^The Rip was pretty good.

Netflix Just Made All Your James Bond Dreams Come True

I'm watching Pluribus. It stands out so much over anything I've watched in years, acting, cinematography, attention to details...it is also totally about ChatGPT AI in general, isn't it. 

Ok, I've now seen the modern version of The Running Man.

It was ok, as such things go. Not a very good film, really, but at least it did feel more like it actually used the book as inspiration. The main chr/actor tho - I was assuming the uber angry/max bad temper posture/walk/expression was intentional, and it didn't work. It was like a bad SNL angry-man satire. The pacing/editing killed it, like many things these days. I mean, I felt more attachment to everything going on (and chrs) in ye old Lethal Weapon series. These days it's just set piece after set piece sewn together with nylon threads.

Edit: actually, a lot of stuff these days feels akin to doing a TikTok scroll pattern.  "Set piece", finger-scroll, "Set piece", finger scroll. Makes sense I suppose.

2nd Edit: I saw Matt Damon/Ben Affleck's interview re: Netflix asking them to put a huge action sequence in the 1st 5 minutes to keep phone-users attention at the start, and they made it sound like that's a totally new thing/ruining movies. Matrix? Bond, sometimes? It's more how it's done - plus whether the film makes that 1st attention grabber worth the rest of the time, to the end.

Edited Sunday at 05:41 PM4 days by LadyCrimson

I am watching The Pitt right now. Can't remember the last time a tv show was stressing me out so much. I've just finished ep8 and it feels like I need to take vacation from being overworked. 

a knigth of the seven kingdoms. 

It's..... alrigh I guess. It's deliberately slow paced, and world build focused, which is great. I'm just not sure whether I care about the protagonist.