Tuesday, December 31, 2019

CATS

Oh, god, what a huge piece of garbage.

Terrifying and hilarious. Would not intentionally watch again.

Might casually catch it on cable and be transfixed, though.

The ears were *awful* and the use of dance poses and mimed cat body language was uncomfortable throughout.

Wretched. Can't believe how hard I laughed.

This was my final movie of the decade!
Happy New Year!

The Last Star Wars

I saw Rise of the Skywalker on whatever day it came out.

That movie was a mess, dudes. Pacing was fucked, new major characters were introduced way too late in the series. The "Rey is a Palpatine" plot point was INCREDIBLY stupid.

Major end-beats for Poe and Finn and Rey were okay. The resolution of the Kylo Ren character was alright.

They should have just had Leia die early instead of trying to cobble a character together out of old footage.

It was clumsy, and I expect more out of movies that cost that much and have so many pros at the helm.

As much of a bummer as it is to say I think this is the last Star Wars movie I'm going to end up seeing because of how powerfully I haven't cared about the new trilogy.

Friday, December 13, 2019

You're Worth More than your Productivity AKA everything I saw and read in 2019

I haven't made an entry on this blog for a long time because I got very depressed and did a lot of thinking about this blog.

I started this as an excuse to myself.

"It's okay, I'm not just wasting time, I'm reading and writing about what I read - if I make a blog entry about the books that I read then I'm still being productive!"

I haven't made an entry because I stopped reading when I started getting worried about how many entries I needed to catch up on.

HOO BOY.

Anyway, this is going back to what it should have been in the first place - a reading/viewing journal - instead of what it actually was: a permission slip I signed to myself begging to be allowed to enjoy things.

SO, without further ado:

Venom (2018) - November 2018 - I really fucking liked it
Venom (2018) - November 2018 - I REALLY fucking liked it
Venom (2018) - December 2018 - STILL REALLY LIKED IT

Venom: Lethal Protector - January 2019 - Extremely silly, I enjoyed it

Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse - February 2019 - Hey this movie was fucking perfect, thanks.

Knives Out - November 2019 - I'm really shocked by how much I loved this movie. It was funny as hell and I want to go see it three more times.