Capital Reviews

Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight [movie, anime] AH, GEEZ, OKAY, YEAH, I GET IT. PS. DUB BEING WEIRD ABOUT RABBIT GENDER. DID THEY THINK THIS MIGHT SHOW ON CARTOON NETWORK IF THEY REMOVED OBJECTIONABLE THEY/THEM RABBIT?

 Made In Abyss: Journey's Dawn [anime, movie] THE THING I KNOW ABOUT MADE IN ABYSS IS THAT IT IS THE FAMOUS ANIME FOR BEING ON EVERY THE MOST DISTURBING ANIME EVER LIST BECAUSE IT STARTS OUT A FUN WHOLESOME ADVENTURE THEN GETS REALLY FUCKED UP AS IT GOES ON. BUT I DON'T REALLY KNOW ANY REAL DETAILS OTHER THAN THERE IS A TURN EVENTUALLY.  THIS IS THE FIRST HALF OF THE FIRST SEASON EDITED INTO A MOVIE AND IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S BASICALLY THE WHOLESOME ANIME ALL THE WAY THROUGH, A COUPLE UNSETTLING PARTS, BUT NOTHING MUCH MORE THAN YOU'D EXPECT.  I ACTUALLY WONDER IF I'M WATCHING IT THE BEST OR WORST WAY, LIKE, I AM SURE I WILL LOSE IMPACT WHEN WHATEVER HORRIBLE THINGS HAPPEN AND I'M NOT TOTALLY BLIND SIDED, BUT IT'S ALSO SUCH AN UNEASY WAY TO WATCH A SHOW. LIKE EVERY TIME THEY TUMBLE DOWN A HILL OR SOMETHING I AM LIKE "IS THIS IT? IS HER BONE GOING TO BE STICKING THROUGH HER LEG WHEN THEY GO LOOK AT IT?"   PS. I WATCHED THIS BECAUSE I MENTIONED

 Justice League: Warworld [movie] I CAN'T PUT MY FINGER ON IT. PREMISE WISE EVERYTHING SEEMS FINE OR GOOD, BUT SOMETHING ABOUT THIS WAS SO BORING IT WAS PAINFUL TO WATCH. I FEEL LIKE IT DECIDED THE TRICK TO BEING MORE WEIGHTY AND SERIOUS WAS MAKE EVERYONE PAUSE FOR A LONG TIME BETWEEN SAYING ANYTHING.  PS. ALSO COWBOYS ARE BORING. 

 I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself [book, audiobook] YEAH, THIS BOOK IS PRETTY GOOD. I LOVE IT HAS A SUPER HIGH CONCEPT PREMISE (IN A NEAR FUTURE DYSTOPIAN AMERICA PEOPLE ARE GIVEN EXTRA SHADOWS AS PUNISHMENT) THEN ALMOST ZERO PERCENT OF THE BOOK IS EVER DIRECTLY ABOUT THAT AND THE BOOK REFUSES TO EVER TALK ABOUT A SINGLE MECHANIC OF ANYTHING ABOUT THAT IN ANY SCI-FI WAY.  SO IT'S MOSTLY JUST A BOOK ABOUT ALIENATION AND GRIEF. I ALSO LIKE THAT THE BOOK DOES A GOOD JOB OF HAVING THE SHADOW STUFF STAND IN FOR A BUNCH OF THINGS BUT REFUSES VERY HARD TO MAKE IT A STRAIGHT ANALOGY FOR ANY ONE THING. BUT THEN EVEN WITHOUT IT REPRESENTING ANY ONE EXACT SPECIFIC THING GETS IT EXACTLY SPOT ON THE WAY GRADE SCHOOL TEACHERS WOULD BE AWFUL ABOUT IT.  PS. I DON'T KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT HOW HORNY THIS BOOK IS. A MAJOR THEME OF THIS BOOK IS SHAME AND THE MAIN CHARACTER IS A LESBIAN AND ANTI LGBT LAWS WAS CLEARLY ONE OF THE ALLEGORIES AND I THINK THE PREMISE OF SO MANY GRAPHIC SEX SCENES IS LIKE

 The Creator [movie] THIS IS LIKE A PRETTY GOOD MOVIE THAT FELT LIKE IT WAS ALMOST A GREAT MOVIE BUT NEVER GOT THERE.  IT'S A MOVIE NOT BASED ON ANYTHING SPECIFIC THAT FEELS LIKE IT'S A MOVIE FROM ANOTHER UNIVERSE WHERE THERE WAS A BELOVED EARLY 80S MANGA THAT FINALLY GOT A LIVE ACTION VERSION THAT IS SUPER FAITHFUL TO THE ORIGINAL BUT THE ORIGINAL IS KINDA NOT THAT INNOVATIVE ANYMORE AND KINDA BORING TO WATCH IN 2023.  PS. THIS MOVIE WANTED TO BE CALLED NIRMATA SO BAD. I FEEL LIKE EVERY INCH OF THIS MOVIE WAS WRITTEN LIKE IT WAS CALLED NIRMATA.

