u/Scary-Ratio3874

I'm just losing patience with people not calling politicians out on BS. They just move on to the next topic. I want to scream every time someone asks Trump about the Epstein files and he says I don't know why anybody still cares about this guy. He's dead. And no one ever says it's not about him anymore, it's about all the men who got away with raping young girls. They just move on. Next question. How about the next reporter, instead of asking something else, says that. Says wait...it's not about him anymore. But they don't.

Thinking of two movies in particular: the wrath of Kahn starts with what looks like Spock, dr McCoy and others being killed on the bridge during a battle with Klingons. But it turns out it was a test, the lighting changes, Kirk, unseen, is heard saying something like that's enough, open her up. And the bridge opens up revealing that the bridge is just a simulator and the acting captain is being tested. But the character who pretended to be dead are still just laying around until the camera focuses on them one by one and then they reveal themselves to be ok.

I just watched truly horrible movie called Mindhunters. The beginning is two FBI agents looking for a killer in an old house....they catch or "kill" the killer and then let their guard down. Another person appears out of nowhere and holds one of the agents in front of him as a shield. I forget the exact series of events but they all wind up getting shot, they fall down, etc etc. and just lay there.....until the head FBI agent comes in and ends the rest. They really put a lot into their performances too. Not just shot with airsoft bullets or whatever and say you got me. No, they grab the part of their body where they got shot and stumble backwards and fall down dramatically. Like they are putting on a play or something.

Just saw it in the movie Live Wire when actor/activist Ron Silver is on the phone (he's the bad guy talking to the badder bad guy), Pierce Bronson (?) appears out of nowhere, puts a gun to his head, Ron says nothing and Pierce takes the phone and says "He'll have to call you back." Very witty

For example: in A Sound of Thunder (horrible movie, a must watch for fans of bad movies or HDTGM podcast), people are trying how to break into a car, its in the future, and spouting techno babble. We can over load the audio sensor alarm system or whatever. The hero just breaks the window with his future ray gun. Everyone laughs. It happens as a cheap joke and a way around characters not being able to figure something out. It doesn't work cause its over used and the fix is not to use it.