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The Town (2010).
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Every now and then I watch a movie that when the credits roll I kinda facepalm and wonder why in the ever living fuck I didn’t watch it earlier.
The Town is a movie I avoided because it looked like a Heat/The Departed mash up and also came out about the time most of my friends were into Sons of Anarchy which I found pretty lame and was kinda burned out on crime movies.
Fuck 2010 me.
This movie was incredible. Nothing short of incredible. Ben Affleck and Jeremy Renner absolutely kill in their roles. Both of them, it’s easily some of their best work.
The life they bring to their roles (also Blake Lively straight up kills her role) is supremely authentic. They walk talk act like hoodrats from Charlestown, and the whole movie is SO much more than a heist flick.
I dare say, as much as I loved Heat, I found The Town to be a much more compelling human story that also was an incredibly exciting heist flick.
Top Comment: The Florist is one of the most menacing characters you'll ever see.
The town of Redditt in Ontario, Canada
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Top Comment: appropriately, it's a godforsaken shithole far outside the boundaries of civilization.
Show me your town!
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You can post pictures of your entire town or your favorite parts.
I love seeing how other people decorate and layout their town, it gives me ideas on how to make mine more realistic and aesthetically pleasing.
Top Comment: FUN DAY AT THE BEACH AND BOARDWALK!
I found a town named redditt in northern ontario. thought it ...
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What’s the coziest town in the US you’ve been to?
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I live in the US, but the best towns I’ve visited have been throughout Europe. They’re often easy to navigate, beautiful, and full of history. The US is obviously a very different place, but I’m curious which towns have a similarly pleasant feel.
Top Comment: Newburyport MA, Portland ME, Burlington VT (In summer!)
The Town
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So, I’m like everyone else eagerly waiting for the new episode, I literally binged the show, the mystery and everything is just so amazing, mostly because I’m so confused lmao.
But I had a theory about the town, now apologies for the geek out but bear with me.
The Town IS a town, it has a communal “pool” a “hotel”, a diner, a church, communal house, houses, farm etc. But it’s a random spattering yes? It’s like that one episode in Doctor Who, I’m not sure if anyone’s watched it, it’s called “The God Complex”. I’ll explain:
There is an “Earth” 70s style Hotel based on a non earth place, it has a hotel reception, hotel rooms, hotel kitchen, hotel communal area and some other space I don’t know what it was. And in each room, is a person’s fear. There is a Minotaur like creature that hunts the people that meet their fear in their room. Originally, The Doctor assumes that the Creature is killing the people because of their fear and tells the people trapped to have faith and have hope. Turns out, that is exactly what the Creature feeds off, when people are scared they fall back on their most base faith or hope and then, at the last moment takes everything away leaving the victim empty.
Back to the matter, I think that’s what the Town and the Things could be like. The Town is a replica of “human things”, whoever made it knew what a hotel looked like but not the intricacies, not the way electricity works or the plugs, not the minuscule details to perfect the illusion, just like the 70s Earth Hotel that’s not really a Hotel in Doctor Who. It understands the concept but not the basics.
Now, these Things, we’ve seen them, everything about them, EVERYTHING is about fear. Their expressions, their use of psychological manipulation rather than physical even though they very well could, their words, their routines, even how they walk, they never run they walk. Like Michael Myers, he could run but why should he? He has an objective and he knows he’ll complete it. These things feed on fear, and even though they liked taunting Randall, they couldn’t really toy with him that much because he didn’t show fear. Maybe they want to play games or maybe they need these people to be afraid.
There’s a lot of talk about the Things being Dark Fae, malevolent, mischievous creatures that do prey and seek to scare their victims for fun. But I’m not so sure, Boyd already tried silver bullets, and I know Iron is more a weapon against Fae but it’s a whole town, surely they came across iron rods or iron fences or something.
They don’t strike me as creatures that TO THEIR KNOWLEDGE have a well known weakness or weapon against them, if they were fae they’d know about the iron and salt sometimes is a thing as well. But the Smiling Guy when Boyd passed on that bug thingy, was not even concerned until something actively started killing him. The Things crowded him slowly and while curious then just walked off. Though there are lots of Welsh and Celtic undertones and references to folklore.
IDK that’s just my thoughts.
Top Comment: I've thought this for a long time. There's no conductive material in the "electrical wires" yet there are working lights and electronics. There is no source for the water or destination for the sewage, yet there is working plumbing. The intelligence that created this place has only a passing superficial knowledge of how these things work, like a child would, but has no idea of the intricacies of how they truly function. It's much like how a child, with no understanding of the depth of something, might recreate an environment that duplicates what they see, but without knowing how anything functions. The town is much like the castle at the bottom of a fish tank, or the town in a model train set. It looks superficially real, but it's just there for show.
For those who live in a small town, what are the pros & cons?
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If you live in a small town (or have previously), tell us about it! What state? Approximate population? (can provide a range for anonymity) Best and worst aspects? Is it worth it?
Top Comment: The smallest town I lived in was 7k people. Beautiful and historical, with an actual walkable downtown so that was actually nice. But it was also parochial and lacked access to many things. Frequently drove an hour just to do stuff or buy things or even something like eat at a restaurant because most of the ones in town were either overpriced or not great. Also it’s nice, even when I go back now, certain people recognize me and it’s nice to feel like part of a community. But it also sucks when everyone is up in your business. I know people from “real small towns” of a couple hundred or less will say I lived in a small city but honestly, what they talk about just sounds like the same but more pronounced.