Vic

yeah plex i generally avoid largely bc the ads are fucking obnoxiously long

Both surprisingly and unsurprisingly extremely smoothly from animation. A film like this could only come from the end of one century and the beginning of another with the digital medium. And with that comes an extremely beautiful, at points horrifying journey of discovering self-value.

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Time to see how Hideaki Anno fairs in live action.

I can concede that sometimes its ambiguity can be a bit much at points but there are numerous great layers by which it details familial detachment, the civil war, influences of cinema on a child psyche into other aspects of life, growing up but in a way grieving.

Watched The Spirit of the Beehive (1973). Easy to see why future directors such as Del Toro took great influence in their works. Fantastical yet great implications of fascism tearing apart Spain. Greatly dark without needing to show violence except in key moments. Gorgeous.

yeah that i unfortunately know bc i've seen a pic

so is it nick's dick (fuck it rhymes)?

look there are way too many things going on in my head at this moment and so the very last thing i needed to know about is that weird looking goblin man Destiny apparently sucking dick.

Watched Kiru aka Destiny's Son (1962). For fans of Zatoichi and Lone Wolf and Cub this is definitely a recommend as it is Kenji Misumi in the director's chair. A very compact film (to its detriment in some ways) full of beautiful imagery that leads to violence and tragedy.

Today I said goodbye to Bonnie after 14 great years. She lost her footing on Thanksgiving and did not get up for the rest of the night. We took her to the vet where they found spleen cancer that then ruptured and blood pooled in. We said goodbye but it hurts so much. RIP babygirl, I love you.

On the one hand, stress of a dog.

But on the other hand, unicorn horn on dog.

Alright, let's get Quorthon's more spiritually inclined albums!

Dorian introduced me to it last night.

I didn’t know my life needed a movie about life at a rundown tenement building haunted by powerful spirits, vampires and black magicians, where tired kung fu exorcists eke out a living between heroics it’s become melancholic routine.

It rules.

It is both one of the great success of 2010s television but also a lesson on how success in certain contexts creates a stress to produce new material even if it doesn't have a solid vision or connective tissue. By becoming more of a spectacle, the show in my view lost its key virtues by the end.

So now that I have finished Game of Thrones, I am left with a rather fascinating show in terms of the art of adaptation. In the beginning it was sturdy and allowed for its own identity, until the source material ran out and extremely loose in concept and execution ideas sprung up.

Watched Game of Thrones Season 8 (2019). Everything that has been said about this season I will not repeat the points. I will say though, that this didn't come from nowhere, but the culmination of several seasons worth of bizarre decisions on top of it being rushed. Shame.

Captures a tranquil beauty and grace that these animals wonderfully present, as well as the raw power as is shown with the orca piece, really stunning work.

sympathies for your loss, may she rest in peace.

That's the lesson to take: laughing at them will make more cringe, be kind so that the cringe lessons. Amen.

*seasons before 6*

see the weird with me is i know the seasons 6 before are not 1 to 1 adaptations and have their own changes and excises but there was enough meat to allow for its own identity away from the books to come forth. Again there's lately been little detail for me which is why I love the early seasons.

oh yeah i haven't read the books yet (will after i finish) but Dorne got really fucked over. With 6 I am questionable with the revive bc I don't think it was well explored emotionally and Dany in season 6 was at her most uninteresting to me and it just feels way too loose and ill-defined for me.

Honestly I wasn't even that much of a fan of 6 myself, though i did like the second half. I will agree that as spectacle it is pretty grand as television goes, but that's not why I loved The first four seasons of Game of Thrones (I like 5), it was grounded and detailed with the build to epic scale.

Watched Game of Thrones Season 7 (2017). Starts off rather promising, family reuniting and some intriguing ideas, but it devolves into another case of outline of a cool idea with little depth or stuff that outright feels thrown together and then sanded down. Mixed bag.

Illustration of Vampire Hunter D riding in the moonlight on his horse with his sword held in one hand behind him.

Vampire Hunter D 🦇🌕

Watched Game of Thrones Season 6 (2016). A season I am heavily conflicted with: some engrossing conclusions to storylines from the previous season, grand and shocking revelations, great spectacle towards the end, but the grounded element is missing. A uneven watch for myself.

You fiend, how dare you say that Ivy's tits are overrated, you will now be tried in cock combat, now unzip your pants so that [redacted for NC-17]

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