[ SECRET POST #6444 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6444 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Hahaha same! I’m off to the cinema in an hour to see it for the third time, this time in 3D. I bet the opening credits are amazing!

[(Anonymous)]

My 70 year old mother loves The Mummy, as do the middle-aged denizens of social media, so it might just be you and your friends who hate fun.

Huh?

[(Anonymous)]

I will not get into whatever this secret claims, but I have to ask: What is up with all the DS9 hate on here recently? I'm not super into Star Trek fandom except for a few creators on YouTube and TikTok, so maybe I've missed some anti-DS9 discourse elsewhere?

[(Anonymous)]

Justice for Nett—

I beg your finest pardon!?

Re: Favourite fun action-adventure movies

[(Anonymous)]

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was terrific, and beautifully animated.

[(Anonymous)]

r/thathappened

[(Anonymous)]

... I feel like if you were groping for an analogy to cast a bad light on nonwhite immigrants, zombies are right there (and have already been used to that effect). Using dragons just shoots you in the foot. Dragons are cool now! Nobody doesn't love dragons!

[(Anonymous)]

Xenk!

[philstar22]

Yes! I need to find more icons from that movie. THe ones I have were from when it first came out.

Re: Favourite fun action-adventure movies

[(Anonymous)]

It really was. Haven't seen the sequel yet, I think I need to adjust my expectations slightly, but I really enjoyed the first film!

[(Anonymous)]

I’m on Facebook constantly and haven’t seen anyone middle aged share or comment on any of the memes that pop up literally daily in meme groups about how amazing/perfect The Mummy is. It’s all under 40s who do that in the groups and among my FB friends who range in age from 19 to 84.

Vent

[(Anonymous)]

(put yours here)

[(Anonymous)]

Just as a datapoint, almost everyone I know (20-30 people) who loves the Mummy and memeifies it constantly is over 40.

[(Anonymous)]

Only going with movies after The Mummy in 1999:

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is not a good movie and the likeability of its characters is questionable, but I found it stupidly entertaining or entertainingly stupid, one or the other.

National Treasure is silly as hell, but it can suck you in.

The Librarian TV movies are pretty enjoyable.

Likeable characters do not exactly abound in Stardust, but even so I thought they were pretty fun.

Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) hits some of the same beats for me, plus it also has Brendan Fraser in it.

Jurassic World was good for what it was.

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (as mentioned above) is good, The Next Level is alright.

Love and Monsters is a really good movie that should have gotten a lot more notice, but it was released in 2020.

The Lost City (2022) is pretty goddamn ridiculous, but it has a few good moments.

[(Anonymous)]

Not on the same level as The Mummy, but I thought Sahara was a terrific romp. Fun characters, lively action, great soundtrack. I have read a couple of Dirk Pitt books and thought they took themselves far too seriously, so I was tickled by Dirk as a cheery pothead. I should watch that one again soon. It just hit the spot for me.

[(Anonymous)]

The original Law & Order fell into this trap for a while. If any woman showed up with power and brains, she turned out to be the killer. It got very tiresome. (The original CSI went through a phase when any child who appeared onscreen turned out to be the killer, but fortunately it got over that.)

Re: Favourite fun action-adventure movies

[(Anonymous)]

I like the Ocean's 11/12/13 movies, because I love big heist plots where there's a team of friends working together. Ocean's 8 is okay, but definitely less well plotted and cohesive, IMO.

[(Anonymous)]

lol

[(Anonymous)]

Doesn't this show have enough incest already? I would've liked to see Nettles as a character in her own right, but not if they went the whole possible romance direction with Daemon.

Though I guess that would've given him something more to do than hanging out in Harrenhall, hallucinating.

[(Anonymous)]

What specifically is that even supposed to mean or criticise? I don't play FF but the Persona games seem pretty rooted in Japanese society?

