3 Movies and a Video Game

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It's, I got a lot to pack into this episode, and, I don't know. I'm gonna probably get out of breath because I when I I don't wanna have a bunch of notes, I kinda just follow along and read and all of a sudden realize I'm deep out of breath and, out of shape as it were in podcasting and talking. And so hopefully you don't hear too much of the sounds from me today, but I'll do my best. Three movies and a game all in ten minutes, all from this weekend. I'll have links, I put links in the show notes to, my Letterboxd profile, which is a great site for cataloging and saving and and marking movies that you wanna watch or have watched.

And I'm a nerd that way as far as like stats and tracking stuff like that and curious to see when I exactly I watched a certain movie and and stuff like that. And then also using it to category or list movies that I want to watch cause I always forget if I don't put them somewhere. It's a little easier now with like Netflix having a list and stuff, but not every movie's on there. I digress. Also with a link to my Steam profile.

Steam is a a way you can, buy and, I guess yeah. Buy and download and sort of community of games. A lot of indie games are on there, but there's lot of bigger company games, sort of major publishers as well that are using it now. But basically, it allows you to sort of buy a game through a store and then install the store platform on whatever computer and just pick up your game and keep going. And, it's really neat, actually.

Really neat community on there. I only have a couple friends on there. Thanks to action j on Twitter who, a friend of mine here locally who loaned me some of his. You can share your games through there somehow and, with your family and friends or whatever. And as long as he's not on, then I can use it for a bit.

So it was kind of a way to try out some of these games and, I'll probably be talking about more of them. There's lots of, like, little fun $510 games on there. Anyways, don't want I'll get into that later. So the three movies that we watched this weekend, we actually had a we didn't plan on it. We don't usually plan to have like a big movie binge, but we just and it turned out that way.

The first one was that we watched actually on Friday because it was a long weekend here. Friday night, we watched Harry Potter and, something of something. I always forget all the movies. The Half Blood Prince. So we've watched all the movies before except for the last one, the very last one, which is Split Out two, but so it's part two.

And I think we think. See, we watched them, like, when we we started watching them as we had kids, I think. And so often they're interrupted by feedings, burping, going back to sleepings, and, you know, that kind of stuff. So it's kinda this weird deja vu of, like, I think I saw this, but I can't remember where or when exactly Harry did what and Hermione and the whatever and who the princes are and the who's with who and stuff like that. So and and I find the movies are kinda weird that way anyways as terms of tracking.

I have never read the books. I read the first one, I think, but I haven't read the books. Sue is actually reading the books, and as she finishes them, we're watching rewatching the movies. And so we're up to the Half Blood Prince on the weekend is what we watched. And, I love the, like, the fantasy elements of the films and obviously the books first, but that whole idea, like a kid waking up to a whole different world of magic and wizards and witches and sort of the just that fantasy element.

But for me in the movies and I like, I love them and I watch them regardless. But in the movies, it often feels like there's this contrived, like, sense of secrecy. We don't wanna tell people exactly what's going on. Harry doesn't get informed about something by Dumbledore or whoever. And it's kinda like it feels unnatural and an unreasonable level of secrecy about something where if they just told him, it would make a lot more sense and then he could just help them or stay out of the way or whatever it is in each movie.

And, and it feels like that's kind of the premise of each movie where Harry stumbles across something that if they just told him about it in the first place, everything would work actually a lot better. And I like, I understand in movies, like, you need that idea of it's okay to have separation and and secrecy between characters and stuff as a story element. And like I said, the movies are all kind of a blur. I haven't read the books. Probably if I had if I read the books, which I plan to someday, I'd have better mental hooks for all the things that are going on and happening.

And and Sue has been telling me about stuff that's missing from the movies that just fills in more details as often happens when books are made into movies. But, anyways, loving rewatching that, enjoying rewatching that series, and looking forward to finding out how it ended. We had the big spoiler or the big, reveal of some intense information on Half Blood Prince that was kinda sad, but I won't tell you what because if you haven't seen it, it's you don't wanna know until it happens. But, Harry Potter becomes a wizard. Sorry.

I spoiled it for you. Wild was this other movie we watched. Not the second one. It was actually the third one. We're gonna come back to the second one.

And it's another movie where Sue has read the book, but I haven't. It's on Netflix, at least here in Canada anyways now. So easy to pick it up and watch. I'm actually not a I don't know why I looked outdoors. That's a nice little segue.

I'm not an outdoors person at all really. I don't I don't really avoid sleeping in tents or anything, but I don't like seek it out a lot. It's something we wanna do again with our family, camping and stuff, and we've kind of been waiting until a little bit older and out of the crib phase to try it again. But, and we certainly will. But I I love movies like this oddly enough, perhaps because it's so far from my reality maybe.

It's almost a fantasy thing, but the premise of the movie is the, I forgot the main character, Cheryl, goes to basically leaves her life, needs to kick a heroin addict addiction and a bad marriage, and basically and then goes on this long hike through the, on the West Coast through the, Pacific Coast Trail, I think it's called. And, and basically goes on this journey, has no idea what she's getting into. They don't really spell it out too much in the movie, but the fact that she has completely no idea about this, never done it before and just picks up one day basically and decides to do it, which is obviously even more detail in the book. And, that's not the part that interests me so much, but just the idea of, you know, going out in nature, going out for on this kind of long trek, not knowing where you're gonna end up, putting your life on hold as sorts and and seeing where you land on the other side and obviously, you know, the adventures and hijinks that happen in between. And so the movie and visually, the movie is really beautiful seeing the scenery of of what I assume was a lot of, like, Oregon and, stuff out out west.

