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89. Monsters
Though I quite liked the giant land-squid-aliens and their mating-migrations?, the movie itself wasn't particularly engaging, since the characters, well - weren't. Besides, lovely monsters aside, I'm getting bored with this science-fiction-as-metaphor-for-social-issues thing. At least when done this blatantly...
90. Gisaku
Boring, crappy English voice acting - I got cheated to watch this in hopes of getting my past-fish-out-of-temporal-waters-(in-the-present) story kink itch scratched, and all it had was the idiotic modern-machines-mistaken-for-monsters and a bit too many segments that felt like they had been made specifically to be educational. Boring.
91. Virtuality
I can't quite decide if I'm sorry that this wasn't made into a full tv series. I mean, I liked the start premise with the space mission/reality show (that might possibly be manipulated from home base), it has a canonical gay couple, I quite liked the space ship psychologist/reality show producer character - on the other hand, I kind of found the whole "it's not real" computer glitch annoying and suppose there would have been some form of predictable die-and-wake-up-to-reality plot. Also, the fact that the computer glitch chose to depart from its "kill the user" to rape one of the female crew? Just plain creepy and I really hope they'd have a very good excuse for that later on... which I won't know. On the other hand, that means they can't go and turn the psychologist character into a bad guy, so... In conclusion, pilots-made-into-movies are very annoying things to watch...
92. Sons of Anarchy season 1.
Am I the only one who find it slightly wrong to watch Ron Perlman in something where he isn't covered in special effects - or maybe I was just permanently damaged by a childhood of watching Beauty and the Beast? :-)
93. Fringe season 3.
Well, mad scientists are always fun, and I quite like the alternate universe - weee, Charlie's back! Sort of. And it's twisted and plotty and quite entertaining...
94. Doctor Who - The Next Doctor
95. Doctor Who - Planet of the Dead
Yes, yes, I know, way behind, as always - anyway: steampunk mecha! :-)
96. Sons of Anarchy season 2.
Am I wrong to think that bikers are not usually this politically correct? Although they'd be hard to cheer for otherwise...
97. Doctor Who - The Waters of Mars
Ah, Ten - thing is, I never really was that huge a fan of Ten - probably why I've not really tried that hard to get to see the specials sooner - easy to get distracted by so many other shiny things. He never really charmed me, like he apparently did everybody else. Nine, he was fun - big, broody, little scary, marshmallow inside - but Ten? He really, really needs a companion capable of reigning him in, like Donna was, because quite frankly, he's a bit of a sociopath underneath the playful exterior...
98. Doctor Who - The End of Time
Is it just me or are the writers intentionally making it more and more difficult for themselves to bring the Master back? I mean, it would be a shame if they stopped, he's always entertaining - mad, bad and dangerous to know. And it was nice seeing Donna again, though really, still unhappy about her fate - married off to some random guy we've never seen before doesn't really seem that awesome by comparison... mind you, I like the farewell trip (although why is Mickey and Martha suddenly married? Did I miss something?), particularly the visit at the book signing.
99. Doctor Who season 5.
100. Doctor Who - A Christmas Carol
So, Eleven. Hello, Eleven. It takes a little to really start warming to a whole cast of new characters, actually. Or maybe it's just that Eleven takes a little time to find himself - maybe. Anyway. Not really anyone I love or hate in this - I prefer Amelia to Amy, sorry to say, and River is fun until she goes back to sweetie and grates on my nerves (seriously, is it just me watching the wrong things, or do women tricksters get sexualixed a lot more than the men ones?), but, oh well... And sadly the plots are never quite - right. Stop complaining when you're not really planning to complain. Anyway: Fun, sure, and oh, flying fish, but not quite fantastic, if you know what I mean? Just fun. Fun's good.
