They spent all the time coming up with Easter eggs and forgot to make a fun plot

Watched on Saturday June 28, 2025.

Finished reading: Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare 📚

The number of accents ATJ has in this movie is basically all you need to know about its quality

This review may contain spoilers.

Umm…it’s a really fucked up coming of age tale and 90% of it is good, the other 10%, well…

- What the hell Ralph Fiennes, giving the kid his mother’s skull to put on top of your giant skull memorial is a bit much. 
- The hell is that ending of the track suit mafia showing up. I did appreciate the scoring but again, bit too much. 

Really though we should probably talk about the fact that in a movie with in my count zero minority survivors, the big bad infected alpha is a black guy. C’mon now.

Alys Fowler: “For that is the thing about bogs: they are not hugely interested in wowing you. The mountains have good views and the forest has majesty; the sand dunes sculpture and the wildflower meadow an easy romance. But the bog is quite happy to be passed over – it will share its best secrets only with those who carefully tiptoe in and are patient enough to wait a while to see what comes out once they have settled down.”

Finished reading: Washita Love Child: The Rise of Indigenous Rock Star Jesse Ed Davis by Douglas K. Miller 📚

A doughnut hole within a doughnut hole

The animation is good, the plot is bare bones adult He-Man.

I feel perfectly safe about not seeing this film again.

Finished reading: Cod by Mark Kurlansky 📚

Just a little book about fish.

The review is mostly for the camera work, which really ruined the livestream experience. It’s a play, not a movie and too much of the camera work tried to make it into a movie and it simply didn’t work. 

Clooney and the cast were great but you missed so much of the theatrical experience when it’s all said and done.

Vietnam really screwed some people up

This would be a higher graded series if the book didn’t exist, but it does and the book is simply far better.

This is missing what really makes the book compelling which is Jake’s internal struggles with the fact he’s living in the past but developing a real life in a time he doesn’t belong while also trying to carry out the reason he’s there in the first place. Instead you have far less character development in the mini-series they leaves a big lack of attachment to the characters. It’s not even that the character development was cut for simplicity’s sake, they add in added complexity throughout the series.

It's like Dylan, a bit fuzzy and blurry when it comes to the details and story but Ed Norton's Seeger really is the stand out of the movie. Now I just need someone to make a film of Dylan in the 1970s.

Currently reading: Cod by Mark Kurlansky 📚

Finished reading: Eleven Twenty-two Sixty-three by Stephen King 📚

Really shouldn’t have waited a dozen or so years to read this.

Not one to normally quote anything Black Rock is involved in but an exception here:

“We have more and more conviction that we need people who majored in history or English, in things that have nothing to do with finance or technology,” Goldstein said. “It’s that diversity of thinking and diversity of people and diversity of looking at different ways to solve problems, that really fuels innovation.”

The toad ripped me off

Is this a real four star movie? No. Is just a dumb funny movie that plays into all the things that make this franchise a weird dark comedy while providing enough fan service to make having seen the other five worth it? Yes.

It’s Stitch but live action, Stitch is funny in live action.

Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.

New York Times:

“Did you see the notes he put on Canvas?” she wrote, referring to the university’s software platform for hosting course materials. “He made it with ChatGPT.”

“OMG Stop,” the classmate responded. “What the hell?”

Ms. Stapleton decided to do some digging. She reviewed her professor’s slide presentations and discovered other telltale signs of A.I.: distorted text, photos of office workers with extraneous body parts and egregious misspellings.

I’ve used AI two meaningful times:

• To remember the name and director of House of the Devil. It hallucinated multiple movies before producing the correct answer.
• To quickly build an excel formula to drop the lowest three values. It overheated my laptop cause it was wrong.

A decent fictionalized that may be a bit too sentimental when it’s all said and done but a decidedly unique buddy comedy.

“Then, eventually, it’s just in your brain”

• Everyone is Cheating Their Way Through College