DVD logging
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the_rckThe Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes season 1 - Delia started watching this streaming from Netflix, and I watched with her. She's now on her second run through the series, and we're hoping we can introduce her to some other superhero cartoons. This show has a nice balance of action and character development. It's a pity we don't get the channel that's airing the second season. Hopefully Netflix will get it quickly.
Because of Winn Dixie - Delia's teacher read this book to her class, so Delia wanted to see the movie. As we watched, she kept saying, "This wasn't in the book." The story follows a girl who rescues a dog. She's the only child of a single father, her mother having walked out on them years before, and she's trying to find her place in a new town. The story follows her making friends. The dog doesn't die.
Black Butler season 1 - Somehow, I was expecting something creepier. Not that this wasn't creepy in places. I just expected it to be moreso. I'm not sure what was going on with the angel. The theology took some turns into something I didn't recognize. I didn't fall in love with this series. I didn't dislike it. I think the humor wasn't my type of thing, and I felt like the humor and the creepiness didn't mesh well. I don't intend to seek out season 2. I've heard bad things about it, and I don't see at all how one could make a second season.
Cars 2 - Scott says I'm over-anthropomorphizing, making too much of it, but I was really disturbed by having the villains be 'lemons,' cars that don't work right. To me, they were clearly analogous to disabled people (the cars and trucks are all clearly meant to be read as people). Apart from that, I was relatively meh on the movie. I kept getting distracted and losing track of what was going on.
Case Closed season 4 DVD 2-4 - I'm not sure what to say about this. The series hasn't changed since I blogged previous installments. The murders are still incredibly complicated. The story arc still isn't budging. Netflix claims to have season 5, but I'm not convinced since it appears to only be one DVD. Maybe I'll go back to reading the manga. Of course, that adds some confusion when I watch the show-- I remember just enough about the cases to think maybe I've seen the episode before but not enough to remember how the murder was committed or who did it.
Case Closed: Movie 3: The Last Wizard of the Century - I enjoyed this one because it's always fun to see Kid. The Magic Kaito side of the fandom has always intrigued me because I don't have access to any of the canon. Not that Kid in Detective Conan is the same as Kid in Magic Kaito, not exactly.
The Celluloid Closet - I wasn't sure about watching this. Documentaries often don't work for me (perhaps I'm not watching the right ones). I definitely found this one interesting. I watched it straight through. It's a history of gay, Lesbian and bisexual characters in film, talking about the ways that queer sexuality was coded when it couldn't be talked about and the ways that queer sexuality, once it could be talked about, was always shown as destructive. I hope we do better.
Charmed season 2 DVD 1 - I gave up halfway through this because I was having to force myself to watch. There were too many points where I could see negative repercussions coming and just didn't want to watch them. There was narrative inevitability that I just wasn't prepared to deal with. I think I'm done with this series.
Chuck season 3 - I enjoyed this season. Giving Morgan more to do helped the balance of things. Chuck and Sarah continue to be cute together, and Casey is always fun to watch. I hope season four is as much fun.
Chuck season 4 - I enjoyed this season, too. The flow of events was peculiar. There were several episodes that felt like they could have been the end of the season so that each new arc felt a little tacked on. I'd still recommend the series as a charming, funny spy story.
Comic Party 1-2 - I didn't even finish the first DVD of this series. I didn't like how the people were treating each other. I could believe the level of obsession involved. I just was repelled by it. I was interested in taking a look at dojinshi creation and the culture around it, but I wasn't enjoying myself.
Dial M for Murder - I watched about half of this. I got bored. I simply didn't find the characters interesting or care about what happened next. I suspect that it goes along with why I seldom read mysteries-- I don't care so much about the schemes and how they do or don't work. I want something else.
