So Over it

Conditions: Cold and Dark

The Washington Post is full of Shit

Seriously, in the middle of careful negotiations with Iran over Nuclear weapons what do they print?

War with Iran is probably our best option
[...]

Sanctions have never stopped a nuclear drive anywhere.

Does this mean that our only option is war? Yes, although an air campaign targeting Iran’s nuclear infrastructure would entail less need for boots on the ground than the war Obama is waging against the Islamic State, which poses far smaller a threat than Iran does.

- washingtonpost.com/

Some newspapers simply don't understand the whole mantra about great power coming with great responsibility. You know, that whole thing that most 10 year old's understand.



Film Review: Jupiter Ascending

The Wachowskis return to big blockbuster movies with this, a film about a regular ordinary girl who cleans house but turns out to be the reincarnation of a Queen, and the rightful owner of the Earth. Yes, turns out planets can be owned by people. Oh and also, vast alien civilisations are out there, complete with fleets that drive around and we don’t see them. Also, various aliens are here on Earth doing various things but are just able to erase people’s memories, or hide from view, and fix anything they break in moments, so yeah. It’s kind of Men In Black meets Fifth Element, meets Soylent Green?

See the queen’s kids seem to cruise around harvesting people off various planets and turning them into goo which they then bathe in in order to be forever young. The Earth is all ready for processing, but there’s the paperwork that needs to be processed. Rightful owners, all that kind of stuff. Which is where Mila Kunis comes into it. By simply assassinating her, then the eldest son can just have the Earth but the other siblings hire Channing Tatum – a part-werewolf in awesome Rocket Boots which are like the best thing in the entire film – to keep her safe. So Mila and us are literally whooshed away into space to spend time with all the crazy kids and various aliens while the plot tries to untangle itself and get some momentum. Mila has to be properly recognised as the queen reincarnated, and that means paperwork.

Seriously, although they make a joke of it, the bureaucracy of the movie really sinks it out of sight. Mila’s character has to have so many attempts on her life and spends so much time falling off things it should really have been called Mila falls: the movie. And when that’s not happening it’s a slow slog through various scenes of Mila being told things by others. Look, it’s bold and colourful, and fairly imaginative, but the core of this movie is just inert. Action sequences either erupt into a totally incomprehensible blur of lights and explosions, or plod along. Mila has no time to develop any kind of arc for herself, and her final choice to go back to cleaning houses I think comes more from PTSD than anything else. Two and a half bottles of shampoo out of five.



- Peace out