There IS a bronze statue, believe it or not!
November 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
There IS a bronze statue, believe it or not!
Every goddamn day when I have my coffee, he does this.
November 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Every goddamn day when I have my coffee, he does this.
Just nipping off to the loo.
November 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Just nipping off to the loo.
I'm watching True Lies today.
It's peak Cameron, peak Arnold. There's so much action spectacle that you end up seeing in later movies. It's like watching the distant ancestor of John Wick and Rush Hour. Arnold steals a horse from a cop to chase a terrorist on a motorcycle through an art gallery.
It's peak Cameron, peak Arnold. There's so much action spectacle that you end up seeing in later movies. It's like watching the distant ancestor of John Wick and Rush Hour. Arnold steals a horse from a cop to chase a terrorist on a motorcycle through an art gallery.
October 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I'm watching True Lies today.
It's peak Cameron, peak Arnold. There's so much action spectacle that you end up seeing in later movies. It's like watching the distant ancestor of John Wick and Rush Hour. Arnold steals a horse from a cop to chase a terrorist on a motorcycle through an art gallery.
It's peak Cameron, peak Arnold. There's so much action spectacle that you end up seeing in later movies. It's like watching the distant ancestor of John Wick and Rush Hour. Arnold steals a horse from a cop to chase a terrorist on a motorcycle through an art gallery.
Watching The Equalizer 3 today.
Within seven minutes of the movie opening, Denzel Washington jams a revolver through a guy's eye socket and shoots through his skull, using the carcass as a shield.
Then he acts real sad about it, like he promised himself he wasn't going to do that.
Within seven minutes of the movie opening, Denzel Washington jams a revolver through a guy's eye socket and shoots through his skull, using the carcass as a shield.
Then he acts real sad about it, like he promised himself he wasn't going to do that.
October 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Watching The Equalizer 3 today.
Within seven minutes of the movie opening, Denzel Washington jams a revolver through a guy's eye socket and shoots through his skull, using the carcass as a shield.
Then he acts real sad about it, like he promised himself he wasn't going to do that.
Within seven minutes of the movie opening, Denzel Washington jams a revolver through a guy's eye socket and shoots through his skull, using the carcass as a shield.
Then he acts real sad about it, like he promised himself he wasn't going to do that.
If I called it an Arthouse John Wick, would you know what I mean? But then, John Wick was already highly-stylized, wasn't it? Or is John Wick just a genre now?
Anyway, there's a bit where Charlize Theron chokes a lot of dudes with a hose.
Anyway, there's a bit where Charlize Theron chokes a lot of dudes with a hose.
October 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
If I called it an Arthouse John Wick, would you know what I mean? But then, John Wick was already highly-stylized, wasn't it? Or is John Wick just a genre now?
Anyway, there's a bit where Charlize Theron chokes a lot of dudes with a hose.
Anyway, there's a bit where Charlize Theron chokes a lot of dudes with a hose.
Watching Atomic Blonde. Really surprised that this one flew under the radar. It's a supremely confident, super stylish spy thriller driven by character and charisma.
It's wild to see the 80's becoming a stylized, idealized film setting the same way the 50's became one.
Lot of nutshots in this film.
It's wild to see the 80's becoming a stylized, idealized film setting the same way the 50's became one.
Lot of nutshots in this film.
October 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Watching Atomic Blonde. Really surprised that this one flew under the radar. It's a supremely confident, super stylish spy thriller driven by character and charisma.
It's wild to see the 80's becoming a stylized, idealized film setting the same way the 50's became one.
Lot of nutshots in this film.
It's wild to see the 80's becoming a stylized, idealized film setting the same way the 50's became one.
Lot of nutshots in this film.
I'm watching xXx: State of the Union.
I sometimes wonder if Willem Dafoe just takes roles in weird garbage films as a form of calisthenics. He always brings 110% to the role, maybe it's just a means of keeping in practice.
He's pretty good in this.
