Weekly Improvement Thread - Apr 20th 2025
Hello comrades and welcome to the third improvement megathread of April!
There are exactly 10 days until the end of the month. It's a good time to get back on track or make a new goal.Some discussion ideas:
Poster caption: "Glory to the Revolution! 1917"
Had a rough time lately. First had some car issues (I know) so I couldn't drive to the gym for a bit, then had some family issues which also kept me busy and emotionally drained. So I just continued to ride the gym break and rested up last week. Planning on going back to the gym this week again. Stocked up on my food for my diet regiment and feel ready.
Anyway, I have been reading more theory and watching nice films, with the occasional fun trash movie, so that's been nice!
Happy Passover and Easter and Resurrection Day to all, even the haters and losers!
What have you been watching? I saw the Minecraft movie in the cinema this week and it was better than I expected. I came in with very low expectations but it was a fun time, especially in the cinema
That's cool! I've never even played Minecraft so I think I'd be so lost watching that. I haven't even been to the theaters in forever but I'm going with old friends to watch Star Wars Episode 3 rescreening soon so I'll be binging the entire series according to Ring Theory this week and end with Episode 3 when we go watch it. Curious to see how theaters are these days.
I watched Solaris most recently for the first time which was mind blowing to say the least. It was so fascinating and a really cool twist to SciFi film plots. Gorgeous film. Also recently watched Fassbinder's World on a Wire. Another film that was really well done and very much ahead of its time. I actually really liked it and would recommend it, but I kept falling asleep through it repeatedly and had to split it up over 4 nights. I think it was just mostly stress exhaustion though, not the film's fault. It's a made for West German TV film though so it naturally splits into two parts, I just split each part into a further split. Then watched only the last 3 episodes of Samurai Champloo last night just to watch the end for the hell of it with a bunch of free Indian food a friend gave me because it was accidentally delivered to her and she didn't want it, which was delicious, by the way. It was fun!
I guess I haven't actually watched anything trashy lately according to my list. Just throw on Simpsons or Seinfeld when I want to take it easy.
Have you seen Soundtrack for a Coup d'etat? I watched that recently and it's suuuuch good tankie material, literally because lots of Khrushchev but still excellent!
Soundtrack for a Coup d'etat
I haven't watched it but I've heard it's good. My favourite Tarkovsky movie is definitely Stalker. I want to go to the cinema to watch Mickey 17 this week.
Yeah, Stalker is such a classic. So far only watched those two films of his.
Hope you enjoy the movie!