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i haven’t seen either of those but they sound right up my alley. i’ll be sure to check those out. it’s nice when it feels like a movie isn’t in a hurry to be over.

dead souls style invasions

if there’s nothing that crows have and you don’t, does that not make you a superset of crows? that would be pretty cool i think

this is a relief because i was starting to worry that video games weren’t expensive enough. when’s the last time we had a price hike on computer parts as dramatic as the ones in the 2021 supply shortage and scalping era? video games themselves are selling for only $70 + tip. come on, we can surely do better than that.

i absolutely loved that show. i felt that the pacing could be a bit slow at times, and that the show was sometimes a little repetitive, but the plot was so unique and interesting that i didn’t mind very much. and a bit of repetition isn’t the worst thing in the world, especially not when done properly. definitely worth a watch. i haven’t seen a show with such good writing in a while, especially in such a complex setting. and i loved watching the complexity of the setting gradually reveal itself.

Tokyo Story by Yasujiro Ozu.

it’s been a while since i watched a movie that made me feel something the way that movie did. i’m not really sure how to talk about it without sounding a bit like a pretentious film snob. i’ll do my best, but bear with me here.

basically, Ozu’s style of film-making is very different from a lot of the other movies i tend to watch. it feels like he’s picking you up and putting you into his world, as a silent observer. he doesn’t mind making you sit down and watch as some mundane things happen. (e.g., ships passing by, people getting ready to leave the house, etc.) i think this makes it much easier to feel connected to not just the characters, but also the world they find themselves in. and it was honestly such a nice change of pace from the “always on” kind of movies that i’ve been watching recently. (but i still like those too, it’s just nice to see something different every once in a while.)

and i think this kind film-making really works for the story he’s trying to tell. i feel like it helped me connect and empathize with the characters in a way i wouldn’t be able to otherwise. i’d solidly recommend the movie to anybody who might be interested in something like that.

what’s step 2

no thank you, i get all my deals from quick deals thank you very much

the movie felt like a version of american psycho that took itself way too seriously and tried to romanticize the “troubled and disturbed vigilante” trope. having a bit more humor would have gone a long way i think. i’m not saying the movie should have been a comedy or anything, but something like the business card scene from american psycho would have helped. something to show that the movie wasn’t taking itself so seriously. the movie just feels like watching them point at this guy and say “whoa he’s pretty fucked up and twisted isn’t he? aren’t the streets so dirty and messy and full of crime? and he’s really messed up and he doesn’t like the grimy city.”

it felt like the whole point of the movie was just to say “this is the day to day life of somebody who is messed up in the head, and by the way, we’re going to try to make him look really cool and jaded”, but that’s not exactly a novel concept. i didn’t gain anything from that. if they wanted to show a jaded and disturbed character, i think it would have been better to have a bit of a plot, and to make it so that more things actually happened in the movie