DarkKnight
Sr Member
yup, he got himself and GF killed, and seemed crazy, like the way he thought hunters left stuff lying around or moved things to taunt him, made no sense
Things you're tired of seeing in movies
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Agreed on all counts.
They probably never spent much time (if any) with any real children. As for Timothy Treadwell: the way he and his girlfriend died was just horrific. The tragedy in it was that it didn't have to happen; the society we live in today protects people too much from the natural consequences of bad decisions; up until recent times, kids learned the hard way how things did (and did not work). I suspect with many of the writers now, they suffer the same issues, and don't know how things really work.
DarkKnight
Sr Member
Kathleen Kennedy, "The Force is female and if the fans don't like it send them chauvinists more!" "Rose Tico is the best new character, even better than Jar Jar Binks"
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Pengbuzz: "Kathleen Kennedy can kiss my shinny black-and-white Pengbuzz @$$"
joberg
Legendary Member
The problem is that many people taking risks do so in the hope of being saved by (put any emergency service/organization here) if stuff happens.
Personal responsibilities for your own actions seems to be a mysterious concept
Meh. There were always people winning Darwin awards.
I think we see more of them than ever in the news because there are 8 billion people on earth and the planet is small. Everywhere is patrolled and everything is caught on camera. Every bizarre news story from every tiny backwater place can go worldwide if it's amusing. Some guy in rural Bolivia has an accident with a cow milking machine, and people in Moscow will be laughing about it 12 hours later.
I think we see more of them than ever in the news because there are 8 billion people on earth and the planet is small. Everywhere is patrolled and everything is caught on camera. Every bizarre news story from every tiny backwater place can go worldwide if it's amusing. Some guy in rural Bolivia has an accident with a cow milking machine, and people in Moscow will be laughing about it 12 hours later.
While the population has increased, common sense has actually decreased.
Back in the 1890's, you didn't see people wandering into traffic while writing on handheld slates or notepads.
joberg
Legendary Member
I don't know, I bet back when Matthew Brady was taking pictures, quite a lot of people got hit by horses while they posed for 15 minutes for a selfie.
But they were maneuverable as heck, I hear.Yep, 'cause it was harder to stop a horse draw vehicle on a dime
joberg
Legendary Member
Well, horses look like ghosts or are invisible because of their speed in front of the camera. Dead people, on the other way, were perfect subject for Brady.
p51
Sr Member
In commercials especially you see a mother coming up on kids doing something utterly insane and/or destructive and they just shrug it off and look rejected at the camera as if they couldn't lose their minds like all mothers would.
I have never understood that because there's nobody who looses their mind over the smallest things more so than either a military NCO or a mother with more than one kid!
I have never understood that because there's nobody who looses their mind over the smallest things more so than either a military NCO or a mother with more than one kid!
joberg
Legendary Member
Yep, as an European living in North America (Canada) I'm still completely flabbergasted at the level of permissiveness a child has over his parents
I remember watching E.T. with my father and, at one point in the movie, the kid next door goes into his friends' fridge without asking the parent if he can have the permission to do so You should've seen the look on my father's face
It depends on the kids, not everyone does that. I would have NEVER done that. I remember accidentally walking into a friend's house without knocking every once in a while and was horrified! I did have one friend who would do that routinely if he was at a mutual friends house, left, then came back. One time I was with him when he did it, and the other friend's mom, who was an absolute knockout, said "What would you do if you came in and we were naked?" and we're like looking at each other like "that would be awesome!"
This is more tv related, but I've been rewatching X-Files and have a couple. I think I mentioned the first, but they go around sticking their fingers in all kinds of goo. They see goo and just scoop it up on their fingers even after they have encountered caustic alien blood. The other complaint is that neither Mulder nor Scully (when they're separate) call in their locations before they just go exploring by themselves. I'm on season 6 and I've lost track of how many times Scully and Mulder have been kidnapped/captured because they just go poking around without backup or their location known!
genZOD
Sr Member
X Files has my favorite: "I'm skeptical, even though I've literally seen ghosts, monsters and aliens once a week for 3 years". Like, at what point do you just go: "OK... it's probably aliens".
Cephus
Master Member
There was a point that it just got silly, but I'm one of the rare people who really disliked the mythology episodes and only wanted to watch the monster-of-the-week episodes. It's a lot easier to treat those as standalone episodes where you can just assume Scully never saw any of this before.
Mulder and Scully find the Lucky Charms Leprechaun...
drusselmeyer
Master Member
Not really fair since he always escapes.
I'm with you on that. It worked better as a monster-of-the-week thing IMO.
Their extended storylines were too much like JJAbrams mystery box crap. They just provoked you with alien abduction stunts for a few weeks and then memory-wiped everything back to baseline.
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