I’ll explain all of this in the first entry.
Author Archives: Aki Vainio
My Top 10 Favorite Movie Endings
Endings are hard. Even many great movies miss with their ending, especially if they aim for the kind of feelgood ending that the filmmakers sometimes seem to feel let’s them off the hook with the rest of the movie, as long as the ending makes people feel like the movie was worth seeing when the rest of the movie wasn’t working. Hell, even the best movie of all time has the main character just sitting there for six minutes (it’s actually a great ending, but out of context sounds awful.)
My Favorite Movies of 2023
Here’s my immediate feeling when looking at the list of movies I’ve seen from last year: The strikes in Hollywood probably let me see many more movies from smaller studios or from around the world, which I would either have missed or maybe heard about years after. Kind of a side benefit from all that.
My Top 10 Favorite Movie Scenes of All Time
Spoilers. I’ll try to keep them lowkey, but at the same time, the thing about scenes is that they only work in context, so I can’t really avoid talking about that context. However, sometimes I don’t have to talk about the plot, but the character instead, so in those cases the spoilers are kind of meaningless.
Flavor Judge: Detectives in Murders at Karlov Manor
There’s some good ones, there’s some failures. Let’s go through all 47 of them. And maybe some other cards that mention detectives as well.
It’s 30 Years Since the Death of Kurt Cobain
Yeah… It’ll happen on April 4th to be exact. I’m 46, so he was a seminal figure in my youth.
About Midweek Magic
Dear, WotC, I know you won’t be listening to me, but…
I Finally Realized Why I Dislike D&D So Much
Thinking back it seems almost stupid that I hadn’t realized this previously…
Flavor Judge Returns: Is There Any Core to Kellan’s Character?
Three sets and four colors. That’s not very consistent.
On the GQ/Pitchfork Situation
If you haven’t heard, Condé Nast decided that in order to protect the band of Pitchfork (paraphrasing them), it has been folded into the organization of GQ. Shouldn’t someone actually look into what they own before making such decisions?