The Flash DVD 1 - I enjoyed this well enough to want to watch more, but I had trouble making myself sit down and watch. I seem to be having that problem more and more lately. I like the main character coming to grips with his powers and figuring out how best to use them. I did keep having a disconnect as I looked at the technology the characters were using. I had to remind myself that it was state of the art when the show was made, that I wasn't seeing a crime lab or research facility operating on a shoestring. Usually, I'd wait until I'd seen an entire season to blog this, but it will be a while before I watch more. I've got other things in the Netflix queue that I need to watch first.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2 - I liked this better than part one. The visuals seemed less murky-- I could usually tell what was happening on the screen. It was something of a relief to see the series wrapped up.
His Girl Friday - I gave up on this about two thirds of the way through when I realized that I wasn't having any fun. The humor didn't work for me. I thoroughly disliked Cary Grant's character. The casual racism put me off, too.
An Ideal Husband - I gave up partway through when I asked myself why I was watching and had no answer. I wanted to like this movie, but it never really clicked with me. The acting was excellent. I could tell that much. I just didn't care. Politics and blackmail and high society sounds good, but it didn't work for me.
Judy Collins: Wildflower Festival - I always forget that I prefer early Judy Collins to more recent Judy Collins. (I feel bad about that because, from what I've heard, her early singing nearly destroyed her voice. Still, it had more energy.) This is decidedly recent Judy Collins, and her numbers are slow and sort of dreamy. Several other artists also perform. Nothing really sticks in my memory, but it was an okay listen.
Kung Fu Panda 2 - Scott bought this one as soon as it came out. I had enough fun watching it not to mind when Delia played it again. I thought Po's backstory worked pretty well. I was dubious because I love his father and liked that their relationship stood with no explanations. The supporting cast is still a lot of fun. The ending implies a third movie. I'm not sure I want one. I suppose it depends on how it's done.
Legendary Warrior DVD 1 - My main impression of the first four episodes of this show is that the story can't stop grinding the hero down. Everything that could go wrong seems to. He keeps trying to go on and find a life, but everything he tries goes bad in one way or another, generally through no fault of his. I expect that things will turn around soon-- There're several threads of aristocratic politics that are clearly going to intersect with the hero's story soon. It may be a while before I get back to this series. I'm trying to stick with stuff in English right now, while I write for challenges. I want stuff I can watch while I write, and this, being in Chinese with English subtitles, requires too much of my attention. I hope I can remember who's who by the time I get back to it.
The Lightning Thief - This was better than I expected. I won't say it was good, but it was better than I expected. After reading the book, Delia wanted to see the movie, and the library had it. She wasn't happy with the changes to the story. I thought that some of them made sense while others didn't. Having everyone (except Percy) already know who his father was, for example, eliminated the necessity for several scenes from the book. I'm not so sure about the idea that Zeus forbade gods to interact with their mortal children. It seems unnecessary. I suppose it was a way to try to make Poseidon look like a better father than he does in the books.
Lois & Clark season 4 DVD 1 - These episodes were simply silly. I forced my way through them but found, when the second DVD of the season came from Netflix, that I couldn't go further. It's a pity because the characters were charming, but life's too short to force myself to watch something simply for the sake of completeness.
The Muppets - Scott and Delia liked this one enough to buy it right when it came out. I enjoyed it. It was very Muppety (I don't have a better word for it). The musical numbers were catchy. The jokes were over the top. The Muppet Movie is still my favorite, but this one is a good second place. I liked the introduction of a new character to be the focus of the story.
Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow - This one's about the children of the Avengers in a world where Ultron killed their parents and has been steadily taking over the world. It wasn't great, but it also wasn't bad. The solution to Ultron came a bit too easily. Of course, it's the parts not shown that catch my imagination-- I kind of want to see Tony Stark coping with four toddlers with no backup.
Night Court season 3 - Sitcoms don't usually work for me. Too often, embarrassment humor makes me cringe, or the jokes are about things I don't think are funny. It's nice to find something like Night Court that I can enjoy. Not to say it's perfect. There are still some problematic jokes and plotlines. Just about everything involving Mac's Vietnamese wife should have been handled differently. Still, recommended. It made me laugh.
Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest: Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee and Mississippi John Hurt, Hedy West & Paul Cadwell - There's not much to say about this-- There was good music, performed by people I'd never heard of. Every DVD in this series that I've tried has been worth my time.
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides - I'm not sure why I got this from the library. I suppose I felt like it was something I ought to have seen. I couldn't give it more than half my attention because I just didn't care. I didn't like the characters, and I couldn't muster more than a vague interest in whether or not they'd find the Fountain of Youth. My eyes glazed over during the action sequences. I doubt that's the effect the folks making the movie were going for.
Push - I have only scattered memories of this movie. I know I watched it, but it's been long enough that I've forgotten a lot of details. I remember being disappointed, wanting something more than the movie provided. I think I'd have liked it better as the premise for a series, something with room for more character development. The movie follows young psychics on the run from the US government and from organized crime. One of them has a drug that will enhance psychic power without killing the recipient. Previous drugs always killed.
Puss in Boots - This is another one I watched because Delia wanted to see it. The scheming amused me to some extent, but I never really liked any of the characters and so didn't really care how the story came out. For a movie Delia picked, it was okay, but I can think of movies I'd rather watch.
Rango - This was a peculiar movie. I haven't got a better word for it. The story was a classic western, not my favorite genre. I only watched this one because Delia was curious. I kept feeling like I had dust and sand in my clothes as I watched. That probably means the movie was successful on some level. I just didn't want to be there with it.
Secret of Moonacre - This movie doesn't compare well to the book (Elizabeth Goudge's The Little White Horse), but I didn't really expect it to. The book is wonderful and hard to translate into a movie. Cordelia was bored by the first half of the movie, and I'm not sure she bothered to watch the second half. I watched all of it and thought it was okay. I think I might have liked it better if I hadn't been comparing it constantly to the book. I was hoping for a better movie, one that would make Delia want to read the book.
Sita Sings the Blues - I'm not sure how I feel about this one. I was interested in Sita and her story but less so in the modern woman with relationship trouble. I think I missed the point on how the two stories interconnected and reflected each other. The music was excellent. I watched the DVD's interview with the creator and found that interesting. She ran into real trouble over the copyright to the music she used.
Solty Rei - I liked this anime series better than I expected I would based on Netflix's blurb. Solty is an android on a world where such things are unheard of (but where people frequently have cybernetic replacements for missing body parts). She can pass for human and gets adopted by a bounty hunter. In the second half, there's a lot more about how the world came to be the way it is and how it can be changed (or not). I nearly stopped, midway through, when what looked like a fridging happened. I persevered, however, and the whole thing was revealed eventually to be more complicated than that.
Spy Kids: All the Time in the World - Bits of this movie made more sense when I realized that, in the theaters, they had an odor track (I can't remember the term for it). They kept complaining about nasty smells. This movie didn't have the whimsy of the first two movies in the series. Delia enjoyed it enough to watch it twice, but Scott and I were less impressed.
The Thin Man - The thing about this movie that made the biggest impression was how much the characters drank. They simply didn't stop. I can't imagine living like that. I'd enjoy the money and the leisure time, of course. I think I expected more of a mystery than there was. I'll probably try another of the movies in this series. The library has several.
A Tree of Palme - I gave up on this one after not too long. I had no sympathy for the main character. I wanted to like him, to care about him, but he was so flat. It made sense that he would be that way, but it was a barrier between me and the story.
Trigun Badlands Rumble - This was very much like one of the lighter, non-arc episodes of the series, extended to movie length. I don't know that it would work as a standalone. A lot depends on recognizing the characters and knowing how they relate to each other. I was a little disappointed because I hoped for more. I don't even know what I wanted, maybe to see something that mattered to the characters instead of leaving them unchanged. This is still worth seeing if one likes Trigun.
