Thoughts on movies, comic books, life, and other nonsense, by someone who should know better
There was no way I was going to miss this movie – for two reasons, actually. The first being that my daughter usually beats me to the punch on new releases and I needed to see this one before she did just cuz. The second being Alex Garland. Now, I haven’t seen most of Garland’s work, but I liked Dredd a lot, despite it mostly being a RoboCop movie in disguise, and I flat out loved Ex Machina., which was, if memory serves, my favourite movie of 2015.
Is there anyone who doesn’t fall for clickbait? Probably not. Most of the times, they’re easy to identify and pass over. So and so “destroys” someone else’s political argument, some device or food is the “Only Thing I Ever Needed”. And I’m a huge fan of browsing creepy old pictures on Pinterest that are described as things that will “Haunt Your Dreams Forever” – you know, this kind of stuff. Generally written to increase traffic by people who copy rather than create, these headlines have permeated the world of online article writing, and mostly serve as penny-click advertising revenue. But like I said, who hasn’t clicked one? My mistake was being curious about the descriptions of Veronica, currently available through Netflix, as being the scariest movie of all time.
AT THE FOOTHILLS OF MADNESS 