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All Fours [book]

 All Fours [book] I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THIS ONE.  IT'S A BOOK ABOUT BEING 45. I THINK THE SECRET PREMISE IS THE AUTHOR INTERVIEWED REAL WOMEN/PEOPLE AND INTEGRATED THAT INTO THE STORY, BUT THAT FELT LIKE IT REALLY DIDN'T WORK WELL AT ALL. LIKE I FEEL LIKE THE REAL PEOPLE WERE A BUNCH OF PEOPLE GAY AND STRAIGHT, IN RELATIONSHIPS, SINGLE AND DIVORCED AND THEY MASHED THAT INTO ONE PERSON AND IT JUST MADE HER SEEM REALLY WEIRD AND MEAN TO EVERYONE. ALSO IT FELT LIKE IT LEFT A LOT OF STORY THREADS REALLY FLOATING. ALSO THERE WAS A LOT OF SEX SCENES AND FOR A WHILE A LOT OF THEM HAD SOME GROSS OUT ELEMENT TO THEM? WHICH FELT LIKE SOME "YOU GET OLDER AND ACCEPT BODIES" OR SOMETHING, THEN IT KINDA DROPPED IT AND JUST HAD EROTICA TYPE SEX SCENES, AND IT WAS LIKE "WHY DID EVERYONE HAVE GROSS SEX ONLY IN THE FIRST THIRD OF THE BOOK???". ALSO I LIKE HOW THEY INCLUDED A MENOPAUSE HORMONE CHART THEN KINDA RANDOMLY 200 PAGES LATER THEY WERE LIKE 'THAT WASN'T EVEN...

Predator: Badlands [movie]

 Predator: Badlands [movie] THIS MOVIE WAS STUPID AND KINDA ANNOYING, BUT ALMOST EVERY PREDATOR MOVIE HAS BEEN PRETTY BAD (AUTISM STEALING PREDATOR. WAIT? WAS THIS GUY SO SMALL BECAUSE HE WAS THE AUTISM PREDATOR????) SO MAYBE IT'S GOOD TO JUST LET THEM MAKE WHATEVER. ALIENS JUST MAKES OKAY MOVIES THAT ARE OKAY BECAUSE THEY ARE EXACTLY LIKE THE GOOD ONES, THIS IS SOME STUPID MESS WHERE THE LOCALLY SOURCED ORGANIC SNAKE SHOULDER GUN GOT TO HAVE AN ABSURD MINI STORY ARC THAT BARELY SHOWED ON SCREEN.  PS. I FEEL LIKE THE MONSTER WAS SO CLEARLY A BEHEMOTH AND THERE WAS LIKE COPY RIGHT INFRINGEMENT LEVELS OF COPYING THAT WHEN THEY CAST ICE 3 OR WHATEVER ON IT. ACTUALLY THE WHOLE THING IS LITERALLY THE CUBE STORY FROM LIVE A LIFE BUT I DON'T THINK ANYONE EVEN WOULD RIP THAT OFF, SOMEONE RIPPED OFF SOME CUT SCENE FROM SOME PLAYSTATION FINAL FANTASY TRAILER OR SOMETHING. 

Things [movie]

 Things [movie] IT'S A 1989 ALMOST TOTALLY INCOMPREHENSIBLE CANADIAN HORROR MOVIE THAT IS ON TUBI IN 389P RESOLUTION. A WOMAN GETS EVIL FERTILITY TREATMENT AND GETS PREGNENT WITH HUNDREDS OF ANTS THAT ARE SPIDERS THAT HAVE TEETH (AND ARE IN THE WRONG HOUSE) OR MAYBE NONE OF THAT HAPPENS.  PS. AHHHH, A HOOO! I'M IN THE FREEZER NOOOOO AHHH HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Replaceable You [book, audiobook]

 Replaceable You [book, audiobook] MAN, I LOVE MARY ROACH. ANY TIME I HAVE LITTLE TRIVIA FACTS ASSUME I GOT THEM FROM MARY ROACH.  DID YOU KNOW HISTORICALLY IF SOMEONE WAS HORRIBLY BURNED THEY WOULD TRANSPLANT LIKE, RABBIT SKIN AND CAT SKIN AND STUFF ONTO THE BURNS AND ACTUALLY THAT ACTUALLY SECRETLY WORKS BECAUSE IF YOU BURN ENOUGH SKIN OFF YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM JUST GIVES UP AND WILL JUST TAKE A BUNCH OF CAT SKIN FOR A WHILE.  PS. ALSO FINGER PENIS. 

