Capital Reviews

 Krysar: The Pied Piper Of Hamelin [movie] SOMEONE RECOMMENDED THIS TO ME OUT OF THE BLUE AND YEAH, THIS WAS GREAT. I LOVE HOW FOCUSED ON THE MECHANICS OF THINGS IT WAS, EVERYTHING WAS CLOCKWORK OR ACTED IN A VERY MECHANICAL WAY, THEN THE RATS WERE LIKE, JUST EXTREMELY DETAILED REALISTIC RATS THAT ALSO COULD BE ANY SIZE.  PS. THE PRICE NEGOTIATION SCENE. 

 Hotel for the Holidays [movie]  AS BAD HOLIDAY ROMANTIC COMICS GO THIS MOVIE IS PRETTY GOOD. I LIKE THAT THEY HAD SO MANY B PLOTS THEY FORGOT TO ACTUALLY ESTABLISH THE ACTUAL THEMATIC CONFLICT UNTIL THE LAST FEW MINUTES SO THE WHOLE CONCEPT OF "MODERN VS OLD STUFF" ABSOLUTELY NEVER CAME UP AND DID NOT DESCRIBE THE TWO GUYS IN ANY WAY AND FELT LIKE SOMEONE CAME UP WITH THE IDEA OF CONTRASTING THE STERILE BLACK AND WHITE CHRISTMAS TREE WITH THE COLORFUL ONE WITH FRIENDS BUT IT MADE NO SENSE BECAUSE THEY WANTED BOTH HOTELS TO BE FOR MULTIMILLIONARE RICH PEOPLE. PS. I FEEL LIKE THEY COULDN'T PUT DOWN LUXURY PORN SO THERE IS A SCENE WHERE THEY HAVE TO BRING THE PRINCE THROUGH A SERVICE EXIT AND IT'S THIS SUPER ELABORATELY DECORATED STAIRWELL THAT EXITS INTO A VERY NICE STREET. THERE IS SO MANY TIMES THE SCRIPT IS TALKING LIKE SOMETHING IS BAD OR DIRTY AND IT'S CLEARLY NOT ON SCREEN. 

 Merry Little Batman [movie] EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS WAS VERY GOOD, ESPECIALLY THE ANIMATION, BUT ALSO IT WAS KINDA BORING?  IT'S HARD TO EXPLAIN WHY, IT WAS SO WELL ANIMATED AND HAD A LOT GOING ON BUT IT WAS JUST A LITTLE DULL? IT'S A TV PILOT I GUESS, MAYBE THAT MADE IT DULL? PS. I REALLY LIKED JOKER TYPING 'HA HA HA ' ON A TYPEWRITER. THERE WAS SO MUCH EFFORT PUT INTO THE ANIMATION, I THINK I JUST HATE DAMION SO MUCH. HE'S THE WORST THING EVER ADDED TO BATMAN. 

 The Grinch [play] THE SCHOOL GOT AN ACTUAL PUPPET TROUPE TO COME IN AND DO A SHOW. IT WAS LEGITIMATELY GOOD, NOT JUST 'GOOD FOR WHAT IT WAS' OR ANYTHING. I MEAN,  IT WAS ACTUALLY FUNNY ON IT'S OWN. I DON'T KNOW, I LAUGHED AT "I'M FROM GREENPEACE, THE TREE IS ON FIRE, WE NEED TO RELEASE IT" MORE THAN THE KIDS DID. PS. THERE WAS A GAG WHERE A LAUNCHER LAUNCHED THE PUPPET AND IT WAS SUPPOSED TO FALL BACK INTO THE STAGE PIT AND THEN A DIFFERENT ONE STAND UP BUT IT MISSED SO THE DEAD BODY OF THE GRINCH LAY MOTIONLESS ON THE FLOOR THE WHOLE PLAY.

  The Smurfs' Christmas Special [television]     IT IS SO IMPORTANT FOR US ALL TO REMEMBER THERE WAS A SMURF CHRISTMAS SPECIAL WHERE THE ANTAGONIST WAS LITERAL SATAN. LIKE NOT A CARTOON DEVIL OR SOME IMP DEMON OR SOMETHING, JUST ACTUAL SATAN TRYING TO DRAG TWO CHILDREN INTO HELL UNTIL THEY SING AT HIM. PS. I'VE CERTAINLY WATCHED THIS BEFORE IN THE LAST 10 YEARS SO I HAVE NO IDEA HOW I DON'T HAVE A CAPITAL REVIEW FOR IT.

