PotatoOni's Ramblings

[potatooni]

Watched two more Jenna movies

So, I've been meaning to conciously get into Jenna Ortega's filmography for a while now so I just started watching some movies with her. What follows are copy+pastes from my Letterboxd wich I have for some reason. I've also already watched Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and Hurry Up Tomorrow when they came out in theaters.... I... I need to know where The Weeknd lives... and how to break into his house.... I don't WANT to hurt him, I just want my 14€ back 'cause that's how much I paid for the ticket to that abomination. ______________________________________________________________ Death Of A Unicorn (2025) https://letterboxd.com/potatooni/film/death-of-a-unicorn/ Honestly, I feel like this movie is overhated.

It doesn’t want to be anything more than a straight-forward creature feature and it suceeds in that department with some competently tense moments, good monster designs and varied kills.

If anything it’s biggest problem is that it also wants to be a comedy wich just falls flat. The humour centers around characters having awkward interactions and it just doesn’t work, primarly because of how generic they are.

We’ve got an old CEO, his superficial wife, their douchebro son, the ruthless security chief, the spineless lawyer, his opinionated daughter, the scientists and the competent butler. 

All of them are played well but don’t lend themselves to good comedy. 

If anything Rudd and Ortega felt like they’re in a completly different movie with their performances being more constistently dramatic and emotional compared the rest of the cast, who’re going for something more cartoony.

The more naturalistic dialogue was actually pretty well done and made everyone feel more realistic, wich is hard to do.

It’s a movie that wears it’s clicheés on it’s sleeves, with plenty of nods to other monster franchises, and is a pretty good time overall despite not being groundbreaking.

3/5

Defenitely worth a watch if you’re a fan of Alien or Jurassic Park. ______________________________________________________________

The Fallout (2022) https://letterboxd.com/potatooni/film/the-fallout/

I did have some issues with the tonal shifts from scene to scene, wich alternate wildly between borderline comedic drug trips and introspective conversations, but I ultimately realized they actually complement the emotional core of the movie, that is a confusing flurry of feelings after a traumatic event, quite well.  It's an appropriately messy movie about a messy subject matter.

Based on the nature of the movie I expected Jenna's performance to be limited to crying and sobbing (wich is not a criticism since she's really good at this) so I was pleased to see her portraying Vada with a full range of emotions throughout the entire movie, showing off well what she's capable of as an actress.

It's a genuinly good movie wich does it's best, and mostly succeeds, to tackle a serious subject matter in a respectful manner. Only slightly undercut by some dragging scenes, like Vada's various drug trips wich go on for just a little too long, and the underutilization of some characters, specifically the dad whom the movie seems to mostly forget about for the most part.

It maybe tries to fit in a bit too many elements in but is overall a good watch.

4/5

[potatooni]

Stripping some miniatures in a jar with rubbing alcohol and thought this looked cool so I took a photo and edited it a little.

[potatooni]

Been working on converting a Contemptor Dreadnought into a Nurgle Hellbrute and this is my progress so far. I sculpted the tentacles and growths out of miliput and the crusty parts where achieved by stippling on wood filler.

I'll replace his regular power module on the back with the two barrels seen in the pictures, wich I made from boba tea straws, the little safety rings from super glue tubes and sprue goo. I've come to the conclusion that I might have some executive dysfunction so I'm actually quite happy that I managed to come so far with this thing.

[potatooni]

Watched Superman '25 and it was neat

This is a copypaste of my Letterboxd review but I just wanted to add that I really loved how the JL is made up of characters who're popular in the fandom but aren't super wellknown outside of it. Hawkgirl is like the only one that's kinda known on accounts of her having been of Justice League/Jusitce League Unlimited. Just shows normie audience how massive the scope of the DCU actually is. And I also agree with this review

A ★★★★½ review of Superman (2025)

This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.

Alright now this was... a bit overstuffed but good. This is my out-of-theater-reaction so it'll be all over the place.

