The Ring (2002) 3.5/5: I liked the scares, the art house movie in the middle was weird, but overall worth a watch

Back to the Future 5/5: Watched it in IMAX and loved every moment of it. This has to be one of the single best screenplays ever written

The Predator 1/5: Finally watched the last movie I hadn’t seen in the franchise and with good reason. This movie is wildly offensive to the autistic community, insults the movies we like, and has stupid MCU humor. This sucks all around

The Rock 4/5: It’s easy to forget how star studded this is. Plus it’s also a Micheal Bay movie. It’s a little long and gets stuck in the weeds a few times but overall is a very solid film

Prey and Killer of Killers are streaming on Hulu and are 100% worth watching if you like Predator. I’ll post my thoughts after I see it tomorrow

Depends on how you define interesting ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

At some point during 2020 Republicans did one of their latest shitty thing to trans people so the Wachowskis went to their production studio and cleared out a whole bunch of memorabilia for auction with proceeds going to a fund to help

From my memory some of the standouts included a used on screen electric cannon from The Matrix, Speeder from Cloud Atlas, and the binder that detailed all of the plans for the highway fight from Reloaded

My lot included this, a technical sound award from The Matrix, and a judge’s choice award from a queer movie fest for Bound

I’d have hope for that. Between Alien: Earth digging in on the corporations/synthetics, Badlands fully going in on Weyland:Yutani, and that Tractenberg said Killer of Killers/Badlands are building up to a crazier third thing, we might have a chance

I’m so pumped for this. Predator has gotten leagues better since Dan Tractenberg got ahold of it. Prey and Predator: Killer of Killers are the best in the series. Prey earns it a little unfairly because it’s such a love letter to the first one but it just works so well. I’m going to a fan screening tomorrow

Just going to use this post to brag that I own the actual certified fresh trophy that V for Vendetta won:

People always remark how /r/relationshipadvice tells everyone to break up without considering 2 self selection biases:

1. People in happy healthy relationships don’t ask for a lot of advice. “I love my wife, we go on weekly dates, have couples therapy, are helping each other in our careers and our sex has never been better. Wat do?” is not something people will post
2. If you go to a drama discussion, shockingly, more dramatic content gets more attention. More drama in relationships almost always leads to" just stop dealing with it and break up" as advice

2nd pro tip:

If you’ve never attempted this before, when someone is pointing a gun at you is probably the incorrect time to try it out

A connection to young people

I’m sure there’s multiple versions, that’d be good too. It’s mostly just getting people to talk about things they like in their life

Typical advice for this is talk about FORD:

• Family
• Occupation
• Relationships
• Dreams

and avoid RAPE:

• Religon
• Abortion
• Politics
• Economics

FORD is talking about the people they love, where they spend most of their time, and what they’re excited about. RAPE is a list of topics that are frequently contentious and that people are bad at having productive conversations about (also don’t talk about rape)

You’re putting words in the mouth of someone uninvolved in the conversation. Hank Green wasn’t in anything you posted and you’re slamming him like he is. I posted evidence in contradiction of your baseless statement

Truly, what the fuck are you talking about?

I find it weird you’re criticizing Hank Green in your comment but use 2 links that don’t directly reference him at all and in fact the 2nd link uses AI generated art and summaries of the article. Hank Green has had a varied and nuanced take on AI that largely lands on it being a negative for society

Here’s him calling it a bubble: https://youtu.be/Q0TpWitfxPk

Him saying AI generated videos are bad: https://youtu.be/Vz0oQ0v0W10

Talking about AI datacenters being a problem: https://youtu.be/39YO-0HBKtA

All within the past 2 months

As I noted, this isn’t a concerted effort. Most of the time I sit down to watch a movie I don’t want something longer than 2 hours which means most Bond movies are out. I’m only 4 films in by October so I’m probably not finishing this year and so I don’t judge it as closely to its contemporaries as much as I judge it for its era

So far all of the movies are slow and the action is just so old school that I didn’t even really clock anything odd about the underwater stuff. It is interesting to know that it was cutting edge at the time. For what it’s worth I do think it’s the worst one I’ve seen so far, but I wouldn’t call it bad

I don’t think my family had Netflix when we had my Wii so that tracks that I don’t remember it. Couldn’t the Wii only output 480p? I bet that was a bad viewing experience

I’m trying to remember my old school DS and Wii days. I remember both having a web browser and both being particularly bad at playing most videos. What Nintendo consoles have had a dedicated YouTube app? Have any had a streaming app?

I know Xbox and Playstation both tried to turn your console into a home entertainment system, I always assumed Nintendo was consciously not doing that to their consoles

Great movie and soundtrack. I’ll listen to it while I’m reading sometimes

Are you planning to watch Terminator Zero on your journey? I think it has a lot of potential but kinda squanders it. Which is pretty fitting for every Terminator after 2 imo

Chainsaw Man - the movie: Reze Arc 4.5/5: Man that’s a mouthful. Beautiful animation, I really appreciate how deliberate each shot was, and even when the animation is “still” it’s purposeful and has detailed changes so it doesn’t feel cheap. You also feel for Denji because even the people screwing him over can see how miserable and unfair his life has been. I’m not sure I’d go far enough to suggest this for non-anime fans but for anime fans it’s worth a watch, even if you don’t see the show

Sonic the Hedgehog 3/5: Sonic 1 walks so Sonic 2 can run, and Sonic 3 can go fast. They were obviously concerned with making their money back on this given the very on the nose product placement. I’m also a sucker for any speedster scene like the bar fight and obviously the apex version of that scene is Quicksilver in X-MEN apocalypse. It’s a good starting point to get us to the good stuff

Thunderball 3/5: I’m still slowly working through the Bond movies in release order. It’s funny how I saw this and immediately said “oh, that’s what Austin Powers was making fun of”. The SPECTRE stuff is cool and it actually is one of the more grounded Bond movies with a plot I think would work in the real 60s. They’re still slow by modern standards which is why I topped out at 3

The Rocky Horror Picture Show 4/5: I love this, I watch it annually. The music is fun, the story is campy, and it’s batshit crazy. I will say the last 30 minutes of the movie I don’t love the score as much and I don’t always feel compelled to finish it