#criterion eclipse

[kenro199x]

The Living Skeleton (1968)

[onenakedfarmer]

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EVERYTHING GOES WRONG [SUBETE GA KURUTTERU] Seijun Suzuki Japan, 1960

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

Lubitsch was one of the few European imports to maneuver the various changes in the industry that found the likes of Erich von Stroheim and Victor Sjöström discarded as tastes and advancements changed.

[kiralamouse]

Family friend managed to get this at Niagara Falls today. A little sad that I didn't travel to see totality, but we had fun with my sister's kids in their backyard enjoying our Sizable Fraction Of An Eclipse.

Pic sis took with her phone through the eclipse glasses. I like the Van Gogh kinda look.

[shacklesburst]

this is what I mean by GPT being absolutely useless to me btw even when I'm not expecting much (was playing octordle and was totally stumped on the last word with one try remaining, so I thought why not run a very simple test again. elementary school kids play this game.)

shacklesburst@shizuki:~ % gp4 Model successfully updated to gpt-4-1106-preview shacklesburst@shizuki:~ % gp "list all five letter words of pattern *OI** with an N in any of the open positions" To generate a list of all five-letter words that fit the pattern *OI** with 'N' anywhere, we start by placing 'OI' in the second and third positions. We can then fill the first, fourth, and fifth positions with letters from the alphabet, including 'N'. Here are some examples of words that fit this criterion: Loin Coin Join Void Noir Noisy Not all combinations will be valid English words; for example, 'AoiNN' doesn't form a recognized English word. Words like 'Noir' and 'Noisy' have the 'N' within the requirement, while others like 'Loin', 'Coin', and 'Join' start with 'N'. It's important to use an English dictionary or a word-finding tool to check for valid words if this is for an application such as word games or linguistic analysis. shacklesburst@shizuki:~ % gp list more. most of those above were four letter words. Apologies for misunderstanding the initial request. Here is a refined list that will include only five-letter words with 'OI' placed in the second and third positions and having an 'N' anywhere in the word:

Point Noisy Joint Coins Loinc (not a standard English word) Foins Noirs Please note that this is not an exhaustive list, and some word combinations may not be commonly used or recognized in standard dictionaries. For a complete and authoritative list, a comprehensive word database or a dictionary search would be recommended. shacklesburst@shizuki:~ % gp list some more that fit the pattern Certainly, here are more five-letter words where 'OI' appears in the second and third positions, with 'N' appearing anywhere in the word: Anoint Pointy Avoid

Again, it's important to verify against a reliable dictionary to ensure all provided words are valid and to find any others that were not listed.

the word was GOING and I got it no thanks to GPT

I've gotten a bit more lucky with Github co-pilot recently (as opposed to my earlier tests alluded to here) and it is now good enough to generate some mostly working boilerplate some of the time (i.e. on the level of eclipse autocomplete ~10 years ago)

meanwhile, executives and governments everywhere are excitedly shaking at the thought of how much power over peoples' lives they can give over to these models soon

[jmechner]

Karateka Climbs Again

When the Digital Eclipse team told me they wanted to give my early game Karateka "the Criterion treatment" and re-release it in a deluxe remastered edition, I couldn't quite picture exactly what they had in mind. Their enthusiasm and evident passion for video game history inspired confidence, so I said yes. I never in my wildest dreams imagined how far they'd take it.

The photo above captures my dad's reaction as (age 92) he watches himself climbing up onto the hood of our family car forty years earlier. He's wearing a karate gi at my request, in a Super 8 film I shot at age 18 to create rotoscoped animation for Karateka. (This was three years before I pressed my 15-year-old brother into service as the model for my next game, Prince of Persia.)

Digital Eclipse has reconstructed my Super 8 rotoscoping process — from film to pencil tracings to pixelated game character — in their interactive, hands-on "Rotoscope Theater." And that's just one element of "The Making of Karateka." It's packed with audio and video interviews with me, my dad, and game-industry luminaries; a podcast about Karateka's music (which my dad composed); rare original design documents; excerpts from my journals; and 14 playable games — including not only the final Apple II, Commodore, and Atari versions of Karateka, but also work-in-progress builds I submitted to Broderbund along the way, tracking its development from prototype to gold master. All the games are playable on a choose-your-own nostalgic menu of period monitors and TVs, with optional audio commentary and a "watch/play" mode that the Dagger of Time would envy.

As a bonus, they've salvaged and resurrected my never-before-published arcade shoot-em-up Deathbounce (the game I made before Karateka, which teenage me hoped would be my ticket to software success in 1982)… and the one I did before that, an unauthorized Apple II clone of the arcade hit Asteroids. Incredibly, they've not only remastered Karateka, but also remade Deathbounce, using today's technology to reimagine my 1982 prototype as a jazzy twin-stick shooter. All these are included and playable in "The Making of Karateka."

