Watching Stuff Logging
Oct. 8th, 2016 01:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckCircle of Iron (The Silent Flute) - Someone in the Yuletide community was talking about desperately wanting fic for this. Our library didn’t have it, but Netflix did. Sadly, it doesn’t have captioning. I could mostly follow the dialogue anyway, but I had a lot of trouble following the fight scenes. Things simply moved faster than my eyes could keep up. I gave up about half an hour in.
Debug - This utterly bored us. We gave it about fifteen minutes and just didn’t care and couldn’t remember who the characters were. I checked it out from the library because of David Hewlett (writer and director) and Jason Momoa (on screen for about ten seconds in the bit we watched but probably, we think, the big bad), but it really wasn’t very good in terms of things that we like. I’m pretty sure it was heading in a horror movie direction, so it might work better for a viewer who likes that.
Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party prologue 1-4 and episodes 1-7 - For some reason, I thought, based on the recommendation that I saw (I think on tor.com) that this was complete. It is sadly not yet so but is still updating. I’m not entirely sure why I’m interested. The characters are pretty much caricatures and often kind of insulting ones (Oscar Wilde and George Eliot are the biggest offenders). I’m not willing to laugh at most of this. But I am curious as to how the mystery will work out. The story is that Poe is hosting a dinner party with a murder mystery game planned. The guests are almost all famous authors but drawn from different time periods. Then, as is usual in these sorts of stories, people actually start dying.
Great Minds of the Medieval World - Twenty four half hour lectures by Professor Dorsey Armstrong on pivotal thinkers of medieval western Europe. I think the folks producing these lectures recruited based largely on each lecturer’s ability to speak with clarity, authority, and understanding. This particular professor is a specialist in Arthuriana and medieval literature. Looking at the library catalog, she has eight or nine titles in this series.
The Jungle Book (2016) - I found King Louie scarier than Sher Khan, actually, because he was harder to stop. The boy playing Mowgli was excellent, and the CGI animals were very convincing. I rather wish they had left out the songs. Bill Murray singing “The Bare Necessities” just doesn’t work for me. King Louie’s song was okay (less cringeworthy than the version in the animated Disney version), but it didn’t feel like a song was needed then.
Love & Friendship - The acting is excellent, and the sets and costumes are pretty. I just couldn’t find it in me to enjoy spending time with any of the characters. I completely understood the main character’s focus on finding a good marriage for her daughter and, if possible, for herself. I could see why she was so frustrated with her daughter turning down the rich, amiable but not at all bright suitor. At any rate, I found myself torn because the main character was so very manipulative and mean. I wanted something terrible to happen to her. At the same time, she was clever and honestly had reason to be kind of desperate, so I kind of wanted her to succeed.
Razor Sharp - This is only a little over twenty minutes long (plus about four minutes of credits). I saw it linked on the Yuletide community and thought I’d take a look to see if it was something I could offer. I felt like this was more an introduction to a story than the story itself, but part of that was that I really couldn’t follow the rather long combat sequence very well because of how fast things were moving. This is the story of a thief who breaks into a corporate fortress to steal a code breaking device only to discover that the ‘device’ is a girl of about twelve. This is on Vimeo.
Snoop Sisters: Female Instinct - This was a light hour and a half murder mystery with two older ladies as amateur detectives. Their nephew is a senior police officer who keeps trying to get them to stay out of trouble. The acting was generally good, but the plot… I kind of lost track. I will watch the rest of what the library has in this series, though.
Song of the Sea - Cordelia gave up on this after ten minutes even though she’d wanted to watch it. The story was sweet, and the underwater bits didn’t freak me out (such things can). I thought that the boy in the story acted younger than he must have been. He had to be four or five, based on his vocabulary at the time and the fact that he remembered it all clearly six years later, when his sister was born, so he was ten or eleven (or even twelve) when the main story began. There wasn’t any close captioning, so I never quite caught anyone’s name.
Star Wars: Rebels season 2 - All of us had seen some of these episodes, but none of us had seen all of them. We don’t get Disney XD. We caught some episodes when they aired on Disney Channel, but it was shown there on a very irregular schedule and often late enough at night that I went to bed rather than watch. I hadn’t seen the season finale before.
Steven Universe season 1 - I got delayed in finishing this because of our cranky internet and then because Hulu wouldn’t play nice with our AppleTV (I couldn’t get sound). I ended up having to watch on my laptop which I don’t like to do because it means I can’t write while I watch. I like the characters and the slowly revealed backstory. I’m going to have to wait to watch season two until Cordelia has finished everything Hulu has of Stephen Universe because otherwise we’ll each be losing the other’s place in the series constantly.