It felt like James Gunn squeezed a few too many things into this movie since the finale has a total of 3 seperate threats going on (Ultraman/Engineer/Lex, the rift and the bovorian invasion). He does however manage to balance them out well enough so each gets an appropriate amount of screen time and sense of importance.

The movie truly feels like an updated version of the Donner films and not just because of the John Williams theme. Like those movies Superman's decency and sense of duty is at the center of it all and him inspiring others ultimately helps save the day. And Lex is doing another real estate scheme but this time with even more bloodshed.

The audience is also just thrown into the DC universe without having anything really explained outside of the opening text wich I thought was a great decision since too many movies, especially franchise ones, rely on overt exposition to make up for undercooked writing. The little worldbuilding we get is clear and to the point, not distracting from the story. 

This is way more interesting than starting on Krypton again.

I'd also like to note David Corenswet's performance as Ultraman. He managed to give him a presence very distinct from Superman wich positively suprised me, given that I'm not familiar with him or any of the cast outside of Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillion. Really good.

Also, if there's gonna be a sequel he's defenitely gonna return from the black hole, severely disfigured, as a proper Bizarro.

Nicholas Hoult's Lex was a great lift from the comics more so that any previous movies. Wich is a good thing. The singlemindedness and arrogance was well expressed and I think it should cement him as the definitve movie version from now on. This Lex makes Eisenberg's look like a bumbling henchman... granted the bar low there.

What really struck me is just how nice this movie looks. I've had the misfortune of only being able to watch it in 3D, wich I despise, but despite this the colour palette and the clear visual style popped really well. I should really be rewatching it without those annoying glasses.

It's a really solid outing for the character and a decent start for the new wave of DC movies. 

All I'm asking myself now is: why didn't they start with something like this in the first place? Instead we got Zack Synder's "The Grayscale Adventures Of Ayn-Rand-Jesus-Man"

This, in addition to the Donner ones and Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, is a really good starting point for anyone who want's to get into superhero media.

4.5/5

[potatooni]

Hurry Up Tomorrow Out Of Theater Review

Eeerrrmmmm..... okay....? I came back form the theater about 1 hour ago and here are my thought on that.... thing....

Okay so, I get that this movie is basicly just a big ad for The Weeknd's final album but I’d hoped for some more meat and structural integrity than what I’ve got. At it’s core the movie is about the inability to being truly honest with oneself and not being able to face uncomfortable truths…. I think. Because quite frankly it’s rather muddled and doesn’t really feel like it’s following through with any of that. There’s supposed to be a connection between Abel and Anima, in that both are toxic and destructive but also unable to accept that part of themselves, wich is also why she ends up stalking and kidnapping him. But beyond that basic concept the script fails to really connect the two there.

For a trhiller the movie lacks tension. Sure we’re shown that Anima is unstable but there’s barely any of that coming across until she get’s into the argument with Able so the whole city cruising montage doesn’t really convey the sense of uneasieness it probably should’ve had. Almost like the audience wasn’t initally supposed to know that she’s dangerous. The only scene I felt has atleast some good tension was the tussle between Anima an Lee, but most of that came from Keoghan’s performance there. He did put in alot of effort. Jenna herself feels kinda wasted here. Sometimes her performance is good, like when Anima’s mother calls her, but most of the time she came of as set dressing despite being supposed to be the psychological foil of the movie. She seems to have been going for something akin to American Psycho during the, quite frankly too long and repetitive, finale but I don’t think it worked out the way she thinks it did. Irritating lack of Huey Lewis And The News there. I was actually quite dissapointed because the only reason I went to see the movie was because I was genuinly interested how she'd pull of a psychotic stalker character. The Weeknds performance is fine. He’s essentially just playing a version of himself so he didn’t have to actually get into character. There isn’t really much to it but I was positively suprised how expressive his face can be. On the positive side the movie does have good cinematography, even tho it often overuses continious shots like Zack Snyder overuses slow motion. I think however that an epilepsy warning would be in order because boy howdy I’m not even affected and I felt visually assaulted, especially during the concert and city cruising scenes. Yeah yeah I know: it’s supposed to be disorienting to immerse the audience but c’mon. The sound design leaves a bit to be desired aswell. I get that the goal was to make the soudn more „realistic“ by having the audio be uneven but it was distracting at times. The soundtrack also often drones over the dialogue wich was just weird. Sure, it’s a musician focused movie but how about just not having any recorded dialogue during those scenes and only have the music playing?

