White Noise (2022)

Instant Comments:
1a: that bed scene with the head under the sheets was scary. it's quite a contrast with the moments of the movie thus far... reminds me of the scarier moments of Donnie Darko... as in... I didnt really expect scares in that movie either... I thought the themes of death could be expressed without but... I suppose nothing like thematically showcasing fear of death than a frightening scene
1a: pause 25 min. professors are chatting, passing in sinks, and punchline to scene is "from which direction?"
1b: resumed.
1b: I thought he was gonna steal the thunder but he left.
1b: oh he came back
1b: I didn't understand why the truck hit the train
1b: huh his friend seems ok with it
1b: comical. "We're late" plus he knocks the trash can down (as was his neighbir earlier) and down the street every trash can looks to be knocked down.
1b: how random. car crash. plus the whole thing about telling people to stay inside
1b: smile. they used the real event to practice the simulation...
1b: hahaha. good one (he repeats "any events of deja vu in your group?")
1b: tv like a camera?
1b: hmm seems scam... afraid of death ad
1b: huh he washed the gun but then his prints would be on the sink handles
1b: oh ok he cleaned the handle
1b: this supermarket dance sequence is awesome
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Watched first 25 minutes 20240528, remaining minutes 20240529 (Netflix, Instant)
White Noise (2022) Noah Baumbach. 136 min

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Matilda the Musical (2022)

20240602 Comment:
I enjoyed this musical.

Rating: 5.0/5

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Instant Comments:
1a: I'm guessing she'll solve what's on the board? (nigel is getting a headache just looking at it)
1a: haha. "and... The Cat in the Hat"
1a: pause 30 min mark
1b: read Emma Thompson is Mrs. Trunchbull... huh... I can kind of see it. i guess it's something like Nanny McPhee hehe
1b: resume
1b: ha. great line "yuck I'd rather eat vegetables"
1b: from a far, the kid with the cast looked a bit like Chloe Moretz
1c: resume at 36 minutes mark
1d: resume midnight. her father throws her into her room [~64 minute mark]
1d: ah, the man crushes the can with his mind. she must have subconsciously crushed the can in her room
1e: resume at the 82 minute mark
1e: wow... when Matilda realizes her madeup story is actually Miss Honey's real story.
1e: touche... Miss Trunchbull reveals extra chokeys
1f: resume at the 97 minute mark
1f: chain Magnus is cool
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Watched first thirty minutes 20240602, six minutes 20240513, twenty-eight minutes 20240524, eighteen minutes 20240525, fifteen minutes 20240526, remaining twenty minutes 20240527 (Netflix, Instant)
Matilda the Musical (2022) Matthew Warchus. 117 min

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (2016)

20240508:
The fight scenes in this movie were underwhelming compared to the first movie. The story made some sense but the witch's motivation seemed off. The final battle between Silent Wolf and Hades Dai was even that cool. Crashing down through the roofs felt mediocre.

I know the first movie is based on a book, so I'm guessing this sequel was too. However, unless there's significant cultural importance, I would have changed the story to make Michelle Yeoh the star. Speaking of which, I feel like her falling back in love with the brother seems out of place. Unless she simply reunited with him in a platonic way.

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20240824 Comment:
Rating: 3.0/5

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Instant Comments:
ooo Donnie Yen is in this movie
hehe the cook is a better fighter than some of these guys...
crane
hehe. "in the house. never come back"
interesting... it is revealed who Silent Wolf is
hmm... took the sword to save his masters life but now the master will die... seems like inconsistent value... he could have left the sword and both him and his master could make a run for it, at least extend their lives for whatever years than dying right now...
huh did the witch person know this boy was going to try to kill this man... would make sense. i guess the witch person is more like... information savvy than any magic
hmm I guess I thought of Michelle Yeoh as the star but Donnie Yen gets to fight this guy, which makes sense from a story perspective because of their earlier match however many years before
hehehe. her lesson to her student foreshadowed this. too easy lol.
huh, how could snow vase take this girl down if this girl outmatched four warriors that are more experienced and skilled than her
ah ok seems her training paid off
oh... somewhat
Poetic that Hades Dai should reach for the Green Destiny and to meet his end by his own sword; in more words, he viewed the Green Destiny as the more powerful sword, and so from his point of view, was struck down by the less powerful sword.
what? Snow Vase lived? her wound seemed fatal...
Donnie Yen first in credits

