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Action Movies For When You’re Dissociating Alone

Action movies for when youre dissociating alone. Includes Justice League Dark: Apokolips War, Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train, Scarfac...

Not quite here. These keep you tethered without pulling too hard.

Justice League Dark: Apokolips War movie poster
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2020 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

Earth is decimated after intergalactic tyrant Darkseid has devastated the Justice League in a poorly executed war by the DC Super Heroes. Now the remaining bastions of good – the Justice League, Teen Titans, Suicide Squad and assorted others – must regroup, strategize and take the war to Darkseid in order to save the planet and its surviving inhabitants.

Pulls you back gently. Enough to hold without being a demand.

Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train movie poster
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2020 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

Tanjiro Kamado, joined with Inosuke Hashibira, a boy raised by boars who wears a boar's head, and Zenitsu Agatsuma, a scared boy who reveals his true power when he sleeps, boards the Infinity Train on a new mission with the Fire Hashira, Kyojuro Rengoku, to defeat a demon who has been tormenting the people and killing the demon slayers who oppose it!

Steady enough to anchor without being loud about it. Good company for tonight.

Scarface movie poster
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1983 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.

Pulls you back gently. Enough to hold without being a demand.

Top Gun: Maverick movie poster
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2022 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.

Pulls you back gently. Enough to hold without being a demand.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day movie poster
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1991 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Skynet from triggering a nuclear apocalypse.

Pulls you back gently. Enough to hold without being a demand.

Gentle tethering is what's needed. These films are steady without being demanding.

Present tense action keeps you in your body. Can help.

Best watched alone. Full absorption, no compromise on what to pick.

My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising movie poster
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2019 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

Class 1-A visits Nabu Island where they finally get to do some real hero work. The place is so peaceful that it's more like a vacation... until they're attacked by a villain with an unfathomable Quirk! His power is eerily familiar, and it looks like Shigaraki had a hand in the plan. But with All Might retired and citizens' lives on the line, there's no time for questions. Deku and his friends are the next generation of heroes, and they're the island's only hope.

Pulls you back gently. Enough to hold without being a demand.

Ne Zha 2 movie poster
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2025 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

After a catastrophic event leaves their bodies destroyed, Ne Zha and Ao Bing are granted a fragile second chance at life. As tensions rise between the dragon clans and celestial forces, the two must undergo a series of perilous trials that will test their bond, challenge their identities, and decide the fate of both mortals and immortals.

Steady enough to anchor without being loud about it. Good company for tonight.

Jujutsu Kaisen 0 movie poster
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2021 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

Yuta Okkotsu is a nervous high school student who is suffering from a serious problem—his childhood friend Rika has turned into a curse and won't leave him alone. Since Rika is no ordinary curse, his plight is noticed by Satoru Gojo, a teacher at Jujutsu High, a school where fledgling exorcists learn how to combat curses. Gojo convinces Yuta to enroll, but can he learn enough in time to confront the curse that haunts him?

Steady enough to anchor without being loud about it. Good company for tonight.

Zack Snyder's Justice League movie poster
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2021 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahumans to protect the world from an approaching threat of catastrophic proportions.

Pulls you back gently. Enough to hold without being a demand.

Miraculous World: New York, United HeroeZ movie poster
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2020 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

Marinette’s class is headed to New York, the city of superheroes, for French-American Friendship Week.

Steady enough to anchor without being loud about it. Good company for tonight.

The right film for the right state is a specific thing. These are specific.

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