Carbon based. Not overly precocious.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • These are dark times, and it certainly feels like doing anything on your own is hopeless.

    Which is a line of thinking that the bad guys love to hear.

    What the bad guys cannot stand or tolerate, is solidarity. The truth of the matter is that the bad guys are badly outnumbered, which is why they act forcefully; they need the populace to to be docile.

    You don’t need to be a foot soldier to help. You can resist in all sorts of ways. A constant supply of passive aggressive acts from all directions can be incredibly effective way of degrading the morale of fascists.




  • Bob Hoskins was fine, but I feel that the script did him dirty, in light of the execution scene.

    Me the viewer found Valliant doing a funny slapstick vaudville performance to stop more executions felt sickening. I don’t actually recall the timing of this specific plot point relative to his performance, so don’t know if he was knowingly hamming it up in front of the toon that murdered his brother.

    I wouldn’t be fixating on the word execution, if the antagonist didn’t drive home the existential point. To further enhance what I’m getting at, think of the specific actions committed by that shoe that cost it its life.



  • I feel conspicuous too, given how beloved the movie is.

    I’d say Jessica Rabbit voiced by Kathleen Turner, is the singular thing that I enjoyed when I went to the theater to watch this.

    I had 2 major problems with the movie.

    It was dark. I was expecting cartoon fun. I watched an animated shoe get executed.

    I found Roger to be intensely unlikeable. I think he acted like shit, and treated the PI character that was trying to help him like shit.

    Unlikeable protagonist in an unnecessarily dark movie.