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I like it but I have a lot of nostalgia attached to it. I imagine given the average demographic of this website you’d find it relatable, but the humor might be a little 2010s internet dated for current tastes

This old YouTube series: VGHS

Coyote vs. Acme 4.5/5 - I’m really glad this got out of studio hell. The themes about corporations ignoring consumers, the comfort of habit vs embracing the future, and the value of working hard even for no reward are all very timely and I would suspect part of why this had a hard time getting to theaters. It’s really funny, touching, and definitely worth seeing

Rounders 4/5 - I liked the characters and story in this quite a bit. My minor gripe is that like most poker movies it has too many scenes where the pivotal hand is something that rarely happens in poker, though at least nobody won with a royal flush at any point

Justice League: War 3.5/5 - Pretty good for the DCAU, it’s got a full cast, doesn’t do much for origin stories and quickly has the action start. Green Lantern repeatedly getting his shit rocked is very funny

Wet Hot American Summer 4/5 - This was actually my first time seeing this and it was pretty crazy to see a cast that was just absolutely stuffed with comedy legends. Definitely a stoner movie but once I got on board with it being stupid I had a great time

It Ends 4/5 - Pretty good for a mystery movie. It felt like another response to covid and was impressive with what they accomplished on a small budget. Liminal indie horror is in!

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin 4/5 - Really solid Hong Kong kung-fu

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice 3/5 - Intentionally circuitous like a lot of time travel movies but it splits the difference between fighting, crime, comedy, and sci-fi. It had a moment where it does each of those well, but none of those moments coinicide. Also the ending is meh

Super Troopers 3 3.5/5 - It’s better than 2, though that’s not a high bar to clear. I imagine this could be really funny if they wrote more new jokes and stopped repeating the best joke from the first one for a third time

The End of Oak Street 3.5/5 - The best Jurassic movie in a long ass time. I liked dinosaurs being absolutely ruthless and the “modernized” interpretation of dinosaurs that Jurassic Park has locked themselves out of doing. I have a specific gripe about the very end of the movie that’s a spoiler:

There is nothing crazy about this. Plenty of movies rerun the previous ones to hype up the new one and make more money. Avatar, Mission: Impossible, Dune, Mean Girls (which had actually been brought back to theaters multiple times) and Beetlejuice all did it too. It’s also in the same year they had a movie make 2 billion dollars, of course they want to continue the momentum. Finally, people want this, there’s a lot of hype for this

Can’t see the full script if there’s never a finished version

Well the airforce did build a PS3 supercomputer

Spider-Man: Brand New Day 3/5 - After the last movie brought in all of the people associated with Spider-Man I knew this was going to have to tone everything down and it did. It’s a good Spider-Man movie with an interesting villain, better than most of the MCU stuff right now

Ice Cream Man (2026) 1.5/5 - It’s in the splatter horror genre like Terrifier which I’ve found to be disappointing in general. Usually there’s an emphasis on over the top gore but it often comes around to being cartoonish because it’s so unrealistic and that’s the case here. Add in AI scenes, child sexualization, and vague racism and there’s not much redeemable here

The Hobbit (1977) 2.5/5 - Watched this in honor of the new magic set. It’s goofy as hell, but has a lot of hand drawn charm. It’s been a long time since I read The Hobbit but if you told me all the songs in the movie were from the book I’d believe it. The Gollum scene drags on for far too long, but overall I appreciate it as being pretty faithful, if not abridged

Heat 4/5 - My first time seeing this and it was pretty good. I think an hour of build-up and character building is on the long side for what the movie needed, and the heist itself was a little simplistic for my tastes. Overall still very well executed

SOULM8TE 2.5/5 - If you’re going to rip off movies like Companion and Ex Machina you gotta do something to differentiate yourself, and the opportunity was right there considering this is (supposedly) in the M3GAN universe. They don’t really bother taking advantage of the crossover and while there are some interesting kills and funny moments, overall they don’t really capitalize on the premise

The Dink 4/5 - What if we made Challengers palatable for Republicans? I jest, it’s funny, pretty self aware, and manages just enough swerves to keep you engaged. I appreciated that the main character was a fucking moron and that they never redeem that. He is just so dumb. Also John McEnroe is fucking hilarious in every movie he’s in

They had a pretty limited musical run (and a 1 season IFC show) but Garfunkel and Oates had some funny songs

I was playing video games with a friend while listening to music and said out loud “is this a Tom Jones cover of Burning Down the House?” and her immediate impression of the song was dead on even though she’d never heard it before

1. Cbat - Hudson Hawke

2. Gangnam Style - Psy

3. Burning Down the House - Tom Jones/The Cardigans

Start off confusing them with a cacophony of sound, followed by high energy, into Tom Jones shouting. Should be pretty hard to sleep through all of that

The one thing Trump is actually afraid of: Discovery

I read that trilogy a few years ago. The stakes really ratchet up after the first book. I have heard the 2nd trilogy is pretty good but I haven’t been compelled to check it out myself

Currently reading: Children of Strife by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time #4). I really enjoyed books 1 and 2 in the series but found 3 to be a bit messy. This so far feels like a return to form and I’m enjoying it much more. The mantis shrimp seem to be an addition to stick to the older framework but I’ll reserve judgment once I’ve seen more from the one character we’ve met

Just finished: Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite. An interesting little premise that blazes through so fast that you don’t really get to examine the scenery or dive into any ideas. It’s not bad, but if it’s aiming to be a cozy mystery the rapid pace seems discordant

To be honest I have no idea how retroachievements works. I just remembered that game as being easy to get all of them and assumed it’d be the same across platforms like most achievements are these days

From that time I remember people getting Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Burning Earth because you could get all of the achievements in under 5 minutes by just spamming your basic attack on the tutorial mobs

Elijah Wood is in Back to the Future 2 as one of the children playing an arcade game at the throwback cafe

According to his website there are 56 movies based on his stories