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What amazing post credit scenes were we robbed of as a culture, if every movie had to end with one that lead into the next movie in director’s career?
I’ve been thinking about how weird it would be if every movie was contractually obligated to end with an MCU-style post-credit scene teasing the next movie in the director’s career. Not the next sequel or some shared universe, I mean the next actual entry in their filmography. It feels like there are some incredible missed opportunities here. Imagine the end of The Straight Story revealing a severed ear in the grass to tease Mulholland Drive. John Waters would have to end Hairspray with a leather-jacketed delinquent rolling into Baltimore to tease Cry-Baby, or after the quiet final shot of Nomadland, Chloé Zhao would have to reveal a giant Celestial emerging from the clouds to tee up Eternals. We, as a people, were robbed of all-time great stingers! What are the best ones you can think of?
u/LowerStranger2996 — 10 days ago
▲ 1 r/loanhelp_
$700, repay $350 on (6/27,2026) and other $350 on (7|04/26), through bank transfer or chime, loan for some unexpected bills [LOAN REQ]
I'm in a really difficult spot and hoping someone might be willing to help with a short-term loan via bank transfer. I was recently hit with a sudden layoff at work and it completely threw my finances off. I've already applied for
unemployment, but from what I've been told and researched, it's going to take too long to arrive to help with my upcoming bills. My final paycheck is also smaller than expected and unfortunately won't be enough to cover everything.
The good news is that I do have a new job lined up that starts at the end of this month, so this isn't a long-term situation. I'm just trying to make it through the next few weeks and keep up with essentials until I receive my first paycheck.
If anyone is willing to consider helping, I'd be incredibly grateful and happy to discuss repayment details privately, and I can provide whatever reasonable information is needed to verify my situation. Thank you for taking the time to read this, and l appreciate any consideration or advice. It's been a stressful week, but I'm trying my best to stay afloat until I can get back on my feet.
u/LowerStranger2996 — 14 days ago
▲ 0 r/BorrowNew
$700, PA, repay $350 on (6/27|2026), and other $350 on (7|04/26), through bank transfer or chime, loan for some unexpected bills [LOAN REQ]
I'm in a really difficult spot and hoping someone might be willing to help with a short-term loan via bank transfer. I was recently hit with a sudden layoff at work and it completely threw my finances off. I've already applied for
unemployment, but from what I've been told and researched, it's going to take too long to arrive to help with my upcoming bills. My final paycheck is also smaller than expected and unfortunately won't be enough to cover everything.
The good news is that I do have a new job lined up that starts at the end of this month, so this isn't a long-term situation. I'm just trying to make it through the next few weeks and keep up with essentials until I receive my first paycheck.
If anyone is willing to consider helping, I'd be incredibly grateful and happy to discuss repayment details privately, and I can provide whatever reasonable information is needed to verify my situation. Thank you for taking the time to read this, and l appreciate any consideration or advice. It's been a stressful week, but I'm trying my best to stay afloat until I can get back on my feet.
u/LowerStranger2996 — 15 days ago
▲ 4 r/blankies
Best Director Cameos in Movies or Other Mediums
Thought this would be a fun topic for this group of people, especially for in non-movie mediums.
My choice? Miike in No More Heroes 3. What makes those references matter is how they fit the game’s obsession with consumption. Suda51 isn’t celebrating fandom as pure devotion. He’s dissecting it like a coroner with a beam katana. Travis processes life through media because media is safer than intimacy. Miike’s films inside the game become shorthand for that entire emotional ecosystem: exploitation cinema transformed into personal religion. And Miike is the perfect choice because his work constantly mutates between sincerity and parody without warning. One second horrifying, next second goofy, next second weirdly tender. That’s No More Heroes 3 in total. The game is screaming that culture has become one giant landfill of references, but buried inside the landfill are real feelings, still twitching. Miike’s presence validates the mess. Art can be grotesque and juvenile and still hit spiritual nerves.
And that’s the secret engine under the whole game: aging punks trying to survive inside their own mythology. Travis isn’t the cool assassin anymore. He’s a guy trapped inside accumulated media history, trying to understand whether all the movies, anime, wrestling promos, and ultraviolent fantasies actually amounted to a life. Miike’s work has always carried that exhausted romanticism beneath the carnage. The sense that identity itself is performance stitched together from genres people consumed too hard. So when No More Heroes 3 invokes him, it’s not cameo worship. It’s thematic autobiography. The game sees Miike the same way Travis sees himself: a survivor of the VHS apocalypse, still making noise after the world stopped caring. Suda including him feels like a great payoff for this moment, and is a great before the big bad moment.
u/LowerStranger2996 — 2 months ago