An American tourist in Russia
I finally got around to watching the new Superman movie, and oh boy, what a mess. But it does have some useful lessons for us. My first kneejerk reaction during the watch was that everything just seems… off. Like someone snuck into your house while you were gone and slightly rearranged the furniture. Enough for … Read more
So, we watched the Foundation series and I hated it. I wanted to write a long review, but I suck at long texts. So here’s the verbal gist of my mental effort: 1. The show has no plot. It’s a zoomer ideal of a roller-scroller show where a clip comes after clip and a cinematic … Read more
The 2009 to 2016 period was a dark age of cinema and I struggle to think of even one good American movie from that period. This slew of terrible capeshit, lazy game adaptions, and half-baked remakes of old IP is now commonly referred to as “Obamaslop.” I wouldn’t say movies have improved since then, but … Read more
There’s this very popular trope in movies and TV of a “damning” video or document that, if exposed to the public, would collapse the whole government. We see this trope over and over again. Like in the 2005 sci-fi movie Serenity (based on the TV show Firefly), the good guys “expose” the government wiping out a whole planetary colony in a botched drug trial that makes people either go catatonic or turns them into sado-masochists. The entire premise of this movie is that if people find out their government is incompetent and evil, they’ll want a different government.
I rewatched The Big Sleep (1946) with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall yesterday, and since I had almost no memory of this movie, it was like a new experience. The Big Sleep is like a video game long before video were even a thing. The hero wanders from scene to scene facing a series of … Read more