Capital Reviews

 The Flash [movie]      DC MOVIES SUCK. I LIKE THEY DECIDED TO MAKE THIS ONE SUCK LESS BY JUST MAKING IT VERY STUPID. IT HONESTLY KINDA WORKED. THIS IS BETTER THAN THE OTHERS. ALTHOUGH THE CGI IS UNFATHOMABLY BAD. I REALLY LIKE HOW THEY JUST COULD NOT MAKE THE MOVIE CARE ABOUT ANY OF THE CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTH STUFF, IT FEELS LIKE THEY SPEED RAN THAT STUFF TO AN ABSURD AMOUNT. LIKE THEY SKIPPED LIGHTING BURNING HIS SKIN OFF BECAUSE THAT DIDN'T FIT THE TONE, BUT THE WHOLE END IS JUST LIKE "WE CAN'T CARE ENOUGH TO WORK THROUGH THIS SO IT JUST HAPPENS"  PS. THE BABY SHOWER IS THE WACKIEST THING TO EVER HAPPEN IN A MOVIE, HOLY CRAP

 Asteroid City [movie, amazing] I LOVE HOW THE CORE MESSAGE OF THIS WAS THAT THE LITERAL PLOT IN FICTION DOESN'T HAVE TO MAKE SENSE BUT THAT ALSO IT'S OKAY IF THE THEMES AND SYMBOLISM ALSO DON'T MAKE SENSE. I LOVE THAT THE SLEEP SCENE DOESN'T EVEN OCCUR IN THE MOVIE AND I LOVE THAT THE 'CLIMAX' IS EXPLAINED ONLY IN THE END CREDITS SONG WHERE EVEN THERE THERE IS NO INDICATION IT'S ANY SORT OF CORRECT INTERPRETATION AND SEEMS LIKE THEY JUST LET THE SONG WRITER FIGURE SOMETHING OUT ON THEIR OWN AND WENT WITH THAT. PS. THIS MOVIE IS SO GOOD IT MADE ME PHYSICALLY ANGRY TO WATCH IT. 

 Migrations [book, audiobook] I HAVE SUCH DEEPLY CONFLICTED FEELINGS ABOUT THIS BOOK. THE GENERAL IDEA IS A VERY NEAR FUTURE WHERE A RAPID TOTAL ECOLOGICAL COLLAPSE IS OCCURRING AND A SCIENTIST IS FOLLOWING THE LAST MIGRATION OF ARCTIC TERNS WHO ARE SOME OF THE LAST BIRDS ON EARTH, THEN THEMATICALLY IT'S THE STORY OF THE WOMAN WHO LIVED HER WHOLE LIFE NEVER ABLE TO STAY IN ONE PLACE. A LOT OF IT'S GREAT. THE MOMENT TO MOMENT WRITING IS GREAT. I LOVE HOW THE COLLAPSE IS WRITTEN, WHERE MOST OF THE BOOK TAKES PLACE IN THE ARCTIC OR ON SHIPS BUT IT'S ALWAYS PRESENTED AS THIS SAD NEWS STORY THAT MIGHT EVENTUALLY KILL EVERYONE THAT PEOPLE CARE ABOUT BUT NOT REALLY AND THAT FEELS SO AUTHENTIC. I WANT TO LIKE THIS BOOK SO MUCH. I THINK IT FEELS LIKE IT HAS ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK DISEASE. A LOT OF THE BOOK IS FLASHBACKS THAT ARE MEANT TO TAKE A THING YOU KNOW ABOUT THE CHARACTER AND RE-CONTEXTUALIZE IT BUT THEY KEEP DOING IT SO IT'S LOOPING THROUGH THE SAME EVENTS MULTIPLE TIME

 Roar [movie] THE CENTRAL THING ABOUT THIS MOVIE IS IT HAD NO REAL SCRIPT AND THEY JUST GOT LIKE 100 ACTUAL LIONS AND HAD A FAMILY WALK AROUND THEM AND THE WHOLE MOVIE IS SUPER STRESSFUL BECAUSE EVERYONE IS REALLY GETTING ACTUALLY HURT AND IT'S CLAIM IS IT HAD A STAFF OF 140 CREW AND 70 WERE INJURIED BY THE ANIMALS DURING FILMING. THE FUNNIEST THING IS EVERY SCENE WHERE THE LIONS ARE ATTACKING IS THE LION BEING SUPER CALM AND JUST MILLING AROUND OFF CAMERA FROM THE PEOPLE AND EVERY SCENE TRYING TO ESTABLISH A PERSON AND A LION AS FRIENDS YOU CAN SEE THE LION IS ACTUALLY FUCKING THEM UP AND DIGGING THEIR CLAWS IN AND KNOCKING THEM OVER AND STUFF.  PS. BB BAD CHAT