If "The Making of Karateka" were an interactive exhibition in the Strong Museum of Play (from whose collection many of the archival materials came), it would require several rooms and a full afternoon to explore. Now, you can download, play and discover it at your leisure, on your favorite platform. Details and links are on the Karateka page on my website.

With this release, Digital Eclipse has set a new bar for game-development history preservation. I'm touched and honored that they chose Karateka as the first title in their planned Gold Master series. I can't wait to see what comes next.

[breadvidence]

Notes on '34 part I—and no, I shouldn't admit to watching a 4hr 40min film twice in a week, but I've only got access to Criterion for the free trial period, and anyway I wanted to. As I said re: part III, solid adaptation overall. It starts less fun than it gets, keeping close enough to the novel as to not surprise you—it's not until part II that we get anything of that sort.

The innkeeper at the beginning has seen a lot of convicts pass through with their end-of-sentence payout, hasn't he? His estimate of the time it took Jean Valjean to earn his money is off by five years, and he exclaims over it, but he's not surprised to see a rough man carrying so much in funds. And he's not particularly alarmed over a threat of violence, either. He's an attempted cheat (because innkeeper, one presumes), but he's also helpful, a combination of fallibility and kindness which will run throughout this adaptation (an aside: I'm debating whether Jean Valjean's "early" release—less than a month's difference from the original sentence—for his feat with the caryatid counts as a sign of this version's kinder milieu, or if it's an insult).

I personally wouldn't have a violent overturning of the spirit due to Henry Krauss' bland Myriel but YMMV. Anyway, the bishop specifically purchasing Valjean's soul is one of my pet details and whenever an adaptation misses it I always get a little fussy.

Valjean tears up his passport and I am immediately transported, I hear strains of music, I expect him to break out in a fine tenor—another story must begiiiiIIIIIN.

"What's the police view of all this, M. Javert?" "Fine and dandy, my dear notary. Fine and dandy. We'll see how things progress." — that's Fauchelevent, right? Is this the two people who hate Valjean being sarcastic and bitchy together about his inauguration as mayor? I think it is. Look, even Javert gets to have a friend in this adaptation. (It's my impression, at least, that there's enough of a time lapse between this scene and the cart for Fauchelevent to have come down in the world.)

Speaking of the cart: the dynamic between Valjean and Javert here is comedy. Valjean is irritable and dismissive—there's an ongoing fucking crisis and you are unhelpful, says his expression. Because he doesn't engage Javert when baited, it makes Javert's commenting on some man he used to know seem even more of an inappropriate waste of time than the usual—and Baur's loud "eh?" in response says as much. Javert's fixed stare, the back half-turned towards the cart—it's inappropriate. Instead of a threat, he comes across as a weird asshole. (As an aside, their "bonjour, Javert" "bonjour, M. le Maire" exchange, occurring as it does between tenser dialogue, teeters between silly and indicative of a whole interpersonal history—not a fond one, you can derive; this is productive, because we haven't otherwise seen these two interact.) (As a second aside, this scene is entirely different in tone from the Brick, but I don't like it any less for that; Baur is a brusque, irritable Valjean, and I can't imagine him wearing "an indescribable expression of happy and celestial suffering" [I.V.VI]).

The forewoman's discovery that Fantine has a daughter and Fantine's dismissal is really one scene, but the continuous action is interrupted by the cart sequence, an odd bit of storytelling—I'd say the movie really wants us to draw a connection between her secret being outed and Valjean evidencing his past. It's a little forced.

"She'll find [the francs]. Take it from me. Sure, she'll have to stoop a bit to pick them up. But she'll stoop, and once she starts..." Solid-ass villainy from Thénardier.

I want to have a considered opinion on Florelle's Fantine but she persists in coughing without covering her mouth and this completely eclipses everything else about the role for me. Can't handle it.

This is among the adaptations which make Javert informing against Madeleine a consequence of the cart scene rather than their conflict over Fantine. There's a coherent storytelling reason for this change having to do with the alterations the majority of these movies make to his character; that's a whole post of its own.

