exert positive control over things you can control

Came here to say this exact thing. Getting the initial drive to get up and do something can be hard, but taking charge on something is an effective cure to> feeling helpless on what you can’t

I think the mundane perspective and ordinary characters were meant to ground the movie. Most kaiju movies follow elite scientists or squads of soldiers so it’s a bit easier to relate to regular people just bumbling around (and a lot cheaper to film).

See, this is what got me into the theater for Cloverfield, I wanted this movie. It’s a bummer I got it in the form of some particularly jittery found footage. I was hoping for something more akin to those goofy disaster movies, but the disaster is a kaiju; not just in tone, but in how it was shot. As you say, some more spectacle would have gone a long way. That, or to really drill down and get into the “human horror” aspect and maybe make the military/authority figures more antagonistic.

All in all, I guess I’m glad Cloverfield succeeded despite my personal feelings because we got 10 Cloverfield Lane which, while not without problems of its own, I enjoyed much more

“Wolves of Chernobyl” is a song by Municipal Waste, already

but what a way to go, huh? “torn apart by mutant wolves” is a pretty metal death

Other users may know this from youtube as the gay screaming cowboy video

Skip to 2:17 for the part you all remember

Seconding an electric kettle, even a cheap one was a game changer over not having one at all. Crazy how 99.99% of people I know as an American don’t own one

Comrade 🤝

The Gaunt’s Ghosts Warhammer 40,000 stories.

If I were allowed some creative direction, I would specify that unless it was there in the source material there will be zero scenes of people just explaining shit instead of showing it

it sounds like We Need to Talk About Kevin

Unrelated to much in the way of the article, but the middle tier of anime poisoned with cubism actually looks sorta cool

For real, this. The remake was bad? Oh no, good thing the original is probably still very accessible over multiple platforms these days.

You ask me, the problem with remakes is that the industry isn’t focusing on games that aren’t as easily available and could genuinely benefit a lot from a facelift and some tweaks under the hood. Stuff like Parasite Eve, where the original media also feels sort of timely or relevant.

Just name your kids after your richest favorite relatives and wait for that sweet sweet inheritance dosh to come your way

Someone turn on the batsignal fr

I was wondering if I’d see another agoraphobe in here

I don’t really have anything else to add, been diagnosed for years and still workingonit

DENNAL PLAN

Upvoted for my man Thirlwell 🤘

Been told almost verbatim the same thing, no idea what it means either. Friend in question said they knew me for years before they were able to notice it.

Not the person you’re responding to, but I’d thank any given dog before I thanked any given god, so why not

I see a ton of people shitting on VR because they get sick, saying that it’s just a gimmick and it’ll pass.

And that’s such a weird take for them to have, which I have also seen. I get sick real easy from VR and it doesn’t make me mad at VR, it bums me out that I’ll have to wait for something slightly more accommodating to come out first.

These revisionist bastards will never take our true history from us, this is how the skeleton wars begin