“Conclave” would have benefited from more clever, intricate, and less predictable plot and dialogue, but what it lacks there it makes up in interesting points about religious faith, great acting, and gorgeous set design.
Ramblings of General Geekery
The Wailing makes rural South Korea look both beautiful and horrifying. It expertly goes through, like, 5 different film genres, comments on East-Asian folklore versus Catholic faith, all while being scary. I’m not a fan of the end twists but it’s still a great movie.
The Ugly Stepsister is a brilliant retelling of the Cinderella story, refocused on the titular stepsister and changed into a beautifully shot body-horror black comedy about living up to beauty standards in a patriarchal society. Loved it.
I finally saw Black Hawk Down and, apart from the obvious few problems everyone knows about, it’s still an amazing war movie, and a technical tour-de-force. Impressive.
Well that aged well 😒 From Mission: Impossible S01E10, the crew are undercover in a Russian (I think?) training program for sleeper agents in the US. They are “tested” by being fake-arrested by the police, and reprimanded for not resisting arrest, which is “the American Way”!
I haven’t posted about the good fluffy boy in some time, so here he is, still doing his thing!
Another old TV series I started (re)watching lately is Mission: Impossible. Hard to remember a time before Jim Phelps, but Dan Briggs is pretty good too! It all hold up well, it’s suspenseful and often clever. I totally want to make a #TTRPG out of it!
Went to see Project Hail Mary with the family! Verdict: good good amaze amaze
Fuck me, my NAS is detecting some potential upcoming failures on one or two of my drives… luckily, it seems that the crazy storage prices are mainly for SSDs, and good ol’ NAS drives only went up by a (comparatively) small margin. But still…
If you design a Medieval Japan TTRPG, you really need a character class with flatulence fighting feats, as the He-Gassen tells us. Don’t look at me like that, people, it’s just historical fact, I don’t make the rules.
