Letterboxd for movies i watched on the plane by Kayode D. '27

A few days ago⁠01 as of posting this blog , I got off the plane in SOUTH AFRICAAAAAA. I’m working on a project with the MIT D-Lab, for a class I took this semester called “D-Lab for Design”. We spent the semester working on an ongoing project, developing a rough-terrain medical stretcher for the Langa Township outside of Capetown.

Here’s a link to the project!! : https://www.reachstretcher.org/    ←- Check it out!! 

Here’s a photo from the website showing the stretcher as of last year’s status. Very cool!!

I’ll blog about things as they happen because it’ll be super cool to see in action!! [also I need money]. Not a live-blog this time, but check back for more later too!!

Movies I watched on the plan ride. 

The flight to Cape Town was a collective 15 hours, from Boston to Washington DC Layover before arriving in Cape Town. I watched 4 movies in this time, and while watching Marty Supreme, I had an epiphany that I felt the need to share, like on a letterboxd or something. But because I can’t be bothered to make a letterboxd, here are my reviews of these movies and whether or not you should watch them on your next flight: 

Marty Supreme [Stars review]This is just Over the Hedge. This movie is literally just over the hedge. That’s the thought that sparked this blog. Open and closed. 

I watched over the hedge twice, back to back with no break, in high school at a church overnight event. I was trying to sleep and kept coming in and out of consciousness, but the one takeaway I had was that the main character [an overconfident loner type] continuously earned enough money to solve all of his problems [usually through nefarious means] and then lost it all again for a stupid reason, much to the frustration of the viewer [ME]. That’s the entire plot of Marty Supreme, and Over the Hedge. He is overconfident to a fault and continually gets closer to solving his problems by taking advantage of others before sabotaging himself and ending back up at the bottom. Any attempt to say “Oh, but Marty Supreme is actually deeper because __!” can be rebutted by “and Over the Hedge has that too.”

Also, this movie was barely about ping-pong!! Which disappointed me greatly. I was hoping for more ping pong! And more orange? The ads made it seem like a very orange movie. I don’t think I understood the point of this movie. 

3/5 marty supreme ping pong balls

Zootopia 2

This is the first movie I watched on the plane. It was good! I remember thinking it was going to be bad when I saw the trailers but it was pretty good. On the positive side, they did a good job of worldbuilding without boxing themselves into a hole. This movie reminded me of early MCU, where the threats and villains weren’t too huge yet, but I don’t think Zootopia has the demand to make a Morbillion⁠02 This is another thing: I liked Morbius. A lot. I think the ending sucked, sure, but I thought the beginning was really good, and I had fun watching it for a lot of that movie. Yeah a lot didn't make sense and no I don't think it was a GREAT movie, but I liked it and I would watch it again. movies. That being said, I don’t know if I could tell you what the point or lesson of the movie is. Billionaires are bad even if they seem good at first? Money and power corrupts? Those feel too on the nose.

I wonder if the snakes have Snake MIT. Like in Rick and Morty. Wait– how does everyone speak the same language in Zootopia? I could understand the mammals maybe but the snakes too?? I’m splitting hairs. I liked this one. 

4.1 / 5 ZPD Badges

Mickey 17

This movie was good too!! I took a Comic Book Art class this past semester, and one thing we talked about a lot was pacing; you should try to up the stakes every page. The last panel on a page should ask a question that turning the page answers, and raises the stakes to encourage reading another page. This movie did that A LOT. 

I’m not a massive fan of movies that are stressful. Sue me, I don’t like it when characters I like are constantly dying and I like it better when they can be friends. The premise of the movie was good, the portrayal of a dystopic future was good, and the ending was good! I think this would be a good book series. Oh wait….it is a book series. I might go read it!! I bet the book is very different but I want to see what happens after the end of it. 

This is where I was really unsure of the intended point of the movie. It clearly was poking jabs at the Billionaire-wants-to-move-to-space idea, but I wasn’t sure of the intended message behind Mickey dying over and over and being reborn. I considered looking it up, but am I really that incapable of processing for myself? I can’t wait a few days and think on it?

I’ve stewed on it and wrote a long passage about identity and self loathing, suffice to say that I admired the relationship between Mickey 17 and Mickey 18, and the growth 18 went through in accepting his “fate”. He was the “stronger” Mickey but knew that he wasn’t the True Mickey. Or something…I’m filabustering to avoid gushing my emotions and over-revealing on the internet.

This movie was a lot.

4 Mickey’s out of 5, [minus one for the constant fear of death.]

When Harry Met Sally

I watched Mickey 17 and Marty Supreme back-to-back with no break, and I was a little anxietied-out. I didn’t want to start another movie that would have me “on the edge of my seat”, so I watched When Harry Met Sally! My friend Rosie said it’s her favorite movie of all time, so I gave it a shot. 

Right off the bat, I liked how unceremoniously they met. I figured it would be some grand romantic scene, but in reality it was anything but. They met in the first two seconds and it wasn’t romantic in the slightest. How funny. 

I also loved NYC in the 90s. I would have loved to live there. The clothes, the stores, the way the cameras looked. Getting comics and Records and taking the subway. Deep in a blog draft that will never see the light of day, I wrote about my fascination with the Little Caesers “Pizza by the Foot” promotion, ran in the mid 1990s. I would have loved to get pizza with Harry. 

Which brings me to the point of writing this blog: I don’t think I get the movie. Of all of the movies I watched, with talking animals and people being sci-fi copied and reprinted and all of that, the movie that I don’t understand the most is When Harry Met Sally.

I wish that I could get lunch with Harry. I feel like we were missing something in the movie that would help us understand who he is. I don’t understand why he loved Sally because I don’t understand what love is [exposing myself as a chud] and I sure as heck know Harry doesn’t, either. I think that he acts so dismissive and sarcastic to protect himself from something, but we never see him process or grow as a person outside of his interactions with Sally. I think a part of me was hoping that I would learn something about myself from watching Harry, but whatever he realized, I don’t know if he said it out loud. I wish I could get lunch with him so I could ask him some questions. What made Sally so great? Was it just that he kept running into her? He went and declared to love Sally, but what made that love? 

Maybe I need to rewatch the movie. I think that I do. 

4/5 feet of Pizza. 

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