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You're leaving off the best one ever:

The Beastmaster (1982)

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Starship Troopers reboot

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Why reboot perfection?

That made me laugh more than I’d like to admit.

Then it made me WTF at the end. :confused:

I’ll catch up on the thread tomorrow. But I’ve been out of town and just watched this week’s episode tonight and wanted to get my thoughts down while they were fresh in my head.

In the “previously on” clips, Sophia to Henry: maybe it’s all just a dream. Isn’t that what Abby thought too?

Tabitha tells her kids shes been in the Town “many, many times before” and that the last time she was Miranda.

Boyd tells Victor and Henry the same thing.

Caught some of the opening credits and there seems to be a lot of Easter egg things. I’m too lazy to comb through them but here are lots of (what I assume to be) Victor’s drawings.

And they’re actually telling everyone now. That’s great. And Boyd brings up the “knowledge comes at a cost” thing and says they may be close. That’s what I said a few weeks ago. And I think he’s right.

Random black chick in colony house gets lines. So I assume she’ll die tonight. :lol:

Another Boyd Parkinson’s reference (from Jade) finally. And another one from Kristi. ETA: and then another one before they execute their plan. I guess that subplot is fully back on the table again.

Julie’s hair looks even more stupid.

MiY was there in “late 70s when Victor was a kid.”

Marielle’s mom talking about “whenever people die they just go somewhere else. Didn’t believe in heaven or hell and death was a transition to another place we can’t see from here.” No chance they make this Town some type of purgatory right?

Henry has a vision he’s hooked to a monitor and IV. ??

MiY car. Rusty spare in the trunk. Bag of teeth in the glovebox.

Oh shite. Victor making the connection that Tabitha showed up with a boy and a girl just like Miranda did. And he’s scared everyone will be killed again and everyone but Ethan is gonna die. I didn’t even think about that.

Kenny was an administrator in youth sports before he came to the Town.

Sophia steals an egg. Okay.

Julie thinks this Town is a “random cruelty.” I like that term and that angle too honestly. Elgin thinks it’s part of God’s plan. And he says the Town throws so many lies at you that you don’t believe the truth when it’s staring you in the face. Interesting.

So now Henry is having visions that it’s “all a dream” like Sophia said, and he’s actually semi unconscious in a hospital room. I assume this is bullshite and that her drops of blood are triggering this.

So Sophia’s egg has yolk and blood in it and she speaks a spell (?) into it and crushes it into his chest. “It’s time to play.” Is she creating another giant doll to wreak havoc on shite?

No way Kenny dies here, right?

Kenny stabbing and then standing there like a goon instead of running away like Boyd told him FIFTEEN frickING SECONDS AGO. Idiot. I like that the monsters are just fricking with him though about the totem staff working. Sets up the theory someone had about talismans not even really working and them just pretending. Also them intentionally blocking Kenny’s exits and the doors makes me go back to them knowing more than they let on and it’s all one big show.

So is Fatima’s golem thing about to do work? *

I’m glad Smiley is back. He’s pretty terrifying looking.

Kenny forgot to close the top door. Hmmm.

And Sophia brings Roger back…just for him to rip his face back off and get immediately stabbed after entering the house? :lol: Also how did he get inside the house…did he break through a talisman? Weird.

This was a good episode. It was nice to see them formulate and execute an actual plan. Even if it didn’t really work.




* guess not. :lol:

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The A/C spazzing out and frying himself is a terrifying scene for a small child.

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There are several that are like that. That scene. The shop scene with the creepy arse hanging light.



And the junkyard scene at the end with the cars singing as they are sent to their death by the car crushing machine.



Seriously. Listen to the lyrics of that car song. It’s pretty horrifying. :lol: They are all singing about the former lives they had as if confessing right before they’re inevitable deaths.

But that being said, the movie itself is awesome. It has a very real sort of feel to it. And it’s gritty. And also an adventure film. It just works.

I’ve owned it on DVD forever and watch it with my son occasionally. He likes it but not as much as I did when I was a kid. But it still holds up pretty well. I love it.

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Geekboy

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With the amount of threads you start, I’m convinced you are an arseinclass alter.

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TJ Lavin confirms 42 will be on Paramount +

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Well frick. Not sure if I’m in for this then. I prefer my Challenge fix to come from episodes recorded without me doing anything, not having to search out episodes on streaming. That sucks.

And holy shite @ Nurys. That is an absolute downgrade.

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where's the rest of the video? WTF?

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Yeah that was disappointing.

Although normally when someone fights back the rest of the bunch scatter. And it doesn’t look like they did.

They’re getting more emboldened.

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Yeah not sure where I stand on this attempted murder

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This thread is wild. Some of you are saying you aren’t sure about attempted murder.

What the frick else would you call it when you try to strangle someone underwater? “Attempted I was just going to teach him a lesson until he passed out”?

I can’t believe nobody did anything after that old dude open hand slapped that kid. That would’ve set me off. :lol: And his friends suck for letting that shite go on as long as it did, especially the assault part. I'd like to think my friends are stopping that shite as soon as I’m being strangled and held underwater. That was ridiculous.

Kid was also an a-hole too. Begging a clearly pissed off old dude to shoot you is definitely an interesting strategy, I suppose. “Are the cops gonna shoot me?” being his first question when cops were brought up was also strange.

I did think it was hilarious that two separate people on the same page asked Volvagia if he was retarded though. :lol:

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Tortoises often attack dark objects like black shoes because they mistake them for rival tortoises invading their territory.

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Are we sure they aren't mistaking the shoes for the Foot Clan? :dunno:

I haven't explored many abandoned things, but I used to dig those videos on YouTube back in the day about it. I remember one specifically that was pretty cool. It was Mike Tyson's abandoned mansion in Ohio I believe. I can't find the video anymore, but here is a similar one:

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It was sporting the 1980s decor. Pretty cool experience.

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The Kane Pixels (Kane Parsons - the director of the new Backrooms movie and he's got a ton of Backrooms liminal space videos on his channel)) YouTube channel has a few videos with this vibe to them that are pretty cool/creepy. It's fake obviously, but really well done. It's about this dude who finds a random hole in the ground and goes in it and there are hundreds of steps that lead down, and at the bottom is a mall straight from the 80s/90s. There are two parts (the second one is sort of long, but pretty weird/creepy):

The Oldest View Part 1

The Oldest View Rolling Giant (Part 3, but really it's the second part)

Those are both cool and VERY well made (apparently in a software called Blender). But they are in the genre of exploring abandoned 80s/90s time capsule type areas.