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The Fingernails plot doesn't really work here. It also doesn't really work without it otherwise we're just watching two people cheat.

The ending was good but I wish they would've added a little more to the Black Mirror subplot or find a way to make the movie without it.

This post is my entry for this month's IndieWeb Movie Club hosted by Zachary Kai.

It has not been that long since I last watched this film but I still remember quite a bit of it. I'm biased because any parental themes in movies is sure to get me to like it. Add to that found family themes and beautiful animation and I'm all in.

While most of the film is pretty formulaic, it still managed to surprise me in quite a few different ways. The whole sequence of Roz arriving and encountering the critters was just as funny the second time around. Pinktail might also be my favorite character but I love that all the forest dwellers have their own unique personalities even when they are relatively minor parts.

I appreciate that the film ends with Roz getting picked up after realizing that they would come back. It makes that last scene with Roz and Brightbill so much more meaningful while also ending in a way that if they didn't make sequels feels ok.

Negative. That gosling stalks me, emits noise, and makes simple tasks more complicated or impossible.

Such a nicely animated map showing several stories from Great Britain. There's some cool little details like the one for "The Sea Monster of Falmouth Bay".

I hope they continue to fill this in with more legends from Wales and Scotland too as there only seem to be a few at this time.

This is a neat collection of tools for image manipulation with some cool effects.

I liked it but I'm not a fan of the human subplot. Are these people responsible for the events that lead to Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)?

It was fine? It had some great moments (the cactus dare, the song, the Margot Robbie scene), but I think I expected a little something more.

I may change my mind when I do my big Wes Anderson marathon at some point in the future.

It doesn't matter. Just keep telling the story.

I liked the ending but then I found that there was an alternate ending and was amazed that a film could have two great endings to choose from that completely change the story.

The film did lose me a bit at the reveal of the manufactured moment in the interview and how that could be a relationship defining moment. Then I thought more that this may be due to my own skepticism that anything I see in media, news or otherwise, is manufactured. Which made me realize how accurate Albert Brooks' monologue near the end was.

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I think I have all the pieces set up and Umbrella is ready to go. It is a simple 11ty starter site that has IndieAuth, Micropub, and Webmentions built in using Netlify functions.

I've been using all of these pieces on my site for a bit but I wanted to put them all together in one place just in case it could help others start their own site.