Two scenes later, Javert tells Valjean "Two weeks ago, after the incident with Fantine, I was furious and I denounced you"—it's a confusing fuck-up. The film is following the book closely here, would've had to alter the dialogue to match its own events, and simply didn't. Taking it on its own feet, you have to decide whether you think Javert is lying (why?), so flustered he has misspoken (??), or is experiencing some kind of mental lapse (???). Further, you've got him standing there, sweaty, jittery, in a state, over something he's known for—well, an ambiguous amount of time, but since he received his response from Paris in the same scene as Fantine's arrest, and we have since seen the Thénardiers receive and spend 300 of Valjean's francs, at least several days. He knows more about Champmathieu than he could have from the letter we saw, and in the novel he's been to see him, but the movie isn't explicit on the point, so the reason for delay is unclear. Mess. (All that aside, solid punish me m. le maire sequence—it's pulled more than less directly from the novel with intelligent abridgedment, starring a less conciliatory Valjean and the world's most uncomfortable Inspector Javert. Vanel's throat-clearing foot-shuffling entrance and Baur's bitchy refusal to acknowledge him is quality cinema.)

It's a fine tempête and trial, idk. Baur plays an acceptable Champmathieu, less nuanced than his Valjean, flirting with that edge of comedy which can tip the character into being uncomfortable—some of these adaptations you don't know if the show expects you to laugh along with the crowd in the courtroom.

Charles Vanel remains the most awkward Javert, even as the music in Fantine's sickroom swells and beats a dramatic villainous theme; it's something about his body language. He behaves himself uncommonly well for the character, doffing his hat in the presence of death. '34 really can't commit to the idea of his villainy in the way other adaptations do (see '78 and '98 in a big way), and it even stops short of laying Fantine's death at his feet. All in all a weirdly bland death scene. (By the by, while I enjoy Vanel and think he's a solid actor, he's not physically imposing—this isn't someone who can easily project threat like a Toulout or Quast. There's even a hapless edge to him. I get shades—bizarrely—of Crowe?)

[sirgold]

04/08/2024 eclipse at about 40% occlusion. Shot with my phone, hand-held trough a Criterion solar filter. Not the best, but the best I could manage!

[everygame]

Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story

Developed/Published by: Jeff Minter, Digital Eclipse / Digital Eclipse Released: 13/04/2024 Completed: n/a Completion: Played and viewed all of “The Early Years” and part way through "The Hairy Years" and still digging into the rest of it.

I know, I can’t believe it either. Every Game I’ve Finished topical for two weeks and even posting a write up of a game on its day of release (well, for supporters, anyway). It’s like I’m a games journalist again (spit).

I was hugely excited for this after enjoying what I’ve played of Atari 50 (better than those flashback collections!) and The Making of Karateka, and although this is absolutely, 100% not what I would choose to put out if I was attempting to be commercial after The Making of Karateka, I’ve gotta say… fair play to them. Though they’re pretty much nailing their flag in the terrain that says the Gold Master Series is not so much The Criterion Collection of games as it is like… Vinegar Syndrome or something. I mean there’s nothing wrong with that! Someone’s gotta put out deluxe versions of Bruno Mattei films [checks notes] oh hang on, no.

(To be fair, it’s actually a lot more like my buddy Justin’s boutique label Gold Ninja Video, which actually does insane work to put out work by filmmakers who should absolutely be known better.)

Anyway. They say there’s a stonking 42 games on this, but that’s a slight exaggeration because there’s technically on 33 different games with a few offering different versions based on system (Gridrunner, for example, is on VIC-20, C64, Atari 8-bit and as a remastered version) and most of the games are pre-1985 so there’s a lot of stuff here that’s really only going to be of interest if you like diving into some very dusty cupboards. This is something I honestly enjoy very much, so I loved pulling out a VIC-20 game and trying to make sense of it, but for many, I assume, the main draw here is the fact that it’s a proper re-release of his beloved Tempest 2000, a well that Minter has been back to a bunch of times–I loved TxK to pieces. It’s a slight bummer that this doesn’t re-release Minter’s more recent games which have been delisted like the iOS “Minotaur Project” (of which only a couple of games have been re-released as Minotaur Arcade.) However, it seems pretty obvious that would be a ton of fucking work to port, as would, say, getting a Nuon emulator up to spec so people could play Tempest 3000, so that's... fine.

(There’s also no Defender 2000, but that’s rights issues, and as far as I remember people don’t think that’s any great shakes.)

Presentation-wise, you know what to expect with this release, the same wrapper as in Atari 50 and The Making of Karateka with some different colours and music. This is fine! I think I’ve settled into this three releases in. You get a ton of interesting images, details, and box art to look at, though I still have issues with the layout of the documentary/museum (I can't remember which terminology Digital Eclipse would prefer.) I have small quibbles: in “The Early Years” if you go through it in order you play a version of Bomber on ZX Spectrum before they introduce the system into the narrative (admittedly the kind of thing you won't spot unless you're brutally anal on these kind of things like myself.) Then the final video you watch recaps everything you’ve just learned in a way that makes you feel like it should either have come first, or been split up into more videos. 

