choking up, voice full of deep yearning and melancholy:
Sorry for party rocking
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Arrival 2016
Not the patient zero for all the shit I can’t stand in modern sci fi movies but does feel like a tipping point for this annoying sort of "ending EXPLAINED" YouTube writing
“Finally, some HARD SCIENCE FICTION” - someone watching a movie where a bunch of military personnel explain how China is too calculating and competitive to receive the aliens’ message about true love
One more movie evoking a seemingly endless expanse of space and time that still can’t conceive…
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Wavelength 1983
lots of ideas briefly invoked and then left hanging in the air: twin ESP, POW code of conduct, "I haven't seen anything like this since the SLA shoot out"
UFO movie from one half of American Revolution 2/Murder Of Fred Hampton filmmaking team (??) Shares Larry Cohen's casually deadpan approach to conspiracy, where the maintenance of empire's best-kept secrets is trusted with a bunch of bozos having mundane conversations about whether or not Cherie Currie's family is too rich for her to be murdered discreetly
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In the Family 2011
not that I'm invested in what constitutes the "Asian American canon" (lol) but this certainly belongs in it
subversive in some interesting ways. have mixed feelings about the courtroom act, but steers clear of reinforcing any sort of liberal rights framework. posits that only the solution forward is to allow that framework to wither away
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline 2022
Most of the criticism of Malm’s original book was that he was asking why the climate movement doesn’t currently have an appetite for ecoterrorism, while glossing over the decades of increased policing of North American activist movements leading up to our present moment. I read it while I was still facing criminal charges related to the type of action he’s advocating for (charges got dropped 😎🚞❌🛤❌😎 fwiw) and remember feeling annoyed by him describing the problem as a lack of…
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Godzilla Minus One 2023
Mostly fine, but doesn’t have much of the edges or subversion or weirdness that make the better Godzilla movies compelling. like, sorry, all the soggy reverence for Japan's defeated-but-perservering military spirit is a drag! I'm just not gonna be moved by shit like a bunch of former imperial army guys finally getting their shot at “doing war . . . the right way 🥲 . . . for the right reasons 😭”
Wouldn't expect anything as singular as Anno's instalment,…