Wallace & Gromit: A World of Invention - We gave up on this halfway through. If we'd been spreading the episodes out over a period of weeks, I think we'd have enjoyed it. Taken all at once, it felt like a slog. The first episode was interesting, with cute Wallace and Gromit interludes. The second episode was less fun, and the third was too much. We couldn't face more. Each episode had stories about inventors and inventions, both successful and not.
Xena the Warrior Princess season 1 DVD 1 - I was afraid I'd bounce off this the way I did off of Hercules the Legendary Journeys (I need to go back to that and try later seasons. I know it eventually became a show I could watch because I've seen episodes that didn't make me reach for the remote). I didn't. I didn't fall in love with the show, either, but I'll be watching more of it while I write. It'll be a little while, but I'll definitely try more. It's available streaming, so it'll be something I can watch when I'm between DVDs.
Young Justice season 1 DVD 1-3 - This is all of the series that Netflix currently has. I'm guessing that it's about half of the season. There's a fourth DVD that's supposed to be available soon. I'm looking forward to it. I like these characters, and each episode develops them and their world. I enjoy well put together superhero team shows. Here's hoping that the rest of the season becomes available quickly and that it's as good as the first twelve episodes.
I'd enjoy discussing any of these if anybody's interested. I may have forgotten some details because it's been months on some of these, but talking about them will bring details back to me.
Because of Winn Dixie - Delia's teacher read this book to her class, so Delia wanted to see the movie. As we watched, she kept saying, "This wasn't in the book." The story follows a girl who rescues a dog. She's the only child of a single father, her mother having walked out on them years before, and she's trying to find her place in a new town. The story follows her making friends. The dog doesn't die.
Black Butler season 1 - Somehow, I was expecting something creepier. Not that this wasn't creepy in places. I just expected it to be moreso. I'm not sure what was going on with the angel. The theology took some turns into something I didn't recognize. I didn't fall in love with this series. I didn't dislike it. I think the humor wasn't my type of thing, and I felt like the humor and the creepiness didn't mesh well. I don't intend to seek out season 2. I've heard bad things about it, and I don't see at all how one could make a second season.
Cars 2 - Scott says I'm over-anthropomorphizing, making too much of it, but I was really disturbed by having the villains be 'lemons,' cars that don't work right. To me, they were clearly analogous to disabled people (the cars and trucks are all clearly meant to be read as people). Apart from that, I was relatively meh on the movie. I kept getting distracted and losing track of what was going on.
Case Closed season 4 DVD 2-4 - I'm not sure what to say about this. The series hasn't changed since I blogged previous installments. The murders are still incredibly complicated. The story arc still isn't budging. Netflix claims to have season 5, but I'm not convinced since it appears to only be one DVD. Maybe I'll go back to reading the manga. Of course, that adds some confusion when I watch the show-- I remember just enough about the cases to think maybe I've seen the episode before but not enough to remember how the murder was committed or who did it.
Case Closed: Movie 3: The Last Wizard of the Century - I enjoyed this one because it's always fun to see Kid. The Magic Kaito side of the fandom has always intrigued me because I don't have access to any of the canon. Not that Kid in Detective Conan is the same as Kid in Magic Kaito, not exactly.
The Celluloid Closet - I wasn't sure about watching this. Documentaries often don't work for me (perhaps I'm not watching the right ones). I definitely found this one interesting. I watched it straight through. It's a history of gay, Lesbian and bisexual characters in film, talking about the ways that queer sexuality was coded when it couldn't be talked about and the ways that queer sexuality, once it could be talked about, was always shown as destructive. I hope we do better.
Charmed season 2 DVD 1 - I gave up halfway through this because I was having to force myself to watch. There were too many points where I could see negative repercussions coming and just didn't want to watch them. There was narrative inevitability that I just wasn't prepared to deal with. I think I'm done with this series.
Chuck season 3 - I enjoyed this season. Giving Morgan more to do helped the balance of things. Chuck and Sarah continue to be cute together, and Casey is always fun to watch. I hope season four is as much fun.
