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I love it so much. I've replayed it multiple times which is really rare for me. But it's so weird and such a specific thing that I get why people would bounce off it.
How is Spidey going to get himself out of this mess? He probably won't. One ass-kicking come up in the next issue of The Amazing Spider-Man!
Yeah, I liked the way that Abdul-Mateen did Morpheus. He brought his own energy and personality to the role and managed to actually fill up the screen in scenes he was in.
Though I really disagree with him being recast in the first place. I understand the rationale, I just think it's garbage.
Yeah it worked with Ian Bliss/Bane in the third one but he had a more limited role and was actually working parallel with Weaving. Groff doing a Weaving impression for two hours probably would have been a trainwreck.
I know. There were so many Smith scenes that should have made you want to stand up and applaud, and instead you're just like "oh right, this guy." He couldn't hold a candle to Weaving's screen presence and intensity.
Right? I'm inclined to agree though I feel like it's hard to fairly judge the first one now after it so thoroughly saturated pop culture. But having just watched them all back to back, Resurrections is the one that actually moved me.
I think like everyone else I didn't like that Morpheus and Smith were recast. Their successors didn't fill their shoes but you can't hold it against them because that was an impossible task.
The Matrix Resurrections was really good. Like really really good. Better than I thought was possible. Definitely better than any movie since the first one, and imo with more emotional resonance than the first one.
I'm watching The Matrix Resurrections. I had no interest but then I heard fans were disappointed by it. The disappointment of fans is like catnip to me.
The guy has kung fu'd you across three different movies and beaten your ass, and then you finally out kung fu him and he's like "actually I win by losing" I would be pisssssssed
Rewatching Matrix Revolutions and feeling a bit of sympathy for Smith when he says "it's not fair" like who really expects your archnemesis to become a Jesus
I've seen this. Raw milk is a big trendy thing in my area now too. The same people who thought vaccines are poison want to drink milk full of bacteria and give themselves Guillain-Barre syndrome.
When I see people who went from well meaning lefty to full MAGA in a short span of time it freaks me out a little. Like how does that happen and can it happen to me? Will I fall in the shower one day and go full reactionary?
My tastes truly have become more refined as I've aged. I really like Sepultura now.
"Well, my work is done here."
"What do you mean your work is done? You didn't do anything."
*chuckles* "Didn't I?"
I'm not sure what I like more - Muriel cooing over how smart Velma is or Eustace realizing he can torment Shaggy and Scooby the exact same way he torments Courage.
Finally getting around to watching the movie where all my favorite childhood heroes team up in a massive action packed crossover event - Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog
She's going to spend the next year just pointing out dogs that she'd shoot.j
Kristi Noem has to be the dog murder lady now, she doesn't have a choice. Anything else would be going woke
Christopher Lloyd is great in it, and the premise of kids locking themselves in a haunted Spirit Halloween is pretty fun. It's a decent spooky kid adventure moment but I wouldn't go out of my way for it.
My only Star Wars take is that Darth Vader is one of the greatest characters in human history.
Elliot has started staring a little too intently at the TV when there's scenes of horrific violence onscreen, so now I'm watching the Spirit Halloween movie.
I'm rewatching Memento for the first time in a couple decades and I totally forgot that it's funny. The part where he's midchase and can't remember if he's chasing or being chased? Or when he sets an ambush in a motel bathroom, forgets what he's doing, and takes a shower?
I'm not sure where I'm going to land in this movie but there's a torture scene where Pooh whips Christopher Robin with Eeyore's tail. I take back what I said about it needing a sense of humor.
Sincerity goes a long way for me. I'll take one badly made movie with a lot of heart over a hundred ironic, "self-aware" movies that are bad on purpose so the director can claim victory when their movie sucks.
There is a level of bad that is actually worse and that's people making really ugly wrong-headed stuff. Like stuff with "the director just got out of an ugly divorce that was all his fault" energy. I'd rank this above that. But I'd take earnestly made, shot on cell phone weirdness before this.
I think it could have been salvaged by having more of a sense of humor. The cast is quite good for what it is and the acting surpasses what I'd expect in an American equivalent. This might not be true but I imagine everyone in an English breakfast cereal ad is a trained Shakespearen actor.
I'm watching that Winnie the Pooh slasher and while it's not good, it's not meeting the expectations set by the anti-hype. Dull and a bit leering but competent enough. Also I can chuckle at Piglet choking someone out with a chain while Christopher Robin shouts "no Piglet, no!" over and over.
I don't want to start shit with anyone. I just want to do my job. But it's so obvious now my teammates were cherrypicking the easy stuff and leaving the worst for me. And I'm actually cool with that, it's just when management wants to use ticket count as a productivity metric. Well, here we are.
Manager has been on my ass for like a year about doing more tickets. Well, they switched us from us grabbing tickets from a queue to getting them automatically assigned so we're all doing an even number. Guess who's doing tickets faster than they're assigned while his teammates can't keep up?
I forgot all about Mortgage because it was just software to keep track of your Mortgage payments. Snoopy Math was pretty cool though. Snoopy was the Red Baron and when you got math problems wrong his doghouse got shot up.
The guy who finds it unbelievable that the US was involved in instigating political instability in South America for, like, several lifetimes is really distracting me from my mission though.
I don't get into political arguments on here. I reserve that energy for where I can make a real difference - Reddit.
Billy Corgan was right. The world is a vampire. Sent to drain.
And secret destroyers do hold us up to the flames.
I've been playing this ARPG called Last Epoch and it's full of skill trees. Different class skill trees. Even the skills get their own skill trees. It's incredible. A YouTuber I watched said the game has a lot of "build expression" and it's a funny phrase but it's true. There's a lot you can do.
In good restaurant news, a halal place opened in our tiny town and the locals are head over heels for it.
The pepperoni stuffed crust is my favorite. I'll still do the express sometimes but I really liked sitting down and eating there.
I know they're corporate chains and should have no personal meaning for anyone but it's not my fault my family took me there all the time as a kid and I got to play Altered Beast there.
I'm not a very nostalgic person, but when I do mourn my childhood it's when restaurants I like close or just suck now. I just found out Pizza Hut doesn't really do dine in restaurants anymore, it's all pick up. Even if they're in a building with seating, there's no table service. I'm bummed.