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October
85. Riddick
Aka the one where Vin Diesel gets a puppy. Alas, it felt like a rehash of the two first movies - which is not a terrible thing as such, but really - Chronicles ended with so much potential and then this goes all the way back to start? Oh well...
86. The Grand Budapest Hotel
It was okay. Though not as fun as I had expected. Oh well...
87. Midnight in Paris
I know the movie was trying to portray the girlfriend as shallow by wanting to be a tourist and shop and have fun, but frankly, the protagonist was equally shallow, so focused on his small area of interest that he misses everything else.
88. Predestination
This was fun - well, I think so. Perhaps because I had been spoiled (well, had heard of the short story its based on) beforehand. And I rather liked the protagonist. I did find the whole concubines-for-astronauts-program kinda - well, it's obvious when the original short story was written, I suppose. Anyway, I did like the protagonist. I wonder - would this movie count as a story of reverse transgender? As in - starting the right thing then being changed without your consent? Nevermind...
89. The Immigrant
Well, that was depressing. Let's not watch that one again.
90. Her
Why do new super intelligences / higher beings always end up leaving?
91. Much Ado About Nothing
With David Tennant and Catherine Tate. How many Much Ado's is that now? Hmmm...
92. En Soap
I must admit this wasn't quite my thing - well, except the Matador-ish voice overs.
93. Top of the Lake
Hey, Grandpa Olaf the biker! Anyway - this is actually a good show. I found myself rather liking the Mitcham clan.
November
94. The Portal
It's fun - except, well, I hope the series will focus more on the poor wizard's fish-out-of-water adventures in our world instead of the travel agent's adventures in generic-fantasy-world.
95. The Fifth Element
Still good. Also - does the good aliens remind anybody else of the Vorlons? I bet they were Vorlons.
96. Doctor Who season 8.
Mostly this felt pretty slow and Capaldi - I like the idea of him as the Doctor more than I like him as the Doctor, I think. But I do like Missy. Can we please keep her?
97. Kill Your Darlings
Mostly, I found all the characters in this movie - incredibly childish. I think I preferred Howl - even with the abuse of library books. Actually, what the fuck did Allen Ginsberg have against libraries and librarians?!
98. The Norden
I quite enjoyed this documentary series - well, mostly the episodes with US pov people - police and prisons (rather relevant these days) and religion featuring a Southern reverend coming face to face with secular Scandinavia. The last three - the work episode was more interesting in what I learned about Japan, the social life was - well, there's a reason people call Scandinavians cold. And the gender one frankly sucked - it felt like the show's producers hadn't bothered with taking their own subject seriously, and please don't judge me for disliking the Russian pov woman (comparing rainbow families to cannibals is inappropriate outside of a Hannibal fandom context)). But mostly, I enjoyed this series.
99. About Time
I worried this would be a creepy movie involving a nice guy groundhog-daying his way through life. It's not. Yeah, the protagonist has a tendency to apply his time travel powers a bit like a hammer, but - well, it's mostly sweet and bittersweet and with brief moments of horror (like, say, the result of travelling back and changing things before your child was born).
100. 1864
Mallebrock might not have actually died, but loads of other people certainly did. Anyway: I adored the OT3 and damn you, Bornedal, for falling into the boring cliche of a love triangle instead. And damn you for how you let Ingeøs story end. She didn't deserve that. And now I want stories about Johan being a - well, not eternal jew, of course, but an eternal soldier, maybe? Avatar of the Danish army? Something?
85. Riddick
Aka the one where Vin Diesel gets a puppy. Alas, it felt like a rehash of the two first movies - which is not a terrible thing as such, but really - Chronicles ended with so much potential and then this goes all the way back to start? Oh well...
86. The Grand Budapest Hotel
It was okay. Though not as fun as I had expected. Oh well...
87. Midnight in Paris
I know the movie was trying to portray the girlfriend as shallow by wanting to be a tourist and shop and have fun, but frankly, the protagonist was equally shallow, so focused on his small area of interest that he misses everything else.
88. Predestination
This was fun - well, I think so. Perhaps because I had been spoiled (well, had heard of the short story its based on) beforehand. And I rather liked the protagonist. I did find the whole concubines-for-astronauts-program kinda - well, it's obvious when the original short story was written, I suppose. Anyway, I did like the protagonist. I wonder - would this movie count as a story of reverse transgender? As in - starting the right thing then being changed without your consent? Nevermind...
89. The Immigrant
Well, that was depressing. Let's not watch that one again.
90. Her
Why do new super intelligences / higher beings always end up leaving?
91. Much Ado About Nothing
With David Tennant and Catherine Tate. How many Much Ado's is that now? Hmmm...
92. En Soap
I must admit this wasn't quite my thing - well, except the Matador-ish voice overs.
93. Top of the Lake
Hey, Grandpa Olaf the biker! Anyway - this is actually a good show. I found myself rather liking the Mitcham clan.
November
94. The Portal
It's fun - except, well, I hope the series will focus more on the poor wizard's fish-out-of-water adventures in our world instead of the travel agent's adventures in generic-fantasy-world.
95. The Fifth Element
Still good. Also - does the good aliens remind anybody else of the Vorlons? I bet they were Vorlons.
96. Doctor Who season 8.
Mostly this felt pretty slow and Capaldi - I like the idea of him as the Doctor more than I like him as the Doctor, I think. But I do like Missy. Can we please keep her?
97. Kill Your Darlings
Mostly, I found all the characters in this movie - incredibly childish. I think I preferred Howl - even with the abuse of library books. Actually, what the fuck did Allen Ginsberg have against libraries and librarians?!
98. The Norden
I quite enjoyed this documentary series - well, mostly the episodes with US pov people - police and prisons (rather relevant these days) and religion featuring a Southern reverend coming face to face with secular Scandinavia. The last three - the work episode was more interesting in what I learned about Japan, the social life was - well, there's a reason people call Scandinavians cold. And the gender one frankly sucked - it felt like the show's producers hadn't bothered with taking their own subject seriously, and please don't judge me for disliking the Russian pov woman (comparing rainbow families to cannibals is inappropriate outside of a Hannibal fandom context)). But mostly, I enjoyed this series.
99. About Time
I worried this would be a creepy movie involving a nice guy groundhog-daying his way through life. It's not. Yeah, the protagonist has a tendency to apply his time travel powers a bit like a hammer, but - well, it's mostly sweet and bittersweet and with brief moments of horror (like, say, the result of travelling back and changing things before your child was born).
100. 1864
Mallebrock might not have actually died, but loads of other people certainly did. Anyway: I adored the OT3 and damn you, Bornedal, for falling into the boring cliche of a love triangle instead. And damn you for how you let Ingeøs story end. She didn't deserve that. And now I want stories about Johan being a - well, not eternal jew, of course, but an eternal soldier, maybe? Avatar of the Danish army? Something?
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