But I’d argue there’s deeper structural issues if you’re really trying to get people excited about video game history, and I again place it at the decision to go pure chronological* (as I did in The Making of Karateka.) If you play each game as you go, you’ll play a series of games so old and so ropey that you have to already be interested in this story to see it out. If you don’t know why you should care about Jeff Minter, I’m sorry, but a video of some talking heads and then immediately playing 3D3D, a baffling and slow first person maze game for ZX81 that has literally no analogue in the entire rest of his career is… not going to help! And I have to again bang on that I feel they just don’t place the games in enough context of the wider games industry at the time.

(*There's a quirk in that it's not exactly chronological, because all the Atari 8-bit ports are later in the documentary, which is a bit weird when you, for example, play two versions of Gridrunner and then the Atari 8-bit version several games later. I'm unclear on the exact reason if it, and if you're going to be even that irreverent, feels like you might want to just wildly reorder the whole thing for the audience anyway.)

I think Digital Eclipse’s counter overall would be that I probably want something more verbose and detailed which wouldn’t be as accessible, which isn't wrong. They might even argue that I'm basing my criticism on a hypothetical consumer who isn't even their intended audience! It's a hard line to ride, but I’d still argue that there’s a sense for storytelling in the curation here that’s missing--and I really don't want them to limit their audience because as critical as I might be, I love this series already and I want it to go on forever.

So yes, this is still the exact kind of thing I want to be released and if it’s opening up people to learning more about Jeff Minter and Llamasoft on their own time then I think it’s brilliant. I just think that anyone who picks this up who isn't already steeped in this era needs to be a bit forgiving and skip past all the ropey old games after looking at them for a couple of minutes tops and just enjoy reading the text and watching the videos until they get to the good stuff, so consider this fair warning before you buy it (because you should buy it.)

I mean if you only want this to play Tempest 2000 (and Llamatron 2112, actually) there’s nowt wrong with that, and that’s already worth the money.

Will I ever play it again? I’m still working through it!

Final Thought: I will, of course, be playing every game on this, and although I won’t be giving every Llamasoft release a full post, I have at least started with a write-up of each of the games in "The Early Years", as an introduction to the kind of things you’d be playing if you pick this up (and which sadly explains why you probably won’t want to play most of them... it gets better by the time you get to The Hairy Years, and significantly). If you want to read it, it's a supporter-only post over at my ko-fi. I suppose saying that makes my usual please subscribe stinger a bit pointless but let's hammer the point home why not. Support Every Game I’ve Finished on ko-fi! You can pick up a digital copy of exp. 2600, a zine featuring all-exclusive writing at my shop, or join as a supporter at just $1 a month and get articles like this a week early.

[amarflourmill]

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[fourstarvideocoop]

4/18

Aftersun (Blu Ray only) Cocaine Bear Eclipse Series 27: Raffaello Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas (Chains, Tormento, Nobody's Children, The White Angel) (Criterion, 4 discs rented separately) Emily Flaming Ears (Blu Ray) Kids Vs. Aliens Left Behind: Rise Of The Antichrist Magic Mike's Last Dance Marlowe Martin Roumagnac The Story Of The Last Chrysanthemum (Criterion)

[feuqueerfire]

Feu's October 2022 BL/GL Wrap-Up

A little monthly wrap-up of all the shows I’ve watched or am watching in October 2022, general thoughts, and ranking of them all.

Recommendation of the month: 

No Touching At All the 2014 JBL Movie, it’s 1.5 hours and it made my brain melt.

Ranking

The Eclipse = But I’m A Cheerleader = No Touching At All

Do Revenge 

Vice Versa = Star and Sky: Star In My Mind = Old Fashion Cupcake = He She It

Minato’s Laundromat

Ai No Kotodama (Words of Devotion)

My Dear Loser: In-Sun

MDL Updates - Added to Watchlist:

A section because I’m curious about how many shows I decide to add to my Watch List a month and also the ratio of watching them:adding them

More than Words

180 Degree Longitude Passes Through Us (starting the month by adding 2 sad queer stories than fluffy BL rip)

Once Again (adding 3 sad shows in the first week wtf)

Takara-kun to Amagi-kun

To Watch List At Start Of Month: 47

To Watch List At End Of Month: 41 (b/c I watched 7 shows from To Watch, added 4, removed 3. so decrease of 6)

Removed from To Watch List:

Restart After Come Back Home (It was next on my to-watch list from japan but then was like... I just don’t want to and don’t think I will)

Innocent

I'm Tee, Me Too (just randomly heard 2 different people mention not liking it this week + that it was boring and i realized idc about it)

