finished watching Dredd 馃寱馃寱馃寱馃寱馃寳
My interior dialogue while watching Dredd:
- I can't believe so many people didn't realize this movie was antifa, maybe if that theme was more developed...
- Well, people did the same thing with Starship Troopers and that one wasn't subtle, it was in your face antifa
- Shut up, some people thought Homelander from The Boys was the good guy
- ... *draws paralells with real people, real voters*... *dies inside a little bit more*
finished watching Boy Kills World 馃寱馃寱馃寱馃寳馃寫
Watched, liked, immediately installed RetroArch.
wants to read The Blind Spot
finished watching The Day of the Beast 馃寱馃寱馃寱馃寱馃寳
finished watching The 'Burbs 馃寱馃寱馃寱馃寱馃寱
I don't care what anyone says, this is Peak Tom Hanks and the best Rear Window cover. Thank you, Joe Dante.
finished watching Light 馃寱馃寱馃寱馃寫馃寫
Not a crowd pleaser but a competent low-budget sci-fi. IMDB's voters have been dumber than usual with their ratings and RT's critics haven't bothered to watch it, but it's a slow paced, atmospheric movie that doesn't hold the viewer's hand and doesn't try to bite more than it can chew. I respect that.
If you're a patient nerd and, unlike IMDB voters, can connect the dots by yourself, there's an effective little story and world-building here, even if both are more implied than shown.
If I had to spell it out: this isn't a xenomorph movie, it'w a Weyland Yutani movie.
wants to read A Geology of Color
finished watching Werewolves 馃寱馃寱馃寳馃寫馃寫
Pros: Hazmat suits, werewolves and lots of lens flares. Lou Diamond Philips is the president or something. The supermoon thing is a cool silly idea. Has some practical effects. Frank Grillo isn't as douchey as usual. Patriotic preppers aren't cool.
Cons: Do you know those B-movies that have something special? The ones that get to have a little place in your heart? Werewolves isn't one of those.
Thrashing it with a lower star count would make me feel guilty, I think they actually tried, but this is a watch and forget flick.
finished watching Heretic 馃寱馃寱馃寫馃寫馃寫
Don't try to make theology entertaining, it isn't.
I'll guess I'll give it a 5 because there's a diorama (dioramas are cool) and a Hugh Grant (Hugh Grant is, that's enough for me), but I really resent all the pseudo-intellectual blabber.
Nah, back to 4 stars.
finished watching Succession Season 1 馃寱馃寱馃寱馃寱馃寳
I just finished the first season of this... this collection of pathetic, despicable and petty humans. Loved it, fits what I imagine them to be, but I bet that the real one-percenters (zero-pointers now?) are far more ridiculous than these assholes.
Just imagine how absurd this show would be if it was based on the Trump family.
wants to read Propaganda
Discovered it here: https://mastodon.social/@LukaszOlejnik/113106543651175104
finished watching The Boy and the Heron
finished listening DUST 馃寱馃寱馃寱馃寱馃寳
(I only listened to the third season. Standalone story, unlike the two previous anthology seasons)
Great hard science fiction story (I know, hard sci-fi is difficult to define, but this could qualify). addictive rhythm and perfect cast, specially the protagonist, whose expressive voice makes us feel all the changes and struggles he, or it, goes through. That voice alone could carry the whole show
Expect musings about real AI and human nature, the morality of genocide, a tad of grounded space opera tactics... I would have liked the aliens to be more alien but, for the genre and format, it doesn't get much better than Dust Chrysalis.
finished watching The Rig Season 2 馃寱馃寱馃寱馃寳馃寫
Can you trust oil companies to lead the green transition? Is deep sea mining for rare metals better than drilling for oil? Will having a lesbian couple on the show enrage conservatives? The answer might not surprise you!
finished watching Deepwater Horizon 馃寱馃寱馃寳馃寫馃寫
The movie takes the perspective of a group of workers whose lives don't matter to a greedy, murdereous corporation like BP. That's true and fine, but the problem with these corporations is much larger and is killing way, way more people than the ones we see here.
None of that is adressed by the movie in any way. In fact, this might be the kind of anti-oil movie that a Trump voter would like: no pollution, no climate change, no capitalism as organized apocalypse machine (but we do have greedy incompetent bosses and a working class, that's something), instead, the scope narrows on the personal drama of the working man who is screwed by the company. And the spectacular "accident" itself.
It's an effective strategy for an entertaining movie, but unlesss I've missed something, this was a missed opportunity.
finished watching Trap 馃寱馃寱馃寫馃寫馃寫
This could have been a fun dark comedy, but Shyamalan Shyamalaned it all over the place. Again.
Welp, at least it was nice seeing Zekey boy.
wants to read Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior
This one might be climbing to the top of my reading list on the subject, let's hope it isn't expensive.
Discovered thanks to @llewelly 's post: https://sauropods.win/@llewelly/113285064026773623 wich contains a link to a review by Mark Vincent.
wants to read Gathering Moss
wants to read The Democracy of Species
started listening The Road of Shadows 馃寱馃寱馃寱馃寫馃寫
wants to read A Natural History of Empty Lots
This seems tailor-made for me, and I bet a lot of you mutuals will be interested too.
I found about it thanks to @pluralistic 's thread, check it out: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113153415021927218
finished watching Nautilus 馃寱馃寱馃寱馃寱馃寫
Surprisingly good old-school adventure show, smarter and more visually attractive than I expected, character driven with an anti-corporate, anti-colonialism streak. And it doesn't let realism get in the way of giant sea monsters or just having fun.
No wonder the asshats at Disney canceled it and even refused to distribute this UK production, renewing instead my hatred for Disney, but the season is still watchable as a standalone mini-series.
Also, if you think that a couple of Indian characters are there only as comic relief, give the show a bit more time. They aren't.
wants to read The Bill Gates Problem
Recommended by @foldworks here: https://mathstodon.xyz/@foldworks/113854760070414667
finished watching Get Away 馃寱馃寱馃寳馃寫馃寫
This could have worked as a short film, but there just isn't enough going on here to drag a movie for one and a half hours.
Anyway, I can't give Nick Frost less than 5/10. I would if I could.
