"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.

Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.

The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.

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The odyssey another case of white washing or epic with seeing !

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I loved inception and other films by the director was hoping read what you guys thought ?
 

"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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I loved inception and other films by the director was hoping read what you guys thought ?
Inception didn't work for me; I couldn't get past the brain-wave ESP part of it. That said, it did a good try of showing the whackiness of dreams.
 

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It's watchable, though hardly one of CN's strongest films. I maintain he's at his best when directing smaller scale, personal flicks like Following, Memento and The Prestige. The finacial windfall he received via that garrishly overrated Dark Knight trilogy encouraged his more portentous urges
 

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It's watchable, though hardly one of CN's strongest films. I maintain he's at his best when directing smaller scale, personal flicks like Following, Memento and The Prestige. The finacial windfall he received via that garrishly overrated Dark Knight trilogy encouraged his more portentous urges
loved the dark knight most of my friends did as well .I believe his best work is yet to come !
 

"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"

You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.

Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.

Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.

Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.

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It's watchable, though hardly one of CN's strongest films. I maintain he's at his best when directing smaller scale, personal flicks like Following, Memento and The Prestige. The finacial windfall he received via that garrishly overrated Dark Knight trilogy encouraged his more portentous urges
The last movie of his that I watched was Dunkirk, which I liked. I haven’t watched Tenet, Oppenheimer, or The Odyssey, which is his latest one.

Either way, I like his movies, especially the way he incorporates the variable of time into them, like Interstellar, even though they can feel somewhat soulless as a whole.
 

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Eh, ignore the main criticisms that have been circulating, ie as the thread title implies - not so much "whitewashing" as "blackwashing".

Keep in mind that some people literally profit from stirring sh!t, esp on X.

Yes, the film features a Greece that has a few Negros. An Asian or two. Maybe a trans even, idk.

It doesn't detract from the story.

The original epic is mythology, so one would have to believe in magic and monsters, and accept that gods walk amongst mortals before getting upset about cosmetic discrepancies.

Actually the main deviation from the plot is the Hollywood ending (literally sailing off into the sunset).
In the book, Ulysses rounds up the surviving betrayers and has them tortured and executed.
This is the bit that's been "whitewashed".
Homer understood human nature all too well.

It's a long-ass movie and packed with details, even though I was familiar with the tale, there's much that I'd forgotten about.
My woman knew nothing of Homer's epic, but it's spurred her to research it.
She thinks Matt Damon turned out hot in his old age.

We'll be seeing it a second time around, maybe in Imax, though seats are booked for at least the next month
 

"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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