And then but we noticed in the trailer or in the, credits that Quebec film board was thanked. So some of the scenes may have been doubled up, here in Canada and Quebec for some of the scenes on the trail. So, but definitely worth worth a watch if that's kind of thing that interests you at all. And, what was the oh, and the third second movie we watched, third one I'll talk about is something that's, I've been wanting to watch for a while. Again, I watched the first half of it, I think, almost maybe six months ago or whatever and got interrupted for some reason, probably kids or something.

But it's The World's End, is a movie by directed by Edgar Wright, starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, whole bunch of people, Martin Freeman. British folks that if you don't recognize them, but very you'd recognize them. Simon Pegg has been in, Star Trek and the new Star Trek series, and I forget what else North American flicks that he's been in. But, he's in the new Star Wars apparently, but, you know, has a character. Anyways, I love Edgar Wright.

I love the movie. I love Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, Martin Freeman. And I love the whole trilogy of movies they call jokingly sort of the Cornetto trilogy, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World's End. And, so I'm pretty biased when it comes to like, I know I knew going into this I was gonna like the movie, So it's hard to like say objectively that, whether I would have liked it or not. But, I think just like the writing, editing, production style of Edgar Wright is so good.

It feels almost almost like two on the nose until you compare it to some modern day North American comedy films. Like there's a documentary which I'll link to in the show notes, called How to Do Visual Comedy from Tony Zhu, I think is how you say his name, a series on Vimeo he's got called Every Frame a Painting, where he compares, not just the Cornetto trilogy, but also, other movies by Edgar Wright. I'm blanking on the comic book one that sort of anyways, you know what it is. Anyways, and so I think like that his movies, if you've seen a trailer for Shaun of the Dead, for example, it looks probably I don't remember the trailer exactly, but it probably looks a lot like a zombie movie and people either like love or hate a zombie movie. And, Hot Fuzz is a bit of a, like, hot cop drama mystery movie.

And then World's End has some science fiction elements, which I I don't know if they expose that in the trailer or not. But all three are like, those are kinda just like story elements and rappers for a much better, story that gets told and joke and sort of fun adventure that the main characters go on that just happens to have some, say, zombie element zombie elements or science fiction elements. And it's not like I don't know. It's like a premise. It's a plot vehicle, I guess, or something.

It's not like, it's not a true zombie movie. Let's say, Shaun of the Dead, I don't think necessarily. It's more of a a comedy with some zombie elements, if that makes sense. And it's really worth watching visually entertaining. The writing is really good, and acting is amazing.

And yeah. Just the whole package, I guess, for from a comedy movie perspective, such such such a high bar in my mind as far as what, a movie could be like, it can be like. And you don't need to watch all three in order or anything like that. There's no like, there's certain elements and and recurring gags, but those gags would probably be sort of wrapped up or caught as you watch them in any order. But it certainly doesn't hurt to watch them from Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz to The World's End if you haven't ever.

So that's that. The oh, I'm way over time. Okay. Quickly. Terraria is the game.

So three movies in a game. Again, thanks to ActionJay for sharing Steam accounts. I could try this out. It's kinda like Minecraft in two dimensions instead of three. It's not a new game.

It's already sold 12,000,000 copies, which is crazy awesome for, like, an indie game. It's about $11 on Steam. I think it's on on I iOS, like iPhone, iPad. It's, I 6 think, bucks or something like that. I haven't tried it on iPhone.

There's a bit of a higher learning curve to start with in Minecraft I found at least on the computer side, through Steam. It's there's a helpful guide in the game to walk you along, but a lot of stuff happening and a lot of little icons to sort of track and figure out what's going on. Our oldest saw me playing it for about five minutes on the weekend and said he was dreaming about that night. But that's a little bit of his personality, but kids definitely get into it. It's kind of fun just like hacking away.

It's it's interesting like it's all a little older pixel style or or I don't know if it's Voxel or pixel or whatever style art that for me looks like a return to like, you know, stuff from twenty years ago almost now. And so it feels like why would I wanna play an older game when I you can go forward. But actually, it's tons of fun. There's a multiplayer option which I haven't explored, but you can definitely do that on your computers where you can all play on the same world together. I have more to say about it probably as I play it.

And, I'll include a link to my Steam profile in case anyone wants to join in. We can you can actually play, apparently, multiplayer over Steam, and connect that way. And, yeah, links in the show notes to the game on Steam to iOS. There'll be links in the show notes to World's End, to Wild, Harry Potter on the various platforms that you might wanna watch it on. And, if you if you do actually by the way, if you do click one of those links, especially iTunes ones, I get a small affiliate kickback, I guess, or whatever from that.

So if you're gonna buy it or or whatever or rent it, might as well click through the link to help me out. Few pennies. Okay. That's it. I went over apologize for going over my ten minute self imposed limit that you guys didn't really impose on me, but I just did.

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