Wisecracking mercenary Deadpool battles the evil and powerful Cable and other bad guys to save a boy's life.
It’s not as funny as it ought to be. Josh Brolin is admirable playing the straight man without which I am not sure most of this would work.
★★★
After his retirement is interrupted by Gorr the God Butcher, a galactic killer who seeks the extinction of the gods, Thor Odinson enlists the help of King Valkyrie, Korg, and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster, who now wields Mjolnir as the Mighty Thor. Together they embark upon a harrowing cosmic adventure to uncover the mystery of the God Butcher’s vengeance and stop him before it’s too late.
Watched this for family film night. Drew some big laughs from the kids but…
I feel like this is a classic example of a film where none of the fun from the creative process actually translates into the movie. I often review films based on whether (I think) they achieve what they set out to do. Aside from making Mighty Thor pretty awesome, I am not at all sure what this movie achieves.
This is in stark contrast to Deadpool 2, which I watched later, which is similarly anarchic and unsubtle in its humour but does exactly what you’d expect.
★★
Song · Ramones · 1979
Judy Is a Punk by Ramones
A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.
This review may contain spoilers.
I dunno which version has the aliens threatening mankind with tidal waves but that bit is shit
★★★★ (contains spoilers)
I “do” data stuff for work. We look at patient experience in health and social care services. When I first joined, I (and colleagues) genuinely believed there was some revelatory nugget of insight (or even scandal) hidden away in the data. Now I’m just happy when our results affirm things everyone already assumes to be true, like working people would like increased access to evening and weekend appointments. Findings like people in poorer areas rely more on public transport, validates our research approach and methods. So, when we do find something slightly unexpected, it has a lot more credibility.
Two twenty-somethings, both reeling from bad break-ups, connect over the course of an eventful day in South London – helping each other deal with their nightmare exes, and potentially restoring their faith in romance.
Had some big laughs with this. It is shot a bit like a student’s final project, where it feels like they’re going for extra credit, but I liked that for the most part. And I really enjoyed the tour of Brixton and Peckham. Made a nice change!
★★★★
Decided to give this a second chance. Decided the only thing this has going for it is how “now” it felt and that won’t last.
★★½
There’s lots of examples going around of generative AI giving bad results but here’s a fun thing you can try at home. Works best if you’re a nobody. Ask ChatGPT (or any similar technology) what it knows about you (based on your first name, last name). In my case ChatGPT decided that my name was just a pseudonym for a famous person with the same last name and asserted that we were the same people.
See how it works for you. Based on the results, you might consider this tech a viable platform for factual information or you might not.
It’s polling day in the UK, which means we’ll have seamless, live coverage of absolutely nothing until 10pm when the polls close. Then we’ll have an exit poll and live coverage of nothing happening for several more hours, until the first counts come in. In fact, the next 18 hours of news in the UK will contain very little actual news.
I was thinking about Trump’s conviction this morning and it occured to me that, if he had repaid Michael Cohen the hush money from the campaign fund AND written “Hush money for porn star” in the accounts – neither he nor Cohen would have done anything illegal