Re: Favourite fun action-adventure movies

[(Anonymous)]

I already listed the ones for after 1999 in the first secret thread (https://fandomsecrets.dreamwidth.org/3065964.html?thread=1127549804#cmt1127549804), except for Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves because the secret OP already made their opinion know on that one. Here are the ones from 1999 back to 1980:

The Mummy, of course.

The Man in the Iron Mask has Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, and Gérard Depardieu hamming it up as the older Musketeers and Leonardo DiCaprio in dual roles.

The first Jumanji is good, even if the CGI animals are a little naff.

Cutthroat Island is a fun movie, though it was savaged by critics.

Jurassic Park is still amazing.

Okay, I still like Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, non-existent accent and all. Alan Rickman is wickedly funny.

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is excellent.

Willow is kind of magic.

The Princess Bride is one of my faves.

SpaceCamp is based on a ludicrous premise and has some very 80s stuff, but it is enjoyable.

The Goonies is awesome.

Romancing the Stone has some things that make me look at it a little sideways these days, but it still has its good points.

I don't care if it isn't like the book, I do really like The NeverEnding Story.

The Last Starfighter is weird and interesting and a good time.

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, Last Crusade all are great, but Last Crusade may be my favorite.


Now, there are some I didn't include because I consider them more straight action, more action-thriller, more fantasy, or more serious.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, Sahara is very fun!

It has Steve Zahn in it too. Love that guy.

Re: Huh?

[(Anonymous)]

I think that DS9 had a resurgence over the last two years or so, I'm guessing this is the inevitable backlash!

[(Anonymous)]

Same. I don't really like The Mummy. It's... OK?
Also I don't find most of the characters in this movie hot... It's blasphemy according to everyone

I liked DND movie, it was good fun

Boomer dad BS.

[(Anonymous)]

My dad has an annoying habit of quizzing me about totally mundane things I do around the house, and then arguing or nitpicking my answer. Like this:

Me: [gathering up the household trash because tomorrow is garbage day]
Dad: Why are you bringing the office trash can to the kitchen?
Me: Because tomorrow's garbage day.
Dad: Oh. But why are you taking the big office trash can and collecting from the smaller trashcans and then bringing it to the kitchen?
Me: Because it's easier that way. [thinking, "Duh?"]
Dad: Wouldn't it be easier to take the kitchen trash can and go around the house collecting trash instead?
Me: No.

I could explain to him that no, the kitchen trash is larger, heavier and full of smelly kitchen trash so of course I don't want to drag it around the house. Meanwhile, the smaller trash cans in the office, bathroom, living room, etc. are generally small, light and full of stuff like paper, tissues, etc. so I take the office trash can and collect from all the small ones, then carry the garbage to add to the kitchen trash before bagging everything up to take to the curb. But honestly? It pisses me off that he feels the need to interrogate me about stuff like this. The trash gets taken out, he never has to do it, so what does he care? Why can't he just leave me in peace and recognize that I'm doing a perfectly fine job without his supervision?

It's not just about the trash, he does this with a LOT of everyday household stuff. I dread his, "Why are you doing X like Y?" questions because it doesn't matter what I say or how I explain it, he always thinks that whatever I'm doing is WRONG and there's a better way to do it that he'll explain to me like I'm a dimwit. This is particularly maddening because he does very little in the way of household chores. He never has. I do most of it, he'd be living in filth if I didn't. But that doesn't stop him from sincerely believing that I'm not washing dishes in the best way, or that I'm not packaging leftovers properly, or whatever. He CANNOT wrap his head around the possibility that hey, your grown ass adult daughter has done [insert mundane, low level task here] exclusively for years, of course she's figured out how to do it in the best way FOR HER, so stop asking questions about it or acting like it's a huge problem you need to solve for her, ESPECIALLY when you've never done [insert mundane, low level task here] in your whole goddamn adult life.

He's not trying to be an asshole, but I'm so tired of him acting like he's the expert on everything and I don't know shit.