When you watch two movies in one weekend, and the one with multi-dimensional Spider Man is more plausible, you’ve watched some pretty ridiculous stuff!

@Leucrotta It was far better than it had any right to be, though, wasn't it! Peg and I were quite impressed.

@zebratron2084 Mortal Engines or Spiderverse? I truly enjoyed Into the Spiderverse, but Mortal Engines has replaced Nova Seed as “everything I wanted in a movie when I was 10.” Pretty much the only thing it didn’t have was dinosaurs.

@Leucrotta @zebratron2084

wait, Mortal Engines outdoes Nova Seed in "everything pre-teen me ever wanted in a movie"? The movie about a mostly-mute lion dude who gets to fight a giant fucking skeleton to save a creepy girl floating in a tank of light? That Nova Seed? Sheeeiiit I'm sold now.

But first I gotta give my visual cortex some time to recover from Spider-Verse, holy crap

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@anthracite @zebratron2084 it's entirely possible - right now I'm just so taken with the airships and the WWII aerial combat chunk of the movie. "Redline" might be another candidate for "everything preteen me wanted in a movie."

@Leucrotta @zebratron2084

oh man Redline is so perfectly honed to ONLY contain things preteen boys want and NOTHING ELSE, it's kind of amazing. Visually stunning on a moment-to-moment basis but...

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