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Oct. 14th, 2018 09:33 pm- This is a short film that's kind of a prequel to Far Cry 5, made by the same people who made the game, in case anyone was ever wondering what I was talking about and didn't want to play the game to find out. To be honest, I don't always think the characters in this quite match up to how they are in the game, and most of them are played by different actors between one and the other - Jacob in particular doesn't strike me the same, and John barely does anything. Faith's pretty close though, and Joseph Seed is played by the same guy, and he's pretty much spot on. Although he looks less old in the game because it's a game and the graphics smooth out all the lines on his face, and he's constantly shirtless. Also he's less furious. But other than that he's pretty much spot-on, and Greg Bryk is amazing. Warning for some fucked up stuff and cult themes, and some pretty graphic violence towards the end.
I love Joseph Seed, but he is very difficult. - The worst thing that I like at the moment is this. It's a Sportacus/Lil Jonn mash-up which is cut to look like a man is screaming sexual obscenities at a little girl, and I genuinely expect people to defriend me after finding out I like it, and yet I still find it so funny I could die. Excellent editing. The main thing it's done to me is that I can't imagine anyone using binoculars/opera glasses anymore without it being a 'damn, girl' sort of thing. It makes using binoculars in games or imagining anyone enjoying opera very hard.
- I saw a frog on my way home from work yesterday. A frog. Just on a pavement near my house. I can't even imagine where it came from, except that we do have a few housing estates with ponds in them near is. It looked very nervous of me.
- Also I'm pretty sure I saw a buzzard flying over our house the other day? It's very hard to identify birds after the fact, but it was definitely a bird of prey. All the nature.
- I went to see Venom for the second time yesterday, with my mother. I'm not sure if that was the best idea. Not because of the film really, just because the original plan was for us all to go see it last week, me, my mum and dad, and then we couldn't because of the Social Services situation. And I kind of mentioned that it was crap and depressing that we couldn't even plan the occasional trip out together without my sister's situation suddenly getting in the way and ruining it, and then when I was planning to go see it again this weekend - and kind of looking forward to seeing it alone, and not worrying about whether the person I was with was enjoying it or not or would criticise it afterwards - my mum suddenly said she thought she might come with me. And I felt a bit bad about saying no. It was fine I guess. But it got weird and quiet afterwards. She only came to see it for Tom Hardy. And, in terms of the actual film, I only really went to see it again because I ship Eddie/Venom, and I wasn't really going to discuss that with her after we came out.
But for the film itself, I'm going to say that I will absolutely admit it's not a great film, but I think it's genuinely a good film, and for the people who enjoy that kind of thing they will probably love it, like I did. I would give it a 6/10, and a solid 6/10 - not 'underwhelming', like solidly entertaining, and with some stuff that makes it better than just a 5/10. Tom Hardy's great, as I pretty much assumed he would be. Plus there's the fact that I always found Eddie Brock more interesting as a character than Venom, really, and his relationship with the symbiote, and even though it deviates from the comics the film was chock-full of that. There were quite a lot of parts that were a little awkward, or just seemed like weird decisions for the writer/director/actors to make, like you would just think "why would they ever do that?". I want to say 'embarrassing', and I guess it kind of is, but it's more like things just fell a little flat. But not in a way that really ruins the film in my opinion, or that you couldn't handwave away. There is one massive plothole that I didn't notice until after I saw the film and some article pointed it out, but I think you can fix that with some solid headcanon cement. No problems. And a lot of the rest of the film was really good, like really properly great. And there were a lot of little things I liked, like the female characters being treated pretty well, and them not doing a couple of cliche things I expected them to do. And I wanted to go in and ship Eddie/Venom, which is always a slightly odd thing to do with any property, and it didn't go quite as hard on the whole 'possession' thing as I was hoping it would, but what do I know, and it was pretty good anyways, and I did ship Eddie/Venom. And just in general I think they can iron out the kinks, and hopefully come back with an even better sequel if they do well enough. And after years of just being kind of bored with Marvel films and their style of superhero/comic book films, that was really nice. After the Ghostbusters reboot and Spiderman: Homecoming being one of the few Marvel films I really enjoyed, I kind of only trust Sony to make films now. They make things that are fun. - I was very prepared for Venom to be one of those films that I really liked and almost everyone else hated, and was sort of generically panned on the internet, and then one of the people whose Let's Plays I watch tweeted that he couldn't believe he really liked Venom, and would go see it again and hoped it did well enough for a sequel, and would give it a 6/10. And then I didn't know how to feel. I had all those shields and nothing to do with them.
- If a harpy has arms, it's not a harpy. It's just not. I'm sorry.
