huh. okay. picked up massively in the last third which i liked.

sorry i just didn’t enjoy this nor did it make me want to reflect. maybe it’s because it doesn’t feel like satire but what feels reality of american chaos during the thick of covid.

really big and romantic to think that try as you might, fate can’t be changed!! you were meant to love who you love and you will pass when it is time.

even as an adult it’s difficult to put a name to and work through emotions associated with anticipatory grief so what more a child. she’s pulling on different threads and seeing where they lead her, but i kind of wish some threads were explored more than others. one in particular made me feel downright ill and i’m so relieved it didn’t end up the way it was leading.

mcfarlane’s writing is always a challenge to read and i mean this in a good way!! lately i’ve started to become lazy with reading and sticking mainly to easy breezy romantic comedies—not that those don’t have literary value—but i think i blow through them too quickly, eager for the rush of the ending and not really enjoying the story as it unravels. mcfarlane’s writing is just enough to make me slow down without being convoluted and pretentious!!! might just start on another mcfarlane book next.

i didn’t think it was bad, necessarily. i thought it started out great and started devolving; magic became more mystique, and the character’s connections became more convoluted and by the end of the film i was like… oh ok?

is this capital C Cinema? no, it was Cheesy but it was a really fun watch either way!!! i definitely thought it was more compact (?) and less whoo whoo unexplainable than the first one. also rosamund pike, my queen, i would watch her do Anything. she’s brilliant!! and so was justice smith tbh. would watch again despite already knowing the twists.

a little bit ham fisted in its execution (especially the dialogue but it admittedly is hard to capture the ideosyncracies of a people who grew up in a multi ethnic multilingual environment AND also the exploration of religion erasing culture and how that affects national fabric of a, again, a multiethnic multireligious and multilingual country but also this is a romance novel and not a journal article), but I appreciate more SEAsian rep in the genre. would be a good airplane read! also out of context spoiler but… KUAN YIN?? right…

amaze amaze amaze!! 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻 not me crying over a rock!!!!! i’m not a space or sci fi girlie but this was really great on so many levels. i think ryan gosling was great in this and the story too was brilliant- I LOVE FRIENDSHIP RAAARRRR maybe math isn’t The universal language, but the power of platonic love. also i watched this in a movie theatre in a japan and it was embarrassing to be the only one snorting out loud at rocky’s “fist bump”

i admittedly was a little distracted during this but it still felt very compact, no unnecessary lengthy exposition, just straight into tony’s plotting!!

sorry i just don’t get both storylines. why does everyone like frank?? i think i would have walked after the first 5 minutes with him. also i don’t get the “at least he ain’t a snitch!!!” praise/end to the trask incident because like, yeah he has integrity but als what would he gain from shielding these rich kids who don’t care if he lives or dies lol. poor charlie actually.

COLMAN DOMINGO IS TOOOO FUCKING GOOD AT THIS my heart was getting shredded non stop also i went into this blind so seeing all the “as himself”s in the credits really sent meeee this was so good and so heartbreaking

so promising but it majorly fell off in the third act

min and was the best thing about this. angela and chris were an unsalvageable level of messy. also maybe it’s just me but bowen yang is just so aggressively SKETCH for me i just can’t see him as a serious actor

there is no freaking way you’re gonna make me sympathise with an arguably mediocre white american man in japan. not when i’ve felt personally victimised by one!! it’s so “gawrsh darn you know us americans we’re so different from the japanese we just feel SO MUCH 🤪” like it feels like i’m meant to feel for the jaded white jtuber whose japanese wife that did everything for him left him and now he’s taking it all out on japan. i cannot believe it was directed by the same person who made 37 seconds!!!!

great movie stacked cast amazing acting, my only gripe is that it is so dark!!!

this was 3 different movies but also it made sense and was scary and funny

was thinking of maxxie and sketch the whole time

sorry i couldn’t get over the fact that they gaslit her into being a mother of an abandoned child right till the very end?!?! like, i for sure thought they were find the baby’s mother AND come to an understanding that she’d adopt the baby AND fall in love, not just,,, fall in love with a guy who refuses to listen???

I thought it was funny but also kinda sad- it reminded me a lot of my late cousin because this is exactly her type of her humour!!!