Geez Louise.
Friday, July 31, 2026
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Aguirre, the Wrath of God)
As colonialism expands in the jungles of South America, the Indigenous inhabitants engage in trickery, wholeheartedly convincing several of the invaders that a vast city of gold exists deep within, the tale too tantalizing to ignore, soon a diverse outfit departs in pursuit.
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Ant-Man & the Wasp: Quantumania
It's fun to observe the natural world.
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Spiderhead
The pursuit of manufactured obedience follows the pharmaceutical path, as Spiderhead's solo unattached dismal warden despotically pursues reckless inactivity.
Friday, September 22, 2023
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Geez Louise.
Tuesday, July 26, 2022
Jurassic World Dominion
Back to the old power and megalomania hellbent on global domination, this time having genetically engineered giant locusts which habitually feast on various crops worldwide.
Friday, June 24, 2022
Red Sonja
An ancient stone of unknown origin provides power beyond control, if it's left to freely generate blinding inconsolable carnage.
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Thunder Force
The preponderance of superheroic heuristics imaginatively captivating multigenerational audiences, has perhaps left the less scholastically oriented behind in its cultivation of characteristic exception, not to critique the academically inclined, such ambitions are no doubt admirable and praiseworthy, and they'd just cause an uproar every day if there weren't brainy jobs out there awaiting them (love my jobs!), driving people crazy at Wendy's or the Gap, as they struggle within practical boundaries, but a democracy is not solely inhabited by studious ambitions alone, and hands-on tacticians deserve more representation in intergalactic narratives, like representatives from the workforce sitting on executive boards, in order to avoid a surfeit of theoretical impracticality (I am not indirectly critiquing the Liberal's most recent generous beneficial budget which I imagine they made in consultation with their grassroots).
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Avengers: Infinity War
And I had been allowed to watch it.
I still loved watching Avengers: Infinity War, and there were moments when I looked on with the uncompromised emotional intensity that rapturously flourished in my youth, but if I had watched every Marvel film with commensurate innocent intensity and then suddenly sat back to watch Avengers: Infinity War around the age of 17, the film that brings them all together, unites them with wild improvised spontaneous universal synergies, the energy from a star even harnessed within for manufacturing purposes, I think it would have seemed like 149 minutes of pure unadulterated joy, even if so much distress accompanies its beloved characters.
I don't mean to argue that there isn't a lot of brilliant television out there, or series is perhaps a better word to use these days, I love The Frankenstein Chronicles, Star Trek: Discovery, and Myths & Monsters for instance, and I'm hooked on Zoo and Frontier, but television is usually trying to be as good as film, whereas exceptionally bad films seem like they should have been released on television, creative mixes of the 2 mediums notwithstanding, Netflix currently attempting to bridge the gap.
But it's like the geniuses at Marvel asked themselves, "what if we create multiple films, always bearing in mind that we're creating films specifically, yet envision their totality like an incredible television series, patiently stitched together over the course of a decade?
That might bear ecstatic fruit.
And simmer the ultimate cliffhanger."
To be young and see so many cherished characters packed into one epic syntheses may have been both shocking and overwhelming, but would it not have also been mindbogglingly awe inspiring, like having millions of recordings from around the world available on your computer for $9.99 a month?
Perhaps I misjudge the intensity of the theoretical emotion.
I'm looking back and imagining what it would have been like if the pop cultural coordinates of the early 21st Century had been superimposed on the late 20th, but if they had been alternatively superimposed before I had acquired knowledge of both timelines, I may not have noticed a difference, and may have assumed frequent loosely unified instalments from a thoughtfully orchestrated pyrotechnic colossus were as natural as Sam falling for Diane, or George moving back in with his parents, since I wouldn't have known that I was taking an alternative timeline for granted, and therefore would have assumed my foundations were unilaterally temporal.
If Marvel is like Star Trek squared, what the heck is Star Trek cubed?
Avengers: Infinity War, if Orwellianly titled, malheureusement, worked for me.
There's the inevitable cheese associated with bringing so so many distinct characters into one film, but the cool smoothly devours it, grates it into an exhilarating intergalactic artisanal soirΓ©e.
I especially loved how Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) immediately decides to just stow away on an alien spacecraft in order to surprise attack the universe's most threatening villain.
Classic amelioration.
Star-Lord's (Chris Pratt) ideas also impress.
As do those of the Wakandans.
Not to mention the inherent self-sacrifice built into the script.
And pairing-up Thor (Chris Hemsworth) with feisty Rocket (Bradley Cooper).
I'm sure there's a plan for the intervening years, but Infinity War boldly erases billions in profit in order to make a more realistic film.
That's damn commendable.
I've been watching a groundhog eat grass for the entire time I've been writing this.
It keeps running back to his hole when people walk past.
