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67. The Last Unicorn
I don't know. I think I would have loved this if I had seen it as a kid. Now? It's okay, but that's all.
68. Guardians of the Galaxy
Dancing Groot. Yay. Yes, it has issues, but still - yay. And since we now very much have Kree, can we have that Captain Marvel movie soon? Yes?
69. Crossbones season 1.
I liked it okay, but I'm not particularly sad it didn't get renewed.
70. This is the End
I didn't particularly like this - mostly because most of the characters were assholes. I really hope there was some self-irony going on.
71. Dexter season 7.
Hmmm. Why is it, that every time Dexter makes a new friend that I actually like (friend, temporary enemy turned ally), they die? Goodbye Sirko, we hardly knew you.
72. The Normal Heart
Mark Ruffalo and Matt Bomer were surprisingly cuddly (okay, not that surprising, I'd seen the gifsets). That said, I found it a very - claustrophobic movie?
73. Dominion season 1.
I dunno - it could have been worth watching, except. Post-apocalypse caused by evil angels and humans are still being idiots pulling power games on one another? And then there's the - lesbian feminist hijab-wearing nun neighbouring town? Did they pull out 20 different women character tropes and shove them together? And of course we get a dull, boring, white guy is going to save the world narrative.
74. Den sidste viking
This movie is false advertising. It's not viking. It's just a fantasy movie - pretty dark fantasy, actually - and fine as that. Even if the hats are silly.
75. Camelot season 1.
I rather liked this. It has its flaws (way too many random sex scenes), but it's okay. Besides, it has Clive Standen - though it's a pity Gawain's book interest wasn't really touched on again after his introduction episode. And at the end I was actually cheering for Morgan - I mean, yes, she's a villain. She also has plenty of points - like the fact that, until Merlin's surprise reveal of Arthur's existence, she really was her father's sole heir. And when she's busy plotting and conspiring, she comes across as a perfectly capable ruler - far more than Arthur's somewhat happy-go-lucky approach.
Anyway, I found it entertaining how many echoes I could see from Vikings - or rather, in Vikings, I suppose. Morgan shares traits with both Siggy and Lagertha (including the creepy bathing scene - wtf Michael Hirst?!), there's the younger, blond brother ruler with older brother tagging along, Merlin is somewhat reminiscent of Floki, etc. Spiritual predecessor, is that how you say it?
76. Defiance season 2.
I'm mostly in this for the Tarrs. Stahma is a little bit awesome and it's nice seeing the family group settling in with the in-laws. On the other hand - ex-major, now brothel keeper? I still don't get the necessity of even having a bloody brothel in this narrative. Except it is sort of a post-apocalyptic Western, so it needs a brothel and it needs natives americans (aka Irathients - nevermind that they are aliens and that the first season storyline about stolen Irathient land makes zero sense in that context, but fine sense if they are supposed to be Native Americans...)
77. Nymphomaniac
You know, this really isn't that shocking a movie. At least, I didn't find it shocking. Yes, it has unusually explicit sex scenes and a narrative that lends itself to many of them, but - well, I'm used to reading fanfics. A narrative peppered with sex scenes isn't in and of itself shocking or surprising or even anything new. And if you disregard the sex part, the main story - a woman telling of her life story, complete with epic love and eventual criminal career - isn't that creative or new. Apart from some really questionably decisions on behalf of the director (casting Shia Laboeuf as the love interest? WTF?; ending the movie with an asexual trying to rape the main character, that sort of thing), it was even occasionally funny - like the scene where Joe has invited (through an interpreter) an African immigrant to have sex with her and he shows up at the prearranged time/place with his brother, and it devolves into the two men, naked and erect, arguing in a language neither Joe nor the viewer (this viewere anyway) can understand until she finally gives up, picks up her clothes and finally slips away from the failed threesome.
I don't know. I think I would have loved this if I had seen it as a kid. Now? It's okay, but that's all.
68. Guardians of the Galaxy
Dancing Groot. Yay. Yes, it has issues, but still - yay. And since we now very much have Kree, can we have that Captain Marvel movie soon? Yes?
69. Crossbones season 1.
I liked it okay, but I'm not particularly sad it didn't get renewed.
70. This is the End
I didn't particularly like this - mostly because most of the characters were assholes. I really hope there was some self-irony going on.
71. Dexter season 7.
Hmmm. Why is it, that every time Dexter makes a new friend that I actually like (friend, temporary enemy turned ally), they die? Goodbye Sirko, we hardly knew you.
72. The Normal Heart
Mark Ruffalo and Matt Bomer were surprisingly cuddly (okay, not that surprising, I'd seen the gifsets). That said, I found it a very - claustrophobic movie?
73. Dominion season 1.
I dunno - it could have been worth watching, except. Post-apocalypse caused by evil angels and humans are still being idiots pulling power games on one another? And then there's the - lesbian feminist hijab-wearing nun neighbouring town? Did they pull out 20 different women character tropes and shove them together? And of course we get a dull, boring, white guy is going to save the world narrative.
74. Den sidste viking
This movie is false advertising. It's not viking. It's just a fantasy movie - pretty dark fantasy, actually - and fine as that. Even if the hats are silly.
75. Camelot season 1.
I rather liked this. It has its flaws (way too many random sex scenes), but it's okay. Besides, it has Clive Standen - though it's a pity Gawain's book interest wasn't really touched on again after his introduction episode. And at the end I was actually cheering for Morgan - I mean, yes, she's a villain. She also has plenty of points - like the fact that, until Merlin's surprise reveal of Arthur's existence, she really was her father's sole heir. And when she's busy plotting and conspiring, she comes across as a perfectly capable ruler - far more than Arthur's somewhat happy-go-lucky approach.
Anyway, I found it entertaining how many echoes I could see from Vikings - or rather, in Vikings, I suppose. Morgan shares traits with both Siggy and Lagertha (including the creepy bathing scene - wtf Michael Hirst?!), there's the younger, blond brother ruler with older brother tagging along, Merlin is somewhat reminiscent of Floki, etc. Spiritual predecessor, is that how you say it?
76. Defiance season 2.
I'm mostly in this for the Tarrs. Stahma is a little bit awesome and it's nice seeing the family group settling in with the in-laws. On the other hand - ex-major, now brothel keeper? I still don't get the necessity of even having a bloody brothel in this narrative. Except it is sort of a post-apocalyptic Western, so it needs a brothel and it needs natives americans (aka Irathients - nevermind that they are aliens and that the first season storyline about stolen Irathient land makes zero sense in that context, but fine sense if they are supposed to be Native Americans...)
77. Nymphomaniac
You know, this really isn't that shocking a movie. At least, I didn't find it shocking. Yes, it has unusually explicit sex scenes and a narrative that lends itself to many of them, but - well, I'm used to reading fanfics. A narrative peppered with sex scenes isn't in and of itself shocking or surprising or even anything new. And if you disregard the sex part, the main story - a woman telling of her life story, complete with epic love and eventual criminal career - isn't that creative or new. Apart from some really questionably decisions on behalf of the director (casting Shia Laboeuf as the love interest? WTF?; ending the movie with an asexual trying to rape the main character, that sort of thing), it was even occasionally funny - like the scene where Joe has invited (through an interpreter) an African immigrant to have sex with her and he shows up at the prearranged time/place with his brother, and it devolves into the two men, naked and erect, arguing in a language neither Joe nor the viewer (this viewere anyway) can understand until she finally gives up, picks up her clothes and finally slips away from the failed threesome.
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