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who tf thought it was a good idea to turn charlie kirk into a magical girl and how do you use a soul gem to power an air fryer
Lesser soul gem tips this off as being an Elder Scrolls type soul gem. He’s now trapped in the Soul Cairn and the magic from his weak little soul can only power an air fryer. He was not a magical girl, don’t worry.
Out of Theatre Catch Up:
1-He Man Masters of the Universe:
I hate to say it but....Jared Leto as Skeletor carried this movie. They really let him queen it up and he's good at it. (Actually i have a hot take about Leto in that if it weren't for his oscar win for Dallas Buyer's club, he actually was previously a decent underrated character actor who works well with weird roles, but that oscar win changed him for the worst). I guess overall it's not a bad film, some of the jokes either go a little too long or sometimes fall flat. Except for Skeletor's jokes which none of the advertising showed so it was a surprise at how funny that character in particular is compared to everything else which was hit or miss joke wise. But yeah overall, decent time, probably way better than the Canon Films 80s movie. Also Travis Knight really has bad luck with his filmography track record. no matter quality (Kubo and the Two strings is really really good, Bumblebee is decent) everything he makes keeps bombing. It's just destiny that his films are mostly on the good end and yet never makes its money back. Here's hoping Wildwood does well.
2-Disclosure Day:
Y'know those guys who are trad guys for ebverything about the fantasy genre? like everything has to be 80s art demos as the rt of fantasy they have to adhere to all these things and familiar imagery all the time and they'll chastise like some tumblr person's quirky personal friend group Dungeons and Dragons OC art for not that 80s art imagery?
Steven Spielberg is THAT for Aliens. You WILL still find tiny lights flying around in the sky or crop circles or everything we are way to familiar with the most amazing thing and if you somehow beam footage of this stuff from a newstation's feed the whole world will absolutely believe aliens are real 100% and not fake footage or AI and totally trustworthy and also was gonna add the other criticism about villains caring about whether the truth coming out matters but I'm gonna be fair and say that's been an unfortunate real world development of "oh you can just say "yeah whatever" if you're proof you're lying or just absolutely evil? You can just Shrug that and no consequences happen?".
But Yeah this movie I had fun but especially when you get into that last act it's strange given how much lipservice about having less cynical or nihilist media and more Optimistic stories and yet this movie as much as it tries really hard it manages to rub people the wrong way. I think having too much of a tired take on Aliens didn't help, the boomer sensibilities here and there, especially with the thought that people would still believe the news kind of breaks the last act quite a bit. I dunno I think I'm lacking the ability to explain my point here but it's clear Spielberg LOVES alien stuff but like it feels too quaint?
I think say what you will of the X Files Revival but it tried to update it's mythology for the current years, in particular it has an interesting take on the major change the roles conspiracy theorists have on the world and in politics.
3-Supergirl:
Another one I wanted to love but was disappointed HOWEVER not to the extent the internet make it out to be but that's just the side effect of how online OVERHYPES or OVERREACTS to Great/Good/Ok/Bad/AWFUL media that things feel skewered. Like this is one I'd be fine with seeing again, it's not THAT bad but it is also a major step down from James Gunn's Superman. I think despite the different Director, they for some reason tried REALLY REALLY hard to copy James Gunn's style. I also think it's nice we FINALLY got the obvious fancasting of Jason Momoa as Lobo but I think they were too excited and wanted to shove him in here and I think he was misplaced. And I know this movie was stuck with sticking to a particular comic run/story in the comic Woman of Tomorrow so Ruthie is supposed to play an important part but she did feel kinda weak character wise. Honestly there was literally no problem with the characterization of or anything with Millie Allcock's Supergirl portrayal, she's the best part but she's also kind of not given too much to shine and any opinion piece trying to portray the film as giving this character some unearned presence is kind of full of shit, the problem is the story she's attached too. Also the scenes where she's interacting with Clark/Kal El are also really good bouncing between their very drastically different worldviews and demeanour.
