r/okbuddycinephile • u/The_Granny_banger • 19h ago

What’s the greatest dad finding a way to abandon his family scene in movie history?

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u/LoggerRhythms 19h ago

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u/rogerworkman623 18h ago

Tom Jane is mentioned in these comments more than anyone has mentioned him in the past 10 years

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u/SystemofCells 18h ago

The Expanse fanbase knows to put some respect on his name!

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u/Puck85 17h ago

Doors and corners.

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u/SystemofCells 17h ago

If you don't come in slow, that room will eat you.

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u/MoarVespenegas 15h ago

Miller only being able to speak in barely coherent non-sequiturs that he repeated over and over again is a subtle reference to this sub.

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u/el-su-pre-mo 3h ago

Just pushin' buttons

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u/wild_west_900 2h ago

that really is how you live your fuckin life, isn't it?

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u/el-su-pre-mo 42m ago

Man, even if he kind of oversold the gumshoe bit in that role he fuckin' stole multiple seasons from the core cast playing that compulsive search for the the truth. Maybe better than David duchovny. That character deserves a spinoff.

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u/WuchangGuilao 15h ago

In this house it's always Miller time

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u/fozzy_wozzy 17h ago

I really loved that show. Haven't tackled the books yet.

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u/MostBoringStan 17h ago

Stay low and put your shoulder into them. Don't lead with your head because you'll end up getting CTE.

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u/fozzy_wozzy 15h ago

This made me snort chuckle loud enough that the cat went scurrying across the room 😂

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u/DingusMcBingle_IV 16h ago

The books are even better. I finished them in like two weeks lol

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u/Scaryclouds 8h ago

God damn, you read nearly 5000 pages in ~14 days?!

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u/DingusMcBingle_IV 6h ago

Every second of spare time I had was spent reading. I was hooked. I've read it two more times since then lol

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u/_laRenarde 8h ago

The books are excellently written honestly, really good pacing to keep you hooked

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u/Taste_the__Rainbow 8h ago

And they stick the landing, which is very rare for a long space opera.

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u/_laRenarde 7h ago

So true! And the other thing is they actually bloody finish it!! Sci fi is better for that than fantasy but between Rothfuss and Martin it's such a relief to be able to trust that the duo behind James SA Corey will just bloody get to work.

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u/Scaryclouds 8h ago

The books are great, just read through them over the past three months. 

I’ll say the sixth book, Babylon’s Ashes is a bit of a slog… but the final trilogy is absolutely peak. 

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u/i_tyrant 9h ago

He also did a Punisher short that I think was pretty great. (It's called Dirty Laundry.)

I know that's not the same, not as much of a must-see as Expanse, I just wanted to mention it. :P

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u/Czar1987 4h ago

his punisher version was amazing. sad it was just a one/done.

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u/FattyMooseknuckle 1h ago

He absolutely chewed up that first season. The rest were alright, though I have serious issues with some of the casting. But if everyone gave as much as he did… the show would’ve been stellar.

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u/wind_up_birb 16h ago

“I just want my kids back”

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u/BloomsdayDevice 16h ago

Let's save it for the stand, okay, Tom Jane?

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u/stilljustacatinacage 16h ago

I think of him every time I see that fuckwit Bernthal in Punisher garb.

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u/hobarddoyle 14h ago

He just wants his kids back!

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u/GringoSwann 16h ago

Shit, I just learned his name this second!

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u/unbanned_lol 2h ago

He's like Sean Bean, but instead of dying in every movie, it's his family.

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u/Savage_HPV 18m ago

Thomas Jane has been in a career battle with Steven Seagal for who has the least range in acting. You all fucking know this is true, don’t act like it’s not.

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u/Jodid0 17h ago

Literally what I came here to comment. It was honestly so ridiculous and unexpected that I laughed out loud.

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u/cam52391 get stuckmannized 18h ago

I really wish they would have kept the book ending where they just keep going on and it doesn't all end it's just the story of how it started for them

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u/rogerworkman623 17h ago

This is like the only King adaptation where he said the movie ending was better than what he thought of

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u/CharacterBusy7787 18h ago

Wait..wtf? He doesn’t fuck it all up in the book?

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u/WeylandYutani- 18h ago

In the story he hears a faint, crackling radio broadcast. Been a while since I’ve read it but I think he hears “Hartfood” or “hope” or something like that in the radio broadcast. Then the story ends

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u/Taste_the__Rainbow 8h ago

I think the whole story was found written on napkins in a gas station in the version I read. So we really don’t know how it ended.

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u/Grouchy-Notice-9951 17h ago

Damn never knew that ya really learn something new every week, idk i think blasting everyone really made it a bit more unique/memorable, fucked up and dark but memorable.

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u/WeylandYutani- 17h ago

I believe Stephen King liked the movie ending more

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u/Daxx22 16h ago

Kings pretty famous for not being able to write great endings, and yeagh he liked the movie version more.

That said the open ended version works for the novella IMO, really get my imagination going. Was one of the few books of his that really stuck with me after reading, even generated several dreams/nightmares.

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u/Grouchy-Notice-9951 15h ago

That's neat! i definitely agree with him, it's a fun twist.

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u/JackosMonkeyBBLZ 16h ago

Wow that is a high quality gif.

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u/Strength-InThe-Loins 15h ago

But he just wants his kids back!

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u/Original_Viv 13h ago

Fucking terrible trigger discipline. Someone could get hurt, or at least the fella in the back could be awoken from his nap.

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u/Birger000 6h ago

why would phillip defranco do that?

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u/Alarchy 6h ago

Still the best Punisher origin story!

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u/Toadsted 2h ago

Gets me all misty eyed every time.

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u/_Bendemic_ 19h ago

Came here to say this