Search results

Chrome on desktop doesn't let me in. Edge did, along with a bunch of warnings about the site (I had to give permission to ignore the security warnings).

I thought Squid Game was far better than it had a right to be, I was expecting... well, nothing. Another similarly themed one on Netflix is Alice in Borderland (based off the manga). The scoring reminded me of Michael Giacchino (his work on Lost) a bit, it really ups the emotional reverb of the...

Yeah, it's been awhile, but I remember enjoying parts of Season 2 but then it kind of spiraled back into conventionality and I was kinda like... eh. They did make better use of Alison Pill at least, in terms of leaning into her strengths. I really enjoyed Season 3 and it was an example of how...

Yup, a bot viewing a page typically gets counted as a page view, in general -- it's hitting the page. There are not hundreds of lurking members out there to generate that many views. https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/bots/what-is-bot-traffic/

Hey, if you enjoyed it, that's great. I think I've just seen so many crazy films that it didn't stand out as much to me. It was kinda like Gunpowder Milkshake, which I also badly wanted to love but was kinda lukewarm to as well, after having seen Kill Bill 1 and Ready or Not and The Hunt and...

I found Bullet Train disappointing, and I shouldn't have bought the 4K sight unseen. It's not bad, it's just derivative and not as good as every movie it was aping -- including, yes, Tarantino style flicks. I felt like the pacing was bad too; it was billed as a frantic action picture, and it's...

I agree that a lot of walls were broken in general in the past, although lately there's been a glut of MCU-related women characters who seem to be short-changed unless they are in the process of being killed off, which is weird. There's less of them, so they stand out more, but I'm not that...

I was excited about She-Hulk (I was buying comics off the rack when Byrne was writing her in the 80's) and thought it might be one of the few saving graces of MCU Phase 4. Boy was I wrong. This has just been a terrible disappointment. The show wasn't quite as bad as Falcon/Winter Soldier and...

It sounds like you missed the point. The gist was that the studio was planning to make a movie regardless, and the Wachowskis didn't really want to make another, but figured it would be better if they did it so that the property wasn't trivialized and butchered by the studio for money. This...

-- bzzt -- only caught -- bit of this transmissi -- solar flare mak -- bzzt -- signal getting los -- don't kno -- long this has to get thru -- had to kill tech crew to get comm tower acces -- bots beating on outer door now so -- hey are comin -- think the answer is as follo.....bzzzzttttt...

Despite the title, it's being written by two award-winning indie writers/directors, so yes I'd expect it to be more nuanced and complex. (Have you ever heard of or seen some of these films: - The Squid & The Whale - Marriage Story - Ladybird - Frances Ha - Fantastic Mr. Fox - The Life Aquatic...

Not sure about Barbie either, but it's got a good cast, and a great director and cowriters ... so... i'm ... curious? I mean, how can you possibly turn this into an interesting film? But if anyone could, it's Gerwig and Baumbach.

Boy, this is old. As followup: Hereditary (and Midsommar later) is just great. It was a shame Toni Collette did not get the notice she deserved. Incredibles 2 was kind of eh. Not bad, some great action/animation sequences, but overall kind of disappointing, rather like how Pixar in general has...

Glad someone else has seen this. Totally agree with you, it really is art and in the hands of another director a film with this kind of plotline would have likely been far less -- they would have focused on the more banal elements. I think the only other thing I've seen by Ramsey was "We Need...

it took me a few episodes when the show first came out for me to get a feel for what was happening, the comedy and pacing and timing was not what I was used to. It ended up being one of my favorite TV shows I've ever seen, and I really appreciate the way they generally avoided cliche in the...

Severance is one of the best shows I have seen in recent months. Great production quality. I ended up binging the last half of the season and look forward to Season 2. It's also good the creator has a sense of where the series is going and says he can adjust the story to fit 3 seasons up to 6...

Wait, INTP Complex is now gone?sigh. Entropy has been exceedingly efficient at destroying it.

People normally respond to what they see/experience, as a survival and ease-of-use mechanism. If something appears harmful, they stay away. If it doesn't seem to be a threat and provides something positive, they will engage it. "Reading beneath something" is basically engaging with shadows and...

Be well, wherever you go! I hope the future brings you rewarding things.

I have to finish watching it. It's a Taika Waititi ("JoJo Rabbit" and "Thor:Ragnarok" among others) film. And you are right, the acting and the film has been as funny as hell so far! I am a fan of Villeneuve's "Enemy" as well, although I know the end throws some people for a loop and had me as...

Everyone is indoctrinated -- we are all given a foundation and framework just from being born into a certain culture, a certain body, a certain time period. It limits the information we are given. So I don't fault anyone for what they're born into it, we all have a starting point in life. BUT...

I think Teller is a decent actor, I just don't connect with him like some other actors I watch and am often indifferent towards his presence in a film. However, I find him kind of fascinating when he plays extroverted characters like he did in The Spectacular Now (the character of Sutter), I...

The romulans have their own goals but essentially contribute to the borg reclamation project occurring on the cube where the XB's (ex-Borg) are having all their prostheses removed and undergo psyche work and are restored at least as much as possible to what they were before being assimilated...

