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DVD Logging
The A-Team - Scott and I only watched the first half an hour or so of this. We were curious, but nothing caught our attention enough to make us want to keep going. Nostalgia for the series wasn't enough.
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame - I enjoyed this one. It took me a long time to get around to watching it. Netflix has had it streaming for quite a while, but somehow I never got around to it until the DVD came. Everything was very pretty, and the fight scenes were excellent. The plot was more than a little over complicated, but I expected that. I don't know that the mystery was quite fair, but I don't suppose people watched this as a mystery.
Doctor Who: Dreamland - This was very slight. It only ran forty-four minutes, and the plot wasn't much of anything. The animation felt awkward to me, and the new characters that were introduced didn't get much beyond cardboard. Scott commented that this lacked what has interested him about the new Who-- the characters.
Frozen - Scott bought this the day it came out. Cordelia had already seen it and loved it, and that was enough for Scott. There was a lot I liked about this one. Having the central relationship be the one between the sisters made the movie stronger, and I liked the idea that the romance was just getting started at the end. I also liked that Elsa kept and controlled her power. I wish they'd been making movies like this when I was a kid. I hope they keep making movies like this.
The Maigret Collection DVD 1 episode 1 - I didn't care for this, so I didn't push forward with it. Everything in it felt kind of... beige, for want of a better word. None of the characters stood out to me, and I didn't have the patience to see if later episodes might have given me more.
Sharpe's Peril - I watched 2/3 to 3/4 of this and enjoyed it reasonably well. It's just that I was tired while Scott was watching the second half and didn't feel motivated either to stay up with him and watch or to ask him to hold off on watching the rest. I got ready for bed instead of watching the end. I do miss the supporting cast from the early movies, however. These movies are why I never assume that Sean Bean's characters are doomed. They're how I met him first.
Thor: the Dark World - We ended up watching the first half of this twice because we started over so that Cordelia could see the first part. I'm fairly neutral on this one. Superhero stories are more Scott's thing than mine. I'm not against them, not at all. I just don't appreciate them the way he does. This one had plenty of action and kept my attention. Cordelia commented that it was almost too scary for her.
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame - I enjoyed this one. It took me a long time to get around to watching it. Netflix has had it streaming for quite a while, but somehow I never got around to it until the DVD came. Everything was very pretty, and the fight scenes were excellent. The plot was more than a little over complicated, but I expected that. I don't know that the mystery was quite fair, but I don't suppose people watched this as a mystery.
Doctor Who: Dreamland - This was very slight. It only ran forty-four minutes, and the plot wasn't much of anything. The animation felt awkward to me, and the new characters that were introduced didn't get much beyond cardboard. Scott commented that this lacked what has interested him about the new Who-- the characters.
Frozen - Scott bought this the day it came out. Cordelia had already seen it and loved it, and that was enough for Scott. There was a lot I liked about this one. Having the central relationship be the one between the sisters made the movie stronger, and I liked the idea that the romance was just getting started at the end. I also liked that Elsa kept and controlled her power. I wish they'd been making movies like this when I was a kid. I hope they keep making movies like this.
The Maigret Collection DVD 1 episode 1 - I didn't care for this, so I didn't push forward with it. Everything in it felt kind of... beige, for want of a better word. None of the characters stood out to me, and I didn't have the patience to see if later episodes might have given me more.
Sharpe's Peril - I watched 2/3 to 3/4 of this and enjoyed it reasonably well. It's just that I was tired while Scott was watching the second half and didn't feel motivated either to stay up with him and watch or to ask him to hold off on watching the rest. I got ready for bed instead of watching the end. I do miss the supporting cast from the early movies, however. These movies are why I never assume that Sean Bean's characters are doomed. They're how I met him first.
Thor: the Dark World - We ended up watching the first half of this twice because we started over so that Cordelia could see the first part. I'm fairly neutral on this one. Superhero stories are more Scott's thing than mine. I'm not against them, not at all. I just don't appreciate them the way he does. This one had plenty of action and kept my attention. Cordelia commented that it was almost too scary for her.