Liico Thales

Heavily inspired by the "men's adventure" comics from the 20's and 30's, where the characters would face the environment challenges and uncover some deeper knowledge about themselves in the process, this movie evokes the right tone and feeling of those stories. Starting with a comic book sequence to hit the reference in the head, it presents us to the type of story we are about to embark to.

A movie about generational trauma and using the screen time to flash out the conflicts of dealing with family in a very polarized world of today, "Strange World" brings a journey about trauma, healing and acceptance.

The characters are modern, imperfect and their growth is dealt on screen with conversation and work. Disney now and then delivers a movie a little more daring that flies over the head of people and takes some time to get his recognition.

With beautiful visuals, good mix of 2D texture finalization on 3D models, and fun characters, the movie by itself is a feast to the eyes. With a solid script focusing on the generational conflict and it's resolution, "Strange World" it's a great time with a nice message of commiting to change what we must for those we care.

As I came to understand with some time, Black mirror is directly talking about media, specifically TV and its derivatives, and our relation with it. In this season, we explore the VHS tech, the Long distance call as avatars, the streaming services, and our exploration of the stars related to this media, To finally end talking about the alienation, the maddening behavior, the inflammation of speeches that comes with this media, this magic mirror we have at home.

Having also a take on genres and exploring the technology that surrounds us since the sixties, the writer and creator also pays homage to British entertainment television while making commentaries on the repercussion these things have in our own story. The woman that gets the protagonist of her life taken from her, the man that loses father, mother and girlfriend to achieve success. The astronaut who loses his family due to gesture of humanity, or the actress who is exposed to the supernatural just for being in the wrong place to record a series.

Finally we have the point of view of a woman cast aside by her reality, treat as less than human by her social circle, and who finds in the tv and the things they show, a comfort.
It’s no coincidence that when this supernatural force materializes, it shows itself as something from Tv, and uses the Tv as a mirror to see itself for the first time.

With its powers, in a snap of s finger, the demon played small edits and cuts from future occurrences, possibilities,

I will not spoil the end here, but I believe you got the point now.

This is still black mirror, it’s still talking about tech and their implications in people’s life’s, but ultimately is providing good stories, condensed movies with plots that entertain.

Loved this season.

The Mandalorian started with episodic adventures that was tied together by a “main quest” .
Just like rebels, clone wars and resistance, the star wars shows like to present the universe details in small incapsulated adventures and they hit you with a epsiode of epic proportions that pay’s off.

Episodes like the one where Din’s Ship fellon Ice and Grogu started eatting spider eggs, where semmed like a creature of the week episode was in fact, the espiode where we met the new rebuplic pilot who reached for he mandalorians this season.

This episode showed the places of galaxy where the independence brought by the fall of the empire made the planet prosper, and how some outer rim planets are closer to mid rim lifestyle that to Jakku or Tatooine. We got a droid bar, and is nice since we saw some instances of “we don’t serve their kind here” ad now we can see that they had places for them.

We were able to see that not all people mistrusted Dooku and how they believed that the Emperor betrayed him and his goals when he took the galaxy. We got also to see the mandalorian lore expand as they show how they are strict to their rules and protocols.

In top of all that, we were able the see the bond that is the main core of this season : Bo and Din. They respect the ways of one another and also grew very fond for each other, making Bo defend Din and Din defend Bo right to have the saber.

the technicality of the saber. I know that some were expecting a duel between Bo and Din, but what a cliche seen so many times, and we knew that she had to win since din does no wish to rule the Mandalorians and if Din wins would deminsh Bo’s quest, so I think the technicality was nice way to link the episode where she rescues him with the rest of the story.

Very nice episodes with a lot of information to uncover. Noticed how they lived in Dome cities just like old Mandalore from Clone Wars era?

Once in a deep forest, forsaken by the wars the men fought, a mermaid loses one of her scales in her pond.

Covered in gold, the piece lays in the dirt with many of it's sisters, resting away from her and her body.

One of the officers of a Spanish Garrison, a deaf soldier separates himself to bathe himself in the waters of the pond, only to discover the golden scales of the mermaid.

Deciding to keep this treasure to himself, he is unaware that removing the scales from its natural bed, he would be triggering their owner's rage. With a simple scream she could hypnotize and enchant the men, but only if they could hear.

Ignorant to his luck, the soldier misses the mermaid dance and it's effects on the garrison, that now lays dead in the other side of the pond. Ignorant was also the mermaid, impressed by the solder resistance to her powers, and curious about his nature. For once, one of them was not vile, not crazy, if only she new that when he had put his eyes on her, the effect of her gold provided the same trance as her voice, he was determined to possess her.

