Capital Reviews

 Superintelligence [movie] THIS MOVIE ISN'T GOOD, IT'S NOT EVEN INTERESTING ENOUGH TO BE BAD. IT WAS JUST WHATEVER.  I DO THINK IT'S FUNNY YOU COULD TELL SOMEONE ON THE TEAM CARED ABOUT SCI-FI AND WAS TRYING. LIKE, IT'S NOT LIKE THE SKYNET STORY WAS *SO* INVENTIVE OR ANYTHING, BUT IT WAS MORE THAN IT NEEDED TO BE. LIKE IT DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WITH ANY OF IT, AND THAT IS KINDA FUNNIER THAN IF THEY LEANED INTO IT.  PS. THE ACTUAL ONLY FUNNY PART IS THEY JUST STOLE THE SCENE OF THE POLICE GUY ASKING ANT MAN FOR A DATE AND MADE THAT A WHOLE CHARACTER AND SOME OF THAT WAS FUNNY A LITTLE. 

 Shazam! Fury of the Gods [movie] IS THIS EVEN A REAL MOVIE THAT CAME OUT? THIS FEELS SO DIRECT TO AIRPLANE SEATBACK QUALITY. ALSO THEY MADE TOO MANY OF THESE AND THE KIDS ARE WAY WAY TOO OLD. THE KIDS BEING ALMOST 18 WAS A HUGE PLOT BUT THE WHOLE THING IS SHAZAM IS LIKE A 10 YEAR OLD. THE LITTLE GIRL IS CLEARLY MEANT TO BE A TODDLER BUT THE GIRL IS LIKE 16 IN KID FORM. IT MAKES THE WHOLE MOVIE SO WEIRD, LIKE THE SHAZAM FORMS ARE ALL MENTALLY CHALLENGED.  PS. THE SKITTLES PRODUCT PLACEMENT WAS SO WEIRD. IT TOOK UP SUCH A MAJOR CHUNK OF THE CLIMACTIC BATTLE AND ALSO "TASTE THE RAINBOW MOTHERFUCKER" BEING LIKE THE ONLY TIME THIS MOVIE SWORE AND ALSO IT BEING THE BABY WOMAN SAYING IT MADE IT REALLY WEIRD AND JARRING. 

 Mrs Harris goes to Paris [movie] THIS IS SUCH A BUS MOVIE, IT RULES. IT'S A WEIRD AD FOR DIOR DRESSES. IT MAKES NO SENSE, IS FOR OLD LADIES AND LIKE A THOUSAND THINGS HAPPEN BUT ALL RESOLVE INSTANTLY. PS. 460 POUNDS IN 1950 IS LIKE FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS. THAT IS A TON FOR A SINGLE DRESS AND HARRIS IS A CLEANING WOMAN SO IT'S A LOT BUT IT'S NOT *THAT* MUCH FOR EVERYONE TO BE WEIRD ABOUT IT

 Don't Sleep There Are Snakes [book, audiobook] I GOT THIS AS AN AUDIOBOOK AND MY PLAN WAS TO LISTEN TO 'BOOK ABOUT A COUNTRY (BRAZIL) YOU ARE INTERESTED IN" WHILE ON A PLANE TO BRAZIL, BUT I STARTED LISTENING TO IT AND IT WAS MAKING ME SO ANNOYED I LISTENED TO IT ALL BEFORE I LEFT SO I COULD COMPLAIN ABOUT IT FASTER. IT'S LIKE, A BOOK BY A CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY WHO WENT TO CONVERT A TINY AMAZONIAN TRIBE WHO SPEAKS A LANGUAGE WITH 400 SPEAKERS. THEN BRAZIL KICKED OUT MISSIONARIES SO HE BECAME A LINGUIST TO SNEAK BACK IN, THEN HE ABANDONED RELIGION AND BECAME THE ONLY WESTERN SPEAKER OF THE LANGUAGE.  AND IT FEELS LIKE EVERYTHING HE SAYS SMELLS. LIKE IT DOES SOUND LIKE IT'S A PRETTY UNIQUE LANGUAGE BUT IT JUST HAS THIS LAYER WHERE EVERY SINGLE ASPECT OF THIS LANGUAGE ONLY HE KNOWS HAS TO BE THE MOST SPECIALIST LANGUAGE ON EARTH, IT FEELS LIKE HE WENT TO ONE LINGUIST CLASS, LEARNED WHO THE MAJOR PEOPLE IN THE FIELD ARE AND THE MOST BASIC THEORIES THEN LIKE, DECIDED HI

 The Ministry for the Future [book, audiobook] THIS BOOK IS REALLY GOOD, IT'S ABOUT THE NEAR FUTURE OF CLIMATE CHANGE BY THE RED MARS GUY.  BUT THE STRUCTURE IS STRANGE. IT HAS OVER 100 CHAPTERS AND ABOUT A THIRD ARE THE ACTUAL FICTIONAL STORY, ABOUT A THIRD ARE LITTLE SIDE STORIES AND A THIRD ARE JUST FLAT OUT ACTUAL FACTUAL ESSAYS. IT FEELS LIKE THERE WAS A DRAFT OF THIS BOOK THAT FOLLOWED THROUGH BEING MORE STRAIGHT SCI-FI WHERE IT FEELS LIKE THE BIGGER CHARACTERS SORT OF WANDER AROUND AND THEN DIE OFF SCREEN WITHOUT DOING MUCH. BUT IT MOSTLY WORKS.  THE FIRST PART OF THE BOOK PARTICULARLY, IS JUST A DEPICTION OF 'WET BULB 35". THE THING WHERE HUMANS ARE GREAT AT DEALING WITH HEAT, IT COULD BE 160 DEGREES OUT AND IT'D SUCK BAD AND LOTS OF PEOPLE WOULD DIE, BUT FUNIDMENTALLY HUMANS AS A SPECIES CAN LIVE AT VERY HIGH TEMPRATURES BECAUSE MAMMALS ARE JUST GREAT AT THERMORGULATION, BUT AT 95F WITH 100% HUMIDITY PHYSICS MAKES IT SO HUMANS CAN'T SHED HEAT AND JUST GET