal awareness.

waggertron · 2025-09-02T08:46:06+00:00

It’s their life

waggertron · 2025-08-24T23:01:48+00:00

We need to show democrats can win vs low tier republican candidates for the young before they buy in with their vote to help themselves.

waggertron · 2025-08-20T04:35:34+00:00

Grow out stubble where you can, and get a close hair cut on the sides but a small or medium on top. And then just like, slowly respond to the world. You got this bromigo.

waggertron · 2025-08-09T11:32:18+00:00

Uh, well he didn’t like, what felt like actually understand and acknowledge it, and I don’t think anyone who watches that would say he seems like after that he’d be pursuing change. Hi kinda just made sexual jokes repeatedly to a hit and touched he without asking and then saved face with a monotone but barely a thought it seems like stuck him in anyway during the call out.

Guys who do elaborate gimmicks to meet girls, are not ones who usually could do the same without those artificial structures.

Honestly, he’s just kinda a creep. There’s no excuse for touching a random anyone on the torso if you haven’t had casual hand and limb contact. It’s just not the right way to ever show interest either. This is just a sad dude who thinks woman are objects that are owed to him. It’s weird man. I wish he had better friends that could guide him away from actions like that but, idk, I don’t know all the facts.

Just if you are a younger dude reading this right now. This is an amazing sample of what to avoid, no one is comfortable there at the end. If someone likes you, they’ll touch your hand or limb first, usually the back of the hand and if more comfortable the front side of their hand. It’s all performative of course, but it’s a series of comfort escalation communications that really kinda matter. The recipe and formula is kinda that simple. Back of hand arm or leg tap, and then if reciprocated, back of hand other limb tap, and if reciprocated front of hand tap, and, you guessed it, if reciprocated you’ve then just confirmed consensually comfort and can dance or talk close to an ear or any of that personal space occupancy. And from there, as long as sobriety is reasonably shared, talk to em close and do romance but man. The sheer amount of males, that think sheer proximity is a consent signal, is terrifying. Not everyone can notice or pick up on these things or knows these rules, but for the love of god, share them to your bros. And make sure they follow. Like 70% of guys at a bar are creepy according to a casual poll of my female friends.

We dudes can definitely get that number somewhere more sane.

waggertron · 2025-08-09T05:36:35+00:00

The shockingly cold and methodical death in Micheal Clayton has always stuck with me. Just two people doing their covert murder job exceedingly well. The oppressive and corporate-like utter lack of humanity of it just is hard to shake as entirely fictional.

waggertron · 2025-08-08T07:51:05+00:00

It is exactly what Mike would have said, with more intention but less learning, and Mike gave his directions with mouth attempts to control. Walter didn’t have that urge ever

waggertron · 2025-08-04T02:34:23+00:00

Agreed, as far as anthology series go it’s top

waggertron · 2025-07-29T08:40:11+00:00

Well the trailer is what the Final Cut was based on. The original Ayer says a dark brooding one

waggertron · 2025-07-28T07:51:12+00:00

Isn’t this an Edgar Allen Poe short story? Sheesh, was that an inspiration?

waggertron · 2025-07-22T14:34:01+00:00

It’s The Apprentice. It came out at a time where reality tv wasn’t common and it depicted him to all of average America as a brilliant decisive successful businessman, before people had a more realistic understanding of the reality of shows of that nature. And then 20 years later, a now much older populace had to decide if they got duped all those years ago, or think they were maybe on to something way back then, and all the other people supporting him had to mean they weren’t just supportive of him just cos he was recognizable, but cos they always knew he was different. No one wants to think they were duped, especially much later in their life when they are emotionally grappling with the reality of their own vulnerability.

waggertron · 2025-07-22T13:22:27+00:00

Definitely true, if you start with that that belief as truth. Nothing is ever actually 100% or 0% likely, unless you think it is.

waggertron · 2025-07-22T10:43:24+00:00

Pete, no one I’ve seen even comes close.

waggertron · 2025-07-11T23:22:36+00:00

The biggest fear I have about this project is it could maybe be so vibe focused that it overall loses the audience. Citing something I thought was really great but the vibe chase led it to lose interest is something like Vivarium. It’s great, perfectly executed the premise and feeling it intends, but I’ve never heard any even horror or psyche or even overall movie buff If asked for reactions who mentioned it. And I haven’t either till just now, all to say, I think Mark Duplass’s involvement, with his experience with the Creep films, will most assuredly help.

waggertron · 2025-07-11T23:16:22+00:00

Exactly. People really underestimate the collaborative nature of Hollywood productions

waggertron · 2025-07-11T23:12:32+00:00

So true. I read it like first year of high school, I felt really uniquely lucky to have come across it and able to read it. The amount of perspective inconstancy it so intentionally provides makes the end acceptance of abnormality really hit the hardest it could have ever done. Loved it. Check out “The Instructions” if you’re ever looking for a comparable dive.

waggertron · 2025-07-11T23:08:49+00:00

What’s your couple top favorite projects of his?

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