101. Cowboys and Aliens
Okay, so the plot is predictable and the aliens not exactly the most inventive - and I'm left theorizing them to be some sort of servant race or bioengineered things or something, because they don't really come across as sophisticated enough to invent space travel on their own (or maybe they're space mongols?). All that aside, a perfectly entertaining, doesn't require to much brain power sort of movie (though what does it say about me that I'd have liked to see more of Percy...?)
102. Despicable Me
And you just know those three girls are going to end up as the most awesome supervillains of the next generation, right? :-)
103. Megamind
Completely and utterly random, but it's no fair that even supervillains have the lamp I want. Apart from that, I have to say, I really didn't like Metro Man - not even once we got the whole actually-retired-make-the-nemesis-a-new-hero. He always seemed too selfish. But Megamind was fun.
104. Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec
Let's see - kick-ass heroine robbing Egyptian graves, pterosaur terrorizing early 20th century Paris, living mummies wandering around the Louvre - what's not to like? I actually like the Adèle of the movie more than the one in the comics, partly because she has a more clear aim (revive Ancient Egyptian mummy doctor to fix sister, who had an unfortunate incident involving tennis and a hatpin), partly because, well, the comic book Adèle often felt like things happened to her, and yeah, part of that might be the long years in a block of ice in a bathtub bit, but still, I like this one better...
105. The Life and Times of Don Rosa
What can I say, I grew up on Donald Duck - learned to read from them, pretty much. I remember reading The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck as a serial in the Donald Duck magazine when I was just a kid, and loved it, and still think it's an awesome comic. Carl Barks and Don Rosa, they're awesome, and if you call yourself a comic book fan and haven't even read them - I mean, I'm not a donaldist, it's not my fandom, I'll never spend long, serious hours pondering the issues of nephewism in Duckburg or anything, but still, these comics, I mean, how can you not love them? Seriously, Scrooge McDuck is one of the my favourite comic book characters ever - of course, I think I have a weakness for mean/nasty/tough on the outside, marshmallow on the inside characters (I mean, my favourite Doctor is 9), so that shouldn't come as a surprise. Still, mostly nostalgia these days. Maybe I should get around to wallowing one of these days...
106. The Almighty Johnsons season 1.
And I know, by this point I'm pretty much repeating myself, but I genuinely don't get why fandom hasn't already discovered this and is squeeing all over it. It has all the right bits - engaging male characters (with a propensity for taking their clothes off), kickass goddesses, everybody either being or getting fucked up, drama and moments of sillyness and snark and just a sprinkling of the supernatural. Plus it's quite possibly the best norse-myth-in-modern-times I've seen - the best researched, definitely. I mean, seriously, last story I encountered actually featuring Ull was Erik Menneskesøn! And I don't think I've ever seen Sjöfn (or Snotra or any of the minor norse goddesses, the one's that don't actually have stories, just names and traits on a list in Snorri) and here she is - hot, kickass, bisexualbitch goddess of love. How can fandom not love this? Though I suppose fandom doesn't know it, it being from New Zealand and all...
I want more. I want to know what happens next, what the fuck Agneta is up to, whether they ever find Frigg, whether anybody in the whole fucked-up-extended(-and-if-you-think-about-for-too-long-logically-probably-ever-so-slightly-incestous)-god-family ever gets a happily ever after. (also, I want Gefion to show up, because while I know that New Zealand doesn't actually have anything to do with the Danish island, it still seems kind of appropriate). I want to know more about the gods leaving Scandinavia (because leaving in the 19th century might make sense as far as the immigrating to NZ part, but the leaving Scandinavia part? At the time when even the priests were all Norse myth=awesomest thing ever? Not so much). And I want fanfic and fanvids and crossovers (alas, Supernatural's right out - these gods aren't humanitarian. Could have been fun. Maybe X-men? People thinking they've found a new bunch of mutants? Or Sanctuary, with Helen Magnus bonding with Grandpa Olaf (aka Baldr, god of rebirth and consequently quite well preserved for a 92-year-old). And... right, stopping.
