I was guiltily enjoying season 2 of Top Shot on Amazon Prime, but for some reason Amazon uploaded episode 9 in place of the season finale. Oh well
I was guiltily enjoying season 2 of Top Shot on Amazon Prime, but for some reason Amazon uploaded episode 9 in place of the season finale. Oh well
Just finished Dharma and Greg. I watched it a bit when it originally aired but I never saw the last couple seasons. I thought it was a good show. I have ejoyed all of Chuck Lorre's shows that I've seen.
Speaking of Chuck Lorre, I watched the series finalle of Big Bang Theory last week. That was one of my favorite shows of all time. I felt the ending was good though it didn't finalize anything. They knew the show was ending so I felt they could have done something a little bigger for the ending but I guess I wasn't disapointed really.
(I literally know nothing of Lorre's politics so do me a favor and let me live in ignorrant bliss and don't bring it up)
I just started season 2 of The Tick on Amazon. I haven't read the comic or seen the cartoon. The only thing I can compre it to is the 2001 series with Patrick Warburton. It has some of that similar Tick humor, toned down a bit and also set against a grittier overall story and feel but still isn't too serious. The actor that plays Tick is a good fit. I liked Patrick Warburton better but this guy is good too.
I've been trying to find the 1994 animated series. Amazon has it on DVD but the last season is absurdly overpriced.
Just got home from Brightburn which is basically “what if Superman turned evil when his powers emerged at adolescence.” It is definitely a horror movie with some decent gore and they don’t shy away from the premise like Suicide Squad did. I wouldn’t recommend it unless you enjoy horror and the premise interests you but if you do and it does it is worth a trip to the theater.
We watched a Hulu movie called Border the other night.
It’s Norwegian, I think, and was really good but also hard to watch. If you can handle or enjoy intense awkwardness you should give it a try.
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What's My Name: Muhammad Ali (HBO) - An overview of Ali's career told entirely through contemporaneous interviews. It's put together very well, but I was honestly disappointed. This isn't a "documentary," per se: there's no historians, interviews with people that knew Ali, analysis, or anything else. It's literally just clips of his fights and interviews he gave. There's effectively zero insight into his personal life - other than his well-publicized affiliation with the Nation of Islam - and only snippets of what he did after he retired.
If you're an Ali fan, you'll probably appreciate it, as it sort of allows you to relive that era. Everyone else can probably skip it.
Rim of the World on Netflix.
4 Diverse tweeners are abandoned at summer camp when aliens invade and start blasting.
They have to get from there to JPL to save the world with a crypto key.
A raucous and foulmouthed blend of Goonies, Battle Los Angeles and Independence Day scripted by Drunk Writer, Hungover Writer and Sober Writer.
Hard pass.
Instapundit linked to this the other day: ANOTHER SATIRICAL CLASSIC, BLAZING SADDLES, GETS THE SJW TREATMENT.
Rewitching Fringe on IMDB Freedrive. Reminded of what a great show that was.
Season 3 of The Grand Tour on Amazon. It doesn't disapoint.
Binged The Umbrella Academy over the weekend, pretty good although there is some filler. The twists and ending are fairly predictable but the acting is good. It is an interesting take on the X-Men idea. If you enjoy comic book shows and don’t mind silly, unrealistic gun sequences it is probably worth a shot. At 10 episodes it is shorter than the various Marvel series on Netflix so it has that going for it.
We saw Godzilla, King of the Monsters last night at the local Alamo Drafthouse which is still my favorite theater chain for going to the cinema. I won’t spoil it but I came away disappointed. It hit all the right beats, had plenty of screen time for the various kaiju, and lots of call backs and references to the Toho films. So what was the problem? Human characters I didn't care about? Check but that’s pretty standard in these films. There were some pretty big logic holes considering how “real and grounded” they tried to make the 2014 movie so that didn’t help. Monarch (the human agency in charge of monitoring kaiju) is now basically SHIELD from the Marvel movies. Most of the kaiju fights were in the dark and / or rain and were hard to see. Maybe that was it? I just never got emotionally invested and even though some of the ideas presented were really neat I was bored. Maybe I’m too old to watch a bunch of CGI fights on screen but I’ll take guys in rubber suits over this anytime.