Do animals talk in this dimension?

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I had been looking forward for several months to tonight's screening of Scarred Hearts (Inimi cicatrizate, 2016) at the HFA, but at the last minute I decided that perhaps I did not actually feel like watching a movie about being chronically-terminally ill in the face of rising fascism and instead spatch and I walked to the Brattle Theatre and saw Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018).

I'm delighted we did. It was great. The visuals were as excellent as promised and the storytelling just as strong. I may or may not write up it properly whenever my ability to think returns, but it was definitely a better choice than TB and World War II.

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I did not expect to, because I have not liked other recent comic book movies much, but I found it completely delightful in every aspect - storytelling, performance, visuals.

I sort of fell out of the live-action Marvel universe around the time of Captain America: Civil War (2016) and have returned only intermittently for certifiably good ideas like Black Panther (2018) and surprisingly strong diversions like Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), but Into the Spider-Verse gave me an absolutely satisfying comic-book movie without engaging with any of the ponderous mythos that now surrounds even the good entries in the MCU and I am honestly surprised there's going to be a Spider-Man movie that isn't about Miles Morales, because seriously. This one just works so well.

There is a song on the soundtrack with the refrain "I gotta elevate" but Ciro and I both hear this as "I got a elephant" which is an excellent brag we now use all the time.

That is an excellent brag.