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I'm really liking this so far, it's like the corporate satire of a George Saunders story mixed with There is no Antimemetics Division. I like how the two stories that the office manager told our protagonist about her mother are… [more]
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FanFare comment - Two years ago

Movie: Synchronic
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FanFare post - Two years ago

her original stretchy powers are in some sense thematically appropriate I do think they're thematically appropriate, personally. They are the very embodiment of being a gangly teenager who doesn't feel completely in control of their own… [more]
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MeFi comment - Two years ago

I enjoyed that one of the Imperials called out the Rebellion for killing everybody on board the Death Star(s). [more]
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FanFare comment - Two years ago

Feria: The Darkest Light: Season One
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FanFare post - Two years ago

I remember this getting a good bit of hype when it came out, but apart from some impressive monster effects and body horror it didn't do much for me. There were some good themes in there about familial trauma and poverty, but it seemed like the movie… [more]
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FanFare comment - Two years ago

I loved this, truly a head-spinning premise. I pretty much put the pieces together pretty early on, and then the movie experience changed from "surely this will get better soon" to "they aren't really doing Basket Case 2021,… [more]
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FanFare comment - Two years ago

I enjoyed this, having neither read the books nor played the games. A lot of my enjoyment comes from parts of it leaning in an extremely campy direction, like at the end when they meet up with the Wild Hunt and seem to have been transported into a… [more]
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FanFare comment - Two years ago

The more I watch this show the less I like it. I am glad they got a POC to play the lead in this, but Temura Morrisson is like anti-charismatic; the longer he's on screen the lower my interest in the story gets. And it's not like the… [more]
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FanFare comment - Two years ago

Fett didn't sweep in, isn't on planet to bring the Good Word to anyone, and was really just minding his business when he was captured by this tribe, after being literally stripped of his identity. I mean, same with the Dances with Wolves… [more]
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FanFare comment - Two years ago

I just watched this this weekend too. It doesn't make any sense to me to try to watch it outside the context of the show, but I still think it's a good movie all in all, albeit not one that I feel up for watching very often. It's got maybe one of my… [more]
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FanFare comment - Two years ago

This is a fairly faithful rendition of the novels - at least the Fremen are wearing realistic stillsuits that don't expose their faces to the elements for once. It's unusual that after killing the sandworm at the end they go to extract the pre-spice… [more]
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FanFare comment - Two years ago

Long live the new flesh! Death to videodrome! [more]
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MeFi comment - Two years ago

Speaking of tribbles, am I going nuts or was there one inside Lorca's ready room underneath the holographic star-map? It was like a tribble on one side and a big bowl of Doritos on the other. I even thought it made a little squeaking sound. [more]
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FanFare comment - Two years ago

No, Frank. Not now. [more]
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MeFi comment - Two years ago

I'll also chime in and say that the truism that each of the Dune novels is worse than the previous one is not really accurate, in my opinion, and while it's hard to live up to the grandeur of Dune proper, there is a lot of really awesome… [more]
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FanFare comment - Two years ago

I just saw this again on the big screen last night. It's by far my favorite of the Halloween movies, despite the first two being pretty unimpeachable slasher movies. The main actor looks more like a retired football player than a doctor and doesn't… [more]
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FanFare comment - Two years ago

I'm still enjoying this show despite its hokeyness. I liked Papa Midnight's criticism of Constantine's magical techniques, though I kind of wish they'd kept him as an antagonist for a bit longer before they broke out the whole "fight a common… [more]
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FanFare comment - Two years ago

But that isn't the same thing at all as talking about why this work continues to fascinate while that one doesn't *waves hands* Neuroscience! [more]
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MeFi comment - Two years ago

I thought this was pretty awesome and it's made me want to read the book. It definitely took a few turns I wasn't expecting, it starts as a kind of Faustian "be careful what you wish for" story, but then by the end it's more about combat… [more]
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FanFare comment - Two years ago

This is not really my jam, but if it's the kind of thing you like I recommend the itch game Hidden Folks, which was part of that mega itch bundle last summer. It's got a very similar art style but with a lot more interactivity and you're searching… [more]
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MeFi comment - Two years ago

Angela's kids are all way too short, plus I think she would recognize them. The blue butterfly in Trieu's complex reminded me strongly of the scenes towards the end of the book showing the fate of Veidt's doomed Vietnamese servants (I could have… [more]
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FanFare comment - Two years ago

I'm not sure how conscious Helge would be of this, but when he says "tick, tock" he actually is describing the infinite loop that Winden is in pretty well: the "tick" is the Universe A loop, where Jonas hides under the house to… [more]
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FanFare comment - Two years ago

I thought that was a very thematically satisfying ending, even though there were plenty of loose threads I wanted to get resolved. I was glad to see Benni get a seat at the table in the last scene (maybe she and Peter are a couple in the fixed… [more]
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FanFare comment - Two years ago

