Yep. That Ninja Scroll. It really did not work.
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Thatās a pretty great animeā¦ too bad that was the movie they decided to riff.
I know how you feel, but sometimes that blunt truth is what people need to get the point. If people were complaining for a while before you did make a point to pause the movie and talk to them, then you probably did what needed to be done.
Seriously, Ninja Scroll was the anime my husband (boyfriend at the time) used in 2002 to introduce me to anime, other than Speedracerā¦ I was blown away at the quality of the art, the story, the fact that it was a theme that would normally be a live action film in the USā¦ I had never experienced anything like that before, and it literally opened up a whole new world of cinema to me, and I was grateful to him for showing it to me.
I donāt want to tell you how to feel, because I totes get that you feel like your reaction was inappropriate, but reallyā¦ sometimes, it really does take a girl who is usually happy, carefree and not easily offended who finally gets annoyed, and then bluntly puts things into perspective for someone to understand what negative consequences their actions are creatingā¦
Hopefully, you are all still friends, but regardless, I can almost bet that a valuable lesson was learned that night by those friends of yours. If you still feel bad about it from time to time, perhaps consider that, in regards to life as a whole, they still have to understand how their actions affect others around them. Itās obvious that was (or still is) a lesson they had coming to them. They probably would have had to learn that lesson from someone who would have been a lot harsher and maybe even have caused lasting emotional or physical pain to them if you hadnāt done what you did, or they would go on behaving in a self-centered manner that would leave them alienated eventually. This was at least a friendly, forgiving, and all in good fun manner. Sometimes it takes a friend spelling it out to us bluntly, and that is the best way we can possibly learn a life lesson. If all my life lessons were learned that way, I would be very grateful indeed.
Itās always hardest to forgive the Self. I get it, I really do, but you are a good friend for doing what you did, even if you didnāt do it perfectly. I hope to be surrounded by friends who would do for me what you did for them. Honesty, acceptance, and forgiveness are the best environments for true growth and friends like you are the ones who help others along the path. Individual perceptions are limited, but many working together allows a more complete image of the Whole to be realized.
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well, there was that time I sat on a tack while watching Manosā¦
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Thank you so much for your thoughtful words. Weāre often our own worst critics and itās helpful to get an outside perspective. Youāre very kind. 
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I fell asleep on Manos twice. I donāt know if that counts as painful or restful.
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Itās certainly in the running.
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The thing about Hobgoblins was how Pearl hyped up that movieās pain payload more than any other movie in the Sci-Fi era up to that point (think the Mads holding up the smoking VHS cassette in the biohazard container in The Castle of Fu Manchu).
And she wasnāt wrong to do so.
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Totallyā¦
āIām gonna send you SUCH a movieā¦ā
I have used that a few times.
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Actually I think on reflecting my most painful MST moment has nothing much to do with quality as contentā¦ Iām speaking of course of the infamous short Catching Trouble. My soul cries for justice for the poor Bear cub.
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I may have stopped watching MST3K when Season 6 ended because it wasnāt the same without Frank and Trace, but one really traumatized me to death was the Giant Spider Invasion, I couldnāt even watch it because the host segments make the episode so dark! Even by the showās standards!
My mom and dad had some painful MST3K expirences:
1ā¦ Sidehackers: My parents may hate biker movies, but they couldnāt bring themselves to watch this one because of Rita being raped and tortured to death and Rommel getting killed trying to avenge her, even with the death cut for tv airing, the movieās disturbing violence still horrified them.
2 Pod People: They found this one to be annoying bad to even watch.
3 Eegah: Same reasons for Pod People.
4 The Wild World of Batwoman: As much as the host segments and short were hilarious as heck, they couldnāt even watch this batman rip-off for a good reason, itās awfulness scarred them.
5 Red Zone Cuba: Also torturously unwatchable.
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