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Moving on, saw Aniara last night. It was fairly compelling but I think I ultimately had higher hopes for it. I imagined something more thought provoking I guess.

Also I'm looking through the new and upcoming movies on rotten tomatoes and mostly everything looks depressingly awful and so I'm wondering.. are movies getting worse? It's hard not to get that feeling but then maybe I'm just romanticizing a past where films were actually just as bad I just didn't notice.

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Akira (4K UHD BD)

Recently rewatched this as I got in the 4K BD.

All these years later & it still looks absolutely stunning. It's really strong until the end where it kinda loses me. I mean, I think I understand it a bit more everytime I watch it… maybe.

Anyhow, there's just something about the gritty sci-fi anime of the 80's that I can't get enough of.

Ant-Man & the Wasp Quantumania (Disney+)

This was fine.

It's visually a bit of a mess (I know they wanted the Quantum Realm to come off as strange, but a lot of it is just CGI noise), some scenes looked really cool (like when Scott was being split up into «possibilities») while others looked 10-15 years out of date (the scene in the «desert» where Janet negotiated with those raider types).

Otherwise it was okay. A bit too lighthearted of a character to really sale the higher stakes adventure it was trying to be (given that it was building up the next major villain post Thanos).

@RR529 I agree with your assessment of Ant-Man & The Wasp Quantumania. I've pretty much been on board with most of the MCU output so far, even the much maligned Eternals and Black Widow. I didn't even dislike Love & Thunder, though that was a massive step down from Ragnarok imho. But the latest Ant-Man outing was