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Mickey 17 2025
Going to first talk about this with respect to 2 books I’ve read recently—
1. Project Hail Mary: it is interesting the ways humans project earth biology onto aliens, even when we try to make them “different”. The alien in Project Hail Mary is described as a “spider” but with 5 legs and *gasp* claws! The aliens in Mickey 17 are an armadillo/yak/centipede combination with eyelashes (lol). In both, humans also are able to make a translator relatively frequently. It…Translated from by -
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Last Night in Soho 2021
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Edgar Wright said I Am An Ally!!!! But perhaps he should not have said anything at all.
I was vibing during the first 45 minutes of Last Night In Soho (aside: color me surprised when within the first 3 minutes of the movie I realized they meant London, not New York). The setup is great. I empathized with Ellie, going to college in The Big City and everyone telling her to Be Careful; the dreamlike transition to 60s London and…
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Cat Person 2023
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I am SO disappointed. And I was SO excited; I really, really like the short story.
And for the time that the movie follows the the source material, I was into it. It definitely was giving me the same icky uncertainty, the same “he’s weird, but it’s harmless, right?” feeling. But everything that happens after the “Whore” text, where the short story ends, is so antithetical to everything that came before it. Just because it’s now a movie doesn’t mean…
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