I dunno, I know the reason but the online discourse for this film I think is kinda annoying but at the same time I can't really say this was entirely a misunderstood gem either but it's not some travesty as people make it out to be. Wish it was better but oh well.
4-Backrooms Everything Goes Edition:
So I was under the impression this was an extended edition version so when I arrived and the movie start, by the time we were getting to the last act I had the dawning realization that I may have been tricked into watching The Backrooms again. But No after the credits, the Extra 20 minutes is referring to a stand alone short film, I think prequel? called Everything Must Go. It concerns a few of these hazmat scientists (and I think one of them is the guy in the beginning that gets got and I think this is taking place right before that intro sequence) and they find a For Sale sign, the titular Everything Must Go signs and things go off from there. It's half narrated presentation documenting what they found, it's also normal found footage stuff. It's basically a film thats more in line with the youtube webseries or most analogue horror or even the arg stuff like marble hornets from years old which was kinda surreal to see in theatres. It's something that if you were watching it at home it's fine but if you're in theatres and you don't know what to expect and half way into this weird short there's like some presentation talking about the weirdness of a sign that you find in this weird world and I'm not sure how well that plays with a general audience of moviegoers vs if your purposefully watching some horror webseries that formats itself as a spooky MS Powerpoint presentation about skinwalkers or something that you'd then watch a wendigoon video afterwards to explain everything to you.
Also V/H/S is doing a sequel that's just about SCP but like I'm sure the producers are kicking themselves that they couldn't get the rights to backrooms because that also has more to do with found footage.
5-The Odyssey:
Thematically surprisingly has a ton of similarities with Oppenheimer. Anyways thisone might be more scattered brained, there's so much packed in.
That one scene people described as Brian Yuzna's Society, YUP that is a freaky scene. Yup I more and more am curious about a Christopher Nolan Horror movie (I do at least wish to see him tackle that in combination with him going back to his smaller scale Neo-Noir roots, I do miss Memento era Nolan).
Agamemnon's sole power is aura farming and something about that is the funniest thing to me. Really just everything with him in general when you get to the twist with him make him the funniest character to me. And in some ways an alternate take to Nolan's use of the Idea of the whole Batman as an idea thing he was exploring in the Dark Knight trilogy. Maybe an inverse of it?
Disappointed by the scylla scene, it's not as good as this one that's always stuck with me as a kid:
Like the design for it I don't think I like. I like every other design but was disappointed with the Scylla scene but maybe that's because this one here left a way bigger impression on me at the right age.
Robert Pattinson I do love how much of a weasily piece of shit he is. The bit at the end were he's just yelling at his guys to pick up whatever weapons falling on the floor while he cowardly hides behind a pillar was funny.
I did clock a potentially meta piece of storytelling that I feel like is more of a side theme that adds a flavour to it where there's a sort of meta commentary on a lot of the 2000s post 9/11 adaptations of either the Brad Pitt Troy or 300 and how they felt more pro war or in 300's case it felt more like a movie to gear up US troops to be ok with killing brown people in the middle east in some forever war and I feel like the use of Troy in the Odyssesy has this meta text about the kinda stories we tell ourselves or mythology we attach too to give us a reason for a war campaign that's all nonsense and the rest of the movie is dealing with the regret of participating in that and the consequences of it all. And for Nolan, anything meta-textual is usually about filmmaking of some sort so you can look at the in universe story stuff as the idea of filmmakers indulging in participating in this type of propganada or narrative and what happens if the consequences of that is stuck on you and follows you around.
Overall still mulling it over but its a very packed film with a lot going on. Which I guess in some ways is something to expect of Nolan.
Gonna skip rankings for now. Also lol those vlogs probably aren't happening lmao.
Out of theaters (And like One current show) catch up
1-Monarch Season 2:
I liked Season one but it's very flawed, starts and ends good, has a couple excellent middle episodes but a few surrounding middle episodes drag. Season 2 is a step up and I kind of hope each season plays with its own format, this one focusing more on dealing with One threat. Also each season so far is taking inspiration from each monsterverse movie giving that these seasons are filling in the time gaps. There's still problems and a lot of the period piece flashbacks are still the better highlights. The Randa kids I feel are still kinda of the weakest link and its supposed to be their show.
