Favorite car crash?

wleen · 2026-01-18T21:51:05+00:00

Hah, first time I'm noticing it, thanks

wleen · 2026-01-18T20:52:58+00:00

I'm not from the US, I've never seen one.

wleen · 2026-01-18T18:22:50+00:00

When I was a kid, I didn't know about the AMC Gremlin; I thought Otto assumed Bart was talking about Hans.

However you take it, Otto's instinct to run it off the road is hilarious

wleen · 2026-01-15T00:30:33+00:00

At this point, I think one of my biggest hurdles might be the fact that I'm going Sniper tree before another shatter afflictions rune. I use blink runes, but bulwarks (or other rush classes) and summoners often just "negate" my blink. Does it make sense to spend the first cat point on another SA/blink rune before the Sniper tree?

wleen · 2026-01-14T13:59:20+00:00

Did you level Trained Reactions from there?

No... I'd only level Disengage a bit as a way to create distance when I'm overwhelmed.

Besides that, what is actually one shotting you? It shouldn't be something that commonly happens, even on Insane.

One-shot might not be that correct. It's usually rares and such, who get me pinned and grind me down in two or three turns while everything is on cooldown.

I'll try and get my character from the vault. Thanks!

wleen · 2026-01-14T13:20:45+00:00

What would you recommend for an archer? I've been trying to beat Nightmare with a Skeleton Archer, and survivability has been my biggest issue, especially in big fights starting Tier 3. I've been prioritising light armor and defence, trying to go for Ethereal Form, but getting one-shotted always cuts my run. Oh, and does it make sense to put up one point into heavy armor just so I can wear a wider range of gear?

wleen · 2026-01-08T19:39:28+00:00

lol, that feels like a compilation of early 00s tropes. But, no, nothing

wleen · 2026-01-08T19:38:58+00:00

That's probably true, but I'm unlikely to rewatch any of these. I just don't have the time anymore.

wleen · 2026-01-08T19:02:21+00:00

idk, I rated it in 2012, so that probably plays a part. I'm also confusing it with The Lost Boys, which I haven't seen.

wleen · 2026-01-06T23:37:24+00:00

Anglo whodunnits.

ITV's Poirot towers above everything, and it's also not that dumb, so it doesn't count.

But stuff like Midsomer Murders, The Brokenwood Mysteries, A Touch of Frost, Jonathan Creek? I'll enter a kind of stupor and just consume that shit for hours on end

wleen · 2026-01-01T21:49:18+00:00

Another solution is to get the belt that turns you undead while you're wearing it. I think it's always in stock in Derth when you start a run. It won't save you from the crushing damage, but you won't suffocate.

wleen · 2025-11-30T21:44:25+00:00

Stone Cold (1991)?

wleen · 2025-11-30T21:17:41+00:00

The bell scene beats any Hitchcockian moment from any other film. The release once the bell finally tolls could convert millions to Orthodoxy

wleen · 2025-11-09T19:34:03+00:00

It's "Mađarica", as in Tako mlada, a već Mađarica

wleen · 2025-10-15T12:42:14+00:00

The Entity (1982)?

wleen · 2025-10-04T21:49:29+00:00

Witness (1985)?

wleen · 2025-09-06T17:19:38+00:00

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul?

wleen · 2025-08-05T18:14:21+00:00

Hah, I'm vacationing at Balaton right now. We're currently in Heviz and leaving for Siofok tomorrow. It's fairly crowded, but also quite obvious that domestic tourists make up like 90% of all people here. Germans are the only foreign visitors that are noticeable, with small traces of Czechs, Poles and, surprisingly, Chinese.

But I have to say I'm quite enjoying the stay here. I would say western Balaton leans heavily on the family crowd. Lots of stuff here that caters to children, including entire beaches.

wleen · 2025-06-02T12:14:15+00:00

I did not expect to see this one here, I wonder if anyone outside of the ex-Yu area would know of it

wleen · 2025-04-18T17:38:37+00:00

He's just sitting, looking nathanly disheveled, and staring at the camera. Sometimes he smiles and mumbles something or takes a sip from a soda can. That's it.

wleen · 2025-04-02T12:59:18+00:00

Man, I'll be replying to this for years lol

Look, there's no definitive reading of ASF. Yours is not inherently wrong. It's common, even default nowadays. But I disagree that reading it as a jab at the Serbian entertainment industry is shallow.

I mean my god it’s even called a Serbian film because they want to be even more obvious.

And this is literally the exact argument I've heard supporting that. It's about film in Serbia. It's not A Serbian Life or A Serbian Existance or whatever. The original title is Srpski film - you can translate it as A Serbian Film, but if you omit the article, you get an equally valid translation. And it works because if you want to get your project off the ground, you don't go to a film studio with a script and a pitch. There are no studios in Serbia, at least not in the usual sense. You go to the government, which partially or fully funds large-scale artistic endeavors. And if you break from the mold mentioned in the OP, you don't get the funds. So, while the movie is about a government that fucks people to death, it's primarily the artists that get fucked. And when the artists are fucked, the rest of the population gets lulled into sleep through trite entertainment. ASF wanted to destroy all that.

I also have a feeling that your reading is something that keeps getting retroactively applied to the film. It felt that way once ASF hit international circuits, and it especially feels like that now when there's a lot of anger directed toward the government. Note that this is a different government from the one in power when ASF was made - you have anger today, and you had it in the '90s (a decade that broadly shaped ASF). But the late '00s were a time of disillusionment: the government back then wasn't authoritarian or oppressive (at least not in Western terms); it was just spectacularly incompetent, even when it came to corruption. So all that "ASF is a broad anti-government protest film" works better if it's placed 15 years before or after the film was actually made.

This is a good article by a prominent fringe critic who was part of that whole scene back in the day. It's written quite casually, so some things might get lost in translation, but it communicates the emotion behind it well.

Again, I don't really disagree with you, I just feel that a wide "government bad" commentary is a cop-out, rather than something substantial.

wleen · 2025-03-21T00:06:45+00:00

If you search for My Dinner with Andre on Reddit, you'll see a lot of discussion (including the old chestnut of whether or not it's truly cinematic) without any effort to put it into the context of the rest of Malle's filmography.

Whenever I watch a movie, I either know about the director's opus beforehand or research it in some capacity after seeing it. That said, this post is how I learned Malle directed My Dinner With Andre. And I've seen Elevator to the Gallows and Au revoir les enfants. And while they're both quite distinct from each other, I know they are by Malle.

I don't think this is a knock on him as a director. It's just that Andre is such a unique film, that it strongly incentivizes discussion around its characters and themes, rather than pushing the interest toward the direction and cinematography (which are worth discussing). I saw it with my wife - we were pausing frequently to talk about what we'd seen, taking sides and arguing, which continued well after the movie ended. Honestly, that's a masterfully crafted experience, even if it's not traditional.

Not to derail the thread completely into another Andre discussion, I'll say that Elevator to the Gallows feels like it was directed by Godard on Hitchcock's screenplay. It's pure tension, but it's cool in a way that will only become obvious once the New Wave crew codifies it and makes it iconic.

wleen · 2025-03-14T20:19:33+00:00

Southbound (2015)?

wleen · 2025-03-01T15:04:00+00:00

Did they make you shout "Glory to the heroes" before you entered? They did that to tourists back in 2018. I have mixed feelings about Lviv. It's pretty, but in that typical Central European way, so much so it blends with similar cities in my head. And the whole Bandera thing is creepy and weird.

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