• Currently on No Movies/TV challenge right now.
• I am watching and rewatching movies I WANT and not influenced by social media anymore.

  Just like I started doing with gaming, I now have started to watch movies that I always wanted to watch but never got to it.
  Cutting down all social media was a big help with it. I wasn't checking Instagram, Facebook already but I did go to youtube fairly regularly for those long form hate videos that also kept recommending movies and TV shows.
  If the movie is not based on a book and was an original work, I am wathcing it.

DON'T WATCH ANY TRAILER OR READ ABOUT THE MOVIE AT ALL. Just watch it directly.

All time favorites

• In Bruges (2008) → Doesn't fit any genre

  What a great movie, not just comedy but can fit into so much more genre. The more I see it, the more I want to visited.

• Cashback (2006) → Love and stopping time

• The Invitation (2015) → Propper psychological thriller

• Hardcore Henry (2015) → What a great action thrill ride all throughout the movie
• Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father→ Sentimential but worth experiencing once

You most likely have already watched these movies

• The Interview (2014) → It's a stupid movie and I love it.

• Deja Vu (2006) → Great Entertainment

• Unstoppable (2010) → Based on real story but great anyways

• Coherence (2013) → Fucking terrified watching it. Don't want to ruin it for you but that's about it.
• The Man from Earth
• Calibre (2018) → Scared Shitless Movie
• Prisoners (2013)
• Fractured
• Zodiac (2007)
• The Guilty (2021)
• Disturbia

• Enemy (2013)
• Primer

• Dark (2017)

• After Life (2019)
• Black Mirror→ A few episodes are really great and here they are:
  • White Christmas
  • Hated in the Nation
  • Playtest
  • Crocodile
  • Smithereens
  • Beyond the Sea
  Anything else is a hit or a miss.
• Devs
• Death Note

I don't actually read the books but listen to the audiobooks while doing something else with my hands.

• The Strain→ The TV show changed and added a lot of characters which ruined it. The book is still great.

  #TODO:
  TV show creators hate women. The audiobook was far better.
  
  Adding insufferable badly written women can't be made up for by showing their naked bodies and implying sex.
  
  Not only this show compared to the book add insufferable characters but also turned characters from the book insufferable.
  
  Here's the list of changed characters:
  1) Nora: She is always confused and sad in this show with no sense of purpose or intelligence as a character compared to the book. I know she left the show and thus the character has to be killed but even before that her constant down-syndrome face and her "acting like your typical damsel in distress" shows up again and again.
  And also, they had to add that pathetic sex scene and someone walking upto them to tell them it's wrong because Eph went through a divorce while her wife is already shagging someone for so long.
  
  2) Kelly & the whole divorce rigamarole: I think being this show for America, the creators thought, let's add a bunch of "relatable divorce stuff" in the show.
  The book has the same motivations of Kelly but it's implemented so much better and it's never allowed to be bigger than it's supposed to be.
  Also, they had to add the insufferable montage of father-son bond because the father went through a divorce. It was pathetic.
  
  3)
  
  Now, the stupid characters added so that the men in the show don't feel lonely:
  1) Dutch: What an insufferable women. The showrunners must really hate the LGBTQ people so they added her to to show their hatred. And of course, in TV show no man can be without a woman so of course she tries to hook up with the lone-wolf Fet.
  
  2) The little woman for the rich old dude: Yup, of course she was added and soon killed because how can a man live without a woman. In the book, he is such a strong character who is above such things, but no, in the dumb TV show, they had to add a woman again because it's just "nice".
  
  3) The flashback women for Thomas Eichorst: What piece of garbage. I didn't even bother watching what she did and I don't want to know. Suffice to say, in the book, he is handled much much better and is so lot more consistent.
  
  
  Of course there are women added apart from this:
  I am still 2/3rd in the book-series so I will confirm this later:
  1) The congresswomen: Again, very very insufferable.
  
  
  Other characters have been affected slightly: Many characters are kept alive earlier and longer and they don't fit the narrative in the way. I still want you to read the book so I won't spoil it but just a hint, the book handles characters a lot better including Angel. Some notable ones are:
  1) Angle: He is such an amazing character in the book while just glossed over in the TV show.
  2) The taxi-driver: Is handled so much better in the book again.
  3) Thomas Eichorst: Unnecessarily top much in the TV show to the point one starts to question if he is the one who affects everything while in the book he is just another pawn.
  4) Eph: Has drinking problems but I guess the TV show people thought it would be so much more relatable to Americans if we show him struggling with alcohol all the time when the book handles hum so much better.
  5) The other CDC glasses friend: Unnecessarily butts his way into the show and creates just nuisance. In the book he is just another pawn which makes a lot more sense.
  6) The old man: For some reason, they leaned into the old man's weakness and showed him at a much varying strength levels. He is either very strong or very weak both as young and as old. His fingers are snapped because he dare challenge the master while in the show he actively seeks out the master and damages the master enough to put a permanent memory in the master.
  
  Apart from these there were so many great characters from the book which were never even touched. These should have been in the TV series instead of adding random women because it's for the "dumb" TV audience:
  1) Crazy: What a well-written character who affects the plot in significant way.
  2) Fade: Only show face once but is integral to how he is portrayed.
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  Also, the show unnecessarily leans into extra mechanics like:
  1) The non-sex strigoi: It is so so irritating having shoved this in your face all the time.
  2) The way the mystery unfolds: It's pathetic in the show, handled greatly in the book.
  
