Over the last 12 hours I have been trying to do something with dates in WordPress/PHP. It feels like a shell game. When is a date not a date?
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Was just reviewing commit comments to find when I made a change. It was taking ages. Then I remembered I have changelogs ?
Survey fail from the ECB
Like the antithesis of the Mandy soundtrack. I love it ?
Fear Street: 1666, 2021 – ★★★½
In 1666, a colonial town is gripped by a hysterical witch-hunt that has deadly consequences for centuries to come, and it's up to teenagers in 1994 to finally put an end to their town's curse, before it's too late.
Of the three, this one musters a much stronger Stranger Things vibe. It pays off parts 1 and 2 REALLY well. There is some properly brutal shit, rivalling part 1.
There is SO much to like about this but something just doesn’t play right. It just doesn’t feel like enough. If this had been a 12 episode limited series I feel like people would be going nuts for it. Maybe it just needed a bit more budget? In the UK, I still feel like the 18 cert adds an expectation that isn’t met.
I don’t think I liked this part much more than I liked the other parts. It has the same problems, in the form of pace killing heart-to-hearts and the same strengths, characters you give a shit about and a zany story.
I think the whole is greater than the sum of it’s parts.
Fear Street Part Two: 1978, 2021 – ★★★½
In 1978, two rival groups at Camp Nightwing must band together to solve a terrifying mystery when horrors from their towns' history come alive.
Well, I liked it more than 94. I wasn’t thrilled with the score in some parts and there were some weirdly long monologues/confessionals that killed the pace. Also, didn’t Guardians have this soundtrack?
But I liked the summer camp setting WITH campers. I liked the characters and the relationships. I liked the transition from petty camp bullshit/bullying to bloodbath, where we just end up focused on a few characters. I liked how it built the mythology and I liked the tone.
Regarding the tone, I feel there is some sort of disconnect on the UK rating. I guess the 18 is for violence but the tone is somewhere between a 12A and a 15. It feels odd.
High-Rise, 2015 – ★★★
Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.
I really enjoyed the first half, maybe 2/3rds, but then it seems to get a bit lost. Bit more pace in the last act would have helped a lot.
Akira, 1988 – ★★★★★
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.
I think the subs must have improved since I last saw this because it made sense!
Jóhann Jóhannsson · Song · 2018
I feel this.
Fear Street Part One: 1994, 2021 – ★★
In 1994, a group of teenagers discovers that the terrifying events which have haunted their town for generations are all connected — and that they may be the next targets.
Erm. No. This needed to lose a good 15 minutes. I actually got bored.
I confess that I might be a victim of my own expectations on this one.