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14. El Camino (2019) - Good, but not as good as either of the shows from the same universe. Part of my problem is that I just preferred my own headcanon for what became of Jessie after he drives away at the end of Breaking Bad... even if it's far more unrealistic, I always imagined him just getting...

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That's good to hear. That's similar to how I feel, I guess.

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Was it a white collar or blue collar job? Also yes I'm very happy to hear that you quit that nightmare. You're still in a nightmare but at least it's one that's collectively shared by all of us now, to varying degrees at least.

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Was so iconic that he got people to invent a whole new adjective and name it after him. Can't get much better than that.

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ANAKIN! I'm so glad you're alive and doing well. I'm also glad to hear about your group of friends - maybe I should get something like that at some point, it might help. I'm also very glad to hear you escaped your abusive job. I'm very curious as to what that could even have been. I'm very happy I m...

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Oh that sucks. Good for him though, hope they're doing okay.

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Thanks for the info. Along with aels and the dork lord and thesalmonofdoubt I also miss Anakin and Troy and Eva and Bruce, I sometimes wonder what they're doing.

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hello everyone does anyone here happen to know what happened to some specific people Eva Yojimbo Cassius Clay/OriginalCastorTroy BruceSmith Anakin the dork lord aels thesalmonofdoubt faustus (extremely major bonus points if you can talk about some ancient IMDB names like malkatrazz) I am very curiou...

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Furiosa - I just realized that it would be extremely off-brand for me to not review this movie here. I saw it like two weeks ago but I didn't think to write anything down. I thought it was very good. Maybe great, I don't know yet. I'll definitely watch it several times again to figure out my though...

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Dune Part 1 - This was pretty much dogshit. The characterization was borderline nonexistent, the story was thin and unengaging, the pacing was turgid, the world it built felt extremely fake and small, and the soundtrack was just generic Arab desert music with a woman going "aaaah AAAAaaah aaaa...

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I thought it was being extremely ugly on purpose and then I read online a bunch of people praising it for its beautiful aesthetics. This is one of those times when I feel like an alien. This is one of the ugliest movies I've ever seen, whether it was in black and white or garish orange or purple or ...

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Poor Things - Dude. This movie sucks. I don't know what it is about Yorgos Lanthimos's movies that grates on my fucking nerves so much. Maybe it's the tryhard edgelord shit. Maybe it's the constant dry humor without any actual wit. Maybe it's the quirkiness. Maybe it's the cynicism without the subs...

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Maybe. I went through a Pixar marathon earlier last year intending to say some stuff about all of their movies here, but in the end I just decided not to. Knowing your thoughts will only be read by about two or three people max is an effective demoralizer, I guess. I also miss talking about politics...

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Gendo wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 2:47 pmDA still exists!

I guess DKC3 brought me out of my shell, idk.

Idk if I'm going to post about movies again. There's a lot of movies I want to talk about but that sounds like a lot of work.

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DKC3 was a fixture of my childhood for some weird reason. I really liked it, while I didn't care about the first one much and I never played the second. I replayed it on the Switch recently and IMO it has some fantastic music and great atmosphere and level design. Also the graphics seem like they we...

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Yeah, a bit, particularly the very last scene and the scene about halfway through the season with Homelander's public temper tantrum. They both read to me as the writers becoming much more cynical and clear-eyed about the American public. Apart from that I thought the satire in general was pretty si...

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I've never felt proud to be a Kansan before.

Feels kind of weird.

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I'm surprised to hear "Frankenweenie" is creepy.

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Spoilers for the new Spider-Man movie below!! omg spoilers!! Spider-Man: No Way Home - I enjoyed watching it, which is not to say it was a good movie. It might be a good movie, I don't know, I'll probably have to see it again to make that judgment. Most of it was pretty average, with the glaring exc...

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If I remember correctly Booksmart did a joke essentially like that with the pizza delivery guy with the guilty conscience, only funnier because it was quicker and more subtle. I think Mean Girls slowly got worse as it went on. The first half or whatever of it was pretty good, the second was just ok.

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Thanks, it's fixed.

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Yeah I get that.

I also can't access this site through my bookmark on Chrome. I have to go the roundabout way by clicking on a link in my history.

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So do we sometimes but one thing he and I agree on is that anime is of the Devil.

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Sorry to hear that. I've been the same way for a while. I've stopped posting about movies because I almost never have any thoughts about a new movie I saw besides "That was fine, I guess." I'll also probably make an effort post about something occasionally if I think I have something actua...

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Poor conservatives. Even the most high-profile and respected "conservative" Hollywood guy they can point to and claim as their own is, at best, only ambiguously conservative. It must be tiring to keep losing the culture war so hard.

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I tried to fight the impulse... I really did... but it was just too strong. I will at least attempt to do the decent thing and try to keep these things short. Palm Springs - Watched it, thought it was ok. Watched it again to see if I would think it's as great as everyone else does a second time, but...

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K, I'm done with this stupid project. My new list of favorite movies, with the extra special favorites in bold: 12 Angry Men The Apartment The Bad News Bears The Conjuring 2 The Edge of Seventeen The Florida Project Fucking Åmål The Guest Happy-Go-Lucky Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Heavenl...

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Your Name (2016) - My words from two years ago: It was good. Not really what I expected. The aspect of it that everyone said was its primary story was really only the first half, and then a sort-of twist a bit before the halfway point led the story down an entirely new direction that the first half...

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Wreck-It Ralph - Hugely entertaining, imaginative, engrossing, exciting, creative, with a good story and good characters and a good message. Not saying it's as good as Pixar at their best but it's on par. Some of the emotional aspects felt kind of forced. Other than that it was great. The Oreo gag ...

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Where the Wild Things Are - It was good. Fine/good. Somewhere between those.

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The Virgin Suicides - Good movie. Somewhere between Sofia Coppola's other two movies on this list. Out of all of her movies I've seen (which are all except On the Rocks), this one is probably the most "conventional", the one most like a regular movie, the that follows all the traditional ...

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Vertigo - I had a very lukewarm reaction to this again. I guess I don't really "get it" and I don't particularly care to. I don't know what the big deal is.

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Up in the Air - I don't know, I don't have a lot to say here. It's all right. I didn't think it was quite as good this time as it was the first time I watched it. Or more accurately its effect on me the second time was relatively muted. It was sort of melancholy, but it was also kind of cloying and...

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Two Days, One Night - Wow, I haven't seen this since it came out and I was kind of expecting it to be underwhelming, but it very much was not. It's excellent, a very humane and sensitive depiction of working class desperation and depression, with an amazing performance by Marion Cotillard at the ce...

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It didn't do much for me this time. Toy Story 2 - I think this movie is severely underrated. Yes, kind of strange to say for a movie that is universally loved and considered one of the greatest sequels of all time, but... I don't know, man. It's always seemed kind of obvious to me that this is Pixar...

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The Truman Show - It was good, I guess. I liked the score and the premise was mildly interesting. Probably seemed more interesting back in 1998. I guess it deserves credit for predicting reality television or whatever.

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Yeah I saw a thing a few days ago where the top ten most shared political posts on Facebook or whatever was mostly Ben Shapiro stuff, mixed with some Dave Rubin and Jordan Peterson or whatever. Disturbing. Youtube seems to have gotten a lot better in the past few years, though. A lot of the alt-righ...

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Slightly less disturbing than Tangled, I respect this movie much more than I actually like it. The last third or so of it is so insane that it makes you forget how boring the first two thirds are. The frantic nervous intense filming style mixed with the extremely grimy...

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Tangled (2010) - It was nice. It was pretty. It was charming. It had a lot of charm. I don't know, that's about it. It's about a step above "passably entertaining", maybe a few steps, primarily due to its aforementioned charm and its pretty woodsy throwback fairytale atmosphere. The chara...

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Synecdoche, New York - I get the feeling that everything this movie is saying about life, I would agree with, if I could actually suss out wtf it's saying. It's honestly severely unpleasant for me to sit through, and not in the "oh yeah, it's certainly depressing" way, the "holy fuck...

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) - I don't know. It was fine. It's the only horror musical I've ever seen or even heard of, and I probably liked it because of its dark edgy aesthetic. But it's just okay. Kind of bland. I don't care much for the flat saturated monochrome visual ...

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I hear rumors that the cast of the Raimi trilogy is supposed to return for the next MCU Spiderman or something. Like they go into an alternate dimension or something. Idk. It will be interesting to see Raimi get MCU-ed. Submarine (2010) - a thoroughly mediocre little indie drama thing that is only s...

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Spider-Man 2 (2004) - Yeah not only just as good as remembered but better, for the same reasons as the first one. In fact everything the first one did, this one does better. The script, the pacing, the writing, the themes, the emotions, the action, the villain, the performances, the special effects...

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It's funny, what you're saying about the The Mummy (which I haven't seen... I guess I should) also applies very well to the next movie I'm doing. In this one the villain also doesn't really properly show up and meet the hero until a little past the halfway point, and we hardly notice because the mov...

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I guess I liked all the twists. Also Rooney Mara, probably. The Sixth Sense - Without the twist I think this movie would be remembered, if at all, as a mildly above-average ghost story. But the twist significantly heightened its emotional resonance and heft and gave it a lot of rewatch value, even i...

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Side Effects (2013) - hmm... no idea why this is a favorite. It's crap. Next!

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Repulsion (1965) - a horror film from Roman Polanski about a woman who was cursed by God to harbor a very primal and visceral hatred and repulsion of men and sexuality, and yet be so physically attractive that she is constantly the target of male lust. The universe played a terrible, terrible cosmi...

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Honestly I think it's really unbelievable that literally nothing has changed from all this. Lol. Like literally nothing. COVID and the biggest protests ever and it's like they never happened. Everything remains exactly the same. Even the polling numbers are back to where they were before. I mean, a ...

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Thanks Faustus. I try. Rango - wow this movie was kind of stupid. Lots of care and craft in the visual department, nothing for the story. The humor was also extremely fucking stupid. By the time Clint Eastwood showed up and cracked a joke about how he wants to eat poptarts with Kim Novak I fully che...

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Pulp Fiction - I fucking love this movie, a lot. But so does everyone else on the planet. Howard Hawks, according to Roger Ebert, once said the definition of a good movie is three great scenes and no bad ones. This movie has about thirty great scenes. It's basically just a presentation of great and...

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