rping being like 20 again
Aug. 15th, 2022 10:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ichthyocentaursI'm in a really good mood cause my friend came over while I was working and I "worked" aka chatted at my desk like all day and shit so while it's more common for people to do like, media round-up at the end of the month I'm doing it now.
I watched Wild Strawberries, which is my fourth...? bergman movie, and goddamn. At the end tears sprang instantly into my eyes and I sat there for like 15 minutes and looked into darkness--it was the perfect movie for like 9:30 on a balmy summer night, feelings of undue nostalgia and sadness rolling over you. Like, even though the main character is a older man on the cusp of his life ending, the acts of him... sort of setting things into order, but in such a minimal way considering the movie basically takes place over a day and dream/flashbacks like. I'm not articulate enough for this, but it was so striking.
Fucking all his movies are, to be honest. One of those movies that reminds you "oh right, I could JUST watch good movies if I wanted" but also, "if I only watched the best movies everything else would feel so bad in comparison" and I don't ever want to be one of those people who like, hates all video game stories because literature is better or whatever (aka insufferable). Frequent incredible movie watching is good enough.
Of course being me, right before that I finished Yurukill, a adventure/visual novel game about a death game/escape room scenario where all the teams are a prisoner and "executioner" (obvious spoiler: person who was/would have been a victim of them but escaped it) where all the prisoners claim innocence. Also there's top down shooter segments. It's a pretty goofy mix but it worked well, and like, man sorry but I don't get tired of death game scenarios. It's not like there's a yearly danganronpa. I need more anime teens (or nicely, in this one like every prisoner was mid-late 20s) getting murdered horribly. It was a little linear and not bloody enough but I really like the concept and the end is HUGELY hinting at a sequel so I hope they make one that's padded out.
I also watched Titane finally. It was pretty good! but made me desperately want to watch Crimes of the Future... I think it's released on dvd but I'm gonna wait until my bday... I promise to myself... lol.
Oh and I (re)started Bully but I will beat it this time. It's fun to play and think about how many people want a sequel but I have no idea how that would be possible because of how things are now. (Though, unfortunately, that dickhead dude pretending to be your friend in the first chapter dressing up as a nazi for halloween would easily still work today, lmao.) It was controversial when it came out but now I think it'd be almost impossible.
I watched Wild Strawberries, which is my fourth...? bergman movie, and goddamn. At the end tears sprang instantly into my eyes and I sat there for like 15 minutes and looked into darkness--it was the perfect movie for like 9:30 on a balmy summer night, feelings of undue nostalgia and sadness rolling over you. Like, even though the main character is a older man on the cusp of his life ending, the acts of him... sort of setting things into order, but in such a minimal way considering the movie basically takes place over a day and dream/flashbacks like. I'm not articulate enough for this, but it was so striking.
Fucking all his movies are, to be honest. One of those movies that reminds you "oh right, I could JUST watch good movies if I wanted" but also, "if I only watched the best movies everything else would feel so bad in comparison" and I don't ever want to be one of those people who like, hates all video game stories because literature is better or whatever (aka insufferable). Frequent incredible movie watching is good enough.
Of course being me, right before that I finished Yurukill, a adventure/visual novel game about a death game/escape room scenario where all the teams are a prisoner and "executioner" (obvious spoiler: person who was/would have been a victim of them but escaped it) where all the prisoners claim innocence. Also there's top down shooter segments. It's a pretty goofy mix but it worked well, and like, man sorry but I don't get tired of death game scenarios. It's not like there's a yearly danganronpa. I need more anime teens (or nicely, in this one like every prisoner was mid-late 20s) getting murdered horribly. It was a little linear and not bloody enough but I really like the concept and the end is HUGELY hinting at a sequel so I hope they make one that's padded out.
I also watched Titane finally. It was pretty good! but made me desperately want to watch Crimes of the Future... I think it's released on dvd but I'm gonna wait until my bday... I promise to myself... lol.
Oh and I (re)started Bully but I will beat it this time. It's fun to play and think about how many people want a sequel but I have no idea how that would be possible because of how things are now. (Though, unfortunately, that dickhead dude pretending to be your friend in the first chapter dressing up as a nazi for halloween would easily still work today, lmao.) It was controversial when it came out but now I think it'd be almost impossible.