 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse [movie] I WENT INTO THIS ASSUMING IT'D BE THAT LEGO MOVIE THING WHERE THE FIRST ONE IS SO UNEXPECTED THEN THE FOLLOW UP IS TOTALLY FINE AND GOOD BUT LOST WHAT MADE THE FIRST ONE SPECIAL BECAUSE THEY JUST WANTED TO DO IT ALL AGAIN, BUT NOPE. THIS MOVIE RULES. I AM SO SICK OF EVERY CONCEPT THIS MOVIE WENT THROUGH BUT IT DID THEM ALL SUPER WELL SO THEY WORKED.  PS. I DON'T WANT TO WRITE ANYTHING BECAUSE THIS IS ALL SO GOOD I DON'T WANT TO RUIN ANY OF IT!  

 The Cage [book, nonfiction, audiobook] THIS IS HISTORICAL NONFICTION TO GO WITH 7 MOON'S HISTORICAL FICTION. THIS IS MORE ABOUT THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR AND THAT WAS MORE ABOUT THE MIDDLE BUT W/E. I DIDN'T KNOW A TON ABOUT THE SIR LANKAN CIVIL WAR  SO THIS DID FILL IN SOME BLANKS. ALSO IT MADE ME REALIZE THE CYANIDE THING, THE CANADIAN NGO PART AND THE SECRETARY DIEING IN A BOMBING PARTS WERE SPECIFIC REFERENCES. SO THAT IS SOMETHING. THIS BOOK IS WELL WRITTEN BUT IT'S FUNNY HOW MUCH YOU CAN TELL THE AUTHOR CARED ABOUT SOME PARTS AND WROTE VERY ANIMATED EXCITED PARTS ABOUT DESCRIBING SOME THINGS THEN OTHER PARTS YOU CAN TELL THEY DON'T CARE OR KNOW ABOUT FEELS LIKE "WE PASTED A LIST WE FOUND ON WIKIPEDIA'  PS. I THINK HONESTLY THE MOST INTERESTING PART OF THIS WAS THAT IT WAS FROM 2010 AND STILL SEEMED WRITTEN IN THE HALO OF 9/11. AND ABOUT HOW A REALLY COMPLEX AND GREY CIVIL WAR GOT SWEPT INTO EASY BLACK AND WHITE THINKING OF TERRORISM AND HOW MUCH THAT SCREW

Diablo IV [game] DIABLO II WAS ONE OF MY FAVORITE GAMES EVER AND ALMOST MADE ME FAIL OUT OF COLLEGE. DIABLO III WAS A GAME FOR THE DUMBEST PEOPLE ALIVE AND I AM ANGRY ABOUT EVERYTHING ABOUT IT. I HAVE REALLY MIXED FEELINGS ABOUT THIS ONE. THE STORY IS REALLY GOOD. OR, IT'S REALLY OKAY AS A STORY BUT HITS THE RIGHT TONES AND VIBE FOR A DIABLO GAME (MOSTLY BY BEING LIKE HELLRAISER A LOT) AND MANAGES TO HAVE SOME OF THE BEST CUTSCENES IN VIDEOGAME HISTORY. I DON'T KNOW THOUGH, IT FEELS LIKE THEY DIDN'T WANT DUMB GUY GAMEPLAY BUT IT FEELS LIKE THEY JUST MADE IT SO THEY STREAMLINES EVERYTHING A TON THEN MADE IT ALL SUPER CLUNKY SO IT SEEMED COMPLICATED. LIKE THEY HEARD THE "I DON'T WANT TO LOOK AT A BUILD GUIDE!" COMPLAINT AND JUST MADE IT SO IT WAS SUPER ODVIOUS WHAT THE BUILDS WERE AND WHAT TO CLICK TO GET EACH, BUT MADE IT SO THERE WAS A THOUSAND DIFFERENT THINGS TO CLICK TO DO THAT. LIKE WHO IS PLAYING AN ARPG AND WANTS THERE TO BE LIKE 30 DIFFERENT CHORES YOU