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Yeah, I Watched Megalopolis, the Movie Most People Have Already Forgotten and for a Good Reason
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Author Archives: Aki Vainio
Superman 2025 Is Both the Classic Superman We Know and Perfect for the Moment
We get that young man who just wants to help everyone, but we also get a more intersectional vision of the world he is helping. He might be American, but he isn’t just interested in the well-being of Americans. In fact, the incident, which starts the movie, but actually happens before the movie starts, is him stopping a foreign war.
The Mandatory Performative Pride Month Post, 2025 Edition – Everyone Was Queer in Greek Mythology
These are the ones I found easily, but this is just a very surface-level look at the topic. This was partly inspired by Hades 2, which I’ve been playing quite a bit lately, and it’s predecessor.
My Top 10 Favorite Adult Animated Movies
First, not that kind of adult.
Here I am, sitting in a guesthouse in Tórshavn (that would be the capital of Faroe Islands, a town with a whopping 14k people) that functions as a student dormitory during the semester and somehow this idea for a post pops in my head. No idea why. This isn’t a sly joke or anything. I just found it weird I came up with this idea when looking at the skeletons of a pilot whale and an orca hanging from the ceiling of the National Museum. The problem with this is that I can’t rewatch any of these right now, so this is based on my memories of these movies (which has been waning, but here we are).
But why do we tend to think of animations as children’s entertainment? There is nothing inherently child-like in animation. It is just another production method or, more precisely, a set of methods.
From the Wonderful World of John Wick: Ballerina
TL;DR: It definitely feels like a movie from that franchise, but also manages to be different enough to be worth a watch.
The Mandatory Performative Pride Month Post, 2025 Edition – My Head Canon of Fever Ray’s First Three Albums
Here we go again: I am boringly cis and straight white male, so I always need to be careful about what I say, because I am naturally going to be ignorant of many things, because I don’t have to experience them myself. I am in many ways shielded from the world. This is just part of my learning process and I hope people can be patient with me.
While my last post was just me thinking out aloud, I think this is more celebratory and thus more in the spirit of Pride.
Who is Fever Ray anyhow?
The Mandatory Performative Pride Month Post, 2025 Edition – How Forgiving Should We Be to the Past?
I was reading a book called Making Movies by Sidney Lumet and I have problems with it.
Also, my usual caveat. I am boringly cis and straight white male, so I always need to be careful about what I say, because I am naturally going to be ignorant of many things, because I don’t have to or have a chance to experience them myself. I am in many ways shielded from the world. I am not trying to get angry on anyone’s behalf. I’m just basically thinking out aloud.
Also, Pride Month is supposed to be celebratory and this isn’t.
AI in Creative Projects: Still Mostly Useless
I’ve been writing a novel. While in general I’m not interested keeping my projects very secret, this one feels like an idea I want to keep close to my chest for now. That doesn’t stop me from bringing up various uses of AI during this process.
First, not one word has been written by an AI. That’s the fun of this project. I want to write, because I like to write and it helps me get away the stresses of my job. There wouldn’t be much point to this if I just let AI do the writing. I will, at some point, go through the text with an AI tool, probably ProWritingAid, to fix the inevitable grammar problems, but even then I won’t allow the AI to make any decisions, just make suggestions.
My Take on Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning or If You Are Going to Use Hundreds of Millions to Make a Movie, Could Someone Do a Little Bit of Research
Well, it’s an M:I movie. What else do you need to know?
Final Destination: Bloodlines Review by Someone Who Hadn’t Seen a Final Destination Movie Before
Some light spoilers, but it doesn’t really matter when the point of the movie is seeing convoluted deaths rather than an actual plot or characterization, it doesn’t really matter that much.
Sure, I had an idea about what the gimmick is, so I wasn’t going in completely blind, but while I tried to find a boxset of Final Destination movies at some point out of interest, I could never find a decent one, so I have never seen the actual movies.