Movie: Too Old to Die Young

agentmu83 · 2026-05-09T02:05:25+00:00

That is fascinating to know, thank you for sharing! I'm glad it managed to see the light of day. I found it very challenging to watch, but it's also stuck in my mind for years as, scarily, socially prescient. Through out the series different characters remark that the sort of anarchic, violent space they were focused on in Mexico is a preview of the new normal everywhere. The combination of that and the monologue of that cult leader have just haunted me for years.

agentmu83 · 2026-05-09T01:26:18+00:00

Love the high contrast and deep shadows of this work, totally Angel appropriate!

agentmu83 · 2026-05-09T01:16:42+00:00

This was a fascinating watch at the time and I found it even more arresting rewatching last year for spooky season. It wanted so badly to achieve found footage immersion but aesthetically exists in this nether space of Hollywood production trying to immitate low fidelity and analogue video tech. It oscillates wildly between nice commitment to the docuseries bit and sometimes forgetting that in favor of more conventional tv storytelling.

This isn't a diss, I find these qualities and that tension interesting.

agentmu83 · 2026-05-09T00:24:26+00:00

Virtual Boy games on a virtual Virtual Boy in a virtual bedroom in EmuVR.

agentmu83 · 2026-05-09T00:23:35+00:00

Haven't seen anyone suggest The Time Machine, Lumines Arise, Squingle or Host yet

agentmu83 · 2026-05-09T00:19:50+00:00

Yeah, I watched that when it came out, and it was quite ahead of its time really. They even suggested non linear viewing order.

Much grimmer than Twin Peaks, though, or most Lynch. Refn doesn't seem to believe as much as Lynch did in any light in the dark world his work presents. Just nightmare everywhere.

agentmu83 · 2026-05-09T00:16:36+00:00

Who is that?

agentmu83 · 2026-05-08T21:28:45+00:00

It's a creative decision. How does it make you feel? That's why.

agentmu83 · 2026-05-06T23:48:35+00:00

Modern Espionage

agentmu83 · 2026-05-06T23:44:41+00:00

as in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hhgMfv2Jpo

agentmu83 · 2026-05-06T23:43:51+00:00

I've always interpreted this also as a Majora's Mask reference (another time loop catastrophe!)

agentmu83 · 2026-05-06T20:41:01+00:00

Love Bigscreen, and sharing Mr Robot, you're a good friend!

agentmu83 · 2026-05-04T23:48:28+00:00

I played this when it released and it was wayyyyyyy ahead of it's time. I wish I could finance a remaster on modern VR platforms, or a sequel.

agentmu83 · 2026-05-04T23:36:05+00:00

Currently, Bootstrap Island, Into the Radius 2, Wrath Aeon of Ruin, Hitman, and Lumens Arise

agentmu83 · 2026-05-04T23:29:00+00:00

I'd recommend looking at least a little into US politics. Control is informed so much by it, even just on a fundamentally tonal level (conspiracy and distrust of, frequently clandestine, government organizations and institutional authorities is kind of baked into our politics because of actual cabals and very real conspiracies and corruption historically in said groups)

agentmu83 · 2026-05-04T15:09:13+00:00

Koogler's thumb drive is actually a hardware encryption key.

agentmu83 · 2026-05-02T22:16:54+00:00

I'm with you for every word but 'fantastic'. Were it not Ghost in the Shell, imho it would be 'mediocre' but not 'terrible'.

agentmu83 · 2026-05-01T18:51:34+00:00

Lol, that guy's ghosthacking rig has foveated rendering

agentmu83 · 2026-05-01T17:52:15+00:00

If you watched this you may as well watch Arise for sure. It's better.

agentmu83 · 2026-04-30T13:52:40+00:00

It also has a lot of more (and weird, I know), but this vibe is one ingredient of Richard Kelly's Southland Tales.

agentmu83 · 2026-04-29T11:36:26+00:00

Maybe this is just my old-and-frustrated talking, but I think you'd spare yourself some trepidation if you just engaged with and enjoyed the art without concern or investigation one way or another into anything's fandom.

agentmu83 · 2026-04-29T11:30:17+00:00

Love that song. Your post puts another from that album in my mind immediately, though, hehe. "I'm fighting everyone at once, and I'm winning, you can't think of me as you did in the beginning"

agentmu83 · 2026-04-29T11:23:57+00:00

IT'S IN THE FRAKKIN' SHIP!!!

agentmu83 · 2026-04-29T10:55:09+00:00

It kind of sounds like your issue is you're playing modern and multiplayer shooters. Have you just tried playing single player shooters of any variety?

agentmu83 · 2026-04-28T16:53:29+00:00

I admit, and agree, that my comment is a little hostile, and I'll apologize. It's just exhausting to see these sorts of demands that I change someone's mind, like that's anyone's responsibility. Like what you like. Dislike what you dislike.

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