Hear me out: how insane would things have gotten if Sarah had gotten her hands on a One Wish Willow AFTER Bear made his wish about Nikki, and then Sarah made the same wish about Bear? It would be a Horror Love Triangle
I have this disturbing theory that I struggle to put into words, and I suppose that this ties more into existential dread than horror, yet I shall try to articulate my thoughts the best way I can:
What if life never ends?
On the flip side of that: what if we have already died? How would we know?
I'm not referring to supernatural phenomenon, such as ghosts in the movie The Sixth Sense. I mean the human perception of time. We don't know what time is, if it exists, and if it does, how would we know when we have reached the end of our life cycle?
At the moment I write this, I am about two months shy of my sixtieth birthday. What if, thirty-year old me still exists at another point in my timeline? Sixteen year-old me? Eight, or four, or two years old, all going through life, eventually leading to this moment. Which means that sixty years from now, I am likely already dead in that timeline, which means what has not happened yet here is already in the past there. Which means at some point in my timeline, I am already dead. Yet...here I am.
What if this memory is a blip in a flashback during my final moment? How would I know? What if that flashback restarts each after each instance of death, we are routed back to birth? What if life seems to blur on by because we have repeated this loop endlessly, and there is no separation from what we perceive as life, and the afterlife?
What if heaven and hell are just the choices we make during each go-round, because after each instance of life, we are allowed a modicum of awareness of our experience?
More mind-boggling yet, what if this is applicable to every single person who has ever lived? Would that not then tie into the creation of alternate timelines or universes?
Worse yet, what if what we call Life is a flat circle, and we start over back to birth, but our path is immutable? There is no awareness that we've been through this all before, and are powerless to change anything? It just keeps looping forever? Depending on how you lived your life, this could be Heaven, or this could be Hell.
I apologize for the rant. If you have read this far, thank you. These things keep me awake at night, the older I get, like they're doing right now.
How Do You Like Your Coffee?
One of my favorite quips, taken and modified from the movie Airplane! is
"I like my coffee like I like my women: ice cold."
How do YOU like your coffee?
In the spirit of the joke from Airplane!, it would be fun if answers are phrased:
"I like my coffee like I like my [person or thing], [description of how you like your coffee]"
I added a post in a different subreddit recently about scenes that work as short films embedded in full movies. Then someone brought up The Gold Watch scene in Pulp Fiction, and I came to the realization that this subject can be applied to the entirety of Pulp Fiction.
Please sound off with your favorite short films embedded in Tarantino movies.
There are scenes within movies that can be watched outside of the whole, without context, and serve as a short film by themselves. Here are a few of my picks, in no particular order:
Near Dark
Spider-Man No Way Home
True Romance (runner-up)
True Romance (my personal GOAT)
While I admire Steven Spielberg, his mastery of storytelling, and his forthright belief and message that we should, as a species, listen:
Would we?
The most fictional aspect of this movie for me is >!that the entire world seemed to collectively sit up and watch what was happening during the climax of the movie. The world saw, and paid attention. In what we perceive as reality, haven't we become so jaded and skeptical that even if the powers that be ultimately failed to suppress the truth, and it got out there, would we even believe it? Isn't our own skepticism the very source of the truth's obfuscation?!<
What would Joel have done if >!Ellie had thought about it, came to the realization for herself that she might not survive the procedure to extract the cure from her body, and talked about it with Joel. She asks Joel to allow whatever needs to happen, happen, up to and including Ellie's death. I know he would have still saved Ellie. My question is more, how would he have reacted towards Ellie if they would have had that talk?!<
Also, >!what would have happened in the world if Joel had not taken the actions he did?!<
EDIT: >!Again, please read my question. It asks more specifically what actions might he have taken differently had he and Ellie had The Talk about her sacrifice on the way to the Fireflies. I KNOW he would do it all over again, based on his final conversation with Ellie in TLOU2. Most Redditors keep reiterating that. What I am asking is, would Ellie have been able to make her case for sacrifice in any meaningful way to Joel? Or would he simply have bypassed the Fireflies entirely? My point is simply removing Joel's deception from his actions. What would he have done differently with full knowledge of what Ellie wanted and what was waiting for them in Utah? As for my second question, what would have been the optimal outcome in Marlene's eyes?!<
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
Even though the box was delivered torn open (don't know where to complain about this) the movie was still in the factory wrapping with full contents intact. I've been waiting a long time for this! Twenty-two years! Very excited!
