In the jungle the mighty jungle
Jan. 13th, 2026 07:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowhiveSo there’s gonna be a few posts in coming over the next days, but this is mostly a standalone one.
First things over the last few days since the last update. I’ve had an odd bit of luck because I’ve won two competitions! One was an SFX one on twitter, winning a film called The House With Laughing Windows. I know nothing about this film so did it on a whim (apparently it’s an Italian Giallo film, I’ve only ever saw one of those) so I’m curious! I also won an Anaconda goody bag from the cinema I go to (on insta) so that’s pretty cool! Hopefully both will come soon.
The week has been mostly spent inside, because the weather has been too bad to go out (mum wouldn’t let me go with her to walk Naryu and then a few days she wouldn’t go herself) but thankfully rain has washed the snow away (and not become ice).
Being inside has meant I’ve been mostly Lego building. I got the Lego Creel House and it has been a big project (22 Lego bags, though the last three were for the car and the van). It is an impressive set, it’s got five main rooms (plus an attic) and it has a pretty cool split apart function. I can’t help but wonder if it was designed for season 4 and midway through they were like ‘make everyone in their season 5 fits’. I’ll be taking some more pics tomorrow and posting on insta then so stay tuned.
Also! Heated Rivalry came out Saturday. I only watched the first ep (cause mood and focus was so off this weekend) but it was really good and I see the appeal because some, Shane and Ilya just have instant chemistry and I already wanna see more of them. (I feel I’ll learn nothing about hockey but they sure do like blowing each other)
Today I went to town to see Anaconda. I had hoped to see it last week but the ice and fall stopped that, then I won the comp so I felt I had to (I was gonna try regardless) and it seems this is the last week for it. But first!
I had hoped to get some sale things in town but alas I had no luck. It’s sad that the Primark stranger things section is much reduced (it was two full walls, not there’s just… four tees). I might look on the site and do a click and collect order. Also there are NO stranger things stickers anywhere, not in Smiths, Tesco, the co-op or spar. (Please if anyone spots them let me know I’ve not seen them since getting the album)
So what I was intending to get was… not around. But I did go into a clearance store. I was gonna see if they had a switch game I saw when I looked last time but alas it wasn’t there. What was there was a Lego set, Boba Fett’s throne room that was half price and discontinued about a year ago. So I got it. Mostly cause it included Fennec Shand who’s a total badass. So ooop now I have something else to build
(And a discontinued Animal Crossing set I ordered in the sale came when I was out so I have that too, oop)
I did get some stranger things blind boxes cause that’s all I saw and ahh Steve was in one. My boy!
Before the film there was some trailers and two stood out. I’d seen a Project Hail Mary one before and was kinda curious but this new one Ahs definitely made me wanna see it cause there’s an alien friend! Then there was Cold Storage which I was already sold on (especially cause it has Joe Kerry playing a loser) but I wasn’t sure if we’d get a release, but a few days ago the cinema confirmed it so ahhh! It’s coming out next month and I’m totally seeing it.
Usually I do try and see two films when I go to the cinema but the only ones I was maybe curious about were much too long (and would’ve clashed with Anaconda as a result) so I just saw it. Thoughts under the cut.
Anaconda is about a group of people going to the Amazon to make their own version of Anaconda.of course things don’t go smoothly, not least cause there’s a actual giant anaconda.
So I saw the original Anaconda on tv once, forever ago, so I don’t really remember it so I didn’t have any nostalgia associated with it. (Maybe I should look it up if it’s anywhere now I’ve seen this one)
As you can tell from the brief summary this is pretty meta as it’s a film about making a film based on a film. It is pretty fun, scary in places, funny in others. It does at times feel like it’s not sure which aspect to lean into. But overall it’s good, the cast are clearly having a good time, the visuals are beautiful and !! I absolutely love the river boat they use. It’s the main location and it’s just so pretty looking. I’d like to go on a river trip in that.
There is one issue though. It’s not really a spoiler cause it’s shown in one of the trailers (but spoiler alert if you’ve not seen that) also Tw animal death mention
For the filming they obviously need a snake and they rent one from a snake handler. The introduction is sweet with him clearly valuing this snake as not just an animal, but as a friend, like a pet. (Thankfully it is cgi not a real snake.) it’s only in a few scenes but it’s clear it’s sweet and just a lil guy. During filming one of the attacks is ‘attacked’ by it but gets spooked and he throws the snake off him and… it dies and pretty gruesomely. I dunno it felt pretty distasteful I guess. I don’t like pet deaths at the best of times but this felt… so mean. At least it wasn’t played for laughs and the handlers grief wasn’t as trivialised as it could have been but still… I didn’t like that.
But other than that, it was pretty good.
Next cinema trips should be Saturday (for The Boy And The Heron and Labyrinth), next z Friday (for Return to Silent Hill), then the following Friday (for something called Another World, with a live q and a with the director which sounds pretty cool).
Now I’m gonna rest, maybe fic and watch Good Ship Murder (so stay tuned for more posts tomorrow oop)
Also! The Animal Crossing update is this week! I’ve not been on my island in forever so I’ll need to find the game again (I did a few weeks back but have forgotten the safe place I put it😭) I’m excite for the Zelda stuff.