 Magicats! [book] Space-Time for Springers : This is just "my cat is sad" but wacky. A kitten convinced it will grow up to be human.  The Game of Rat and Dragon : This is some real extreme nonsense 1970s sci-fi. Things from the dark eat you if you travel through warp space, but human brains are too slow to react to the millisecond attacks, so they have to make psychic entanglement with strong hunter cats. There is vague romantic undertones to this.  The Cat from Hell: Oh, it's that stephen king story.  It's that thing from the tales from the darkside movie. The one king doesn't know how cats or mouths work.  Out Of Place: I don't remember anything about this story and have just reskimmed it right now and still can't tell you anything about it.  Schrödinger's Cat: I absolutely love Ursula K Leguin, but oof, this book just didn't work. It has a strong feeling of a metaphor based on some not quite right 1970s pop understanding of physics. Maybe it'

 Shin Ultraman [movie] FOR SOME REASON I HAVE ALWAYS IRRATIONALLY HATED ULTRAMAN (WITH THAT REASON PROBABLY BEING HE LOOKS STUPID AND THE SNES GAME WHICH WAS MY MAIN INTRODUCTION TO HIM BEING GODAWFUL) WHILE SHIN ULTRAMAN WOULD SO CLEARLY BE THE MOST ME THING TO WATCH EVER. SO I FINALLY WATCHED IT. YEAH, IT'S GOOD. I ABSOLUTELY ADORE THEY MADE ALL THE STUPID 1970S EFFECTS CANONICAL BUT DID THEM IN MODERN CGI. THAT IS SUCH A OBVIOUS THING TO DO AND I CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING BUT TOTAL JOKE STUFF THAT DOES IT. WHY DOESN'T DOCTOR WHO DO THAT?  MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE PART IS MORE TOWARDS THE START WHEN A BUNCH OF THE CHARACTERS ARE JUST POINTING OUT HOW STUPID ULTRAMAN STUFF IS, LIKE WONDERING WHO NAMED THE MONSTERS AND SAYING THEY SEEM TO JUST BE THE SAME THING BUT WITH INTERCHANGABLE HEADS AND ASKING WHAT THE POINT OF BEING INVISIBLE WAS.  PS. MY ACTUAL ABSOLTE FAVORITE PART IS EVERY SHIN MOVIE HAVING TO USE THE EVANGELION BATTLE MUSIC AND THIS MAKING IT ALL STUPID AND 70S SOUND

 Godzilla Minus One [movie] I REALLY LIKED THIS MOVIE. PS. WHEN I GAVE THE TICKET TAKER MY TICKET HE STOOD UP AND PUT HIS HAND ON MY SHOULDER AND SAID "YOU ARE REALLY GOING TO LIKE THIS MOVIE" AND I DON'T KNOW WHY! BUT I DID!

 Sea of Stars [game] I HAVE SUCH MIXED OPINIONS ABOUT THIS. IT IS A CHRONO TRIGGER KNOCK OFF MADE IN THE STYLE OF A DREAMCAST/SATURN/GBA ERA JRPG. IT'S SO SPOT ON FOR WHAT IT'S DOING. STUFF LIKE THE LARGE SPRITES ARE AMAZING. IT'S REALLY JAW DROPPING HOW GOOD A MIMICRY IT IS. BUT LIKE, I DON'T THINK THAT ERA OF JRPGS WAS VERY GOOD. THIS FEELS LIKE IT CAPTURES WHAT I HATED ABOUT IT. THE DIALOG IS AWFUL, THE BATTLES DRAG ON WAY TOO LONG. IT'S ALL SLIDING BLOCK PUZZLES. BUT THE GAME IS NEAT. IT'S COOL IT EXISTS.  PS. IT FEELS SAD THAT LIKE 75% OF THE GAME IS PRETTY BLAND OTHER THAN "LOOK WE DREW A REALLY BIG SPRITE" MOMENTS BUT THEN THE LAST 25% GOES INTO A WILDLY BETTER STORY BEFORE ABRUPTLY ENDING. (AND I WOULD RATHER DIE THAN GET THE EXTENDED ENDING. )