I have to say that genre is perhaps the most boring futuristic fictional drug ever invented. Like, all it does is play some background music and change the film stock? I wanted to see everyone's dialogue go all hard-boiled in the first segment of it… [more]
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FanFare comment - Two years ago

Wow, today I learned that Factsheet Five-era enfant terrible Jim Goad managed to un-fade from obscurity somehow during the Trump years. It's not so much a surprise to see him on this list as to see him on any list at all. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over two years ago

Whether they’re good-naturedly harassing an owl caught out in daylight, or carrying bits of sticks and used gauze bandage in their beaks to make their colorful, free-form nests, or simply landing on the sidewalk in front of you with their… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over two years ago

I haven't seen a comb now for days / It's indie on the radio waves - American Analog Set, Weather Report [more]
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MeFi comment - Over two years ago

2. And whether or not it's true, the whole town still believes that the contents of the diary is true, and still was totally thrilled for them to get back together, which I thought strained credulity a little bit...? I took this to be… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

This was one of those rare instances where I thought the movie was a lot better than the book, though they didn't deviate all that significantly from one another in plot, from what I could remember. Maybe it's just that the whole TV combat angle was… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

I thought this was well paced dumb fun, and I especially enjoyed the ease with which various villain characters who nobody cared about were dispatched. I do wish there were a few more "civilians fleeing from the wreckage" shots, and the… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

Them: Season 1
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FanFare post - Over two years ago

anybody familiar enough with Ta-Nehisi Coates' run on Captain America able to tell me if it's worth picking up as a good read and self-contained story? I've been out of comics for nearly a decade now. I've read the first three trade… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over two years ago

I can recommend the audiobooks, too, if you're an audiobook person (I think it's a good fit for this kind of book which is more about plot than language). Just make sure to stick with the same narrator throughout. They switched to an inferior… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

I really liked this, although in retrospect I find that I liked the early uber-gothic portions a lot more than the eventual revelation and climax. Noemí is an awesome protagonist and I enjoyed spending time with her, and I thought the colonialist… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

Also, re the kill rate of that admittedly impressive opening action scene: kinda weird that it's followed up with Bucky's vivid nightmare about killing people, and his earnest attempts to make amends! Like, are we going to draw a line connecting… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

I had myself convinced for a little while that Agnes was a Hydra/AIM agent whose mission was to manipulate Wanda into resurrecting some supervillain or another (I thought maybe the Red Skull as the ne plus ultra Hydra villain, but I guess in… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

This is kind of a more mainstream MCU version of Legion, not that I'm complaining. I agree that the comedy took a serious hit in this episode, but then again 70's sitcoms are not very funny, so it's accurate to the period. Did that last… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

I liked this, though I read a few too many stellar reviews which maybe raised my expectations too high. I found it to be good, but not fantastic. I did appreciate that it treated the religious aspects of the story seriously (something that is usually… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

that movies where characters have elaborate hallucinations that are indistinguishable from reality present a major problem for me I feel the same way, for all the reasons you stated. It seems like this trope of "protagonist has a… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

Currently when you have Star Lord, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Ant-Man, Falcon, Thor, Rocket, and Hawkeye standing in a circle it's like the early 60s comic where every character has an identical voice and just sounds like Stan Lee in a different… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

I have to imagine that Dobbs was fired so that he'd need to pay for his own (very expensive) legal defense, as he is directly named as a defendant in the suit. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over two years ago

The wife's repeating her line "stop it" was straight up Lynch. Yeah, that was absolutely the "Kyle McLaughlin finds a severed ear in the lawn" moment from Blue Velvet. [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

...also, I've enjoyed how in the moments when Wanda starts to break through to reality, the camerawork changes from fairly static long shots and two-shots and the like to more cinematic language with slow zooms and low angles. [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

I definitely thought AIM when I saw the beekeeper too. They haven't made an appearance in the MCU yet, to my knowledge, but they're compatible with Baron van Strucker, and I'm sort of hoping that MODOK is keeping Wanda trapped inside of this… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

I really like this show (I'm five episodes in so far). Among its other merits, it has probably the most intense credits sequence I've ever seen, with a full-blown Passion of the Christ squeezed into 60 seconds, culminating in Judas's on-screen… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

Er... where's the essay? [more]
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MeFi comment - Over two years ago

I'm not generally into the style of music the KLF played, but I can give a hearty endorsement to this book about the band by John Higgs, which situates them in a 90's cultural milieu which includes the likes of Alan Moore , Dr. Who, and Robert Anton… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over two years ago

Argh, I really didn't like this one, and I wanted to because the first one seemed like the only good DC movie to date. I did not like how Wonder Woman's lasso turned her into Spider-Man. They didn't explain the mechanic with the wishes at all. It… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over two years ago

Wow, for some reason I didn't put together at all that this was The Fall of the House of Usher. The thing it most reminded me of in its setup was Alex Garland's Ex Machina, which now that I think about it definitely shares some… [more]
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