Chad Eagleton's Blog, page 10
December 6, 2017
Valerian and the City of 1,000 Planets
Watched Valerian and The City of 1,000 Planets.
Visually, I absolutely positively loved it. Stunning and imaginative. Absolutely adore that sort of fantastical SF.
However, the script needed a polish or three because there was not a whole lot holding it all together--which threw the pacing off and meant there were times I felt every bit of its 2 hour and 17 minute run-time. And the actors playing Valerian and Laureline were totally miscast.
November 21, 2017
I Watch People In The World
"I watch people in the world
Throw away their lives lusting after things,
Never able to satisfy their desires,
Falling into deeper despair
And torturing themselves.
Even if they get what they want
How long will they be able to enjoy it?
For one heavenly pleasure
They suffer ten torments of hell,
Binding themselves more firmly to the grindstone.
Such people are like monkeys
Frantically grasping for the moon in the water
And then falling into a whirlpool.&nbs...
October 27, 2017
Thank you, Comrade Arkhipov
I'm back at Disinformation. This time I'm talking about Vasili Arkhipov who saved the world 55 years ago today.
October 23, 2017
October 20, 2017
Ramses The Two Little Too Late
Just saw Anne Rice finally wrote a sequel to The Mummy or Ramses The Damned.Got excited for a minute until I remembered I haven't liked anything she's written in years. Then I saw she co-wrote it with her son and immediately found the whole thing immensely off-putting.
October 19, 2017
Mars Attacks
Watched Mars Attacks for the first time in years.
Still kinda fun but not high on the rewatch value (probably be another decade before I get around to it again). Effects are very dated. Pacing is off. The number of big name stars in throwaway parts is distracting. Mostly the whole thing feels indulgent and gimmicky and kinda...standoffish.
October 11, 2017
October 5, 2017
Disinformation
Happy to announce that I'll be writing content for Disinfo. It'll be a mix of reblogs and original content. Stay tuned for magic and mysticism and jailbreaking your consciousness and other bits of weirdness...
September 11, 2017
Cosmic Aggressions
My next story (fourth written, second accepted) featuring Miskatonic University's The Dunwich Committee on Student Safety will be in the Walpurgisnacht 2018 Issue of Lovecraftiana: the Magazine of Eldritch Horror."Cosmic Aggressions" is my play on the higher ed concern surrounding the concept of: microagressions.
