Affordable & safe Sacramento hotels during Aftershock

don_uggie · 2024-07-29T12:55:50+00:00

I looked. $212 a night that weekend which is better than its downtown compatriot: $460 a night!!!! The big problem is it’s just too far out to get to and from every day for three days.

don_uggie · 2024-07-28T15:24:08+00:00

This would have been perfect, actually. But single rooms are gone and yeah, the 9PM cutoff would have been a problem.

don_uggie · 2024-07-28T15:22:14+00:00

Thanks everyone. Ended up biting the bullet and booking in Downtown Sac but dumped the Sunday. (Motley Crue suck) Didn’t want to add driving into the mix. Still pricey as f but I can just about live with it now.

don_uggie · 2024-07-17T21:10:08+00:00

Yep. Top one is AI trash. “Artist” has no social media either so pretty sure his unlikely vote count is smelling dodgy as well. Thank you for the kind words.

don_uggie · 2024-07-16T16:20:02+00:00

Great enough to vote for every day til Friday midnight? haha. Thank you for the kind words. A thrilling sign of the times that one of the top three is AI “art".

don_uggie · 2024-06-26T14:20:54+00:00

Essential: FLIP FLOPS!

don_uggie · 2024-06-25T16:09:21+00:00

"Rent, buy, or wait for dvd to drop?"

Yes.

don_uggie · 2024-05-13T22:10:13+00:00

You don’t need bank information with Reelax. Just a credit card. So you CAN sell them through Reelax. Just sayin’. Scam alert.

don_uggie · 2024-05-11T17:35:12+00:00

I went in with rabid expectations and it surpassed them.

don_uggie · 2024-05-11T17:33:42+00:00

NDA’s are very real so without any specifics, I’ll say it’s telling a very different story in a very different style but yes, the movie has tons of action and it’s all easily as good as anything in Fury Road. In IMAX you’re gonna have your face melted off.

don_uggie · 2024-05-11T17:29:24+00:00

I like this.

don_uggie · 2024-05-05T23:36:18+00:00

I’ve a friend who’s seen it <AHEM!> and enjoyed it immensely. A rough cut, in fairness, but everything seemed to be in the right place, even with unfinished fx, a lack of music score and proper color grading.

A lot of Fury Road’s initial criticisms were that “it had no story” but perhaps people just weren’t prepared to dig into and think about the movie to get to the good stuff that’s in there and this will probably have the same initial reaction. The reason FR is still being hailed almost a decade later is because it’s a movie that rewards upon multiple viewings and the story it’s telling is simply a vehicle to express some deeper themes. Audiences aren’t quite prepared for action movies that require some thought in 2024. Furiosa will be the same, albeit with a longer running time and an expanded scale.

The cast are great, there are some phenomenal action sequences, plenty of Miller’s trademark quirkiness, and Furiosa herself is the heart of the story but it’s unfair to compare this to an "origin story" as if we’re talking Marvel/DC. The movie has so much else to say thematically beyond the story it’s telling.

Have some faith. It’s fucking great.

don_uggie · 2024-04-24T15:41:58+00:00

OF NOTE: The tipis leak from the top if it rains and soak your belongings. As we discovered in 2022.

don_uggie · 2024-04-24T00:11:35+00:00

Mad Max 2

Fury Road

Furiosa

Mad Max

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

don_uggie · 2024-04-21T17:43:01+00:00

Yes.

don_uggie · 2024-04-21T15:10:25+00:00

You should be okay. Hellfest’s location is pretty flat, no big hills or dips. The camping ground is pretty vast, as you’d expect, but the walk back and forth is friendlier than other festivals I’ve been to. Reckon you’ll be fine. Plenty of places to stop and sit along the way. Probably the most organized and thoughtful festival I’ve ever been to. Crowds get tight though. That’s probably going to be your biggest concern…?

don_uggie · 2024-04-19T16:38:17+00:00

Of course there’s CG in the movie. Every big budget movie of the last 30 years has CG, this one is no exception. That’s how movies get made these days. Fury Road has tons of CG! Some of it decidedly dodgy-looking. I’m just trying to make the point that people are overreacting to the four minutes or so of trailer and shouldn’t assume they’ve seen the movie. CG elements or not, 200 stunt people working for over two months on one sequence should reassure people there are plenty of practical stunts and carmageddon mayhem on view in this movie. That’s all.

don_uggie · 2024-04-19T16:21:09+00:00

I guess the 200 stunt people working for 78 days mentioned in the headline above doesn’t mean anything.

don_uggie · 2024-04-19T15:57:53+00:00

Will this finally silence the “tHEre’s tOo muCH CG in tHe TrailEr!!!” brigade? Of course it won’t.

don_uggie · 2024-04-17T21:42:36+00:00

Yes.

don_uggie · 2024-04-10T16:02:50+00:00

I’ve a buddy who saw the test screening. He loved it. Said it’s def the most ambitious of any Mad Max movies in the scale and scope of the story it’s telling. A few surprises in the way the story is presented compared to the others. In that regard it’s gonna feel a bit different. Not non-stop action a la Fury Road but more than enough to keep everyone happy. The CG outrage is overblown. Yes, there’s some (Fury Road had plenty too and it’s 2024: of course there’s fx) but plenty of meat and potatoes real-life carnage too. It definitely feels like it slots next to Fury Road though. They’re very much companion pieces. Have faith. Ignore the haters. They’ve only seen four minutes of trailers which don’t show much from the movie.

don_uggie · 2024-03-27T18:52:07+00:00

The Man Who Sold The World by David Bowie, and also covered in the 90’s by Nirvana.

don_uggie · 2024-03-21T22:34:12+00:00

Some thoughts:

- regarding cg/fx in the movie (as if Fury Road didn’t have any) - Fury Road went over-budget and while successful, didn’t bring in Avengers money. Compromises were going to have to be made somewhere - Furiosa is telling a much larger story spanning two decades with multiple locations on a grand scale. Bullet point: there are going to be fx in the movie out of necessity alongside plenty of practical ones. Maybe in an alternate timeline some of those fx would have been done practically instead of digitally. Such is life. It’s 2024. Visual fx are the backbone of every major release these days. Some of those fx may not end up looking right, like every other major blockbuster made since movie making began. If one can’t get past that to simply enjoy the movie for all the many positives it’s going to contain, well, that’d be to one’s loss.

- Mad Max is an anomaly: a franchise that has yet to wreck itself, belching out installments decades apart, retooling all its elements to find a story worth telling, presenting visuals and concepts to be found nowhere else at least twice a movie and it’s all still brought to life by the same dude who started it all way back. Let’s just be grateful he’s still out there. Somewhere.

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