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Damnit Benjamin you may have been aging backwards but you knew where babies come from and if you didn’t want one put a damn condom on. You selfish ass.
(First time I’ve seen this since theaters. Really enjoyed rewatching it to keep up with The Curious Pod of Benjamin Buttcast.)
Rating: 4 stars
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I could have done without the handful of pretty average and vaguely sitcom/rom-com adjacent chapters when the multiple appears early in the last third, but I enjoyed the writing style and dialog of this quite a bit.
This ended up being pretty slight particularly with regards to the conflict/mystery of the planet itself and wrapped up the issue with the multiple quickly and unsatisfyingly, but the premise and execution (pun intended) of the expendable concept in general was really good so I’m interested in seeing where Ashton took this in the sequel. Especially considering because of the decisions Mickey makes at the very end of this.
(I’m also now excited for the Bong Joon-ho/Robert Pattinson movie version Mickey 17 coming out early next year I found out about while writing up this review.)
Rating: 3.5 stars
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Well after reading six of them I’m still not really sure what exactly a Jeremy Logan book is, but I’m not sure Lincoln Child knows either. They’re at least nice easy reads/listens.
I liked this book pretty well but its another Logan book where Logan doesn’t really do all that much. And does even less enigmatology (hey look that is actually a “real” word after all) related business. The final conclusion was flat out dumb/silly and the epilogue was not much better, but overall it was a mostly solid little tech thriller with not as much mystery or thrills as it should have had.
Despite my complaints, I still overall enjoyed the series and am looking forward to the Child/Preston books coming available via Libby. Hopefully those will be both better and more consistent.
Rating: 3.5 stars
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Wrapped up my Zelda: Minish Cap playthrough on the Anbernic RG35xx. What a fun, great looking game reminiscent of LTTP & so many unique items and gameplay features. Loved the Minish size transformation and puzzles.
Had some emulator hiccups during the final dungeon that caused me to have to switch from the RG35xx’s stock firmware to GarlicOS and then go Internet save file hunting, but after a few extra days delay beat the final boss just in time for Super Mario Wonder.
Rating: 5 stars
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Maybe it was just the fact that I was watching on an airplane, but this movie managed to make me tear up about Mutt dying.
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I miss Sam Witwicky.
All the human stuff is so bad in this movie, even in comparison to the first three Bay Transformers movies. The actual Transformer related content and action are pretty on par though, which means it is sometimes fun, sometimes dumb, and almost always less intelligible than it should be.
This may be the worst representation of small town Texas ever put on film. Why does Paris, Texas have a nearby beach with surfing, roving bands of half naked models, and mid 20s Irish guys hanging out around high schools?
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This is so cool to look at and funny as heck in a bunch of spots, but also kinda shallow maybe in ways I can’t put my finger on. Not that it doesn’t have heart, just maybe that a few too many of its jokes were references to other timely things?
Is the humor of this going to age poorly a la Shrek versus the timelessness of the Pixar classics?
It’s really amazing with this and Spider-Verse and Mitchells vs. the Machines how many really remarkable, beautiful animated movies are coming out recently.
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This was so surprisingly good. The Splinter flashback scenes and the puppetry in general are fantastic.
Sam Rockwell!
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The last production pulled this from a 3 to 4 for me. Overall pretty funny and some good songs. Molly Gordon is great. Not sure my theater kid is old enough to get most of the humor but we will see.
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The characters, Sadie in particular, just never seem to get more mature in their thoughts or their actions despite anything that happens in their lives. The constant reappearance of the toxic, abusive character with only cursory mentions of what is often literally sexual assault never really seems as introspective as it should. Of course, Sadie and Sam’s own relationship is equally toxic pretty much throughout.
Just incredibly immature thoughts on relationships, work, video games, and life in general.
Rating: 2.5 stars
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