Dammit, it sucks being a fangirl when there's nobody to squee with :-(
Though I quite liked the giant land-squid-aliens and their mating-migrations?, the movie itself wasn't particularly engaging, since the characters, well - weren't. Besides, lovely monsters aside, I'm getting bored with this science-fiction-as-metaphor-for-social-issues thing. At least when done this blatantly...
90. Gisaku
Boring, crappy English voice acting - I got cheated to watch this in hopes of getting my past-fish-out-of-temporal-waters-(in-the-present) story kink itch scratched, and all it had was the idiotic modern-machines-mistaken-for-monsters and a bit too many segments that felt like they had been made specifically to be educational. Boring.
91. Virtuality
I can't quite decide if I'm sorry that this wasn't made into a full tv series. I mean, I liked the start premise with the space mission/reality show (that might possibly be manipulated from home base), it has a canonical gay couple, I quite liked the space ship psychologist/reality show producer character - on the other hand, I kind of found the whole "it's not real" computer glitch annoying and suppose there would have been some form of predictable die-and-wake-up-to-reality plot. Also, the fact that the computer glitch chose to depart from its "kill the user" to rape one of the female crew? Just plain creepy and I really hope they'd have a very good excuse for that later on... which I won't know. On the other hand, that means they can't go and turn the psychologist character into a bad guy, so... In conclusion, pilots-made-into-movies are very annoying things to watch...
92. Sons of Anarchy season 1.
Am I the only one who find it slightly wrong to watch Ron Perlman in something where he isn't covered in special effects - or maybe I was just permanently damaged by a childhood of watching Beauty and the Beast? :-)
93. Fringe season 3.
Well, mad scientists are always fun, and I quite like the alternate universe - weee, Charlie's back! Sort of. And it's twisted and plotty and quite entertaining...
94. Doctor Who - The Next Doctor
95. Doctor Who - Planet of the Dead
Yes, yes, I know, way behind, as always - anyway: steampunk mecha! :-)
96. Sons of Anarchy season 2.
Am I wrong to think that bikers are not usually this politically correct? Although they'd be hard to cheer for otherwise...
97. Doctor Who - The Waters of Mars
Ah, Ten - thing is, I never really was that huge a fan of Ten - probably why I've not really tried that hard to get to see the specials sooner - easy to get distracted by so many other shiny things. He never really charmed me, like he apparently did everybody else. Nine, he was fun - big, broody, little scary, marshmallow inside - but Ten? He really, really needs a companion capable of reigning him in, like Donna was, because quite frankly, he's a bit of a sociopath underneath the playful exterior...
98. Doctor Who - The End of Time
Is it just me or are the writers intentionally making it more and more difficult for themselves to bring the Master back? I mean, it would be a shame if they stopped, he's always entertaining - mad, bad and dangerous to know. And it was nice seeing Donna again, though really, still unhappy about her fate - married off to some random guy we've never seen before doesn't really seem that awesome by comparison... mind you, I like the farewell trip (although why is Mickey and Martha suddenly married? Did I miss something?), particularly the visit at the book signing.
99. Doctor Who season 5.
100. Doctor Who - A Christmas Carol
So, Eleven. Hello, Eleven. It takes a little to really start warming to a whole cast of new characters, actually. Or maybe it's just that Eleven takes a little time to find himself - maybe. Anyway. Not really anyone I love or hate in this - I prefer Amelia to Amy, sorry to say, and River is fun until she goes back to sweetie and grates on my nerves (seriously, is it just me watching the wrong things, or do women tricksters get sexualixed a lot more than the men ones?), but, oh well... And sadly the plots are never quite - right. Stop complaining when you're not really planning to complain. Anyway: Fun, sure, and oh, flying fish, but not quite fantastic, if you know what I mean? Just fun. Fun's good.
