A week or two ago watched the 2025 movie Deep Cover with Orlando Bloom and Bryce Dallas Howard. Actually super funny, 100% worth the time IMO.

Quantum Supremacy. It is rare that I consider anything I watch a complete waste of time because there's usually at least fun to be had in how bad it is. The only thing this one was good for was to make me aware of what a piece of scum Cuba Gooding jr is when I looked up why in the fucking world he'd lend his face and voice (and nothing else) to this. If this was a supercut of all the cutscenes from some low budget video game from the 2000s, I might give it a pass and assume there must be stuff happening in between the cutscenes to justify the goings-on.

Point Break

I was underwhelmed - the romance felt unbelievable, many parts of the plot felt contrived, and the acting was inconsistent. I guess I see how it could obtain "legendary status" for some people because of the surfing theme, but based on the recommendation I got for it, I was expecting more. I did appreciate the skydiving scenes, and it was generally a fun movie to watch. 6/10

Finished Spider Noir early this week (Swype's first interpretation was Shower Now 🫠). These days, I always get nervous when I approach the end of a season-long storyline, but this one worked. So often they don't. Nic Cage got one episode to go full Cage and I think that was the right amount.

We watched in color since we both agreed that the black & white looked too sharp. It's a modern piece in a noir setting; in color, it is exactly what it claims to be. Palette-shifted to B&W it looks like a fake. Maybe with some treatment, it would have played differently. The color was almost perfect, imo. The palette wasn't too bright, although I might have preferred slightly less realistic hues in order to mimic colorized versions of old movies. But then again, maybe not--I would have to see it to know if it was what I truly wanted.

In the end, the only part of the show I actually disliked was that it had too many commercials (Amazon Prime 😖).

My wife and I started Widow's Bay and we are loving it. She typically doesn't like horror and it is too much horror for her.

But the humor softens it a little, and she enjoys horror a bit more since we got married as she just feels safer. (And yes that warms my heart.)

Alice & Steve - super funny

Doing a rewatch of Fargo, the tv show. I'm at season 3 currently. I had forgotten a lot from season 1, and I enjoyed season 2 very much. Jury's still out for 3.

Slither. It was slithery.

still catching up on colbert. man watching ones from awhile back it sort blows your mind with everything. wait that recently we were doing the ecuador stuff and then its like we started messing with iran while still in the midst and the ballroom and oh man. it is hard to keep everything straight.

Started The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox this morning. It's only got 6.7 on IMDB but i liked the first episode

Only got one season left of Black-ish which is a shame cos it's easy

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I'm doing a once a decade re-watch of the melancholy of Suzumia Haruhi but in between that and also to help break up the Endless Eight, I decided to watch Casablanca for the first time, and I was honestly kind of stunned.

I'm recuperating from surgery so I wasn't able to stay awake for the whole movie but the parts that I got showed a very vibrant background with lots of people all doing their own thing and like the communications were just vignettes of two people's conversations interspersed over this rambling morass of background.

Didn't much care for the movie. I thought the actors were not very believable for who they were supposed to be, maybe I slept through it, but I couldn't identify anyone's motivation for doing anything in the entire movie other than getting away from Casablanca.

But the ambiance? 10/10. Truly a vibrant movie, even if I didn't much care for the storyline.