It wasn’t a total disaster…
From minute 5, I thought we were about to be on an absolute ride as an infantile chimp absolutely butchers my favourite Robbie track. But it somehow gets better.
Inexplicably, i teared up a couple times. It does a great job of making you forget there’s a fucking CGI monkey on the screen at all times.
A lot - and I mean A LOT - of cringe, on the nose metaphors and fever dream scenes.…
HOW CAN YOU NOT BE ROMANTIC ABOUT BASEBALL.
There’s just nothing like the history of the Seattle mariners.
As the god of sports journalism, Jon Bois, so elegantly puts it, the Seattle Mariners are not competitors. They are protagonists.
For decades, Seattle baseball floundered around barely aware of their own existence - a mere neutrino in a universe of superstars, traditions and great American sports narratives, not interacting or altering the state of anything around it. They were spectators within…
Does nothing I thought a good prequel should do. Left with more questions than answers.
But that’s mainly because I’m a lore and world building loser.
The origin of Panem is still shrouded under a reductionist “dark days” trope which makes sense from an in-universe perspective but would’ve loved a look under the hood anyway.
The trivialization of the hunger games origin was also annoying. And I’m not really convinced by snow’s ‘fall from grace’ arc.
I do like the…
