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Dec. 21st, 2025 10:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lakeeffectgirlBack to work tomorrow after a week off, which I needed desperately and spent most of watching TV and movies while rotting in bed. And getting a decent amount of writing done, after have zero writing motivation since about mid-October. I used the sprint bot on my Discord server for a lot of it, which worked - it was nice to feel like I can still write, I just needed a looming deadline to do it!
Like most everyone, it seems, I watched a bunch of Heated Rivalry (needs more actual hockey), but paused to get caught up on other stuff about halfway through the third episode. I was trying to get in a full Stranger Things rewatch before the next part of the new season drops, but got distracted from that by several movies - I did Wake Up Dead Man (great), Elvis (finally, but I also don't love Butler the way everyone else seems to?), Wind River (very good), Reptile (not good - Benicio Del Toro is great as always, but every ten minutes I was asking what the hell was happening), One Battle After Another (excellent), and Traffic (since it's probably been eighteen years since I last watched it straight through and figured I'd continue my Benicio streak), and finally last night I got around to F1 since it's up on Apple now.
F1 was fine, but I assume it's better if you're into the actual racing. I said in my Letterboxd review that I'm always here for the "messed up old guy gets one last shot at glory!" plot, and there's some nice team-as-family feelings. I get the whole putting the camera in the car while Brad Pitt drives it in the way that they put cameras in the planes for Top Gun: Maverick, but a race car just doesn't move the way a plane does. Also Brad Pitt's face is 60% covered by a helmet that's squishing his cheeks, so the Face Acting opportunities are limited.
I was doing a MI 7/8 back-to-back this afternoon when the news about James Ransone came out, and that derailed me from thinking critically about the movies although I've kept watching just to distract myself. Fuck, man. Evan last year and now this. And as if 2025 hasn't sucked enough.
Like most everyone, it seems, I watched a bunch of Heated Rivalry (needs more actual hockey), but paused to get caught up on other stuff about halfway through the third episode. I was trying to get in a full Stranger Things rewatch before the next part of the new season drops, but got distracted from that by several movies - I did Wake Up Dead Man (great), Elvis (finally, but I also don't love Butler the way everyone else seems to?), Wind River (very good), Reptile (not good - Benicio Del Toro is great as always, but every ten minutes I was asking what the hell was happening), One Battle After Another (excellent), and Traffic (since it's probably been eighteen years since I last watched it straight through and figured I'd continue my Benicio streak), and finally last night I got around to F1 since it's up on Apple now.
F1 was fine, but I assume it's better if you're into the actual racing. I said in my Letterboxd review that I'm always here for the "messed up old guy gets one last shot at glory!" plot, and there's some nice team-as-family feelings. I get the whole putting the camera in the car while Brad Pitt drives it in the way that they put cameras in the planes for Top Gun: Maverick, but a race car just doesn't move the way a plane does. Also Brad Pitt's face is 60% covered by a helmet that's squishing his cheeks, so the Face Acting opportunities are limited.
I was doing a MI 7/8 back-to-back this afternoon when the news about James Ransone came out, and that derailed me from thinking critically about the movies although I've kept watching just to distract myself. Fuck, man. Evan last year and now this. And as if 2025 hasn't sucked enough.
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Date: 2025-12-29 12:25 am (UTC)