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Watched 20240509 (Netflix, Instant)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (2016) Woo-Ping Yuen. 96 min

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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)

20240504:
Netflix determined the movie for me as a 92% match. I decided to give the movie a thumbs up.
Rating: 4.8/5

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Instant Comments:
hehe why is the news on tv at such a party
hehe the mom figured out that it's a stereograph
ha! the mom called it a compass ahead of them
[oh, that was Yo-Yo Ma]
hahaha. from far away "that first one's a fibonnaci sequence"
puzzlesolving skills... they mostly solved it together and in part with the help of the one guy's genius mom
that's what I was thinking... (she went at it with a hammer)
smile. her mask is fashionably... not a mask
Benoit doesn't flinch/gag like the rest
did he laugh because it sounds like "piece of shit"?
haha. he just throws it on the ground
smile. robot carrying the luggage away
so we have our first twist... he either really didn't invite Benoit or is pretending to not know; he said he made five, one for each of his friends... what counts as those five
"It's a dangerous thing to mistake speaking without thought for speaking the truth."
I guess they're going through and giving everyone some sort of motive to kill Miles (Whiskey is with Miles)
Hehe third time this guy showed up who's not supposed to be there...
Benoit explains why he purposely ruined the game
Hehe. The repetition of this Mona Lisa painting closing up really does a great job of building suspense
Oh shit. That glass has his name on it.
Hehe. Knife missing. "Lord help us."
If I were to guess... at this point (Andi having been killed) is that Miles hired the guy he told everyone to ignore to kill everyone to avoid blockers to his Klear product
Haha. Hugh Grant
Oh shit. They corrobrated to say Miles came up with the idea on the napkin
Oh shit. She found her napkin
Oh. She was stumbling because she was having many alcoholic dirnks (kombucha)
hehe. Serena Williams just waiting around
Is the "homeless" guy a red herring?
Ha! What a twist. Helen is alive
Huh. Someone, perhaps Miles, said "This makes no sense."
Hmm... of course (the napkin, the evidence, got burned; and unlike digital evidence, doesn't seem like a good way to back it up... maybe take a picture with your phone first?)
oh wait, she has a recorder; if he could get that on the recorder
hmm... what exactly did Benoit hint at
oh wow. the reveal "this is a smokeless garden"; I thought her whole smashing was a play on the Mona Lisa
ha! the car coming down
hehe his backdoor on the security bit him in the butt
huh. she didn't straight up answer and it just panned in on her face... any reason? Could she somehow be Andi? [a person on Reddit asked a question about her look and several commenters mentioned this Helen is Andi possibility, while two point out that she is posing like Mona Lisa; thinking about it in my head, I went back to the scene where her death had hit the presses... and after watching it, I find the possiblity that Helen is Andi to be impossible; in fact, the full paragraph of the article on the phone is obscured, but the paragraph ends with "sister Helen Brand."; I would, as such, simply lean into the Mona Lisa meaning of that scene]
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Watched 20240504 (Netflix, Instant)
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) Rian Johnson. 139 min

