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Sisu: Road to Revenge
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Again, like "Machete" OTT high nonsense. I enjoyed, only lacking the "prospecting" angle; but it was again Saturday Matinee cartoon fare written for adults.
Noting, while watching, the writing, the plot, stereotypical villains - evil Russians, the super-abundance of special effects (well done) - it's only a matter of time, maybe at most a couple of years, when AI will be able to crank these movies out several a day; with better dialogue, deeper plots, and undoubtedly better paced - thinking of film-making along the lines of writing music, where the rests are as important as the notes.
Were it not for the violence these would be great Saturday matinee films for kids. But - a little too much gore and killing.
And actors, of course, will be able to license their images, have them uploaded to the AI and get royalties without ever getting out of bed. Not that you'd need actors - but keep the habit of faces we know while the AI creates new, royalty free stars, and then gradually replaces humans entirely...
But this is going on beyond the pale of this review.
Supersized Galactic Rings
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Found this out in a Penrose interview (which one I don't remember) - large scaled "Galactic Rings" that refute both the size and age of the universe by their being billions and (I'm sure we'll discover) even hundreds of billions of light years across, and the fact that their size means that somehow they existed or were forming before our current understanding of the big-bang. I'm with Sir Roger Penrose (& Eddington & Others) in that something very major is fundamentally wrong about our understanding of the universe. And it starts with Big Bang - remember, even Eddington, who's theory it was, later came to refute it.
Link: bit.ly/4rEpow7
Machete - 2010
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Starring Dan Trejo, Don Johnson, Steven Seagal, Robert DeNiro, Lindsey Lohan, others.
An absolutely 5 star B movie, filled with ridiculous dialogues, oversaturated blood and violence, sex, car chases, showdowns, etc.
A perfect mash-up of old Japanese/Westerns, tilted towards an audience generally not myself, but - it wasn't trying to be anything else; just shock/humour/fun, in the ultra-violent Grindhouse-B-Cinema sort of way. That said, definitely not for everyone...
Odd, though, the central conflict is the hispanic community dealing with "patriotic" prejudice, illegal immigration, ICE agents...wow; they saw the future. Only in the movie they knew how to deal with it...we're still wringing our hands, and the baddies we have now are far, far worse...
Now, apparently Sisu: The Road to Revenge is out, and if I do nothing else this evening it'll be that...
Thoroughly soused
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Wednesday, the kids arrive. An early Christmas of sorts, celebrating a landmark birthday. The boy, lavish in ordering the biggest Charcuterie they had, we dine, drink a bottle of wine, catch up. From there to a pub, then another, more, mutually roasting us and then finally back to the apartment where we drink even more and discuss terrible childhoods and even worse childhood vacations "CHARACTER BUILDING" I tell them and thump my cane on the floor.
Thursday morning they're off, back to their separate lives, and I'm keyed up the whole time, never sober, I took an extra day off work for this and so Saturday begin the slow recovery.
You can have too much of a good thing, and this is something that needs to be recovered from if I'm to have any hopes of getting to my next birthday, and - the reminders of mortality, how many years left, and how many will be productive, and time to reign in a few of my vices, but it's hard this, lowering the anxious vibration. And time to start saving for next summer's jeep, the neighbour cash loans, she's repaid none of it, all of it with promises but it's getting on time and I think she's got it figured out. She'd better have, because if I have to say it...
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