• Famko@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    ESPRIT DE CORPS [Medium: Success] – If an assault were launched on this building right now – if the windows came crashing down and the whole world descended upon you – this man would hurl himself in death’s way to save you. You are sure of this – but why?

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    8 months ago

    I’ve been the victim of this before and it is very VERY bad. I learned the hard way never to trust my intuition because apparently I have no intuition.

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      That’s why you should trust me instead. Btw, unrelated, what was your name again?

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        Didn’t you hear me say that I’ve already learned the hard way? I trust absolutely no one anymore. Especially not you 😄

    • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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      That movie would have been a lot better if they switched they switched the perspective.

      It also would have been interesting if Pratt died in the end.

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        Or it just didn’t pretend to be a romance at all. I don’t know who belongs on a watchlist for greenlighting the script, as producers are well known to override the actual writers, but someone does.

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          It being a romance in the beginning works well, especially with the reveal.

          Continuing the romance through to the end should have been handled a lot differently.

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            The best explanation I’ve heard for continuing the romance after the reveal is down to marketing.

            No one wants to take a date to a romance that turns into a horror, especially when the horror is the guy being a predator, so you either give the twist away in trailers and lose half your draw or try to pretend the creepiness was necessary somehow.

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    8 months ago

    A friend of mine had an amnesic episode after an epileptic seizure. According to him there’s nothing trust-inspiring about having a group of strangers you feel no emotional connection to telling you they’re your family and they’re going to look after you.