Keon Kobra's Movie Review Strike!

I have been interviewing and attending job fairs. Been feeling anxiety and while I wouldn't call it actual depression, I have been feeling rather emo, in a bad way in general. Not to be flippant regarding women's menstrual health. But I am feeling my man cycle real bad. Also feeling quite isolated and lonesome as a human, along with intense guilt for not having a job already. A growing part of me feels headed toward a cliff. Its not depression its self inflicted anguish and the desire to get out of this feeling. Trying to focus on what I can do.  I went to a job fair this morning and got back to the Starbucks by my place right when matinee's were starting so... A Quiet Place, its been in theaters a few weeks.  Its a horror movie with a gimmick.  John Krasinski directs and stars. John Krasinski is an actor I find boring. Remember in old Disney cartoons they would show average normal people they would draw people who looked like Goofy. Like dogpeople? Thats John Krasinsk...

I would never pay money to see something like this. Not voluntarily. It might be totally awesome to a majority of people but I have a bit of a confession to make to you guys. Blockers is Total Shit. Avoid! I didn't like Something About Mary. I didn't like 40 year old virgin, not really anyway. I pretended to for a couple minutes after seeing it to make the people I saw it with happy.  I didn't like Superbad. I didn't like The Hangover. I didn't like Bridesmaids. I haven't liked any Melissa McCarthy movie yet. Grossout comedies?  I like County Fair comedians more. Grossout Romantic Comedies? I would prefer a county fair ventriloquist. While I will admit that I do think gross out gags are cheap, lowest common denominator humor, that's never what really bothers me. There is something else that irks me, about these movies, and that is that these stories kind of serve as models for and about the type of people we can be. The type of ...

It has been a rough week for me. Monday my boss called me in for a 90 day review and told me he was not impressed with my experience and not happy with my work. If things didn't improve soon I was going to be fired. There was a knot in my stomach after that. The next day I sold a bunch. Then Wednesday only 1. I wasn't happy with the job either, and the boss' hands off - figure it out yourself, call the supportline and stop bothering me, I'm leaving early again, training style. I am an auditory learner and I need to hear other people say things out loud in order to pick up the right way to do things, and even when I have a decent idea of how to do something I sometimes need to ask a question out loud, or at least say something out loud, just to get my gears turning. Preferably to a human being, and sometimes I even need to make a joke about something to relate to it enough to remember it. And I also like confirmation, like when I complete something, I like a sound or...

I am someone who appreciates Guillermo del Toro as a director and as a creative powerhouse. I like his highly original and outlandish demonic creature films, his personal and genuine riffs on gothic horror, his popcorn actioners, I have been a big fan of most, if not all of it. So I wanted to see this movie when I first heard about it, I would have seen it in the theater earlier if I wasn't languishing in money worry. It looked like a stand alone Abe Sapien movie, who was the aquatic creature sidekick  from Hellboy, a character and movie I liked a lot. Then it won the Academy Award for Best Picture. And I was like ok, how does that happen? comic book movies don't usually win Academy Awards, neither do monster movies, this must have something really special going for it. I need to see this movie. I can't wait to see this one. I watched it at the dollar theater in its first Friday there. I didn't connect with it at all. By the end I felt like I had been slapped across...

I got a Movie pass. I got it in my mailbox yesterday evening and it's pretty cool. I wanted to get the year pass. But I just got the monthly. $9.99 a month. I was like lets see how this works. So I nuked a Trader Joe item, activated the movie pass card which is basically a Mastercard on my phone and walked down to my local theater which is like half a mile up the street from my place in Vancouver WA.  It was warm and bright out at eight at night after a wet and windy as fuck weekend. I technically got outside and walked on a Monday Night. I need to do that more in general, get out more. I saw Isle of Dogs. If you don't love Wes Anderson you lack an appreciation for whimsy in art and are most likely a heartless dum-dum. What do you even go to the movies for if not for shit like this? It's a salute to Japan and Japanese Cinema made by a western white guy, and it ritualistically does the Race Dance of today in the way the story is framed and told in this very sensitive era...