2-Sheep Detective:
Went to this because of artist Tyson Hesse working on it and pleasantly surprised by this. Another one that's ranking high up on my list. Also very surprised how much I liked this. It was fun, mostly wholesome and yet it occasionally dips in a few moments of darkness and they managed to not make that tone conflict.
3-Obsession:
2nd YouTuber movie of the year that I caught, and yeah it's worth the hype. Unfortunately I experienced this film in 5D with the theatre I went to and the general bizarre separate cast of characters in the audience I was surrounded by so I was both uncomfortable watching the film AND with anyone sitting next to me. But yeah, a few parts really got me, the Pulse inspired scene people talked about I will admit that got me. I do think there's a few scenes that could have been re-arranged to make things flow a little better. But for the most part another one I'll rank high. I still need to watch their first film they posted for free on YouTube, Milk and Serial. Also excited for his Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie but also if he does get that Nightmare on elm street gig that's BOTH slasher film reboots I had on my wishlist of things I would have wished to work on thus making me automatically jealous.
4-Mortal Kombat 2:
Much better than Super Mario Bros. Galaxy but still has similar problems. It's like half a complete movie that I mean I guess does conclude but than there's like background things that are all set up for another movie, a big problem with modern franchise movies where it's all set ups for a set up for another set up and nothing self contained and existing for itself. Part of this is also the fact that granted this is a regular problem from any fighting game adaptions which is usually solvable in other movies and anime is that they are inherently an es=ensemble but you do have a protagonists problem, in which this film sorta juggles at least 3 or 4 people as kinda main main characters of the ensemble and the story. Liu Kang still has his chosen one prophecy except something happens to him which I guess is important for MK3. The Create a character protag of the previous movie they clearly wanted to backtrack on because of the backlash so he gets a weird calleous send off. And Johnny Cage who every ad focuses on is more of the main guy for the B plot, the actual A plot, main story follows Kitana. Like the story starts with her backstory and ends with her being kinda the hero. It's clear this movie was struggling to juggle subplots and main plots and set ups for future movies.
5-The Backrooms:
3rd YouTuber movie of the year that I was lucky enough to catch and uhh I liked the first half, I do like the 'creatures' and I liked how much of a bitter asshole the first of two main characters we have, he sort of has a similar character arc as Sam Neil in event horizon or a similar kind of character plot structure to that character and the eventual switch up. And I really liked the exploration aspects of the film and the found footage portions. Where I think it hits problems is when it tries to get metaphorical and I'm fine with any film doing that but I think this one kind of stumbles a bit. Also doesn't help that Chiwetel kind of runs acting circles around everyone, outside of the therapist character most other characters feel one note and just there to be fodder, and the therapist felt kind of vacant? I would have liked it if we got more of Chiwetel kind of obsessively making the Backrooms as his sole place to fill in whatever void he has and having there be this parasitic relationship between him and this strange place that he seems more at ease in or how his destructive his own bitterness is. I dunno, I think last half kind of dips but then there's things here and there I like enough.
Current Rankings:
Obsession > 28 Years Later The Bone Temple > Send Help > The Drama > Sheep Detective > Exit 8 > They Will Kill You > Project Hail Mary > Iron Lung > Monarch Season 2 > Ready or Not 2 Here I Come > Mother Mary > The Backrooms > Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die > Mortal Kombat 2 > Undertone > The Bride > Lee Cronin's The Mummy > Psycho killer > The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Ngl the top handful I am having trouble moving around like which I like MORE if I should knock a few down or keeping them high up. This might change but I think that might be a good problem to have to be indecisive of which of these I like more, it could be The Drama, Bone temple might be back up, Obsession might remain number one, obviously there's gonna be more movies i want to attend that could make it to the top. I think I'm satisfied with my placements for Iron Lung to Good luck but that could change with a few swapping arounds.
