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Autumn 2021 - Week 8
OKAY, I HAVE BEEN AT WORK FOR SEVERAL HOURS NOW, I WOULD LIKE TO NOT BE COLD ANYMORE.
Just a little bit longer. Just a little bit longer, and I'm free.
FILMS
Dr. No (1962): WELCOME TO DECEMBOND 2021!!! As mentioned, I skipped last year due to various reasons (frustrated by nearly a year of NTTD delays, getting to see a bunch of classic Bonds (including this one!) in the theater the month previously, sad about newly-dead actors, general exhaustion), so this is an itch that is OVERDUE a good scratchin'. Also they're all streaming on Crave now, which is extremely convenient; I will miss the ritual of busting out a Blu-ray disc every night, but not THAT much, you know? My box set is three movies out of date, anyway.
Encanto (2021): 2019 was approximately a decade ago, and so it has truly been that long since I got to go see a proper Disney animated feature, SPEAKING of itches I didn't know needed scratching (Raya came out while we were still shut down, boo). Really enjoyed it, a lot of heart, a lot of fun, and I liked the leaning into more abstract moments of animation for the musical numbers; it felt more like classic Disney, since the shift to ever-more-impressive feats of 3D animation (alongside the rise of ever-more-impressive CGI) has given me big 'this could just be live action without changing a thing in the shot' energy over the last few years. I think the worst thing I could say about it is that the songs aren't particularly memorable, but they all worked really well for me in the moment, so WEVS.
From Russia with Love (1963): Should this be the year I finally do my long-threatened breakdown of every Bond credit sequence? LET ME KNOW. Anyway, this is the first time I've watched this since the shocking realization that all those actors named Robert Shaw in the '60s and '70s were in fact the same guy and it's still fucking me up a bit!
Goldfinger (1964): A bittersweet affair without Connery and Blackman (hell, even Dink died last year), but still the best of the Hamilton era by a wide margin.
Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (1992): Maybe it's just my own ingrained issues from being the child of a teen mom showing, but the ending of this thing still rubs me the wrong way. I get that it's trying to go against damaging tropes for its target audience, showing that motherhood isn't the end of a young woman's life and that not all young black dads are gonna cut and run, but the way it's painted as nice and optimistic (especially after that horror show of a birth scene) is just... ech, idk. She wanted to go med school and now she's scraping by in an even more cramped apartment (with her abusive father, no less) and gearing up for community college! She was a dumb kid who only didn't get an abortion because she was too scared to make a decision one way or another or tell anybody and that hasn't changed just because she has a kid of her own now! That doesn't feel like a happy ending to me! That feels bleak as fuck!
Nothing Sacred (1937): Not nearly as madcap as I was hoping, though maybe I just had trouble with the central conceit that people would believe a woman dying of radium poisoning would be that hot. Felt like it was solely built around finding a way for Lombard and March to punch each other in the face for laffs.
Olivia (1951): "Surely this 70-year-old French period drama isn't nearly as gay as I remember it being." Reader, it's gayer.
The Queen (1968): '60s drag realness. I think the part that sticks with me the most is the bit where the guys are just sitting around in the hotel room, shooting the shit about their experiences with the Vietnam draft, because it SO vividly grounds the whole thing in time in a way that the rest of the movie doesn't, existing otherwise in these lovely, queerly liminal spaces.
Thunderball (1965): I STILL JUST WANT DOMINO'S BATHING SUIT MORE THAN ANYTHING IN THIS DAMN WORLDDDDDDDDDD
You Only Live Twice (1967): Interesting how this one and Dr. No are the only ones so far to get the 'this shit is old and problematic' disclaimer at the beginning on Crave. I guess that's just for racism and nothing else? Shout out to the fight scene with the Rock's grandpa, which still has the most ridiculous goddamn foley I think I've ever heard.
SHORTS
Far From the Tree (2021): Aggressively adorable.
O Cordeiro de Deus (2020): The staging, the sensuality, everything except the wonderfully lived-in setting just felt so... forced. Uncomfortable, but not in the visceral, meaty ways the opening minutes seemed like they were setting up, and the enigma of the last shot did not feel remotely earned.
TELEVISION
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina 1x18-1x20: I'm so glad I have another season of this insanity to dig into! One day I will return to Riverdale (or Rivervale? idk wtf is happening this season), but not yet. Not yet.
Hawkeye 1x03: ARROWS. AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWSSSSSSSSS.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia 15x01/15x02: I have been laughing about "BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT FORREST GUMP" on and off for almost a week now, damn I missed these idiots.
Star Trek: Discovery 4x03: See DISCOurse!
Wrestling
AAA TripleMania Regia 2021
AEW Dark 3x51
AEW Dark: Elevation 1x39
AEW Dynamite 3x48
AEW Rampage 1x17
Before the IMPACT 1x42
IMPACT! Wrestling 18x48
New Japan Pro-Wrestling 1x52
NJPW Strong 2x48
NJPW XTRA 1x05
NWA Hard Times 2
NWA Powerrr 6x11
ROH Week By Week 2x48
ROH Women's Division Wednesday 1x32
ROH Wrestling 13x48
We are STARDOM!! 2x31/2x32
TJPW Autumn Kacho Getsuro Day 8
Just a little bit longer. Just a little bit longer, and I'm free.
