finished watching Eddington
Can't we all get along and just hate Big Tech?
::Ms Lovejoy's "won't somebody please think of the children?" face here::
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started watching Alien: Earth
I'm still collating.
finished watching Survive 🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑
Balancing drama and killer crab attacks must be a difficult thing to do. Cloverfield managed to pull it off pretty well, Starship Troopers and even Tremors (I know those were Graboids, not Craboids (I'm not sorry)) did it by not taking themselves so seriously. This movie... just couldn't find the right tone to fit its pieces together.
Also, while the choice of natural settings and lighting are good enough to suspend my disbelief, even though it's dry soil on what's supposed to be the recently drained ocean, the sparsely staged debris is enough to remind us that we're watching a movie without enough budget to buy literal trash.
There are some cool apocalyptic shots, with lonely artificial objects contrasted with the natural landscape, and I hate to give a low score when I see that an effort was made by a small production team, but I can't recommend this movie to anyone.
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wants to read Propaganda
Discovered it here: https://mastodon.social/@LukaszOlejnik/113106543651175104
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finished watching Succession Season 1 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗
I just finished the first season of this... this collection of pathetic, despicable and petty humans. Loved it, fits what I imagine them to be, but I bet that the real one-percenters (zero-pointers now?) are far more ridiculous than these assholes.
Just imagine how absurd this show would be if it was based on the Trump family.
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finished watching The Boy and the Heron
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finished watching Light 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
Not a crowd pleaser but a competent low-budget sci-fi. IMDB's voters have been dumber than usual with their ratings and RT's critics haven't bothered to watch it, but it's a slow paced, atmospheric movie that doesn't hold the viewer's hand and doesn't try to bite more than it can chew. I respect that.
If you're a patient nerd and, unlike IMDB voters, can connect the dots by yourself, there's an effective little story and world-building here, even if both are more implied than shown.
If I had to spell it out: this isn't a xenomorph movie, it'w a Weyland Yutani movie.
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finished watching Nautilus 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
Surprisingly good old-school adventure show, smarter and more visually attractive than I expected, character driven with an anti-corporate, anti-colonialism streak. And it doesn't let realism get in the way of giant sea monsters or just having fun.
No wonder the asshats at Disney canceled it and even refused to distribute this UK production, renewing instead my hatred for Disney, but the season is still watchable as a standalone mini-series.
Also, if you think that a couple of Indian characters are there only as comic relief, give the show a bit more time. They aren't.
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wants to read The Blind Spot
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wants to read Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior
This one might be climbing to the top of my reading list on the subject, let's hope it isn't expensive.
Discovered thanks to @llewelly 's post: https://sauropods.win/@llewelly/113285064026773623 wich contains a link to a review by Mark Vincent.
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finished watching Trap 🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑
This could have been a fun dark comedy, but Shyamalan Shyamalaned it all over the place. Again.
Welp, at least it was nice seeing Zekey boy.
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wants to read Gathering Moss
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wants to read The Democracy of Species
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started listening The Road of Shadows 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
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finished watching Dark Angel 🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑
Pretty bad, not gonna lie, but the 80's aesthetics give it some undeserved charm. If you only ask for neon lights and practical explosions (which look so much better than CGI fire), you might as well watch it.
And the antagonist uses a flying alien CD that kills people, so there's that too.
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finished watching Dredd 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗
My interior dialogue while watching Dredd:
- I can't believe so many people didn't realize this movie was antifa, maybe if that theme was more developed...
- Well, people did the same thing with Starship Troopers and that one wasn't subtle, it was in your face antifa
- Shut up, some people thought Homelander from The Boys was the good guy
- ... *draws paralells with real people, real voters*... *dies inside a little bit more*
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finished watching Boy Kills World 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
Watched, liked, immediately installed RetroArch.
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wants to read Go Tell it on the Mountain
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finished watching The Day of the Beast 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗
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finished watching Heretic 🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑
Don't try to make theology entertaining, it isn't.
I'll guess I'll give it a 5 because there's a diorama (dioramas are cool) and a Hugh Grant (Hugh Grant is, that's enough for me), but I really resent all the pseudo-intellectual blabber.
Nah, back to 4 stars.
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finished watching The Rig Season 2 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
Can you trust oil companies to lead the green transition? Is deep sea mining for rare metals better than drilling for oil? Will having a lesbian couple on the show enrage conservatives? The answer might not surprise you!
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