Timothee Chalamet was a surprisingly good Paul Atreides but WTF happened to Zendaya? She looked nothing like this in Spiderman. The end of the movie wrapped things up pretty good so is part 2 an adaptation of Dune Messiah or something?

Pic related.

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The visual cuisine for tonight is more Poitrine and the last five episodes of Cyberpunk Edgerunners since episode 5 was requested last week.

Bishoujo Kamen Poitrine is a comedy series in the same vein as Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon that was also an inspiration for Sailor Moon: a girl visits a shrine and is given the power to become a superheroine to protect her neighborhood.

Cyberpunk Edgerunners is an anime based off the game, it is about a kid joining a group of criminals after his life is abruptly upended.

8 pm est

content warnings:

Bishoujo Kamen Poitrine

unfortunately there isn't a dogdie or imdb page for Poitrine, however it looks relatively tame.

• Domestic violence
• Parents arguing
• Cartoonish violence
• Violence and threats towards children
• Homophobia
• An episode's antagonist is a pedophile
• Alcohol
• Crossdressing
• Depictions and mistreatment of mentally ill people
• Self harm with cutting
• Running gag of the protagonist being sexually harassed
• Demons
• Misogyny
• The protagonist is a child who is almost mistakenly kissed by her father
• Bullying
• Depictions of nazi imagery
• A character is brainwashed/possessed by an antagonist
• A character's makeup is effectively blackface
• Mentions of stereotypes

Cyberpunk Edgerunners

• Violence & gore
• Audio gore
• Nudity & sex
• Sexualization of a minor: the protagonist is 17 for most of the series
• Characters are sexually objectified
• Death of a parent
• Car crash and associated noises
• Stalking
• Domestic violence: a character in a psychotic state attacks their significant other but does so unintentionally; a sister shoots their brother's robotic arm with the understanding that it will not hurt him
• Gaslighting
• Drugs, alcohol, addiction, & overdose: characters are dependent on a drug to stave off severe symptoms from using cyberware
• A character is drugged
• A character is taken in an ambulance
• Hospital scenes
• Bullying
• A character is restrained
• Hands are damaged
• Decapitation
• A character is crushed to death
• Body horror
• Amputation
• Surgery scenes
• A head gets squashed
• Unconsciousness
• Bone breaking
• Torture
• A character falls to their death
• Death of a child
• A character sacrifices themselves
• Profanity
• Death of a major character
• Kidnapping
• Shower scene & characters enter ice bathes to prevent overheating
• Bodies of water
• Vomiting & spit
• Needles & syringes
• Capitalism
• Self harm
• A mentally ill person is violent
• Characters have meltdowns
• Depictions of anxiety attacks
• Depictions of suicide
• PTSD
• Loud noises & flashing images
• Screaming
• Strokes
• Homelessness
• Chronic illness
• Existentialism
• Sad ending
• A hovercraft crashes (cyberpunk helicopter)
• Guns & gun violence

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For this Sunday Kino Night, first up is Medium Cool (1969), a political thriller about a news reporter (Robert Forster) covering the political violence around the 1968 Democratic National Convention. He finds himself personally involved when he discovers that his network has been feeding the FBI information about the impoverished minority neighborhoods in his reports, feeding the feds his footage to identify political dissidents. Drama ensues as the scoop’s moral dilemma escalates. This is the best-known and best-regarded film of ciematogrphar-turned-director Haskell Wexler; he is a one-hit wonder.

After that is 20th Century Girl (2019), a Korean romance set in 1999, centering on a girl who collects information about her best friend’s crush, only to find that, uh-oh, she’s falling for him too. How will this love triangle be resolved? Will anything get in the way? I guess we’ll find out. This is the only feature film to date from director Bang Woo-ri, and is the most popular Korean film on Letterboxd directed by a woman. Great reviews for this, so let’s give it a whirl.

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Blorptube, right here:

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Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Medium Cool: https://letterboxd.com/film/medium-cool/
• 20th Century Girl: https://letterboxd.com/film/20th-century-girl/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Medium Cool: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064652/parentalguide/
• 20th Century Girl: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/949007

CWs for Medium Cool:

• Nudity.
• Sex.
• Beatings.
• Police brutality.
• Racism.
• Profanity.
• Alcohol.
• Smoking.

