Since we signed up for Disney+ as a Black Friday deal last year, weâll be canceling it soon. So finally got around to starting to watch the second Avatar movie.
Weâve been watching it for two days, so a bit over 1/3 through it (did I mention itâs LONG?), and Nisha and I both came up with the same comparison: the first Star Trek movie; 30 seconds of plot development, then 5 minutes of watching special effects. Granted, theyâre very good; but why would I want to watch fake underwater coral reef stuff when the real thing is better and available in many documentaries.
I honestly donât know if I can finish it. Like the first Star Trek movie, it might be good if it was half as long; but really, I think that itâs more of a platform for showing off how creative and talented the CGI people are than it is about actually getting around to telling a story.
Yes. When the highlight of a movie is the line âWhat does a god need with a starshipâ, itâs pretty much hit rock-bottom.
But really, the first ST movie was basically a mediocre remake of âThe Changlingâ, which was not a bad episode of TOS; of course, that was only an hour (minus commercial time).
Had an early meal and we went out to the movies. The Heretic is, as my wife put it after the show, âpretty darkâ. The lead players (Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher, and, Chloe East were excellent).
Any âtrue believersâ might want to catch a different show but if you want to ponder why people believe what they believe it can be thought provoking (and nightmare inducing).
Weâre rewatching the original Perry Mason series. Both my husband and I are of the age we used to watch the originals on Sat. nights when we were kids. Love Della Streetâs clothing-oh, those waists and atomic brassieres under close-fitting sweaters!
How did they get along without cell phones? Always having to rush toward a pay-phone-and no 911 #, either. Perry gets as many emergency calls as the police. Vintage folks love vintage TV series.
Pick out the scene where author Erle Stanley Gardner makes a semi-cameo appearance
I think I already know, having read his autobiographical travel titles, including .The Hidden Heart of Baja and The Case of the Real Perry Mason, a Gardner Biography by Dorothy Hughes.
Isnât he the judge in the final episode?
Erle Stanley Gardner wasnât the worldâs best actor but he was very critical of Dellaâs clothes in the office and said a good secretary would never lean against the desk, talking to her boss/flaunting her legs. Hmmm. Made the producers retake several episodes where this was done.
He didnât care how slutty the secretaries were in other officesâbut never DELLA STREET( if youâve ever read the mysteries, Gardner always refers to her as DELLA STREET. Never Della,Miss Street, unless in an introduction. or hey, you. Drives me nuts). .
Engaging. Churchill is examined pretty objectively: his talents certainly lauded, but his foibles acknowledged more so than usually. Obviously not everything, but some new-to-me commentators, including George W. Bush, Boris Johnson, Dan Snow, and Churchillâs granddaughter. And the digitally (probably AI) colorized/restored photos and films bring a different feel. Even the reenactments arenât terrible or jarring.
Not me, but Nisha watched âItâs A Wonderful Lifeâ on Hoopla. Saw that it was the âabridgedâ version; and curious about what was abridged.
Turns out that it jumped from Clarence saying that he was an angel directly to George running down the street yelling about how happy he was. Skipped ALL of the stuff about what the town would be like without him; IOW, the whole frigginâ point of the movie!
Checked out other places to watch, and the Hoopla version is a full hour shorter!
Unbelievable, especially when you consider that Hoopla is a library service, and should be giving us the whole thing.
(as for me, Iâll admit that itâs a good movie, but Iâve seen it way too many times to ever want to watch again)
We just watched A Muppets Christmas Carol. We usually wait till closer to X-mas, the kids and/or grandkids visit but we needed a laugh,badly. Iâm in a Bah-Humbug mood, so the husband and daughter who does inventory control are down decorating the tree.
The kids wanted us to all go on a holiday cruise-but shut up when I demanded they pay their share!!
My husband said that just because the year has been awful for us as a family, doesnât mean we shouldnât celebrate the Saviors birth. Hard to live w/ a guy whoâs almost always right.
So my own true love has been a-tellinâ me for more decades than a majority of the planetâs population has yet to see - even thoâ SHE âwears the pants in the family,â and alwayshas.
Thereâs sound reason for my penchant to wear shinguards to both bed and boardâŠ
Thatâs actually showing at the local theater/museum near us this weekend; Nishaâs not interested, though (and for $30 for the two of us, hafta kinda agree).
