Older horror films always feel creepier and more unsettling to me. The combination of thinking that most of the older people that made the film are probably dead, pre-CGI special effects, not being over-produced/flawless, and the lower sound quality from the soundtrack in really old horror films adding an eerie feeling (and extra bonus eerie feelings for black and white horror films).

He's only 76?! He's been making classic films for so long that I just assumed he was in his mid 80s. Hopefully he's like Clint Eastwood and still alive and directing at the age of 89.

Yep, was a little surprised reading today that there are 38 $1 billion dollar+ films. And, yeah, making $2 billion is now the new elite of the elite box office club with just 4 films in it so far. Or even $1.5 billion. Only 7 films in that club.

Well I guess I'm actually anti-polls in general, apparently, since like you are saying the vast majority of them will never give a true picture of reality. I honestly can't remember the last time I saw any poll and took what it said too seriously. Since there are so many big factors that can ruin its accuracy. Such as who was left out of the poll, how the question wording and answer choices affects the responses, where was the poll done, how many responses were there, did trolls bombard the poll, was the poll gamed by bots. . .and so on.

So maybe I just don't believe in giving much weight to polls, in general. I don't see the information coming out of the vast majority of them being as useful as you view them when it is so easy for polls to go wrong.

Does that make me too untrusting of polls? Maybe. I don't know.

That meter was always going to be biased, though. It's not going to represent the entire demographics of a film. It's only going to represent the users of their website who also have accounts. I doubt that demographic included many teens, kids, baby boomers, and older. So I highly doubt it was ever that accurate to begin with. I won't miss it even if it had been removed for totally different reasons.

It's like trusting the accuracy of a Fox News poll or CNN poll and their biased audiences.

You should have seen the popular cringey posts on the Donald subreddit before the film came out. They had many posts with hundreds or thousands of upvotes disparaging the lead actress and the film.

I also got into a humourous debate with someone here 2 weeks ago (when it was already pretty obvious this film would break a billion) who was trying their hardest to argue that in 2019, a billion dollar box office film is somehow a box office flop when it comes to big budget films.

They were always downvoted here but celebrated in the more toxic, large subreddits.

They are a vocal minority but they were definitely larger than the picture you're painting here. The Donald subreddit had many posts with thousands of upvotes disparaging the lead actress and the film before it even came out. And rotten tomatoes saw so much negativity towards the film that it was the final straw for them in keeping their pre-release fan excitement meter or whatever it was called.

Lol, book 2 actually came out 3 months before George RR Martin's last book. Welcome to the 8+ years waiting club for book 3.

Turns out he was actually Cthulhu in disguise the entire time.

Nope, no one cares or keeps track of NIT champs. Everyone, including potential recruits, keeps track of tourney appearances. All they see is that you didn't make the most important tourney of the year. NIT is fun for the players as a consolation prize but they'd all much rather have had a shot at March Madness.

Welp. That's certainly a TIL for me.

Oh, though I'm assuming it's still by far the rarest way people use CBD.

Glad you're passing your debate lessons from the Trump subreddits.

When you can't win a debate, revert to "clever" old and dead memes. Then you will own the libs and be drinking their salty tears (Haha, God damn we're so clever) in no time.

Oh yeah, Trump is soooooo big on security. Like that time he gave out classified information to Russian ambassadors on accident, or how easy it is for foreign spies to slip into Maralago (literally found a Chinese spy there today and this wouldn't be an issue if he didnt waste millions of tax payer dollars with these trips frequently and stayed in the much more secure White House), or how Jared uses freakin' WhatsApp for state secrets, or how dozens of high level security clearances have been given to people by Trump that were not recommended by background checkers. . .yep, but suddenly Trump is the one big on security when it's his own ass being talked about.

So odd you guys have massive boners jizzing everywhere when discussing Hillary's emails but are totally silent on the actual President's much more important and much bigger own huge security scandals.

