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AeronMelon t1_j2gu7cs wrote

Meet Joe Black, for anyone wondering.

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TerranPhil t1_j2guncl wrote

I can relate. I am relating.

One day at a time, supposedly.

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oneflytree t1_j2gvvxw wrote

Is this Brad Pitt playing the part of his children?

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angstt t1_j2gwk2a wrote

So... same as the last 2 New Years?

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kaloki89 t1_j2gyabe wrote

Fuckin RIGHT!?!? omfg this spoke to my soul 😭

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TylerDurdenUMD t1_j2h1et0 wrote

First time I ever screamed “what the fuck?!?!” in front of my parents.

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socksnsweaters t1_j2h3qn6 wrote

I know this is terrible, but I laugh SO hard at this scene. Every time. The first time it was just so unexpected and slapstick I couldn't help it, and now it just reminds me of how many times I said "What the fuck?!" while laughing.

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Gotta say I've never been surprised by a car hit in a movie since.

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dactat t1_j2h48vi wrote

It’s an older gif but it checks out.

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IIIMephistoIII t1_j2h58de wrote

Me right now getting Covid 2 days ago… for the first time ever.

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roblar73 t1_j2h5ijz wrote

Only good part of the movie.

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kharlos t1_j2hbs6j wrote

I see this a lot, but I think that if you think every year is just as bad or worse than the last, that's just you getting old and depressed.

It's normal to think the world is worse than it was when you were young. You'll seek out news and information to confirm that feeling.

It's good to maintain some perspective and be critical of your feelings. Having a bad year is normal, but the world isn't any worse than it was 100 years ago unless you're focusing on very specific cherry picked criteria.

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notwearingatie t1_j2hc5k5 wrote

I mean, I appreciate your sentiment but even without cherry-picked criteria the planet as a whole is definitely worse. The environment, climate change, the risk of Mutually Assured Destruction. All pretty substantial things that weren't a threat 100 years ago.

That doesn't mean things aren't improving in other areas. But those improvements are meaningless if we're killing the planet.

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zakatana t1_j2hdmh5 wrote

I had never realized how unrealistic this accident scene is.

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Roxxso t1_j2hfokm wrote

I saw this in the theater and laughed my ass off when he got hit. So out of left field and the double bounce was fucking priceless.

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sacredfool t1_j2hg0r2 wrote

Hmmm.... You mean the wonderful 1920s?

Where large industry was totally unregulated, pollution was through the roof, workers had no rights and deadly workplace accidents were the daily norm?

Where anyone who tried to improve or protest those conditions was accused of being a communist and arrested, maimed or openly killed by the police?

The world which just emerged from a war that killed more people in a week than the whole Ukraine conflict and was heading into the largest financial crisis recorded, which would in turn give rise to another such war?

Yeah, I'd totally love to live in those times!

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Amraith t1_j2hhiso wrote

No. Cross the streets with you head held high. Show that asphalt who's the boss.

That's right, we're the dominant species here. We made you. You're just another petrol based invention Mr.Road, screw you.

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Dicethrower t1_j2hpje4 wrote

How I felt when I read Russia decided to launch a big attack while Ukrainians were celebrating.

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LazyGandalf t1_j2hr5p7 wrote

Historically speaking things are great right now, and in some areas there have been huge improvements compared to just a decade or two ago. One big problem though is that some key areas of living are definitely going in the wrong direction compared to a few decades ago, which is a time frame many people can personally relate to. For example millennials are poorer than their parents were, which is pretty much unprecedented in the last couple of centuries.

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Chibibowa t1_j2i0x68 wrote

To be fair. The van didn’t even try to stop.

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TheCzar11 t1_j2i24kt wrote

I never laughed so hard in a movie theater. After this scene though me and my girlfriend at the time fell asleep and woke up at the end of the movie. Very odd.

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rlovelock t1_j2i5ma5 wrote

This scene is my highest ever upvoted comment on YouTube. Like 3.1k! I think the only time I've ever reached double digits on a YouTube comment.

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Kidspud t1_j2i6ynn wrote

I did the same thing watching Taken. Liam Neeson chases the bad guy, the bad guy makes an improbable leap to get away, the characters stare at each other… then the bad guy gets pancaked by a truck. It was so outlandish that I couldn’t help but laugh.

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Unable_Phase2122 t1_j2i7gie wrote

Oh my gosh!! I’ve always loved this movie and especially this scene. When I I first saw it in the theater a young adult came in eight before the scene and sat in the back. When this happened he let out one of the loudest laughs like Will Smith in Fresh Prince, then he walked out. Normally I would have found this rude but for some reason it was hilarious. I might not have realized how funny this was if he had not made it so obvious. I’ve wondered for years whether this movie was intended as a comedy or not.

