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HOW "DEAD WEIGHT FALLS AND IT SETS YOU FREE"

Q: I had been out of work in my industry since Feb 2020. I spent the entire time sending out resumes to countless job postings. I would often send my resume out to 200+ job listings and not even receive a single interview. During the entire period, I probably had 3-4 real legitimate interviews. In one of them the guy interviewing me was some schmuck who I replaced in a prior job that I was eventually let go from due to internal politics and bullshit outside of my abilities. So this guy basically already had a bad opinion about me, and I knew I wasn't going to get that job.  I've felt essentially blacklisted from my industry despite the fact that I never once got written up or reprimanded in my previous position at Apple. However, when I applied to go back, I was not re-hired. It pissed me the fuck off because I had recruited a guy from my master's program out of the kindness of my heart to help someone else out, and all he did was bring negative stories about me and gossip ...
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Movie Review: Overlord (2018)

Overlord is an action/horror/scifi/thriller that could have easily been called Wolfenstein: The Movie.

The film takes place during World War II and centers around an American military troop tasked with entering a Nazi occupied France in search of a radio tower that must be destroyed. The first half plays out like a fairly straightforward war movie along the lines of Saving Private Ryan, but takes an abrupt turn down the twisted tunnels of something more along the lines of Resident Evil.



The film also seems to pay a bit of homage to John Carpenter's The Thing with the casting of Wyatt Russell, who does a great job of channeling his father (Kurt Russell) as a squad-leader trying to keep his men's wits about them as everything they know gets flipped upside down, or inside-out. The eerie, pulsing theme music will also resonate with fans of the Carpenter classic.

Overlord is a non-stop action ride, that slows down just enough to let you catch your breath before taking off in another direction. None of those directions is new or groundbreaking, often re-using stereotypical horror and action movie tropes, but each fits well into the overall structure of the film.

This isn't a movie that is meant to make you contemplate the meaning of life. This is a movie that will pick you up, squeeze the dear life out of you like a Thanksgiving hug from Aunt Bertha, and then jolt you back to life with a rush of adrenaline!




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