18 Sep 2023

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Wow, I have not been keeping up with what I've been watching. I thought I had posted about several of these already. And there's stuff I know I've watched since... checks entires... March.

Save Yourselves! (2020) - A neat indie film where a young couple in NYC, addicted to their phones, decides to unplug and spend a week upstate. Things don't go quite as planned when an alien invasion happens.  I liked this one a lot for how their relationship is shown, as well as the ambiguous ending.

OVNIs (UFOs) S1 (2021) - A failed rocket scientist gets put in charge of the French equivalent of SETI in the 1970s. I really enjoyed this!  The slightly kooky characters as a foil to the straight-laced scientist trying to actually run the department was perfect. And the set design and film style were so good.

Halt and Catch Fire S1 (2014 - 2017) - This is a rewatch for me, but I don't remember a whole lot, other than it was good. And how can you go wrong with casting an actor with the name Scoot McNairy? Anyway, it's a fictionalized version of the PC ... wars? of the 80s. The subsequent seasons focus more on the women, which I'm looking forward to.  Lee Pace, Mackenzie Davis, and Kerry Bishé round out the great cast.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) - Miles undoes a "canon event" in one of the multiverses, things start collapsing, and he gets trapped in the wrong world. I was bored during this in some spots.

John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) - I'm glad he finally gets to rest. It's hard to remember when watching these films that they take place over only a few days. It's an ass-kicking movie. Lot's of ass-kicking.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) - This was fine. The de-aging CGI still looks really off to me. A very gruff Indiana is just retiring from his university teaching job when his estranged goddaughter shows up looking for an artifact. The Nazis are also trying to get it. We find out why he's so gruff and get an ending that made me tear up.

Asteroid City (2023) - I think this was too arty for me? It's a play within a film, set in a retro futuristic 1950s Area 51-like place in the desert. Kids are at a Stargazer conference. An alien shows up.  ???

Joy Ride (2023) - I don't enjoy gross-out humor and we walked out of this one.  I think the funniest scene was in the trailer. A Chinese adoptee with white parents travels with her best friend to China for business, and tries to track down her birth mom while there.

Mandalorian S1-2 (2019-2020) -  So cute!

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1-2 (2022-2023) - Or Captain Haircut, as G calls it. This is another pre-TOS franchise and is about Captain Pike (who has such great hair!) commanding the Enterprise before James Kirk.  I just really like the hope this show has.  I'm glad I had at least seen some Lower Decks so I enjoyed the crossover episode.

Resident Alien S1-2 (2021-2022) - I don't want to like this show, but I do.  Alan Tudyk plays an alien in human form who was tasked with destroying the Earth, but because he's in human form, seems to be becoming human.  He's the doctor for a small town and gets by with looking things up on YouTube, and is often foiled by children.  Tudyk makes the character mostly on the brink of likeable, and is, just often enough.

Star Trek: Lower Decks S1 (2020) - This is a funny show, but not a funny Star Trek show. It was not for me. It's an animated series about the people on the lower decks of the Enterprise. Or some other ship.

Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) - A pragmatic woman (Tilda Swinton, yay!) and a djinn (Idris Elba, yay!) fall in love while she navigates the very tricky territory of her three wishes. It was good and thought-provoking. Directed by George Miller.

Polite Society (2023) - By the same people that brought us Lady Parts, this was a martial arts comedy about two sisters, one who wants to become a movie stuntwoman, and the other who has lost her confidence in her art and dropped out of college. They foil an evil plot.  I think the best thing about it is the scenes where the sisters are being sisters.

Barry S4 (2023) -  Dark. So dark. So good.  Sarah Goldberg, who plays Barry's girlfriend/wife, is such an amazing actress in this, especially in this season. Barry escapes from prison (of course) and is hiding out with Sally and his son in the desert. Or maybe Kansas. It had a surreal quality to it. Everyone seems harder in this season and it ends with only one person being ok, seemingly.

The Power S1 (2023) - Based on a book where women have an extra organ that gets "woken up" (maybe for evolutionary reasons) that allows them to control and use electricity.  They start feeling safe from men for the first time in... history? and the worlds reaction is very similar to the way people are trying to control women's bodies in the real world. However, characters behaving out of character in the last episode really turned me off.

Yellowjackets S1 (2021) - A plane with a high school girls soccer team crashes in the woods and they don't get rescued for a long time.  The show switches between them now and then.  But for me, it's a big "No" on the cannibalism.

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