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Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

  • Jack / AIDSMobdy

    Votes: 257 24.0%
  • Josh / the Wizard

    Votes: 77 7.2%
  • Colin (Canadian #1)

    Votes: 460 42.9%
  • Jim (Canadian #2)

    Votes: 230 21.4%
  • Tim

    Votes: 386 36.0%
  • Len Kabasinski

    Votes: 208 19.4%
  • Freddie Williams

    Votes: 274 25.5%
  • Patton Oswalt

    Votes: 27 2.5%
  • Macaulay Culkin

    Votes: 541 50.4%
  • Max Landis

    Votes: 64 6.0%

  • Total voters
    1,073
On a related note, I was watching The Mist for the first time the other day and considered turning the color all the way down on my tv as intended but I was already halfway through. If I do watch it again I'll do that and fiddle with contrast if needed.
Boy, is that a movie you will not feel good coming out of…
 
It's a really great suggestion for people who don't watch a lot of horror and have generic taste, you suggest it as a classic and they're gonna have a great time, kind like 50s b-movies blah blah blah

Texts after usually go

WHAT. THE. FUCK.
There were a number of movies I remember going to see in theaters only to come out feeling utterly wrecked. Repo Men was another one.
 
There were a number of movies I remember going to see in theaters only to come out feeling utterly wrecked. Repo Men was another one.
I think the movies that wrecked me the most when I saw them in theater was

The Mist
The Pianist
Life is Beautiful
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Marley & Me My Dog Skip

Nigga, don't fucking laugh at that last one, if you have or ever had a dog, watch that shit and tell me you're not gonna fucking be bawling your eyes out at the end.
 
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I think the movies that wrecked me the most when I saw them in theater was

The Mist
The Pianist
Life is Beautiful
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Marley & Me

Nigga, don't fucking laugh at that last one, if you have or ever had a dog, watch that shit and tell me you're not gonna fucking be bawling your eyes out at the end.
See, I knew what I was going in for with LiB and The Pianist, so while still emotionally heavy, I didn’t get blindsided by it.

Haven’t seen the other two, but yeah, knowing how Marley and Me ends, I can’t blame anyone for feeling wrecked.
 
I think the movies that wrecked me the most when I saw them in theater was

The Mist
The Pianist
Life is Beautiful
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Marley & Me

Nigga, don't fucking laugh at that last one, if you have or ever had a dog, watch that shit and tell me you're not gonna fucking be bawling your eyes out at the end.
all movies that just use a dogs death for a cheap scene to fuck with emotions are fucked

my dog skip *skip died while i was in college and we buried him out back under his favorite tree in my old baseball glove* all while showing a scene of an aging dog lying on a bed
 
See, I knew what I was going in for with LiB and The Pianist, so while still emotionally heavy, I didn’t get blindsided by it.

Haven’t seen the other two, but yeah, knowing how Marley and Me ends, I can’t blame anyone for feeling wrecked.
all movies that just use a dogs death for a cheap scene to fuck with emotions are fucked

my dog skip *skip died while i was in college and we buried him out back under his favorite tree in my old baseball glove* all while showing a scene of an aging dog lying on a bed
My Dog Skip burnt me so hard I refused to see Marley & Me when I learned what the "twist" was, and it legit just replaced the latter.

I've never seen M&M, I've seen MDS and the ending is just the worst tearjerker ever.
 
all movies that just use a dogs death for a cheap scene to fuck with emotions are fucked

my dog skip *skip died while i was in college and we buried him out back under his favorite tree in my old baseball glove* all while showing a scene of an aging dog lying on a bed

I mean I get it's sad when you lose a pet, but "we had to put our 14 year old dog to sleep" is not exactly the most shocking plot twist of all time.
 
I mean I get it's sad when you lose a pet, but "we had to put our 14 year old dog to sleep" is not exactly the most shocking plot twist of all time.
Here I can cram it all into one meme.

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all movies that just use a dogs death for a cheap scene to fuck with emotions are fucked
The problem is the eventual death of a pet is a large part of what defines our relationships with them. Also, characters needs arcs in stories, and pups are pure creatures who are who they are almost fully from early on in life. Death is one of the only dramatic changes that can realistically happen to a dog :heart-empty:
 
The problem is the eventual death of a pet is a large part of what defines our relationships with them. Also, characters needs arcs in stories, and pups are pure creatures who are who they are almost fully from early on in life. Death is one of the only dramatic changes that can realistically happen to a dog :heart-empty:

George Carlin had a great bit about this: "Every time you get a pet, you're purchasing a small tragedy. Unless you're 80 years old and buying a sea turtle."
 
George Carlin had a great bit about this: "Every time you get a pet, you're purchasing a small tragedy. Unless you're 80 years old and buying a sea turtle."
honestly i never liked carlin hes just a super cynical liberal who has dumb ideas but says them loudly or exaggerated and people find it funny
 
honestly i never liked carlin hes just a super cynical liberal who has dumb ideas but says them loudly or exaggerated and people find it funny

I loved him as a kid but as I got older and as he got nastier and more bitter I came to feel as you do. Still, his observational comedy, especially regarding language, remains very funny. It's when he got into insulting the audience that he got obnoxious, and in fact when he started directly mocking the crowd he got his ass fired from the MGM Grand Las Vegas.

But the tipping point for me was his golf bit. The golf bit was very funny, but part of it dinged golf for its racism. In the years after he started performing the bit, Tiger Woods became the biggest golfer in the world. When Carlin set down the golf bit in one of his books (can't remember if it was Brain Droppings or Napalm & Silly Putty), how did he incorporate Woods into it? By claiming Tiger Woods wasn't black. Motherfucker, whoever might get to determine who's black and who isn't, it sure isn't some Irish-Catholic cunt from Brooklyn.
 
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