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31. Angel
So, the movie is pretty and Fassbender is good, but honestly? A more annoying, obnoxious, bitchy little brat of a main character I've rarely seen... (it must have been on purpose, I can't imagine it wasn't on purpose)
32. Olsen bandens sidste stik
Hmmm. This was - odd.
33. Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries season 1.
It was okay. Sadly, I was never that engaged. Also, this might be heresy, but ultimately, I found myself not liking Phryne that much - as a detective, I mean. She seemed nice enough, but I never found myself convinced that she had quite the qualifications to actually but in and be useful in investigations, and the facts that a)she frequently hides stuff from the police and b)the police is the competent and surprisingly forthcoming Detective Jack Robinson - doesn't help.
34. Zodiac
Anybody think there's a chance Mark Ruffalo could wind up in a remake of Columbo?
35. Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing
I liked it. It was fun and entertaining and had some excellent scenes along the way.
36. Iron Man 3
It was okay. There were things I quite liked - like the reveal about the Mandarin (up until I had been going "okay, Mandarin = superBin Laden, but wouldn't it have been kind of cool, if instead it turned out that he was just", and then suddenly it turned out :-) ), and Tony's panic attacks, and Tony and Rhodes being awesome together, and I adored all the armors - they had names!, and I like that we saw Tony salvaging Dum-E, and I liked how people kept talking about stuff from earlier movies. Oh, and the post-credit scene - I adore it to pieces, because Bruce! Just, what that tiny scene tells us, that they're friends, that Bruce is apparently around, that Tony is comfortable telling Bruce this story and that Bruce's reaction to getting apparently pressed into something coming from Tony which he implies he doesn't have the temperament for - is to fall asleep. Awwww.
The main plot was a bit - meh. And for a story using Extremis, I was somewhat disappointed that one of the few people not to get it was Tony. Pepper - she got to spend a little too much time as miffed girlfriend and damsel in distress, even if she had a nice ending - and then she got fixed, which I am choosing to interpret as "Tony stabilizing Pepper's new superpower". And I wasn't sold on the kid. It's not the sort of plotline I tend to like (the fact that we never actually saw any parental figure was troubling) - though the workshop with the toy-Dum-E was cute. But no. I might have enjoyed Gary (Stu) the biggest fan more if I didn't have an embarrassment squick. And I hated the ending with Tony blowing up all his armors - first, they had names! Dammit, Tony. Also, practical thoughts like "this is a world where occasionally aliens invade and radical means of protection might, oh, I dunno, come in handy?" never occurred to him???
37. Fantasia 2000
Well, most of it, anyway.
38. Lilyhammer season 1.
I'm ambivalent about this series. First episode was hilarious - the New York wiseguy confronted with Norway, complete with the visual of him sleeping in a bed with a picture of Karius & Baktus on the wall. Sadly, a lot of the humour of the show is repeated instances of our "hero" Frank coming up against Norwegian daily life challenges and using his mobster tactics to bully and bribe his way past them - which gets old really quick. And frankly, Geir the Elvis-loving cop who is convinced that "Johnny Henriksen" is a terrorist is embarassing (though I'm sorry for his fate). And then it kind of picks up towards the final episodes, when another couple of New York wiseguys show up, hunting Frank, and there's a showdown at a random amusement park. But mostly - well, I'm ambivalent, alright?
39. Vikings season 1.
Where is season two? Where is it? Ah... anyway, well, I didn't expect to fall for this show half as hard as a did. Travis Fimmel is an excellent Ragnar, Lagertha is awesome, Athelstan adorable, Rollo dark and nasty and I like him loyal, thank you very much (seriously, the family that raid, pillage and plunder together and all that.) I liked it - as anybody who's keeping track of this journal probably already knows, so...
So, the movie is pretty and Fassbender is good, but honestly? A more annoying, obnoxious, bitchy little brat of a main character I've rarely seen... (it must have been on purpose, I can't imagine it wasn't on purpose)
32. Olsen bandens sidste stik
Hmmm. This was - odd.
33. Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries season 1.
It was okay. Sadly, I was never that engaged. Also, this might be heresy, but ultimately, I found myself not liking Phryne that much - as a detective, I mean. She seemed nice enough, but I never found myself convinced that she had quite the qualifications to actually but in and be useful in investigations, and the facts that a)she frequently hides stuff from the police and b)the police is the competent and surprisingly forthcoming Detective Jack Robinson - doesn't help.
34. Zodiac
Anybody think there's a chance Mark Ruffalo could wind up in a remake of Columbo?
35. Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing
I liked it. It was fun and entertaining and had some excellent scenes along the way.
36. Iron Man 3
It was okay. There were things I quite liked - like the reveal about the Mandarin (up until I had been going "okay, Mandarin = superBin Laden, but wouldn't it have been kind of cool, if instead it turned out that he was just", and then suddenly it turned out :-) ), and Tony's panic attacks, and Tony and Rhodes being awesome together, and I adored all the armors - they had names!, and I like that we saw Tony salvaging Dum-E, and I liked how people kept talking about stuff from earlier movies. Oh, and the post-credit scene - I adore it to pieces, because Bruce! Just, what that tiny scene tells us, that they're friends, that Bruce is apparently around, that Tony is comfortable telling Bruce this story and that Bruce's reaction to getting apparently pressed into something coming from Tony which he implies he doesn't have the temperament for - is to fall asleep. Awwww.
The main plot was a bit - meh. And for a story using Extremis, I was somewhat disappointed that one of the few people not to get it was Tony. Pepper - she got to spend a little too much time as miffed girlfriend and damsel in distress, even if she had a nice ending - and then she got fixed, which I am choosing to interpret as "Tony stabilizing Pepper's new superpower". And I wasn't sold on the kid. It's not the sort of plotline I tend to like (the fact that we never actually saw any parental figure was troubling) - though the workshop with the toy-Dum-E was cute. But no. I might have enjoyed Gary (Stu) the biggest fan more if I didn't have an embarrassment squick. And I hated the ending with Tony blowing up all his armors - first, they had names! Dammit, Tony. Also, practical thoughts like "this is a world where occasionally aliens invade and radical means of protection might, oh, I dunno, come in handy?" never occurred to him???
37. Fantasia 2000
Well, most of it, anyway.
38. Lilyhammer season 1.
I'm ambivalent about this series. First episode was hilarious - the New York wiseguy confronted with Norway, complete with the visual of him sleeping in a bed with a picture of Karius & Baktus on the wall. Sadly, a lot of the humour of the show is repeated instances of our "hero" Frank coming up against Norwegian daily life challenges and using his mobster tactics to bully and bribe his way past them - which gets old really quick. And frankly, Geir the Elvis-loving cop who is convinced that "Johnny Henriksen" is a terrorist is embarassing (though I'm sorry for his fate). And then it kind of picks up towards the final episodes, when another couple of New York wiseguys show up, hunting Frank, and there's a showdown at a random amusement park. But mostly - well, I'm ambivalent, alright?
39. Vikings season 1.
Where is season two? Where is it? Ah... anyway, well, I didn't expect to fall for this show half as hard as a did. Travis Fimmel is an excellent Ragnar, Lagertha is awesome, Athelstan adorable, Rollo dark and nasty and I like him loyal, thank you very much (seriously, the family that raid, pillage and plunder together and all that.) I liked it - as anybody who's keeping track of this journal probably already knows, so...
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