Watching On-Air

The Eclipse

Country: Thailand

Release Dates: Aug 12, 2022 - Oct 28, 2022

Dates Watched: Aug 24 - Oct 29, 2022

Rating: 7.5/10 7/10 [Jan 24, 2023 Update: Decreased by 0.5 stars when rerating my top BLs] [Jan 25, 2024 Update: Decreased by 0.5 stars when rerating my top shows: 7.5 -> 7]

Watched Via: GMMTV Youtube (free)

General Thoughts: I enjoyed the middle few episodes immensely (like 5 - 10, with #9 being my fave), as well Ayan/Akk + the acting + how the plot and themes were handled for those episodes but the ending definitely took a hit and I wish it had tighter/cleaner writing and editing in general. The show tackled interesting topics, including societal expectations and the status quo, fighting back, how characters we want to root for can be doing bad things and how they grow from it, mental illness, all the intersectionality of like queerness and financial situation and mental illness. It didn’t hit the mark for all of them because I think the script needed to be tightened and the editing needed to be stronger but it was well enough considering the budget + them filming and doing post-production while it was airing. I loved Ayan/Akk soooo much, definitely one of my favourite couples of the year.

tags: the eclipse (+ special ep)

Also Appears In: Live Blogging For Ep 9, Ep 10, Ep 11, Ep 12

Completely Watched

Vice Versa

Country: Thailand

Release Dates: Jul 16, 2022 - Oct 1, 2022

Dates Watched: Sep 28 - Oct 1, 2022

Rating: 6/10

Watched Via: GMMTV Youtube (free)

General Thoughts: This show worked for me while binging in a way that it wouldn’t have worked if watched weekly. I enjoyed watching it while watching but I fast-forwarded sometimes and don’t care enough to be upset at its pitfalls because I came in knowing many of its flaws (draggy middle few eps that went better bc i binged, insufficient world building that i didn’t get to theorize about or scruitinize, I knew there’s not much OhmNanon after the first two eps, that there’s nothing from the original universe, that they worldbuilding isn’t very expansive, etc). 

tags: vice versa

Also Appears In: Vice Versa Live Blogging

But I’m A Cheerleader (1999) (non-BL more like queer with a focus on lesbians)

Country: English

Release Dates: 2000

Dates Watched: Oct 3 - 4, 2022

Rating: 7/10

Watched Via: Criterion (free with uni access)

General Thoughts: This was so good, moved me in a way oof Also, this paralleled the “I know I’m queer, you know I’m queer, but I gotta pretend because of circumstances” vibes from Episode 8 of The Eclipse. Loved the queer adults taking the kids to the gay club + taking them in when they have nowhere else to go. The parents saying ‘you’re choosing to cut us out of your life if you choose to continue with that lifestyle’ when in fact they were cutting out Megan struck a chord. The ending made me teary eyed and the 2 second after-credit scene with Megan’s dad going to the Parents and Friends of Lesbians & Gays meeting and saying “My name is Peter and my daughter is a homosexual” made actual tears fall lol

tags: but i’m a cheerleader

The Graham and Megan dancing with diff people and getting jealous scene reminded me of History 3: Trapped, so I’m skipping certain parts of that too. Ep 5 (Shao Fei and Tang Yi making each other jealous dancing with other people at the club), Ep 9 (Shao Fei jealous of Andy/Tang Yi, the doctor/Tang Yi, and then asking “is your body for people to line up to touch? should i do the same” and tang yi replying by taking off his jacket and saying "go ahead, feel away”), Ep 15/16 (Tang Yi sending those messages and voicemails, going to Shao Fei’s workplace, Shao Fei playing the messages back), Ep 20 ending part

Do Revenge (non-BL more like queer)

Country: English

Release Dates: Sep 16, 2022

Dates Watched: Oct 6 - 8, 2022

Rating: 6.5/10

Watched Via: :>

General Thoughts: I watched it because Camilla Mendes is sooooo  attractive to me - everytime I saw her in Riverdale I was like :0 Thought this was about college kids though, lol they’re 17? Also, knew it had queer stuff. After PS I Hate You last month, maybe I should have a new “girls who are interesting and evil and their rocky, rocky friendships” show/movie to read everything month lol Anyway, this was fun and entertaining and off the rails. I’d thought that Eleanor saying “Carissa accused me without reason” and them running with it was too easy, so I was glad to see it again come up in the twist. The twist was great but I think the writing and character/relationship development went a little wonky after that. Regardless, still fun

tags: do revenge

Star and Sky: Star in My Mind

Country: Thailand

Release Dates: Apr 8, 2022 - May 27, 2022

Dates Watched: Oct 8 - 9, 2022

Rating: 6/10

Watched Via: GMMTV Youtube (free)

