DVD Logging
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the_rckThe theme this time is starting things and not finishing them.
Angie Tribeca season 1 episode 1 - I got about ten minutes in and then bailed because the stuff that was supposed to be funny was making me extremely cranky because it doesn’t fit what I actually find funny. I’d probably have enjoyed it as a teenager.
Aria the Animation season 1 DVD 1 - I had seen this before but really wanted something soothing to watch. I ended up playing it one morning while Cordelia was getting ready for school. I don’t know that she actually paid attention, but she didn’t tell me to put something else on.
Batman the Animated Series season 2 - I'm still not in love with this series, but I do now have respect for the character development. It happens in small fragments, though.
The BFG - This was much darker/grimmer than I expected. Cordelia only lasted five minutes before she demanded Winnie-the-Pooh instead. I made it about ⅔ of the way through while Cordelia was at school but ended up giving up because I kept wandering out of the room and not caring how much I missed of the movie. I have way too many other things to watch to spend time on things I’m not enjoying.
Blancanieves - The actors here do an excellent job of conveying their characters’ thoughts by facial expression and body language. I was particularly impressed by the first scenes with the step-mother. Her thoughts were very clear.
Cats Don’t Dance - I think this suffered from me not being in the right mood because I ended up being kind of irritated. The voice acting was good, though, and I think that many kids would really enjoy this one.
Children Who Chase Lost Voices - I’m really not sure exactly what the point of this was. I didn’t like any of the characters, and I never quite understood why most of them were doing what they were doing. Some of that is probably that I watched most of it while I had a migraine, but I don’t think that all of it was.
Dirk Gently (2012) episode 1 - I’m not actually sure that I realized this was the 2012 version when I put it in our Netflix queue, but I picked up on that before it actually came. We were both sufficiently unimpressed that we didn’t bother with episode 2. We had a DVD of White Collar waiting for us.
Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks - Third Doctor. This one has Daleks and Jo Grant as the companion. It wasn’t great. It wasn’t terrible. I may actually have seen this one before, but, if I did, it was around 1991, so I really don’t remember for sure.
Finding Dory - Cordelia was certain that she had never seen Finding Nemo and insisted on watching that first but then didn’t watch it and didn’t watch it, so I ended up watching this movie while she wasn’t home. I figured that what Cordelia didn’t know wouldn’t hurt me. (Scott’s on his own on this one.) It will likely be months before we can get this from the library again. I enjoyed the movie, but I’m pretty sure that, if I thought at all about what was going on, my suspension of disbelief would have snapped. I also enjoyed the short which played after the movie. My only complaint about the short was that the sand looked… wrong. I can’t even explain how.
Full House season ?? episodes ?? and Fuller House season 2 - Cordelia loves these shows and has been watching them whenever there’s nothing on that she wants to see. I had never watched either before. I am unlikely to do so again if it’s a choice. I do not like sitcoms in general, and having no idea who the characters were didn’t help at all with Fuller House. The acting is pretty uniformly terrible.
The Giver - Cordelia had to watch this for a homework assignment. I only watched about half of it with her. I was unimpressed. I kept looking at the society and going, “But wait-- How would that work?”
Haunted Honeymoon - Sadly, this had no closed captioning, and I could only follow about half the dialog. I really wanted to watch and enjoy, but it’s hard to get verbal jokes when I’m only hearing part of what’s being said. I was stressed while watching, too, and had trouble tracking the supporting characters.
Independence Day: Resurgence - That was tedious. The only characters I remember as having personality are the treasure hunters on the boat. There was so much destruction that none of it mattered. None of it was anchored in anything that would make the cities burning and blowing up anything but artistic special effects. I didn’t actually feel like there were people there. We missed the last 20-30 minutes of the film because we were distracted by Cordelia needing help with a project, and we didn’t actually notice that it was still playing. We were in the same room with the TV. We just stopped seeing it at all. That being possible would say bad things about any action/disaster movie.
Jack the Giant Slayer - I got about fifteen minutes into this then hit a point where I was afraid the male lead was going to get humiliated. I paused the movie and never went back even though I kept renewing the dratted thing. I finally decided that, if I hadn’t gone on in five weeks, it was time to take the movie back to the library.
Jane the Virgin season 1 episodes ??? - Cordelia is watching this in exchange for a friend who likes this show watching Avatar: the Last Airbender. I’m not hugely enthusiastic because soap opera and comedy very seldom work for me. I don’t think this is a bad show. It’s just that I cringe frequently because I feel embarrassed for the characters.