I read that Capcom started giving their games actual titles after the release of Resident Evil 7. This was presumably done because they felt that more copies would have sold if some customers didn't think they had to play the previous numbered games in the franchise in order to understand RE7. So they went with Village and Requiem. I am a third-named son, I have that damn III at the end of my name, I know what it's like to be a shitty sequel. That got me thinking: what would be some good titles for RE games from 2 - 7 and 0 with the numbers removed? I think Resident Evil Nemesis for RE3 is a no-brainer. What would be your titles for RE0 and 2 through 7?
This question has vexed me since 1978, when I was a tween. Why did >!Nancy believe, after all the time that had passed, that Matthew was still human and safe to approach?!<
Is there anyone else who disregards certain sequels from their Headcanon? Not all, just a select few. We've been lucky so far with the Evil Dead movies. I'm talking about egregious cash-grabs that really should not exist. In my headcanon, these sequels exist in a separate universe from the first movies, so that the originals remain unsullied:
Sorted by unslipped case/case with slipcover/chunky box and then numerically/alphabetically. This shelf held my Criterion Collection until recently, but Arrow has moved them out.
I'm not asking about menial wishes like a brand new phone or a bag of m&ms. Is there a wish, that if is carefully thought out and expressed clearly and specifically, would change your life for the better? Or is the One Wish Willow just designed to allow you to screw yourself if you wish the wrong way? For instance, I might say, "I wish to live long and prosper" 🖖 and the Willow might have me living thousands of years, outliving all my loved ones and being the wealthiest man on a post-apocalyptic earth.
What would you wish for?
He seemed chill. He know how the One-Wish Willow worked, and it looks like his wish worked for him.
What did Harry wish for? 🤔
*Originally an answer in another post
I would tell him many things, but I would say them all in one sitting:
These things will supremely suck, but we'll make it through alright with the help of our wife. Like the aforementioned Sandra, she is also way, way too good for us. What can I say? Life is kind and merciful to idiots.
Otherwise, keep being you. Life is amazing. Sometimes problems arise, yes. But life brings us surprises. I'd be doing us a disservice by telling you everything. Have fun!
*posted as an answer in another Post
I am completely blind in one eye and getting progressively worse in the other, which requires me to to use high-contrast settings on my phone. I cannot use the Amazon shopping app. I have to view Amazon on a browser so I can view the site in high-contrast. However, all notifications that I click on from Amazon open in the blinding app. Is Jeff Bezos reading this? Fix this! I get that if anyone at Amazon customer satisfaction department is reading this, they're likely so low on the totem pole as to be underground. But it would be supremely cool if the company owned by one of the richest men in the world could fix this small, first-world capitalist problem.
About to crack it open, but first I must adorn my finest pajamawear beforehand, preferably silk if I can find any. If I am able to procure a shiny houserobe, I shall rock it. I don't know if I have a smoking pipe on hand, but I wouldn't fire it up, lest I cause the tome to reek of college professor tobacco. I shall offer a prayer of thanks to Shiva, Cthulhu and a handful of other deities. Only then will I feel ready to crack this fugger open and devour its content, enjoying thoroughly and vigorously, and twice on Sundays. 😉
Did I misunderstand, or did Roger not fight for sole custody of Reese, but only to stay in his life? It is my belief that Roger was not out of line wanting to share a fatherhood role in Reese's life. I am at a loss to understand why this was unacceptable to Peter and his family beyond "because I'm his father, he's my son." Roger proved himself to be helpful in times of need, and appeared to be a positive role model for Reese.