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    Cheech and Chong's Savages (2012) - Thank you Oliver Stone for this update of weed smoking smugglers and growers in California. Cheech has now changed his name to Ben and a year backpacking after graduating from Princeton has allowed him to set up his own charity foundation. Chong has lost the 'g' and now plays ice hockey ALOT. From the free spirit movement of the 1970s, we now see that life in the 2010s is just quite bland and people like to be called the first letter of their name.

     

    'Aveawankinstead/10

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    Philip Roth's Digital Man - not sure when this was made but it feels like an extended intro to one of those dystopia sci-fi games on the ps1 like G-Police or Colony Wars. The main cyborg is a rip off of Robocop but with an even bigger gun. I think the director was over compensating for the lack of budget. More crew cuts than Top Gun. The headmaster from the Breakfast Club is in the same universe but had a career change, now he is turning heel in a counter terrorism unit somewhere in Northern USA. One of the best from Roth's oeuvre.

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    The American Astronaut - WOAH! Coming at you like a Cowboy Junkies gig in monochrome set in a bar in the wild west but with space ships. It's Sin City set in space and with imagination replacing a mega Hollywood budget. 

     

    Somehow something's going to steal your carbon/10

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    Started to watch The Wailing and was disappointed so turned it off. Then watched The Company Men which is propaganda for capitalism. Affleck wanders around Boston whilst an oil engineering company machine gun redundancy packages to people who live in houses the size of a small hamlet. Costner appears blue collar, and to type is living life honest, dedicated and obedient. It's got Deakins' subtleties like reflections, lighting, colours that bling this corporate world into life more than it deserves.

     

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    What TV series are you watching at moment?

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    big little lies - this show is kind of trash. theres are these cold but good scenes of a bunch of rich assholes from california fighting over pointless issues in their lives. it's well-shot and acted. but then there are these confusing, completely retarded interjections by some sort of hammy "townspeople chorus" speaking to the police at some point in the future after one of these assholes kills another. it is horrible writing, summarizing what the previous scene already made abundantly clear. The difference between the two is so jarring i was completely baffled at who would approve this until i found out some gay french dude directed it. luckily as the episodes roll the HBO execs realized it was so hacky that they almost go away. i would recommend this if you had a crush on tracy flick but would feel more comfortable beating off to the MILF version.

     

     

    milfy tracy flick is my kryptonite

     

     

    Hahahaha! Tracy Flick still lives. We are all just side shows to the main attraction. Beating off to the telly? Reminds me of a colleague I used to know in the NW of England, said that when he went home in the evening (we were doing overtime on a saturday), after opening the front door, he could hear the hum of a vibrator, he said it would be his wife with X-Factor on. I don't think I ever imparted such knowledge in return. 

    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

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    I hate my job but it's a safe source of income. Told myself it would only be temporary thing to keep me afloat until I figure out what to do with my life, but it turns out this is where I ended up. Almost ten years of intellectual and creative misery. So comfortable. So terrible.

     

    Tainted by a comfortable sinecure to quote Robbie Bolano. 

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    Saw some random clips of Platoon on youtube, got the itch to rewatch the movie, it was even better than what I remembered it, fantastic characters, great pacing, only miss is those old school sound effects but it's still a fantastic movie.

     

    Have you seen the film Salvador, Oliver Stone did before Platoon? Very low budget compared to Platoon. Quite horrific religious context sex scenes and mass genocide, also James Woods and James Belushi look like they are empathic all the way through. Also watch the making of doc as you get to hear what shooting a film in a country still experiencing a civil war is like.

    Anyone seen Life yet? Worth going to get my scifi balls licked?

    Films Recently Watched

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    Moonlight - come give a brother some love! And maybe some tears while your at it. 

     

    Couple in a hole - companion piece to the Invitation - how grief is dealt with in Europe, we just leave our lives and go to live in the French Pyrenees, just ask Richard Stanley.  

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    The Invitation - bloke and bird lose a son then seperate, bird invites him over to meet new fella two years later after they have been living in Mexico, sort of like Coherence but with added Cult rip off. The interesting thing is that the bloke from Prometheus is in in this one, and wait for it, he's not just a studio puppet and underplays the role rather well. 

     

    Americansaresoforward/10

    stupid first world achievements and successes

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    Just put an intel wireless card in a relative's Intel NUC which I had been reading a lot about recently - very small form, quiet, good specs and upgradeable RAM. Put Windows 10 on then now typing this on the beast connected to a 1080p display.

     

    Gave up my job on Friday to go travelling for a bit and I am getting on a bit so it's a risk. Unemployable wandering hobo man In da house sounds alright to me.

    Films Recently Watched

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    Hey dumb question probably but does anyone buy/stream from Amazon? is the quality any good?

     

    I use Amazon Prime Video - quality is great 1080p, not yet 4k. In terms of content its slightly light compared to Netflix but its a great service bundled with all their other stuff. 

     

    Watched Birdy tonight, Alan Parker's films have his look and trademark all over them. Sort of Peter Greenaway filming in the States. Accessible arthouse for the masses. Why go to war when you can project yourself astral like into the sky. Doesn't make it clear that MANY in war often use escapism to move themselves out of traumatic situations (see Kurt Vonnegut). 

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