I will say my bottom few might also change but Psycho Killer and Mario were hard to decide on which was worse, Psycho killer fascinates me more but it's also not as polished as mario but mario is corprotae trash etc etc. still a wip
Because it's taking me forever to make this catch up vlog, here's a quick rundown of what I watched. Not gonna get full blown in depth just gonna go quick:
28 Years Later The Bone Temple - Possibly my favorite movie of the year? The iron Maiden Number of the Beast scene is ballsy that they committed to that and I really liked how 70s Wes Craven Last House On the Left with a dash of Eden Lake and The Devil's Rejects it is for one portion while still being this kinda beautiful hopeful movie in a film that's otherwise very vile and grotesque and upsetting as it is, crazy how it juggled these two tones.
The Iron Lung - I feel like I need to give this a good rewatch. I agree with everyone on the fact that Audio mixing could be waaaaay better than what it is. Still, crazy to see Markiplier move up in the world and I mean it was a unique experience if a bit surreal to see.
Send Help - Thought this was alright, had fun when I first seen this but every re-watch it's grown on me. I'd put this in with The Burbs as films that kinda aren't horror movies and yet can still sit at the table. Very fun and funny and while not Sam Raimi's best, it's a much better return than Doctor Strange but that's more because he had to deal with current marvel.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die - Liked this on first rewatch but more and more I',m not sure I'd ever want to come back to this. It is funny to see Gore Verbinski try to do Captain Jack Sparrow again but I'm not sure the stakes or context feels appropriate for it? there's a tone to it I think someone like Jhonen Vasquez could get away with in things like Invader Zim or Johnny the Homicidal Maniac that I don't know landed 100% for me. Dark Humour did get me to laugh a few times.
Psycho killer - Wrote about this, mess of a film baffling, 100/10 stars
The Bride - I really really wanted to like this movie I really did but man I think this tried to be far more ambitious than it could handle. I know where the Mary Shelley conceit comes from as a reference but I really didn't like the characterization or the "quirks" added and I think it did distract from the Bonnie and Clyde/Batman's Harly and Joker sort of take on Frankenstein. The Meta stuff I don't think I cared for and Kind of wished it just stuck to this sort of stylized Tim Burton esque meets depression era take on the material it's based on.
Undertone -Another movie I wanted to like, that teaser was so damn good. It's Canadian so I have to rep my peeps but also Canada's history in horror film is vast and been more and more interested in tracing that cultural history so I was in the mood for this to be good and hopefully a hit. But alas not everthing can be a Black Christmas or a Cube, a Ginger Snaps and any David Cronenberg film. Or even most importantly Pontypool which has a roughly similar premise of an audio based horror film. I will say I liked just the vibe of even if there's nothing there sometimes you get that terrible feeling of being home alone listening to audio that just has the vibes of evil all over it and feeling paranoid that something is in the shadows. But I think the film both dragged itself out AND somehow overstuffed it with too many ideas between true crime possibly, dealing with a sick and infirm family member and anxieties about pregnancy that all struggle to be cohesive. Also I really really hated the structure of two audio files at a time out of ten files and than "oughhgag my hed hurty, time to slow down the tension". Also that's a trope I think I'm starting to feel strongly against these days.
They Will Kill You - I appreciate the Hong Kong Kung Fu films and anime swoosh noises and Alan Johnson's actor being in this. Basically what if a beat em up video game was a movie. I liked it enough, it was fun. Trailer REALLY didn't spoil one of it's gimmicks and that caught me off guard.
Ready or Not 2 Here I Come - So then i watched the movie They Will Kill you was compared to (well it was compared to the first Ready or not but yknow what I mean). It was also fun but I kinda do see why people were harsh on this as a movie that's basically treading on the EXACT same ground the first film went on. Like people were asking for a sequel but I don't know if this is a case where you can blame the audience and say "what else were you expecting" or if the writers didn't try to maybe add a bit more of an interesting lore expansion than just "There's more families apart of this whole thing, surprise!". Also Speaking of David Cronenberg. Wish he was in the film longer.
