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 Predators 馃寱馃寱馃寳馃寫馃寫
Today I saw the new Predator trailer (is it me or did they make a young, handsome predator??) and thought: welp, maybe Predators 2010 wasn't that bad after all, at least it wasn't a CGI-fest. So I gave it another try and, after all these years, was disappointed again.
But hey, Adrien Brody tried, he could never have saved this flick, but he tried his best. That has to count for something.
finished watching The Eternaut 馃寱馃寱馃寱馃寫馃寫
It's unfair that this show feels derivative, I'm sure the source material was groundbreaking and influenced lots of stories that came after, but that's the problem: we've seen all of this a thousand times. They're tropes now, we should have made this show decades ago or not at all.
Maybe, hear me out because this might be a radical idea, just maybe, we should stop recycling old ideas and put our money on the new ones.
And maybe I should stop listening to the internet telling me to watch this or that Most Important Thing.
finished watching The Luckiest Man in America
finished watching Alien: Romulus 馃寳馃寫馃寫馃寫馃寫
I wanted to take another look at the sets, lighting, production design... I should have watched the making of, maybe some stills, because I can't focus on the visuals, not while this... this remix of old elements posing as a new movie annoys me.
wants to read How to build a low-tech internet
finished watching See How They Run 馃寱馃寱馃寱馃寱馃寫
I'm not a whodunnit kind of guy, but this? I loved it. A mid budget film, great cast where every single face is fun to watch, carefully lit, colourful but thanks to its production design instead of forced digital grading, some self aware jokes that actually land, killer dialog for Adrien Brody, Pemberton nails most of the soundtrack... everything that's missing from most movies today, the precise things I like, this flick has them.
I could say that the first act is better than the rest, or compare it to Knives Out / Glass Onion, or that sometimes the shots are a bit too Wesandersony, but I'm just grateful these kind of movies are still a thing.
finished watching Black Sails Season 4
I can't believe that a show that started so bad, and I mean Bad, ended up being so engaging and thought provoking.
Maybe I underestimated it so hard that I made a big deal of a few redeeming qualities, but maybe it gradually became good. I just finished the last episode and I'm still puzzled by the trip, so I might have to rewatch it some day to make up my mind.
In any case, I recommend searching "black sails woke" on your least annoying search engine and enjoy the copious amounts of fash tears that you'll find.
finished watching The Day of the Beast 馃寱馃寱馃寱馃寱馃寳
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.
