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Wasterville [movie]

 Wasterville [movie] THIS MOVIE IS.... GOOD... ACTUALLY? ALL THE OTHER MOVIES WERE REALLY JUST KINDA WHAT YOU'D EXPECT FROM A BUNCH OF LOCALLY MADE HORROR MOVIES. LIKE, YOU REALLY NEED TO GRADE THEM ON A CURVE AND IF YOU SAY ONE IS GOOD YOU MEAN "GOOD FOR A MOVIE MADE LOCALLY" AND I DON'T WANT TO HYPE THIS MOVIE UP AS AMAZING, BUT LIKE, THIS MOSTLY SEEMED LIKE AN ACTUAL MOVIE. LIKE IT WAS SHOT AND LIT AND ACTED WELL, THE CAMERA AND MICROPHONES WORKED RIGHT, BUT LIKE, IT WAS ALSO A PRETTY INTERESTING MOVIE. I MEAN IT'S KINDA JUST MORE DIFFERENT VIDEODROME BUT I DON'T KNOW, OF THE MOVIES THIS WAS THE ONE THAT STOOD OUT AS ACTUALLY GOOD.  THE ABRUPT NOTHING ENDING WAS LAME, BUT THEY DID REALLY SPECIFICALLY SET THAT UP. LIKE IT GOES REALLY OUT OF IT'S WAY TO FACE THE CAMERA AND EXPLAIN THE CONCEPT OF STORIES THAT GO NO WHERE.  PS. BASED ON A TRUE STORY. 

The Carnage Collection [movie]

 The Carnage Collection [movie] THIS CAME OUT ON VHS IN 2016 AND THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME SHOWN ON A MOVIE SCREEN. IT WAS NOT GOOD BUT ALSO IS SHOCKING IT WAS FROM 2016, IT FEELS WAY MORE LIKE A 2006 THING. THE SANTA ONE WAS OKAY BECAUSE IT FELT LIKE A MOVIE A LITERAL LITTLE KID WOULD MAKE, THE ANGEL OF DEATH ONE WAS LIKE, ACTUALLY EMBARASSING TO WATCH IT WAS SO BAD. THE RUFFIO THING WAS PEELED OFF THIS AND WON SOME AWARDS AND IT MOSTLY SUCKED. RUFFIO WAS SUCH A DUMB CHARACTER. SOMETHING SOMETHING BODY POSITIVITY FOR CASTING THAT GIRL AS THE DREAM HOT GIRL BUT APPARENTLY THAT IS THE FILM MAKER'S WIFE SO WELP.  PS. I IMMEDIATELY LOOKED UP WHEN RICK AND MORTY HAD THE INTERNATIONAL CABLE EPISODE AND IT WAS LATE 2014 AND THAT LINES UP EXACTLY

Lick! Stick! Suck! And Swallow [movie]

 Lick! Stick! Suck! And Swallow [movie] THIS IS SORT OF AN ANTHOLOGY MOVIE. IT'S THREE MOSTLY UNRELATED SECTIONS THEN A FINAL SECTION THAT KINDA TIES THEM TOGETHER. IT'S KINDA TOO LONG AND UNEVEN BUT IT'S NOT TERRIBLE. IT'S EXTREME HOW SPECIFICALLY IT STARS BANGOR SPECIFICALLY. LIKE LOTS OF MOVIES ARE FILMED PLACES BUT THIS MOVIE FEELS SO MUCH LIKE A SHOWCASE OF VARIOUS TRASHCANS AND DIRT PILES AROUND BANGOR MAINE. IT KINDA RULES HOW BANGOR FOCUSED THIS MOVIE IS.  PS. I AM IN THIS MOVIE FOR 2 SECONDS. THEY CUT OUT THE ACTUAL PART THAT MADE THE SCENE THAT I'M IN MAKE SENSE TO EVEN BE THERE WHICH MAKES ME FEEL GOOD, I CAN PRETEND THEY LEFT THAT SCENE THERE JUST TO SHOW ME OFF. 

Bliss Montage [book, audiobook]

 Bliss Montage [book, audiobook] GAHHHHHHHH. I HATE THIS. LIKE ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO I READ THE FIRST BOOK BY THIS AUTHOR AND IT STARTED OUT AS THIS RICHLY TEXTURED MULTILEVEL THEMATIC METAPHOR ABOUT A DISEASE THAT MADE YOU FALL INTO SIMPLER AND SIMPLER ROUTINE UNTIL YOU DIED, AND IT WAS LIKE A STORY ABOUT THE SURVIVORS ACCIDENTLY RECREATING THE SAME WORLD THEY LOST, AND LIKE, IMMIGRANT PARENTS WHO TRIED SO HARD TO AVOID CLINGING TO THEIR OLD LIFE SO HARD THEY WERE DOING EVERYTHING BY DOING IT'S OPPOSITE AND IT WAS THIS REALLY GREAT BOOK THAT SUDDENLY AT THE HALF WAY MARK GAVE UP ANYTHING THEMATIC AND JUST BECAME THE BLANDEST ACTUAL ZOMBIE BOOK IMAGINABLE. I HATED IT SO MUCH.  LIKE THE BASE SCI-FI PREMISE OVERTOOK AND PUSHED OUT THE THEMATIC SYMBOLIC STORY. THIS IS A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES BY THE SAME AUTHOR, ALMOST EVERY STORY ALSO STARTS WITH A MAGICAL REALISM SCI-FI PREMISE AND THEN BASICALLY EVERY STORY SEEMS TO EJECT THE THEMATIC PREMISE AND GO TO A TOTALLY MUNDANE STORY. AN...

