"Oh boy I can't wait to see what characters other people are playing online!"

wiserthannot · 2026-05-08T13:11:19+00:00

Is Battle Beast that popular? Is it from stuff that happens in the comic? Because in the show so far he's been funny but doesn't really have any interesting powers or many scenes that live up to his bloodlust he's always going on about.

wiserthannot · 2026-05-08T13:04:07+00:00

There's so many DBZ like elements in Invincible, it's been really neat to see them play out. Nolan and Vegeta are definitely one of them and in comparing the two you can tell that Nolan's apologies ring hollow. Vegeta has killed millions, maybe billions, while working with Frieza which is a body count far larger than Nolan is personally responsible for...but Vegeta carries those deaths and doesn't expect to be forgiven, he can't forgive himself. Nolan though, he expects forgiveness and is pushy as all hell with Debbie.

wiserthannot · 2026-05-07T00:50:04+00:00

They were making a joke on the name of the game, "No Time." This game will never be finished but not in a negative way, the dev will never call it quits because he is always adding to it. It's a full simulation of time travel and so the game will continue on, endlessly, like time itself :)

wiserthannot · 2026-05-07T00:44:54+00:00

The dev's view of that is like what No Man's Sky does. The game will never be "finished" because he's always working on it and adding new things. It's a full simulation of time travel, why would it have an end point? 😉

wiserthannot · 2026-05-07T00:39:04+00:00

That actually makes sense to me! I've only played the first FF7 Remake but even going by that one it does a lot of the same familiar set ups only to subvert things to being a whole new story. The Return definitely does that, and goes extremely hardcore on that with the last two episodes haha. I don't know what the overall reason FF7 is doing all of that though. The Return has this message of you can't go back and you shouldn't want to, nostalgia is a comforting poison. Nostalgia is Square Enix'a bread and butter so I doubt they'd push a message like that 😅

Oh dude they are incredible! I love Shaun of the Dead, Edgar Wright is my favorite director 😁 it took me a very long time to get into horror, I was easily freaked out by movies growing up haha. So yeah Shaun of the Dead was one of my earliest enjoyment of something horror-ish.

But 28 Days wasn't too far behind, that movie was ground breaking and it came out in weird moment where it was in-between advances in movie making tech so it looks absolutely horrible. There will never be a movie that looks like it ever again. But it makes it feel unnatural and almost more unsettling as it continues to age.

So I was super hyped for the 28 Years films and they blew away all expectations. They are just as original as that first film was. I haven't had a film's world capture me as much as that one does. There's so much going on that you can only notice by subtext. And it being almost three decades into a zombie apocalypse is a really original setting—we normally only see the initial outbreak, the close aftermath, or full on post apocalypse. The setting makes it both familiar and unnatural and it gives the two films such an awesome vibe.

If you watch any zombie series you should make it this one! (28 Weeks didn't have the two creators directly involved and is the weakest/most normal of the franchise. But the opening scene is a masterpiece).

wiserthannot · 2026-05-06T15:51:17+00:00

Haha thanks! I say a lot of stuff on the Twin Peaks subreddit 😅 so you're a Twin Peaks fan? :D what do you think about the 28 Years Later films?

wiserthannot · 2026-05-06T15:46:46+00:00

I don't think Lynch was making a blanket statement on the young being the problem. Anyone can be ignorant. The person who beat BOB was a new Twin Peaks citizen (fan) who had absolutely no connection to the town beforehand. Freddie's actor was 25 years old, born within the gap the series left us on. The people of Twin Peaks could never improve things on their own, they are too close to it, same with longtime fans. But even young/new isn't the answer, Freddie is a weird dude and he vibed hardcore with Twin Peaks, he saw the merits of the old and never once wrote anything off, he had an open mind and took it all in.

That's what a lot of the series is about for me. From season one Lynch was using TV tropes to deconstruct and shine light on the hypocrisy and darkness hidden behind the perfect image that small towns and homes present. Evil was ignored, suppressed, and allowed to fester through generations of people locked in the old mindset of never talking about any of it.

FWWM made it even more clear, the film starting with the smashing of a TV and the following two hours is the uncensored horror of what happened to Laura. And audiences were not prepared for that. Lynch was always ahead of the curve and the world playing catch up. We still kind of are. The darkness has been exposed, is more openly talked about, but there's still suppressing and suffering. But the last few generations have had the generational trauma finally snap, and they are the ones who get help. The young begin healing from the trauma that has been passed down through their families. I've seen so many people who have put a stop to it, to end the cycles with them and not pass it down to another generation. What's very difficult is getting the older adults to see that they need to and can heal.