Chuck season 4 - I enjoyed this season, too. The flow of events was peculiar. There were several episodes that felt like they could have been the end of the season so that each new arc felt a little tacked on. I'd still recommend the series as a charming, funny spy story.
Comic Party 1-2 - I didn't even finish the first DVD of this series. I didn't like how the people were treating each other. I could believe the level of obsession involved. I just was repelled by it. I was interested in taking a look at dojinshi creation and the culture around it, but I wasn't enjoying myself.
Dial M for Murder - I watched about half of this. I got bored. I simply didn't find the characters interesting or care about what happened next. I suspect that it goes along with why I seldom read mysteries-- I don't care so much about the schemes and how they do or don't work. I want something else.
The Flash DVD 1 - I enjoyed this well enough to want to watch more, but I had trouble making myself sit down and watch. I seem to be having that problem more and more lately. I like the main character coming to grips with his powers and figuring out how best to use them. I did keep having a disconnect as I looked at the technology the characters were using. I had to remind myself that it was state of the art when the show was made, that I wasn't seeing a crime lab or research facility operating on a shoestring. Usually, I'd wait until I'd seen an entire season to blog this, but it will be a while before I watch more. I've got other things in the Netflix queue that I need to watch first.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2 - I liked this better than part one. The visuals seemed less murky-- I could usually tell what was happening on the screen. It was something of a relief to see the series wrapped up.
His Girl Friday - I gave up on this about two thirds of the way through when I realized that I wasn't having any fun. The humor didn't work for me. I thoroughly disliked Cary Grant's character. The casual racism put me off, too.
An Ideal Husband - I gave up partway through when I asked myself why I was watching and had no answer. I wanted to like this movie, but it never really clicked with me. The acting was excellent. I could tell that much. I just didn't care. Politics and blackmail and high society sounds good, but it didn't work for me.
Judy Collins: Wildflower Festival - I always forget that I prefer early Judy Collins to more recent Judy Collins. (I feel bad about that because, from what I've heard, her early singing nearly destroyed her voice. Still, it had more energy.) This is decidedly recent Judy Collins, and her numbers are slow and sort of dreamy. Several other artists also perform. Nothing really sticks in my memory, but it was an okay listen.
Kung Fu Panda 2 - Scott bought this one as soon as it came out. I had enough fun watching it not to mind when Delia played it again. I thought Po's backstory worked pretty well. I was dubious because I love his father and liked that their relationship stood with no explanations. The supporting cast is still a lot of fun. The ending implies a third movie. I'm not sure I want one. I suppose it depends on how it's done.
Legendary Warrior DVD 1 - My main impression of the first four episodes of this show is that the story can't stop grinding the hero down. Everything that could go wrong seems to. He keeps trying to go on and find a life, but everything he tries goes bad in one way or another, generally through no fault of his. I expect that things will turn around soon-- There're several threads of aristocratic politics that are clearly going to intersect with the hero's story soon. It may be a while before I get back to this series. I'm trying to stick with stuff in English right now, while I write for challenges. I want stuff I can watch while I write, and this, being in Chinese with English subtitles, requires too much of my attention. I hope I can remember who's who by the time I get back to it.
The Lightning Thief - This was better than I expected. I won't say it was good, but it was better than I expected. After reading the book, Delia wanted to see the movie, and the library had it. She wasn't happy with the changes to the story. I thought that some of them made sense while others didn't. Having everyone (except Percy) already know who his father was, for example, eliminated the necessity for several scenes from the book. I'm not so sure about the idea that Zeus forbade gods to interact with their mortal children. It seems unnecessary. I suppose it was a way to try to make Poseidon look like a better father than he does in the books.
Lois & Clark season 4 DVD 1 - These episodes were simply silly. I forced my way through them but found, when the second DVD of the season came from Netflix, that I couldn't go further. It's a pity because the characters were charming, but life's too short to force myself to watch something simply for the sake of completeness.