I sometimes wonder if Willem Dafoe just takes roles in weird garbage films as a form of calisthenics. He always brings 110% to the role, maybe it's just a means of keeping in practice.
He's pretty good in this.
September 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I'm watching xXx: State of the Union.
I sometimes wonder if Willem Dafoe just takes roles in weird garbage films as a form of calisthenics. He always brings 110% to the role, maybe it's just a means of keeping in practice.
He's pretty good in this.
I sometimes wonder if Willem Dafoe just takes roles in weird garbage films as a form of calisthenics. He always brings 110% to the role, maybe it's just a means of keeping in practice.
He's pretty good in this.
I'm a self-avowed lover of hot fantasy garbage, but this is refined hot fantasy garbage. It's tons of goofy magical tropes filtered through goofy mafia tropes. Guy Ritchie's trademarks lend themselves well to this genre.
September 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I'm a self-avowed lover of hot fantasy garbage, but this is refined hot fantasy garbage. It's tons of goofy magical tropes filtered through goofy mafia tropes. Guy Ritchie's trademarks lend themselves well to this genre.
I sincerely haven't seen anything like it. It's like a high fantasy crime film.
You've got these creepy eel-sirens who whisper prophecies to the evil king and then right on its heels comes this incredibly quick, clever interrogation scene. Just effortless hopping from fantasy bullshit to Snatch.
You've got these creepy eel-sirens who whisper prophecies to the evil king and then right on its heels comes this incredibly quick, clever interrogation scene. Just effortless hopping from fantasy bullshit to Snatch.
September 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I sincerely haven't seen anything like it. It's like a high fantasy crime film.
You've got these creepy eel-sirens who whisper prophecies to the evil king and then right on its heels comes this incredibly quick, clever interrogation scene. Just effortless hopping from fantasy bullshit to Snatch.
You've got these creepy eel-sirens who whisper prophecies to the evil king and then right on its heels comes this incredibly quick, clever interrogation scene. Just effortless hopping from fantasy bullshit to Snatch.
I'm watching King Arthur: Legend of the Sword and I regret to inform you it owns.
The first five minutes begin with a bunch of wizards riding in a pyramid on the back of gigantic elephants using magic to nuke dudes on an impossibly high bridge and it just stays at that level.
The first five minutes begin with a bunch of wizards riding in a pyramid on the back of gigantic elephants using magic to nuke dudes on an impossibly high bridge and it just stays at that level.
September 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I'm watching King Arthur: Legend of the Sword and I regret to inform you it owns.
The first five minutes begin with a bunch of wizards riding in a pyramid on the back of gigantic elephants using magic to nuke dudes on an impossibly high bridge and it just stays at that level.
The first five minutes begin with a bunch of wizards riding in a pyramid on the back of gigantic elephants using magic to nuke dudes on an impossibly high bridge and it just stays at that level.
Everyone knows the "for me, it was Tuesday" speech from Raul Julia's Bison in the Street Fighter movie. But I think it's fun that he changed into a leisurely smoking robe but kept the evil general hat on.
September 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Everyone knows the "for me, it was Tuesday" speech from Raul Julia's Bison in the Street Fighter movie. But I think it's fun that he changed into a leisurely smoking robe but kept the evil general hat on.
I'm watching Bulletproof Monk today. A forgotten relic of a forgotten era where we believed the world could be healed by pairing a martial arts expert with a sassy American counterpart.
Anyway, Chow Yun-Fat fights some WWII Nazis in it with the help of a monkey after being made a wizard.
Anyway, Chow Yun-Fat fights some WWII Nazis in it with the help of a monkey after being made a wizard.
September 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I'm watching Bulletproof Monk today. A forgotten relic of a forgotten era where we believed the world could be healed by pairing a martial arts expert with a sassy American counterpart.
Anyway, Chow Yun-Fat fights some WWII Nazis in it with the help of a monkey after being made a wizard.
