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Spider-Man: no way home [movie]

 Spider-Man: no way home [movie] THIS WASNT BAD, IT WAS PRETTY GOOD. IT JUST KINDA FEELS LIKE THEY STOLE THE PREMISE FOR SPIDERVERSE 2 AND JUST DID THAT INSTEAD OF THINKING OF THEIR OWN THING. ALSO ITS VERY CHARMING TO HAVE DOC OCC AND GREEN GOBLIN BUT JESUS CHRIST DO I NOT REMEMBER A SINGLE THING ABOUT ELECTRO, SO SORRY MOVIE.  PS. LOL AT THE BOOK BEING CALLED FLASHPOINT. TAKE THAT DC.

Choose or Die [movie]

 Choose or Die [movie] THIS MOVIE SEEMS LIKE IT HAD POTENTIAL BUT IT WAS JUST NOT GOOD FOR WHAT IT WAS. STUFF LIKE THE SPYHUNTER SEQUENCE OR THE REVERSE FIGHT SEEMED LIKE THINGS THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER THAN THEY WERE. IT WAS JUST A VERY NOTHING MOVIE. PS. THE ROBERT ENGLUND VOICE CAMEO IS SO FUNNY. LIKE, LORE WISE. THEY HIRED THE GUY THAT PLAYED FREDDY KRUGER TO BE THE VOICE OF THE EVIL VIDEOGAME,  BUT IT'S NOT A CHARACTER, IT'S ENGLUND IN UNIVERSE DOING A VOICE. DID THE EVIL MURDER SCIENTISTS HIRE FREDDY KRUGER GUY TO MAKE A TAPE FOR AN EVIL VIDEOGAME AND HE'S LIKE "YEAH OKAY"? DID THE EVIL VIDEOGAME JUST MAKE HIS VOICE BECAUSE IT WANTED TO BE HORROR THEMED? IS THE IMPLICATION THAT FREDDY KRUGER MADE THE GAME? 

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings [movie]

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings [movie] MAN, I HAVE SAID FOR A WHILE THAT AT SOME POINT IN THE LAST TEN YEARS BIG BUDGET ACTION MOVIES DISCOVERED THE EXACT CHEMICAL FORMULA FOR A MOVIE AND NO MATTER WHAT A MOVIE WAS AND EVEN IF IT WASN'T GOOD THEY SO CLEARLY ALWAYS HIT A VERY SPECIFIC MINIMAL LEVEL OF WATCHABLE AND GOOD ENOUGH, BUT BLACK WIDOW WAS AWFUL, ETERNALS MADE ME FALL ASLEEP AND THIS MOVIE WAS JUST NOTHING, THERE WASN'T ANYTHING REALLY OBJECTABLE WITH THIS BUT IT JUST IS TOTALLY FORGETTABLE. I REALLY FEEL LIKE THE PANDEMIC HAS RUINED THE MAGIC STREAK WHERE A BIG STUDIO COULD PUT OUT ANYTHING AND IT WAS ALWAYS VAGUELY GOOD ENOUGH. I'M NOT EVEN SAYING THIS IS SO BAD. JUST YOU CAN FEEL THE SHIFT WHERE THIS ISN'T AUTOMATIC "EH, I LIKED THAT WELL ENOUGH" FOR ANYTHING THEY PUT OUT ANYMORE.  PS. THIS MOVIE IS DIFFERENT BECAUSE THEY MADE THE GOOD GUY'S WEAPONS GLOW RED AND THE BAD GUY'S WEAPONS GLOW BLUE. 

