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eugene

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  1. those audrey and charlie bits are actually really good and even innovative in the context of lynch's world, there's something very differently weird (assuming there's something like typically weird about lynch) about this dreamlike frustration, irritation and the feeling of being stuck.

  2. yeah i dunno, some kind of alchemy where one element makes the rest of them not shit i guess. season 1 of daredevil was fine from what i remember. i liked the setting, mood and the atmosphere most, it was dark and noirish but also somehow homely. the rest of them were all shit though, i didn't even bother with that fist one.

  3. i guess it passes as metal mostly because of vox, without them it is closer to my beloved mouthus and their textural noise than to any metal, but the vocals give it the same "off" feel that i like, like there are two different layers going in parallel and not quite settling with each other, and it's very interesting musically. somewhat similar to that gurgly stuff ivan posts in that sense.

     

  4. started with silicon valley, it's pretty neat to have a deece show go under your radar for some reason and remember it much later when you have a good bunch of episodes to watch. it's really funny but it actually doesn't feel very mike judge to me, in his past work he often invoked this sort of deeply weird and somewhat dark and uncomfortable, rather than this cutesy and fast paced, awkwardness and discomfort, like the probably autistic and tragic milton charachter in office space and the overlong beavis and butthead "uh huh huh"s, this one feels way more cheery-o and light. but it's fun anyway.

  5. shin godzilla - that was fucking ridiculous and hilarious, and i can't even really tell if this was intentional or not, but probably not. i guess the director attempted to do something akin to soderbergh's contagion, a sort of a wide scale portrayal of a disaster and the various organizations' attempts to deal with it. the super-quick editing going from one meeting to another with the subtitled barrage of names of organizations and people in suits is an attempt infuse it with grave seriousness, but with phony deadpan acting and overemphasized japanese honorifics it just came off stupid and silly with its pretentious. it gets from silly to hilarious when it goes international, one of the best examples is an american born young hot female politician character who is also ethnically japanese, has ambitions for american presidency(!) and a youtube viral video worthy engrish skills. the actual monster in its first evolutionary stage looks absolutely retarded (the fucking eyes man, you'll never forget those, flol), like some kind of cross of a lizard and a seal QWOPping all over the city stomping building with motionless and expressionless head. then there's the fucking music, my god, it goes from some kind of elaborate orchestrated score to soft elevator jazz standards (to indicate relief i guess? lol) to shoegazy dance-rock and metal (when the crew of people were brainstorming hard for solutions to the godzilla problem), and what i think is the original japanese godzilla soundtrack during action scenes, which sounded like it was ripped straight from the 50 year old vynil without any kind of reworking and updating at all, it sounded mono, tinny and generally very low fi, it actually prompted me to check if my torrent was legit because it seemed so fucking weird. a big chunk of the music usage and placement obviously didn't make any sense. i don't want to spoiler it anymore, this is essential viewing.

  6. the sinner s01e01 - this well produced mystery-crime-drama-tv thing is looking more like a factory product than some artistic creation with every iteration. those overly labored over lush shots and score, brutal violence, brilliant but messed up detectives who see the real truth behind things, fit naked butts, dramatic snot, heavily fucked up and jesused family history and so on. it all just feels very on rails and focused grouped, it's hard to be immersed in something like that.

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