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uziq wrote:

do you have kids now ken? wondering what would even strong-arm a grown man into watching a musical fronted by a disney teen star. (no shade, genuine question.)

i finally got around to seeing ‘evil does not exist’. i’ll give it a 6.5 out of 10. like the director’s last work (‘drive my car’, which was better but not by much), the soundtrack work by eiko ishibashi is far and away the best thing about it. very striking choice of OST which gives the films an indelible quality.

No, GF wanted me to watch it.

Children of Men: 6.5/10. I liked the premise but thought it was a little too shallow.

Snowpiercer: solid 7/10, maybe a little higher. I was surprised at the quality of the storytelling in this. It's one of those dystopian films that is so over the top in it's premise yet still finds ways to subtly reinforce the them throughout the movie. It gives you little morsels to keep you curious. I liked it a lot.

Oh I agree with that analysis. Children of Men had pretty terrible dialogue and the pacing felt a bit off. The sound engineering was also horrendous. I felt the lack of detail in the story did a disservice to the whole film.

I mentioned that Snowpiercer is very blunt in its theme, but I still felt like it was able to create subtleties within that. I think the "over the topness" actually served the story well.

I didn't really appreciate it as much in Parasite, but maybe i was just surprised with Snowpiercer. I legitimately had no idea what it was about before I watched it.

I like Clive Owen and thought he did a very good job with the role (I think he wom an Oscar for it?). I liked the intensity, and the film definitely captured a certain aesthetic that I enjoyed.

Anyway, I've scratched the dystopian future itch for now. Nosferatu is in the queue, but i feel like I'll need to be in a certain mood to watch it.

I saw The Substance last night. Interesting movie. Went sideways a bit at the end. Not quite sure how to rate it, as i have conflicting thoughts and emotions about it.

Transgender musical is an Oscar favorite.

I hope someone gets slapped again.

I am weirdly invested in the Blake Lively vs Justin B. celebrity drama. Frankly I think Ryan Reynolds was the problem. He was afraid the Italian man was going to cuck him.

The Deadpool movies are getting worse too. Everything multiverse is so fucking stupid. I thank God I never got personally invested in the MCU.

Just because he binged them doesn't mean he was personally invested. or something

high on my list, though i don't have particularly high hopes. a weird sort of nothing-burger year for big movies despite even events like francis ford coppola launching whatever the hell that was upon the world at long last.

emilia's one of those kinds of movies that sits at a bland 75%ish on RT but got dumped on by viewer scores. it seems like one of those things so far out of some people's interests but they'll go hate-watch it anyway just so they can write about how much they hated it. like the live-action disney cartoons. i get it if you're a movie reviewer, but otherwise just don't see it? easy, right? to the gents (urgh) who "have to see this stuff" with their girlfriends, i'm sure plenty of women sit through exhausting repeats of men's shows. suck it up.

i still haven't seen girlbusters, for instance. the trailer didn't hook me, so i didn't watch the movie. imagine that. the one with the ghost of egon was alright, but getting the old crew back together even briefly may have stole the thunder from the new characters. you wonder why they weren't more centric to the story if they were bringing them back anyway (the ghostbusters game is probably the true ghostbusters 3, if that's what people want. but the target audience is consequently even more niche for it being a game).

continued lifelong Hard Pass on cats '19, and satisfied with that. the trailer was ugly and the effects are ugly and the design choices are like, why. so i didn't watch it. imo they should have just made them cats, or just done a stageplay without weird cgi obscuring or distracting from their actors' performances. i have about as much interest in creating an account somewhere to leave a bad rating of cats '19 as i do kicking a rusty nail protruding from a rotting woodshed.

some of this stuff is within my interest. ghostbusters and musicals have a nostalgic connection to my childhood, and i watched old cats with family and thought it was whimsical, weird, but okay enough. the whole genre of unironic, exhaustive youtube rantvids about "bad movies" that they keep seeing over and over again and making part 2s and 3s of befuddle me. this isn't including industry commentary from music people or effects people, just the average joe who bemoaned live Little Mermaid ruining his childhood or whatever to get their back slapped in the dudebro echo chamber. like, just…Don't Watch It.

tl;dr: stop watching movies you hate?

ps: hoi is in some serious need of qol and streamlining. for a game about maps and statistics and logistics, it is a complete and utter mess. even the ai doesn't know what to do, let alone with the dlc. if you "observe" one it's going to quickly have like mk 173 of a slight adjustment to a tank, and indecisively keep changing it all the time. stop messing with it! stuff like that explains why you have to wear so many hats in hoi. the ai's flaws would become much more apparent if more players watched its inner workings.

there are a lot of mods that fix a number of stuff, but that didn't really help players like you who just want to play ironman to *shuffles papers* submit their stats to paradox forums(?).

try some rimworld, mac, if you haven't. you might enjoy it? its pixel characters have some of the weird sort of interpersonal stories like ones you post about from your own life. i bet there's an anxiety moodle for proximity to a girlfriend's ex.

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thank you for your service. only e. e. cummings, elfriede jelinek and myself can use all lower case. it is writ.

Harry Potter, I don't know/10

I am eventually going to have to learn about Harry Potter. The white girl social worker who likes me is a Harry Potter girl.

The Asian union vice president who also likes me is also a Harry Potter Person

Eventually I will become one of those awkward Harry Potter black guys in order to get into their chambers of secrets.

Somewhere out there is a girl dying to take your Harry Potter virginity.

I just joined the Democrat party officially. I have learned from my experience as a low level functionary that you are best off just picking a side or a faction or team and sticking with it.

You are a smart guy. You could dominate/win whatever niche/identity/blah blah you decide to pick.