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Galactic War update. Day 244-251

Paul McCartney from just a few years ago. 😀

What I Watched This Week #144 (Sep 30-Oct 6) Gandahar dir. Rene Laloux/1987/1h23m This French animated sci-fi tells the story of the planet Gandahar and an attack by mysterious Metal Men from the future. One warrior must set out to stop the threat and save the planet. This is from the same director as a film called Fantastic Planet and it shares the same truly alien atmosphere, there's some really weird stuff in here. I also love the style of the art, it's like the cover of a 50s sci-fi novel or a 70s prog rock album. Unfortunately the animation itself is cheap and basic and reminded me of a Saturday morning cartoon. The plot is simple yet also convoluted in places it doesn't need to be. I only had the option to watch the English dub which is star studded with the likes of Christopher Plummer, Glenn Close and, randomly, magician duo Penn and Teller, but none of the performances really stand out. Slightly meandering and obtuse this is still a fun trip, especially if you're a lil high. 7/10 Free Solo dir. Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin/2018/1h40m This documentary follows climber Alex Honnold as he prepares to become the first person to ascend the 3200 foot high sheer cliff face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park free solo, which means without the aid of any ropes or safety equipment. As a subject Honnold is interesting in that he's quite boring excepting the fact that he has the most extreme hobby in the world. His whole life is so focused on this incredible feat that it's to the detriment of his relationships, but when you see what he's doing you can understand why he needs to be like that. He describes free soloing at one point as the ultimate quest for perfection. When he climbs there is absolutely no room for error and he compares it to competing at the Olympics except that you have to win the gold medal and set a new record otherwise you'll die, that's how flawless he needs to be. But the most remarkable thing about this film is the footage of the actual climb, with co-director Jimmy Chin, himself a climber, working with Honnold to ensure that the crew don't distract him and cause him to fall thousands of feet to his death like so many of his fellow free solo climbers. It felt like I was holding my breath for the entire last half hour of this film, it's the scariest non-horror I've ever seen. 9/10 The Professor dir. Charlie Chaplin/1919/7m The Professor is a fragment of an unfinished film. The only sequence shot has Chaplin playing a flea trainer, Professor Bosco, spending a night in a homeless shelter where his box of fleas is upturned, the escaped performers causing chaos for the other residents. Despite being only a short fragment I still really enjoyed this and liked seeing Chaplin playing a different character. Like The tr*mp he's still down on his luck but there's an arrogance to him gives the perception that he used to be a success. And of course the physical comedy is of the highest standard, especially when he pulls out his whip in order to round up all of his fleas. It's a shame that he didn't finish this film or do anything more with this character. 7/10 Raya and the Last Dragon dir. Don Hall, Carlos Lopez Estrada/2021/1h47m Kelly Marie Tran stars as the titular Raya, a warrior who must track down the last dragon, Sisu (Awkwafina), in order to vanquish an ancient evil and unite the fractured clans of her land while also working on her trust issues which she developed as a child. This is a gorgeous looking film and I really like the design of the fictional world of Kumandra in which it takes place but the story is kind of bland and uninteresting. Raya is a very straight-forward main character with the humour in the film coming from Sisu but I just found her annoying and Awkwafina's performance just doesn't really fit the tone of the film. One thing I did miss from this film is the fact that Disney seem to be moving away from the musical style again as none of the characters sing. This isn't a bad film by any means, and there are more things I liked than I didn't, but it doesn't come close to being considered a Disney classic. 6/10 Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery dir. Jay Roach/1997/1h34m 60s superspy Austin Powers (Mike Myers) is unfrozen in the late 90s in order to battle his arch nemesis Dr. Evil (also Myers) and save the world with the help of the very shagadelic Vanessa Kensington (Elizabeth Hurley). This lovingly spoofs pretty much every aspect of the James Bond franchise but it also works if you've never seen a Bond film in your life. Powers as a character is instantly iconic, introduced in a brilliant title sequence set to Quincy Jones's Soul Bossa Nova, and I love the fact that Myers didn't make him an incompetent idiot for comedic effect. Just like Bond, Powers is ridiculous but also very good at his job. Dr. Evil is just as memorable a character and is a perfect send up of the classic Bond villain Blofeld. His relationship with his angsty teenage son Scott (Seth Green) is one of my favourite parts of this film. The script is packed full of jokes and most of them are still hilarious today because they don't rely on cheap pop culture references that become instantly outdated like a lot of spoof films do. 9/10 Lime's Film of the Week! Bone Tomohawk dir. S. Craig Zahler/2015/2h13m Bone Tomahawk is a western horror starring Kurt Russell as Sheriff Hunt who needs to track down a tribe of cannibals after they kidnap a local woman. Russell is always a solid lead and he gives a great performance here, as do several of the supporting cast like Matthew Fox and Richard Jenkins, but the overall feeling I got from this film is that it's pretty racist. It's like the filmmaker wanted a justification for slaughtering a load of Native Americans to the point that he literally dehumanises them, making them some strange, mutated monsters. Watching it I was thinking about the classic John Ford film The Searchers in which John Wayne plays a man searching for his niece who was kidnapped by a tribe of Native Americans. In that film his character is not the hero, he is a man full of hatred even before his niece is captured and would have found any excuse to kill as many of them as he can. By the end of the film he realises what he is and in an incredible final shot walks away from civilisation and out into the desert. I feel like the director of this film watched The Searchers and totally missed the point. But there is a pretty cool scene where a dude gets hacked in half lengthways. 4/10

After testing in 2bros, I've adjusted the shrinking circle to allow 5 seconds outside of the active area. I've also fixed the shrinking area to be the last three minutes as intended, instead of the last two minutes that it was incorrectly set to.

THREE SUMOS I Max. Players: 2-16 Number of Teams: Free-For-All Default Rounds: 1 Default Time: 10m:00s Average Round Time: ? Time of Day: 8:30am Weather: Foggy Weapons: Forced Only Published: 19 September 2024 Last Update: 13 October 2024 DESCRIPTION READ ME!!! Battle on three platforms, using three different vehicles, changing every three minutes. The final platform will begin to shrink at three minutes remaining. You have thr... five lives! Red platforms are ONLY to change areas! OVERVIEW A sumo style job with three platforms. Starting on the first in a Dune, then after three minutes the vehicle will change to a Liberator and the play area will change. After a further three minutes the vehicle will again change to a Wastelander and the play area will again change. With only three minutes left on the timer the final area will begin to shrink to the central platform. Bookmark Job _ See more of my creations _