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#2,175: Burden of Dreams

World 1-1 - ★★★☆☆
The part with the history of Activision was new to me.

Deep Web - ★★☆☆☆
A summary of the Silk Road case. Less in-depth than some NPR coverage you can listen to out there.

Fitzcarraldo - ★★★½☆
The story of a man with a superhuman ability to reframe his situation. There is no calamity, no defeat that cannot also be a victory! A long movie, but not a wasteful one.

On a side note, it appears to have been shot in English, but also badly dubbed into English? Weird. The sync sound in Burden of Dreams was fine and normal.

Burden of Dreams - ★★★☆☆
Documentaries about the making of movies are usually interesting to me, even though clever documentarians might be responsible for the cliché that movies are always about their own making.

Documentaries about movies that do NOT get made are something I don't think we need so much of, but I guess I want to complete the trilogy of movies about Jason Robards getting sick and quitting movies.

Shirtless Actors Prepare for PICNIC at Antaeus

 I also did some more work for the Antaeus Theatre Company this month.

Specifically, I edited this thing written and directed by Diani & Devine. 

Nintendo at San Diego Comic-Con 2015

I did more work with Nintendo this month. 

It's possible I also found time to play some Triforce Heroes and Super Mario Maker, and an overwhelming amount of streetpass games while I was transferring footage and prepping the edit.

Two videos went up from this event.  The Cosplay Choir and a Super Mario Maker promo.

#2,171: Inside Out

Mad Max: Fury Road - ★★★★☆
Still fun, easy to imagine how you'd end up watching this in years to come or as a frenetic background of some kind, but for this summer I'm maybe wearing down on it a little.

Terminator Genisys - ★★★☆☆
You think the first trailer gives away the big twist. Then you see the second trailer, which does give away the big twist. Then you start to think that's too big of a reveal, so it must be a fake-out. But it's not. Anyway, this is, I guess, my favorite non-canonical Terminator movie, and it wipes the slate clean for a whole new series of big budget Terminator fanfic.

The Terminator - ★★★★☆
When I was a kid I'd decided to tell people that they were going to make a sequel that was all about the future war. There was nothing to back up my story, and nobody in particular to tell it to, but the future segments just seemed so amazing. Of course, that's because all we get are glimpses, which are the correct amount. The movies about the future war are each a disaster.

I didn't realize, while watching T5, just how much of T1 they lifted. T1's still the better movie, of course. I love the look of movie lasers from the 80s.

Inside Out - ★★★★☆
I remember books that I read as a kid that were obviously, unambiguously fiction, and yet some explanation or concept from them stuck with me and became how I thought of or visualized a part of the real world. I don't know if this will become the most beloved of Pixar movies, but I do think this representation of the psyche is going to really stick with a lot of people. And I'm so happy that Pete Docter got to make another new movie. In 2016 we batten down the hatches and ride out wave after wave of sequels. (Okay, everybody loves the sequels, but I don't want them.)