 Don't Hug Me I'm Scared: Season 2 [television] IT WAS OKAY? I DON'T KNOW. THEY GAVE IT A BIGGER BUDGET AND PUT IT ON TV AND IT'S FINE. IT FEELS STRIPPED DOWN. IT FEELS LESS MYSTERIOUS JUST BECAUSE IT EXISTED ALREADY SO THERE IS LESS MYSTERY, BUT IT FEELS LIKE THEY DON'T HAVE A MILLION OVERLAPPING LEVELS OF SYMBOLISM THAT MAKE ZERO SENSE. LIKE IT'S NOT BAD AT ALL, A FEW MOMENTS HIT, BUT IT LACKS THE GENERAL 'WHAT THE FUCK AM I WATCHING" THE ORIGINAL HAD, PARTLY JUST BECAUSE THERE WAS AN ORIGINAL SO NOW YOU KNOW WHAT THE FUCK YOU ARE WATCHING, BUT PARTLY BECAUSE THERE ISN'T AS MUCH TOO IT, IT SEEMS. I DON'T KNOW! I LIKED THIS A LOT BUT THIS REVIEW SI ALL NEGETIVE! PS. I THINK ANOTHER PART IS *NONE* OF THE SONGS ARE GOOD. ALL THE SONGS IN THE ORIGINAL ARE SUPER MEMORABLE AND WERE A MAJOR APPEAL OF THE ORIGINAL BUT NONE OF THE SONGS IN THIS ARE MORE THAN OKAY. THAT PART IS A MASSIVE STEP DOWN. 

 Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken [movie] THIS WASN'T BAD OR ANYTHING, BUT IT WAS JUST TURNING RED BUT NOT AS GOOD. IT FEELS LIKE IT SET UP THE REVERSE LITTLE MERMAID THING VISUALLY THEN NEVER DID ANYTHING WITH IT. IT FEELS LIKE IT'S A PILOT FOR A TV SERIES AND PROBOBLY WAS THAT.  PS. I LIKE THEY PLAYED BY OCTODAD RULES AND THERE WAS LIKE 3 TIMES THE WHOLE MOVIE THEY ANIMATED THEM ALL WEIRD AND THAT WAS THE BEST PART OF THE MOVIE. OTHERWISE THE WHOLE MOVIE SEEMED BASED ON HER BEING *SO WEIRD* THEN NEVER SHOWED A SINGLE PERSON EVER DISLIKING HER OR HER HAVING ANY ISSUES OF ANY SORT. 

 Baldur's Gate 3 [game] PEOPLE ARE HYPING THIS UP AS THE BEST GAME EVER MADE AND I THINK THAT IS A LITTLE MUCH, BUT THIS GAME IS REALLY REALLY EXTREMELY GOOD. IT MANAGES BOTH EXTREMELY GOOD GAMEPLAY WITH JUST REALLY GREAT CHARACTERS. I THINK IT MOSTLY HAS LIKE, THE MOST ACTING. YOU CAN TALK TO EVERYONE AND EVERYONE IS EMOTING AND OVERACTING 100% OF THE TIME, BUT EVERYONE IS ALSO A REALLY GOOD ACTORS SO THEY CAN JUST PULL OFF THE GAYEST VAMPIRE ON EARTH AND THE GOTHEST EMO AND SO ON ALL MUGGING AT THE CAMERA AND MAKE IT JUST ABSOLUTELY GREAT TO PLAY.  I KINDA DO THINK THEY SHOULD HAVE SWAPPED ACT 2 AND 3 OR SOMETHING. THE GAME DOESN'T FALL APART IN ACT 3 EXACTLY, BUT ACT 2 IS THIS REALLY PRESSING STORY WITH A CLEAR GOAL, THEN ACT 3 IS JUST WANDERING AROUND DOING STUFF AT RANDOM IN A SEMI-OPEN CITY AND YOU JUST EVENTUALLY HIT MAX LEVEL AND CAN EASILY BEAT ANYTHING AND IT KINDA DEFLATES THE END FEW HOURS A LITTLE. I DON'T KNOW. YOU CAN TALK TO EVERY CAT IN THE GAME AND SOME GU

 No Longer Human [book] BASIC SUMMARY OF THE BOOK IS KID WHO CAN'T UNDERSTAND OR LIKE HOW OTHER PEOPLE ACT SPENDING THEIR CHILDHOOD BEING A GOOFBALL CLASS CLOWN TO COVER IT UP THEN GROWS IN AN EXTREMELY SOCIALLY AWKWARD ADULT WHO IS KINDA A BAD PERSON AND HAS A BUNCH OF PROBLEMS WITH ALCOHOL THEN DRUGS THEN THE BOOK ENDS AFTER NOT REALLY GOING ANYWHERE.  THE BOOK  HOWEVER BECAME VERY FAMOUS BECAUSE THE AUTHOR DIED WEEKS AFTER IT WAS PUBLISHED AND IT TURNED OUT THE BOOK WAS EXTREMELY BUT NOT PERFECTLY AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL. INCLUDING A PART HE KINDA SORTA KILLED SOMEONE AND CONFESSIONS HE WAS MOLESTED AS A CHILD. MAKING THE WHOLE THINK INFINITELY MORE BLEAK. ALSO IT CAME OUT IN 1958 AND WAS TOP OF THE BEST SELLING BOOK LIST FOR AGES SO IT'S GOT LIKE, THAT SORT OF WEIRD CULTURAL DISTANCE BY NOW SO IT JUST GETS ADAPTED INTO WEIRD THINGS NOW LIKE JUNJI ITO MAKING A HORROR COMIC OUT OF IT? WHICH IS THE SOURCE OF ME KNOWING THIS BOOK EXISTS.  PS. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE HOW AGRO THE BOOK INTROD