101. Cowboys and Aliens
Okay, so the plot is predictable and the aliens not exactly the most inventive - and I'm left theorizing them to be some sort of servant race or bioengineered things or something, because they don't really come across as sophisticated enough to invent space travel on their own (or maybe they're space mongols?). All that aside, a perfectly entertaining, doesn't require to much brain power sort of movie (though what does it say about me that I'd have liked to see more of Percy...?)
102. Despicable Me
And you just know those three girls are going to end up as the most awesome supervillains of the next generation, right? :-)
103. Megamind
Completely and utterly random, but it's no fair that even supervillains have the lamp I want. Apart from that, I have to say, I really didn't like Metro Man - not even once we got the whole actually-retired-make-the-nemesis-a-new-hero. He always seemed too selfish. But Megamind was fun.
104. Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec
Let's see - kick-ass heroine robbing Egyptian graves, pterosaur terrorizing early 20th century Paris, living mummies wandering around the Louvre - what's not to like? I actually like the Adèle of the movie more than the one in the comics, partly because she has a more clear aim (revive Ancient Egyptian mummy doctor to fix sister, who had an unfortunate incident involving tennis and a hatpin), partly because, well, the comic book Adèle often felt like things happened to her, and yeah, part of that might be the long years in a block of ice in a bathtub bit, but still, I like this one better...
105. The Life and Times of Don Rosa
What can I say, I grew up on Donald Duck - learned to read from them, pretty much. I remember reading The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck as a serial in the Donald Duck magazine when I was just a kid, and loved it, and still think it's an awesome comic. Carl Barks and Don Rosa, they're awesome, and if you call yourself a comic book fan and haven't even read them - I mean, I'm not a donaldist, it's not my fandom, I'll never spend long, serious hours pondering the issues of nephewism in Duckburg or anything, but still, these comics, I mean, how can you not love them? Seriously, Scrooge McDuck is one of the my favourite comic book characters ever - of course, I think I have a weakness for mean/nasty/tough on the outside, marshmallow on the inside characters (I mean, my favourite Doctor is 9), so that shouldn't come as a surprise. Still, mostly nostalgia these days. Maybe I should get around to wallowing one of these days...
106. The Almighty Johnsons season 1.
And I know, by this point I'm pretty much repeating myself, but I genuinely don't get why fandom hasn't already discovered this and is squeeing all over it. It has all the right bits - engaging male characters (with a propensity for taking their clothes off), kickass goddesses, everybody either being or getting fucked up, drama and moments of sillyness and snark and just a sprinkling of the supernatural. Plus it's quite possibly the best norse-myth-in-modern-times I've seen - the best researched, definitely. I mean, seriously, last story I encountered actually featuring Ull was Erik Menneskesøn! And I don't think I've ever seen Sjöfn (or Snotra or any of the minor norse goddesses, the one's that don't actually have stories, just names and traits on a list in Snorri) and here she is - hot, kickass, bisexual
I want more. I want to know what happens next, what the fuck Agneta is up to, whether they ever find Frigg, whether anybody in the whole fucked-up-extended(-and-if-you-think-about-for-too-long-logically-probably-ever-so-slightly-incestous)-god-family ever gets a happily ever after. (also, I want Gefion to show up, because while I know that New Zealand doesn't actually have anything to do with the Danish island, it still seems kind of appropriate). I want to know more about the gods leaving Scandinavia (because leaving in the 19th century might make sense as far as the immigrating to NZ part, but the leaving Scandinavia part? At the time when even the priests were all Norse myth=awesomest thing ever? Not so much). And I want fanfic and fanvids and crossovers (alas, Supernatural's right out - these gods aren't humanitarian. Could have been fun. Maybe X-men? People thinking they've found a new bunch of mutants? Or Sanctuary, with Helen Magnus bonding with Grandpa Olaf (aka Baldr, god of rebirth and consequently quite well preserved for a 92-year-old). And... right, stopping.
Dammit, it sucks being a fangirl when there's nobody to squee with :-(
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