Diversions to entertain you
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One is the beginning of the end. Hopefully. Not that I wouldn’t mind many more Mission Impossible movies, but I think franchise films are a bit empty. Although this series is fantastic so I think it would do some good work and stories in any subsequent film they do.
It was certainly thrilling and the stunts were impressive, but I felt the need for the second part. It can’t get here soon enough.
3 of 5 stars.
Asteroid City feels to me like Wes Anderson’s Barton Fink. Completely baffling upon first watch. Perhaps it needs several in order to understand it. I know if I was to figure out what I watched I need watch it again.
It was a meta-movie. A film about a stage play. And it looked like a stage play but as a movie. It also had the entire cast of every Wes Anderson film in it, too. Except for Bill Murray. It was a family reunion.
I guess I’ll have to watch again, but this one left me cold.
3 of 5 stars.
It’s the middle of the year, summer is in full swing, but what better way to think about the passing of the year with thinking about calendar layouts. Yes, you heard that right. Calendar layouts!
Today’s link is one I found a long time back, maybe earlier this year, but forgot the URL until recently. It’s such a simple idea for calendar layout. I wish I could print one. (My printer is out of ink and obsolete).
Across the Spiderverse made me sad. I thought the implications of what the Spider Corps was doing was plenty dark. I thought the joy of having Spider-Gwen, Peter B Parker, Spider-Noir, Peter Porker, and Penny in the previous installment was washed away with this more serious, high-stakes story. I am still trying to come to grips with it. Most every review I’ve seen or read believe this to be a great film. For me, I’m not sure.
I wanted more of the same — fun adventures with Miles Morales. Instead, this one’s very much got some high stakes. The rejection of Miles from the Spider Corps was a heavy moment. He thought that he had found like minded friends and colleagues. Add to it that the head Spider thought he was an aberration. Imagine what darkness that is. Rejection. Finally, imagine falling into the darkest timeline from which we’ll have to wait for the story to be concluded next year. Multiverses are filled with madness.
It left me sad. Do I need to wait? Why do I feel Mile’s rejection?
Anyhow, they animation in this film continues the previous style even more so. Finally, animators are finding a richer way to tell animated stories. Gone is the cold perfection of CG rendering. It is now getting expressive. I wonder if we are entering the WGA style for CG animation? I like this style as it is something that shows us that animation is art for everyone.
4 of 5 stars.
Within this program of rap
I eradicate the glitches
“Supa Emcees” De la Soul Posdnous
I should’ve posted this soon after I saw it, but better late than never. I’m going to try and get one more post for the month in. I’ll let my review of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 be the last one.
Not bad for the closing of the trilogy. Seemed a fitting way to end. A new team!
I guess that’s really all I have to say. It seems I forgot a lot. Go watch it. It’s not that bad.
3 of 5 stars.
“King of the who?”
“Well I didn’t vote for you!”
In honor of the coronation of the new English king, Charles III. Here’s when Monty Python made fun of it all. Long live the King!
Recently, I’ve been buying Star Wars collectible cards. I don’t know why I just like them. Actually, it is just the one, the T206 style released last year, that I have bought. T206, if you don’t know, is the tobacco card style from early last century. Supposedly, there’s 200 in the set and there are many variants. I’m trying to get the set without worrying about the variants. Maybe later?
Anyhow, for the May Force Be with You, here’s a link to Topps’ Star Wars category for cards. I wonder if I did through my old collection if they are worth anything. Especially, since they’re mostly in good condition.
Air is a big Nike commercial. A peon to the sports apparel company that was dominant for quite a long time.
One of the weird things about this movie is how it wants to evoke the 80s. Is it enough to remind us of the 80s by just throwing things of the time into the movie? There was a scene that had a skateboarder doing kickflips. I’m not sure that at that time the kickflip was as common then as it is today. Certainly not done with the flick seen in the movie. But there were other things too thrown in to remind us of the 80s. It certainly had me thinking about when a particular thing on the screen showed up if it was correct for that time.
I had a pair or two of Air Jordans and I skated in them totally ruining them with an ollie hole. I had the original white and a pair of red and black. It’s amazing that they are still around. It is an iconic shoe. The movie? Not so much.
3 of 5 stars.
Kubo Shiori and Yamashita Mizuki. Yamashita Mizuki and Kubo Shiori. One and one and two and two. They are 3rd Generation aces for Nogizaka46, and they’ll forever be linked together in fans’ minds.
In the summer of 2016, Nogizaka46 held auditions for a new, third generation of members. The finale of the audition process was participation on the online streaming site, SHOWROOM, where the candidates spent about an hour just chatting and interacting with live stream viewers. At the time, both were anonymous to fans, but they spotted something in them making both highly popular. They were at the time second and third. Yamashita edging out Kubo.
After they passed, they would find themselves in competition again. This time in Nogizaka’s 3 Principals stage show. Principal is a play upon which the audience gets to choose which members participate in the play. Another audition. Kubo came out with the slight edge voted to participating in the play just one more vote than Yamashita.
They were always squaring against each other. It may have been the basis of Kubo taking a hiatus in 2018 because of this competition. Was it a challenge?
Maybe, but they were quite a combo. They named their pairing, “KuboShita,” and fans love them. Nothing but admiration amongst the pair. Even though Yamashita had earned the Ace moniker, Kubo was close behind. Kubo is the more beloved amongst the members themselves. Either way they are at the forefront of Nogizaka.
Anyhow, the single has been out for a couple of weeks. Please give it a listen. I love this song. I love this pair. I just love Nogizaka46.