I can see why Jenna was interested enough in this project to even become executive producer, but I feel she got a bit too blinded by the wildness of the concept to realize the flaws. Also money. She probably got blinded by the fat stack of cash she got for this. Maybe I would’ve gotten more out of this movie if I actually where a The Weeknd fan and wouldn’t just know him as „that self absorbed guy who took over that The Idol mini series and made it all about himself“ (to his credit the movie aknowledges that this was stupid) but as it stands it’s just style over substance and I just couldn’t get into it. For a movie that was supposed to take the audience on a deep emotional journey it really falls flat on that front because it's too hard to get invested in Abels struggle, mostly because it's straight up alien to the average audience member. I give it 2/5. 1 because of the, sometimes, neat visuals and the second point for Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan atleast trying to give the audience something. Also, why the hell was the dream just Silent Hill? I’m not the only one right? That entire nightmare sequence felt like and abrigded Silent Hill game without the fog.

[potatooni]

There's no seperation between art and artist

Title says it all really. It's been a discourse that's been bothering me for a while now so here's the lowdown. The concept of seperating art from the artist is actually an analytical approach by wich a piece of art is essentially observed in a vacuum, meaning without the context of who made it; how it came to be; why it was made and in wich environment it was created, in order to discover another angle to it. Outside of this academic context it's absolutely impossible to seperate art and artist since they're ultimately fused together. Absolutely every single piece of art, even commercial ones and comission work, is intrinsically infused with the creators ideology, mind set, philosophy and experiences on a fundamental level. From the chosen subject matter to the approach to the technique there's never an aspect of art that doesn't have the creators unique fingerprints on it. Even the most wild and bizarre persona still contains loads of it's creator (Paul Reubens and PeeWee Herman for example weren't that different upon closer inspection). Or in other words: if you know someones art you know them, no matter how little they try to put of themselves into it. (Suck it Bo Burnham, everyone knows you like the back of their hand you pretentious shithead.) And before anyone is yelling "but Neil Gaiman..." THAT jackass is actually a perfect prime example for this issue. Now, first things first: outside of some comics he just happened to have written (mostly single issues of DC comics) and the Coraline movie I've never really interacted with this guy's work. I do however own a copy of Good Omens wich I randomly bought years ago and never read. So while I'm not super familiar with him I know for a fact, through happenstance aswell as having read some of his comic work, that Mr. Totally-Real-Feminist(TM) already roused alot of suspicion among many of his readers for the way he approached topics regarding female characters and female centric storytelling and the way he wrote about themes like rape and feminism aswell as female agency because it was always done in a somewhat exploitative and dismissive way, calling his supposed feminist allyship into question. So even if it's in the details, an artist is ALWAYS infusing themselves into their work in one form or another. ALWAYS. So why am I going on about this? Simple: there's too many fucktards out there who're basicly like "oh yes the creator is evil but I don't condone it so it's fine to still consume the work and buy the merch" wich really is a massive load of intellectual dishonesty right there. It's essentially those people saying that they aknowledge the bad things but also don't really care. That's like.... virtue signaling but in reverse? It's a bizarre and half asses mindset to have and honestly: it'd be better if those people would just openly say that they don't give a shit instead of wibbly-wobbly-ing around the issue like that. It's like they despearetly try to convince themselves that they're still a good person despite liking someone heinous. It's an ego thing. I guess... I just don't like the vague spineless hypocrisy of it. TLDR: you CAN'T seperate art from the artist. It's IMPOSSIBLE. Accept that you like something made by an evil evil piece of shit and move on. Don't try to twist reality like a silly straw. The art is the artist and the artist is the art. (I'd also like to point out that this is really about the actual creators of something and not really ALL people involved in the process because an artist can't possible have control over everything that happens after creation. Like, for example, the producer of the LotR trilogy is appearently a serial rapist but a producer is just a glorified manager and numbers guy so he basicly didn't create shit. So if you favourite book was printed at a company that ignores all safety precautions and workers get harmed it's not really the fault of the actual writer. Usually. Just wanted to make that clear.) .... That's it... that was my statement on the subject matter. Potato out.

