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Yet another Corona year at an end.
Well, I definitely somehow pulled myself out of the not-consuming-media funk I spent a lot of 2020 in. Actually completed my Goodreads reading challenge, for one thing (and might have a lower aim for this year, since I don't want it to feel like a chore (and anyway I cheat because comics count)).
Some of my favourite reading experiences this year were comics, actually. I happened across the first volume of Moriarty the Patriot while doing random searches on bibliotek.dk and fell hard. It's a manga that re-casts Moriarty as a more Robin Hood/Leverage style anti-hero (of the kill the rich variety), and has him becoming friends with Sherlock and it just - hit me right in the id (and I'm currently waiting for the fan scanlation of chapter 66 to become available somewhere). I greatly enjoyed the first two volumes of Xavier Dorison's Le Château des Animaux, which is post-Animal Farm fighting with non-violence against a fascist regime animal fantasy, starring a cat and a rabbit gigolo. And then there's Elfgren's Norse myth inspired Vei, and the French series Seuls by Vehlmann, and Kieron Gillen's interesting rpg-fantasy-meta Die...
Of books, I greatly enjoyed K.L. Berger's YA novel Lugnasad, with a group of teenagers stuck at an island summer camp and gradually realizing that they are not getting out of there alive. Which has a sequel that I've yet to read, because I procrastinate such things. I found Pernille Ipsen's "Et åbent øjeblik", about the seven women who met at the first Femø camp and into whose collective she was born very interesting. I enjoyed Priest's Lord Seventh far more than the sequel and am sad that the main characters were so underwhelming in Word of Honor. And if you like gothic fiction, I can only recommend Astrid Ehrencron-Kidde's Det sukker så tungt udi skoven.
Anyway, you can find my Year in Books at Goodreads.
As for audiovisual media, I watched a lot more stuff than last year's meager outcome. Spending a week at the European Film College for Stegelmann's course definitely helped with that. (So many movies that week. So many.) (I am sad that was apparently the last year he has a class there :-( )
My favourite views this year - well, the Moriarty the Patriot anime, or at least the first half of it. I'm sad they left so many of my favourite bits out. From the film week, my favourites were stuff like original Gojira, which is far more a natural disaster movie than any other kaiju film I've ever watched, the Gamera movie from 1995, which had so much Jurassic Park influence, especially in the opening, The Warriors, which did not fit the week's theme of movie monsters, except possibly metaphorically, and Lifeforce, which is not a good movie by any definition, but a delightfully batshit insane late night sf vampire flick (I read the novel - alas, while also occasionally batshit insane (including the worst offending scene in the entire movie) it is also surprisingly dull and way too into pseudo-science). A friend dropping by during the summer introduced me to both the Japanese Onmyoiji movies, which are delightful, sort of supernatural Sherlock Holmes & Watson stories in Imperial Japan (if you can live with the bad special effects and the absolutely terrible hats) and got me to finally sit down and watch Word of Honor. And literally the last day before the latest shutdown of the cinemas I managed to watch Spider-Man: No Way Home, which is great fun. (As was the Shang-Chi movie, which I understand has little to do with the comics, but it's delightful to me anyway).
1. Lucifer season 5A.
2. Wandavision
3. Jumanji: the Next Level
4. The Umbrella Academy season 2.
5. Warrior season 1.
6. Color Out Of Space
7. Tesla (2020)
8. Way of the Househusband season 1.
9. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
10. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
11. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
12. Moriarty the Patriot
13. Tolkien
14. Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi
15. Godzilla (2014)
16. King Kong (1933)
17. Frankenstein (1910)
18. Son of Frankenstein
19. Trolljegeren
20. El espíritu de la colmena
21. Young Frankenstein
22. Gojira (1954)
23. King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963)
24. Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (1995)
25. Colossal
26. Godzilla vs. Kong
27. It! The Terror From Beyond Space
28. Alien
29. The Warriors
30. Matinee
31. Galaxy of Terror
32. Dune
33. Jodorowsky's Dune
34. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
35. Lifeforce
36. Dark Star
37. The Tomorrow War
38. A Quiet Place
39. A Quiet Place II
40. Mo Dao Su Zhi Q.
41. The Scumbag Systen season 1.
42. The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity
43. Onmyōji
44. Onmyōji 2.
45. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
46. Shin Gojira
47. Word of Honor
48. Legends of Tomorrow season 6.
49. is censored on account of it being a Hollywood movie I got to see a test showing of but aren't allowed to talk about on social media until after it premieres - somewhere. But it was a fun action movie sort of thing. I suspect there'll be a fandom
50. Mo Dao Zu Shi season 3.
51. What We Do In The Shadows season 3.
52. Romantic Comedy (2019)
53. Spider-Man: No Way Home
54. The Fugitive
Well, I definitely somehow pulled myself out of the not-consuming-media funk I spent a lot of 2020 in. Actually completed my Goodreads reading challenge, for one thing (and might have a lower aim for this year, since I don't want it to feel like a chore (and anyway I cheat because comics count)).
