btw the fact that even i, guy who remembers stories, has difficulty recalling all the details of avatar 2 (i can do 1 bc i rewatched it and read the screenplay) bodes badly for that film lol. it's like there's a mist around it in my mind.

we'll see how i feel about 3 tomorrow morning

Avatar: Fire and Ash (dir. James Cameron)

guilty as charged. i cried when lo'ak and payakan did anything together. i'm a whale guy and while i certainly didn't remember their names, i've said avatar 2 contains a good 30min short about a boy and a whale.

it's okay just like the others. looks good.

Spider-Man: Homecoming (dir. Jon Watts)

i'll be honest this does not hold up at all. i'm a spiderman guy but this is barely a spiderman movie. most his problems are just solved by iron man. iron man jr. or whatever. i'm nostalgic for being 16 when this came out so i'll give it a pass but phew.

Polizeibericht: Überfall (dir. Ernö Metzner)

this was interesting, i liked the final bit where they just used every weird technique known to them, like filming up from underneath of a glass table & other things to create this weird and unsettling vision of a fever dream

it was so nice, really just strange horticulture but again! hahaha

Strange Antiquities by Bad Viking

i liked strange horticulture and the sequel is really just more of the same thing so i'm very satisfied. the puzzles were great, i love it when you see an element in a game and immediately your understanding expands to fit it into every corner of your discoveries.

Titane (dir. Julia Ducournau)

if you are save, and also loved in whatever way, you can be healed. it will be strange and it will hurt. you will have to leave people behind, you will have to sever connections that have felt natural until now. but it will be okay.

i was talking with some uni friends about how there hasn't been an anti-pope in a while and how we should instate someone as our real pope

100%, his whole deal was that he hung out with societal outcasts, prostitutes, the chronically ill, the poor, etc etc

honestly guys ms paint rocks for this, i think for me drawing this with my mouse in paint it looks really good

here's the thing they fought (it was originally a fucked up dog from an independent sourcebook i bought but they were in the ocean so i decided i'd draw a seal in the same way the dog is in the book)

film scholar who hasn't seen enough films

Terminator 2: Judgement Day (dir. James Cameron)

this is sooooo good and it really couldn't exist without terminator 1 which i find really interesting.

also yes i cried in the end why do you ask i love it when robot 😭👍

Persepolis (dir. Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud)

phenomenal. really just such a good film, so subtle and interesting and just. look it's an inside look on historic moments in iran. subjective perspectives like this are so valuable and need to be cherished.

also i cried through like half of it.

Ovarian Psycos (dir. Kate Trumbull-LaValle, Joanna Sokolowski)

cool

i don't really watch documentaries, maybe because i cry when i do

The Terminator (dir. James Cameron)

masterclass in minimalist storytelling. there's so little dialogue in general and yet you always know what's going on and the rising tension works great.

also love love LOVE the mix of stop motion and puppetry at the end, looks incredible even 40+ years later.

Die freudlose Gasse (dir. G.W. Pabst)

oh boy this is a tough watch. not only is the film hard to follow on purpose, it's like. realism from the mid-20s and about working class people who are starving and selling their bodies etc.
it's 100% intentional but that doesn't make its 2.5h watchable.

Garde Alternée (dir. Alexandra Leclére)

this was... interesting. i haven't 100% collected my thoughts about it. i didn't "like" it but that doesn't mean it's bad, it's just so WEIRD. which is the point kinda but i just don't know how to position myself towards it.