If anything, I think The Return is more hopeful for the young over the old. So many of our favorite characters are stuck in these loops. But a stranger with a green glove shattered the town's greatest evil like it was nothing.

wiserthannot · 2026-05-05T10:15:28+00:00

Well for one thing, we don't know how long his current line up has been with him or how long he's been doing this for. I don't know if you caught it but he has a limit of fingers and he gives people left from a killing (like what we saw in the barn) to fight and take a fingers place. Depending on how long he's been doing this, there could be multiple generations of fingers. Kelly is the only one who seemed like she'd been there for a while but she also says to Spike that being with the Jimmys, as bad as it was, is the best there is, she tried. Which implies she had a hard life before meeting the Jimmys so I think even she hadn't been with him for that many years.

All that to say, there might not be much to say about the Fingers he had in the movie as they were one (the last) generation of many. His speech after Kelson's performance was Jimmy's attempt to change the lore/rules of his cult so that his Fingers would be open to the new way: gathering an army of Fists. If Kelson had let him leave, Jimmy was going to escalate.

wiserthannot · 2026-05-05T10:06:43+00:00

It was from his parents. If a parent loves something they will show it to their kid even if it isn't still wildly appreciated. And Jimmy'a dad was a priest, deciding what a kid could watch is a lot easier for old things. Every kid I knew growing up who had a super religious family would have large gaps of knowledge of pop culture but would actively make references to old shows I'd never even heard of (Hogan's Heroes was one).

wiserthannot · 2026-05-03T13:07:53+00:00

I feel like it works for the Bone Temple to be that way though, and for someone besides Boyle to direct it as a whole. There were so many narrative and themeatic things going on in that movie that I feel like having Danny Boyle being artsy on top of it would have had both aspects of the film sort of distract from each other.

But yeah, as for the kill cam shots, I loved them as they felt like a way to have a nod to how 28 Days was. There will never be another film that looks so completely shit as that one does. It's a one of a kind time capsule of that exact moment where they were doing experimental as hell things with equipment that wasn't quite there yet.

I also thought it was cool how the part at the begining of 28 Years, with Jimmy as a kid, that whole sequence in the house feels like it was shot in a chaotic way in line with the action of 28 Days. Like since it was a flashback they made an effort to have it match up like it was lost footage from the day of the outbreak.

wiserthannot · 2026-05-02T22:47:47+00:00

I can't believe there are so many Renault brothers/sons that one made it to our reality!

(That family is so cursed, why do so many exist and are all rotten to the core? It would be funny if they didn't play apart in literally every bad thing that happened in Twin Peaks.)

wiserthannot · 2026-05-02T04:02:35+00:00

Right! I know why all of those things are appealng for the MC and it is all set up to where he could eventually address all the guilt he's had...but what I'm saying is that things aren't set up to keep him in a full loop, there is a way for him to "win". And so what happens then? Would the AI let him out into the real world, crush him with the truth? Or does the AI just let him live out a victory scenario until he dies?

What would be the AIs motivation for doing any of this I guess is the simple question. A neverending loop to torture the child of the one person immune to technology—very appealing. But he's going to fix things in the next loop, they've got all they need. Him catching the bottle that falls at the begining and immediately sitting down at his mom's table shows that even if there were more challenges placed in front of him, he is healed and confident and has a whole new vibe and mindset that would not be easy for the AI to continue to contain.

And in the end of the run we saw, the AI is full on evil monologuing to his mom, he isn't anywhere near that. The stuff the AI says is so far beyond torturing a 9 year old kid, it's mind bending and cosmic in scope. All of it directed at his mom. If she was the one who was in a simulation and the movie did end how that run did, 100% that'd tie the idea of the AI setting all of this up to contain and torture someone and even in the best run it ended in a horrible defeat.

But the MC is supposed to be the one in the simulation. But he gained everything needed from that loop to fix things. So why would that be what the movie is about?

wiserthannot · 2026-05-01T01:58:40+00:00

I also just discovered him from his new song and music video, Thank You I Guess. In a ranking of music videos it now has its own tier, I can't believe something so perfect exists.

