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Project Hail Mary Book Review - This Book Could Have Been a Movie

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Project Hail Mary Book Review - This Book Could Have Been a Movie You know that famous saying, “this meeting could have been an email” ? Well, there’s a new version of that. It’s unfortunate that it comes up, but if it exists, it has its meaning. The new saying is: “this book could have been a movie.” Lucky for you, who don’t want to sit through a 16-hour audiobook or read even longer, the movie is coming, and I bet it will do a better job with this overly blown-out short story about the end of the universe. It starts really funny—I laughed out loud many times in the first 4 or 5 chapters. (Spoilers ahead, of course.) But once we dipped our heads into the pool of science, for a guy who doesn’t have the knowledge to understand all the chemistry and physics—which I’m sure are carefully curated and researched—it just sounds like gibberish. “I’m smart enough to know that I’m stupid” is one of the best lines in the book, and it basically becomes the whole point of it. It felt like someone ...
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Alien Earth: Episode 5 is complete TRASH.

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  Alien Earth: Episode 5 is complete TRASH. We are actually the test subjects of Disney, because I felt tested to my very core whether I would continue watching this show after this episode. This episode was painful to watch. How can you manage to turn such an interesting premise into this kindergarten bullshit? I’ll tell you how — whoever wrote this episode should be immediately fired. Immediately. Let me check who it was. Director: Noah Hawley. Screenplay: Noah Hawley, Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett. FIRED, right on the spot. I feel like the director should go before season 2. People who do not know the difference between biology and geology are allowed on a spaceship? This smoking on the ship is really getting out of hand. I mean, Morrow literally dropped his cigar in a hole on a spaceship. Who wrote this shit? This should alarm whoever is on top of the show to start firing people. Operating on people without masks or any protection? Really? Who let the creep on that spaceship? H...
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I Am Becoming a Huge Fan of DC!

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Spoilers. After seeing Superman and, during the last 7 days, season 1 of Peacemaker , and of course every Guardians of the Galaxy project , I’m starting to love comic book properties again. This feeling is so refreshing and hopeful for the future of comic book media. While watching the first season, I laughed so hard. It’s been a long time since I laughed like that at a show. Any project that’s capable of provoking these strong emotions is likely to become a piece of endearment. Overall, the first season just blew me away—I was sitting on something so funny for so much time. My theory about the deeper meaning of Peacemaker is simple and short, but I’ll put it here because I really think I’m onto something. Peacemaker is actually James Gunn, and the people he interacts with are parts of his real life. His wife literally, his colleagues, his father—who I believe represents Kevin Feige, David Zaslav, or Bob Iger. And the KKK are Marvel/Disney fans, or the ones that came after him about ...
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On Wednesdays We Wear Faceghuggers

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  The lore expands. Knowing that in Alien nobody knew about the xenomorph, I think Ripley is already in space — or everything will end with the death of the Prodigy company. Another guess I have is that, for the first time, we’ll get clear communication with the perfect organism. Wendy is hearing the aliens, and in one of the trailers she mentions that they’re talking to her. I can’t wait to see how this plays out and actually hear that communication. Wendy already displayed her power of controlling machines and altering their code when she answered her brother, who was denied early retirement for another seven months. The show has such a rich lore — completely new for the franchise — and an incredible production that, even with those minor head-scratchers, I’m glued to the story and the new information. I think the show would work better as a binge, but maybe this “week-to-week” format will create an even stronger fan base that promotes the show themselves. I’m already talking abo...
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The Horror Renaissance: Waves, Rituals, & the Aging Corpse of Cinema

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The Horror Renaissance: Waves, Rituals, & the Aging Corpse of Cinema The last three Marvel movies couldn’t gather as many people in theaters on their opening nights as this horror did yesterday. And this is the third horror movie opening here in Germany this month. Was the success of Weapons involved in bringing such a diverse audience to a horror film, or are the two brothers just riding the wave of A24 and their previous hit Talk to Me, which turned out to be a great movie experience? I thought the three entries would cannibalize each other and, in some way, there was one victim — Together . It was on my radar, but it went straight to my streaming list after a careful consideration of my budget. It’s expensive to go see these movies, especially after July, where another three had to be watched. Weapons is for sure the winner of the new trio, but Bring Her Back , although it’s almost impossible at this point that it will catch up to the success of Talk to Me , still managed to ...
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The Naked Weapons - Missed Opportunities and Expectations

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The Naked Weapons - Missed Opportunities and Expectations There was a missed opportunity to team up the Naked Gun movie with Weapons and create the new Barbenheimer and Glicket. If you're too pressed from the horror, you can jump and see Pamela Anderson in a threesome with a snowman conjured from black magic in a detective noir police comedy action movie. I laughed, which is all that matters, and Anderson and Nilson just became my favorite new Hollywood couple. So they got that for them, at least. The comedy was stupid, but we stupid also, so I enjoyed.  The Naked Gun and the Weapons came so hot that all the hype did the movies dirty. You hear the best horror and the best comedy, and you go there with your expectations for what the best means. You feel somewhat disappointed, even though both movies were able to deliver, despite the negative parts of the reviewing internet and the rotten tomatoes.  I was so proud of myself. The second I saw the witch graffiti on Julia Garner's ...
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What Broke the Marvel Cinematic Universe & What Keeps it Together

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 What Broke the Marvel Cinematic Universe No, She-Hulk —or how I call it now, He-Shulk —didn’t start this process. It really helped, when it comes to disappointment, but strangely enough, a much more beloved character’s story was the first blow. If I have to start from the first crack, I have to mention Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness , where for the first time—not in one, but in TOO many scenes—I was put to the test if I am still a Marvel fan. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness It seemed like movie fans were divided over the music fight, and I was not vibing with it at all, but no one seemed angry at the dog head that jumped from another dimension and bit a car that was going to hit a mother and her child. I watched the movie numerous times in order to get used to the nonsense that appeared after we had a pretty solid and grounded—if I may say—MCU until then. I mean, for the most part, we are talking about comic book characters after all. Now we have Deadpool...
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