Movies
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A star is born was great. Heart breaking and great.
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A star is born was great. Heart breaking and great.
Projector went out on us with 20 minutes left at the theater, and I still haven't watched the ending (but know what happens in general terms). I really enjoyed it until that point.
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Oh. My. God. The Stupid. It BURNS!
On Netflix, the documentary "Behind the Curve," about flat-earthers. People who somehow think it's easier to believe that there's been a "global" conspiracy I guess since the ancient Greeks, who figured out not only that the earth is a sphere, but Eratosthenes actually computed its circumference… what, 3,000 years ago? All they had to do was see how ships disappeared over horizons, or note that the earth's shadow on the moon always had curvature, to have the hypothesis that they later affirmed through experiments. In short, they believed their eyes (which can be dangerous, admittedly, but certainly not if you then verify what you think you see through experimentation).
Some highlights included (in white font in case these are spoilers):
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one of their women complaining about how various lunatics in the movement harbor these insane conspiracy theories about her, including that she's a CIA asset, because her name is PatriCIA, and then almost achieving self-awareness when she wonders aloud if her beliefs are similarly ridiculous before dismissing the uncomfortable notion out of hand for no particular reason.
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very poorly-constructed experiment to measure the "supposed" curvature of the earth over a mere 3 miles using a laser and sticks, not understanding tangents in their expected results or laser diffraction in the execution.
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the same idiot who conducted the failed experiment above casually swinging a 3 megawatt laser beam into freeway traffic, which could easily have blinded a driver and caused a devastating accident.
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an experiment that had a sound design, and into which some fool invested $20,000 to buy a laser gyroscope, that not only fulfilled the prediction of a spherical rotating earth, but predicted one that rotates 15 degrees an hour, yielding one rotation per 24 hours. They not only disproved themselves, they proved that standing science is exactly correct. This result was cast out, of course, because it didn't meet their conclusion (starting with the conclusion and working backwards to support it by these supposed scientists is science in reverse).
The main dude in the film is a bit of a Messiah to his dumb-ass followers, which was also maddening, as you could tell he absolutely basked in their unwarranted attention.
Infuriating that people this stupid and incapable of assessing reality from facts exist. A stunning demonstration of Dunning-Kruger and a remarkable sort of inversion of Occam's Razor that makes me give up all hope in our species.
And these folks religiously vote.
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The Dead Don't Die. Probably the greatest cast ever assembled for a zombie movie.
Haha I came to post this.
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Zombieland was great. And I don't even especially like zombie movies.
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Zombieland was great. And I don't even especially like zombie movies.
It was written by the same guys who wrote Deadpool too [emoji106]
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Spiderman: Into The Spiderverse - 8/10
I would've given it a higher rating but the disc I rented from Redbox was scratched to hell so there were parts of the movie I had to skip over
But, I liked the parts I did see. The animation style was visually interesting and the story was good. -
My daughter really liked the movie, so we re-watched ita couple of nights ago. I still love it, even after multiple viewings.
We also watched Aquaman, which was really, really dumb, but kinda fun.
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My daughter really liked the movie, so we re-watched ita couple of nights ago. I still love it, even after multiple viewings.
We also watched Aquaman, which was really, really dumb, but kinda fun.
I'll have to circle back and re-watch Spiderman when it's available at my library. I asked my son if he wanted to watch Bumblebee or Aquaman and he had zero interest.
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Bumblebee got a similar response at our house.
We watched Aquaman for two reasons- first, we didn't want to watch Into The Spider-verse two nights in a row, which is what Caroline was advocating for, and second, my wife wanted to watch Jason Momoa walk around without a shirt.
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Bumblebee: [emoji107]
the director definitely had a fondness for the 80’s cartoon but seemed like he was trying to shoehorn some of the the characters into the film. Lots of time spent showcasing 80’s music and film (like Breakfast Club) but little time spent on a good story. Even dumber than the Michael Bay films which were at least watchable
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Just watched Shazam! Pretty fun. Better than I expected, which is always nice.
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Eh not really. But maybe he'll get his arm blasted off and they will attach a lightsaber to it?
Edit: now that I am awake and less grumpy… I guess I can see this comparison. Especially the desert in the background.
