Watching Big Little Lies. Interesting show, introduce a murder but don’t reveal the identity of the victim. Then introduce us to an all star cast of upper class wives with kids and lots of time on their hands to get into full helicopter mode and get into everyone’s business. May have issue of no likable characters but otherwise good show so far. And going with Michael Kiwanuka song for the theme is awesome.
Just watched Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack. A very good Godzilla movie, with some great fights and a actually pretty intense version of Godzilla. Its humans are a bit boring, but they could have been a lot worse (like being actively annoying). Not quite my favorite Godzilla movie, but a very solid one.
That's probably my favorite of the classic newer type. It's really well done, the humans always suck.
"A Date with Judy" (1948). A largely forgotten MGM musical based on a largely forgotten old radio show.
Just watched Foxcatcher. It’s the kind of movie if I didn’t know it was based on real events I’d think the ending was unrealistic. Probably if I was a little older than 5 in 1988 I’d have watched the rest of the movie differently and not been surprised. I guess it’s really about how narcissism gets sold as philanthropy.
City Of Ember My Thoughts This is a delightfully odd little movie, it's not long but it is odd, billed as a family adventure but when you peel all of that back you are left with quite a dark dystopian movie at its core. It begins in some unspecified time when some kind of catastrophe has hit the world and some well dressed people in blue put together a silver box with nixie tubes on the front that is to count down time. They set it for 200 years hoping that the world will be a better place by then and hand it over to the mayor of this underground city that they have built. The hope was that as the clock on the box counted down, it was passed from mayor to mayor but eventually the cycle was broken and the box hidden away and forgotten. But it kept counting down the years until it hit zero then clicked open as also mentioned in the opening narration of the movie. Immediately that irked me because then I was wondering what the hell kind of power source kept the box active for over 200 years, and that too powering something like nixie tubes which are not the most efficient kind of display medium. Anyway that's where the story begins and this two teenagers Doon and Lina try to unravel the mystery of the box as the city falls apart around them. Whatever the power source was to keep things running, and keep the lights on had begun to fail and there were constant blackouts across the whole city. The kids go on a grand adventure and find a way out of the city after figuring out the puzzle of the box and objects in the box they find, one being a glass key that opens a door in the power station of the city. What makes this movie really dark for me is that if you think about it that whole city was doomed to fail and everyone die had those two teens not started looking at the silver box and trying to work out the message inside it. Had no one done that eventually the city's power would have failed for one last time and thrown the city into chaos and panic, and many deaths. So yeah they were kind of doomed from the start but for the plucky teens. The blackouts to me are another oddity considering no one ever thought to look up and had they done that during a blackout they'd likely have seen the sky above through that hole the kids find at the end of the movie. I had fun with this movie but yeah I'd likely not watch it again and looking back at it it's like a movie you'd find on Netflix or such. It's not bad, it's just not that good either IMHO. 6/10 They tried hard.
The season one DVD set of the new Lost in Space series. This being a remake AND made in the present era, I didn't expect to like it all that much, but I'm six episodes in, and it's surprisingly quite good.
I finished Good Omens. I enjoyed it, it was a lot of fun but is the book end similar to the show? Spoiler Because boy was that a hell of an anti climatic 'battle'. 10 year olds 'I don't like war!' Stabs the 4 horsemen with a sword. 'You aren't my daddy!' Satan goes back to hell. Types in a few words on a keyboard and stops the nukes. I mean it almost wrecked the whole darn season for me.
I loved season 1 to bits. Is the DVD out already? Oooh What are the bonus features like if they are there? Penny was one of my favourite characters, especially the lines she gets and her rescuing everyone. And I'm a huge Parker Posey fan so loved her and she got her version of Smith down well. Such a good actress.
Yeah, the set has been out since Tuesday, I got it Wednesday at my neighborhood Walmart. The last disk (fourth in the set) has several bonus features along with the season finale on it, but I haven't looked at them yet. I'm waiting to finish the episodes first (three more to go.)
Watched the last of the first season of "Gentleman Jack." Holy CRAP, that's a great show. Hubby and I both loved it. The only downside is that it will probably be ages until the next season.