Game of Thrones S8

I thought Game of Thrones deserved at least a mention. I could become another echo chamber of all problems with the season, or even comment on how it wasn’t a bad season. It was a painfully average tv season at the end of an amazing story, that abandoned its roots. But there is one unsung group of heros in westeros, that deserve mention. That tailors of westeros.

App whoever was in Daenerys’s side can make very stylish garments that by all means standout in every shot, and every scene. Constantly being surrounded by black, grey, and dirt, she is wearing a pitch white costume. It doesn’t make sense. Shes constantly wearing perfectly nice looking clothes in the middle of The Long Night. It caused a disconnect in every scene she was in. She didn’t feel like “one of the people”, no wonder no one wanted her to be ruler. Shes coming from a land that’s never seen clothing like that, and if shes using Westeros tailors, you’d think someone else would be wearing such high end white fured clothing. Cersei has a similar issue, since shes wearing armor, that never serves a purpose. Falling rocks bested her suit. I get that it helped with her transformation into a evil ruler, to switch between white and black clothes to signify character changes. But fuck, not needed. The burning of the city was quite enough thank you. And like where tf did she even get the white fur for the tailor to make her clothing.

This was just a great example of the show writers choosing style and appearance over actual story telling and realism.

The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018)



Trust me, this movie will definitely make you pray all night, for a better movie.

Full Disclaimer: This movie kept me entertained, it was entertaining to watch, even if I had to have some disbelief. Definitely wouldn’t recommend to anyone.

Plot: Two families with different hobbies meet on vacation.

Review: This horror movie has a great number of characters, you just can’t root for. They are all more or less shitty people. We have the dynamic duo of parents that don’t know how to control their children, or their finances. They know things have been tense in the household, so they vacation in a trailer park. With, one bed? They also, report ably went on vacation right after labor day weekend. So, they are missing school for this.

We have a emotionally dysfunctional teenage daughter, that’s too old to know how to behave, but too young to be able to get her fucking crap together. They tried to make a character that was a moody edgy teen, but forgot the reason for why shes like this. Shes just a byproduct of disaster. She literally smokes, while complaining about how shes being treated.

We have a brother that seems like a cool guy. Like the type of person that pretends not to care, even though he does. But, he flicked his sisters cigarette. A lit cigarette. In the middle of a grass field. That level of disregard. For safety. For the environment. He is a public menace. Its no wonder the strangers had enough with them.

That being said, this movie had a great sense of familial bonding. There were two stark differences from a comparative perspective. The main cast was an absolute trainwreck of a family, while the strangers were beyond ideal. Think about everything that makes the perfect family, they have it. The level of teamwork, how they coordinately teleported all over the trailer park. How well they worked together to give them a good scare. How well their outfits matched, and their weapon choices didn’t conflict. Their peak physical prowess. How much outrage they had when they saw one of their own die. Hell they even all shared the same interests. But, don’t get me wrong, there is obviously blaring reasons I couldn’t root for them.

The dad is a terrible driver. He goes so slowly, and plays his music a bit too loud. Its impolite. Not to mention driving INTO trailers, and even into other cars. The mother also just didn’t pull her share of the weight, the daughter and father did all the work. Any family cannot function if theres a slacker in the midst. The daughter, oh my goodness. She just left her friend Tamara out there, in a creepy trailer park. The world may never know if she is ever found.

Quick Shout-outs

  1. That Olympic microwave(?) toss
  2. Seatbelts are important, kids
  3. TELEPORTATION
  4. “I don’t know how these things will happen, I just want them to happen”
  5. “Have you seen Tamara?”
  6. Poor doggo booking it out of that room.
  7. “Yeah, we just keep out front store unlocked”
  8. 911 operator saying I need you to calm down, to girl saying THESE PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO KILL US
    1. Also, that being said, 911 not reading the signal location from either the phone or cellphone
  9. Empty trailer park
  10. Ummm weird porn sex? SOOO weird sex, but they’re also recording it?

Favorite Thing: I like the pace of the movie. It kept throwing interesting stuff at us, which helped the movie really feel like there was a sense of urgency. There weren’t a lot of rest spots for us to catch our breathe. I mean, sure, they had to witchcraft up ways for people to move, but it set a nice pace. Too many movies have long slow points where nothing is happening, which for a thriller, can only happen to an extent.



The Terrible Journey Begins

This is the start of something great. Semi-Satirical movie analysis, on movies I happen to watch. As a casual movie watcher I can easily find things that are urkesome, and I am duty bound to point them out. Almost all films can be abused. Except, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, that movie is perfect, and I will die by that statement.