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Movies and TV Logging
It's been a while since I last posted video logging. March seems to be the most recent post, and I don't think that was complete. I'll be posting this in several pieces as I finish commenting. Sadly, it's been long enough that I don't remember all of these. There are also a lot of DNFs and a lot of things that I finished but didn't follow well. I'm not sure if the latter problem is me being exhausted and anxious/stressed or me not seeing and hearing all that well more generally. It might be a combination of both.
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai - DNF. The library DVD didn't have captioning, and I could only understand about 1 word in 10, so I gave up after about 15 minutes once I was sure that it applied to several characters in different situations. I think I may have tried the movie before and run into the same difficulty.
All About Eve - DNF. I think the timing was just wrong because I couldn't focus on anything else, either. Maybe I'll try it again some other time.
Aquaman - This was a pretty solid superhero story. Cordelia wandered in during the final fight scene and asked what was wrong with the soundtrack. She wanted music more toward what Thor Ragnarok used and felt that the fight was utterly tedious without it. Scott and I both expected Arthur's father to die, so we were happily surprised that he didn't get fridged.
Attack the Block - I didn't manage to follow much of this. I'm not sure I even managed to put names to the characters. I'm pretty sure this was on my list to try because of Yuletide because it's outside of the genres I'd be likely to put on my list otherwise.
Avengers: Endgame - I really, really can't follow the action sequences in these any more. Partly, my eyes won't cooperate. Partly, I'm simply not interested. I'm getting less invested in the MCU movies as the cast grows larger. I don't really have any opinions on the plot decisions because I always take comics adjacent stuff as squishy canon where a person can pick and choose which bits to keep.
Boruto episodes 1-26 - I think that this would be a better story if it weren't tied to the Naruto setting and backstory. I understand the economic reasons for decisions like this, and I get that doing it works for a balance of gaining new fans while keeping some of the old ones. The downsides are the ones that go with even good generational sequels or reboots or even very long running/wide-ranging canons-- Continuity strangles possibilities and contains contradictions but is also the big draw for old fans. The creators and the fans are in it for different reasons. I'd be much more interested in seeing this refocused on the girls. Sarada got some good episodes in the later part of this run, but I don't expect that to last.
Burnt - DNF at about 40 minutes in. I'm not very interested in food as a medium for art, and I've never been particularly interested in cooking shows as spectacle/competition. I also didn't like the characters enough to care about their success or failure or their interactions with each other.
Colorful - DNF. There may have been deep symbolism or something here, but good lord, it was tedious. I got about 20 minutes in and so very much didn't care about the plot or the characters or any of it.
Damn Yankees - I'm glad I've seen it. That's about all the endorsement I can give for this movie. The most interesting character was the trouble-making female sports reporter. I'd have loved a movie focused on her. The guy selling his soul for a winning season playing for the Senators was, well... It sure was a story, had a plot and characters and everything. Maybe Lola could get a movie, too? She was less interesting than the reporter but more so than anyone else.
Deadpool 2 - I liked this better than I expected to. I was even able to follow a lot of the action sequences. I think it helped that everything was over the top ridiculous and self-aware of that fact. Anything I lost track of didn't matter.
Detective Pikachu - DNF. Scott and I got about 20 minutes into the movie and just found it tedious.
Dial 'M' for Murder - I think that my opinion of this movie suffered from me having seen some of the tropes done repeatedly by later movies and such. I was also kind of boggled by the ending because leaving a thing like that to the very last moment makes no sense and didn't actually, IMO, add tension to the story. At any rate, I've now seen the whole thing. I shan't bother again.
Doctor Who (2005) season 11 and Resolution - We watched Resolution first because the library got it first. That sort of threw us into the deep end as far as the new Doctor and her companions. Going back and seeing how the pieces fit together was kind of fascinating, though. I like this group of characters.
Doom Patrol season 1 episode 1 - Scott and I discussed the episode after watching it and concluded that neither story nor characters had engaged our interest. We felt like out time would be better spent with something that at least one of us enjoyed.
