Blister packs aren’t a problem, they save lives. In a moment of weakness it’s easy to grab a handful of pills from a bottle. Often by the time a few pills are removed from a blister pack the desire to continue diminishes. Pain in the ass? Sure. Problem? Nope.

Del Toro’s Frankentein (2025): I thought it was pretty good and beautifully shot. Then I realised it was sticking with me for a few days, which doesn’t happen with movies often anymore. Gonna give it a month or two then do a rewatch.

V for Vendetta (2006): Haven’t watched it in about 15 years, and it was honestly a hard watch as things have changed. It’s no longer ‘possible alternate future’ as much as ‘near current present’. Honestly there wasn’t much about it that was fantastical anymore, came out of it a bit depressed and angry.

The Beldham (2025): Standard ‘direct to video’ horror schlock. Completely fine for what it is.

Is that a thing? I’m in Canada and I’ve never seen a duplex sell as a single house. If you could find it that would be a pretty sweet deal

Or buying a duplex and renting half of it

That’s just buying two houses to rent one though

Haha funny you mention that I went to edit in to add my contribution but I guess I quit without sending.

This has been a really interesting post. After going through all the amazing films I’ve become hopeful (probably unrealistically) that with the prevalence of not only CGI but now “AI”, we may just get lucky enough to see a practical effect renaissance. There’s a charm and soul in practical effects that’s lacking in CGI, and completely missing in AI.

Check out the M4 fan edit. I recommend this at every opportunity haha. They cut down the entire extended trilogy into a 4 hour film, covering only the events in The Hobbit novel. One of the many adjustments they make is colour correction, which really helps with the “unfinished” feel you’re talking about. It’s incredibly well done, and aside from a few janky cuts is the definitive version of The Hobbit movies imo.

Agreed. And Radio Silence directing? I’m officially pumped.

I smoked for 20 years, 20ish cigs a day on average. For me quitting was all mental, using logic. Every time I tried and failed was the same thing: “I feel like I’m finally ready to quit”, then back at it a few days/weeks later. I was always waiting for the day I was ready for it and kept telling myself that day was coming.

4 years ago I was finally honest with myself. I’m never going to be ready. I like it too much, that magic day is just never gonna come. That’s when I realized that if I quit, the only way I would quit is when I wasn’t ready for it, and if I quit when I’m not ready, today’s just as good a day as any other. Logically I’d never be any more ready than I was that day, and if I didn’t quit the day I realized that then I never would.

Haven’t touched a cig in 4 years. Crave it every day though haha.

Which brings up the fact that an invisible person would be blind. Pretty useless power.

Don’t you worry about blank, let me worry about blank.

Not just him. When asked who chose Budapest as a meeting place with Russia the WH Secretary responded “your mom did”. The US has become a fascist enabling kakistocracy. Assuming this even can be turned around, it’s gonna take decades before the US is taken seriously again. If ever.

Haha appreciate the kind words thank you. I’m Canadian so it didn’t affect any understanding, just sounded funny. Sean Connery made the sh lisp work for him but I don’t imagine he could have with a th lisp.

English speaking actors/characters with a th lisp tend to be stereotypically nerdy/child like/adorable kid types, characters that are meant to be cute or sympathetic, but not to be taken very seriously.

As far as mirroring, I’m an artist as well so I learn visually the best. Seeing my mum make the correct sound and then how I made my incorrect sound made me understand completely.

It’s not something I often think about, but I am proud to have corrected it myself. My parents were looking into speech therapists after I brought it up but I wanted to see if I could do it myself first. I still make a sharp whistle at times which I suspect stems from maybe “overcorrecting” my teeth/tongue placement early on.

My tongue protruded between upper and lower creating the “classic” lisp, not the “cool” Sean Connery sh lisp haha. Didn’t even know I had it until some new kid in school made fun of me in grade 6.

I remember I came home and asked my mum if I talked funny and she reluctantly told me I had a lisp. I asked her to hold her mouth open with her fingers to see her teeth when she made an ‘s’, then show me how I did it. Once I saw the difference I understood to keep my tongue behind my teeth and just made a conscious effort to correct it every time I spoke for months.

I have an overbite so it was challenging to land the bottom of my top teeth on the top of my bottom teeth, but after a few months it became habit. I’m a freelance voice actor now haha.

Could be, but it was a lot of conscious work too haha

I’m not a speech therapist but I did train myself out of a lisp in grade 6. Does that count?

I used to live across the street from a guy who had his Xmas lights string up permanently and would screw/unscrew each bulb.

Ok, let me show you the difference. Making light of a celebrity’s death is not the same thing as spreading propaganda in an effort to destabilize a country.

The US government thinks those people are trying to destroy the US

This is just blatantly false. The US is a fascist state. The govt is deliberately destroying the US and they know full well anyone against fascism is not trying to destroy the US. The US is no longer politically about the nuance of belief between right and left, but about fascism and anti fascism.

Saying Charlie Kirk was a piece of shit who literally got what he asked for is very different from Candace Owens attempting to spread fascism to Australia.

I like James Gunn and enjoyed The Suicide Squad, that could be it. In which case I remember nothing from Suicide Squad or Harley Quinn. Assuming I saw them anyway, which I think I did.

I remember Harley doing some acrobatic stuff on a rope but I think that might have been Suicide Squad. Whichever movie it was that’s all I remember anyway haha