Evangelion Broadcast 30th Anniversary Special Performance [anime]

 Evangelion Broadcast 30th Anniversary Special Performance [anime] AH, THIS WAS CUTE. IT WAS JUST A SERIES OF COMEDY SEGMENTS BUT LIKE, THE CORRECT SORT OF COMEDY. LIKE STICKING IN RANGE OF HOW WACKY THE SHOW ACTUALLY WAS INSTEAD OF BEING SO OVERWELMINGLY SILLY. I FEEL LIKE THE BEST JOKE IN THE WHOLE THING WAS SHINJI ROTATING UP FROM THE GROUND THEN ROTAING BACK INTO THE GROUND. PS. I FEEL LIKE THE INTENT OF THIS WAS KINDA TO MAKE AN OFFICAL VERSION OF ASUKA ENDING. I FEEL LIKE I NEVER LIKED EVANGELION BEING A SHIPPING SHOW. I KNOW 1990S FANS WERE BIG ON IT BUT IT FELT WEIRD AND BAD EVEN AT THE TIME. LIKE SHINJI SHOULDN'T BE DATING ANY OF THESE PEOPLE AND IT'S NOT LIKE, HARUM ANIME. PLUS EVERYONE IS HIS MOM. 

Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die [book, audiobook]

 Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die [book, audiobook] THERE WAS A TUMBLR OF LIKE, SOMEONE'S WEIRD DAMP LOOKING CAT WHICH I HAVE FOLLOWED FOR LIKE 15 YEARS AND THEY WROTE A BOOK SO I GOT A COPY. IT'S KINDA GOOD AND ALMOST REALLY GOOD? THE BASE PREMISE IS LIKE, A FANTASY ROMANCE MAIN CHARACTER LIVING IN LIKE, A FANTASY WORLD THAT IS NOT THAT. AND IT EVOLVES INTO LIKE, A SEXUAL ROMANCE BETWEEN HIM AND AN ELDERLY EVIL WIZARD. I FEEL LIKE IT'S GOOD, BUT DOES KINDA STRUGGLE CHAPTER TO CHAPTER TRIANGULATING BETWEEN "THIS IS A PARODY OF A ROMANCE NOVEL", "THIS IS A ROMANCE NOVEL ACTUALLY" AND "THIS IS THE INTERACTION BETWEEN A ROMANCE NOVEL CHARACTER AND A TRADITIONAL FANTASY EVIL WIZARD". PS. I LIKE THAT A LOT OF THIS NOVEL IS UNFOCUSED BUT BECAUSE I FOLLOWED THEM AND THEIR WET CAT IT'S SUPER OBVIOUS WHY THERE IS LIKE 5 CHAPTERS THAT SOMEONE IS DEALING WITH GENDER ISSUES AND A STUCK IN PREMISE WHERE SOMEONE DEVELOPS SENSORY ISSUES THAT BARELY CO...

Trigun: Stargaze [anime, television]

 Trigun: Stargaze [anime, television] I DON'T KNOW, THE FIRST ONE WAS LIKE, KINDA BAD BUT HAD HEART AND WAS CHARMING, I THINK I JUST ACTUALLY DISLIKE THIS ONE. IT JUST FELT LIKE WOLFWOOD FIGHTING AN ENDLESS SERIES OF WEIGHTLESS BOSS FIGHTS AND ALL THE IDEA OF ANY SORT OF THEMES OR MEANING FELT GONE, AND EVERYTHING FELT DUMBED DOWN. LIKE GOD, THE CONVERSATION ABOUT THE MECHANICS OF HAIR COLOR FELT LIKE IT WENT ON FOREVER AND WAS LIKE, OVEREXPLAINING THE MOST STRAIGHTFORWARD VISUAL STORYTELLING POSSIBLE. THE ENDING WAS ALSO OFFENSIVELY BAD. LIKE THE MARVEL MOVIE THING WHERE THE VILLIAN IS SO ABSURDLY OBJECTIVELY CORRECT ON SOME POINTS  THEN THEY MAKE HIM A GIANT MONSTER SO IT DOESN'T MATTER. MERYL BEING LIKE "OH MAYBE OUR DECENDENTS WILL FIX THIS" AND THE WHOLE "THEY LOVE BEING SLAVES, THEY WOULD DIE OF LONELYNESS IF THEY DON'T" IS STRAIGHT TRASH WRITING.  PS. ON THE OTHER HAND A BATTLE SAXAPHONE IS EXTREME EARLY 90S WRITING AND I LOVE THEY KEPT THAT ONE P...