Looks like this was Danny Boyle week for me:

Brokeback Mountain 4.5/5: what a beautiful tragedy. It’s one of those movies where you don’t really fault anyone for their behavior despite the fact that it keeps making everyone’s lives a little more miserable

M3GAN 2.0 4/5: I know everyone is comparing this to T2 but honestly it felt like more like the Scary Movie: Mission Impossible (Movie: Impossible?) which is a compliment. Still very funny and I like them mostly ditching the horror elements

Yesterday 2.5/5: I think this had opportunity but by bailing on The Beatles music and making it a goofy love story I think it kinda loses the plot

28 Days Later 3.5/5: I got the whole “people are the real monsters” message but I still didn’t think this really nailed it

28 Weeks Later 3/5: Once again, I understand what political point it’s making, it’s just not as smart as it thinks it is

USS Callister: Into Infinity 4/5: Look, if TV shows are going to be movie length I’m going to count them as movies. Good Star Trek spin off with interesting sci-fi stuff and bullshit capitalist nonsense throughout

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. 3.5/5: I understand how you built a whole TV show around Napoleon Solo’s charisma. I imagine this would have had a future if Armie Hamer wasn’t a fucking cannibal

What a terrible website. I couldn’t even read it without it loading ads and moving my screen everywhere

I used goodreads because different editions are presented differently. It puts Dune at 658 and PHM at 476. If you want to truly go apples to apples the kindle edition of both, which I assume has consistent font/margins/spacing/etc has Dune at 883 and PHM at 482 for a 400 page difference on an eReader. Comparing the task of turning a vacation book into a movie vs adaptating a legendary book into movie (which was so difficult to do, that this is the third attempt and the first commercially successful one) is a false equivalence

Probably toggleable statistics. So I could choose to see information about people above their heads. Mood, age, name, net worth, and stuff like that. It’d be something I could turn on/off and choose what’s stats I want to see at any given time

1. No it isn’t, Hail Mary is 180 pages shorter than Dune
2. Dune is way more dense than Hail Mary, Weir very clearly writes his books to become movies. Way more dialog, much simpler problems, and clearly defined acts translate much easier to the screen
3. They’ll obviously have to cut some parts, but having read/seen The Martian I don’t think anything of major importance was lost

I usually look for a recent episode with someone I like or a topic I think is interesting

One thing I couldn’t agree with in Novocaine is that he didn’t like that nickname. If you can’t feel pain and people start calling you Novocaine that’s a badass nickname, I would introduce myself to my parents as Novocaine if people called me that

Drop fucking sucked, also it wasn’t even about the stupid ass Drop

Slow week for me, including two rewatches from this year:

Iron Man (2008) 2.5/5 - I wanted to see if Marvel has changed or if it has always been like this. It was better than some of the recent stuff without the “omg I recognize that!” fan service and the theme about the military industrial complex will always be timely. Unfortunately it lands on the libertarian “good guy with a gun” message and is far too long. Side-note: imagine how filthy fucking rich Terrance Howard would be if he wasn’t pants on head crazy

Predator Killer of Killers (2025) 5/5 - told my family this movie rocks so we watched it. It still rocks

Molly’s Game (2017) 3.5/5 - Man, Sorkin is really Sorkining all over this thing. I like his style and he tells really compelling stories, I just can’t believe that anything besides the core of it is true. His writing is just too neat and fantastic for real stories, which is why I think The West Wing and Newsroom are more his speed

Ocean’s Eleven (2001) 4/5 - What a great heist movie, good cast, good music, good story. My only complaint is about Don Cheadle’s character who is poorly written, poorly acted and not particularly relevant to the plot. I think there are a lot of ways you could write knocking out power from the strip without a whole sidequest to a school to steal an EMP. If they used that time to explain the heist just a little more clearly it’d be perfect

I disagree, so this is probably a good post. I view your proposal as similar to the death penalty. If I knew with 100% certainty that this list would only ever be used for absolute shit heads who can’t behave then I’d be all for it. However, we live in the real world and there’s a lot of edge cases. There was a video of a little girl singing Disney songs over the speaker on a plane that was delayed recently, what if that little girl never got to fly again because her mom told her to do something for internet fame? Maybe a flight attendant goes on a power trip and antagonizes a customer into a moment that gets them banned. Airplanes are the most realistic way of travel in a lot of the world and by far the most realistic way to travel internationally and giving full control of that method of transportation to the whims of mega-corps feels very dangerous to me

Oh shit D4! I’ve wanted to try it but didn’t want to pay for it, I’ve heard the controller gameplay is surprisingly good for a series that people so heavily associate with M+KB

It’s all fun and games until the dolphins unionize

You may be interested in The Man in the High Castle it’s both a novel by Phillip K. Dick and TV show on Amazon Prime that explores exactly that premise

Isn’t the point of heaven that it’s perfect and that you want for nothing? So if your child isn’t there then you’ll realize that they were not worthy of God’s love and thus unworthy of yours

You could buy a top tier modern deck, a couple of competitive standard decks, or a bunch of pretty good commander decks in Magic:the Gathering

Ok, that was actually pretty funny. Calling it ugly bastard time stop and labeling it nsfw is effectively misleading

Community promised us 6 seasons and a movie. I want to hope the movie is still alive but it seems less and less likely with each passing day

Some more physics things, every planet has a limit on how high the tallest possible mountain is based off their surface gravity, the type of rocks present in the crust, and thickness of the crust. On Earth it turns out that limit is pretty close to Mt Everest’s height. Space is still about 50 miles above Everest so I don’t think humans could build this ramp with our current understanding of physics

If you want to go to space slowly then you can just do what Felix Baumgartner did and take a special type of balloon to get into space. Unfortunately, if you’re not traveling 25,000 mph relative to the surface of the planet, you’re going to fall back to the planet. Just like Felix did

For anime nerds this is unrelated to the FATE franchise. Amazon is not giving porn games away (I don’t think so anyway)

So for physics reasons it doesn’t really matter what technique you’re using to leave Earth. If you’re going to try to go to space successfully, you’re going to have to go a minimum speed of 25,000 miles per hour. That’s called the escape velocity and it’s a different value for every body of mass in space

Is it the primary reason? No, I agree.

However it’s childish and naive to think both racism and sexism were not significant reasons that America, a deeply racist and sexist country, did not choose a black woman to lead it