[potatooni]

Y'all stupid y'know.

Okay so this is something that's been bugging me since the last US election. I've seen so many jackasses online blaming people, in particular Gen Z, who didn't blindly voted for the Democrats for all the current problems, as if none of this would've happened if Trump lost. Newsflash fuckers: it all would've happened regardless because Dems and Reps are ultimately identical.

Both parties have always collaborated on key issues and the Dems never really did a damn thing to prevent the Reps from making everything worse. Even when they have all the majorities they never do shit with it and only ever twiddle their thumbs and do worthless virtue signaling like those stupid anti-police violence stunts that didn't address the problem at all. Even if Harris would've won the exact same anti-migration, anti-trans and even anti-health masures would've been introduced and still passed. Harris would've also taked revenge on the pro Palestine activist like Trump does right now aswell as introducing similiar border policy. And don't come to me with all that "oh no, Gen Z doomed us all and the Dems would never do anything bad" Fuck you. Look at Shumer just straight up making Elon's government cuts legal because "muh government shutdown" (wich is such a pathetic justification). Serioulsy how politically naive are you people? Atleast many Gen Z voters (not exclusively mind you but this post is about them and how they're unjustly vilivied by gullible idiots) had the intelligence and balls to shit on both Harris and Trump and either didn't vote at all or voted for random third party candidates that atleast somewhat align with them. Because that's what you're supposed to do during elections and not follow those retardet MAGA/Vote Blue No Matter Who cults like the stupid sheep you seem to be. The Dems actively and deliberately destroyed the little bit of good will the Harris/Walz campaign built up by copypasting all the stupid identiy politics Clinton crap from 2016, where they also did everything in their power to prevent Bernie from succeeding just because he ran on a way better platform. It had nothing to do with Gen Z not turning out for Harris. And stuff like that isn't a pure US issue either. Remember how UK Labour actively attacked and tried to drag down Jeremy Corbyn aka "Mr. Based" because he dared to actually adress the real issues of the population? Yeah. People and their problems don't matter to politicians. Only their own power and money does. That goes for ALL parties in every single country in the world. They're ALL THE SAME. So yeah, to all you dipshits who whine and moan about how people are getting deported now and shit: the Dems would've done the same, they'd just used a different language and justifications. Also, I've got no fucking clue who Chappel Roan is but EVERYONE OF YOU BRAINDEAD SHIT NUGGETS owe her a huge ass apology for coming after her after the only thing she did was speak the absolute empirical truth. Like seriously, I was born in '92 and have been politically aware for decades now and it's just staggering how fucking clueless all you twats are. Good lord.

[potatooni]

Not enough bits? No problem! Thermoplastic and sprue goo to the rescue! Works quite nicely even tho it takes a while to fully cure. The little holes should be easy to plug up with more goo.

[momo-de-avis]

what the fuck is this monstrosity

[kirstenk080]

[mrsjadecurtiss]

[the-dwelf-ao3]

Wh-

[roselightfairy]

I started watching this and thought “this doesn’t look too bad, what’s everyone–what–wait–oh no–OH NOOOOOOO”

[potatooni]

Uh.... they lost me at pancake batter.... hell, they lost me at freezing the damn thing. This is just straight up the most american thing ever. Just pure excess with no rhyme or reason. This is just as bad as that one tik tok where they show the process of assembling that massive tower of waffles and ice cream at a restaurant. No wonder everyone is making fun of that country. I guess the jar lids are a nice idea if you wanna make those even egg disks for whatever reason but other than that this video is just obscene.

