Posts

Showing posts from August, 2022

Jacob's Ladder 2019 [movie]

 Jacob's Ladder 2019 [movie] THIS MOVIE WAS SUPRISINGLY FINE, IT WASN'T REALLY GOOD OR BAD, I SAID WE SHOULD WATCH IT ON SOME "OH GOD, A MODERN DIRECT TO VIDEO REMAKE OF JACOB'S LADDER, THAT HAS TO BE TERRIBLE!" AND IT JUST WASN'T. IT WAS EXTREMELY FINE. IT FELT A LOT LIKE CANDYMAN WHERE THERE WAS NOTHING EXPLICITLY WRONG WITH THE REMAKE BUT IT JUST WASN'T AS GOOD. ALSO IT HAD BASICALLY ZERO RELIGIOUS ELEMENT FOR SOME REASON?  PS. I LIKE THE GUY IN THE FIRST MOVIE BRIELFLY WALKING ON THE SUBWAY TRACKS BECAUSE THE GATE WAS LOCKED TURNED INTO SOME SORT OF SUBWAY TRACK TOWN IN THIS ONE  

Jacob's Ladder [movie]

 Jacob's Ladder [movie] IT'S FUNNY HOW MUCH THIS IS THE GENRE DEFINING MOVIE THAT INSPIRED SILENT HILL AND EVERY 'MIND FUCK' UNRELIABLE NARRATOR MOVIE THAT CAME AFTER. BUT WATCHING IT NOW (I WATCHED IT IN THE 90S TOO) IT'S SO RESTRAINED AND STRAIGHTFORWARD. NOTHING IS REALLY AMBIGIOUS AND THERE IS ONLY A FEW REALLY GRUESOME SCENES. ALSO IT CONTAINS GEORGE FROM SIGNFIELD AND MCAULY CALKIN.  PS. EXTREMELY PRO CIROPRACTIC AND ANTI NEW YORK MOVIE. 

Moonfall [movie]

 Moonfall [movie] I HAVE A CONSPEIRCY THEORY. I THINK THE NATURE OF MAKING A GOOD DIASTER MOVIE REQUIRES NOT BEING REALLY SCIENTIFICALLY ACCURATE. I THINK THAT FACT GOT MOVIES HYPED AS PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT THE 'DUMB PARTS' SO THEY FIGURED OUT TO JUST MAKE THEM DUMBER AND DUMBER ON PURPOSE. LIKE IT WATCHED "THE CORE" BECAUSE IT WAS STUPID WHEN I NORMALLY WOULDN'T OTHERWISE, AND I THINK MOVIES SINCE THEN HAVE PLAYED ON THAT. THIS SEEMED LIKE AN OKAY, GOOD ENOUGH MOVIE, BUT JUST KINDA ONE OF THESE.  PS. I WILL SAY, I DO LIKE HOW SCREWED UP THE STAKES OF THIS ARE. LIKE THE MOON HAS ALREADY STOLEN THE OCEANS AND THE ATMOSPHERE AND SOMEHOW THEY THINK THEY ARE GOING TO SAVE THE EARTH? LIKE IT MAGICALLY FLIES BACK TO ORBIT ONCE THEY FIX IT BECAUSE ALIENS, BUT LIKE, HOW SAVED IS THE EARTH ONCE THE MOON IS ALREADY KNOCKING DOWN TALL BUILDINGS? I LIKE HOW THE PLAYED UP THE TIME LIMIT AS THE MILITARY SENDING NUKES, BECAUSE OF THE FALLOUT. LIKE, THE MOON WAS INSIDE THE ATMOSPHE

Morbius [movie]

 Morbius [movie]  THIS WON'T BE THE NEXT 'THE ROOM' OR ANYTHING BUT THIS MOVIE IS VERY BAD IN A VERY FUNNY WAY AND I'M EXTREMELY HYPED ABOUT THIS AWFUL MOVIE. I MEAN, I JUST WAS ABSOLUTELY WON OVER FOR THIS BEING SO BAD IT'S GOOD IN THE FIRST 5 MINUTES WHEN THEY SICK CHILDREN WERE LAMENTING BEING NOT LIKE OTHER KIDS THEN THEY CAMERA MOVES OUT THE WINDOW AND LIKE, 1920S BRITISH SCHOOL BOYS ARE THERE AND JUST YELL AT THE HOSPITAL "HEY FREAKS". OR LIKE, THE POLICE SHAKING THE LITERBOX TO MAKE A CAT COME. NO WAIT, THE BEST PART WAS THE SNARKY COP WONDERING HOW SOMEONE COULD DRINK 8 PEOPLE'S WORTH OF BLOOD,  OR THE SECRET GIANT CRIME LAB, OR DOCTOR WHO DOING A WEIRD LITTLE DANCE. GOD I DON'T KNOW, I REALLY DO LIKE THINGS I HATE MORE THAN THINGS I LIKE AND THIS MOVIE JUST SUCKED IN SUCH A GOOD WAY. (VAMPIRE JOKE?) PS. I LOVE THE WHOLE CONFLICT OF THE WHOLE MOVIE IS HE WAS STRUGGLING TO AVOID DRINKING "THE RED" AND WAS TRYING TO ONLY DRINK TAMPO

The Long Cosmos [book, audiobook]

The Long Cosmos [book, audiobook] THIS IS THE LAST BOOK IN THE SERIES. IT ALSO CAME OUT AFTER THE DEATH OF PRATCHET. I FEEL LIKE THAT COLORED THE BOOK A LOT, THE BOOK IS SO MUCH ABOUT EVERYONE BEING OLD AND EVERYTHING DYING. IT ALSO HAD A TON OR ARTHER C CLARK CALL OUT STUFF AND THAT WAS ANOTHER AUTHOR BAXTER WORKED WITH WHO DIED, SO THE BOOK FELT A LITTLE MEMORIAL. HOWEVER, WITHOUT A CO-WRITER AND BAXTER LEFT ALONE LIKE A QUARTER OF THE FINAL CLIMACTIC BOOK ENDED UP BEING JUST A DESCRIPTION OF HOW A FICTIONAL TREE FUNCTIONED. AND EVERY SINGLE FANTASTICAL ELEMENT PRATCHET ADDED ENDED UP IN SOME "ACTUALLY THAT WAS ALL FAKE AND WAS A STORY PLANTED TO SEND A SECRET MESSAGE" WHICH IS HILARIOUS. BAXTER CAN NOT STOP BEING BAXTER.  I DON'T KNOW, I REALLY DID LIKE THIS WHOLE SERIES BUT IT DOES KINDA FEEL LIKE IT NEVER QUITE KNEW WHAT TO BE. LIKE IT SORT OF HINTED AT TRYING TO BE SOME DOCTOR WHO ESQ MONSTER OF THE WEEK WHERE THEY STEP INTO A NEW WORLD AND FACE A NEW PROBLEM THEN L