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There are exactly 10 days until the end of the month. It's a good time to get back on track or make a new goal.
What have you been watching? I saw the Minecraft movie in the cinema this week and it was better than I expected. I came in with very low expectations but it was a fun time, especially in the cinema
That's cool! I've never even played Minecraft so I think I'd be so lost watching that. I haven't even been to the theaters in forever but I'm going with old friends to watch Star Wars Episode 3 rescreening soon so I'll be binging the entire series according to Ring Theory this week and end with Episode 3 when we go watch it. Curious to see how theaters are these days.
I watched Solaris most recently for the first time which was mind blowing to say the least. It was so fascinating and a really cool twist to SciFi film plots. Gorgeous film. Also recently watched Fassbinder's World on a Wire. Another film that was really well done and very much ahead of its time. I actually really liked it and would recommend it, but I kept falling asleep through it repeatedly and had to split it up over 4 nights. I think it was just mostly stress exhaustion though, not the film's fault. It's a made for West German TV film though so it naturally splits into two parts, I just split each part into a further split. Then watched only the last 3 episodes of Samurai Champloo last night just to watch the end for the hell of it with a bunch of free Indian food a friend gave me because it was accidentally delivered to her and she didn't want it, which was delicious, by the way. It was fun!
I guess I haven't actually watched anything trashy lately according to my list. Just throw on Simpsons or Seinfeld when I want to take it easy.
Have you seen Soundtrack for a Coup d'etat? I watched that recently and it's suuuuch good tankie material, literally because lots of Khrushchev but still excellent!
I haven't watched it but I've heard it's good. My favourite Tarkovsky movie is definitely Stalker. I want to go to the cinema to watch Mickey 17 this week.
Yeah, Stalker is such a classic. So far only watched those two films of his.
Hope you enjoy the movie!