Stephen King and Mike Flanagan vs Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland
Under a swirl of swifts swimming
an updraft of the city hall smokestack
Wearing an outfit that perfectly matched the turquoise red and white Kentucky Theater sign
Goldie and I discussed the film
Life of Chuck
Described as “wonderful at times”
and “This generation’s ‘It’s a Wonderful Life”
(Which makes us a very sad generation indeed)
A Stephen King novel short story
that aggravatingly reminded me of the two part prose poem I became suddenly embarrassed about finishing,
It was both an apocalypse movie and a Death movie, and also a dance movie.
The dancing made me cry, despite being badly edited to the soundtrack,
But Tom Hiddleston, the lead, is only in it for 10 minutes, and most of that he was dancing and really living.
It started out as a funny critique of modern reliance on the internet
which seemed so promising.
Although this turned out to be some alternate but parallel life of our hero’s
which seemed so promising.
Although this turned out to be some alternate but parallel life of our hero’s
Who after everything
And before the end of the world
And universe
chooses a life in accounting, perhaps moved by Mark Hamill or Carl Sagan? I don’t know.
And before the end of the world
And universe
chooses a life in accounting, perhaps moved by Mark Hamill or Carl Sagan? I don’t know.
The best part was much later when Goldie remembered a bit from Rick and Morty, where they play an arcade game called “Roy”
the object of which is to live the entire life of a guy who works at a rug store and gets cancer.
Once again proving that writing is a job
anyone can do to varying degrees of success
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Well now I need to watch both the movie and the show for two reasons: my great grandmother was Goldie (and I haven’t met another) and It’s a Wonderful Life is my favorite Christmas movie.
Thank you for the feedback! I do think this poem/review/observation is funnier if you’ve seen both. Rick and Morty is scathing and honest and the comparison to “It’s a Wonderful Life” well…you can see for yourself. Honestly “It’s a Wonderful Life” is a masterpiece, while this movie was not. Imo. Really bad actually. So bad I found it inspiring. I suppose it’s worth seeing, there really were enjoyable bits. Rick and Morty is funny but the wit is a little bit scathing, not for everyone. I think the details it puts in there, (for instance this is a video game they play in the show) are really just genius. Still, certain things are kind of downers and in general I am careful to guard my consumption of negative energies
Goldie is my genius poet partner who is on here. One of the sweetest people in the world! I imagine your grandmother would like them
I still think it’s wrong to lower anything you’ve written to the souring caliber of that movie. That’s beneath you, so much so that the comparison’s starting to give me vertigo.
I love “(Which makes us a very sad generation indeed)”
And I have the urge to play the game Roy and love the last lines, too!