The People's Joker [movie]

 The People's Joker [movie] OH, THIS MOVIE IS REALLY COOL.  IT'S LIKE A BUNCH OF ADULT SWIM ACTORS AND STUFF MADE AN ILLEGAL COPYRIGHT BREAKING BATMAN MOVIE BUT A COMING OF AGE TRANS STORY?  SO IT'S LIKE, A FAIRLY NUANCED QUEER STORY BUT AT THE SAME TIME DAVID LIBER HART IS THERE AND IT HAS A BUNCH OF ADULT SWIM STYLE STUFF (GREENSCREENING SOMEONE TO SIT ON A NORMAL CHAIR, A 3D MODEL THAT IS JUST THE DEFAULT MANNEQUIN BUT WITH STUFF STUCK TO IT, RAGDOLL PHYSICS PEOPLE). I DON'T KNOW, THAT REALLY RULES. IT FEELS LIKE THE KINDA THING YOU SEE ALL THE TIME IN SMALL INDIE COMICS. COPYRIGHT KNOCKOFFS. LIKE THIS IS BASICALLY THE SAME SORT OF THING AS "THE PERVERT" THAT WAS SO FUNNY BY HAVING COPYRIGHT STUFF, BUT IN THIS THEY GOT TO BE A MOVIE AND HAVE BOB ODENKIRK AND TIM HEIDECKER MAKE IT.  PS. I WATCHED THIS BECAUSE SOMEONE HAD A JOKER STICKER THAT WAS VERY FEMME AND I TRIED TO LOOK IF THERE WAS EVER A COMIC THEY TRANSED THE JOKER'S GENDER. (THERE PROBABLY WAS)...

Bugonia [movie]

 Bugonia [movie] HA! I FELT LIKE I WAS GOING INSANE THIS WHOLE TIME. LIKE WATCHING THIS MOVIE AND REALIZING IT WAS LIKE SOMETHING, THEN SLOWLY BEING LIKE "WHY IS THIS A WEIRD SERIOUS KNOCKOFF OF SAVE THE GREEN PLANET?" AND THEN IT GETTING NEAR THE END AND JUST BEING IN THE THEATER LOSING MY MIND HOOTING AND HOLLERING INTERNALLY THAT I KNOW THIS MOVIE AND IT'S SOME WEIRD ALTERNATE EVIL SERIOUS VERSION OF SAVE THE GREEN PLANET....... THEN GETTING OUT AND LOOKING THE MOVIE UP AND THE THIRD LINE OF THE WIKIPEDIA BEING "BASED ON SAVE THE GREEN PLANET". PS. THIS *IS* MORE SERIOUS AND LESS SILLY THAN THE ORIGINAL, BUT I WONDER HOW MUCH OF THE APPARENT TONE CHANGE IS CEOS SEEMING WAY WORSE AND CONSPERICY THEORIESTS SEEMING WAY MORE AWFUL THAN WHEN THE ORIGINAL CAME OUT. 

Sorry, Baby [movie]

 Sorry, Baby [movie] I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO THINK ABOUT THIS MOVIE.  IT TOOK A REALLY HEAVY SUBJECT AND MADE IT INTO A COMEDY IN A REALLY WELL DONE WAY. I FEEL REALLY BAD DISLIKING IT FOR A REALLY NIT PICKY REASON BUT IT MADE ME CRAZY. THE MAIN CHARACTER BEING A WEIRD AUDRY PLAZA THAT IS ALSO AUTISM THAT IS ALSO AN ADULT BABY EVEN KIND WORKS, I MEAN, WHAT AUTISTIC PERSON ISN'T THAT? I EVEN ALLOW THE RIVAL BEING THAT AS A PARALLEL I EVEN ALLOW THE FRIEND'S WIFE BEING THAT AS A "SHE MARRIED HER FRIEND" JOKE. BUT IT WAS MAKING ME CRAZY EVERYONE WAS THAT. WHY WAS THE GROCERY STORE WOMAN THAT? WHY IS THE COLLEGE HR DEPARTMENT LIKE THAT? IT FEELS LIKE IT CHANGED THE MOVIE FROM A STORY ABOUT THE GIRL AS A WEIRD PERSON DEALING WITH A VERY SERIOUS TRAUMA, TO JUST WACKY WORLD WHERE EVERYONE IS LIKE THAT. I DON'T KNOW, IT'S A DUMB THING TO BE WORKED UP ABOUT?  PS. OLEG MOVIE