Some of my favourite reading experiences this year were comics, actually. I happened across the first volume of Moriarty the Patriot while doing random searches on bibliotek.dk and fell hard. It's a manga that re-casts Moriarty as a more Robin Hood/Leverage style anti-hero (of the kill the rich variety), and has him becoming friends with Sherlock and it just - hit me right in the id (and I'm currently waiting for the fan scanlation of chapter 66 to become available somewhere). I greatly enjoyed the first two volumes of Xavier Dorison's Le Château des Animaux, which is post-Animal Farm fighting with non-violence against a fascist regime animal fantasy, starring a cat and a rabbit gigolo. And then there's Elfgren's Norse myth inspired Vei, and the French series Seuls by Vehlmann, and Kieron Gillen's interesting rpg-fantasy-meta Die...
Of books, I greatly enjoyed K.L. Berger's YA novel Lugnasad, with a group of teenagers stuck at an island summer camp and gradually realizing that they are not getting out of there alive. Which has a sequel that I've yet to read, because I procrastinate such things. I found Pernille Ipsen's "Et åbent øjeblik", about the seven women who met at the first Femø camp and into whose collective she was born very interesting. I enjoyed Priest's Lord Seventh far more than the sequel and am sad that the main characters were so underwhelming in Word of Honor. And if you like gothic fiction, I can only recommend Astrid Ehrencron-Kidde's Det sukker så tungt udi skoven.
Anyway, you can find my Year in Books at Goodreads.
As for audiovisual media, I watched a lot more stuff than last year's meager outcome. Spending a week at the European Film College for Stegelmann's course definitely helped with that. (So many movies that week. So many.) (I am sad that was apparently the last year he has a class there :-( )
My favourite views this year - well, the Moriarty the Patriot anime, or at least the first half of it. I'm sad they left so many of my favourite bits out. From the film week, my favourites were stuff like original Gojira, which is far more a natural disaster movie than any other kaiju film I've ever watched, the Gamera movie from 1995, which had so much Jurassic Park influence, especially in the opening, The Warriors, which did not fit the week's theme of movie monsters, except possibly metaphorically, and Lifeforce, which is not a good movie by any definition, but a delightfully batshit insane late night sf vampire flick (I read the novel - alas, while also occasionally batshit insane (including the worst offending scene in the entire movie) it is also surprisingly dull and way too into pseudo-science). A friend dropping by during the summer introduced me to both the Japanese Onmyoiji movies, which are delightful, sort of supernatural Sherlock Holmes & Watson stories in Imperial Japan (if you can live with the bad special effects and the absolutely terrible hats) and got me to finally sit down and watch Word of Honor. And literally the last day before the latest shutdown of the cinemas I managed to watch Spider-Man: No Way Home, which is great fun. (As was the Shang-Chi movie, which I understand has little to do with the comics, but it's delightful to me anyway).
1. Lucifer season 5A.
2. Wandavision
3. Jumanji: the Next Level
4. The Umbrella Academy season 2.
5. Warrior season 1.
6. Color Out Of Space
7. Tesla (2020)
8. Way of the Househusband season 1.
9. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
10. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
11. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
12. Moriarty the Patriot
13. Tolkien
14. Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi
15. Godzilla (2014)
16. King Kong (1933)
17. Frankenstein (1910)
18. Son of Frankenstein
19. Trolljegeren
20. El espíritu de la colmena
21. Young Frankenstein
22. Gojira (1954)
23. King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963)
24. Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (1995)
25. Colossal
26. Godzilla vs. Kong
27. It! The Terror From Beyond Space
28. Alien
29. The Warriors
30. Matinee
31. Galaxy of Terror
32. Dune
33. Jodorowsky's Dune
34. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
35. Lifeforce
36. Dark Star
37. The Tomorrow War
38. A Quiet Place
39. A Quiet Place II
40. Mo Dao Su Zhi Q.
41. The Scumbag Systen season 1.
42. The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity
43. Onmyōji
44. Onmyōji 2.
45. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
46. Shin Gojira
47. Word of Honor
48. Legends of Tomorrow season 6.
49. is censored on account of it being a Hollywood movie I got to see a test showing of but aren't allowed to talk about on social media until after it premieres - somewhere. But it was a fun action movie sort of thing. I suspect there'll be a fandom
50. Mo Dao Zu Shi season 3.
51. What We Do In The Shadows season 3.
52. Romantic Comedy (2019)
53. Spider-Man: No Way Home
54. The Fugitive