And then comes back shortly thereafter.
He'll probably be shyer in Summer.
So I'm lucky I chose this spot for today.
Friday, December 1, 2017
Thor: Ragnarok
In possession of seemingly limitless power which Odin's (Anthony Hopkins) death helplessly releases, she ungraciously overwhelms Thor and Loki (Tom Hiddleston) before returning to Asgard to assert her dominance.
Boastfully awaiting their bellicose return.
The defeated brothers find themselves playing different roles upon a chaotic planet, perhaps modelled upon the last days of Rome's imperial pretension, ruled by a comic tyrant (Jeff Goldblum as the Grandmaster [it's the best Goldblum I've seen in years]) who loves gladiating and humiliating, the gladiators themselves intent on revolting, Thor forced to fight and plot amongst them, Loki cleverly seducing the oligarchic elite, with a beautiful Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) haunted by battles fought long ago, in the heavens, who has taken to drink and collecting random strays, and remains unimpressed upon encountering her devoted liege.
Old friends pop up as Thor remains evergreen, the film's actually quite funny despite its violent extremities, an unsettling kind of apocalyptic autocratic resigned athletic humour that emboldens the democratic subconscious by turning masters of war themselves into subjects of gladiatorial intrigue, to be criticized and championed as they interact cinematically.
It's the best Thor film I've seen, even if it seems like a diagnosis for a mental illness, Heimdall's (Idris Elba) shepherding diminutively contrasting the conquistadorial ostentation, Thor's cheery undaunted good spirits making everything seem stable and safe, frenzies notwithstanding, even if he still needs guidance from his deceased progenitor, new characters introduced and developed with crafty eccentricity, a hulking universal ferocious manifest, in that leather, the world Marvel films has created is expanded with fascinating conspiracy.
It's like they're not just trying to voraciously cash in, they're often delivering high quality products that make going to the cinema so worth it.
Ragnarok's music gives it an oddball artistic touch born of the 1980s.
Like Tron could have been.
Hoping Loki figures prominently in the next Doctor Strange film
How do they choose which characters end up in which films?
It must be fun to make such decisions.
Will every Asgardian have superpowers on Earth?
Friday, July 25, 2014
Snowpiercer
Built to function as an enviropolitical scientist's incendiary trench-line, if they like quenching sensationally instructive transistors, a fierce class struggle has erupted within, its boiling point having been reactively reached, crisis, calamity, infraction, the oppressed rebelliously coming into being, extinction, be concisely damned.
It comes down to the food supply.
Mixed in with spatial limitations.
Unprepared perplexing stamina.
Jackass authoritative guidelines.
Why the train's supreme ruler chose to employ an oppressive model to govern his domain after the potential for continuous expansion was obliterated, speaks to the ridiculousness of his model itself, as well as the preponderance of its all-encompassing indoctrinations.
The price of a ticket bears consequences eternal.
The population would have to be controlled, but why one section lives in luxury while the other has to resort to cannibalism makes no sense.
The torches made me think of Plato's cave.
The key is solutions precipitated by a lack of preparation.
John Hurt (Gilliam) is showing up in everything cool these days.
Sheldon Cooper would probably have serious issues with the train.
It would be a great lecture.
At least one other species survives.
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Snow White and the Huntsman
But when his daughter whom she has kept prisoner comes of age and it becomes clear that she is even more beautiful, she immediately seeks to put her to death.
But Snow White (Kristen Stewart) escapes and her purity and innocence help her to make her way back to the forces who fought for her father and will still nobly battle for his seed.
A Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth), seven dwarves, and many others assist her during her journey.
Her innocence would likely have not been so pure had she not spent her entire youth locked inside a cell.
Unfortunately, unlike the creators of Mirror Mirror, those responsible for Snow White and the Huntsman seem to have never escaped from the cell in which they were nurtured, and are still struggling to develop genuine tension, emotion, and plot.
At no point throughout this film does it seem probable that Snow will not succeed. Her young curious yet cautious inner light intuitively and instructively guides her steady improvised actions.
As if she was born to lead.
But the film sets up another tired opposition between naturalistic and fabricated extremes with the King's only heir exuding divine rights with every instinctive calibration.
Snow's rallying cry when she's reunited with the resistance lacks depth, character and ferocity.
I really wanted to like Muir's (Bob Hoskins) omniscient observations but they were just too much.
The Huntsman predictably abandons Snow but only for two to three minutes.
And William (Sam Claflin) doesn't hide his feelings at all upon being reuniting with her, going so far as to actually display them.
It just doesn't make sense.
The Huntsman and William do form a pseudo-Jacob/Edward dichotomy for Kristen Stewart which brings in a little Twilight.
But this really only makes things worse, although in the end it seems that she desires Jacob, which is, of course, the correct preference.
However forbidden.