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Re: What Did You Watch? 2022-05-05 (Thursday)

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From: art...@alum.calberkeley.org (Arthur Lipscomb)
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2022-05-05 (Thursday)
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by: Arthur Lipscomb - Fri, 6 May 2022 19:02 UTC

On 5/6/2022 8:34 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>
>> What did you watch?
>
> Hey, thanks for asking!
>
> LOVE AND MONSTERS 2020 on the prime
> This was really really good
> Seven years after an asteroid named for the marvel comics universe came
> a’clobbering, the surface of the world is uninhabitable because monsters. A
> now 24-year-old Joel, just another guy in a red jumpsuit, must travel the
> 90 miles to where his old teenage girlfriend now lives. Along the way he’ll
> find new friends and a dog and monsters.
> Smartly written, well acted, well cast (Bonus points for the incredibly
> cute Jessica Henwick from IRON FIST), very good effects for the monsters
> (there is only one shot that made me twitch), lots of subtle homages to
> other films.
> If Arthur were going to pair this with something I would suggest Harlan
> Ellison’s A BOY AND IS DOG.
> Fred Bob says “check it out!”
>
>

Yeah, it's surprisingly good. I never thought of pairing it with A Boy
and His Dog. I'm easy to please. I'd pair it with The Maze Runner
movies and call it a day.

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Re: What Did You Watch? 2022-05-05 (Thursday)	Arthur Lipscomb