FILMS
Dr. No (1962): WELCOME TO DECEMBOND 2021!!! As mentioned, I skipped last year due to various reasons (frustrated by nearly a year of NTTD delays, getting to see a bunch of classic Bonds (including this one!) in the theater the month previously, sad about newly-dead actors, general exhaustion), so this is an itch that is OVERDUE a good scratchin'. Also they're all streaming on Crave now, which is extremely convenient; I will miss the ritual of busting out a Blu-ray disc every night, but not THAT much, you know? My box set is three movies out of date, anyway.
Encanto (2021): 2019 was approximately a decade ago, and so it has truly been that long since I got to go see a proper Disney animated feature, SPEAKING of itches I didn't know needed scratching (Raya came out while we were still shut down, boo). Really enjoyed it, a lot of heart, a lot of fun, and I liked the leaning into more abstract moments of animation for the musical numbers; it felt more like classic Disney, since the shift to ever-more-impressive feats of 3D animation (alongside the rise of ever-more-impressive CGI) has given me big 'this could just be live action without changing a thing in the shot' energy over the last few years. I think the worst thing I could say about it is that the songs aren't particularly memorable, but they all worked really well for me in the moment, so WEVS.
From Russia with Love (1963): Should this be the year I finally do my long-threatened breakdown of every Bond credit sequence? LET ME KNOW. Anyway, this is the first time I've watched this since the shocking realization that all those actors named Robert Shaw in the '60s and '70s were in fact the same guy and it's still fucking me up a bit!
Goldfinger (1964): A bittersweet affair without Connery and Blackman (hell, even Dink died last year), but still the best of the Hamilton era by a wide margin.
Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (1992): Maybe it's just my own ingrained issues from being the child of a teen mom showing, but the ending of this thing still rubs me the wrong way. I get that it's trying to go against damaging tropes for its target audience, showing that motherhood isn't the end of a young woman's life and that not all young black dads are gonna cut and run, but the way it's painted as nice and optimistic (especially after that horror show of a birth scene) is just... ech, idk. She wanted to go med school and now she's scraping by in an even more cramped apartment (with her abusive father, no less) and gearing up for community college! She was a dumb kid who only didn't get an abortion because she was too scared to make a decision one way or another or tell anybody and that hasn't changed just because she has a kid of her own now! That doesn't feel like a happy ending to me! That feels bleak as fuck!
Nothing Sacred (1937): Not nearly as madcap as I was hoping, though maybe I just had trouble with the central conceit that people would believe a woman dying of radium poisoning would be that hot. Felt like it was solely built around finding a way for Lombard and March to punch each other in the face for laffs.
Olivia (1951): "Surely this 70-year-old French period drama isn't nearly as gay as I remember it being." Reader, it's gayer.
The Queen (1968): '60s drag realness. I think the part that sticks with me the most is the bit where the guys are just sitting around in the hotel room, shooting the shit about their experiences with the Vietnam draft, because it SO vividly grounds the whole thing in time in a way that the rest of the movie doesn't, existing otherwise in these lovely, queerly liminal spaces.
Thunderball (1965): I STILL JUST WANT DOMINO'S BATHING SUIT MORE THAN ANYTHING IN THIS DAMN WORLDDDDDDDDDD
You Only Live Twice (1967): Interesting how this one and Dr. No are the only ones so far to get the 'this shit is old and problematic' disclaimer at the beginning on Crave. I guess that's just for racism and nothing else? Shout out to the fight scene with the Rock's grandpa, which still has the most ridiculous goddamn foley I think I've ever heard.
SHORTS
Far From the Tree (2021): Aggressively adorable.
O Cordeiro de Deus (2020): The staging, the sensuality, everything except the wonderfully lived-in setting just felt so... forced. Uncomfortable, but not in the visceral, meaty ways the opening minutes seemed like they were setting up, and the enigma of the last shot did not feel remotely earned.
TELEVISION
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina 1x18-1x20: I'm so glad I have another season of this insanity to dig into! One day I will return to Riverdale (or Rivervale? idk wtf is happening this season), but not yet. Not yet.
Hawkeye 1x03: ARROWS. AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWSSSSSSSSS.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia 15x01/15x02: I have been laughing about "BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT FORREST GUMP" on and off for almost a week now, damn I missed these idiots.
Star Trek: Discovery 4x03: See DISCOurse!
Wrestling
AAA TripleMania Regia 2021
AEW Dark 3x51
AEW Dark: Elevation 1x39
AEW Dynamite 3x48
AEW Rampage 1x17
Before the IMPACT 1x42
IMPACT! Wrestling 18x48
New Japan Pro-Wrestling 1x52
NJPW Strong 2x48
NJPW XTRA 1x05
NWA Hard Times 2
NWA Powerrr 6x11
ROH Week By Week 2x48
ROH Women's Division Wednesday 1x32
ROH Wrestling 13x48
We are STARDOM!! 2x31/2x32
TJPW Autumn Kacho Getsuro Day 8