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haven't been here in a bit

but i have an idea for what i want to use cohost for to get me using it again. i've been trying to keep a record of all of my ticket stubs that i've held onto for the last decade. i was trying to consider my options. when i first tried doing this, i was simply throwing them up on imgur and linking to it in my letterboxd rating. however, there's been some discussion about imgur link rot, and with letterboxd being bought out there's also the chance of things going tits up over there.

then i realized that someone made a really cool letterboxd embed thing for cohost that i could use. that way i could write my review over there, embed it in a post here, and then include the stub as an image alongside it. could be fun! i'll give it some thought. might need a tag idea to make it easy to avoid so i''m not flooding people's feed with a couple hundred posts. lemme know if you have any ideas.

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Bullet Train Review

Bullet Train Review

Bullet Train is not an especially original film, part of a long lineage of silly hyperviolent action films that have been solidly part of the culture in one way or another since Guy Ritchie and Quentin Tarantino got their careers started. Bullet Train definitely comes more from the Guy Ritchie mold, leaning on quirky characters and a lot of flashy editing. But more than Snatch or Pulp Fiction, the movie I think David Leitch is most imitating is the oft-forgotten but much better than it had any right to be Smokin' Aces.

You can see this in a lot of different areas, but I think the biggest line you can draw is the narrative construction of taking a bunch of seemingly completely unrelated assassins and stringing them together in a plot that is bigger than they realize. However, unlike Aces, I don't think Bullet Train pulls it off. A large part of it is because the story just isn't that good. Once all the pieces fall into place, there's a real sense of emptiness to the proceedings.

Where it does pull it off is in having an amazing ensemble cast and just letting them have a fun time. Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Brian Tyree Henry bicker like no other, and Sandra Bullock is a wonderful foil for Brad Pitt. Pitt is of course the face of the movie, and he does exactly what you want from him in a role like this: playful cluelessness and frequent consumption of food and drinks.

Definitely not a great film, but an enjoyable one. One that we used to get a lot more of (Guy Ritchie is still churning 'em out!) but at least it's something vaguely new (despite also being a book adaptation). We take what we can get in these sequel-filled universe-building days.