General Thoughts: Fine, cute enough. Got annoying in the middle with the Phoon thing and then got boring after they got together. The start was the strongest part, the way they portrayed being awkward around one another but still having giddy, cute moments was great. It’s kinda like Vice Versa in the sense that it’s a fun show to binge but you mustn’t think while doing so.

tags: star in my mind

Also Appears In: Star In My Mind Live Blogging

After watching 2 episodes of Minato’s Laundromat, I got distracted and watched  The 354 Squad’s reaction to Squid Game on Oct 10 and 11. Sigh, it’s just a good show that I loved. TODO Gotta find that Squid Game fanartist who drew sooo well and gave me some favourite Sangwoo fanart. Update: Unfortunately despite downloading my Twitter archive, I couldn’t find it in my retweeted media nor could I find it in my likes after scrolling down to around Oct 10, 2021. Very frustrating and sad, I think the artist maybe deleted

Minato Shouji Coin Laundry (Minato’s Laundromat)

Country: Japan

Release Dates: Jun 29, 2022 - Sep 14, 2022

Dates Watched: Oct 10 - 17, 2022

Rating: 5.5/10

Watched Via: GagaOolala (paid, so :>)

General Thoughts: I am who I am meaning my fave character is Sakurako, Shin’s younger sister, who is soo cute, a little doll. Also, Shin’s actor has suchhhh a beautiful face :0 I wish I felt more for this but I don’t. My comment from ep 5 is still true at the end “tbh i don’t have much to say about this show like it’s fine, it’s handling the age gap interestingly, it’s very slice of life, Shin is very beautiful, I’m a little bored.” I’m not even invested enough to feel anything about the characters’ actions even though I feel like I should have loads of thoughts. I think I get bored with longer Japanese shows, the next few will be movies, so maybe I’ll like them more?

Also Appears In: Minato’s Laundromat Live Blogging

PARTNER IN CRIME - YINWAR - a concert trailer that’s a heist bl and is directed by P’Jojo ahh

No Touching At All

Country: Japan

Release Dates: May 25, 2014

Dates Watched: Oct 18, 2022

Rating: 7/10

Watched Via: Youtube

General Thoughts: Watched it at the perfect time to give me brainworms with its tropes and dynamics. Whenever it’s boss/employee, it’s often like young CEO and an intern or their secretary (at least in the fics), so it’s great fun when it’s like regular ass job with raw, jaded people. yknow I like that this movie has so many longshots and still shots. the actors have to work double time with their body language (bc we can see their whole bodies) + their voices because we’re not getting their facial expressions as closely. I think my only major criticism of this is just that the last big conflict and reason for breakup was different instead of transferring + shima thinking tugowa. I thoroughly enjoyed it, it itched the same part of my brain that AO3 fics often do. Girl it had me writing down every scene in the live blogging at one point bc it was all doing smth that i loved.

tags: no touching at all

Also Appears In: No Touching At All + Ai No Kotodama Live Blogging

I’ve been reading a whole bunch of VegasPete fics again the past 2 weeks or so. So good

Ai no Kotodama (Words of Devotion)

Country: Japan

Release Dates: Jan 25, 2008

Dates Watched: Oct 20, 2022

Rating: 5/10

Watched Via: Youtube

General Thoughts: agh just today we were talking bout how established relationship shows tend to mostly focus on jealousy/cheating/etc and yeah this movie also just focused so much on unfounded jealousy that it wasn’t fun. It was cute when the two of them were messing around and being chill but it kept being ruined by jealousy like agh

Also Appears In: No Touching At All + Ai No Kotodama Live Blogging

Old Fashion Cupcake

Country: Japan

Release Dates: Jun 13, 2022 - Jul 4, 2022

Dates Watched: Oct 21 - 23, 2022

Rating: 6/10

Watched Via: Viki (free)

General Thoughts: I’m very annoyed, why did I not enjoy that as much as I wanted to? There weren’t any glaring issues I had with anything but I just, once again, did not care. I recently liked No Touching At All with a similar boss/employee dynamic and that one gave me brain worms but this one didn’t make me care at all ?? I really don’t get it. Maybe it was the timing? At least unlike Minato’s Laundromat (which I also should’ve really liked), I didn’t wanna DNF this nor did I have to resort to almost 2x speed because of boredom.

