Capital Reviews

 These Lifeless Things [book, audiobook] THIS IS A GOOD BOOK. IT'S A HIGH CONCEPT INTERDIMENSIONAL ALIEN INVASION SCI-FI, BUT SET IN A SMALL UKRANIAN CITY SOMEWHERE BETWEEN RUSSIA AND KIEV . THERE IS A FEW POINTS THEY HAVE TO FIGHT A SCARY SPACE MONSTER ALIEN BUT IT'S LARGELY JUST A SAD BEATEN DOWN SEIGE. WHICH JUST ISN'T A THING YOU SEE IN FICTION MUCH.  ON THE OTHER HAND, THE ENDING, OOF. I HATE IT SO MUCH. THE WHOLE BOOK SET IT UP SO MUCH, IT ABSOLUTELY COULDN'T HAVE BEEN ANY OTHER ENDING SO IT'S A GOOD ENDING, BUT IT MADE ME SO MAD.  PS. I HAVE NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT IT, BUT I BET THAT THE GRANDMA STEREOTYPES EXPRESSED HERE ARE PROBABLY PRETTY TRUE EASTERN EUROPEAN GRANDMA STEREOTYPES. I WILL SAY THE ONE PART I DIDN'T LIKE ABOUT THE ENDING IS IT CUT OFF SAYING ANYTHING ABOUT THE OTHER THEME THIS HAD SO HEAVILY, THAT BAD THINGS CHANGE YOU FOREVER AND IT PASSES DOWN THROUGH GENERATIONS. 

 The Buffalo Hunter Hunter [book, audiobook] I REALLY LIKE THIS BOOK. IT'S A NEBULA AWARD WINNER BUT NOT LIKE A *NEBULA AWARD WINNER*. MY FAVORITE PART IS THAT I COULD TELL THE AUTHOR HAD A PHD BY HOW MUCH IT WAS ABOUT LIKE, READING OLD DOCUMENTS WHERE ONE GUY IS WRITING DOWN ANOTHER GUY'S STORY (I THINK IT'S LIKE FIVE DEEP FRAME STORIES AT ONE POINT) AND JUST THE WAY IT WILL RANDOMLY BRING UP SOMEONE CORRECTING THE HISTORICAL INACCURACY. ) MY OTHER FAVORITE PART IS THE VAMPIRE SYSTEM JUST SEEMED WAY TOO SYSTEM HEAVY AND I KEPT WONDERING IF THIS WAS LIKE SOMEHOW BASED ON A VIDEOGAME OR SOMETHING THEN THE AUTHOR HAS A LITTLE ESSAY AT THE END AND EXPLAINS HE THOUGHT UP VAMPIRE RULES FOR LIKE TEN YEARS BEFORE ACTUALLY WRITING THIS AND YEAH, THAT TRACKS SO MUCH. ALSO I FEEL LIKE THIS WAS HEAVILY JOJO AJACENT BUT THE AUTHOR ALSO LIKE, CITED FINIUS AND FERB AT ONE POINT IN THE INSPIRTATIONS SECTION SO IT'S NOT LIKE THEY WOULD BE TOO EMBARASSED TO MENTION JOJO  PS. THE WORLD...

 Masters of the Universe [movie] IT IS INSANE HOW MUCH YOU CAN TELL THIS WAS MEANT TO BE "BARBIE 2" AND ABOUT MASCULINITY THE WAY BARBIE WAS AN ESSAY ON FEMININITY. IT HAS SO MUCH SETUP AND LIKE, THREADS ABOUT THAT THEN JUST KINDA TURNS INTO STAR WARS FOR A WHILE AND FORGETS ABOUT IT.  I FEEL LIKE USUALLY THE MOST ANNOYING THING ON ANY REBOOT IS WHEN THEY SPENT TIME SNEERING AT HOW THE ORIGINAL IS, BUT MAKING THE STUPID NAMES A DIAGETIC THING WHERE HE WAS JUST A LITTLE KID TRYING TO REMEMBER DRAWINGS HE MADE IS A PRETTY FUNNY CONCEPT.  PS. THIS IS A VERY COLD TAKE AND EVERYONE HATES JARAD LETO BUT LIKE, I'D AT LEAST CONCEPTUALLY GET GIVING SKELETOR A DIFFERENT VOICE IF HE WAS LIKE, PLAYED AS A MORE SERIOUS VILLIAN. BUT LIKE, HE'S WAY MORE EXPLICITLY CAMP AND GAY IN THIS THAN HE EVER WAS, AND HE HAS A SILLY VOICE, SO LIKE, WHY A *DIFFERENT* SILLY VOICE THAN HIS ICONIC ONE? 

