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Kneebenders are now present.
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This causes me to experience ptsd after seeing the video of the guy on the leg press machine.
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Uggggh why did you have to remind me of that shit.
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Or the guy that jumps down from the turnbuckle in the wrestling ring.
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If I see leg press video now I click away immediately. The thought of that video has re-traumatized me
B
One day someone should upload a leg press video to r/wtf where nothing goes wrong. How would that be WTF? “Well, Someone didn’t get horrible hurt for a change!”
M
> If I see leg press video now I click away immediately. There’s an entire subreddit dedicated to it. But *r_FullFlamingo* is mostly dead now.
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fk.. no clue what video youre referring to but just reading that made me flinch. For anyone who might offer the link – No thank you.
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Catastrophic reverse knee failure. Enjoy!
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I’m thinking alien DNA
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The end of the movie The Arrival
A
Oh my god, thank you. I’ve always had that scene of the kid’s legs bending back and running off into that arid wilderness firmly lodged in my memory, but I had no idea what it was from. Had to do a little googlefu to find it through all the articles about Arrival (2016) though.
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I love these little moments. Enjoy.
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Can you link it?
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Knarly
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Where’s that video?
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Here’s [Sid Vicious](https://youtu.be/XjJHYGu669w?si=nc7TT7f4cjWjhnfc) breaking his leg in WCW
G
Or the more recent upload of the farm tractor on /r/CrazyFuckingVideos
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[The Arrival](https://media1.tenor.com/m/pvzFQsWQHyQAAAAC/arrival-alien.gif)
D
Oh shit, is that the movie where Charlie Sheen basically plays Gordon Freeman like a year before that character exists?
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Glad to know I’m not the only one who thought he looked like Gordon.
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Me too, glad we found each other
D
I was going to be real disappointed if I opened this post and this wasn’t the top comment.
M
Bootleg Charlie Sheen Contact
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1996 The Arrival with Charlie Sheen.
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Not only did Arrival come out first its a better film.
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Comparing these is weird. One is a film built around a conspiracy that aliens have infested us at a top level in a “They Live”-like scenario. It is almost exactly like the premise of They Live except in They Live the xenos are fine with humans surviving and even copulate with them. Whereas in The Arrival they’re trying to actively kill off humanity to take over the planet. Contact is a film that is a mixture of belief and science, the politics of interacting with xenos, and an underlying idea or premise that the entire thing was an AR project by a billionaire. Xenos appear once – at the end – in a form comfortable to the viewer, and the implication is that they are establishing contact to start the path toward welcoming Earth into a galactic milieu. There’s no fighting. No threat to earth beyond humanity itself. No wars. No black hole bombs. And the conspiracy aspect is mostly a one liner and disproven much later by a senator?? (I think she’s a senator) who remarks that the main character managed to get footage equal to the time she said she was in the wormhole. These films are about as comparable as an apple to an orange. They are fruit i.e. films about science fiction, but provide different forms of satiety. It’s ok to prefer The Arrival. We are humans who have opinions and tastes, although I think Contact is a far more emotional and touching film personally.
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You’re right, Stamos. Contact is objectively the better film. The Arrival was decent though.
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I love them both. I’ll forever remember the kid’s knees popping backward.
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> We are humans who have opinions and tastes /r/TotallyNotRobots
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Beep boop.
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You didn’t say Carl Sagan wrote Contact. I’m back to remind how often hollywood makes co… colon… colonosco… clones. Contact is a 1985 hard science fiction novel by American scientist Carl Sagan. It deals with the theme of contact between humanity and a more technologically advanced extraterrestrial life form. u/voxious Now you tell me Deep Impact is better than Steve B [making a Strangelove meme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wb8oT32f7s).
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Extremely long winded way to say you preferred Contact while chiding them for having their own preference.
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I like that you edited your comment after getting a massive amount of downvotes. I didn’t chide him in any capacity. Only that they’re not really comparable. In fact, I quite literally say “it’s totally ok to like one over the other, but not fair to compare…”
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You can clearly see the comment isn’t edited, I edited this as an example. I made a new comment because the first comment just said “k”, so I made the point explicitly instead. You wouldn’t have seen it otherwise. I wouldn’t call 3 downvotes “a massive amount”, but you’re free to obsess about karma if you want lmao. You chided them by calling it weird to compare the films, followed by a series of verbose paragraphs about why they shouldn’t do that. >”it’s totally ok to like one over the other, but not fair to compare…” lol, you have to understand how this is a meaningless sentence, right? It’s a one sentence comment in a casual conversation about movies, they’re not trying to objectively dissect story structure or something like a film school dissertation; of course they’re just talking about their preference. Your comment was essentially a long way to say *”well that’s just your opinion, man, but PERSONALLY, I liked Contact more”*. You obviously knew what they meant based on your little “it’s okay to have opinions” disclaimer, but you had to correct their word choice?
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My apologies. You’re right. You deleted your original downvoted comment only to make another more asinine one. You seem to have a lot at stake here. I wish you well.
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I hope you have fun writing paragraphs to tell people they’re actually only stating their opinion.
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No, no Arrival came out in 2016 and it’s a better film than both Contact and The Arrival.
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Only one of these statements is accurate.
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I looked this up, having not thought about it since it came out in theaters and was surprised that this was not the movie in which James Gandolfoni turns out to be a bad guy. The movie I was thinking of was Terminal Velocity, which came out a couple years before The Arrival. What really surprised mr to rediscover how much of a tear Charlie Sheen was on from about 1990 until this movie. He was in stuff before that range, but in this era he was really killing it, pretty much ending with The Arrival, after which his credits were never quite at that level imo in terms of having national theater runs or his top billing. When Two and a Half Men was on, I remember thinking that he used to be a big name movie guy, but until now I really forgot just how big he was. Another surprising thing I found out in perusing his IMDb page, is that he did 100 episodes of the show he got after leaving (or being kicked off) 2.5 Men. Like, right after, and right in the middle of the ongoing controversy surrounding his personal and professional life. It’s kind of wild that a guy can have that much of a public melt down that focused on basically how bad a person he was to work with, amongst other things, and he can continue to star in another long running show.* *I got sucked into the rabbit hole a bit further. Anger Management had 100 episodes over 4 years, but only 2 seasons. The Trivia page says that after the 1st 10 ep season, they decided to film the next 90 specifically to get into syndication. That’s pretty weird and I’m sure there’s an interesting story into why they did that, but I can’t really allow myself to get bogged down even longer on a question that basically started out with me mistaking The Arrival as a neat little role for a pre-Sopranos Gandolfini.
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My first thought as well.
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The “How Did This Get Made?” podcast did a great episode on it.
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Movies that make you go WTF did I just watch?
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The Forgotten
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Thank you, didn’t want to have to go find it!
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What in the animorphs?
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This, the good one with Charlie Sheen, not that bad one with Amy Adams
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The Arrival is Charlie Sheen. Arrival is Amy Adams.
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So the The Arrival is the good one and the Arrival is the bad one.
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Arrival Amy Adams is great wtf do you mean
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I honestly might go to war with that person joking or not. Arrival is probably my most suggested movie. God it’s fantastic.
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