Also Appears In: Old Fashion Cupcake Live Blogging

My Dear Loser: In-Sun

Country: Thailand

Release Dates: Aug 9, 2017 - Sep 13, 2017

Dates Watched: Oct 23 - 25, 2022

Rating: 4.5/10

Watched Via: GMMTV Youtube (free)

General Thoughts: definitely got the early BL vibes. I guess this probably stood out a lot more when it was released but I was bored as hell and didn’t care about anything/anyone. I wanted to give it a watch because P’Aof said he put a lot of personal experiences when he wrote this + I wanna finish up Our Skyy but yeah, idc and don't care to watch Our Skyy either

He She It

Country: Thailand

Release Dates: Oct 31, 2019 - Jul 1, 2020

Dates Watched: Oct 27 - 30, 2022

Rating: 6/10

Watched Via: Youtube (free)

General Thoughts: my BL for the spooky season! I was spoiled for the major plot point (Jeff kills Gameplay in a pool) and the OST Comedy but didn’t know about anything else. Something about low budget shows I love is how raw and real it feels sometimes, like the “She” episode’s beginning while hanging out with friends and then Mike and Peam hanging out are just such good scenes. They feel like a college student’s project but that makes it realer and idk a different kind of feeling to more polished and higher budget shows but still good in a different way. Part 3 initially confused in regards to Part 1′s but I rewatched it (I originally watched that on the 27th before watching the rest on 30th) and rewatching that definitely helped. To me, it seems like Part 2 happened, Peem just disappeared and nobody knew why or that he was dead (thus the actor teacher’s questions about what’s wrong and Mike being like aw why’d you disappear in the skit), the skit was paralleling Mike/Peem’s current situations (Peem disappeared, Peem ~almost~ drowning) but also maybe Mike’s wishes (him confessing, him saving Peem)? Then, when they kiss, the drowning aspect is also passed onto Mike and that’s when he maybe realizes Peem’s a ghost and between this scene and part 3 is when people figure out that Peem’s dead or something. Although the last part when the teacher and the students all were smirking and were acting fishy at the end while Mike was hyperventilating was sus and I couldn’t understand that beyond them thinking Mike’s doing this for attention.

Not currently watching anything but probably gonna watch a bunch of Thai stuff + some Taiwanese stuff next month and then in December gonna rewatch my faves, along with any airing shows (like GAP)

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Need For Speed é uma das franquias de corrida mais clássicas dos jogos eletrônicos, lançada em 1994, e promete se superar no novo game, chamado Need For Speed Unbound.

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A Criterion Games e a Electronic Arts revelaram que o próximo jogo vai contar com um catálogo com 143 modelos de carro, superando a quantidade disponível no NFS: Heat, com 127 no total. São eles:

