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Like, line it up already....
OK. Sometimes I drink too much and start shit I probably shouldn't finish but at some point (episode 6) I get annoyed about trifles and call bullshit.
That said, on, off, episode 6 and I'm thinking this is the therapy I need at the moment. Some episodes are better than others.
Fun Fact: I think actually Dave Duchovny actually joined Sexaholics Anonymous. I seem to have some vague memory of this. And - probably false, but - hey, fits in with the whole "Californication" thing way too well. So I won't be bothered to fact check or Google it...
That said, I'm getting it. I mean, no, nowhere near as much as the titular Duchovny, but - yeah, I get it. The poolside conversation, I've had this epiphany before, understood
And her....my god, but the cheekbones - the swollen cheeks, artificially implanted, watch it and see - the same as Vancouver's "Spitting Image" puppet wives, the mockery of beauty.
Their weird-assed kid? WTF? Where did she come from? Who writes the dialogue for her? Have they ever met a child before? Really? She's the queen of awkward, irrelevant, and I doubt anyone could imagine a child like that and in any way think it's OK. They should have used a robot. Just my take...
So, did some googling, apparently "Hank Moody"'s based upon the persona of "Charlie Bukowski", contemporized, some 30, 40, 50 odd years later. Not a surprise, plenty of references, more surprised at how poorly they've done it.
And by Episode 8, enough already, I'll finish the season but it can't continue to be this patchy, I'm in need of amusement, not some sort of half-witted catharsis...and the way it ends, fucking bloody hell.
Overall, too much gratuitous sex, shallow and poor character development, mediocre writing.
Downloading Season 2 now...
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....because a former co-worker recommended it to me, on multiple occasions, apparently I'm the "Duchovny" character - "Hank Moody".
Which I appreciate, but, god-damn I need to be getting it a lot more to compete with the title...
Anyways, enjoyed the first couple of episodes, now watching Episode 5 - and, where the anti-hero actually stops fucking for a minute to make an intelligent diatrebe, and maybe, for a bit and briefly, I'm enjoying it...
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Now, I mean, really, how to review this? I knew damn well what I was getting into, wanted something stupid and sat down and watched something stupid.
So no complaining. Instead I'm going to go on about the rabbit hole of fucking "Facebook Watch", which is collection of clips of highly-pitched squeaky voiced actors in largely B movies - clips with titles like "You don't bully this man/'s kid, wife, brother, sister..." etc. Dumb highlight reels from dumb movies, but - if you edit it right you can take a two-minute clip of any film and make it appear interesting. Clint Eastwood AND Burt Reynolds in a cop-buddy movie? I have to see THAT!
So, wasting time on Facebook and I find this disaster movie clip - it opens with UN people in blue vests coming upon a flash-frozen Afghan village - where the occupants have been frozen solid where they stand - a man breaks an arm off of one and recoils in horror. Cut to a giant tidal wave bearing down on a crowded beach that freezes midway while the beachgoers flee in terror - only to be frozen as well. More scenes like this. And the clip is framed with all this Vietnamese writing so I'm curious - a good foreign disaster/apocalyptic film, why not, and I begin to search for it. Start with the comments, only - they're all in Vietnamese, so on Bumblefuck Laptop I'm trying to get a title from google translate only it takes forever and 2.5 million comments is roughly 2.499.999 more comments than my cruddy memory will hold, but I'm getting there, I'm a proper internet sleuth...
The question - in Vietnamese - that prompts the comments - is "What would you do if the end of the world..." or something like that, and all the comments translate to something like "I would cuddle my family/dog" or "Humanity deserves this for the way we've treated mother earth" and all sorts of other dross. A lot of dross. So I keep scrolling, and I find a few possible titles like "Mega-Earth-Storm", and search for that, to no avail, and then again "Magnetic-Earth-Catastrophe" and I search that, nothing, and I keep searching and finding dumb-ass end of the world movies but not this one...
The rarity of this foreign cinematic gem is making it all the more precious, god-damn I need to see it!!!
By this point it's obvious my curiosity has gotten the better of me, I know damn well from the clip it's a dumb-ass movie, but I want to know what it is Goddamnit!!!!
Eventually - some 45 minutes later - I find it. Not a dumb-ass foreign disaster film, but a perfectly dumb ass American one that somehow I'd never heard of. For good reason.
But - 45 minutes in I'm doubling down on my stupidity and now I have to watch it. And - I can assure you - absolutely no plot twists or surprises. Blessedly vacuous.
I really have to quit Facebook...
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Surprised that I'd never seen this, pretty sure I read the book as a kid. The 1925 film adaptation of H.G. Wells' "The Lost World".
A silent movie, now in the open domain, the reconstruction in sepia and black and white, no shortage of claymation dinosaurs, and, for the time, remarkably well done.
The animator (special effects guru) was Willis O'Brien, who later worked on "King Kong".
Perhaps most remarkable is how precisely the plot is recycled for every single dinosaur movie since - the "Jurassic Park" franchise especially comes to mind.
Worthwhile.
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File this under "Nostalgia Porn". I loved the first of the trilogy, despised the second, never saw the third.
But for some reason I was persuaded - How? Why? To watch this.
Briefly - cheesy beyond belief, but - somehow, for some reason, I liked.
Now - to be clear - it was unnecessary, bad, irrelevant, or relevant only to those maybe that saw the original and wanted to relive a few memories that would better have been lived by seeing the original again. My "liking" in this is no endorsement, it brings nothing new to the series, it does for the original idea what Disney has done for Star Wars, a pure - unabashed - cash grab. So - I liked it - but - I also watched the entire "Mandalorian" series, and I smoke Pall Mall cigarettes and drink Smirnoff Vodka. SO - in review, utter garbage, but for some reason I got on the "Keanu" train and turned my brain off for an evening and it wasn't the worse thing in the world, but I can't in good conscience recommend it.