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Spider-Man: Brand New Day [movie]

 Spider-Man: Brand New Day [movie] I DON'T KNOW, I LIKED THIS WELL ENOUGH BUT IT FEELS SO MUCH LIKE THE THUNDERBOLTS* MOVIE. I GUESS THAT'S FINE?  I FEEL LIKE IN GENERAL SPIDERMAN HAS A WEEZER PROBLEM WHERE IT'S GOOD WHEN THEY ARE LOSERS BUT THE SECOND THEY ARE SINGING ABOUT BRING RICH ON ISLAND THEY SUCK AND EVERYONE HATES THEM. THIS WAS LIKE A WEIRD ORIGIN LITE REDO MOVIE WHERE HE GOT TO LEARN TO USE A WEB SHOOTER AND FALL ON HIS BACK AGAIN AND LIKE GIRLS THAT HE CAN'T TELL. THAT'S FINE I GUESS. PS. IT FEELS SO WEIRD THE WHOLE MOVIE WAS ABOUT WEARING OR TAKING OFF HIS MASK AND HE IS LIKE, DOING FLOCK CAMERA STUFF A BUNCH SO CASUALLY AND IT'S NOT EVEN THE RIGHT PERSON AND THE MOVIE JUST LIKE... NEVER SEEMS TO CONNECT THOSE PLOT LINES? 
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Fabulous Bodies [book, audiobook]

 Fabulous Bodies [book, audiobook]    I REALLY NON IRONICALLY LIKE CHUCK TINGLE AS A HORROR WRITER. I'VE READ ALL BUT ONE OF HIS BOOKS NOW, I DID REALLY LIKE THIS ONE BUT I FEEL LIKE I COULD NOT LOVE IT FOR A REALLY DUMB REASON:  I DON'T KNOW WHO EDDIE MICHAELS IS SUPPOSED TO BE. LIKE THE WHOLE BOOK IS ABOUT A DEAD 70S/80S QUEER ICON ROCK STAR, AND LIKE, THERE WAS LIKE 20 DIFFERENT 70S/80S QUEER ROCK STARS BUT LIKE, IMAGINING HIM AS FAKE DAVID BOWIE IS REAL DIFFERENT THAN FAKE GEORGE MICHAELS OR FAKE PRINCE OR FAKE FREDDY MERCURY AND I GET HE WAS JUST SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE, GENERIC OFF BRAND, BUT IT REALLY BOTHERED ME THAT I COULD NEVER REALLY PIN DOWN WHO I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE IMAGINING. AT SOME POINT I FEEL LIKE I JUST STARTED PICTUREING CARTOON BEETLEJUICE INSTEAD? AS FLAMBOYANT SHOWY ZOMBIE GUY? I DON'T KNOW! IT'S STUPID BUT IT DRAGGED DOWN MY WHOLE ENJOYMENT!  PS. I ALSO KINDA FEEL LIKE IT SET UP A BUNCH OF MORE EMOTIONAL HOOKS BUT DIDN'T PAY THEM OFF. IT DEFI...
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The Odyssey [movie]

 The Odyssey [movie] I DON'T KNOW, THIS MOVIE WAS DECENT. IT FEELS LIKE THERE WAS SOME SORT OF INSANE BACKLASH TO THIS AND EVERYONE DECIDED TO HATE IT FOR SOME REASON? LIKE FIRST RIGHTWING STUFF ON "ANTI-WOKE" GROUNDS BUT THEN IT JUST KINDA SEEMS LIKE EVERYONE DECIDED A BUNCH OF SUPER NITPICKY REASONS THIS IS BAD? WHO KNOWS. IT WAS FINE.  PS. ON THE OTHER HAND EVERYONE WAS 100% RIGHT ABOUT THE WRITING AROUND SEA PEOPLE/ZEUS RULE. IT FELT INSANE. IT FELT LIKE EVERY 25 MINUTES THE WHOLE MOVIE WOULD STOP TO READ WIKIPEDIA ABOUT IT. LIKE IT EVEN WORKS AS LIKE, CONCEPTUAL CORE FOR THE MOVIE, IT WAS EVEN A CLEVER LITTLE PULL. BUT I FEEL LIKE MY BRAIN WAS BLEEDING OR SOMETHING WHEN SOMEONE SAID 'OUR BRONZE AGE CIVILIZATION IS COLLAPSING", NONE OF THE REST OF THE WRITING WAS LIKE THAT! (ALSO THE MOVIE STARTS WITH ONE SECOND OF THE OCEAN BEING RED. FAN SERVICE, I GUESS!)
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Midwinter Break [movie]

