quietbison86 said:Look, not every single movie needs to be some big romance about relationships, right? Though, even as a woman, I gotta say that scene between Howard and Hepburn should've been a little more explicit. Anyway, it’s easily one of my favorite roles for Leo—he basically carries the entire movie on his back—and then Cate walks away with the Oscar. 🙄
Relationships aren't always the main focus, but in The Aviator specifically, they could have leaned into it more to really wow the audience. A little more humor would have been great too. 🙂
This movie is nowhere near award season material. If they were aiming for an Oscar, they completely missed the mark. It’s fine if you just need something to pass the time, but that's about it. If it had been a comedy, it would have been legendary. As it stands, it just gets stuck somewhere in the middle.
This movie really captures what the Monuments Men were actually up against during WWII. It stays grounded instead of relying on those over-the-top action tropes, like one guy taking down fifty Germans at once or losing entire sets of gear to the Russians. I think some deeper character development and a better look at the German side could have added more drama and lengthened the runtime, but even as it stands, it's a solid watch. 8/10
I wouldn't say anyone actually invented time, days, or the calendar. They just took simple, existing facts and put them down on paper. Time itself will always flow at the same steady pace.
Thanks for clearing that up. 🙂 It seems like college is really the turning point where everything starts moving faster. I went through two different high schools before this, and those two and three-year stretches felt like forever, but I've been in college for four years now and it’s definitely flown by the fastest.
As far as I'm concerned, the weekend doesn't pass any faster or slower than the rest of the week. This whole idea that you have to live differently just because it's the weekend is silly. You should just live every single day.
electricmason8 said:Don't overlook one massive factor here: back when we were kids a few decades ago, the general pace of life was palpably slower. Nowadays, everyone is trying to juggle four different things at once while simultaneously juggling long-term plans that stretch out years into the future. It creates this constant, suffocating sense of running out of time and being in a perpetual state of rushing—a feeling that honestly just didn't exist before, whether you were a kid or an adult. 🙂
I don't really lead a hectic lifestyle where I'm constantly stuck in my car or anything. Even though I travel quite a bit, I always make sure to carve out time for myself, so life doesn't feel like it's flying by too fast.
The only time I truly feel the crunch is during midterms or finals when I really have to buckle down and study. ☕
Interesting theories. Whenever I'm studying or working on something intense, it feels like time just flies by. You're right about fun moments, too—they go by way too fast. I guess it could be that the bad times feel longer than the happy ones. Luckily, I don't have many of those.
Thanks for clearing that up, Mastor. So, based on what you're saying, I guess I'm doing alright if time is flying by this fast? A few people have mentioned that things really start to pick up speed once you hit 30.
I've read accounts where people say a single day during a war feels like an absolute eternity.
I wanted to share some thoughts here on how time seems to slip away. When I was a kid, everything felt like it moved at a snail's pace. I remember being in preschool and feeling like it lasted forever; looking back, I’d say it felt three times longer than it actually was. Elementary school had its own slow rhythm, too—I can still vividly remember how long each school year dragged from fall to summer. That steady pace lasted until my sophomore year of high school, when things suddenly picked up speed. By junior year, right around age 17, it started accelerating even more. Even that stressful final stretch of high school seemed to fly by. Now that I'm in college, it’s not just years moving fast anymore; it feels like weeks and days are blurring together. Don't get me wrong, I'm actually happy about it because I want to move forward with life, but it's strange. On top of that, looking back at things from just two years ago, it feels like a lifetime has passed. It honestly feels like it happened over five years ago.
Does anyone else feel this way, or is it just me? Some people say it's because we have so many more responsibilities now.
The movie is really solid. 9/10. If you're into action sequences and ancient history, this is definitely your kind of flick. There’s a romance running through it too, but the gladiators are the ones truly stealing the show. It's a great watch. I caught it in 3D at AMC $13. It wasn't cheap, but it was definitely time well spent. 🙂 The special effects and the fight scenes are easily the best parts of the whole movie.
Really solid action thriller. 9/10. Caught it at AMC today and I’d definitely recommend it. It's got plenty of action, suspense, fast pacing, and gunfights, all wrapped up in a really gripping human story. 🙂 Amber Heard looks stunning in this. 😍
The movie is fine if you just want something to pass the time, but it didn't exactly blow me away. I’d give it a solid 6/10. It definitely had room for improvement—especially when it comes to the character development—but it's still worth a watch.
Not really. I know people like that quite well. Some express themselves through sports hooligan groups, others show up at rallies in Denver, Gettysburg, or Stalingrad, and some just act like Nazi Germany sympathizers online. Eventually, they settle down even if their views haven't changed. There’s just no way to link them all together. Most of them don't even bother voting.
I know this one guy who grew up with parents that were in the resistance and survived the camps. Those old folks used to read The New York Times, yet here he is, calling for the Nationalists and Nazi Germany when he's barely twenty... 😂
These groups are pretty much on the fringes. You can really see that during elections when people finally show their true political colors. There aren't any radical leftists or far-right extremists represented in Congress—nothing like the actual hardline communists or fascists you might worry about.
What kind of illnesses can you actually catch through kissing or sharing saliva? Off the top of my head, I'm thinking mono, some bacterial infections, and maybe fungi.