The Drama - Another one I liked a lot. BIG surprise this one is. Very Uncomfortable also a couple came into this one not knowing of the "twist" and boy it was funny seeing them leave quickly and not come back lol.
Exit 8 - Another Video Game adaptation like The Iron Lung above also an Indie game too. I liked this one well enough, I will say feels a little too close to home that I would leave and get on a crowded bus, with ear pods in my ears trying to avoid ANY conflict with whatever crazy is also on the bus of which i'm pretty sure happened so uhh that was a weird coincidence lmao.
Project Hail Mary - Liked it enough maybe not as glowing as everyone else. I will say I'm surprised how throughout the flashbacks are like all the ones in the trailer like show up from beginning to even close to the end which you'd think we'd get out of the way by the second act but it's uhh through out. Pretty sure The Highlander ends it's streak of flashbacks by the end of the second act at least.
Lee Cronin's The Mummy - Gonna be honest, I don't think I cared for Exorcist but very very loosely Egyptian themed but not really because we decided to westernize the the mythology worse than however you could criticize the Boris Karloff or Brendan Fraiser versions (which I really like both, I just mean how Egyptian culture is portrayed). Also I was thinking a lot about how the Boris Karloff version is more of a murder mystery whodunnit and I had my own pitch of a "Horror" Mummy being just columbo/meets Imohotep as a somewhat giallo villain with more supernatural powers but at least one scene where he goes to kill a professor with those prongs they use to scoop out brains.
Mother Mary - David Lowry is a funny director but I might have to save that for another post but yeah this is a movie I'm also still mulling over. I guess spoilers if I'm tracking the self actualization metaphor correctly but never expected a "ghost" movie where it tackles the greatest ghost of them all, the Holy Ghost. Who's also a lady gaga fan or I mean it's all not super literal. I think I could be in the wrong here but I kinda wish the relationship between are two leads was less vague and more spurned lovers, I don't know but I feel like it makes some of the emotions between the two and the connective haunting hit harder if it is this hauntingly romantic movie rather than just tip toeing,
Super Mario Bros. Galaxy - Fun fact, this is the first time I was able to be in a theatre alone. and it was for this lol. Only went to see this for Fox McCloud. Movie is like 50 sequel premises and subplots that could have been better stand alone but instead it's all crammed together. Basically the thesis for this movie is one big advertisement of all of Nintendo's characters and thats it. Also new Star Fox game is being made, how about that recent news?
I'll still work on the video but this is my list PLUS now I got to add Monarch Season 2 if I'm not just gonna do out of theatre reviews but any new recently released thing for my YouTube channel.
A rabbit, his sword and his slain enemy.
Inspired by illuminated manuscript marginalia depicting armed rabbits.
love my disabled son
Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested by federal authorities Saturday in Miami, according to U.S. Marshals Service.
Some news in the manosphere right now, not that anyone wanted to know.
Apparently they are being prosecuted for additional sexual offenses:
The CPS has decided to prosecute Andrew Tate, 39, with seven further counts of rape, three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation, three counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and 19 additional charges for offences relating to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography. The CPS has decided to prosecute Tristan Tate, 38, with one count of sexual assault, two counts of rape and three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation.
For those not in the know, Andrew Tate is kind of notorious for marketing sex trafficking as an alpha male lifestyle
When youre a kid youre like wtf adults are making themselves sick with poisons and when youre an adult youre like i need more poisons ASAP
Of all the tags on this post this is the one that worries me most
(USAmerican trying to imagine a societal environment) Okay, so picture a highway,
inability to correctly perceive 3d objects is in fact far more dangerous when someone is driving a car next to you then when they're like, sending emails to you.
can we focus on the gnome for a second
wait sorry i was not wearing my glasses. that is a cat
these are the people i have to share a highway with
Cats by Yuzu Kato
Two dudes in my group chat have been playing league & slowly but surely have shifted from saying "wanna play league of legends" to "wanna play some geego legends". At this point their average post is just @ing the other and going "geegogagand?" and I feel insane
What is going on
