Mahesh – Google

Ironically, this is a truly badly written book and I'm surprised that the author won a Pulitzer prize for another. This book has the typical self-fascination of New Yorkers. Which is one of the reasons I left that stinky, dirty city: everyone was so smug about it and would say "only in New York..." like they've been living there forever. I started to feel like banging my head against Art Deco building walls every time I'd hear that phrase. I guess it's a form of self-congratulation because they made it there, and as Sinatra said, it means you can make it anywhere. I felt no engagement in the book, couldn't care less about all the characters he brought in, of which there were too many, and I have no interest in nature whatsoever and the entire book seems to hinge on his pursuits amongst the trees and mountains and animals. He brings in so many people as characters, all of them with little meat or substance to remember them by. I'm just not really fascinated by his life or what he does. I find mine far more interesting. I gave up reading the book after 25 pages, skimmed the rest, realized I wouldn't find anything useful and put it in a Little Free Library only because I can't throw away a book no matter how bad it is. Sadly someone else is going to pick it up and waste their time on it.

Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process

Feels almost like a comedy. A buddy-alien movie with a metaphorically toothless and castrated Predator and his buddy, the funny female Android. Mix up a bit of T-X, the Terminatrix, M3GAN and Sarah Silverman for the Android. The Predator feels like a combo of Chewbacca, Barf from Spaceballs, a hippo's tusks. POSITIVES: some humor. About 50% of the CGI looks realistic. NEGATIVES: *the humor*. Cheesy CGI, 50% of it. The cute alien, only slightly better than Gizmo from The Gremlins and Jawas from Star Wars put together. The alien rhino. All hackneyed, so unoriginal.

Predator: Badlands

Asterix and the Actress

Was AI used to write it? Impossibly cringe, impossibly bad, impoZZZibly boring and sleep-inducing. A $400 million B movie. A cookie cutter plot: AI wants to take over the world, Armageddon, the world as we know it will end, nuclear holocaust, some Russians, a physical McGuffin (key!) in an AI world -- the regular lineup of tropes. A poorly developed script. Uninspired acting. Ridiculous scenes including biplanes near the finale. Plot holes bigger than the US budget deficit. A medical explanation that's almost completely wrong and no one should try at home. But you can laugh all the way through because it's so bad. That's entertaining enough.

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

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Black Bag

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Vaffancullo, Parthenope. The movie tries a new trick: to wrap philosophy in sensuality and bikinis, on Mediterranean beaches and sumptuous visuals of architecture and decor. However, It fails in philosophy and sensuality but is a surprise winner in the categories of tediousness, pretentiousness and shallowness. While the film certainly has good parts, anyone who has had a romance with a Mediterranean person in a Mediterranean summer will submit that it mostly fails at being sensual. It's to sensuality what Jaws 3 is to the original Jaws. The ridiculous plot "twist" near the end doesn't tie in to the story at all, even if the story is considered to cover both sensuality and maternity. Sensuality, sensuality, sensuality, sensuality -- you'll be slapped with it every step of the way, you won't be given a chance to experience it for yourselves. The good parts? Greta Cool -- complex and offensive people like her exist in real life. And the visuals are sumptuous. And Gary Oldman, top-class as ever, even though he overplays the role -- it needed a slight bit more delicacy for the character's emotionality and fragility. Finally, It doesn't even have the "graphic nudity" the rating promises. Bring the popcorn, it's the only thing which will keep you going.

Parthenope

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