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Somehow I never noticed that the OCP headquarters was a composite of Dallas City Hall until a rewatch today. Apparently a bunch of exterior shots all over Dallas.
Also, I forgot how good this was. Maybe it’s been longer than I thought since I’ve last seen it?
The storyline that takes place in the library made me take forever to read this. I’d get to those chapters and just not be able to continue because they made me so anxious.
STILL I gave this 5 stars now that I’ve finally finished it all this time later and it was interesting, heartwarming, sad, unpredictable, and I just generally was quite taken with the way the vastly different settings and time periods were woven together. Super glad my kid was able to finally bully me into finishing it.
Rating: 5 stars
Why does the main villain sometimes wear a white button up and a tie like he works at IBM or JCPenneys?
Just generally ugly to look at at all times. Uninteresting plot, no world building, not a single character with any personality.
Who thought they were doing a good job while making this?
Rating: 1.5 stars
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? Watch Rebel Moon on Netflix
Artifact AI-based news app from Instagram cofounders is shutting down. I tried it for a few weeks while Reddit was imploding but it only got worse and worse as they added more features and started to do the sort of things free apps relying on algorithms and desperate for astronomical user growth seem to have to do.
Finally I can shit using the same technology I use to read library books.
I apparently need to re-read The Three-Body Problem because this trailer for the upcoming Netflix show looks great but I have ZERO recollection of reading any book like what was in the trailer.
Pale Waves at House of Blues tickets acquired. Two tickets for me and my daughter. we’ll see what her opinion/reviews of a $70 general admission show are compared to the $$$$ Taylor Swift arena show her mom took her to.
Now I need to listen to some music from the headliner Pvris, who I’ve never heard of before yesterday. All bands with Vs replacing vowels are gvvd though right?
My favorite games of 2023 includes Zelda: TotK and… Fortnite? Well the Lego survival mode at least. Yeah, that surprised me too.
Why do the real actual humans they found to play the young versions of Sophie’s dads all look like bad de-aging CGI? Is it the wigs?
I mostly disliked young Meryl Streep and her friends as much as I disliked old Meryl Streep and her friends.
Andy Garcia appears to be playing his same character from Ocean’s 11 and looms over the whole movie like there is a villain turn coming any moment.
Yet, it was fun. I legit lol’d at the Titanic gag.
Rating: 3.0 stars
? Crossposted on Letterboxd
? Watch Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again on Netflix
Consistently surprisingly weird (in great ways) with some extremely well fleshed out, endearing characters that I was rooting for all the way until the end. I thought the author Ryka Aoki had lost me there for a minute near the end but there’s a couple final twists that really wrap up this combo of science fiction, fantasy, classical music, and donuts with a completely satisfying ending.
Rating: 4 stars
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