Movie recap of 2024

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Biggest disappointment of the year: Deadpool and Wolverine. Oh, how I HATED Deadpool and Wolverine. A pointless cameo-fest that deliberately set out to ruin Logan, a far superior film. I resent it massively.

Second-biggest disappointment of the year: Blitz. I was really looking forward to Blitz, especially since Saoirse Ronan was in it. But it was just… alright? The main child actor, Elliot Heffernan, does a very good job but it was just a depressing drag to watch him go from horror to horror.

Favourite animated film: The Wild Robot. Everyone raved about it and yep, they were right to. A really good and heartfelt movie. I hope it gets a sequel.

Favourite musical: I was ready to hate the musical version of Mean Girls but I actually really liked it. “Apex Predator” is one of my new favourite songs.

Favourite film based on a true story: Young Woman and the Sea. I love Daisy Ridley in everything. Same with Christopher Eccleston, who plays a positively moustache-twirling villain in this.

Hated film that I actually liked: Joker 2. Not perfect by any stretch of the imagination but I appreciated that the film actually had something to say and was trying to do something different.

Film that brought me closest to tears: Inside Out 2. I have anxiety, so it was inevitable.

Film I have not seen yet despite wanting to: Wicked. I love musicals but I was just never really into Wicked. I will catch it on streaming eventually, I promise! I’m glad it did so well because clearly a lot of people really love it.

My favourite film of the year: Fly Me to the Moon. As a kid who grew up being told amazing space stories and visiting space centers, I was always going to love a space-race-based love story. It’s a incredibly charming film. You should check it out!

28 Years Later trailer

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I LOVED the movie 28 Days Later when I saw it as a kid and I still adore it. I sat out 28 Weeks Later because I was so mad they’d made a sequel to a perfect movie. But this really good trailer for the next installment got me back into the franchise.

Set to a chilling arrangement of “Boots” by Rudyard Kipling. Really good use of a poem. (The Guardian has some more, also chilling, info.)

I—’ave—marched—six—weeks in ‘Ell an’ certify

It—is—not—fire—devils, dark, or anything,

But boots—boots—boots—boots—movin’ up an’ down again,

An’ there’s no discharge in the war!

reddit

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Today I can no longer access Old Reddit (the one with the remotely useable interface) and maybe that’s my cue it’s time to leave the platform. I did get into a huge argument last night about why you shouldn’t call female characters whores, and was downvoted. This was on a subreddit that is a haven for sexism and racism, but it stung all the same. Reddit is not for me. I’m there but I know it hates me. Sometimes I get creepy messages from strangers asking me out. It’s a weird, weird place.

My mother-in-law who I’m very close to is getting older and she doesn’t understand technology. She keeps getting pop-ups on her phone like this one, which I posted to reddit in a rage last year after finding it on a game I downloaded from Swagbucks. (Swagbucks itself is very good, but the free games they offer are soul-suckers.)


You and me know that that ad is a disgusting scam, but someone who lived the vast majority of their life without technology does not. If Luigi Mangione had gotten around to shooting the person who made that scam, I would break into prison just to shake his hand. Anyway, a year on and my mother-in-law is constantly worried about her phone because of scams like that one. That’s what she was worrying about today. I feel so bad for her and so unimaginably fucking angry that she has to deal with that. And I will never forget the response I got when I posted that screenshot to Reddit. It was this, upvoted seven times:


Caring for relatives is difficult. It ate up my childhood, and now as an adult I see even worse things, like Alzheimer’s. I see the disabled people of the world being prey to the monsters that scam them over their phones, and cunts like that just want to cape for the companies profiting off human misery. Burn in hell, “ps4rulez.”

…….Anyway, yeah, probably best to avoid Reddit for a bit. I wish I could take my mother-in-law out somewhere nice.

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