Kubo and the Two Strings - I loved this. I was a bit worried that it wouldn’t stick the landing because I wasn’t sure what a good ending for the story would look like. I think the one they wrote worked perfectly. The villains were wonderfully creepy.
The Muppet Christmas Carol - I'd seen this before, but it had been years. I had a heck of a migraine while watching, so I started wondering about why none of the romantic relationships involved a Muppet/human pairing. A frog and a pig can marry and raise a family, but Muppet and human shall never mix? I had forgotten that I liked the songs in this.
Nerve - I’m not sure I should even count this. I played about fifteen minutes of the DVD on my laptop while I was working on other things, but I was never sufficiently interested to toggle the window forward so that I could see what was going on. I rather suspect that it’s that teenagers doing stupid things is less appealing to me than it might have been when I was one.
Le Portrait de Petite Cossette - This got into demonic horror rather fast. I was expecting something creepy and slow and possibly (probably) tragic, but well… This is not it. Did not finish.
Primer - We watched about twenty minutes of this, and it seemed like it went on and on for weeks. Nothing happened as far as we could tell, not even character development. I couldn’t tell why I was supposed to care. It didn’t help at all that the color palette was visually unpleasant. I’m sure it was an artistic choice that meant something, but it looked like a 1970s home movie shot by someone who thought turning on extra lights would make things look better. It had that yellow-beigeness (but lacked the redness that shows up in such things frequently) and kind of underlying grim grunge.
Rush Hour 1-3 - These were rewatches for me and Scott, but Cordelia hadn’t seen them before. She went through the three movies rapidly. Now I want to try her with Shanghai Noon, but we don’t own it, and neither does the library. I have to look away and cover my ears a lot for these because of the embarrassment, and it’s only recently that Cordelia has been willing to watch things with this much swearing (at least with us). If only we could get her to watch other Jackie Chan movies.
Secret of NIMH - I still prefer the book. I hadn’t watched this in many years, so I wasn’t sure what I’d think now. Cordelia found it too depressing and scary, so she left the room before Mrs Brisby met the rats properly.
The Snoop Sisters: The Devil Made Me Do It - So very, very dated. I think I was amused by the wrong things in this one because all of the occult stuff was beyond ridiculous. The idea of a Rider-Waite tarot card being obscure and ancient and rare… Well, yeah. I laughed. Then I reminded myself that the movie was made in the early 1970s. Did ‘occult’ automatically mean ‘Satanism’ then? I’m not sure the folks making this actually talked to anybody who actually knew anything about either subject as the characters were largely cartoonish.
The Snoop Sisters: Black Day for Bluebeard - Vincent Price plays an old friend of the sisters’ who is suspected of murdering his wife. The whole thing was no more than okay. It’s a little weird to have such small amounts of money as motive. I had to keep reminding myself that those amounts were bigger in the 1970s.
Steven Universe season 2 - For some reason, Hulu didn’t have the last few episodes of this season available. I thought there weren’t more, that the season only had 22 episodes, and just went on to season 3 on another website. I think, at this point, that I’ve found and watched all of the episodes I missed, but I’m finding the same episodes under different numbers, so I’m not absolutely sure.
Superman - This is the Christopher Reeve movie. I thought Cordelia would like it. I forgot how very, very slow it is at the beginning. We got eighteen minutes in and were still on Krypton. At that point, Cordelia gave up because she was bored. If I’d remembered how it started, I’d probably have skipped that section entirely and started her after the story got to Earth.
Tales of the Night - The visuals were very pretty, but I had trouble getting myself to focus on the stories. I started the movie with the French audio and English subtitles and switched in the middle to the English audio to see if that held my attention better. That didn’t help. I didn’t watch the last twenty minutes because I realized I was clock watching.
White Rabbit Project season 1 - I’m actually not sure how much of this I saw because, somewhere in the middle of the season, Scott switched from watching on the TV with me and Cordelia to watching on his laptop while he was doing things in the kitchen and dining room. I might try going back and figuring out what I haven’t seen, but I also might not. It was really good to see Carrie, Tori, and Grant together on the screen again. I particularly appreciated the bits where they built things, but that doesn’t seem to be the point of this series. I have the impression that this is more about what sort of wild but true stories they can dig up on a given theme.
Zoolander - I think we got fifteen minutes into this before we all agreed that we had no interest and had only been letting the movie continue because each of us thought the others wanted to go on. It wasn’t actually funny.
