Although a little constructed, the idea for the story is actually notthat bad. But the execution is too long, unsuspenseful, mostlyrelatively boring, and – once again – full of clichés. Sorry, Jason.
🎬 Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
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🎬 Sightseers
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This is a very silly British rom-com in which a new couple go on their first camping and sightseeing trip together and he introduces her to his quirky hobby; she finds interest in it, quickly gets better than him at it - leaving him devastated. This entertained me well.
🎬 Men
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So I’m left with the pictures of a broken foot, a split lower arm and an endless series of ass-births. Puh! That was totally over-done for me. “Oh c’mon, it’s enough now”, is what I thought during the ending. If this wanted to be shocking, it achieved that! But I found it just wanted to be shocking without real substance. It detracted from the – actually pretty straight forward – message. But maybe I didn’t get all the symbolism and it was all so much deeper. This was scary, though, I give it that. And I liked quite a few other elements as well. But that extreme ending spoiled this for me somehow.
🎧 Unison Life – BRUTUS
“This is beautiful music”, said my daughter the other day (I absolutely agree!). It has been difficult for the other people in this household to escape this album, as I have been listening to this all week.
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Syndicating Posts from Your Personal Website to Twitter and Mastodon
The hellsite has a new king. And so, many are moving from Twitter to other social networks like micro.blog or Mastodon or are at least trying out those other options while waiting how things might develop.
Cross-posting – or not?
One of the first questions that comes to mind...
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Suspension
It could happen out of the blue, without any warning. It could happen without you knowing what you did wrong. It could happen today.
Twitter could just suspend you.
Gone. Your Tweets, your followers, your thoughts, your jokes, your conversations. They’re just gone.
Gone, not...
🎬 Cyst
I very much appreciate that people made a movie like this with all itsold-school costumes and effects. And this part really works and is whythe trailer immediately appealed to me. But ultimately andunfortunately, this is a lot of silly nonsense that even makes its justabout 70 minutes runtime seem long.
🎬 Mandy
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This film is an audio-visual delicacy. If you’re into Metal, you are not only my friend, but I’m sure, you too will enjoy this – if purely on the visual level. But it’s hard to not dig the soundtrack, either. I would guess this is great on drugs. Or unbearably terrifying.
A lot of scenes are reminiscent of David Lynch’s style. The story however is not: it is very straight forward, which I found surprising given all the wild trippy visuals.
The acting is overall great, and I indeed enjoyed Nic Cage’s performance a lot. The action and fight scenes are great, too. It’s funny, but also serious. However, there’s no focus on the latter, I’d say.
It’s certainly a unique experience. And one I could experience again!
(Oh my god, the Cheddar Gobblin!!!)
🎬 The Last Duel
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This is quite the spectacle! A beautiful, violent, serious, funny, well choreographed and well acted “me too” middle-age spectacle. The three different perspectives of the same plot is the kind of thing I really enjoy. No exception here. The only thing we found irritating occasionally was the language: both the actors’ accents as well as the words seemed way too modern. But that shouldn’t stop one from enjoying this a whole lot!
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None of Your Business
I bet you know this: You’ve created something – a drawing, a layout, a video, a piece of code, or a blog post – and after you’re more or less done, you pause and you look at it. And you don’t like it.
Maybe it is a little detail that is not right, or maybe you don’t like the...
🎥 5 minutes of tennis
Here are a few shaky POV rallies of tennis I played with Jenni a few weeks back.
And next time, I’ll make sure I’ll wipe my lens in between.
🎧 Viscera – Strigoi
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🎬 Army of Darkness
Oh dear. The fifth movie that day. I was actually looking forward tothis as I was keen to watch another Sam-Raimi-Bruce-Campbell movie. Thiscertainly has some good scenes! But overall I found the jokes, dialogueand effects overly silly. I felt like this was more about the specialeffects than anything else. And those felt incredibly dated. Nah, sorry,didn’t like it much this time around.
🎬 Rambo: First Blood Part II
The fourth film we watched back-to-back. It was kinda hard taking thisseriously after having watched Hot Shots 2, which basically parodiesevery second scene of Rambo 2. This was still ok, I guess, but I wasn’tthat attentive any more and half-missed the ending.
🎬 Hot Shots! Part Deux
With six others in a hut in the mountains and it’s raining all Sunday:what do you do? We just kept watching silly movies. And this one isindeed meant to be, voluntarily! I remembered quite a few scenes, sothis was a little nostalgic. I think this still has nice ideas, wellexecuted. But yeah, it’s super silly.
🎬 Kickboxer
I was primed with that this is basically the same movie as Bloodsport.And I agree. But nothing could prepare me for that hilarious dancingscene!
🎬 Bloodsport
Usually not really my cup of tea, but I watched this with six friendswho know this in and out. And this made this special, as I not only gotto watch this fabulously cheesy movie, I also was enlightened by theirexpert commentary.
This had some fun characters, corny music, oh-my-god-the-clothes!!, anantagonist that’s indeed super evil (in a total unironic good way); andyeah: splits!
Based on a true story!
I had a great time.
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Shitty Code Prototypes
I love building prototypes. They allow me to explore and sketch ideas, test my assumptions, and try out things at an early stage to make better design decisions.
Prototyping is the single best tool we have in our toolbox as designers and developers. And because anything can...
The text for movie posts is now hidden at first, if it potentially contains spoilers (I simply used the <details> element for this). This also applies to the Atom feeds (for movies and for everything). The text is also no longer written in the description and og:description meta tags. All of this should make it harder to accidentally get spoiled.