Yeah, Tyrion and Arya I think were GRRM's favorite characters that he wrote. (Or maybe he said his wife's was Arya.) Tyrion was justifiably brilliant as long as they were pulling on GRRM's actual text for their scripts, but he was a complete dolt in the last few seasons to the degree it became a...

I would only watch it through Season 4 (the first four were really great), or maybe into some of Season 5 (ignoring the Dorne subplot), and then ditch it like a hot potato... although we got occasional good things (like the Hardhome episode, or The Door, or the resolution to the Ramsey plotline...

I would just post. It's better to post something than to never post anything. I have similar problems in overthinking and not wanting to impose on others, come across as needy, or maybe just posting and get no response, or eventually resolving it myself, or just feeling like I can't quite...

Finished Mr. Robot (USA) last week. Pretty much one of my favorite things I've seen and helped cushion the crap of bad TV and film series endings in 2019. I'm glad it existed, despite Season 2 losing its way for awhile. Provocative and moving, and protagonists I can relate to, I never really...

I don't think we disagree.

more flappers, less rappers...

I'm not particularly enamoured with Yoda, but I took it as just to not attempt something half-heartedly. "I'll try" can indicate someone who lacks commitment or doesn't necessarily believe in what they are doing.

Let's set honesty at 75%, TARS.

Star Wars doesn't bother to break it down into the level of nuance you do. After all, Leia strips Poe of his rank when he disobeys -- so obviously she has authority and her replacements are supposed to be given the same authority as well. So if you go by what the film establishes (not what your...

Does it matter if they are all dead? the tradeoff still is not worth. By the end of the film, despite having destroyed a dreadnaught... no one arrives to save them. they are left to die. It wasn't strategically the best place to attempt that move, it was an impulsive decision. The other lousy...

Yeah, I'm not like Rose -- for me, if everyone is going to die, I would say it's worth one person crashing into the cannon to save everyone rather than waiting around for some deus ex machina to show up. So her choice pissed me off -- so stupid -- until I rewatched and then really got that her...

I liked The Force awakens when it came out but it was too derivative of A New Hope -- I accepted that because I felt it was trying to bridge between old and new fans, and the next film would kick things in to something more original. I disliked The Last Jedi when it came out because it...

Geez and I just played Diablo 3 for the first time this weekend. I guess I missed the bus by at least five years or something. (It's an amusing game to waste time on when I have nothing to do but otherwise just seems like Torchlight. Which I guess was made by former Diablo devs, so... yeah.)

It was okay. Let us know what you thought. (basically if you saw Terminator 2, Dark Fate has the same themes but less so, and hands off the storyline to other characters.)

My viewing of 2019 films has been horrible, I've only seen a handful and just am not much motivated right now. However, I did do my glut of halloween films + a few recent things so... here is the last few weeks (every year I do a 13-horror-film run to celebrate halloween), and then I got a new...

While I do not necessarily agree with your typing conclusions (there's lots of reasons for people to avoid silliness), FWIW I did actually LOL at what you sent. So freaking random. I do think P leaners are more likely to laugh at randomness.

Yeah, there's a lot of faking it until you make it. I've been told too that I seem like an extravert, but fuck no. I used to think I had social skills (and I guess I do, after all this time) but I feel most of the time like I'm just trying to emulate something I read out of a book and don't...

ha Wait until you see the 171 minute director's cut. I'm still catching up on small indie films this year (so I have some stuff yet to watch), but for a 2019 where the large releases have been kinda meh, at least I was smiling through a lot of this film. It's so off the rails but Aster shows a...

Yes! We will trick the world into peace, while stealing all the Mars bars behind the scenes. It's brilliant, I tell you, BRILLIANT! And will be a very carefully constructed plan, with every contingency thought of, every fail point explored and shored up, and a safety mechanism meant to cover any...

City of Heroes MMO free servers apparently became publicly revealed back in May, I've been back in the game for 2-3 weeks. They've even examined the code and fixed/released a few new powersets, an AT, and other game aspects.

Finished the 2019 version of Pet Sematary. Sigh. I had some high hopes, acting was fine, great production quality -- but the script just wasn't there. It was KIND of there but not really; and in fact, then it takes a hard left turn away from the book in the middle, and then proceeds to become a...

I Am Mother was better than I had expected, but I don't think I'd watch it again, especially in terms of how long it took to get up to speed. It's kind of cobbled together of ideas from better films. In its favor, Clara Rugaard (the girl) was solid and I think we will see more of her; It also...

I tend to just see him a generally benevolent person who seems to be well-liked and who can sometimes generate enthusiasm for things he is enthusiastic about. I don't seem him as particularly talented (not meant as a slight, but he does better playing himself than a character, in terms of acting...

How could there not be? Motion is change. Non-motion is... inert. I'm not sure what distinction you are trying to make, simultaneously saying you are implying the change process in philosophical terms and yet as a physical/chemical change. Which are you actually focusing on? Metaphorically...

Yeah, the Mile Cyrus episode wasn't bad because Miley was in it (she was actually one of the best elements of the episode, which is sad), it's because the episode wasn't even clear about what it was trying to accomplish until about 40 minutes in. It was aimless / all over the place, it seemed...