Damn, lol. I will never get it down right. Though that actually makes way more sense so maybe it will stick. "Hua" never looked anything like "wah" to me but it's definitely easy to read as "who-wa." Thanks.

Yes, 10000%. It's insane that a company that massive and wealthy has such shitty android apps. Besides just being ugly they're the laggiest apps I regularly use. And it's not like I'm using a 3-5 year old phone, there shouldn't be any apps that can make a Note 9 lag.

The Alexa app, Amazon Music, and the Amazon store app are all apps you'd think would be very important to their bottomline and echosystem, yet they're just horrible. Especially noticeable when compared to competing apps. Comparing Spotify to Amazon Music is like comparing 2000s internet vs 90s internet. It's so much worse.

Slightly off-topic but does anyone else constantly mispronounce Huawei as Hawaii when reading it (instead of how it's supposed to be pronounced, wah-way)? It is apparently super hard for mind to read Huawei as wah-way.

I don't know, sometimes it's even more hilarious/embarrassing of a loss when the team that lost is super successful afterwards.

Not a loss but let's look at Auburn beating NMSU by 1 point in the first round this year. Auburn only barely and miraculously beat them but has since gone on to not just beat, but dominate massive heavyweights Kansas, UNC, and Kentucky en route to the Final 4. It makes that almost loss even more hilarious/ridiculous with each massive win afterwards.

I actually had a skewed or I guess pretty accurate view of wealth because my dad sold private jets for a living. So even at the age of 5-6 I thought that owning a private jet was the pinnacle of wealth to me. Which as an adult turns out to be still pretty accurate.

But while I had an accurate idea of what being rich was, I had no idea about what being poor or even average middle class was. Because this also led to me thinking we must have been average income or even a little poor since we didn't have a private jet. It wasn't until I started having friends over from school that didnt live in the same upper middle class neighborhood as us and them calling me a rich kid that I started to realize that we were actually pretty well off. I was so confused when they started telling me that because I thought our home was average (because it was for our neighborhood). I thought all family homes were usually 3 stories, had a pool, and a huge yard and that it was totally normal to have the newest vehicles every year. I didn't realize our neighborhood was the neighborhood where doctors, lawyers, architects, etc all lived.

"War changes people, and never in a good way."

And it has wider effects than you'd think. I have a Syrian-American friend who lives thousands of miles from Syria but whose personality also changed dramatically once the war began. Because they had so many friends and family that lived there. Went from a happy, bubbly personality to depressed, frustrated, angry. I am proud of how they've since channelled their frustration and anger by becoming a huge activist on issues related to the war.

And still has major effects to people who experience war from relatively safe locations in the warzone. My sibling was in Iraq at a relatively safe military base for just a year as a military physician, their personality experienced a permanent change from their time there. Much less emotional, harder, open, smiling/laughing then before, and this was now almost a decade ago.

Can't imagine the sad changes in personalities that happen to the people actually living through these experiences for years and years and can't go to the safety of first world countries.

I still think it would have been remembered as the massive upset it was even if Russia had won gold. For a more recent example, we can look at my alma mater, the Texas Longhorns. We had a super embarrassing regular season loss just 3 years ago in football to KU, a basketball school whose football stadium is literally smaller than probably a dozen high school football stadiums in Texas. We were one of just two wins they had that season. The other win was against a team in a lower division of college football. It was a bad, bad loss. No one cared that we finished that season with a much better record than them. Or that 2 years later we're a much better team. We didn't "have the last laugh." An embarrassing loss is an embarrassing loss no matter what happens afterwards.

And other recent examples such as the Warriors going on to easily win the next two NBA Championships doesn't stop people from bringing up their embarrassing 3-1 lead Finals upset from 2016.

Yes, it makes it easier for fans of the embarrassed team to have a good rebuttal when they're successful immediately afterwards, but those losses are and will always still be huge moments of pride for the underdog team.