watched the new dune, was real good
i like how they took their time and focused on setting the vibe rather than desperately trying to cram in every plot point, especially cos it looked and sounded reeeeaaaall pretty. glad it was split in two parts, though i didnt realise going in so halfway through i was panicking about how much shit they still had to cover. looking forward to the second one, hopefully thats when they finally introduce sting in space underpants
yep its coming out next year apparently
pretty bold call since i reckon its a tough sell to people who havent read the book to sit through a movie that just kinda ends halfway through the story, but i think it was the right call cos its really too long a book to do in one go
After half a century of Dune leaving its fingerprints across science fiction, it was fitting to see all the other franchises leave their fingerprints all over Dune.
just saw dirty harry today. real bad folks! the people saying that it was fascist were 100% right.
The best scene is when Clint sees a guy is trying to commit suicide, so he goes up and punches the guy, cos that's how you solve suicide, through violence and "manning up".
actually, before he punches him, he annoys the guy into trying to punch him so he won't get in trouble for publicly assaulting someone
Watching some Australian guy repair hydraulic cylinders on YouTube
De-specialized editions! Those were painstakingly assembled from a combination of the official release and the laserdisc versions, a really impressive project even if there's a few seams where you can see the old compression algorithm rear its ugly head.
Didn't realise there was a new season of Westworld
kinda feel like this season is shit, idk
i watched that new Chris-Pratt-is-a-grim-PTSD-Navy-Seal series on amazon "The Terminal List". i had/have the covid, so i've just been sipping cough syrup and zoning out to garbage media. out of that whole shitty genre, this one absolutely takes the psycho fascist suburban dad energy cake.
it starts off with this incredible unreliable narrator situation where Pratt got his brain rattled in combat and slides into paranoid delusional psychosis, only it turns out that all of his conspiracy Q-brain theories turn out to be true. it's possibly the stupidest twist in the world, where the more it unravels the less sense it makes.
honestly, if you interpret the movie as chris pratt's character going completely insane on a killing spree and interpret everything as hallucination, it's brilliant cinema. but apparently we're supposed to take it at face value, which means hell is empty and all the demons are here.
remember, it's not the character that has lost his mind. it is you, the viewer. :hahaha:
Just watched Dog Day Afternoon. Thought it was pretty good. Need to seek out more Sidney Lumet movies now.
Been watching The Old Man (hulu series) Jeff Bridges places an old CIA guy doing the "I'm off the grid trying to retire" trope and it's pretty great.
I know it's a reactionary genre but it's one that I am a sucker for.
I'm watching Boys. Westworld, and Mentalist (my wife loves that show, and it's pretty ok, I mean if you ignore the politics, just a typical crime-drima, but with slapstick jokes, I like it because it doesn't give me nigthmares like most modern crime shows).
How is Westworld going? I fell off about halfway through season too, I fucking loooooved season 1 though
Season 2 was good. Third one was ok, but the ending was such a clusterfuck that I'm surprised that they still want drag into season four. I've watched the first episode and it was interesting. But I miss the old park, Anthony Hopkins, cryptic messages from Ed Harris.
