"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"

You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.

And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.

Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.

The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.

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Francisco d'Anconia

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PRMoon said:
That was a slick film. The humor level was off the scale. These marvel movies get better and better. I'd really like to see a Moonknight movie but I know it'll never happen since the character is too similar to batman. I'd also like to see DC step it up and make a Green Lantern film or something. Superman and Batman are the only DC characters that get any props. A Movie involving Dark Seide and Orion would be cool too.
After Dark Knight and possibly The Incredible Hulk I think Wolverine will be the next big hit.
 

"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.

Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?

You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.

Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.

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The theatrical Incredible Hulk is a studio cut, the actor and director fought but lost to get their cut of the film on screen. The Wolvie film will be good, since it is a less studio controlled production, the main actor's own production company has the most creative liberties.

Anyways, DC really only has one decent character to showcase - Batman. They really killed the Superman franchise with Superman Returns. Justice League is DOA... aside from that, there are rumors circulating of a Green Arrow film, but its not a cape and tights type of film, it is codenamed "Supermax".

Source: Slashfilms

“He’s Green Arrow for the first 10 minutes of the movie, and then he’s arrested and his secret identity is revealed,” Goyer told Wizard. “They shave his goatee and they take his costume and send him to prison for life, and he has to escape. It’s like ‘Alcatraz,’ and he has to team up with, in some cases, some of the very same villains he is responsible for incarcerating in order to get out and clear his name. Of course, tons of people try to kill him while he’s in there. We’ve populated the prison with all sorts of B and C villains from the DC Universe. For the fans, there will be all sorts of characters the hardcore comic book junkies will know, but they’re all going to be there under their human names and no one is wearing a costume, but there will be a lot of characters with powers and things like that.”
Aside from that, most DC characters have a certain cheese factor to them.
 

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Francisco d'Anconia said:
Remember the scene when he's walking into his charity event at his first public appearance after his escape...

HB: (waving franticly) TONY! TONY! Remember me!!!????

TS: (walking past without looking at HB) I certainly don't.

Priceless... :up:

Omg I absolutely LOVED that part, so funny!!:up: :up: :up: :up:
 

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This movie could've used more action in the Mark 3 suit, but overall it was good. Tony Stark all the way.
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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"Ok, we are going to try this on ten percent power in 3, 2, 1..."
 
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