[potatooni]

Relationships are kinda fucking derranged

I've honestly got no idea what to make off relationships at this point. Mind you, I've never even been in one but have been thinking about it for years and years. My conclusion is that I'm just not build for that kinda stuff because at the end of the day all relationships are transactional and require each participant to offer something the other wants. And I've got nothing to offer. I don't really know how to offer comfort beyond some platitudes, I don't know how to have someones back, I'm not particulary empathetic or emotional and don't get me started on the willingness to share my living space with someone. I mean sure: intellectualy I can understand someone elses needs and worries but emotionally there's just nothing in here and I don't think that's good for a relationship. I guess I'm also kinda scared of just being with someone simply because in my experience people just completly switch up their behaviour within a milisecond and start hating you for no reason. Like how am I supposed to find calm and happieness when I feel like I gotta walk on egg shells the entire fucking time, even if the hypothetical significant other is on the same wavelength as me? The more I think about it the less I am enthused to be with someone. I swear I'm the human equivalent to a syrian gold hamster: solitary and derranged.

[daily-spooky]

[potatooni]

I'm not even attemtping to be social and yet I do feel that way.

[potatooni]

Creative Clog

I'm genuinly frustrated at the disconnect between my creativity and my productiviy. Like, I come up with concepts and ideas for stories and art pieces but I can never bring myself to actually do them or, even worse, I start them but get discouraged. I have no idea if it's insecurity or executive dysfunction disorder.

[potatooni]

Beetlejuice and the consequences of marriage

Okay so, I've been thinking about what exactly would happen if Lydia, or any living person really, would get married to the juice man for realsies.

It's already established that BJ would be able to freely roam the realm of the living afterwards but what would happen to his spouse? Given the nature of the setting there could actually be dire consequences for them. In BJBJ we learn that one way for a ghost to return to live is for a mortal to take their place in the great beyond so Jeremy, who really doesn't care about anyone but himself, tricks Astrid into giving herself up for that. So I don't think in the case of marriage that the living person would be send to the great beyond perse but there would be a displacement regardless. I think if BJ and Lydia were to have a legally binding marriage it would turn into a kind of Hades and Persephone thing with Lydia getting trapped in the Netherworld while Beetlejuice can just roam freely and cause chaos at this hearts content. Sure, not exactly like the myth but somewhat in the same vein. Effectively her becoming a sort of placeholder for BJ within the confines of the afterlife. Like putting a towel on a pool chair to claim it. Furthermore, if we go by the Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian script, it could also lead to him becoming waaaaayyy more powerful than he already is. Granted in that script he unleashes his full potential before the knot is legally tied but I'd like to imagine that not marrying him would be the same as keeping godzilla under lock and key. I also could see it happening that he'd straight up put Lydia in a large cartoony cage with his shrinkers guarding her but when he comes back to make out with her he'll just find one of them inside of said cage wearing the red dress because she escaped and put him there as a distraction. Beetlejuice is not a good person and one shouldn't feel sorry about him having his wedding be thwarted twice.

[god-dammit-fandom]

Hang on, if we're talking about a Hades and Persephone wedding, Beetlejuice is also promising to put his wife first.

In the Hymn to Demeter - the real life religious hymn pagans use(d) to talk about the wedding of those two gods - Hades is very clear that he's not using marriage as a chance to go apeshit in the world of the living, he's giving his wife VIP access to the underworld whenever she wants to come back.

Here's the University of Houston Translation:

360       “Go, Persephone, to your mother, the one with the dark robe.

            Have a kindly disposition and thûmos in your breast.

            Do not be too upset, excessively so.

            I will not be an unseemly husband to you, in the company of the immortals.

            I am the brother of Zeus the Father. If you are here,

365       you will be queen of everything that lives and moves about,

            and you will have the greatest tîmai in the company of the immortals.

            Those who violate dikê– will get punishment for all days to come

            —those who do not supplicate your menos with sacrifice,

            performing the rituals in a reverent way, executing perfectly the offerings that are due.”