Angie Tribeca season 1 episode 1 - I got about ten minutes in and then bailed because the stuff that was supposed to be funny was making me extremely cranky because it doesn’t fit what I actually find funny. I’d probably have enjoyed it as a teenager.
Aria the Animation season 1 DVD 1 - I had seen this before but really wanted something soothing to watch. I ended up playing it one morning while Cordelia was getting ready for school. I don’t know that she actually paid attention, but she didn’t tell me to put something else on.
Batman the Animated Series season 2 - I'm still not in love with this series, but I do now have respect for the character development. It happens in small fragments, though.
The BFG - This was much darker/grimmer than I expected. Cordelia only lasted five minutes before she demanded Winnie-the-Pooh instead. I made it about ⅔ of the way through while Cordelia was at school but ended up giving up because I kept wandering out of the room and not caring how much I missed of the movie. I have way too many other things to watch to spend time on things I’m not enjoying.
Blancanieves - The actors here do an excellent job of conveying their characters’ thoughts by facial expression and body language. I was particularly impressed by the first scenes with the step-mother. Her thoughts were very clear.
Cats Don’t Dance - I think this suffered from me not being in the right mood because I ended up being kind of irritated. The voice acting was good, though, and I think that many kids would really enjoy this one.
Children Who Chase Lost Voices - I’m really not sure exactly what the point of this was. I didn’t like any of the characters, and I never quite understood why most of them were doing what they were doing. Some of that is probably that I watched most of it while I had a migraine, but I don’t think that all of it was.
Dirk Gently (2012) episode 1 - I’m not actually sure that I realized this was the 2012 version when I put it in our Netflix queue, but I picked up on that before it actually came. We were both sufficiently unimpressed that we didn’t bother with episode 2. We had a DVD of White Collar waiting for us.
Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks - Third Doctor. This one has Daleks and Jo Grant as the companion. It wasn’t great. It wasn’t terrible. I may actually have seen this one before, but, if I did, it was around 1991, so I really don’t remember for sure.
Finding Dory - Cordelia was certain that she had never seen Finding Nemo and insisted on watching that first but then didn’t watch it and didn’t watch it, so I ended up watching this movie while she wasn’t home. I figured that what Cordelia didn’t know wouldn’t hurt me. (Scott’s on his own on this one.) It will likely be months before we can get this from the library again. I enjoyed the movie, but I’m pretty sure that, if I thought at all about what was going on, my suspension of disbelief would have snapped. I also enjoyed the short which played after the movie. My only complaint about the short was that the sand looked… wrong. I can’t even explain how.
Full House season ?? episodes ?? and Fuller House season 2 - Cordelia loves these shows and has been watching them whenever there’s nothing on that she wants to see. I had never watched either before. I am unlikely to do so again if it’s a choice. I do not like sitcoms in general, and having no idea who the characters were didn’t help at all with Fuller House. The acting is pretty uniformly terrible.
The Giver - Cordelia had to watch this for a homework assignment. I only watched about half of it with her. I was unimpressed. I kept looking at the society and going, “But wait-- How would that work?”
Haunted Honeymoon - Sadly, this had no closed captioning, and I could only follow about half the dialog. I really wanted to watch and enjoy, but it’s hard to get verbal jokes when I’m only hearing part of what’s being said. I was stressed while watching, too, and had trouble tracking the supporting characters.
Independence Day: Resurgence - That was tedious. The only characters I remember as having personality are the treasure hunters on the boat. There was so much destruction that none of it mattered. None of it was anchored in anything that would make the cities burning and blowing up anything but artistic special effects. I didn’t actually feel like there were people there. We missed the last 20-30 minutes of the film because we were distracted by Cordelia needing help with a project, and we didn’t actually notice that it was still playing. We were in the same room with the TV. We just stopped seeing it at all. That being possible would say bad things about any action/disaster movie.
Jack the Giant Slayer - I got about fifteen minutes into this then hit a point where I was afraid the male lead was going to get humiliated. I paused the movie and never went back even though I kept renewing the dratted thing. I finally decided that, if I hadn’t gone on in five weeks, it was time to take the movie back to the library.
Jane the Virgin season 1 episodes ??? - Cordelia is watching this in exchange for a friend who likes this show watching Avatar: the Last Airbender. I’m not hugely enthusiastic because soap opera and comedy very seldom work for me. I don’t think this is a bad show. It’s just that I cringe frequently because I feel embarrassed for the characters.