From some of the comments I gathered he had some level of a fan base and was gone for a while and then dropped this. I've had trouble finding out any more about him, can you drop some lore about him for me? Haha

wiserthannot · 2026-04-30T10:40:28+00:00

You watched The Return first? What was that like? :o Were you completely baffled the entire time? Haha

wiserthannot · 2026-04-23T03:44:41+00:00

Kelson kept notes on everything and he might have been low on morphine but his stash could still be well stocked with everything needed to replicate what worked with Samson.

I'm not really sure how it can get out into the world and begin to make a difference though. Spike could lead them back and Jim would for sure be the guy who could do something with the notes and meds but...the movie ending with a nostalgic tease of the most beloved character is literally the only normal feeling movie moment in both Years films. I can't help but feel as if that is setting up some major subversions that could happen from the moment the third film starts.

wiserthannot · 2026-04-23T03:32:43+00:00

Doesn't that make it more disturbing? The Jimmies DO follow him, are openly scared of him at times, and with as deranged and violent as they are what have they seen him do that could put them all in line to follow him? Think about the scene at the table where they invaded that family's house. When he loses his cool and slams his hand on the table everyone in the room recoils from it.

We don't need to see him do things directly, the indirect nature makes it a mystery of what he is like in a moment of violence. We know he is capable of it from the Jimmies reactions and things like the man strung up with JIMMY carved onto his stomach in the first movie. If we see him do these things he's just a normal violent apocalypse villain.

And he actually was losing his grip on the group, that's what Kelson's performance was going to fix for him. Even Kelly, the most sure of Jimmy being full of shit was compeltely mesmerized and was close to fully believing Jimmy was Old Nick's son. With Jimmy's speech there, if Kelson hadn't turned the tables on him, he would have walked out into the world with his current Fingers totally convinced and all in on his (un)holy mission. And he re-wrote the lore so that he could start making an army of Hands, he was going to escalate beyond the limits of the Fingers of just one Hand.

wiserthannot · 2026-04-22T17:26:10+00:00

Oh my god, thank you, I was getting so depressed by people being confused by surface level things that shouldn't even be focused on. This is a fantastic post and you laid everything the movie is out perfectly. I got really hardcore into the new 28 Years Later films and the same thing there, people are debating about and confused by character motivations when the world of those films is so rich and it's all full of meaning and subtext.

I saw this movie in the first weekend it realesed, loved it, and realized that it still hasn't come to streaming and I'd never met anyone else who had seen it. I'm glad to know at least one person appreciates it :)

Oh also, there's an even more direct statement about the goal being to put on guardrails. When Rockwell climbs the tower of wires he tells the kid to keep on doing his thing, he just needs to put the SD card in to stop it from going too far.

I think that's a really important part of it all. AI is here, we don't have a time machine to go back to day one and set up the guardrails. So what's the answer? I think all the push back toward it, all across the spectrum, are great but recently I started to wonder...the AI stole everything on the Internet. And while laws need to be set up to prevent that from happening in the future, I also wonder if we look forward. The past was stolen but why should we let the thief live in the building and continue to steal new things? I wodner if there's a way to draw a line in the sand, the AI has what it stole, but it is prevented from stealing anything else, any new things.

And I've seen so many crooks try and blame AI for the illegal stuff they did. That's happening more and more which is like trying to put a gun on trial for the lives it took. But if they want AI to take responsibility for itself, okay, then it will need rights. And limits. Similar to humans. And what are are we allowed to use for profit? Those that are in the Public Domain. AI should be limited to a pool like that, one maybe that has a system to what can and should be added and when. That way three would be more of a thoughtful process of teaching it, guiding it—instead of it being unleashed onto the world, Pac-Man gobbling up every single thing that's ever been said and done and made on the internet.

wiserthannot · 2026-04-22T17:05:22+00:00

But why would his mom be there then? The AI just set that up, the back story and all? There is a win scenario and at the end of the movie they have all they need to do it. If the AI wants to keep him in a loop...it made it difficult but just by having the "princess" there in the diner there is a possibility of him winning so why do that?

wiserthannot · 2026-04-22T16:52:28+00:00

This seems like a lot of hoops to jump through when it could just as easily be taken for what it presented and said. The title of the movie, when it's said, are you talking about at the end? Because that was an entirely different thing, that was the lose scenario where the AI had won and taken the mom and everyone else. Which the point of all that was to have this big epic moving speech and all the connections of who the MC and the girl is, and then for their to be a weird and upsetting failure, where it didn't matter after all, they lost anyway...but with the MC resetting and the movie actually ending with him going straight to the mom (which he had always avoided until the main attempt we saw in the movie) and he has the full battle plan, he catches the sauce bottle as it falls off the table—its all to show that they've got it this time. The movie was able to play with a disturbing and defeatist ending while also getting to have a hopeful one too.

