Rambles by Drew

Harry Potter 's good, innit? I'm going back through the books for the first time in about ten years. After reading Sorcerer's Stone I thought to myself, "Hey, I've got that great new blog that everyone's been reading and talking about, why don't I write about this?" And THEN I thought to myself, "Oh, why don't I compare each of the books to their corresponding movies?" To which then I replied, "Wow, what a great idea!" After several more minutes of patting myself on the back, I got to it. Now, a quick disclaimer: I've seen each of the Harry Potter  movies a few times, and I... don't love them. None of them are bad, but I don't think any are even close to as good as everyone else seems to think.  Also, of course, full spoilers for the books and movies. But honestly, if you haven't read/seen Harry Potter  by now, you've got bigger problems.  Straight up - this book is awesome. It's a perfe...

Over the past eight months, I've had a stark realization: post-college life is really boring. So, as a part of my quarter-life crisis, I started a blog. Do people still read blogs? I have no idea. Either way, here we go. I saw a lot of movies last year! Some were good, some were great, and some were neither of those things. Today, I'm ranking them from worst to best and talking a bit about each. Haven't seen some of them yet? Don't worry - this will be 100% spoiler free guaranteed. Also, this is all totally subjective and I'm just some guy. But ALSO keep in mind that I have very  good opinions.  Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets Valerian  feels like a George Lucas fever dream. I had high hopes for it - I love a weird and wacky sci-fi. This was both weird and wacky, but not in the right way. The two leads have a very 70s, thinly-veiled-sexism kind of dynamic; he spends the whole movie lusting after her, and even though she knows he's a cre...