Anaconda
Ac update coming
First things over the last few days since the last update. I’ve had an odd bit of luck because I’ve won two competitions! One was an SFX one on twitter, winning a film called The House With Laughing Windows. I know nothing about this film so did it on a whim (apparently it’s an Italian Giallo film, I’ve only ever saw one of those) so I’m curious! I also won an Anaconda goody bag from the cinema I go to (on insta) so that’s pretty cool! Hopefully both will come soon.
The week has been mostly spent inside, because the weather has been too bad to go out (mum wouldn’t let me go with her to walk Naryu and then a few days she wouldn’t go herself) but thankfully rain has washed the snow away (and not become ice).
Being inside has meant I’ve been mostly Lego building. I got the Lego Creel House and it has been a big project (22 Lego bags, though the last three were for the car and the van). It is an impressive set, it’s got five main rooms (plus an attic) and it has a pretty cool split apart function. I can’t help but wonder if it was designed for season 4 and midway through they were like ‘make everyone in their season 5 fits’. I’ll be taking some more pics tomorrow and posting on insta then so stay tuned.
Also! Heated Rivalry came out Saturday. I only watched the first ep (cause mood and focus was so off this weekend) but it was really good and I see the appeal because some, Shane and Ilya just have instant chemistry and I already wanna see more of them. (I feel I’ll learn nothing about hockey but they sure do like blowing each other)
Today I went to town to see Anaconda. I had hoped to see it last week but the ice and fall stopped that, then I won the comp so I felt I had to (I was gonna try regardless) and it seems this is the last week for it. But first!
I had hoped to get some sale things in town but alas I had no luck. It’s sad that the Primark stranger things section is much reduced (it was two full walls, not there’s just… four tees). I might look on the site and do a click and collect order. Also there are NO stranger things stickers anywhere, not in Smiths, Tesco, the co-op or spar. (Please if anyone spots them let me know I’ve not seen them since getting the album)
So what I was intending to get was… not around. But I did go into a clearance store. I was gonna see if they had a switch game I saw when I looked last time but alas it wasn’t there. What was there was a Lego set, Boba Fett’s throne room that was half price and discontinued about a year ago. So I got it. Mostly cause it included Fennec Shand who’s a total badass. So ooop now I have something else to build
(And a discontinued Animal Crossing set I ordered in the sale came when I was out so I have that too, oop)
I did get some stranger things blind boxes cause that’s all I saw and ahh Steve was in one. My boy!
Before the film there was some trailers and two stood out. I’d seen a Project Hail Mary one before and was kinda curious but this new one Ahs definitely made me wanna see it cause there’s an alien friend! Then there was Cold Storage which I was already sold on (especially cause it has Joe Kerry playing a loser) but I wasn’t sure if we’d get a release, but a few days ago the cinema confirmed it so ahhh! It’s coming out next month and I’m totally seeing it.
Usually I do try and see two films when I go to the cinema but the only ones I was maybe curious about were much too long (and would’ve clashed with Anaconda as a result) so I just saw it. Thoughts under the cut.
Anaconda is about a group of people going to the Amazon to make their own version of Anaconda.of course things don’t go smoothly, not least cause there’s a actual giant anaconda.
So I saw the original Anaconda on tv once, forever ago, so I don’t really remember it so I didn’t have any nostalgia associated with it. (Maybe I should look it up if it’s anywhere now I’ve seen this one)
As you can tell from the brief summary this is pretty meta as it’s a film about making a film based on a film. It is pretty fun, scary in places, funny in others. It does at times feel like it’s not sure which aspect to lean into. But overall it’s good, the cast are clearly having a good time, the visuals are beautiful and !! I absolutely love the river boat they use. It’s the main location and it’s just so pretty looking. I’d like to go on a river trip in that.
There is one issue though. It’s not really a spoiler cause it’s shown in one of the trailers (but spoiler alert if you’ve not seen that) also Tw animal death mention
For the filming they obviously need a snake and they rent one from a snake handler. The introduction is sweet with him clearly valuing this snake as not just an animal, but as a friend, like a pet. (Thankfully it is cgi not a real snake.) it’s only in a few scenes but it’s clear it’s sweet and just a lil guy. During filming one of the attacks is ‘attacked’ by it but gets spooked and he throws the snake off him and… it dies and pretty gruesomely. I dunno it felt pretty distasteful I guess. I don’t like pet deaths at the best of times but this felt… so mean. At least it wasn’t played for laughs and the handlers grief wasn’t as trivialised as it could have been but still… I didn’t like that.
But other than that, it was pretty good.
Next cinema trips should be Saturday (for The Boy And The Heron and Labyrinth), next z Friday (for Return to Silent Hill), then the following Friday (for something called Another World, with a live q and a with the director which sounds pretty cool).
Now I’m gonna rest, maybe fic and watch Good Ship Murder (so stay tuned for more posts tomorrow oop)
Also! The Animal Crossing update is this week! I’ve not been on my island in forever so I’ll need to find the game again (I did a few weeks back but have forgotten the safe place I put it😭) I’m excite for the Zelda stuff.
Anaconda
Ac update coming