  
  Even other side characters like Mark, the policeman, the blind kids are portrayed so much more better in the book than the TV shows.

• The Hobbit→ Movies change the tone of the whole books

  Yeah the book is pretty chill and a fun experience. The movies unnecessary add stuff from other books for the sake of just lenghtening them. Just listen to the bok instead.

• Harry Potter→ Dehumanized Movies

  Now I want to talk to you about something I have recently learnt with Harry Potter recently and comparing the movies and the books too.

  Before I get into it however I should let you know that I know these are full of huge plotholes. Even while listening to the books I can tell you hundreds of plotholes in the same chapter sometimes even without going through, "Everything wrong with the harry potter movies" on youtube. I am aware of these plotholes but I still keep moving forward.

  What I love about the books is the general everyday talk about normal stuff going on in everyone's day to day life. Things that if a director wanted to make into a movie will willingly gloss over because "drama or emotion enducing sequences" take more precedence.

  In the last book I actually skipped the whole chapter about the fight at the ministry because I didn't think them important at all. I knew them already but I was more into I guess normal dialogues and the end chapter explanations by Dumbeldore. Things that are in my memory are them cleaning the house, cleaning the garden of gnomes, Ron going upto the girls dormitory and falling flat, their normal everyday life of students and so so many many more memories (LOL I said memories as if it really happened with me or something).

  Now that I think about it even with the recent book about the Boudelare's children I was really more interested in the normal day to day activites that doesn't have to be full of drama with every second like the movies and it is also interesteing to see that the people who completely stick to the movies/tv shows miss out this particular aspect. Even with long TV series what I have seen is that movie/tv makers knowingly gloss over or skip over "day to day stuff that makes us human" whenever there is an adaptation and care about more "emotion enducing scenes".

  One of the tragic examples is harry Potter's 6th book where the love affair took center stage in this when there were so so many stuff that they could have focussed on instead in the movies, yes the love affair with Ron Hermoine and Lavendar Brown was a small part of this book but there was so so much more that would have been more important than emotion-enducing.

  It feels to me that the parts of the books that are selected for video entertainment are again, "emotion enducing" whereas when I listen to book I really like the part of the books that I guess makes them human. Maybe this is also the reason I can't get into complete magic books where there are no connection with real humans or for that matter even TV shows or movies. Like I love Dark but mainly because the humans lives and how they have been changed rather than actual sci-fi aspect. I love sci-fi, I really do, UFO aliens, time travel, the lot, but what I am more interested is I guess how it affects the people in it.

  Now, there is one more thing I want to talk to you about. It's the general dumbing down of stuff from the books into the movies. In the 6th Harry Potter movie, Luna Lovegood who has been established only believes in stuff as long as there is no actual proof in them and her imaginations are just imaginations and not really gronded in reality. She wears a sort of googles in the movie and starts checking train compartment to find whatever it was on Harry's head due to which she was able to see him under the invisibiliyt cloak. This was completely outrageous in my opinion. In the movie there is a much more logical reasoning when Tonks comes to check and finds a compartment with the drapes down and tries to find him instead here just for the sake of entertainment the logic has been pushed aside and sort of confirmed that whatever backward ass story Luna is thinking is actually true.

  This makes me think that movies will always dumb down stuff for the audience, always. They will always prefer grandure, emotions, dopamine and not I should say, "things that make us human."

• A Man Called Ove→ Book has a lot more depth to it

  I wanted to talk about A man called Ove/Ovah or Otto. I had wathced the movie already. Don't remember the ending exactly but I had liked the movie but that's the thing, apart drom the trailer of the movie I can't really remember a good moment in the movie at all.

  And I suspected this and that's why I had my reserve before starting the book. I finally did and I have not even been through 30mins of the book and I am already creating memories, sad and funny, normal and just boring day and small humours moments. I thought I would not be able to do that since I had already watched the movie.

  And I do get the images from the movie in my head again and again and I try my best to shove it aside. Despite this I have already formed quite a lot of memories(Yes, memories as if I was actually in the story) like Ovah telling the lanky neighbour that he shouldn't even be allowed to reverse a cassete tape let alone a car. Also just subtle writing like the door opened as if it opened out of fear by itself and he disliked the woman a little less.

  Later:
  I was dreading listening to A Man called Ova. I had watched the movie and I expected something amazing. So i kept positioning it and after to it, it was amazing... Almost cried at the end. However I am breaking my earlier habit of watching a movie just after reading the book it is based on. I beleive it helps me visualise the characters and events but they are feel hollow and I believe they break the stuff I have created in my head

• Transformers 2→ Skimmed past it.
• Kick-Ass 2: Skimmed past, just wanted see the tragic women Chloë Grace Moretz grow up to her tragic acting career. Oh she is wonderful actress, it's just that she is always in movies about doom and gloom ever since a child.
• Slither 2006→ 30th May 2026→ Didn't get invested in the concept. Again, fucking stupid reddit recommendation.
• Slugs 1988→ 30th May 2026→ Fucking stupid reddit recommendation based on Tremors-like.