CWs for 20th Century Girl:

• Kissing.
• Vomiting.
• Hospital scene.
• Shaky cam.
• Blood and gore.
• Sad ending.

Links to movies:

• Medium Cool: https://tankie.tube/w/kJcEVffdZUytK5KUWSCfc4
• 20th Century Girl: https://tankie.tube/w/g5j4jS4wRNzQB8SAjoGgJC

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Description

Project A-Ko: Blue Side (1990 / 52 mins):

A-ko and B-ko are bounty hunters in an untamed world. When a young heiress, C-ko, falls out of the sky and into their hair, they find themselves battling space pirates and galactic police. Turns out the high-pitched, hungry C-ko holds a secret —the spirit of an ancient evil— and is the center of a plot to destroy the universe!

NB: Blue Side is the second of two parts, collectively known as either A-Ko The VS, Project A-Ko: Gray Side/Blue Side, or Project A-Ko: Uncivil Wars. If you use an anime tracker, you'll find it under one of those titles.

Olsenbanden: Operasjon Egon (1968 / 79 mins):

Egon Olsen has been behind bars for some time, but that hasn't stopped the criminal mastermind from making a plan to steal a very valuable golden statue and to never land behind bars again. So as soon as he gets out of prison, the first thing he does is contact his old associates, and together they prepare for one of the most daring, and hilarious, robberies Norway has ever seen.

Content warnings

No CWs are available for Olsenbanden, and for A-Ko I can reprint the same CWs as the previous movies, provided by wombat two years ago:

• “Man in a dress” jokes. The aliens look like men who dress as women. The characters barely acknowledge this fact directly, but the depiction is still problematic.
• Bugs.
• Stalking.
• Mention of sexual assault (but no depiction).
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Kidnapping.
• Bath scene.
• Flashing lights.
• Plane crash.
• Gun violence.
• Nuclear explosion.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Panty shots of high-school-aged girls.

I watched the Andor Season 1 Recap in anticipation of my season 2 watch (I'm only on episode 3 so no spoilers yet) and I've felt more hope than I have in a bit. Maybe it makes me a lib, but the lines from the manifesto especially felt poignant at this point in time.

The combination of those lines about thousands are joining battalions without realizing it, and the protests and LA fight back against ICE, idk, it's helped offset some doomer I've felt lately. I can't wait to finish this show.

Hay, everypony!

This is a mock schedule for the rest of the MLP G4 watch parties. It could always happen that there will be at some point a delay of 7+ days that throws everything here out of wack, but we'll deal with that if and when it happens. For now this is more about which things we'll watch for Pony Night.

Part 1: Up to The End of Season 7

June 21 - July 5

• S4E9~S4E26 — 6 episodes every Saturday

July 12

• Rainbow Rocks (2014 / 70 mins), the sequel to Equestria Girls (2013). Takes place between S4 and S5.
• S5E1~2 "The Cutie Map" parts 1+2, AKA the "Gommunism Bad" episodes.

July 19 - August 9

• S5E3~S5E26 — 6 episodes every Saturday

August 16

• Friendship Games (2015 / 72 mins), the third Equestria Girls film. Takes place at the same time as the season 5 finale, but is mostly disconnected from it.
• S6E1~2 "The Crystalling" parts 1+2, which is all things considered a pretty mid season opener.

August 23 - September 13

• S6E3~S6E26 — 6 episodes every Saturday

September 20

• Legend of Everfree (2016 / 73 mins), the fourth and final Equestria Girls film, also probably the second weakest after the first one.
• S7E1 "Celestial Advice", the only single-part season premiere, and really pretty low-stakes, right?
• S7E2 "All Bottled Up"

September 27 - October 18

• S7E3~S7E26 — 6 episodes every Saturday

Part 2: Dealing with DST

October 25

• My Little Pony: The Movie (2017 / 99 mins), which has a completely different (much higher budget) art style than the show, and is a pretty darn good flick if I do say so myself.
• Equestria Girls: Magical Movie Night, or Tales of Canterlot High (2017), a trilogy of Equestria Girls specials, each 22 minutes in length.

