wants to read A Pocket Guide To Passively Resisting Tyranny
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finished watching Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕
The stunts, capturing real humans and objects on camera... that materiality makes all the difference. If every action movie was made like this, you couldn't get me out of the cinema.
Everything else about it? I don't know, I don't care that much. I do care about those brief moments when I feel like a kid watching movies, that's rare and this one manages to pull it off several times. So thank you, you weird scientologist, I don't know why you risk your life for this, but thank you.
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finished watching Superman
That was surprisingly fun! And no wonder the right are mad about it: for starters, a broligarch and Netanyahu are the villains XD
finished watching Star Wars: Andor (Andor Season 2)
finished watching Death of a Unicorn
I don't get it: mid budget horror comedy, not a sequel, competent cast, ludicrous monsters, capitalism bad / nature good, props and sound effects referencing classic genre movies... I should love this, but, for some reason that escapes me, I can't care less.
stopped watching Alien: Earth 🌗🌑🌑🌑🌑
I give up. I've made it through 5 episodes by trying to deny how bad this is and focusing on the Cassette Futurism design, but this show is terrible.
finished watching Ick 🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑
People ignoring an obvious threat until it starts killing them, and even then, they keep shrugging it off. This is a relevant idea, it could have worked much better than the asteroid from Don't Look Up, but the thing is... it does not, it utterly fails, at everything. ::facepalm::
wants to read 血孩子
Testing NeoDB's integration with my new Mastodon instance. Also, I think I haven't read anything by Octavia Butler.
finished watching Loudermilk Season 3
Addiction, disabilities, mental health, masculinity... those aren't easy themes to get right, much less when making a comedy, and this show mostly doesn't, but a few times it nails them. I liked its point about objectifying disabled people, even mentioning Stella Young's "Inspiration Porn", but most of the time it just feels wrong. There's a fine line between normalizing and trivializing, and I don't think Farrelly is the right person to navigate such heavy issues.
After finishing the last season I checked the net, expecting to read a lot of outraged people, but the outrage I'm finding is the total opposite of what I expected: it comes from asshats claiming that the show was "too woke".
Yes, let that sink in, they're saying that Loudermilk, made by a Farrelly brother, is too woke. Are we really that polarized or are the algorithms selecting only MAGA nutjobs to throw at my face? I couldn't make this shit up if I tried.