The Muppets - Scott and Delia liked this one enough to buy it right when it came out. I enjoyed it. It was very Muppety (I don't have a better word for it). The musical numbers were catchy. The jokes were over the top. The Muppet Movie is still my favorite, but this one is a good second place. I liked the introduction of a new character to be the focus of the story.
Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow - This one's about the children of the Avengers in a world where Ultron killed their parents and has been steadily taking over the world. It wasn't great, but it also wasn't bad. The solution to Ultron came a bit too easily. Of course, it's the parts not shown that catch my imagination-- I kind of want to see Tony Stark coping with four toddlers with no backup.
Night Court season 3 - Sitcoms don't usually work for me. Too often, embarrassment humor makes me cringe, or the jokes are about things I don't think are funny. It's nice to find something like Night Court that I can enjoy. Not to say it's perfect. There are still some problematic jokes and plotlines. Just about everything involving Mac's Vietnamese wife should have been handled differently. Still, recommended. It made me laugh.
Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest: Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee and Mississippi John Hurt, Hedy West & Paul Cadwell - There's not much to say about this-- There was good music, performed by people I'd never heard of. Every DVD in this series that I've tried has been worth my time.
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides - I'm not sure why I got this from the library. I suppose I felt like it was something I ought to have seen. I couldn't give it more than half my attention because I just didn't care. I didn't like the characters, and I couldn't muster more than a vague interest in whether or not they'd find the Fountain of Youth. My eyes glazed over during the action sequences. I doubt that's the effect the folks making the movie were going for.
Push - I have only scattered memories of this movie. I know I watched it, but it's been long enough that I've forgotten a lot of details. I remember being disappointed, wanting something more than the movie provided. I think I'd have liked it better as the premise for a series, something with room for more character development. The movie follows young psychics on the run from the US government and from organized crime. One of them has a drug that will enhance psychic power without killing the recipient. Previous drugs always killed.
Puss in Boots - This is another one I watched because Delia wanted to see it. The scheming amused me to some extent, but I never really liked any of the characters and so didn't really care how the story came out. For a movie Delia picked, it was okay, but I can think of movies I'd rather watch.
Rango - This was a peculiar movie. I haven't got a better word for it. The story was a classic western, not my favorite genre. I only watched this one because Delia was curious. I kept feeling like I had dust and sand in my clothes as I watched. That probably means the movie was successful on some level. I just didn't want to be there with it.
Secret of Moonacre - This movie doesn't compare well to the book (Elizabeth Goudge's The Little White Horse), but I didn't really expect it to. The book is wonderful and hard to translate into a movie. Cordelia was bored by the first half of the movie, and I'm not sure she bothered to watch the second half. I watched all of it and thought it was okay. I think I might have liked it better if I hadn't been comparing it constantly to the book. I was hoping for a better movie, one that would make Delia want to read the book.
Sita Sings the Blues - I'm not sure how I feel about this one. I was interested in Sita and her story but less so in the modern woman with relationship trouble. I think I missed the point on how the two stories interconnected and reflected each other. The music was excellent. I watched the DVD's interview with the creator and found that interesting. She ran into real trouble over the copyright to the music she used.
Solty Rei - I liked this anime series better than I expected I would based on Netflix's blurb. Solty is an android on a world where such things are unheard of (but where people frequently have cybernetic replacements for missing body parts). She can pass for human and gets adopted by a bounty hunter. In the second half, there's a lot more about how the world came to be the way it is and how it can be changed (or not). I nearly stopped, midway through, when what looked like a fridging happened. I persevered, however, and the whole thing was revealed eventually to be more complicated than that.
Spy Kids: All the Time in the World - Bits of this movie made more sense when I realized that, in the theaters, they had an odor track (I can't remember the term for it). They kept complaining about nasty smells. This movie didn't have the whimsy of the first two movies in the series. Delia enjoyed it enough to watch it twice, but Scott and I were less impressed.
