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

Mr. Jones’s ancestors also scream in his brain, but a lot of that is due to the pesticide

You mean “don’t get caught doing crimes”

I know they’ve talked about who they’ll do if Jones really does vanish from the public eye but all disrespect to the man: who could fill his role on their show?

I’m Neo, I’m Leo, I’m Desiax Clarke; I AM THE MYSTERIOUS PROFESSOR

Tom Beanbadil

And the show would never run out of subjects

Uuuuuhhhhhhh none of those words sounds like “male and female he created them” buddy, straight to Hell with ye

I fell asleep behind the wheel for maybe four seconds one time (the dreaded double clopen) and have had infrequent nightmares of being trapped in a vehicle that is uncontrollably accelerating ever since

The great thing about living in the future is that your dreams are daily becoming a reality

Having a nice buildup of lead in your body actually blocks the 5G signals that your COVID vaccine nanobots would otherwise be receiving from the government, actually!

I didn’t even know he was sick.

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I’m sorry, but is your uniting factor between the two stances “they both said one state couldn’t decide” here? Isn’t “one vote does note supersede a greater number of the opposite” a feature of democracy? Shouldn’t this have been the motherfucking default stance of the United States supreme court regardless of their stance on any other part of the issue?

Quick edit to explain my point: I don’t think saying “one state can’t decide” was the actual issue here, and SCOTUS choosing not to address it the larger one.

“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

🤞 outbreak remasters with modern functionality

But objectively worse because Avatar doesn’t feature Tim Curry

“nobody has ever been shot out of a cannon, ever, into space… No, never! The demmacrats don’t wanchyou you to know about it because it makes them mad. I’m the bravest president, everyone is saying so”

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

Skip to 2:17 for the part you all remember

Holy shit, I completely see the ventriloquist dummy resemblance, that is haunting