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Rilakkuma and Kaoru

Episode 1:
wholesome ending... seems sweet like Bee and PuppyCat. though claymation and very much Japanese instead of American
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Episode 2:
this element of the kid... that was similar to... what's his name who lived alone. except he was really alone. Kotaru? [Kotaro Lives Alone]
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Episode 3:
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Episode 4:
hehe. ending: basically "Why not both?"
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Episode 5:
hehe Kaoru offers to have Rilakkuma be kicked
hehe again
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Episode 6:
huh. it's not mentioned how much she paid for the beads
hehe the small one is isn't a bear [Kiiroitori]
ooo 50k yen (318 usd) instead of 20yen (0.13 usd)
Kaoru also refers to the collective as "bears"
hehe the medium one gave away the third stick to the fisherman
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Episode 7:
why is she keeping everything? she should return items as well
687603 yen (4401.79 USD)
hehe. bought a bunch of exercise equipment, but lost weight because out of money
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Episode 8:
haha! she turns the tv off
hehe... she's still thinking about the delivery man
big smile. "ABANDONED BEARS"
hehe Rilakkumma ate one
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Episode 9:
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Episode 10:
1a: haha she tells them no work no food and they put down their chocolate
1a: haha they raise their hands when she says she wanted to go to hawaii with someone special
1b: resume at 5 minute mark
1b: smile. "they say you should save the trip for your future boyfriend or husband" lol. karma.
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Episode 11:
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Episode 12:
hehe "definitely m" to meet guys is not definitely.
Kiiroitori leaves cage
Rilakkuma appears
Korilakkuma
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Episode 13:
hehe the money being saved. referenced in previous episode from day one. were there other instances throughout the series?
hehe small twist with delivery man being a relative of the boy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rilakkuma_and_Kaoru

The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

20240502:
Rating: 4.8/5

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Instant Comments:
Is that Trinity?
That's a decent stunt (crash landing)
ooh that car hop was cool
How'd she escape?
oh shit, that's Neo's room.
huh. this man is Morpheus
"the choice is an illusion, you already know what you ahve to do" (I think most people haven't thought about this statement before, but this really is many things if not everything in our lives)
"you tell me Mr. Anderson, is it free will or destiny?"
hehe. meta. Warner Brothers making a sequel to the trilogy
Is "M. IV" suppose to be like the fourth matrix movie?
oh... it literally is "Matrix Four"
ha! "And who knows how many more?"
hehe. It's like they asked themselves... how many references can we fit into this movie? Nonstop references on multiple levels. Probably averages 1 reference per minute.
hahahaha. "At last."
hehe. "Mr. Anderson!"
smile. The cat's name is "Deja Vu"
smile. "Looks easy enough."
"We don't have to run to phone booths anymore either."
yes... strange why they're keeping both Trinity and Neo alive... and right next to each other...
and what now that he has woken up?
oh they sent the bots to retrieve him... in which case the machines should have implemented physical securities (protection in the real world)
ok. this fight between Neo and Morpheus is refreshing; it isn't just a copy of their fight in the first movie.
I wonder if Jada Pinkett Smith is playing this Niobe. It does look a bit like her
Neo isn't wearing glasses or dressed up at all like the rest of them
hehe. "I still know kung fu." (I feel like this line would have been better in his earlier fight with Morpheus)
Priyanka Chopra (I didn't recognize her earlier); but I thought she was a program, how does she take this physical form? or perhaps they entered the Matrix to meet her
no... I think she'll definitely break free of her "ficticious" family; it would be a classic turnaround
huh strange twist (Agent Smith was able to move freely)
Neo stopping bullets
I don't know what all the brain transfer stuff was about and how they managed to disappear with the body, but what makes this movie good is that it centers around the romance / love story between Neo and Trinity
Agent Smith quote: "Anyone could've been you, whereas I've always been anyone." This line plays exactly into my rule for making a quote that sounds meaningful, but not necessarily. In general, lines sound meaningful when there is some sort of symmetry, repetition, rearrangement, and duality at play. For example: "the more you consume of the world, the more the world will consume you." As an outcome of a syllogism, we get that Smith could have been Neo. But the fact of the matter is that, despite their similarities, Smith is not Neo.
Haha! His failed attempt to fly. It almost looked like it was gonna happen cause of the ripples
I thought they had a plan for an out... why do they have to escape from the swarm and not just leave
she can see the code... so she's role swapped with Neo (I guess something which was foreshadowed throughout)
Hehe. They both fly into the air like Neo did in the first movie... So kind of a repeat of the original with some minor differences
Credits
Catrix

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Watched 20240502 (Netflix, Instant)
The Matrix Resurrections (2021) Lana Wachowski. 148 min

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