finished watching The Trauma Code: Heroes on call
This was a lot of fun.
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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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finished watching Brazil 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕
We need a new version of this film: Instead of a nightmarish TwenCen totalitarian regime through bureaucracy, a "5 minutes into the future" one through Big Tech.
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finished watching The Running Man
I'd rather believe that I've failed as a viewer, that it's my fault somehow and Edgar Wright didn't make a terrible, disjointed mess of a movie. ;_;
finished watching Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
wants to read Propaganda
Discovered it here: https://mastodon.social/@LukaszOlejnik/113106543651175104
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finished watching Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
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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