Consumption
The Life and Times Consumption list serves as an archive of the things consumed by Coleman Julius Hamilton.
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980)
As fun as the series has been, I’ve been finding the plot hard to follow at times. The constant head-jumping and universe-ending make it hard to understand what’s going on half the time. It works, though, since I guess that’s kinda the point. After a while, you just stop asking questions. I liked that one robot…Although I forgot its name. I’m really enjoying this series, but also feel like I’d struggle to feel the same way about anyone else who does. There’s a very ‘reddit humor’ to these books that I think would be insufferable to actually discuss outside of the pages. Some like Rick and Morty shi. Fine on its own, just cringe in literally any other context. Fck Elon Musk.
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families (1998)
The bizarre stories told by survivors of the Rwandan Genocide prove how impossible it is to understand the motives behind ethnic cleansing. You can’t ever truly understand something that is founded on evil. The UN’s slowness to acknowledge the mass killings as a genocide sparks questions of how orgs define genocide and “the burdens that the g-word carries.” The international community’s shirking of responsibility, most excellently summed up by the United States’ failure to answer “how many acts of genocide does it take to make genocide?”, proves how nonsensical it is to base action or inaction on the quantifiability of something so intangible. When dealing with atrocities such as this one, denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.
Obsession (2026)
[SPOILER WARNING] I’ve seen it twice now and enjoyed it way more than I thought I would. I think they did a really great job at making a believable villain who slowly gets worse as the film unfolds. My friend Violet pointed out to me that towards the end Bear comes to Ian with two wish willows, one for Ian to undo his initial wish, and a second for him (which he hides) to alter his wish to keep Nikki. Overall pretty disturbing movie but also funny when it needed to be. Not a fan of super in your face horror, so this was just my pace. I also really liked the soundtrack or rather that one ambient track. The 4:3 pissed me off a little. I get the whole nostalgia thing but I don’t really think the film would’ve lost too much without it. I guess it plays on the whole small-town-love-story thing but eh…sucks to watch a movie with two gaping black bars on either side.
City of God (2002)
Didn’t know anything abt it beforehand, and now it may be one of my favorites. I’m a sucker for character-driven stories. The narration and some of the more interesting shots had me thinking about the movie Amélie while watching. I really do wonder how much of the plot actually happened. I just saw that there’s a series made pretty recently to continue the events of the film. I’ll have to check it out soon, but I don’t think it will be as good :/
War of the Worlds (2025)
Yk, all jokes aside, I think this movie could’ve been genius in an alternate timeline. It started production just as quarantine kicked off and only took fifteen days to film. Most scenes were shot in isolation because of COVID restrictions (which could’ve been pretty funny if released when everyone else was stuck at home), and then sat in post for TWO YEARS. What the fuck ever bruh. Highly recommend watching for shits and giggles. It’s a good time.