Upgrade rips. I think the camera work does a lot of heavy lifting for the action and selling the cybernetic upgrades. If you want something similar Hardcore Henry is good and shot in first person for more unique camera work

I found Good Fortune to be largely inert. You can tell that Aziz knows what he should be writing about for our current political climate but has been a little too removed from it to have anything worthwhile to say

Godzilla x Kong 3.5/5: Overall pretty enjoyable, the intro conspiracy theory stuff is dumb but that largely drops off after the first half hour and there’s a lot of action. I was curious who they’d have to team up to fight and I wasn’t disappointed. The hollow earth stuff is goofy but I’m excited to see where it goes

The Monkey 3/5: It’s channeling Final Destination but not enough. It tries to walk the line between bonkers cursed monkey kills and trying to connect to your broken family and it really needs to pick a lane. Either one could have been good but together they give you tonal Whiplash

Nobody 2 2.5/5: My 200th movie of the year! It’s a John Wick knock off but Odenkirk isn’t as funny as he could be. They obviously try to lean into the humor violence in the final act but I don’t like that his family is running around the whole time, especially because they insert a surrogate family for him to care about. The villain feels out of place as well

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping 3.5/5: I like all of the Lonely Island movies and this is probably near the bottom of my list. Later they figured out that these don’t need to be feature length and that was a big improvement for them. Bin Laden is a super funny song and they get so many celebs to make cameos. It’s very nostalgic for me as The Lonely Island was huge for me in school

Magic: the Gathering

It’s a sport if it was on ESPN!

I’d like to share your optimism but I think we’re going to be hearing about him for the rest of our lives. Reagan has been cold in the ground for 2 decades and I still hear about his bitch ass all the time

Paprika. The grocery store stuff may as well be red glitter for all its flavor. I go to specialty spice stores to buy a premium paprika so it actually has taste

They’re getting theirs, I’m looking forward to when he gets his next one

Agreed, the fediverse is small enough now that living aggregate communities are preferable to dead specific ones. Especially because everyone hates posting something, getting their post removed and being told to go post in another very similar community they didn’t know existed. As you said, if it becomes a problem you can just spin off

Neoliberals are like libertarians. They’re right wing in every way except they’re cool with gay people where libertarians like weed

I appreciate trying to save resources here, but Americans are way too fucking stupid for that to work, amid a myriad of other issues I see with this

How long it lasts as a usable token of trade

So it’s still worthless. Genuinely, what can a penny purchase? A nickel? A dime? None of these coins can buy something individually, and a large chunk of the population doesn’t carry them because the utility they gain for having exact change is less than the coins are worth

To be clear, I understand the coins vs. bills argument, but I’m personally in favor of cutting all coins up to the quarter. Or cutting all coins except dimes and half dollars, but dimes are annoying coins

I think you’re just beginning to identify what The Hero’s Journey is

Well you see one device is made by Microsoft which has been the defacto way to watch videos for a large chunk of its lifespan and the other gave us UMDs and camcorders with cables that could only connect to Vaio laptops, which were the only devices that supported writing to mini-disc

Predator: Badlands 3.5/5: Man, I was really excited for this. I love the new Predator movies (Prey/Killer of Killers) but this is a pretty different direction, it’s a buddy comedy. I like Predators being terrifying monsters, I didn’t like this one kind of bumbling around, even if it did end up being particularly effective by the end. It’s very clearly influenced by modern Star Wars which is not a compliment

Falling Down 2.5/5: I thought this was going to be more about a guy’s day getting progressively shittier until he cracks. Instead it’s about a guy progressively losing his shit which is way less fun today than I assume it was back in the early 90s, considering how that is just a daily news story

Good Fortune 2.5/5: This feels like its written by dudes who have been successful comedy writers for too long who have lost touch with current struggles, presumably because it is. There’s some good jokes, a few funny bits, and one of the most obvious Chekov’s Guns I’ve ever seen in a movie

The Big Lebowski 4.5/5: Hit shuffle on Sunday and we’ll Dude… tomorrow was already the 10th. Great movie

Eternity 4/5: Mystery movie Monday. This was really cool. The premise is interesting, there’s some funny gags, and these are some of the most dynamic characters I’ve seen in a movie in a while. Almost every main character goes through a journey where your opinion changes on them and for being just under 2 hours the run time is effectively used

The Mask 3/5: Wow, this is so much hornier than I remembered from my youth. It’s Who Framed Roger Rabit but hornier, less funny, better dance numbers, and worse written. Mixed bag, but not as offensive as I expected

I would not recommend PS5+Plex. I went through the whole set-up and the PS5 couldn’t encode over half my videos. When playback did work it was often choppy. I dislike that it has ads all over the place but the ONN Streaming Pro does a way better job as Plex streaming device at $45 than my PS5. Plus the controller will be much easier for simple tech users, you can rebind one of the buttons to go directly to Plex

Badlands isn’t as good as I wanted. Here’s my thoughts:

https://lemmy.world/comment/20376754

As a huge Predator fan who was specifically looking forward to this movie, I’m not super happy with it. I like the idea of seeing a Predator earn their place in the clan but turning it into a buddy comedy isn’t what I want. I want them to have to fight against aliens, kill humans, and try to manage hunting multiple species simultaneously. I’m disappointed this is what Dan put on the big screen over Killer of Killers and Prey

The Ring (2002) 3.5/5: I liked the scares, the art house movie in the middle was weird, but overall worth a watch

Back to the Future 5/5: Watched it in IMAX and loved every moment of it. This has to be one of the single best screenplays ever written

The Predator 1/5: Finally watched the last movie I hadn’t seen in the franchise and with good reason. This movie is wildly offensive to the autistic community, insults the movies we like, and has stupid MCU humor. This sucks all around

The Rock 4/5: It’s easy to forget how star studded this is. Plus it’s also a Micheal Bay movie. It’s a little long and gets stuck in the weeds a few times but overall is a very solid film

Prey and Killer of Killers are streaming on Hulu and are 100% worth watching if you like Predator. I’ll post my thoughts after I see it tomorrow

Depends on how you define interesting ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

At some point during 2020 Republicans did one of their latest shitty thing to trans people so the Wachowskis went to their production studio and cleared out a whole bunch of memorabilia for auction with proceeds going to a fund to help

From my memory some of the standouts included a used on screen electric cannon from The Matrix, Speeder from Cloud Atlas, and the binder that detailed all of the plans for the highway fight from Reloaded

My lot included this, a technical sound award from The Matrix, and a judge’s choice award from a queer movie fest for Bound