The Thin Man - The thing about this movie that made the biggest impression was how much the characters drank. They simply didn't stop. I can't imagine living like that. I'd enjoy the money and the leisure time, of course. I think I expected more of a mystery than there was. I'll probably try another of the movies in this series. The library has several.
A Tree of Palme - I gave up on this one after not too long. I had no sympathy for the main character. I wanted to like him, to care about him, but he was so flat. It made sense that he would be that way, but it was a barrier between me and the story.
Trigun Badlands Rumble - This was very much like one of the lighter, non-arc episodes of the series, extended to movie length. I don't know that it would work as a standalone. A lot depends on recognizing the characters and knowing how they relate to each other. I was a little disappointed because I hoped for more. I don't even know what I wanted, maybe to see something that mattered to the characters instead of leaving them unchanged. This is still worth seeing if one likes Trigun.
Wallace & Gromit: A World of Invention - We gave up on this halfway through. If we'd been spreading the episodes out over a period of weeks, I think we'd have enjoyed it. Taken all at once, it felt like a slog. The first episode was interesting, with cute Wallace and Gromit interludes. The second episode was less fun, and the third was too much. We couldn't face more. Each episode had stories about inventors and inventions, both successful and not.
Xena the Warrior Princess season 1 DVD 1 - I was afraid I'd bounce off this the way I did off of Hercules the Legendary Journeys (I need to go back to that and try later seasons. I know it eventually became a show I could watch because I've seen episodes that didn't make me reach for the remote). I didn't. I didn't fall in love with the show, either, but I'll be watching more of it while I write. It'll be a little while, but I'll definitely try more. It's available streaming, so it'll be something I can watch when I'm between DVDs.
Young Justice season 1 DVD 1-3 - This is all of the series that Netflix currently has. I'm guessing that it's about half of the season. There's a fourth DVD that's supposed to be available soon. I'm looking forward to it. I like these characters, and each episode develops them and their world. I enjoy well put together superhero team shows. Here's hoping that the rest of the season becomes available quickly and that it's as good as the first twelve episodes.
I'd enjoy discussing any of these if anybody's interested. I may have forgotten some details because it's been months on some of these, but talking about them will bring details back to me.
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Date: 2012-05-30 08:01 pm (UTC)As for The Thin Man , the drinking/smoking gets to me when I watch or read ANYTHING from that era -- it's like, wow. Didn't anyone ever think about consequences?
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Date: 2012-05-30 08:31 pm (UTC)When Scott and I started watching Next Avengers, we were getting it streaming from Netflix and were under the impression that it was a TV show. I think I'd have enjoyed the premise stretched over a longer time, with more subplots and more character development. If I had time and thought I could write for anything comics related, I'd be tempted to write Tony dealing with the kids. I just don't think I could do it justice.
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Date: 2012-05-30 09:44 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-05-30 09:52 pm (UTC)(FWIW, I personally think the English version is an abomination. Not because it's objectively bad taken in isolation, but because it significantly, if subtly, alters what's going on in the original. Also, you're right to give the second series a miss if you didn't fall in love with the first one -- it's essentially official fanfic for the first series. It's got higher production values, and it's interesting, but it relies on your love of the original. And the weird factor is right through the roof.)
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Date: 2012-05-31 12:56 am (UTC)I remember reading a discussion on your journal about Black Butler, comparing the English and the Japanese. Altering Ciel would make the series quite different. I don't think it would work as well.
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Date: 2012-06-01 02:42 am (UTC)I think the best part of The Lightning Thief is the sequence with Uma Thurman as Medusa. I don't know the directors managed it (since I thought the rest of the movie was a bit flat), but that part was genuinely thrilling and Percy using the iPod felt like a real act of bravery. :D
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Date: 2012-06-01 12:53 pm (UTC)The Medusa sequence was impressive. I wish more of the movie had been on that level.