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Riddick. I've kept up with the series since Pitch Black, played the games...

I'm not a Vin Diesel fan at all, but he is on a whole different tier when he's playing the role of Riddick. The actors they pick to go along with the film too just get better and better. Not those dry action lines where you're aware it's Science Fiction or the fake intensity of action movie deliveries, but fleshed out characters that feel to the level of depth of a novel description. They just walk with their own subconscious narration, which is something many movies don't bother to focus on, choosing instead to just speak their lines and look nice.

My past doing theater has me watch for acting way too closely, so it's nice when they look like they give a crap about it within a genre that typically has low standards.

Used to. Did it from age five to eighteen on and off. Once I was at college it was mostly for elective credits, but I couldn't find the time to do any shows.

It was fun, and I guess I'm still a Thespian technically, just an inactive one.

It's moreso my perfectionism that has me able to play the part of outgoing (when I have to, it's draining). While I'm looking how I need to look in conversation, after too much of it I sometimes end up freaking out inside a bit. With enough acting you can train your face to look however it should for a situation, even if it's the opposite of how you actually feel.

So I'm not really outgoing, but I know how to fake it. Once I get to know someone though it's easier to have real conversation.

I was like that, until I began to get into micro-expressional reading, psychology, and began to look at their life context and map why they'd say things into predictability patterns, alongside picking this up for future understandings of other people, comparing it alongside acting, understand the advantages and disadvantages to their approaches...

By making people my hobby, I could suddenly stand boring pointless conversations. Even if what they had to say has no depth, no meaning, is something you've heard a million times, there's what's behind it that can be entertaining.

Oh god if I didn't try to read people I'd be so bored.

Howso? What makes them so unremarkable?

But how do they display it differently?

But why they bother to hide it, why the others don't care, that's what can lend to figuring out their inner motivations. Once you have that, you can start saying what needs to be said to provoke the response you want.

...oh god that sounds terrible.

Did that affect you?

My folks problem was that they were too emotional, so I can't really relate there.

 What is so terrible about that?  It sounds like the rationale others are often too blind to see that they instinctively do that.

So she was too emotional, because she felt empowered by them?

Edit:
"What is so terrible about that?  It sounds like the rationale others are often too blind to see that they instinctively do that."

People are usually too dumb to notice it, blindly manipulating instead. It's honest.