Yeah a good 2 hr horror movie is like Rosemary’s Baby or The Shining- lots and lots of plot combined with suspense. Suspense you can maybe hold longer but nausea or alarm don’t fare as well long term. Your body tires itself out eventually and your mind starts to get bored and look for something to analyze (which…

The jump scare thing was really just a silly joke. Once they get to the cancer stuff it gets so sad and there are some good anthology stories. It’s not nearly as scary as his other Netflix miniseries to date

Green Room was fantastic and I might like to watch it to see someone else watch it for the first time, but its white supremacist villains are just... so legitimately terrifying that it makes you feel at times as tired as when you’re watching Schindler’s List. Ironically, Inglorious Basterds isn’t really on that list…

Time to vote. And also maybe burn it all down

Oh definitely. It’s an attack against the unbanked and underbanked. And they are probably also more likely to be carrying money orders due to similar reasons (for example, if they are unlikely to get a loan or it would be predatory, buying a used car or piece of key equipment from someone might be the safer, more…

The way we handle debt in this country is so backwards and bizarre. The way debt forgiveness and debt payment for something as basic as loan forgiveness for public school teachers (which seems like it should be pretty simple as every single county in America has public school teachers and I’d bet almost all have at…

I mean I think unfortunately many guys who end up in that sphere do start from a place of need. I have a friend who is a great guy now, but was kind of a creep when I knew him in middle school and high school because he had bad social skills and movies told him he should just follow girls or keep asking them out after…

They all suck so fucking much. They’re like modern plantation owners- a bunch of talentless pretty much 100% white rich dudes playing with each other off the backs of the labor of black men. I am so glad I’m not interested in football so I have one less thing to feel guilty about supporting. It’s bad enough that baby…

I think in general if you’re writing from an outside perspective about a group you’re not in, portraying their lives as nothing but misery isn’t really better than portraying them as happy go lucky stereotypes. In high school we had to read a book about an impoverished woman in India that turned out to have been…

I mean it seems maybe more accessible than the PPP which isn’t a bad place to start? But yeah another write up like this would be great. I feel like this is a great use of journalism as activism. We need to make this as accessible and heard about as possible to help as many people as possible

Especially that sentence “money orders”. Money orders are the most sensitive way anyone is forced to carry money. It can be a very high amount in a light package. And it’s usually just when something is important, like for a down payment on something or a major purchase like a used vehicle. Imagine the impact of…

Anything harmless can become a symbol for bad things in the right circumstances. Look at the OK sign or the Punisher logo

I think they start off as lonely/horny and then with the help of the man-o-sphere incel sites dig themselves a hole where the only voices they’ll listen to are crazy ones

It’s a very culturally taught thing too because there’s those negative stereotypes if you break rank:

Yeah the main problem is that the comments on movies or one off reviews like this (not the worse example of when to use them though I would’ve loved reviews for each of the kids’ stories) are like half people asking if they should watch and they likely would be upset at spoilers

I mean yes we need to address men too and other areas.... but abortion is the economy. It’s so many things. And I can tell a lot of people are scared and offended, not even just women. I think the big key is to figure out how to address men who are kind of bothered by the Roe v Wade loss and don’t feel moved to act…

I mean they really dialed down the violence but Gorr was supposed to be a parable about how you can be sympathetic but go to far by not thinking about the fact that others can have a different experience than yours. He enslaved people and devastated others, ultimately destroying a lot because he put his pain onto…

I mean have you seen the people with Punisher stickers? Though I don’t think liking children’s characters is inherently wrong- children can have good taste and things can work on multiple levels. I would say Moore’s work on Lost Girls revealed that he didn’t really get some of those classic things “just for children”.…

Yeah- and realism vs fantasy was kind of a theme of the piece so I thought that worked in its favor. Even if yeah that last scene had me asking some questions (wish every review had a little offshoot spoiler discussion section for that stuff but stupid kinja)

Yeah the basement was a bit unsatisfying (especially that teaser thing at the end) but I took it as having a more realistic approach