Duck Tales - DNF. The library had a 10 DVD set. I might have gotten through the series if I'd been watching one DVD every month or two, but this was too much. I got about 10 episodes in and just didn't want to keep going.
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai - DNF. The library DVD didn't have captioning, and I could only understand about 1 word in 10, so I gave up after about 15 minutes once I was sure that it applied to several characters in different situations. I think I may have tried the movie before and run into the same difficulty.
All About Eve - DNF. I think the timing was just wrong because I couldn't focus on anything else, either. Maybe I'll try it again some other time.
Aquaman - This was a pretty solid superhero story. Cordelia wandered in during the final fight scene and asked what was wrong with the soundtrack. She wanted music more toward what Thor Ragnarok used and felt that the fight was utterly tedious without it. Scott and I both expected Arthur's father to die, so we were happily surprised that he didn't get fridged.
Attack the Block - I didn't manage to follow much of this. I'm not sure I even managed to put names to the characters. I'm pretty sure this was on my list to try because of Yuletide because it's outside of the genres I'd be likely to put on my list otherwise.
Avengers: Endgame - I really, really can't follow the action sequences in these any more. Partly, my eyes won't cooperate. Partly, I'm simply not interested. I'm getting less invested in the MCU movies as the cast grows larger. I don't really have any opinions on the plot decisions because I always take comics adjacent stuff as squishy canon where a person can pick and choose which bits to keep.
Boruto episodes 1-26 - I think that this would be a better story if it weren't tied to the Naruto setting and backstory. I understand the economic reasons for decisions like this, and I get that doing it works for a balance of gaining new fans while keeping some of the old ones. The downsides are the ones that go with even good generational sequels or reboots or even very long running/wide-ranging canons-- Continuity strangles possibilities and contains contradictions but is also the big draw for old fans. The creators and the fans are in it for different reasons. I'd be much more interested in seeing this refocused on the girls. Sarada got some good episodes in the later part of this run, but I don't expect that to last.
Burnt - DNF at about 40 minutes in. I'm not very interested in food as a medium for art, and I've never been particularly interested in cooking shows as spectacle/competition. I also didn't like the characters enough to care about their success or failure or their interactions with each other.
Colorful - DNF. There may have been deep symbolism or something here, but good lord, it was tedious. I got about 20 minutes in and so very much didn't care about the plot or the characters or any of it.
Damn Yankees - I'm glad I've seen it. That's about all the endorsement I can give for this movie. The most interesting character was the trouble-making female sports reporter. I'd have loved a movie focused on her. The guy selling his soul for a winning season playing for the Senators was, well... It sure was a story, had a plot and characters and everything. Maybe Lola could get a movie, too? She was less interesting than the reporter but more so than anyone else.
Deadpool 2 - I liked this better than I expected to. I was even able to follow a lot of the action sequences. I think it helped that everything was over the top ridiculous and self-aware of that fact. Anything I lost track of didn't matter.
Detective Pikachu - DNF. Scott and I got about 20 minutes into the movie and just found it tedious.
Dial 'M' for Murder - I think that my opinion of this movie suffered from me having seen some of the tropes done repeatedly by later movies and such. I was also kind of boggled by the ending because leaving a thing like that to the very last moment makes no sense and didn't actually, IMO, add tension to the story. At any rate, I've now seen the whole thing. I shan't bother again.
Doctor Who (2005) season 11 and Resolution - We watched Resolution first because the library got it first. That sort of threw us into the deep end as far as the new Doctor and her companions. Going back and seeing how the pieces fit together was kind of fascinating, though. I like this group of characters.
Doom Patrol season 1 episode 1 - Scott and I discussed the episode after watching it and concluded that neither story nor characters had engaged our interest. We felt like out time would be better spent with something that at least one of us enjoyed.
Duck Tales - DNF. The library had a 10 DVD set. I might have gotten through the series if I'd been watching one DVD every month or two, but this was too much. I got about 10 episodes in and just didn't want to keep going.
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