The Star Trek reboot movies engaged in performative stupidity - that is, they pretended to be dumber than they were in order not to frighten anyone away who might have got the impression that Star Trek was a thing that brain scientists watched - but Blood and Treasure is the other kind of stupidity: the kind that's real. It covers the same ground as a video game series called Uncharted in which a square-jawed white dude travels the world looking for treasure while things explode and then he has a fight with a rich guy who is also a terrorist who plans to use an ancient McGuffin as a weapon of mass destruction and long story short, this is the setup for Blood and Treasure, only not as well written as a video game whose script is nothing more than a contextualisation for your gunning down literally hundreds of pirates and bandits.
Blood and Treasure - AKA Nathan Drake and Chloe Frazer: The Series - is offensively stupid is what I am saying.
It introduces its main female character by showing her trying to seduce a man in order to rob him, its lead male is a square-jawed white boy fighting Arab terrorists, there's flashbacks to the Nazis, secret conspiracies - you know what, fuck this stupid show, just go on Youtube and watch a movie collection of the story scenes from Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, as at least you'll only have to sit through an hour or two of that.
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Monday, 8 July 2019
Tuesday, 2 November 2010
we must explore Avery Avenue

Sat up all night watching Carry On Screaming, The Thing, The Fog, Wolfen, In the Mouth of Madness, and Ghosts of Mars (which like Battlefield Earth, the Postman, and Batman and Robin is a film I can easily watch over and over no matter what the critical consensus has to say) and then I played Fallout: New Vegas pretty much all morning and afternoon. When it deigned not to crash on me, anyway.
Nice Halloween, all told, though as ever, the fireworks outside will only just now start to really take off as we get closer to Nov 5th, when all of Northern Ireland celebrates the burning of a catholic who thought socialism was a good idea and oppressive monarchy not so much. What an idiot.
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