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They have all the Kurosawa films on there with a bunch of extras, which is cool.

You can look at their stuff at criterionchannel.com, but it's mostly a lot of old/foreign films. Especially a lot of foreign movies that aren't available on other streaming services.

I've used it before mainly to watch old Soviet movies and such. It's an alright service, but not one that I would keep subscribed to all the time.

At least according to this (assuming it's chronological) we'll get What If season 2 before Ms. Marvel, which is kind of surprising.

I wonder when we'll find out how fucked Tonga got.

Netflix and Disney+ are the only ones I really plan on keeping around all the time. The rest I just kind of rotate as things come out.

Pretty stoked that it will be the first D+ release this year (assuming this is the actual layout)

They don't say for sure that this is their release order, but it does seem to be laid out chronologically. Interesting that they delayed Ms. Marvel until close to the end, considering it was originally slated to be released before Hawkeye. Also interesting that they don't have the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special on there. But if this is accurate, it looks like the plan is Moon Knight starting sometime in the next couple months, Doctor Strange on May 4, She Hulk and What If season 2 probably blanketing Thor: Love and Thunder, then Ms. Marvel ending out the D+ stuff before Black Panther. I Am Groot is just a series of shorts, so who knows how they're going to release them.

I slept like 14 hours, it was pretty great (been really busy, working 10-10 the last 3 days, I was exhausted). I didn't get out of bed until almost 4pm. I'm off tomorrow as well, and there isn't really anything I *have* to get done this weekend, so... Probably going to finish watching Da Vinci's Demons tonight, probably going to get some pizza or something and just do some grade-A hard chillin' until I have to go back to work Tuesday afternoon. With the occasional 2-hour binge playing Super Auto Pets.

You know, I'm not one to say that Ted talks with no diversity necessarily means everyone's a racist grifter, but... (We made sure we got exactly one black man and one black woman to perfectly goldilocks those racist feelings you don't want to admit you have, even to yourself!)

I watched it the other night, I enjoyed it. Given how much story they were attempting to tell in such a (relatively) short span of time, I think it was done as well as it could be. The only thing I didn't like was basically all of the Kit Harrington stuff because every scene he's in can basically be described as "stay tuned!" so it's just distracting in the end. He serves hardly any purpose to the story other than setting up sequels. The movie is gorgeous, though. And I did like it quite a bit.

Thankfully in Oregon the moratorium on executing folks is not likely to go away any time soon, but I still wish they'd just nut up and abolish the damn thing already. I mean, of all the ways I think we need serious.. rehabilitation reform... abolishing the death penalty is pretty far down my list of priorities, but it still needs done. Its almost easy to say those given life without parole should be given the option to just choose to die instead. But a lot of guys with life in prison still have hope they'll be released one day, and it's the only thing that keeps them going. This is where it gets to what I think is right philosophically vs. practically. I firmly believe there are crimes you can commit that display emphatically that you are not fit to live in society. I also firmly believe our government is not entirely fit to execute those judgments. So where does that leave me? It's hard to say. We need to not have boners for punishment. We want to see people PUNISHED for crimes, goddammit, because that makes us *feel* good. But you can't reconcile that with the fact that 99.5% of prisoners will be released back into society one day, and what kind of person do you want them to be when that day comes? The justice system needs to act with logic, not emotion. Yet judges in America are elected positions, playing to emotion is how they keep their jobs. Punishing the bad guys IS their job. But then... What's the alternative? Appointed judges? My skin is crawling already.

When you can expect a complete reversal of trade policy every four years or so, that's not great for business.

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Oh, for sure. At least right now we're all wearing masks, so it's not like I'm breathing all over everybody. If you don't give people paid sick days, they will work when they're sick.

On my way to work today (I didn't have covid by the way, just your vanilla flu), the hospital I walk by on my walk had tents set up in the parking lot. That's usually not a good sign, right? They weren't there on Tuesday.

This movie looks like 10/10 airplane movie @Keyser_Soze

I did. It's all comic book nerd shit. I have never once read a Batman comic book in my life, and I probably never will. Saying "Batman never kills" in the context of a movie is fucking stupid if you never explore *why* he is that way. His initial motivation as a character is vengeance. He really is nothing more than a rich Punisher. Give Batman in the movies a REASON why he doesn't kill that is actually explored, otherwise it's just fan service for comic nerds.

It could have been done so much better, though. That's what I*wanted* from that version of Batman. A twisted, bitter version of Batman that had all but given up on humanity. It's only supes, ironically an alien, that reminds Bruce Wayne why he's doing any of this to begin with. There was a lot of promise to that that never got delivered. *That* is the Batman I want. The Batman that we've had has been done so many times that I can't possibly get excited for it anymore. Batman's principle of never killing is a fucking boring narrative device if you never explore *why* it is that way. Give him a reason why he never kills. Otherwise it's fucking boring.

I think it's a dumb, arbitrary narrative rule that limits storytelling. How about Batman before he has adopted that rule? How about Batman who has become so scarred and broken that he doesn't care anymore? Those are all interesting narrative possibilities that get ignored because "bAtMaN dOeS nOt KiLl."

I.... yes, obviously, I do know about those things.

Why was I tagged?

Sliced tomatoes with a pinch of salt is an excellent snack. They practically gush when you eat them. Then again, if the whole gushing thing is why you don't like eating tomatoes in the first place, then... Tajin basically does the same thing but with more flavor, it's dope.

Same idea.

Maybe like a black mirror kind of thing. Either way, I'm hyped. The Final Destination movies are all a lot of stupid fun. The central conceit of every scene being like "oh, what in this scene is going to murder this person" is an ingenious storytelling device. The tanning bed one always gets me. Or the one where the dude wins the lottery, but then narrowly escapes getting his arm stuck in a garbage disposal, only to narrowly escape a fire, only to narrowly escape a rickety fire escape, only to get impaled through the head my a fire escape ladder. I've avoided walking directly underneath fire escape ladders ever since. Really, the writers of those movies have sick imaginations.