370       So he spoke. And high-minded Persephone rejoiced.

You don't get to be Godzilla on the surface and a doting husband in the underworld without some friction. A man who has seen the worst of humanity for 600+ years and wants to keep his wife happy knows that.

So if this is a Hades and Persephone loophole marriage, their balance would likely be a (hopefully) more mature version of the saturday morning cartoon. Lydia can pop down into the underworld whenever she wants, but when they want to hang out on the surface, it has to be for a Lydia-approved reason and she's has the final say as to whether she's going to summon him or not.

[potatooni]

Well, I didn't mean to completly equate the two. I was just thinking about how what Jeremy did could give a hint of how it would go down with BJ. I really just used Hades and Persephone as a shorthand and it wasn't supposed to be a 1:1 comparison.

But to elaborate on BJ wanting to keep Lydia happy: at this point I wouldn't even be so sure if Beetlejuice really knows what a truly healthy and happy relationship is anymore. In his backstory he even straight up said that his heart went cold long ago and getting screwed over by Dolores probably didn't help. Going back to the BJ Goes Hawaiian script it actually ends with him trying to kill Lydia so they can be together forever but he get's banished by Otho in the last second. He is quite honest and honorable with his agreements and contracts, making him a much more traditional depiction of a demon than most modern media, but he's still trying to get the best deal out of it for himself and also always seems to target desperate and vulnerable people. Basicly, he doesn't appear to like it when he's not in control over things and views people more as a means to an end, no matter how he phrases it, so giving a partner any kind of actual agency probably doesn't even occur to him. Maybe these thoughts are also just me being tired of dumbing down villainous characters to make them more likeable. Idk.

[potatooni]

Beetlejuice and the consequences of marriage

Okay so, I've been thinking about what exactly would happen if Lydia, or any living person really, would get married to the juice man for realsies.

It's already established that BJ would be able to freely roam the realm of the living afterwards but what would happen to his spouse? Given the nature of the setting there could actually be dire consequences for them. In BJBJ we learn that one way for a ghost to return to live is for a mortal to take their place in the great beyond so Jeremy, who really doesn't care about anyone but himself, tricks Astrid into giving herself up for that. So I don't think in the case of marriage that the living person would be send to the great beyond perse but there would be a displacement regardless. I think if BJ and Lydia were to have a legally binding marriage it would turn into a kind of Hades and Persephone thing with Lydia getting trapped in the Netherworld while Beetlejuice can just roam freely and cause chaos at this hearts content. Sure, not exactly like the myth but somewhat in the same vein. Effectively her becoming a sort of placeholder for BJ within the confines of the afterlife. Like putting a towel on a pool chair to claim it. Furthermore, if we go by the Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian script, it could also lead to him becoming waaaaayyy more powerful than he already is. Granted in that script he unleashes his full potential before the knot is legally tied but I'd like to imagine that not marrying him would be the same as keeping godzilla under lock and key. I also could see it happening that he'd straight up put Lydia in a large cartoony cage with his shrinkers guarding her but when he comes back to make out with her he'll just find one of them inside of said cage wearing the red dress because she escaped and put him there as a distraction. Beetlejuice is not a good person and one shouldn't feel sorry about him having his wedding be thwarted twice.

[potatooni]

So I've made a few bases for 40k. They where kinda inspired by the floor design of the old 2nd edition cardstock ruins that came with the starter box and are supposed to represent some sort of interior. I simply made the tiles from cereal box cardstock, glued them on and painted them mostly by sponging and then stippling on some brown washes in certain areas. I think it turned out pretty neat.

[ad-wills]

[potatooni]

I'm in this picture and I don't like that.

[lost-where-the-forest-would-grow]

I just got described as an "ad hating commie" by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff

[daovihi]

reblog if you are an ad hating commie

[potatooni]

Me! I'll gladly adopt this label because ads are horrible. We should go back to thumbnail sized banner ads at the very top and bottom of a webpage.