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FRICKING WHAT
November 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Thank you! Tell your friends!
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Basically what I'm saying is that the Mortal Kombat character Sub-Zero isn't very impressive in most countries
November 30, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Payoff
November 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I've explained that already?
November 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
That's wild, I thought there were no paperback copies of V2 available yet
November 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Why do you think they ended it the way they did?
November 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
How come you have a paperback edition of V2
November 29, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Did you enjoy A House of Dynamite?
November 29, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Technically I didn't need to, but I had to change a very large number of other names/locations/titles/numbers, so I decided to change everything, including Marion's name. Creates a cleaner break: Marion Wheeler is SCP. Marie Quinn is all mine
November 29, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Of course they can! They're the filmmakers! It's their film, they can do anything!
November 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Five minutes would have done it. The film has a three part structure with an epilogue of a few minutes, plenty of time to wrap up without breaking from real time

When you say "did its job well" I'm not sure what you mean
November 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
In particular, everybody arriving at Raven Rock in the final scene knows exactly what happened - and whether the US initiated a response. But we don't get anything. The film promises hard payoff - relief or devastation - three times, and then denies us
November 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
It doesn't make sense to appeal to uncertainty here. Either there will be a huge atomic explosion or the missile will be a dud and nothing will happen. The outcome will be immediately obvious to nearly every character in the film. Either outcome could have been delivered satisfyingly
November 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM