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« on: January 10, 2025, 11:14:48 AM »
I forgot I saw some re-released movies in theaters as well.
Alien 45th Anniversary: This was actually only the second or third time I’d ever seen this film. With Romulus coming out as well, I was rewatching some of the other movies in the franchise this year, and I’ve really come to appreciate the OG as the masterpiece that it is. I think it’s very easily the best in the franchise, including the James Cameron one. 10/10
Spider-Man 2: GOAT Spider-Man movie. Probably the best superhero movie from my childhood. You already know this. 8/10
The Phantom Menace 25th Anniversary: Not trying to ruffle any feathers with this one. This was honestly my favorite movie as a lad, and I went in purely for the nostalgia. It had been a few years since I’d seen it, and from scene 1 I remember thinking “oh yeah, this is a bad movie”. There’s frankly a lot you can criticize, but I think the thing that sticks out to me the most is how lifeless all the performances are. It was really bizarre to make almost all of the characters so monotone in every scene, and then Jar Jar is such an over-the-top contrast that it becomes pretty grating. 3/10
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« on: January 08, 2025, 09:40:17 AM »
Really feeling bad for the rest of the world, with four more years of this lunacy that they had no say in.
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« on: December 28, 2024, 10:19:10 PM »
Making a thread in the same vein as last year's because blogging about movies is fun and I don't have a Letterboxd account.
This is every movie I saw in theaters with a quick review. Movies I watched later on streaming don't count.
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Argylle: The first movie I saw this year was probably the worst. Had no interest in seeing this one (trailers did not look good to me), but the roommates convinced me. I remember actually hating this one. It's Vaughn's style at it's worst. Some of his trademarks have become really stale. Still it's hard to believe this is even the same guy that made the first Kingsman. 2/10
Started getting more selective with which movies I went out to see after this.
Dune: Part Two: The second movie I saw this year was probably the best. Easily my most anticipated movie this year and it did not disappoint. I've seen it three times now and think I've liked it better every time. Didn't quite reach the level of something like the LOTR trilogy for me, so that's the only reason I'm not giving it a perfect score. 9/10
Late Night with the Devil: I was really enjoying it, but, like many horror movies, the ending is just stupid. I'd like to keep this spoiler-free since this is probably the most low key movie on my list. Worth a watch on streaming if it looks interesting to you. 6.5/10
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire: A film that makes you say "well, that was a movie". Feel like it says quite a bit when I can remember the plot of the previous installment, which came out three years ago, better than this one. 5/10
Civil War: I thought it was a well-made and intense movie about war photographers, but the choice to call it "Civil War" and release it in an election year was distractingly odd, and it's hard not to knock it for that. 6/10
The Fall Guy: Mainly went to see this because I heard it was a good movie that didn't deserve to bomb. I remember liking it and finding it funny. 6.5/10
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes: Easily the weakest of the new Apes series. 6/10
Furiosa: Certified banger™ 7.5/10
Longlegs: Similar story to Late Night with the Devil. Most of the movie is very strong, but I would say the ending was only mildly disappointing, rather than outright stupid. 7/10
Twisters: Decent movie about tornadoes. Keeping these reviews short when you already know what it is, and there's not much to say. 6/10
Deadpool and Wolverine: Possible hot take? I may have hated it. And this is coming from someone that liked the first two Deadpools (and have no issue with Ryan Reynolds). It just wasn't funny and the plot sucked. Why do Fox superhero movies from 20 years ago need some big nostalgia-bait sendoff? This is all getting gratuitous. 3/10
Alien: Romulus: One of those movies that starts off pretty strong, and begins to unravel as it goes along. I actually didn't catch all the nostalgia-bait in the movie until I saw the RLM review. Disney really is a one-trick pony. 6/10
Transformers One: Another movie that I went out to see because people were saying it didn't deserve to bomb. Maybe a little overhyped. Keep looking for that animated movie that blows me away like the first Spider-verse, but haven't been able to find it yet. 6/10
Gladiator II: Pretty good. Not sure it justifies its own existence. Some of the stuff with one character's rise to power seems a little implausible to me. 6/10
The Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim: Decent little animated film. I'm not upset that they made it by any means (I'll save that for the Gollum movie), but the story didn't have much juice. Some of the stuff with Helm Hammerhand got pretty ridiculous and I question some of the seige tactics. 6/10
Nosferatu: Feel like this deserves a decent score for the craftsmanship, but it kind of tests the limits for me of how many times you can see the same story without it feeling stale. For anyone unfamiliar, it's basically just Dracula again. I thought it might feel unique enough, to justify its existence, but I'm not sure that it did. Obviously just saw this one a couple days ago. Probably need to give it a second watch in fairness. 7.5/10
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Please review movies you saw this year, if you feel like it. Format doesn't matter.
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« on: December 19, 2024, 08:39:39 PM »
I’ve seen people saying this. Guess I’m not seeing it.
Looks way better to me than almost any Marvel/DCEU slop over the past few years.
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« on: November 15, 2024, 05:04:07 PM »
Is one of them really a pedo? How does that align with the 'protect the children' mantra?
He’s being investigated and nothing’s been proven yet, but still. What they say is so often contradictory that it’s pretty irrelevant. At the end of the day it’s just a really dumb, autocratic movement that’s mainly concerned with power.
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« on: November 10, 2024, 02:34:41 PM »
So every state has now been called. Kamala lost 6 states that Biden had won, and the popular vote currently seems to have shifted roughly 6* points to Trump. This is coming off of a midterm election where democrats historically overperformed. Meanwhile, democratic senate candidates have won in every swing state except PA, and the damage in the House has been minimal.
Do I think this means that Kamala was a singularly bad candidate? Honestly, I don't. Obviously Biden dropping out in the 11th hour and endorsing someone with lower approval ratings than him (at the time) seems questionable, but I'm not sure how much better anyone else would have performed with these conditions. I think that anyone would have been somewhat of a lamb to slaughter and it likely would have been very chaotic to nominate someone besides Kamala. Maybe one of them could have eked out a win through the blue wall, idk.
I don't think there's any silver bullet that would have changed the outcome but they really should have figured out a counterargument on inflation. This is something that has frustrated me for years and I kind of just became numb to it. Everything they tried was far too late and really pathetic. Imagine if Trump presided over record inflation (although we may not have to imagine for too long). He would have immediately become defensive, passed blame onto everyone but himself, and his talking points would become conservative dogma. Just look at voters giving him a pass on the pandemic for how well this can work.
If there's any silver lining to be found here, it's that we consistently see republicans underperforming Trump. And while democrats are on a soul searching mission these next years, I'm sure Republicans will do absolutely no introspection as to why this is the case.
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« on: November 06, 2024, 07:42:55 AM »
yikes!
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« on: November 05, 2024, 07:29:19 PM »
Man I wish I had taken some booking action on Kamala now
Like, shoulda just threw half my last paycheck on a bet
I was thinking about it earlier today. Robinhood has it front and center on their app.
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« on: November 04, 2024, 04:10:41 PM »
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« on: October 25, 2024, 01:42:58 PM »
When the world needed him most, he returned
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« on: October 04, 2024, 01:03:49 PM »
I actually rewatched all the X-Men movies recently due to Deadpool & Wolverine and Origins is so much better than a lot of the later films like Dark Phoenix or Apocalypse lol.
I stopped after Days of The Future Past. Heard apocalypse was kind of dogshit.
Logan is probably the best of that franchise if you skipped that one. Apocalypse was shockingly bad.
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« on: October 03, 2024, 09:14:29 PM »
I also started rewatching after the newest Deadpool, but didn’t finish it.
Pretty cliché script tbh. I wonder who wrote it.
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« on: September 21, 2024, 12:01:37 PM »
Retook it and got 67-33.
People don’t change.
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« on: August 09, 2024, 05:41:56 PM »
Already August. Feel like I’ve barely got to enjoy summer.
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« on: July 23, 2024, 02:20:38 PM »
This is so sad if this ends up being true
Brother Laura loomer has got to be one of the most garbage sources imaginable.
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« on: July 18, 2024, 01:15:04 PM »
They’re going to get Biden to drop while his resolve is weak
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« on: July 17, 2024, 11:45:16 AM »
Congrats m8 and good luck
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« on: July 04, 2024, 10:59:57 AM »
"In deciding not to charge Biden with any crimes, the special counsel wrote that in a potential trial, “Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview with him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”" As I said, a weak case. Trump was president when the documents were moved [...] the president has discretionary power of classification. Trump was neither president when the documents were being held, nor did he ever declassify them. (and also posed fake documents for photos to release). This is false. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/01/politics/fact-check-trump-claims-fbi-search/index.htmlThere are many people who should be facing prosecution under the letter of the law who are not. First time learning about the American legal system? If you were truly making a principled argument here, I could sympathize with you, but you're literally just using these examples to defend someone that violated the law far more flagrantly than anyone you've referenced. A "show trial" is a trial meant to be political lawfare to lock up or impede political opponents from participating in democratic elections in the political context. The charges against trump fall under that definition. Just to be clear, you go on to litigate a bunch of trials that came from jurisdictions other than the DOJ (aside from the classified documents) and one that the DOJ actually passed on. I'm not intimately familiar with every single Trump legal issue, but I've heard experts claim he easily could have "won" some of these with better arguments. So hardly a "show trial". I do wonder how you would explain Trump's legal issues before getting involved in politics, such as running a scam university, among others. Because from my perspective, it should be evidence of a pretty clear pattern of behavior, rather than a widespread conspiracy between multiple jurisdictions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_and_business_legal_affairs_of_Donald_TrumpI take issue with many other things that you've said but figure I might as well keep this somewhat succinct.
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« on: July 03, 2024, 04:35:26 PM »
And, if abuse of DOJ is a bad thing, then you should want Biden's DOJ out on principle. Are you working on principles?
Ok, now let's go over what actually happened. Biden team self-reported his documents and then handed them over to NARA. He was investigated by a Republican, who concluded that there shouldn't be charges because the case is so weak. Meanwhile, Trump blatantly stole some of the most sensitive material there is and hoarded it at his summer home. He refused to comply with NARA and lied to the FBI until they had to raid the compound. Later, he attempted to tamper with security footage after being subpoenaed. If you really think the Biden case could be worthy of prosecution, and then consider the Trump prosecution to be a "show trial" (show trials that won't happen until after the election, weird) then you're just delusional. I'm not sure what more there is to be said. https://apnews.com/article/classified-documents-biden-trump-special-counsel-b5589ea8f066ede51c8138665f108f7a
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« on: July 03, 2024, 07:14:52 AM »
TDS. Trump was in office already for four years and was just a guy. He had decent economics, good foreign policy, mid domestic affair handling like COVID. Please stop terrorizing yourself with people's insane fanfic tier writing like this. If you truly believe these things I can do the full explanation to you why you can rest easy on this fearmongering point by point, because this article seems engineered only to try to horrify low information voters and can be fixed by just learning more about current events. On its surface, we should find it hard to believe that "autocracy" is the fear here if they're not criticizing the Biden DOJ targeting political opponents to jail them leading up to the election when this article hysterically cries wolf about Trump abusing or circumventing the justice system when he didn't even follow through on, "Because you'd be in jail" during his first presidency.
Trump’s DOJ was independent during his first administration. Given his actions after his defeat, and statements made since then, we have strong reason to doubt that would be the case in a second term. Do you think he’s constantly asked about this for no reason?
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« on: July 02, 2024, 10:50:54 AM »
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« on: June 30, 2024, 04:42:29 PM »
Based on our convoluted system, if a fraction of a fraction of the electorate decides to stay home in some key states, Trump will win. I’m less worried about Biden’s ability to serve than his ability to lose to the autocratic candidate, which seems increasingly likely.
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« on: June 30, 2024, 03:02:31 PM »
Biden lost the debate, since he was looking physically weak, and some media outlets got something to write about. But does the debate matter that much for this election? They would matter if majority of voters wouldn't have decided who to vote for, but as far as I am concerned everyone already have decided who they will be voting for and those debates just serve as some confirmation on each candidates position and what each candidate will do if they become a president. I don't think that these debates matter much for election.
The people we need to show up to win this thing aren’t going to stand in line to vote for someone they view as a corpse, and after what I saw Thursday, I frankly don’t blame them.
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« on: June 28, 2024, 10:44:43 AM »
But the problem is that Biden is getting decreasingly electable. They're gambling with democracy itself, just to get more personal power. It's pretty sick.
Not sure I necessarily agree with everything in this post, but strongly agree with this part. I think they need to put someone like Buttigeig in, and maybe have Biden serve as VP again. It’s a Hail Mary but I think it’s genuinely a better option than continuing the current course.
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« on: June 28, 2024, 07:21:01 AM »
There’s no way to sugar coat it. It was a complete dumpster fire of a performance.
There needs to be some serious talks to him about having him step down before the convention.
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« on: June 05, 2024, 08:41:48 AM »
This is interesting. Some of your previous writings gave me manifesto vibes.
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« on: April 18, 2024, 10:36:02 PM »
.net
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« on: April 05, 2024, 09:55:20 AM »
When I started posting here I always got an INFP result on the mbti test, now I always get either INTJ or INTP
Just took it for the first time in several years and got ENTP-A which (I think) is what I always used to get.
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« on: April 04, 2024, 02:59:52 PM »
Just don’t read any of my political takes from 2016-2018 please
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« on: April 01, 2024, 01:22:16 PM »
 Tried to make this as accurate as I could. Anything more than a layover, I put in green. If Niagara Falls counts, I've been to Canada.
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