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https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9780316525558/the-mercy-of-gods · 14 Dec 2024
What is, is. I haven't read a scifi book this quickly since I wrapped up The Expanse . Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck (as James S.A. Corey) have a real knack for developing expansive universes and drawing you into so deftly and quickly that you even realize ...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/the-running-man-1987 · 8 Dec 2024
I love this exact brand of 80s/early 90s sci-fi cheese. We’re 7 years past 2017 but it feels like we’re hurtling towards a similarly stupid post-apocalyptic society. There’s spandex, dorky one-liners and plenty of violence dished out by Arnold. Fanta...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/under-the-skin-2014 · 5 Dec 2024
Minimal, beautifully shot and slow . It's an almost entirely visual movie — for better or worse — that didn't really go anywhere. Scarlett's an alien, Scarlett lures people in. Guy on motorcycle cleans things up. I'm not disappointed or upset that I wa...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9780316095839/consider-phlebas · 28 Nov 2024
This is the first book I’ve read by Iain Banks and it took me a bit longer to get through than I would’ve liked. This is my fault, not the author’s (finding time to read is hard and my inability to focus has me reading several books in parallel, albe...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/knowing-2009 · 10 Nov 2024
One of those movies that aims for profundity but instead works best as idle background noise. Nic Cage does Nic Cage things and well, yeah — good enough.
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/robocop-1987 · 7 Nov 2024
I’ll buy that for a dollar! Union-busting, privatization of vital public services, rampant corruption, tech companies over-promising (who needs police when you have an untested robot that can’t navigate stairs? Or why not test satellite-mounted lasers ...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/alien-romulus-2024 · 16 Oct 2024
The Alien franchise is among my favorite scifi/horror franchises because it lands firmly in the don't invent the horror vortex camp. It's realistic, not optimistic and its vision of space is all rough edges, green screen monitors and square clicky buttons ...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/things-will-be-different-2024 · 14 Oct 2024
Things won't be different, but you can drive yourself mad trying to change things you can't control instead of accepting them as they are. One Alabama, Two Alabama, Three Alabama, Four Alabama, Five — Maybe Ross' trip to the spray tan place would've gone...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/the-blob-1988 · 3 Oct 2024
Launching a virus into space and waiting for it to come back down to earth so we could see what happens seems like exactly the kind of thing we'd do without thinking too critically about it. I'm glad they had a truck full of fake snow on hand.
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/deadpool-wolverine-2024 · 2 Oct 2024
🫶🏻 Crude, ridiculously violent and — somehow — touching (insert Deadpool joke breaking the 4th wall here). The cameos are a delight, the soundtrack is perfect and Hugh Jackman had better be doing this until he's 90. One of the best Marvel movies ...