They always tell us they have to dumb down a book otherwise a movie won't work, and I'm always thinking: what if you you dumbed it down less then you actually did. Project Hail Mary is that story again: they cut so much. Somehow they nailed Rocky, and Gosling charisma carries the film. Good result.
Good thing about the new Superman is the director wisely dialed down on animal torture from his previous film. Non-zero, still, but much much better.
My current stack of choice for SSR with moderately prominent interactive parts. Bun, Hono, JSX, HTMX, Hyperscript, and Biome on dev side. Never been happier.
La Vie de Bohème is definitely Kaurismäki’s successful adaptation of classics. Finns playing an Albanian and an Irish does not feel weird. You root for characters, execution is powerful, and the story is the most tragic in in his movies so far.
Hamlet Goes Business is another misfire of Kaurismäki, same as Crime and Punishment. It's just silly and moderately ridiculous. One funny joke is when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are suggested to say they go from Finland to Norway to have fun and relax and not for business.
Weird thing about Andor S2 is I really really dislike the directing of most episodes. Except for when an episode is about a high-octane spy/war action. Also 3d visual effects of ships and things like that are underwhelming. Acting, story, script, decorations are top notch though.
Israel song was better.
These are the first web framework benchmarks that look like something useful. Even though they are still cheesy.
The channel has lots of them with the same method.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpDH...
A choice between Tidal and Qobuz is very easy: choose Qobuz, it’s French. Don’t choose American services when there is a worthy EU alternative.
"Need more hell" idea: Russian citizens should be allowed to enter the USA without visa for up to 90 days. EU citizens should be required to get visa for all cases (with processing time up to a year, because there are apparently lots of europeans).
Apparently I have not taste and lowly cultural sensibilities as I prefer Swedish coffee to Italian coffee. Though Finnish coffee brands here in Finland are nigh undrinkable to me.
Very on point meme about Trump saying to Kevin that it was his fault to not settle things with Harry and Marv, he had enough time, and he should not have attacked these two grown up men in the first place.
It's really special when in Kaurismäki's films characters smile. So rare and hard to miss.
Drifting Clouds is one of Kaurismäki's best ones. His style of wholesome minimalism at its peak. Story of a modest working class family losing jobs in the 1990s Finnish economic depression, struggling, but supporting each other till the relatively optimistic end.
Idea for Russia: declare AI as crime against God and traditional values, and create hubs for developers who suffered from AI-induced lay-offs.
Rewatched True Detective S1, and it’s fantastic in so many aspects, and I love it so much, but the actual detective part is the weakest in it.
3rd Kaurismäki's film, and the start of the Proletariat Trilogy, Shadows in Paradise is a wonderfully simple story about a working man getting together with a working woman, who thinks she deserves better things like going to Florida. Great music, heartfelt characters, wonderful positive finale.
I don’t quite understand why our digital civilization could come up with Spotify for music and Steam for games, but somehow if you like movies your only bet is blu-rays, as all streaming services and iTunes are total trash.
It's a little bit sad to switch away from software you've been using for a decade. At the end of 2024 I switch from Alfred to Raycast, and from iTerm to Ghostty.
Kaurismäki's first film is a well crafted Dostoyevsky-inspired crime drama that does not go deep, sometimes seems theatrical, but more often quite cinematic. Actors are great, lots of Helsinki views, and it only goes better from here for the director.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0086...
Calamari Union is a very funny and quite watchable absurdist comedy about 16 Franks and one Pekka trying to navigate 5 km across Helsinki and failing fatally.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0087...
Starting Kaurismäki bluray retrospective.
It's a sacrilege, but I'm loving Dune: Prophecy TV series more than I liked the movies.
I get it they are proving a point in a scientific way, but not what I expected.
Reading The Dawn of Everything book is surprisingly difficult. One would think the whole point of books on prehistory is the reader does not need to have much knowledge on history, but in this case authors just go on and on about Hobbes vs Rousseau, and then indigenous tribes, and more and more.
In JavaScript ecosystem seeing a package which was last updated 5 years ago and having 10 stars is an indicator of rot and decay. Apparently, in Clojure these are characteristics of a healthy respectful package, working perfectly with modern setups.