One of the reasons I stopped rating movies on those movie-rating sites is because I kinda stopped caring about the difference between a good movie and a good movie. I don’t know if Commando is a good movie, especially if you compare it to contemporary action movies like Die Hard or The Terminator. But Commando… Continue reading Unapologetically Itself
Remember This: Try
No post today due to being busy today with Other Things. If you're in the mood to read something then, for no reason at all, I suggest checking out this post on Andor and revolutionaries. Just seems the sort of day for it.
But The Story
I finally checked out Hotline Miami (and its sequel) after buying it on Steam nine years ago. And, who’d have guessed, the game that came highly recommended to me way back when is really good! It’s a hyper-violent, top-down twin-stick shooter that rewards bold strategies and improvisation as the player shoots, punches, and clobbers their… Continue reading But The Story
What’s Next?
Ever since the second season of Andor wrapped up a couple weeks ago the show has been stuck in my head; every now and then I think about it and how just so very good it is. Andor feels like a singular work in the movies and TV of Star Wars. It zeroes in on… Continue reading What’s Next?
Yosemite
I’m spending the long weekend in Yosemite National Park. Since half the fun of living in Southern California is being able to drive out to National Parks on weekends like these. Nothing pithy or meditative to say, just that the park is gorgeous and that the National Park Service is easily in my top-two US… Continue reading Yosemite
Flavors of Star Wars
The original Star Wars is a weird movie. You’ve got a pair of silly robots bumbling about a desert and a young man finding the charred remains of his caretakers. An old man and a half-robot man fight with laser swords until the old man disappears. A farmboy flying a fighter jet uses space-magic to… Continue reading Flavors of Star Wars
Quick Thoughts On Thunderbolts
So Thunderbolts* is out now and the movie certainly feels like a return to form for the MCU. For one, it’s a proper team-up movie of the sort we haven’t really been getting too much of lately, integrating characters from a bunch of different movies and seeing how they play together. Granted Marvels did team-up… Continue reading Quick Thoughts On Thunderbolts
Accidentally Relevant
Having decided to add a couple of Star Wars books to my to-read list, I just finished Reign of The Empire: The Mask of Fear by Alexanxder Freedman. Following in the steps of Andor, Mask of Fear is a political thriller set in the aftermath of Revenge of The Sith: the lasers and spaceships are… Continue reading Accidentally Relevant
On Warfare
When I watched Civil War last year, I found myself wondering what a war movie by Alex Garland would be like. The tension he gave to the combat sequences in Civil War bordered on harrowing, mirroring the intensity of, say, Full Metal Jacket or The Hurt Locker. Nestled in there was a deeply cynical opinion… Continue reading On Warfare
Still Busy Weeks
At this point the intermittent existence of actual essays on this blog could become a topic unto itself. But yes, between a very busy work week and a weekend trip I’m leaving for in… a few minutes, I’m once again doing a cop-out post. Because I want there to be something on this blog at… Continue reading Still Busy Weeks
Essays, Not Rants! 