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AceofKnaves said:
You’d think I’d have been at least somewhat slutty by default since I’ve always been a “leading man” in packs of theatre kids literally my entire life, but I’ve barely ever been single while in productions, even going back to high school.
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Ironically, theatre is one of the best hobbies/interests for a straight man to find a partner. That's real, actionable advice, incels. You won't get that from Joe Rogan.
 
TheSameIdiot said:
I don't like Evil Dead 2, but I've only seen it once. I feel like my expectations were out of whack, so I want to give it another shot sometime this year.

Speaking of '90s superhero movies, my wife and I watched The Crow last night. I first watched it forever ago. Based on how much I remember, it must've been back in high school, some 15 years ago. It's a goofy-ass movie, but I have to give it credit for the style. It has a strong sense of time and place. I'm sure it was at least somewhat influenced by the Burton Batman movies: the miniature set, the production design, the gothic tone. The soundtrack still rocks. It's one degree above your average B-movie, but somehow it works.
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This is a weird recommendation, but the Evil Dead 2 commentary track with Bruce, Sam, and I think one of the effects dudes (I'm ashamed I can't recall off the top of my head but it's been a long week) is real good. They're just taking the piss out of the movie the whole time, ragging on Bruce, dropping behinds the scenes stuff. I think I've watched that version more than the actual movie.

As for the Crow, fun story, James O'Barr lived (probably still lives) more or less in the same general area I do. This is of course talking in Texas terms, but practically what it means is when I was doing comic conventions I'd see James all the damn time. We've done loads of the same live-arts, attended the same comic pro parties, etc. One of my favorite O'Barr moments was at some point one of the indie theaters in town was doing a midnight show of the Crow and me and a few of my comic studio mates went. We get our seats and notice sitting behind us is James and his usual crew. It's very clear the rest of the audience are just fans of the movie and have no clue he's in there. And James clearly recognizes us from shows and our various casual run-ins.

So there was this really great, nearly instantaneous, totally silent moment that passes between everyone where James is clearly telepathically telling us "don't say nothin'" and we're all responding "absolutely, we will not", and we all just watch the movie in peace and have a great time about it.

From all my run-ins with James he's a sweetheart btw. Humble and generally quiet (unless he gets started about cars, he's a Motor-City boy after all) and with a quirky sense of humor. Seems like just a nice dude. Haven't seen him in a bit since I've been out of the scene since a bit before COVID, but I hope he's still doing good.
 
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TheSameIdiot said:
This isn't a slight against you: a person's chances are much better when the women outnumber you 5:1.
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Oh their god my former football teammates were RELENTLESS trying to get introductions: theatre was the only activity on the all-boys campus that actually had girls!
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AceofKnaves said:
I’m truly not clear on that, since she openly despised all but two of my serious partners ever. Fortunately, my wife is one of the two, but the other was the WORST one.
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My parents, especially my mom, were always on my ass about dating, possibly because they are hardcore fundies and they were probably worried their theater loving son would be gay. Like you though, whenever I DID date, they absolutely hated her. One girlfriend they were pretty relentless with, to the point that she and I stayed together WAY longer than we probably would have just to spite them. If they'd just kept their mouths shut, she and I would likely have gone our separate ways in a few months...but we wound up dating for four freaking years!
AceofKnaves said:
Being largely clueless to romantic/sexual social cues, physically respectful to a fault but also a *tenacious* “never quit, make it work” serial monogamist, I have had a storied romantic life. You’d think I’d have been at least somewhat slutty by default since I’ve always been a “leading man” in packs of theatre kids literally my entire life, but I’ve barely ever been single while in productions, even going back to high school.
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This is me as well. I was/am definitely a serial monogamist, and theater...well, I was usually the "token straight guy". I even tried, at one point, to be the slutty theater guy when I was doing a Rocky Horror shadow cast in-between shows. I can't speak to the psychology behind it, but when I was playing Frank N Furter I had more female attention than at any other time in my life, and hey...I tried to go with that rock star energy. It just didn't work for me...I'd inevitably wind up in a relationship, and I'd also feel terrible if I in any way hurt someone. Sure, I was upfront and honest about where things stood, but human nature being what it is...someone always gets hurt. I just don't like being that guy, so I inevitably wound up in a long term, monogamist relationship.
TheSameIdiot said:
Ironically, theatre is one of the best hobbies/interests for a straight man to find a partner. That's real, actionable advice, incels. You won't get that from Joe Rogan.
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For REAL. First off, you'll be a big fish in a little pond. Most of your castmates will either be ladies or gay men...and I'm not gonna lie...having gay men flirt with you is as much of a giant ego boost as it is from the ladies. Also, those gay dudes are gonna give you some great advice about whatever lady you're interested in. Hell, even if you aren't into getting on stage, then work the crew! Most productions need some crew people, and there is something to be said for a guy who is handy.
AceofKnaves said:
Oh no irony: I wasn’t single because I was literally always dating someone in or connected to the theatre.
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Looking back on all my serious relationships, they were either castmates, or friends/family of castmates! My first wife? Met her in a theater production. Second wife? She was a relative of a castmate I became friends with (and we started dating after she came to a show I was in). My current s/o? Yeah, met her through some theater nerd friends. It's a running theme throughout my life!
TheSameIdiot said:
This isn't a slight against you: a person's chances are much better when the women outnumber you 5:1.
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WORD!
AceofKnaves said:
Oh their god my former football teammates were RELENTLESS trying to get introductions: theatre was the only activity on the all-boys campus that actually had girls!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Oh man, in High School I wound up becoming friends with most of the Football team, which was odd since I wasn't athletic at all. One of the football guys figured out that the choir was full of hot girls, and decided to take it as an elective. The next year, half the team was taking choir! I got to know all those guys because of it, and even persuaded a couple of them to join the theater group too. I was a geeky, gothic theater guy who usually hung out with the punks and skaters....but I had all these jock friends too. It was surreal! Sure, it narrowed my dating pool because so many dudes were suddenly in choir, but that was okay since I had the theater thing going for me.
 
Just got around to watching Weapons last night. Liked it a lot more than Barbarian. Still don’t fully understand the antagonist’s motivation but that’s ok. I gave it a 4/5 on Letterboxd.
 
The Life Of Chuck

Pretty slight but it's got a super watchable cast, and there's a sweet melancholy to it that makes it catnip to a sap like me.

My pals have all been nagging me to watch K-Pop Demon Hunters but I'm not big on musicals and I'm really not big on animation so I'm stubbornly holding out till I'm on my deathbed or something.
 
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