Apparently spray paint tagging started in Philadelphia in the 1960s and reached NYC and subway cars around 1970. Canned spray paint only dates back to the early 1950s. I’m not sure when it evolved from basic tagging into the elaborate calligraphy and artwork we often see today.
We were talking mainline trains, not NYC subways. All of NYC looked like that in the 70s. Probably passenger cars, too. 
Who is nostalgic for graffiti-covered train cars? It’s not as if Banksy, Jean-Michel Basquiat or Keith Haring are doing this; virtually all of those who do are just spraying their name.
Resident Evil (2026). I played the console game a few times and I have seen one or two of the films many years ago so I wasn’t completely in the dark on this IP. Good thing too, because this film tells you no backstory. It still kinda works in a Cloverfield way. This reboot was essentially The Thing focused on one guy in an chase situation with sprinkled humor throughout.
Worth the price of admission once, I would say, but forgettable in the grand scheme.
I enjoyed it more than I thought I would, after the comments here and most of the reviews I read. It was far from excellent, but I appreciated the way Supergirl avenged Krypto at the end. Superman would never have done that. It made me like her. Lobo was fun.
Well, me… but purely because it brings me back to a happy period of my life: being 5 years old, my mom and dad and I riding the subway together on our way to the Park or the museum (the one with the dinosaurs or the one with the knights) or to Coney Island. The graffiti was part of the memories.
Digger
I don’t know what I expected but that wasn’t it. I don’t mean that in a bad way; it’s just…complicated. There’s the story, and there’s the meta-story, and there’s the background to the metastory which overlaps with the main story, and it’s part satire and part farce and part drama and then lampshades all of them. Ostensibly it’s about the dangers of ignoring climate change but man, there’s a lot going on and it is all heavily interwoven.
How is Tom Cruise in latex? He’s fine. You get used to it pretty quickly. I didn’t find it nearly as distracting as the fake cat (which was also lampshaded later).
The denouement continues into the credits, but you can leave once the picture fades and just leaves the credits, unless you want to listen to a couple of minutes of animal noises.
Every trailer I have seen for that just screams Don’t Look Up meets Elvis (the miscast Toms might have something to do with it).
One movie I wisely chose to watch on streaming, the other movie I wish I had. Your review cements the decision for me, re: Digger. Thank you.
I’m not sure either of those are anywhere near close to what this film actually is.
But I will note that it doesn’t really require a big screen viewing (in the same way that, say, Backrooms does) to get the full effect, so while I would probably recommend it, you won’t miss anything if you wait to stream it.
Is Digger funny?
There are definitely funny elements to it. But it’s not a comedy, except in a rather dark sense.
I spent five minutes looking for a post by @Digger before I finally figured it out…
The former as a metaphor for climate change, its denial, and its consequences. The latter mostly for the miscast Tom and the cinematography.
Well, this is literally about climate change and the disaster happens in the first act, so…
It is very much an Alejandro Iñárritu film, if that helps any.
The New York Times reported on the crappy box office performance of the movie Digger, expected to gross only eight million this weekend. I was amused by the crack about how Tom Cruise’s private jet flights affected the marketing budget.
Opening in over 3,000 locations, the R-rated movie grossed an estimated $8 million for the weekend. The studio has said the film cost $125 million but others put the total closer to $150 million because of a delay in production after a cast member, John Goodman, fell on the set and had to recover before shooting could continue. With nearly $100 million more spent on marketing — Mr. Cruise only flies private — the studio could lose $125 million to $150 million in total, making it one of the biggest flops of the year.
Two of the bigger Boston area film critics savaged Digger in their reviews. They both hated it. The Boston Globe writer gave it zero stars.
And Odie Henderson gives very few zeros.
The review in the New York Times was also negative.
It’s an apparent bomb at the box office as well.
Yeah, usually I am up for trying out innovative new-concepts movies even if I’m not good at understanding them, bc Art or something I guess? But I watched trailers for Digger and thought “oh yay, multiple hours of watching decrepit arrogant old white guys fucking up the world, I see enough of that on the news” and noped out.