NB: If I understand DST correctly, from my own perspective (CET), when the clock strikes 1 AM on October 26 — which will presumably be during the first of the Magical Movie Night specials — my clock will reset to midnight. When my clock strikes 1 AM again, that's when it's Stalin's time.

November 1

• Forgotten Friendship (2018), a 44-minute Equestria Girls special.
• Rollercoaster of Friendship (2018), another 44-minute Equestria Girls special.
• S8E1~2 "School Daze" parts 1+2.

NB: Because of the desynchronization of DST between Europe and Turtle Island, the watch party on November 1 will start at 10 PM CET / 5 PM EDT.

November 8 - November 29

• S8E3~26 — 6 episodes every Saturday

NB: The listed time will change to 11 PM CET / 5 PM EST (rather than EDT) starting November 8.

Part 3: The Endgame

December 6

• Best Gift Ever (2018), a 44-minute Friendship is Magic holiday special taking place between S8 and S9. Seems fitting for December, right?
• Spring Breakdown (2019), a 44-minute Equestria Girls special.
• S9E1~2 "The Beginning of the End" parts 1+2.

December 13

• S9E3~6
• Sunset's Backstage Pass (2019), a 44-minute Equestria Girls special.

December 20

• S9E7~10
• Holidays Unwrapped (2019), the last 44-minute Equestria Girls special, and one that also seems fitting for December.

December 27

• S9E11~13
• Rainbow Roadtrip (2019), a 60-minute Friendship is Magic special using the same art style as My Little Pony: the Movie (2017). Premiered during season 9's mid-season hiatus.

January 3

• S9E14~18
• Assorted shorts to fill the remaining time

January 10

• S9E19~23
• Assorted shorts to fill the remaining time

January 17

• S9E24~25 "The Ending of the End" parts 1+2.
• S9E26 "The Last Problem", the very last episode.
• Jenny Nicholson video essay: The Last Bronycon: a fandom autopsy (2020 / 71 mins), as suggested by AernaLingus as our book-end.

Part 4: Et demain ?

Some ideas on things we can watch after we finish FiM:

• My Little Pony: Pony Life. Dubbed "G4.5", these are like 80 five-minute segments featuring the FiM characters in a completely different style. Not very good or memorable TBH.
• My Little Pony: A New Generation (2021), the 3D CGI movie which kicked off G5. It's serviceable but also kinda meh.
• My Little Pony: The Movie (1986), starring Danny DeVito (I'm serious!). I've actually never seen this one, so I am kinda curious.
• Any remaining shorts from G4.
• Other content from G5 or G1~3, perhaps in chronological order.
• Star vs the Forces of Evil (2015~2019), a Disney cartoon contemporary with FiM, which for my teenage self scratched a similar itch as FiM. SVTFOE has if nothing else a recurring character called Pony Head, so there's your connection to ponies right there!

It's really fucking good. Whole family had tears in their eyes. Bonus: arguably has some revolutionary themes.

So much kids slop is terrible. I genuinely loved this flick.

This was not a film about a bunch of marxists fixing the world by understanding material conditions, but instead about Dakota Johnson having to choose between Pedro Pascal pretending he's 6' tall and Chris Evans pretending he isn't.

Yet somehow, this film actually is about capitalism. And how it has reduced the concept of relationships to checkboxes and transactions. It effortlessly jumps from silly romcom to handling very serious matters to making me wonder if the director, Celine Song, is on this site (hearing the phrase 'voluntary celibate' in this film shocked me).

The writing was phenomenal, giving a realistic look at the rich and the poor alike. I could actually gush about the dialog all day, but honestly, I don't want to spoil it. Cinematography was also amazing. Nearly every shot was blocked with beautiful intent or used framing to just make great looking shots. The of anamorphic lenses to form frames and tell the story was gorgeous as well.

To criticize the film, I wish we had a bit more from Pascal's character, I never felt like I was in his head, and Dakota Johnson did not give as good of a performance as the rest of the cast.

