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[GitS: Innocence]

The coach was one of the few highlights.  He didn't give a shit.  I also liked the background character, Tina.

Last night I watch GitS: Innocence wrapping up a GitS kick I've been on of late.  This film is just disappointing.  It could have easily rivalled the original '95 film, but the awkward CGI throughout is far too jarring.  Sometimes the use of CGI blends beautifully with the 2D animation, but mostly it distracts.  The soundtrack was a poor rearrangement of the '95 film, and again is just distracting.  If there weren't these missteps, it would be a classic.  This film showcases some of the finest demonstrations of talent I've seen in an animated film - then it cuts to a butt ugly 3D rendition of seagull.

It's still a pretty good film, but the potential that it clearly could have been amazing leaves a sour taste.

[Teen Wolf]

I rewatched Teen Wolf for the first time since I was a kid.

Meh.  It has multiple themes going and none really have time to develop and resolve satisfyingly.  One thing the very explicitly makes sure you understand is it's not an allegory for being gay.  It did so very quickly.  It was like a drive-by but homophobia instead.

I can see why I remembered the film existing but hadn't, until now, sought it out to watch again.

[Strange Days]

I rewatched Strange Days.  I didn't like it much when I saw it around twenty years ago.  I thought I'd give it another go and see if I could find some value in it.  I could not.  It's a mess of a film and I found every beat it attempted (and it tried many) just failed to land and it ended up being incredibly tone deaf as well.  It seems like one of those disasters of a films that's ripe for a good dissecting because it fails in multitudinous ways to be a coherent piece of art.

I may have given it a pass if it was at least an interesting and/or entertaining mess.

[Azumi]

I wasn't in the mood for Godzilla.  I ended up watching Azumi instead - haven't seen it in a while.

[Lady Snowblood]

I watched the two Lady Snowblood films.  Enjoyed them both.  The first is a decent revenge story.  I'm not sure what the second film hoped to accomplish - if it was meant to be another revenge story I didn't quite get it.

I also watched Godzilla for the first time last night.  The original.  I liked it.  I was surprised at how much of a thoughtful reflection of nuclear weapons it actually turned out to be.  I was expecting mostly stompy-stompy-smash-smash.  I might watch it's sequel tonight.

Cool stuff, Woolly

[Dungeons and Dragons]

Dungeons and Dragons

The film is fine.  I can see why many found it enjoyable and I can also see why it didn't really have legs.  For the most part I had fun.  It had a very standard and generic story.  It's sense of levity was fine.  I'll admit a guilty pleasure in seeing the characters from the cartoon show up.  I saw that cartoon as a kid and have revisited as an adult and I still thoroughly enjoy it.  The film doesn't benefit from having the reference and it hindered my immersion.  Don't have me distracted by thinking about cartoons I enjoy, film - you're supposed to be keeping me engaged :rolling_eyes:

At times it seemed more like the film was targeted specifically to fans of D&D and not necessarily to a broader audience, which I guess is nice.  Without that connection it's really just another trashy, entertaining, action romp - the bread and butter of my movie nights of late.

I might make time to rewatch the cartoon again sometime in the future.

I have been ploughing through Naruto recently.  Mostly by accident.  I felt like reading something light for 20 minutes one day, plucked the first book from my shelves and have been almost obsessively reading it since.

I find it fascinating trying to figure out what I love so much about an incredibly flawed series.

Thank you all for the kind words.  It's been great getting a positive reaction to it - I'm very happy with how it turned out.

I have a few other more recent pieces I'm almost as happy with, but they don't have any connection of 2000AD related stuff.

is there a Sony Walkman just out of shot attached to her belt? 😂

Absolutely. 

After a recent couple of sessions where she lost agency as a crazed A.I. took control of her body I had her listening to music with it to help her centre herself. Just so I could make reference to the picture and a previous Traveller game where I played a musician character.

I get as much out of Rollerball as I ever did.  That said, I've always seen it as a bit campy and janky from the get-go and that's what charmed me.

I couldn't get more than 15 minutes through the remake.

This is a quick picture I did of my current character for my TTRPG groups game of Mothership, Jocasta Neuro.  She is an android and a leader within a android rights group called the Android Liberation Front.

I think it's obvious what I drew a lot of inspiration from, so I think it's appropriate to share.

I finished reading all of the main series Discworld novels last night.
It has been a ride seeing how the series changed and developed from one book to the next.
The peak of the series happened before The Last Hero
I was certainly less impressed with the last few books and I'm really unsure about the final one.  The afterword seemed to contained a caveat that it wasn't actually finished and I can see that.  On the one hand I can see how it may be regarded as a nice way to end the Tiffany Aching series and the series in general... on the other hand I think it should have been left on the shelf and Raising Steam was the last book.  That book was about how the Discworld was changing and would never be the same again and that would have been a great beat to end on.  I also think I Shall Wear Midnight was a nicer point to end Tiffany Aching's story.
Still good books and enjoyable reads.  Going to need to cleanse my palette after this, though.

[Midsommar]

I finally got around to watching Midsommar.  Well half of it.

This might be controversial, because I've only heard good things about this film, but oh my god is this film a boring pile of shite.  My initial reaction was "oh, this is high-brow hostel".  It may have been, I don't know, I didn't get to the actual horror.  I was too irritated by the arsehole characters and their tedious bullshit.  I'm not fond of the pagan cult bullshit, either.

It would have been better if it were shorter and faster paced, had charismatic and compelling characters or both.

I have sat all the way through utter detestable garbage that I despise, so I think it's pretty damning to a film if I turn it off half way through because I don't think it's worth finishing it.

Nevertheless, I can see why other people might enjoy it.

All I ever remember of that film is the mass decapitation scene.

Funny thing about B5 is even if I disregard Season 5 and pretend it doesn't exist, the show still badly fumbles it's ending.

It does actually bother me a little because I think the first three seasons are great.  The build in tension is wonderful and it just got better and better.  But I can really tell Season 4 was rushed and Season 5 is a mess.  There was a story to be told and they were on track to tell it and then they got derailed.  I can't help but think of what could have been.