The Surfer

broderic on June 6, 2025

Nick Cage is The Surfer. That’s not enough to describe this movie. The plot revolves around a man, the titular Surfer, trying to buy a house at this very “locals only” beach, and he’s harassed by the locals over three days. It leaves hims psychologically scarred. Same for me.

I was expecting action, but got trippy psychedelics. Was he even who he thought he was? Was he the bum on the beach?

The locals were even crazier. Turns out they were led by man of the “man-o-sphere” who lived life through pain. He put his underlings through a lot and they would respond like wolves. Alpha-males all around. This leader was causing much suffering and it was expressed as localism.

Anyhow, as I sat through this I knew that I ended up in a late career Nick Cage film. Weirdness abounds.

2 of 5 stars.

You Should Know Them By Their Voices

broderic on June 6, 2025

This will be a random post so that I can keep writing on my own blog.

Lately, or rather every so often, the marketers call me to say that my website has been hacked. It’s just a sour link in my system that goes to nudes or bad sites that is flagged as a hack. Or that was what was told me the first time they called. I checked. It’s just those bad links which I put there myself. They keep calling me, yet I wonder if I do have a hacker in the system.

Another thing I feel is that I am not healthy both mentally and physically. Since COVID I have abdicated living. I not sure if it’s a death wish, but I feel I don’t like where I am. This is me being sad.

I buy too many books. I read not enough. I did go through a few books on some of classic hip-hop. Books on the Native Tongues and on Spotify. Music sucks nowadays, but it sucks in all eras. I still love that hip-hop though.

I think I need a new job.

That is all…

Thunderbolts*

broderic on May 25, 2025

Thunderbolts has an asterisk because it is The New Avengers. Spoiler alert!

It was the post credits ending, but to get there was two hours of action. Now, people seemed to have been satisfied with the film. I don’t think I was. I hadn’t watched many of the MCU films in the last four years, and I don’t bother with the television series. Therefore watching this movie was like coming in half way through. I felt like I had picked up the comic and found out that I need to pick up the back issues to get what it going on and who these heroes are. Like seriously, who was that one character that was killed?

I’m just catching up. I don’t know any of these characters. I guess I’ll have to read the wiki!

3 of 5 stars.

The Friend

broderic on May 24, 2025

The Friend is the type of movie we don’t anymore. A smallish movie with well established actors just telling a quaint story. Back in the day, you would go watch such films on a lazy Sunday with your mom. Nowadays, since they are few and far between, they are skipped altogether.

The Friend stars Naomi Watts and Bill Murray. It’s tells a story of Watts’s character struggling to find a home for Murray’s great Dane and dealing with his ex-wives after he dies. It’s a story about mourning, but also acceptance. And a big dog in a small apartment. Watts and Murray were just really great friends, maybe once lovers, but now the friendship kept them together. It is hard to say goodbye with a dear friend one whom you never noticed was one in the first place.

I hope we get a bit more of these type of smallish films, but the future of Hollywood is dire.

3 of 5 stars.

In the Lost Lands

broderic on April 13, 2025

I completely forgot that I saw In the Lost Lands until I saw a YouTube video of several movies from March. It must’ve been a terrible movie.

It was.

And yet I think it was worth watching. Not for a good a move, but for just enjoying bad movies in theaters. It’s a good thing once in while. Not all the time, but once in a while you got to go and experience terribleness on a large screen.

Anyhow, it was a Paul W.S. Anderson film with Mila Jovovich in the lead from a story by the writer of Game of Thrones. David Bautista was in it, and I didn’t know he was Filipino, but he had tattoos that hinted to it.

1 of 5 stars.

Love Hurts

broderic on March 7, 2025

God damn Love Hurts isn’t good. It’s serviceable, but you’ll immediately see the flaws. It’s a bite on John Wick except people are in love and there is no dog. It opens in a world that the story has already been going for the last few years, and we’re expected to pick up the finale. If it was better, I am sure it would be a franchise just like John Wick.

I’m sad that this is Ke Huy Quan’s first leading man role. He’s deserving of an action film so much better. I want him to do the action In the Mood for Love. Let this man cook.

Anyhow, it wasn’t very good.

2 of 5

Paddington in Peru

broderic on February 28, 2025

I should’ve enjoyed Paddington in Peru more considering the previous entries in the series were solid fare. Unfortunately, Paddington in Peru missed it’s mark with me. Maybe it was the replacement of Sally Hawkins’s mother with Emily Mortimer that felt off. Perhaps it was the weird final act reveal of the true villain that felt out of place. Anyway, I didn’t fall for it as I had for the previous two. I guess I went in with high hopes for another movie to charm my pants off, but came away disappointed.

3 of 5 stars.

Economic Blackout

broderic on February 27, 2025

No shop Friday!

To protest against this wack administration, the plan is to not shop large box retailers and fast food conglomerates. Instead look to small, local mom and pop shops. Or even don’t buy anything at all.

Personally, I believe in the Mangione Method. Take dead aim. Take them down.

Link of the Day [2.15.25]

broderic on February 15, 2025

Wait. Here’s something that I’ve wanted for a long time. You see. I’ve got several Apple IDs. I wish for them to be consolidated into one. Yet that wasn’t ever available until today. Or this is kind of close to consolidation. We’ll have to see.

For now, I’ll just book mark this page.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/117294