So is it about marxist materialism? No, but also in a way, yes. If had to give it a rating, I would say 4.5/5 stars. I might go see it again, because I'm sure there were things I missed.

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Oh, and I'm pretty sure I forgot to mention last time: There are two subtitle tracks for each episode. The one labeled English is for the English SDH captions, which include sound effects and similar; and the one labeled Latin is for the English non-SDH captions, which only include dialog. The weird labeling is for technical reasons.

Let's thank Aer once again for taking the time to upload these episodes for us with the proper subtitles!

What's the chef cookin' tonight?

• "Castle Mane-ia" continues the "Chest of Harmony" arc set up by the season premiere, and also establishes what we might call the post-princessification successor to Twilight Sparkle's "epistles" to Princess Celestia. This episode is also a perhaps rare example of a double-layered pun in an episode title.
• "Daring Don't" introduces a new recurring character: the author of the fiction-within-fiction adventure novel series Daring Do. Those books' last prominent appearance in FiM was back in season 2, if you can remember that.
• "Flight to the Finish" is an episode advancing the "Equestria Games" arc, which started at the tail end of season 3. This episode focuses on the Cutie Mark Crusader's efforts to become Ponyville's flag bearers for the Equestria Games, and in particular this episode focuses on Scootaloo's disability. It's also got a musical number!
• "Power Ponies" is... I dunno, does it count as isekai? It's a superhero parody in any case, and it's a Spike episode. I learned the term "humdrum" from this episode, fun fact.
• "Bats!" is not named after the endangered Northeast Caucasian language spoken in Tushetia, Georgia, but rather is named after the most successful type of mammal. This is because this is an episode centered on vampire fruit bats, and a certain vampire pony. This episode's got a fun musical number, too.
• "Rarity Takes Manehattan" is the first of the "key" episodes of the "Chest of Harmony" arc. This episode sees Rarity enter a fashion contest, and introduces a new recurring character called Coco Pommel, whose name was later changed to Miss Pommel due to a threat of legal action from the estate of Coco Chanel.

...Oh, when I say that Coco Pommel is a "recurring character", I mean that she's got like two prominent appearances after this episode, one of which is like a single scene that lasts for less than a minute. And otherwise she's got a few cameos and namedrops here and there. So yeah, she's really just got one more episode after this in which she plays a major role.

But naturally, despite not actually having many appearances in the show, I feel like Coco Pommel became a bit of a fan favorite among many bronies. Was this because of her personality? Was it because her design looks vaguely like a tareme blue-haired anime schoolgirl? Who knows!

Also, "Rarity Takes Manehattan" has a musical number. Should I specify that for every episode with one? Maybe, but there's a lot!

Content warnings

• A character is trapped inside an abandoned building ("Castle Mane-ia")
• A character believes her pet has died ("Castle Mane-ia")
• Characters are covered in bees ("Castle Mane-ia")
• Child in peril ("Castle Mane-ia", "Power Ponies")
• Characters named in reference to horrible people ("Daring Don't", "Rarity Takes Manehattan")
• Colonial pilfering; Latin and Indigenous-coded characters portrayed as villains ("Daring Don't")
• Strangers entering somepony's house without her knowledge or consent ("Daring Don't")
• Ableism ("Flight to the Finish")
• Childhood bullying ("Flight to the Finish")
• Characters are frozen ("Power Ponies")
• A large bug is harmed ("Power Ponies")
• Speciesism or mistreatment of animals ("Bats!")
• A character is hypnotized ("Bats!")
• Depiction of poor working conditions and harassment by an employer ("Rarity Takes Manehattan")
• Classism ("Rarity Takes Manehattan")

♫ Uniting nations at the speeeed of liiiiight ♫
[epic sax solo]
♫ Station of the '20s — TV☆3SIS! ♫

Before Sunrise is a monumental romantic drama because it feels the least pretentious.

The sequel is even better, taking place nine years later; it makes its characters deal with the reality of that wonderful day they spent in Vienna together.

If I could recommend one romantic drama to everyone it would be this one.