 Midwinter Break [movie] I DON'T KNOW MAN. I GET WHAT KIND OF STORY THIS WAS TRYING TO TELL BUT IT REALLY JUST CAME OFF AS "WATCH YOUR PARENTS ON VACATION: THE MOVIE" AND LIKE, I GET BEING SUBTLE AND RESTRAINED ABOUT EVERYTHING GIVES IT THIS LEVEL OF AUTHENTIC REALISM, BUT LIKE, I DON'T KNOW. I DON'T LIKE WATCHING THE WORLD'S MOST MILD ALCHOLIC KINDA NOT GET ALONG WITH HIS ELDERLY CATHOLIC WIFE.  ACTUALLY IT FEELS LIKE THE OPENING SEQUENCE OF "UP" IF THE WIFE LIVED AND THEY HAD THE BABY THEN 55 YEARS LATER THEY WENT ON THEIR TRIP AND JUST KINDA MILDLY DISLIKED EACH OTHER OVERALL THEN KINDA MUDDLED AROUND AND WENT HOME.  PS. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY AMSTERDAM BASED MOVIE AND I WATCHED IT ON A PLANE FROM AMSTERDAM,  WATCH ME ON VACATION,  LOOK AT MY ALBUMS! 
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Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions [book, nonfiction]

 Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions [book, nonfiction] I DON'T KNOW, THIS WAS RELATIVELY INTERESTING. I WANTED A NEW BOOK AND WALKED BY A LITTLE LIBRARY AND GRABBED THE ONE THAT FELT DIFFERENT THAN WHAT I'D NORMALLY READ. THIS IS A LETTER ABOUT RAISING A DAUGHTER IN A FEMINIST WAY AND IT ISN'T ANYTHING TOO WILD, BUT THE AUTHOR IS NIGERIAN AND WRITING TO SOMEONE NIGERIAN AND I REALLY LIKED THE POINTS WHERE  A CONCEPT WAS BROADLY RECOGNIZABLE BUT THE SPECIFIC EXAMPLE WAS UNIQUE. LIKE "USING EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY TO JUSTIFY SOMETHING SEXIST" IS DEFINITELY A THING HERE, BUT I LIKE THE EXAMPLE WAS "THAT IS WHY MEN HAVE TO PICK DAUGHTER'S FIRST NAMES" WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY NOT A THING HERE. MOSTLY PRETTY STRAIGHTFOWARD OTHERWISE (MOSTLY STUFF LIKE "DON'T JUST BUY A GIRL DOLLS, GET HER A HELICOPTER TOY IF SHE WANTS") PS. I LIKE THAT THIS IS ACTUALLY JUST AN EMAIL THEY WROTE PUBLISHED INTO A BOOK. I GUESS THERE IS NOTHIN...
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The Sheep Detectives [movie]

 The Sheep Detectives [movie] WHAT THE HECK? WHY IS THIS MOVIE SO GOOD? LIKE, I AM NOT GONNA SAY IT'S ANYTHING LIFE CHANGING AMAZING BUT IT'S LIKE THE MOST "BETTER THAN YOU WOULD EVER THINK IT WOULD BE" MOVIE EVER MADE. PS. RETURN TO OZ JOKE / PATRICK STEWART SAYING "MURDER" INCREASINGLY WEIRD / THE NEON SIGN STORE
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There Is No Antimemetics Division [book, audiobook]

 There Is No Antimemetics Division [book, audiobook] THIS IS THE SCP BOOK AND I GOT RECOMMENDED IT ONE TRILLION TIMES AND EHHHHH, I GET WHY, I CAN IMAGINE A BOOK THAT IS 90% LIKE THIS THAT I LOVE BUT THIS JUST RUBBED ME THE WRONG WAY. LIKE, THERE IS A STORY ABOUT LIKE, A CIVILIZATION THAT DEVELOPED AN IDEA SO RADIOACTIVE IT WAS GOING TO DESTROY THEIR WHOLE CULTURE AND THEY HAD TO BURY IT AND DESTROY THEMSELVES AND MADE THE LONGTERM NUCLEAR WASTE STORAGE THING THE INTERNET LOVES ("THIS IS NOT A PLACE OF HONOR") AND THAT IS LIKE, LEGITIMATE COOL IDEA. BUT THEN THE IDEA WAS..... A BIG SPIDER THAT EATS YOU. AND THAT SUCKS. IT SUCKS IT KEPT INVENTING LEGITIMATELY INTERESTING SITUATION THEN SOLVED LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE ONE WITH A NEW DRUG. THE DRUGS EVEN HAD SEQUENTIAL LETTERING SO WHEN THEY SOLVED ONE PROBLEM WITH 'DRUG W' YOU JUST KNEW THE NEXT PROBLEM WOULD BE DRUG Y, AND THE FINAL SECRET DEUS EX BEING THEM USING DRUG Z IS JUST STUPID. BACKROOMS HAS A THING WHERE THE PO...
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