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guitarguy1685 t1_j2ibnfk wrote

I was genuinely shocked when I first saw that scene.

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Lirdon t1_j2ibpes wrote

Now it makes so much sense. She had so much screen presence and was pretty good in this movie, and just… yeah, no roles or anything. Never thought of that.

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Rithela t1_j2icru0 wrote

Yeah basically my year already.

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Audax2 t1_j2ig6d5 wrote

That’s literally a plot point though. The father knows he’s death, and everyone is bewildered as to who this random guy hanging around is, to the point where it causes issues with the board of his company.

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notwearingatie t1_j2ipqlc wrote

Tell me more about how the three things I specified; the environment, climate change and MAD were worse (despite the latter not yet existing as a concept) 100 years ago. Can't wait for this 'history' lesson.

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Polyhedron11 t1_j2isym6 wrote

You can't set aside the fact you literally said "the planet as a whole is worse" and deflect to just those three things. The person you just replied to was responding to your whole comment not just your cherry picked part.

I'm currently laying on a cheap non fancy couch curled up in a $20 Costco blanket. I've been displaced from my home due to a tree falling on it just days before Christmas.

My point is, I'm living better than a king from the medieval times. I'm eating better, more comfortable, have access to medical technology that would seem like witchcraft on crack, and yet I'm homeless and have no job.

More people today have a better life than the entire population back then. Are people still suffering? Fuck ya. Yet, crime of many kinds has been steadily declining, as well as other things as well.

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bvknight t1_j2izr14 wrote

It's not a comedy, it's a drama romance about life. Pitt plays Death, inhabiting the body of a freshly killed young man (guess how). This scene is funny as a gif but it's shocking in the movie.

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CaptStrangeling t1_j2j30s2 wrote

I rewound the VHS like 5 times because I thought this was hilarious at the time! I’m so disturbed by reading about Weinstein and the abuse of power that represents. But, no, it probably wasn’t supposed to be as funny as it is, not many chuckles after that but Claire Forlani and Brad Pitt made it a great movie.

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Snuffaluffakuss t1_j2jb45h wrote

Same. I lost my temper last night after drinking a bit and said something rude to my gf. Didn’t know she went inside when I thought she left to go get some space. Instead she was pouring everyone champagne including my parents to toast to new year just after midnight.

I then said “why are you so fucking dumb” in front of my family to her and she now is driving home 9 hours after originally planning to spend a couple weeks up north with me at my place.

I fucked up so bad and I fear it’s over for good.

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hogger85 t1_j2jeho2 wrote

The noble peace prize was set up as Alfred Nobel worried his explosive would be used to end the world , and in 1914-1918 it was used to horrific extent in ww1 the war to end all.wars. anyone int he trenches of Normandy it was pretty apocalyptic and people.worried that could spread. Villages had Pals regiments and literally lost an generations of young men

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Ocean_Again t1_j2jvmlf wrote

You don’t see many ford areostars anymore.

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Avser t1_j2jyiop wrote

i used to think this was real back in the early 2000s

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Earth_Worm_Jimbo t1_j2k3s1f wrote

Obviously I would just assume a dummy, but it continues acting life-like while in the air.

“Stuntmen react” on Corridor Digital has taught me sometimes when you think “no way a person is doing that” sometimes indeed a person is doing that

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Dia-De-Los-Muertos t1_j2kbedh wrote

Look, not everyone knows it was actually a real accident that occurred while filming. Poor Brad Pitt never walked again. They say that CGI in film came on leaps and bounds in order to make it seem like Brad was walking again in all his consecutive movies.

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notwearingatie t1_j2kzjb5 wrote

Seems like you missed the last sentence from my original comment then. Your $20 Costco blanket, whilst great, isn't indicative of the planets condition. It won't save you when this rock becomes uninhabitable to live on.

Seems like my down-voters and replyers are all focusing on the human element, and not what my original comment was addressed at... The Earth. And we wonder why we are in this mess.

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jfduval76 t1_j2l4vcd wrote

It’s not the special effect the problem here, it’s the delivery and the editing that’s comedic. I can make an abstraction of the technology of the time for an old movie. Bad editing is still bad. 1993 Jurassic Park CGI didn’t aged that well but it’s still a better movie than all the recent Jurassic World movies.

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daveescaped t1_j2l93rz wrote

There is something unjust about being killed by a Ford Aerostar.

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