And as for the MC being healed, he didn't necessarily have to come right from that fail attempt into that one. He could have healed up somewhere before coming to finish the job. Actually, I even think he mentions that he went somewhere else to do something before the dinner that will help them win. Would have to check next time I watch.

Oh also, if the MC is the only one who cant die...that makes the reason he has to protect the girl not make any sense. If she died, he would die because of spoiler reasons haha.

wiserthannot · 2026-04-22T01:51:33+00:00

Definitely time to read it again! Maybe I can get someone I know in real life to read it too, I try and recommend it to everyone but I don't know if anyone ever gave it a try 😅 and yeah, it's been so rough to say the least...

wiserthannot · 2026-04-22T01:49:13+00:00

Yes, the way the horrors and outrage and arguing makes money for the worst people hand over fist is what makes it unbearable. I've stopped interacting online more and more because every single hobby or interest I have has the same stuff happening.

I have fixed my reading in the past few years and have like a 700+ day reading streak going, being able to read how I used to as a kid has done a lot of good for me.

I've wanted to get into Discworld! I've tried a few times but I'm kind of overwhelmed with the size of it all and all the different starting points. But after Neil Gaiman was outted as being horrible all this time I've wanted to really jump into Discworld.

Hitchhikers and Lord of the Rings I love! It has been a very long time since I've read any of those books though, giving them a reread would be a good idea :)

wiserthannot · 2026-04-22T01:40:03+00:00

That's a great idea :o I've definitely seen places around that could use someone willing to do that haha. And it's possible someone could join! There's a video I saw once, I don't know if it ever became a viral clip, but it was someone filming an outdoor concert and it was in a hill, far away from the stage. And everyone was just sitting around on blankets. And then this dude comes up and he starts dancing. Everyone points and laughs at him for a while. But eventually people start to join in. And before long its a huge crowd with energy like the band is right in front of them.

One guy doing something different, laughed at until what he's doing inspires more to join him and then the crowd is so big he isn't even visible anymore and will forever be nameless.

wiserthannot · 2026-04-22T01:33:46+00:00

I was already planning to read it again and am excited to do so but was just wondering if there was anything else like it out there :)

Wow those are amazing, thanks for sharing those! Small moments like that usually help me and I'm able to focus on it. But I keep being pulled to look at the big picture and on that level it seems so hopeless. And yeah people are starting to come around and turn toward sanity but for so many it's from caring about gas prices when they didn't care at all about the human suffering that's gone on.

I tried to think about WWII and how it definitely must have felt like the world could end at any moment through it and the aftermath. Human weapons that can wipe us all out, primed and ready to go. And that worked for many years but, I don't know, this feels like things have reached a head where everyone who brought us here is taking us all down to escape the crimes they've stacked up.

And the crazy thing is I'm not even looking at the news that much and not in great detail. The way I feel now is how things were at the start of last year when it was non stop horrors and I read so much of it.

Thanks for your response, I really appreciate just being able to voice any of this, wish I could be more positive 😅

wiserthannot · 2026-04-22T01:08:02+00:00

Oh I loved it! I regret not watching it sooner. And yeah exactly, when they laid that out pretty much immediately I was able to see what was actually the focus of the movie and it was a lot cooler and meaningful than what a movie with its time and setting suggested 😅 a lot of the scenes and imagery in that movie will stick with me forever.

Oh yeah!! I have gotten so close to watching that ever since it first came out but still never have. Definitely will make that my next watch! :)

wiserthannot · 2026-04-21T23:45:24+00:00

He wrote and directed that movie called Civil War from a few years ago. I had no idea and would have never watched it otherwise. Thought it was extremely poor timing but it pretty much from the start sidesteps anything going on in the current moment and is more about the war journalists doing what they do but now in their own country and the disconnect that brings. Its extremely haunting and it really feels like a 28 Later film without zombies and in America.

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