First of all, Meowwy Quismois and Happy Meow Year 2020 everyone.

Here are some movies that I watched:

  • Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
    • 2.5 hours is a bit too long. But this is a great movie. I read that there is an American movie, Anatomy of a Murder that seems to have similar setup / feel, aka clinical, doesn’t have excessive melodrama. Maybe I should watch that too. Also the prosecutor is an asshole.
  • Identity (2003)
    • This is not as bad as I thought. I truly enjoyed this movie, it’s a fun mystery thriller. The twist is not amazing, but it’s okay
  • A Separation (2011)
    • It’s a good movie but it feels frustrating at parts. The focus should be on the children being torn apart between adults separating / fighting.
  • Top Secret! (1984)
    • I watched this when I was a kid, and I’m still liking it. Probably not as much as other Abraham & Zuck’s works. Somehow this version that I watched doesn’t have the scene involving Val Kilmer crawling out from a rhino.

The TV shows that I started and dropped halfway:

  • Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness S01
    • It’s not that it’s atrocious, it’s just that I like Resident Evil when it’s B-movie awkward lines movie. This mini-series is just bit too serious
  • DuckTales S01
    • I remember having really good memories of this show. But now it feels like the show is probably geared towards young children.

Shows that I’ve been watching:

  • The Ministry of Time S01
    • Finished the first season. The show started off fun, especially when there are anachronistic scenes (people in the past using contemporary tech gadgets), but halfway thru the season, it veered into soapy telenovela melodrama which I dislike (the reason I dropped La Casa de Papel). But by the end of the season, chef’s kiss
    • spoiler

      That character who kept clinging on his dead wife, ended up as the person who caused her death

  • Review S02
    • This season is definitely better than the first. I like the overarching story where Forrest’s commitment to the show completely destroys his family relationship. Interested to see what’s gonna happen in the next season
  • The Simpsons S04
    • Still okay
  • The X-Files S02
    • I’m halfway thru the season now and I’m loving the Mulder’s family’s arc
  • Fringe S05
    • I can see why this season is not as good as others, largely because of the abrupt change of setting from season 4. So far it’s still good.
  • Killing It S02
    • I like the first season largely because Claudia O’Doherty’s delivery of absurd lines are hilarious. This season seems to focus too much on side characters that aren’t too funny.
  • Record of Ragnarok S01
    • This is great. Wasn’t expecting to be hooked by it. It’s basically Celebrity Deathmatch, but between gods from various mythologies and … historical humans. And every fight is like Super Saiyan over the top battles with power creep and bombastic moves. I’m loving it.

So, what have you all been watching?

    • sub_o@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Yeah, I forgot to mention that, I also started WILTY S17.

      Alex Jones! always love seeing Alex Jones

      spoiler

      and confuses Americans

  • yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago
    • Lawmen: Bass Reeves - Westerns are not typically my thing but this is not your typical western.
    • Pretty Hard Cases - Fun Canadian cop dramedy.
    • Replicas - Solid B movie
    • Meet the Blacks - The closest I’m going to get to watching a The Purge film
  • 0xtero@beehaw.org
    2·
    10 months ago

    I started watching Succession on HBO, mostly because I was bored and it seems to pop-up on lot of “best shows of”-recommendation lists. Managed to binge S1 and S2 over Christmas but I’m not really sure about what I think about it.

    Sure, it’s well produced and finely acted. I don’t really have much experience dealing with the “ultra rich” but most of the characters don’t really act like you’d expect “normal humans” to act. None of the characters are very likeable and I don’t much care what happens to the company. I don’t think I find the idea of watching ultra-rich having a “cutthroat battle for corporate control” very entertaining.

    But somehow I’m enjoying seeing them unhappy while they dig themselves deeper and deeper in trouble. Maybe that’s the point. Maybe it gets better in the last two seasons, right now I’m having hard time understanding the popularity.

    • sub_o@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      I’m at S03, it definitely has some good and funny writings in it. But I have a massive dislike of those sort of rich pieces of shit that I always have mixed feelings when watching it.

  • Gamma@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    Watched the first season of Russian Doll, thought it was funny and entertaining. Not sure what to think about Season 2 yet but I am interested.

    We also caught up on Fargo! Really liking this season, even if it had the most traumatic puppet show since Coraline

    • sub_o@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      I like the 1st season of Russian Doll, but season 2 didn’t manage to grab me.