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DVD and TV Logging
Fast Color - DNF. I couldn't actually hear the dialogue over the ceiling fan and wasn't interested in turning the fan off in late July. I'll try it again in the winter. (The movie's captioned, but it helps less than I'd hoped because this is one of those movies in which words carry multiple meanings and emotions.)
The Favourite - DNF. I got about fifteen minutes in and felt no desire to spend more time with the characters.
The Fifth Element - I hadn't seen this one before and had always sort of thought that I should try it. I think that it would have irritated me less twenty years ago. Watching it now, I kept looking at story decisions and wondering who the hell thought those were a good idea.
Fireworks - The time loop elements here are kind of fascinating, but I was kind of frustrated by how the girl was more of a plot device than a fleshed out person. There was enough to her and she was onscreen enough that she could have come across as a full character. I liked this movie better than I did Umi ga Kakoeru. I had more sense of movement in the characters.
5 Centimeters Per Second - Scott and I watched this together. I'm not entirely sure why we finished it. If I'm recalling correctly, it was a lot thematically linked vignettes. It was all bittersweet longing and fleeting moments of perfection and... Well.
Gen: Lock season 1 - Visually speaking, I couldn't follow any of the scenes with mechs. My brain kept refusing to parse what I was watching. I found the characters and the setting intriguing, though.
Ghostwriter season 1 - DNF. This is an early 1990s PBS show for kids; I only watched the first two or three stories (multi-episode). This DVD set lacked captioning, so I had problems following some of the dialogue. It's a sort of serial with several episodes to make a story and then another set for the next story. The characters have continuity, and they're a group of kids who solve mysteries with the aid of a mysterious entity that communicates with them via writing, both something like a chat session and through rearranging the letters on things they're looking at. I can see this being popular with kids in later years of elementary school (2nd through 5th grades probably). Bits of the aesthetic remind me of the stuff on Nickelodeon's Mind's Eye Theater in the early 1980s.
Glastonbury Fayre - The library catalogue listed this as a concert DVD, but it's only marginally in that category. The sound quality is poor, and there's a lot that has to do with the event more generally. There are some extended scenes of full and partial nudity (some of the male musicians wore nothing below the waist which makes jumping in the air while performing, um, more visually arresting, and a number of people rolled ecstatically in the mud in the way that makes one wonder not if they were on something but what and how much). The DVD case says the festival happened in 1971. I think the movie is more historical artifact than documentary as it's almost entirely footage from the festival and as nothing much gets explained. I had no clue who most of the people were or what they were trying to do. I don't know how long the festival lasted or how many people were there. The making of featurette didn't help much-- something, something, ley lines, something, something, anti-commercialism, something, something, mysticism and drugs. I'm not sure why the movie was made to begin with. Apparently someone thought the movie would make money? I also boggle at the guy who says he thought they should do the same thing at the same place for the winter equinox. I'm not sure the rolling ecstatically in the mud would work nearly as well when everything was freezing. The movie is not captioned nor are the extras.
Godzilla, King of Monsters - DNF. We gave up on this when the characters brought up the idea of a submersible mission. I don't watch underwater stuff because I can't deal with boats, deep water, etc. in real life. The portion of the movie we watched kind of dragged and suffered from insufficient kaijuu and from insufficient light on the sets. There was also a lot of irrelevant human conversation and plot that didn't work. By the time going underwater came up, we were kind of looking for a reason to stop. It never quite crossed that line of irritating enough to pick up the remote and stop it.
Good Morning, Miss Dove - Watching this was an odd experience. It was well acted, but it was also very much an artifact of a particular time. The things it held up as virtues and disapproved of as vices weren't the things that I consider either. The titular character is a woman who gave up everything she wanted and went into teaching in an effort to pay off her dead father's debts. The present of the movie is a point when she becomes ill and ends up hospitalized (and the medical stuff really dates the movie), but there are a lot of flashbacks. Miss Dove is supposed to be a paragon, and I found her kind of horrifyingly rigid.
The Favourite - DNF. I got about fifteen minutes in and felt no desire to spend more time with the characters.
The Fifth Element - I hadn't seen this one before and had always sort of thought that I should try it. I think that it would have irritated me less twenty years ago. Watching it now, I kept looking at story decisions and wondering who the hell thought those were a good idea.
Fireworks - The time loop elements here are kind of fascinating, but I was kind of frustrated by how the girl was more of a plot device than a fleshed out person. There was enough to her and she was onscreen enough that she could have come across as a full character. I liked this movie better than I did Umi ga Kakoeru. I had more sense of movement in the characters.
5 Centimeters Per Second - Scott and I watched this together. I'm not entirely sure why we finished it. If I'm recalling correctly, it was a lot thematically linked vignettes. It was all bittersweet longing and fleeting moments of perfection and... Well.
Gen: Lock season 1 - Visually speaking, I couldn't follow any of the scenes with mechs. My brain kept refusing to parse what I was watching. I found the characters and the setting intriguing, though.
Ghostwriter season 1 - DNF. This is an early 1990s PBS show for kids; I only watched the first two or three stories (multi-episode). This DVD set lacked captioning, so I had problems following some of the dialogue. It's a sort of serial with several episodes to make a story and then another set for the next story. The characters have continuity, and they're a group of kids who solve mysteries with the aid of a mysterious entity that communicates with them via writing, both something like a chat session and through rearranging the letters on things they're looking at. I can see this being popular with kids in later years of elementary school (2nd through 5th grades probably). Bits of the aesthetic remind me of the stuff on Nickelodeon's Mind's Eye Theater in the early 1980s.
Glastonbury Fayre - The library catalogue listed this as a concert DVD, but it's only marginally in that category. The sound quality is poor, and there's a lot that has to do with the event more generally. There are some extended scenes of full and partial nudity (some of the male musicians wore nothing below the waist which makes jumping in the air while performing, um, more visually arresting, and a number of people rolled ecstatically in the mud in the way that makes one wonder not if they were on something but what and how much). The DVD case says the festival happened in 1971. I think the movie is more historical artifact than documentary as it's almost entirely footage from the festival and as nothing much gets explained. I had no clue who most of the people were or what they were trying to do. I don't know how long the festival lasted or how many people were there. The making of featurette didn't help much-- something, something, ley lines, something, something, anti-commercialism, something, something, mysticism and drugs. I'm not sure why the movie was made to begin with. Apparently someone thought the movie would make money? I also boggle at the guy who says he thought they should do the same thing at the same place for the winter equinox. I'm not sure the rolling ecstatically in the mud would work nearly as well when everything was freezing. The movie is not captioned nor are the extras.
Godzilla, King of Monsters - DNF. We gave up on this when the characters brought up the idea of a submersible mission. I don't watch underwater stuff because I can't deal with boats, deep water, etc. in real life. The portion of the movie we watched kind of dragged and suffered from insufficient kaijuu and from insufficient light on the sets. There was also a lot of irrelevant human conversation and plot that didn't work. By the time going underwater came up, we were kind of looking for a reason to stop. It never quite crossed that line of irritating enough to pick up the remote and stop it.
Good Morning, Miss Dove - Watching this was an odd experience. It was well acted, but it was also very much an artifact of a particular time. The things it held up as virtues and disapproved of as vices weren't the things that I consider either. The titular character is a woman who gave up everything she wanted and went into teaching in an effort to pay off her dead father's debts. The present of the movie is a point when she becomes ill and ends up hospitalized (and the medical stuff really dates the movie), but there are a lot of flashbacks. Miss Dove is supposed to be a paragon, and I found her kind of horrifyingly rigid.
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