Kubo and the Two Strings - I loved this. I was a bit worried that it wouldn’t stick the landing because I wasn’t sure what a good ending for the story would look like. I think the one they wrote worked perfectly. The villains were wonderfully creepy.
The Muppet Christmas Carol - I'd seen this before, but it had been years. I had a heck of a migraine while watching, so I started wondering about why none of the romantic relationships involved a Muppet/human pairing. A frog and a pig can marry and raise a family, but Muppet and human shall never mix? I had forgotten that I liked the songs in this.
Nerve - I’m not sure I should even count this. I played about fifteen minutes of the DVD on my laptop while I was working on other things, but I was never sufficiently interested to toggle the window forward so that I could see what was going on. I rather suspect that it’s that teenagers doing stupid things is less appealing to me than it might have been when I was one.
Le Portrait de Petite Cossette - This got into demonic horror rather fast. I was expecting something creepy and slow and possibly (probably) tragic, but well… This is not it. Did not finish.
Primer - We watched about twenty minutes of this, and it seemed like it went on and on for weeks. Nothing happened as far as we could tell, not even character development. I couldn’t tell why I was supposed to care. It didn’t help at all that the color palette was visually unpleasant. I’m sure it was an artistic choice that meant something, but it looked like a 1970s home movie shot by someone who thought turning on extra lights would make things look better. It had that yellow-beigeness (but lacked the redness that shows up in such things frequently) and kind of underlying grim grunge.
Rush Hour 1-3 - These were rewatches for me and Scott, but Cordelia hadn’t seen them before. She went through the three movies rapidly. Now I want to try her with Shanghai Noon, but we don’t own it, and neither does the library. I have to look away and cover my ears a lot for these because of the embarrassment, and it’s only recently that Cordelia has been willing to watch things with this much swearing (at least with us). If only we could get her to watch other Jackie Chan movies.
Secret of NIMH - I still prefer the book. I hadn’t watched this in many years, so I wasn’t sure what I’d think now. Cordelia found it too depressing and scary, so she left the room before Mrs Brisby met the rats properly.
The Snoop Sisters: The Devil Made Me Do It - So very, very dated. I think I was amused by the wrong things in this one because all of the occult stuff was beyond ridiculous. The idea of a Rider-Waite tarot card being obscure and ancient and rare… Well, yeah. I laughed. Then I reminded myself that the movie was made in the early 1970s. Did ‘occult’ automatically mean ‘Satanism’ then? I’m not sure the folks making this actually talked to anybody who actually knew anything about either subject as the characters were largely cartoonish.
The Snoop Sisters: Black Day for Bluebeard - Vincent Price plays an old friend of the sisters’ who is suspected of murdering his wife. The whole thing was no more than okay. It’s a little weird to have such small amounts of money as motive. I had to keep reminding myself that those amounts were bigger in the 1970s.
Steven Universe season 2 - For some reason, Hulu didn’t have the last few episodes of this season available. I thought there weren’t more, that the season only had 22 episodes, and just went on to season 3 on another website. I think, at this point, that I’ve found and watched all of the episodes I missed, but I’m finding the same episodes under different numbers, so I’m not absolutely sure.
Superman - This is the Christopher Reeve movie. I thought Cordelia would like it. I forgot how very, very slow it is at the beginning. We got eighteen minutes in and were still on Krypton. At that point, Cordelia gave up because she was bored. If I’d remembered how it started, I’d probably have skipped that section entirely and started her after the story got to Earth.
Tales of the Night - The visuals were very pretty, but I had trouble getting myself to focus on the stories. I started the movie with the French audio and English subtitles and switched in the middle to the English audio to see if that held my attention better. That didn’t help. I didn’t watch the last twenty minutes because I realized I was clock watching.
White Rabbit Project season 1 - I’m actually not sure how much of this I saw because, somewhere in the middle of the season, Scott switched from watching on the TV with me and Cordelia to watching on his laptop while he was doing things in the kitchen and dining room. I might try going back and figuring out what I haven’t seen, but I also might not. It was really good to see Carrie, Tori, and Grant together on the screen again. I particularly appreciated the bits where they built things, but that doesn’t seem to be the point of this series. I have the impression that this is more about what sort of wild but true stories they can dig up on a given theme.
Zoolander - I think we got fifteen minutes into this before we all agreed that we had no interest and had only been letting the movie continue because each of us thought the others wanted to go on. It wasn’t actually funny.