Tunic [game]

Tunic [game] THE SECRET ORIGIN OF DARK SOULS IS A JAPANESE 10 YEAR OLD BOY READING ENGLISH LANGUAGE FANTASY AND PLAYING ENGLISH LANGUAGE RPG COMPUTER GAMES AND HAVING ONLY THE VAUGEST IDEA WHAT WAS HAPPENING.I LOVE HOW WELL THIS FLIPPED THAT, I PLAYED TONS OF JAPANESE VIDEOGAMES ON EMULATORS IN THE LATE 90S AND IT CAPTURED THAT SO PERFECTLY. THE RANDOM ENGLISH WORDS, THE MECHANICS CLEARLY LAID OUT THAT YOU MISS ENTIRELY FOR HALF THE GAME. YOU REALLY HAVE TO PLAY THIS GAME ENTIRELY BLIND. LOOKING UP ANYTHING RUINS IT.   PS. I PLAYED THIS GAME IN VR, IT DOESN'T HAVE ANY VR MODE OR ANYTHING,  SOMETIMES I JUST PLAY SOME GAMES ON A SCREEN IN VR, BUT THE QUEST DON'T HAVE ENOUGH BUTTONS. SO A LATE GAME MECHANIC MEANT HOLDING MULTIPLE BUTTONS IN A WAY THAT SUCKED. SO I ACTUALLY GAVE UP ON THIS WONDERFUL GAME. THERE WAS TOO MANY PUZZLES I GOT THE IDEA OF THE PUZZLE BUT COULDN'T DO IT. SO I JUST BASICALLY CHEATED TO KILL THE "LAST BOSS" AND GOT THE WORST ENDING.  HERE IS MY

Everything Everywhere All at Once [movie]

Everything Everywhere All at Once [movie] YEAH, THIS MOVIE IS GREAT. I FEEL LIKE THERE IS GOING TO BE A LOT OF RICK AND MORTY COMPARISONS. THE SCRIPT OF THIS COULD JUST BE A RICK AND MORTY SEASON FINALE, WITH SOME OF THE JOKES LIKE MAKING UP RACOONY AS A FAKE MOVIE THEN IMMEDIATELY SAYING THE REAL MOVIE ANYWAY BEING EXTREMELY RICK AND MORTYISH, BUT THIS IS BETTER THAN THAT. I REALLY LIKE A TON OF THIS, I REALLY LIKE THE REASON SHE WAS THE SPECIAL ONE.  PS. I REALLY LIKE THAT IN A WAY THE PLOTLINE OF THIS MOVIE IS NOT EVEN HER COMING TO TERMS WITH LOVING HER DAUGHTER OR HUSBAND OR FATHER BUT A WHOLE CONVOLUTED PLOT STARTING AND ENDING WITH HER REALIZING SHE COULD TRUELY LOVE DEIDRA 

Duplex [book. audiobook]

Duplex [book. audiobook] OH MAN, I LIKE THIS BOOK A LOT BUT ALSO... WHAT? THIS BOOK RULES AT HOW ABSTRACT IT IS FOR HOW SERIOUSLY WRITTEN THE TONE IS. IT FEELS LIKE VALIS, WHERE YOU CAN TELL THERE IS A DEPTH OF METAPHOR THAT ONLY EXISTS BECAUSE IT'S THE AUTHOR'S PERSONAL SET OF DELUSIONS MADE INTO FICTION. LIKE THE BOOK IS CLEARLY ABOUT THE PASSAGE OF TIME AND YOUNG GIRLS COMING OF AGE AND ADULTHOOD AND AGES AND STUFF BUT NO SPECIFIC PART OF IT MAKES ANY SPECIFIC SENSE. I FEEL LIKE MY BEST GUESS GIVEN THE CONTEXT IS MAYBE THIS IS WRITTEN AS A WORLD WHERE EVERYTHING THE AUTHOR THOUGHT AS A YOUNG CHILD IS TREATED AS REAL? THE DESCRIPTION OF WHAT A ROBOT IS IS LITERALLY INCOHERENT BUT ALSO SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING A 4 YEAR OLD WOULD DRAW THEN DESCRIBE? LIKE EVERYTHING IS SAID LIKE IT HAS SOME OBVIOUS METAPHORICAL WEIGHT, BUT WITH THESE METAPHORS THAT SEEM TO ONLY EXIST FOR ONLY THE AUTHOR WRITING IT SPECIFICALLY.  PS. THERE IS A WIZARD AND HE GOES IN THE BATHROOM DURING PROM AND TALK