 The End of Oak Street [movie] HELL YEAH, THIS MOVIE RULES. IT'S THE MOST 80S MOVIE IMAGINABLE. LIKE IT IS SET IN THE 80S AND HAS SOME "KIDS ON BIKES' GENRE STUFF, BUT MOSTLY IT JUST EXTREMEY FEELS LIKE AN EPISODE OF OUTER LIMITS AND LEGITIMATELY RULES HOW THE FANTASITCAL STUFF DOESN'T EVEN START TILL LIKE A THIRD OF THE MOVIE AND HOW NO ONE EVER REMOTELY WORKS TOGETHER. I THINK THIS MOVIE IS GETTING SOME AMOUNT OF HYPE NOW IT'S ALMOST OUT OF THEATERS BUT I FEEL LIKE IT WAS GIVEN THE MOST GENERIC TITLE EVER (IT WAS ORIGINALLY 'THE END OF FLOWERVILLE" OR SOMETHING) AND HAVING ZERO ADVERTISING (AND NO INDICATION IN ANY WAY WHAT THE MOVIE EVEN IS ABOUT) ABSOLUTELY KILLED THIS KICK ASS DINOSAUR MOVIE. ALSO THE ENDING WAS KINDA LAME BUT I LIKE THE DUMB O'BRIAN TWIST AND I LIKE THE RANDOM GIRLFRIEND GIRL HAS A TIME TWIN IN LIKE ONE SHOT AND IT'S NEVER COMMENTED AT ALL.  PS. 2MUCH CAT VIOLENCE

 Goodnight Punpun Vol #3 [book, comic] I FINISHED READING THIS A WHILE AGO, BUT DIDN'T WRITE A REVIEW. I DON'T KNOW, THIS REVIEW IS GOING TO BE ABOUT THE SAME AS VOLUME 1 AND 2, I DO LIKE THIS, BUT I AM STRUGGLING BECAUSE THIS IS LIKE ONE OF THOSE MEDIA I AVOIDED FOR A LONG TIME BECAUSE IT WAS "TOO GOOD" AND NOW I'M READING IT AND I LIKE IT BUT NOT AS MUCH AS HYPED UP. PS. (IT'S EASY TO PRETEND I DON'T RELATE TO IT BECAUSE I RELATE TO IT SO MUCH I'M IN DENIAL, BUT I DON'T THINK THAT IS REAL) 

 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever [movie] I HAVE WATCHED EVERY SINGLE MARVEL MOVIE.  DURING 'PHASE 4' THE MOVIES GOT SO BORING I MOSTLY STOPPED WATCHING THEM,  BUT OVER TIME I ENDED UP CATCHING EVERY DUMB 10 RINGS AND ETERNALS AND WHATEVER AGAINST MY WILL, SO NOW I WAS IN THE UNCOMFORTABLE PLACE WHERE I HAD LIKE A YEAR WHERE I HAD SEEN "EVERY MARVEL MOVIE BUT BLACK PATHER 2" WHICH LIKE, WAS NOT INTENTIONAL BUT *FEELS* LIKE SOMETHING SOMEONE WOULD DO INTENTIONALLY. SO I WAS FORCE TO WATCH THIS. (IT WAS VERY PHASE 4 BORING) PS. NAMOR HAS SERIOUS HYDROX ISSUES WHERE HE ACTUALLY IS THE FIRST OREO COOKIE BUT NO ONE KNOWS THAT SO IT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE THEY GAVE HIM A NEW MORE DIFFERENT DEAL THAN AQUAMAN. IT DOES FEEL KINDA WEIRD THEY DID THIS IN *THIS* MOVIE. LIKE IT KINDA GOES TO A WEIRD PLACE OF "BLACK PEOPLE'S NATURAL ENEMY: BLUE LATINOS"