You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.
For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.
Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.
The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.
Most guys accidentally kill attraction before they even speak. They assume they need a bigger bank account, a better physique, or smoother lines. They miss the point.
Female desire operates on a specific set of psychological triggers. Break them, and you're invisible. Follow them, and you become magnetic.
I learned this the hard way. Years of freezing up. Getting friend-zoned. Watching other guys walk away with the girl I wanted. Then I discovered a set of 22 simple rules that rewired my entire approach.
Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."
You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.
She's been waiting forty minutes.
Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.
I guess I shouldve mentioned Im looking only for dramas. Nevertheless thanks for the list as I see many I should watch.bradd80 said:Scarface (tony montana dies, but not without a fight fvck yeah)
American beauty (just when Kevin spacey basically tell everyone to go fvck themselves and starts to enjoy life on his terms, he's shot in the head)
psycho (that chick when she dies in the shower scene)
the decaprio in both titanic and the departed
gran torino (eastwood dies at the end so his neighborhood can live in peace)
saving private ryan (tom hanks dies after giving private ryan a bit of advice)
300 (all the Greek soldiers die)
black swan
million dollar baby
Alien 3
Gladiator (the general/gladiator maximus - played by Russell crowe - is stabbed to death by the emperor)
the matrix (at the end of the third movie, neo sacrifices himself to save humanity)
V for Vendetta
Cool Hand Luke ("What we've got here, is a failure to communicate")
blair witch project (all 3 kids die at the end in the building)
the shining (jack freezes to death while trying to hunt down his son)
reservoir dogs (everyone dies in the end)
sixth sense
the boy in the striped pyjamas
the others (the mother smothered her kids with a pillow and shot herself in the head with a rifle)
OP, there's actually quite a few
Bible_Belt said:I am Legend - although there was a director's cut ending where everybody lived.
In the original script for Natural Born Killers, both Mickey and Mallory die at the end, killed by the Owen guy who helps them escape prison. They left the foreshadowing scenes in the movie though.
Bruce Willis dies at the end of Armageddon. Tom Cruise dies at the end of Oblivion. Arnie dies at the end of Christine.
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.
Will check those out, loved "Oldboy" 2003 version.taiyuu_otoko said:check out some of the Korean thrillers / horror movies on Netflix.
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