Acura NSX 2017

Acura RSX-S 2004

Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio 2016

Aston Martin DB5 1964

Aston Martin DB11 Volante 2018

Aston Martin DB11 2017

Aston Martin Vulcan 2016

BMW M3 2006

BMW M3 Evolution II 1988

BMW X6 M 2016

BMW M3 2010

BMW M5 2018

BMW Z4 M40i 2019

BMW M4 Coupe 2018

BMW M2 Competition 2019

BMW M1 1981

BMW i8 Coupe 2018

BMW M4 GTS 2016

BMW M3 Convertible 2010

BMW M4 Convertible 2017

BMW i8 Roadster 2018

Bugatti Chiron Sport 2017

Buick Grand National GNX 1987

Chevrolet Corvette Stingray 2020

Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Convertible 2020

Chevrolet C10 Stepside Pickup 1965

Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport 2017

Chevrolet Camaro Z28 2014

Chevrolet Corvette Z06 2013

Chevrolet Camaro SS 1967

Chevrolet Bel Air 1955

Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 2019

Chevrolet Colorado ZR2 2017

Dodge Challenger SRT8 2014

Dodge Charger R/T 1969

Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat 2019

Ferrari LaFerrari 2016

Ferrari Testarossa Coupé 1984

Ferrari 488 GTB 2016

Ferrari F40 1988

Ferrari 458 Italia 2009

Ferrari 488 Pista 2019

Ferrari FXX-K Evo 2018

Ferrari 458 Spider 2011

Ford F-150 Raptor 2017

Ford Mustang GT 2015

Ford GT 2017

Ford Mustang BOSS 302 1969

Ford Mustang 1965

Ford Mustang Foxbody 1990

Ford Crown Victoria 2008

Ford Focus RS 2016

Ford Mustang GT Convertible 2019

Honda Civic Type-R 2000

Honda Civic Type-R 2015

Honda NSX Type-R 1992

Honda S2000 Ultimate Edition 2009

Infiniti Q60S 2017

Jaguar F-Type R Coupe 2016

Jaguar F-Type R Convertible 2019

Koenigsegg Regera 2016

Lamborghini Countach LPI 800-4 2021

Lamborghini Huracán LP580-2 2018

Lamborghini Aventador S 2018

Lamborghini Countach 25th Anniversary 1989

Lamborghini Murciélago SV 2010

Lamborghini Urus 2018

Lamborghini Huracán Performante 2018

Lamborghini Aventador SVJ Coupe 2019

Lamborghini Diablo SV 1995

Lamborghini Huracán LP580-2 Spyder 2018

Lamborghini Aventador S Roadster 2018

Lamborghini Aventador SVJ Roadster 2019

Lamborghini Aventador LP750-4 SV Roadster 2018

Lamborghini Huracán Performante Spyder 2018

Land Rover Range Rover Sport SVR 2015

Land Rover Defender 110 Double Cab Pickup 2015

Lotus Exige S 2006

Lotus Emira 2021

Mazda RX-7 Spirit R 2002

Mazda MX5 1996

Mazda RX-8 Spirit R (R3) 2011

Mazda MX5 2015

McLaren P1 2014

McLaren F1 1993

McLaren 570S 2015

McLaren 570S Spider 2018

McLaren 600LT 2018

McLaren P1 GTR 2015

Mercedes-Benz 190E 2.5-16 1988

Mercedes-AMG C 63 Coupe 2018

Mercedes-AMG G 63 2017

Mercedes-AMG GT S 2019

Mercedes-AMG A 45 2016

Mercedes-AMG GT R 2017

Mercedes-AMG GT S Roadster 2019

Mercedes-AMG C 63 Cabriolet 2018

Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series 2021

Mercury Cougar 1967

MINI John Cooper Works Countryman 2017

Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX 2007

Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X 2008

Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX 1999

NISSAN GT-R Premium 2017

NISSAN Skyline GT-R V·Spec 1999

NISSAN 370Z Heritage Edition 2019

NISSAN Silvia K’s 1998

NISSAN Z Prototype 2022

NISSAN Silvia Spec-R Aero 2002

NISSAN Skyline GT-R V·Spec 1993

NISSAN 350Z 2008

NISSAN Skyline 2000 GT-R 1971

NISSAN Fairlady 240ZG 1971

NISSAN 180SX Type X 1996

NISSAN 370Z Nismo 2015

NISSAN GT-R Nismo 2017

Pagani Huayra BC 2017

Plymouth Cuda 1970

Polestar Polestar 1 2020

Pontiac Firebird 1977

Porsche 911 GT3 RS 2019

Porsche 911 Carrera RSR 2.8 1973

Porsche 918 Spyder 2015

Porsche 718 Cayman GTS 2018

Porsche 911 Carrera S 1997

Porsche 911 GT2 RS 2018

Porsche Panamera Turbo 2017

Porsche 911 Turbo S Exclusive Series 2018

Porsche Boxster 718 Spyder 2020

Porsche 911 Carrera GTS 2018

Porsche 911 Turbo S Cabriolet Exclusive 2018

Porsche 911 Targa 4 GTS 2018

Porsche 911 Carrera GTS Convertible 2018

Porsche Cayman GT4 2015

SRT Viper GTS 2014

SUBARU Impreza WRX STI 2006

SUBARU BRZ Premium 2014

SUBARU Impreza WRX STI 2010

Volkswagen Beetle 1963

Volkswagen Golf GTI 1976

Volkswagen Golf GTI Clubsport 2016

Volvo 242DL 1975

Volvo Amazon P130 1970

Need for Speed Unbound será lançado em 2 de dezembro para PS5, Xbox Series X|S e PC.

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Top 10 Best selling resume books [2022]

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Crisis (1946) d. Ingmar Bergman (poster from Sweden)

I am currently watching the British Film Institute box set that came out late last year which I bought despite owning the massive Criterion box set.  The BFI box contains Torment on Blu-Ray and Criterion did not include in their box because they have it in their Eclipse Box Set #1 on DVD.  I really wanted Torment on Blu-Ray plus the BFI Box contains Eva, Prison and Music In Darkness, none of which show up in Criterion’s set.   As an avowed Bergman lover, I couldn’t let the set go unpurchased even the BFI wouldn’t allow it to be shipped to the US.  Fortunately DiabolikDVD stocked it and it was simple to obtain since that’s where I buy all my movies from (if not from the original source). 

Even though I watched 40 some Bergman films in 2019, I really enjoy his 1940s films, so I’m planning on watching all of them that I can.  Criterion has one not found on the BFI set (A Ship To India).  Then I discovered The Bergman Channel on youtube which has two Bergman’s 40s films I’ve never seen before: It Rains On Our Love and This Can’t Happen Here.  All told, even though this BFI Bergman box contains eight films, I’ll end up watching 11 Bergman films five of which I’ve never seen!  

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