Debug - This utterly bored us. We gave it about fifteen minutes and just didn’t care and couldn’t remember who the characters were. I checked it out from the library because of David Hewlett (writer and director) and Jason Momoa (on screen for about ten seconds in the bit we watched but probably, we think, the big bad), but it really wasn’t very good in terms of things that we like. I’m pretty sure it was heading in a horror movie direction, so it might work better for a viewer who likes that.
Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party prologue 1-4 and episodes 1-7 - For some reason, I thought, based on the recommendation that I saw (I think on tor.com) that this was complete. It is sadly not yet so but is still updating. I’m not entirely sure why I’m interested. The characters are pretty much caricatures and often kind of insulting ones (Oscar Wilde and George Eliot are the biggest offenders). I’m not willing to laugh at most of this. But I am curious as to how the mystery will work out. The story is that Poe is hosting a dinner party with a murder mystery game planned. The guests are almost all famous authors but drawn from different time periods. Then, as is usual in these sorts of stories, people actually start dying.
Great Minds of the Medieval World - Twenty four half hour lectures by Professor Dorsey Armstrong on pivotal thinkers of medieval western Europe. I think the folks producing these lectures recruited based largely on each lecturer’s ability to speak with clarity, authority, and understanding. This particular professor is a specialist in Arthuriana and medieval literature. Looking at the library catalog, she has eight or nine titles in this series.
The Jungle Book (2016) - I found King Louie scarier than Sher Khan, actually, because he was harder to stop. The boy playing Mowgli was excellent, and the CGI animals were very convincing. I rather wish they had left out the songs. Bill Murray singing “The Bare Necessities” just doesn’t work for me. King Louie’s song was okay (less cringeworthy than the version in the animated Disney version), but it didn’t feel like a song was needed then.
Love & Friendship - The acting is excellent, and the sets and costumes are pretty. I just couldn’t find it in me to enjoy spending time with any of the characters. I completely understood the main character’s focus on finding a good marriage for her daughter and, if possible, for herself. I could see why she was so frustrated with her daughter turning down the rich, amiable but not at all bright suitor. At any rate, I found myself torn because the main character was so very manipulative and mean. I wanted something terrible to happen to her. At the same time, she was clever and honestly had reason to be kind of desperate, so I kind of wanted her to succeed.
Razor Sharp - This is only a little over twenty minutes long (plus about four minutes of credits). I saw it linked on the Yuletide community and thought I’d take a look to see if it was something I could offer. I felt like this was more an introduction to a story than the story itself, but part of that was that I really couldn’t follow the rather long combat sequence very well because of how fast things were moving. This is the story of a thief who breaks into a corporate fortress to steal a code breaking device only to discover that the ‘device’ is a girl of about twelve. This is on Vimeo.
Snoop Sisters: Female Instinct - This was a light hour and a half murder mystery with two older ladies as amateur detectives. Their nephew is a senior police officer who keeps trying to get them to stay out of trouble. The acting was generally good, but the plot… I kind of lost track. I will watch the rest of what the library has in this series, though.
Song of the Sea - Cordelia gave up on this after ten minutes even though she’d wanted to watch it. The story was sweet, and the underwater bits didn’t freak me out (such things can). I thought that the boy in the story acted younger than he must have been. He had to be four or five, based on his vocabulary at the time and the fact that he remembered it all clearly six years later, when his sister was born, so he was ten or eleven (or even twelve) when the main story began. There wasn’t any close captioning, so I never quite caught anyone’s name.
Star Wars: Rebels season 2 - All of us had seen some of these episodes, but none of us had seen all of them. We don’t get Disney XD. We caught some episodes when they aired on Disney Channel, but it was shown there on a very irregular schedule and often late enough at night that I went to bed rather than watch. I hadn’t seen the season finale before.
Steven Universe season 1 - I got delayed in finishing this because of our cranky internet and then because Hulu wouldn’t play nice with our AppleTV (I couldn’t get sound). I ended up having to watch on my laptop which I don’t like to do because it means I can’t write while I watch. I like the characters and the slowly revealed backstory. I’m going to have to wait to watch season two until Cordelia has finished everything Hulu has of Stephen Universe because otherwise we’ll each be losing the other’s place in the series constantly.
