Lawrence Edwards58 said:Personally, I find those tired tropes—like "oh, he's coming," "don't come," "please don't"—so irritating. Once they mentioned him three times, I knew exactly what was going to happen... 🤦 but for a single viewing, it’s fine enough.
I actually thought his arrival worked quite well, because it turned out that they weren't just leading us on by making one obvious assumption. Well, they were, but it wasn't *that* predictable.
THAT’S ABOUT ALL I REMEMBER [spoilers] He hunts them down, she manages to escape—running straight for the gates, if I recall correctly—but then she decides to turn back and feed him some story about the rules, about how she came back specifically for him, and how she stayed, all with the actual intention of killing him.
And she succeeds, in a way, though in a rather cheap twist, it turns out evil can't be truly extinguished; he survives, and in that final scene, we see him mending himself, creating this living porcelain boy mask from his own skin. It sounds strangely poetic and meaningful while I'm typing it out, but I know better—it's an illusion, and the movie is just a cliché that probably hopes for a sequel it doesn't deserve. ☕
I have to admit, I found myself staring at the screen wondering what on earth was actually going on here, only to repeatedly arrive at conclusions that felt perfectly logical—yet were entirely wrong about what was really happening. Everything I suspected turned out to be completely off the mark once the truth finally came to light. Perhaps that’s just the charm of it, though—that predictable, almost cliché sense of dread you find in your average horror flick.
By the way, that idiot traveled all the way from the United States to England, just to end up dead—his own damn fault, of course. If that isn't true love, I don't know what is. 😵
Karen Smith9 said:Honestly, when I see the crowd showing up at the local library to check out books—mostly just teenagers, with the age limit capped at 16—it gives me a pretty good idea of what kind of movie we're dealing with here.
The film—much like the book—is clearly aimed squarely at that demographic, and honestly, I don't see the issue with that. Teens seem to love - Great, which is exactly why they decided to split it into two parts just to squeeze more cash out of us. It really highlights how much this whole thing is driven by the bottom line, since they could have easily wrapped everything up in one single installment and been done with it.
That said, it isn't exactly worth a theater ticket, so I intentionally skipped the cinema trip. The teenagers who think this stuff is "WOW" will go make it a hit. Those of us a bit older will probably grumble about how bloated and overextended it feels - Which, let's be honest, it is—but we'll likely end up watching it anyway, just to see the saga through to its conclusion. Maybe someone will catch it on TV late at night and fall asleep halfway through. 😁 c'est la vie
I did enjoy the ending, though—those last thirty minutes were decent. It probably didn't even need an epilogue, but hey, whatever.
I’m certainly not an expert in this field—strictly speaking out of pure curiosity here—but I was wondering: are these people actually agents working directly for Universal Music Group, or what exactly is their deal? Are they more like MTA transit inspectors who just roll into a local coffee shop once a month—or maybe more frequently?—to audit the playlist and see what's licensed and what isn't?
I mean, from a customer's perspective, there’s absolutely no way to tell if the tracks playing in the background are legally cleared or not. Essentially, a business owner could probably run a whole stretch of... say, 10 or 20 days of unlicensed music without anyone batting an eye, just gambling on whether or not they'll get caught, right?
And if they do get busted, how massive are the fines?
Grab yourself a little free utility called CPU-Z. [I think there might be an American English option during the setup process, if I recall correctly] Once you click on the RAM section, you'll be able to see all the specifics [highlighted by those red arrows here]
You should also download this one as well: http://www.hwinfo.com/download.php It lets you dig into the finer details—like the exact model, the manufacturer, the voltage, and whether you're looking at DDR3 or something else entirely
Maybe try searching for something along these lines: Free Video cutter joiner
The magic word here is "joiner." If I’m reading your situation correctly—and I think I am—what you actually need to do is trim the first segment of the film down to where those unwanted scenes end (say, at the 5:40 mark), then trim the second segment to start right after them (let's say, starting from 10:30), and finally stitch the tail of that first clip to the head of the second. (So, 5:40 + 10:30). Once you merge them, that 10:30 mark effectively becomes 5:41, and the footage just flows seamlessly from there. That's really how the process works. I don't think there's a specific program out there—unless you're looking at high-end, paid professional software—that can just instantly bridge two clips while simultaneously deleting everything in the middle. You kind of have to roll up your sleeves and do a little manual labor.
From what I can gather by looking at the response, it seems like one of those folks was actually dealing with a hardware issue—specifically, they had a stuck Delete key.
My one major oversight—if you can even call it that—was when he handed her that phone without thinking twice. I really should have stopped him and asked, "Wait, where am I supposed to stash my savings now?" 😁
u web development subforum—there are at least seven spam threads sitting there right now. The user responsible was banned, yet those posts are still hanging around. Why hasn't anyone cleared them out?
Larry Walker24 said:If this forum layout is actually stuck in 2004, does anyone happen to have a screenshot of what a decent forum looked like back in 2014?
vBulletin 5 Connect: current software version: (just ignore that red circle, it doesn't mean anything here)
Ashley Ramos78 said:When nothing else seems to be working right in this great country of ours, why should our biggest forum be any different?
Honestly, I’ve always felt like it stems from their own social awkwardness—they just don't know how to carry a conversation or what to say to us, so they fall back on the easiest tactic available: constant feeding. It isn't as if I'm scrawny or starving and suddenly find myself compelled to eat. I simply have no desire to.
On rare occasions, I’ll take a bite just to be polite—to avoid making a scene—and then I get hit with the "shame on you" commentary. It’s enough to make me want to lose my temper right then and there.
The real kicker—the actual absurdity of it all—is that they simply won't let you. They won't let anyone. For reasons that seem entirely nonsensical, it’s as if an author no longer holds any claim over their own words, not even the basic right to make a correction. Instead, everything has been effectively seized by this online publishing house—in this case, Reddit—and its entire hierarchy of administrators and moderators.
Why does the edit button just vanish after a little while, leaving me completely unable to modify my own posts?
Take this recent situation, for instance—I posted a question about something, only to realize I actually had the answer myself all along. But now, even though I’m the one who originally wrote the thing, I can't even delete the post.