Anyway, Chow Yun-Fat fights some WWII Nazis in it with the help of a monkey after being made a wizard.
2 Fast 2 Furious is a moving experience, emotional and artistic. Confident and deliberate, a dedicated aesthetic, but only when it comes to cars. The relationships between the people are sterile, businesslike. A quiet meditation on the terror of intimacy. Only a machine will ever understand you.
September 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
2 Fast 2 Furious is a moving experience, emotional and artistic. Confident and deliberate, a dedicated aesthetic, but only when it comes to cars. The relationships between the people are sterile, businesslike. A quiet meditation on the terror of intimacy. Only a machine will ever understand you.
For a while there, it was just assumed that any corporation would have some kind of involvement with ninjas. Maybe the ninjas would be consultants. Maybe the ninjas would be investors. Maybe Company Ninja was just a position that needed to be filled.
Ninjas led rich and diverse lives back then.
Ninjas led rich and diverse lives back then.
August 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
For a while there, it was just assumed that any corporation would have some kind of involvement with ninjas. Maybe the ninjas would be consultants. Maybe the ninjas would be investors. Maybe Company Ninja was just a position that needed to be filled.
Ninjas led rich and diverse lives back then.
Ninjas led rich and diverse lives back then.
Started playing Shinobi: Art of Vengeance.
It's worth a buy for the artistic direction alone, but it's also a very fun metroidvania. It's also a fond reminiscence of the 90s interpretation of ninjas where they had a vested interest in the military industry complex (either destroying or supporting).
It's worth a buy for the artistic direction alone, but it's also a very fun metroidvania. It's also a fond reminiscence of the 90s interpretation of ninjas where they had a vested interest in the military industry complex (either destroying or supporting).
August 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Started playing Shinobi: Art of Vengeance.
It's worth a buy for the artistic direction alone, but it's also a very fun metroidvania. It's also a fond reminiscence of the 90s interpretation of ninjas where they had a vested interest in the military industry complex (either destroying or supporting).
It's worth a buy for the artistic direction alone, but it's also a very fun metroidvania. It's also a fond reminiscence of the 90s interpretation of ninjas where they had a vested interest in the military industry complex (either destroying or supporting).
Lufia 2 had it all.
Robust RPG with compelling character chemistry.
Exciting gameplay.
Chiptune soundtrack smooth as butter.
Pokemon before Pokemon were a thing.
And nobody knows. Nobody knows.
Robust RPG with compelling character chemistry.
Exciting gameplay.
Chiptune soundtrack smooth as butter.
Pokemon before Pokemon were a thing.
And nobody knows. Nobody knows.
August 29, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Lufia 2 had it all.
Robust RPG with compelling character chemistry.
Exciting gameplay.
Chiptune soundtrack smooth as butter.
Pokemon before Pokemon were a thing.
And nobody knows. Nobody knows.
Robust RPG with compelling character chemistry.
Exciting gameplay.
Chiptune soundtrack smooth as butter.
Pokemon before Pokemon were a thing.
And nobody knows. Nobody knows.
There was a brief window in the 90s where action heroes had this sort of elegant aesthetic: long hair, expressive eyes, lean instead of bodybuilders.
Nowadays, action heroes are all basically the same vaguely-buff quipping characters, but back then heroes wore denim. So much denim.
Nowadays, action heroes are all basically the same vaguely-buff quipping characters, but back then heroes wore denim. So much denim.
August 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
There was a brief window in the 90s where action heroes had this sort of elegant aesthetic: long hair, expressive eyes, lean instead of bodybuilders.
Nowadays, action heroes are all basically the same vaguely-buff quipping characters, but back then heroes wore denim. So much denim.
Nowadays, action heroes are all basically the same vaguely-buff quipping characters, but back then heroes wore denim. So much denim.
I don't want to do the whole "bad movie is secretly brilliant" argument.
But the low budget means there's no special effects, so everything is done with suggestion and context. It's not deliberate--more eerie. Same vibe as watching a chimpanzee slowly figure out how to work a firearm.
