Despite the very heavy sci-fi lore dumps, this has an easy-to-follow story. Like, made-for-tv easy. It’s sort of like Terminator, but simpler and without the time travel. It’s also pretty funny, particularly the Jim Belushi cameo. Tone-shattering, that part, but funny. Jesse Ventura is strangely likable. I love his gruff narration. Lest it all sound too positive, be aware that there is also mild tedium here.
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Dishonored 1931
It’s amazing what Sternberg leaves out. There are so few scenes and there are no peripheries. There’s almost no music other than the diagetic music played by Marlene. There’s no network of characters and plot lines, nothing running parallel to the main thread. It’s just a Marlene solipsism.
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Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory 1991
The story is Gundam-standard — a bit loose and unfocused, but as a piece of glossy robot porn, this series is unmatched. The high contrast animation, the shiny red surfaces, the look of the mechs, debris, wires, and explosions against the backdrop of space — extraordinarily pretty.
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Beyond Ultra Violence: Uneasy Listening by Merzbow 1998
There’s an instructive moment in this documentary in which Akita is talking about the differences between seppuku and harakiri, and at a certain point, the subtitles just stop, even as he goes on speaking.
I appreciate a small section of the Merzbow discography. However, when it comes to interpretations of Bataille, the history of SM pornography, or the relationship of noise music to the eroticism of car crashes, I don’t think Akita has anything very enlightening to say. (And to…
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