She sang to a deaf man, he danced to a silent song. When both finally were together, a fatal blow from him was enough to have her, to clean her like a fish, removing her from her golden plumage.

Her magic blood, enraging the nature, informed the forest that an elemental has been hurt, a maiden of the waters, a pure force. Acting his revenge on the solder, the magic blood found his way to his mouth, his body.

He now could hear, could now choose between go crazy or tame this new world, he was really happy. But not for long, because now he could hear, he could know the mermaid's pain, he could be entranced to dance with her one more time.

She could return from the depths of the water where her naked body lays dead, and act her justice on the one who stole her beauty, her pride and her magic.

And this is only the surface of this story, so layered and profound. The best piece of animation I've seen recently.

13 years later and the amazing computer animation still holds. When saying computer animation, most people forget the 11 years of making this movie come true from a team of people invested in every detail of this universe. The story is the most simple and most common one, to attract and affect the broadest of viewers. It's not over complicated, does not pretend to be more than it is : a new jurassic park for our generation. The detail in photography, art direction, concept design, sound mixing and animation directing still amazes movie makers until today. This movie started not only technologies that made the bed for Marvel Movies of today, it cemented itself as one of the greatest achievements of a movie maker to this day. Cameron delivers the most simple of stories in a compelling way, knowing when to pause and frame the action so the viewer can understand what is happening. The movie has its calms and reflexive moments about the culture of this planet but it nevers slows its pacing. Despite the criticism of people that or fail to understand the cinematographic achievement of this movie or its impact in the entretainment business, Avatar is about to get its sequel 13 years later and it's well deserved to see what Cameron can do with the technology available today.

I remember renting with my older brother "Scream" When I was 7 because my parents not really controlled what I watch. The movie had just come out, and It was a smashing hit. Everybody was talking about it.

I obviously couldn't get mos of the movie, but I was really impressed. Jason and Freddie were not that of a thing in the late 90s and seeing ghost face really made a mark on me. I got a ghost face costume for carnival that year (we dress up in that time of year in Brazil) with a slip-in- blade plastic knife. My friends And I would play hide-and-seek with one of us dressed up as Ghost face, and you should stab when finding someone. It was kinda twisted looking back, but we're kids, we had no clue.

The point being, I've been watching this franchise since my early years, and have revisited this movies several times during my life, watched most of them in the theaters after the first one and followed all the Wes Craven movies because of this franchise.

Coming back to this movie, I was not expecting much since it was not Wes critique of scary movies as it was before, but other people looking into his work and creating a "requel" as they call it. I'm happy to say I've screamed, jumped, laughed and clapped during this movie and was really happy with the final result. I even allowed a second of tears for a beloved character who saw an end in this movie, And I'm glad to say that in an era of reboots, unnecessary sequels - I'm talking to you Matrix 4 - this one is a fresh script and great addition to the source material.

First of all : Jonathan Frakes Directed the shit out of this episode. The Discovery burning scene at the sound of Stormy Weather was just beautiful to watch.

What we fail to realize is that Star Trek also, - I say also because Trek is about many things - Is about what we, as viewers, need to remember and see and aspire to the future. TOS was about diversity and acceptance, with black women, Russian teenagers and Japanese swordsman guided by an American misogynist with serious problems at following rules, but with a great capability of seeing the strength in their diversity. A much-needed point of view for the 60s.

TNG and DS9 had this more realistic approach in their stories, dealing more with the personal drama, adding the Counselor position and showing the need of dealing with the psychological result of being so advanced. Just as we move forward from several distressful political changes in our world in the late 80s and the 90s. Voyager and finally Enterprise had this message of "finding our way back" and "looking where everything started" that came with the late 90s and early 2000s when humanity decoded the DNA code and shifting to the internet world.

And now we get Discovery: A series about a society that acknowledges their traumas, and accepts that everyone in some way was traumatized in their lives and if they don't deal with this now, we will never be able to move forward. We have a show about people talking about their feelings - yes, we can do that too - just as in TNG or in DS9, but this time the hole series is about that need, that desire to heal, to mend, to fix.

The computer becoming emotionally sentient is nothing but a new level of this idea that adding feeling to the equation is not detrimental, is evolutionary. And in a detached and divisive society that we live today, that is exactly what Trek need to talk about. A future where we are not afraid of dealing with our traumas and moving forward a better being.

It is no mistake the symbol of the show is cracked by a rift, the person inside this society are also cracked, and their evolution is emotional.

I was so confused since I started this season, trying to understand why I was so detached from its massage, and why people were so bothered about a show presenting why everybody needs therapy and talk about their traumas. And then it hit me : this is what we need to see, and our frustration with the show's message just proves it.

Edit: The allusion to Hal 9000 singing "Daisy" Scene from Kubrick's 2001 was just priceless!