But the low budget means there's no special effects, so everything is done with suggestion and context. It's not deliberate--more eerie. Same vibe as watching a chimpanzee slowly figure out how to work a firearm.
August 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I don't want to do the whole "bad movie is secretly brilliant" argument.
But the low budget means there's no special effects, so everything is done with suggestion and context. It's not deliberate--more eerie. Same vibe as watching a chimpanzee slowly figure out how to work a firearm.
But the low budget means there's no special effects, so everything is done with suggestion and context. It's not deliberate--more eerie. Same vibe as watching a chimpanzee slowly figure out how to work a firearm.
I'm watching Samurai Cop (1991) and it's a surreal experience. Low-budget action movie as an art form. Everything is shot out of sequence, the action is incomprehensible, the dialogue sounds ALMOST like what people say. It has this weird nightmare logic to it, like watching a Benadryl hallucination.
August 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I'm watching Samurai Cop (1991) and it's a surreal experience. Low-budget action movie as an art form. Everything is shot out of sequence, the action is incomprehensible, the dialogue sounds ALMOST like what people say. It has this weird nightmare logic to it, like watching a Benadryl hallucination.
I'm watching In The Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale. I'm determined to figure out what an Uwe Boll movie is all about.
It's a strange experience. It feels like a movie made by a space alien who arrived on earth two years ago and watched movies the entire time. Not terrible. Just uncanny.
It's a strange experience. It feels like a movie made by a space alien who arrived on earth two years ago and watched movies the entire time. Not terrible. Just uncanny.
August 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I'm watching In The Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale. I'm determined to figure out what an Uwe Boll movie is all about.
It's a strange experience. It feels like a movie made by a space alien who arrived on earth two years ago and watched movies the entire time. Not terrible. Just uncanny.
It's a strange experience. It feels like a movie made by a space alien who arrived on earth two years ago and watched movies the entire time. Not terrible. Just uncanny.
Beef noodle with onion and bell pepper.
Ran out of regular soy sauce and had to use my dark soy sauce, so the color is a little intimidating. I'd like a brighter presentation, but the taste is incredible.
Ran out of regular soy sauce and had to use my dark soy sauce, so the color is a little intimidating. I'd like a brighter presentation, but the taste is incredible.
August 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Beef noodle with onion and bell pepper.
Ran out of regular soy sauce and had to use my dark soy sauce, so the color is a little intimidating. I'd like a brighter presentation, but the taste is incredible.
Ran out of regular soy sauce and had to use my dark soy sauce, so the color is a little intimidating. I'd like a brighter presentation, but the taste is incredible.
Jean Claude Van Damme is the bad guy and he's a weird bad guy. All saying stuff that sounds KIND of like poetry and cutting people for the heck of it. Weird bad guys are a rarity. No complicated backstory, no emotionally relatable motive, they just thought it looked fun.
August 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Jean Claude Van Damme is the bad guy and he's a weird bad guy. All saying stuff that sounds KIND of like poetry and cutting people for the heck of it. Weird bad guys are a rarity. No complicated backstory, no emotionally relatable motive, they just thought it looked fun.
I'm watching The Expendables 2 today and it's a moving experience. It's like watching someone play with action figures as an art form. It's like if they distilled action movies down to a liquid essence and Stallone has a gun that shoots syringes full of it and he is hunting you like an animal.
August 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I'm watching The Expendables 2 today and it's a moving experience. It's like watching someone play with action figures as an art form. It's like if they distilled action movies down to a liquid essence and Stallone has a gun that shoots syringes full of it and he is hunting you like an animal.
Watching Hackers (1995) for the first time. There was a brief window in the 90s where computers were seen as basically sorcery. A noble tradition that endures in the crime procedural genre of television.
July 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Watching Hackers (1995) for the first time. There was a brief window in the 90s where computers were seen as basically sorcery. A noble tradition that endures in the crime procedural genre of television.