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Autumn 2021 - Week 9
WOW, do I not want to be at work right now. But I am, and I will be for a while, so let's make the most of it, shall we?
After a lovely week of mild winter weather, the temperature once again plummeted juuuuuuuust as my week off wrapped. It's about as cold as it can physically get while still dumping shittons of whirling eddies of snow on us, so the roads are utter hell, but I'm not going anywhere again until Spider-Man on Saturday night, so godspeed to my loved ones, but my feet will do me right. Winter Is Coming being tonight is just the icing on the... ice.
I finally remembered to grab the liner to my winter coat! Not in time to actually make use of it this morning, of course, but I schlepped it all the way to work and zipped it in there, so I am GOOD TO GO from here on out!
Man, I wish I felt one iota of the ridiculous hype everyone else is feeling for No Way Home, but I have never been less excited for a Marvel movie, bleh. Still gonna stay out until 1 in the goddamn morning on a work night because I'm sure some crazy shit will go down! And then I will have the 2023 slate to look forward to, at least.
FILMS
Belfast (2021): What's this? A meandering, self-indulgent, black-and-white Oscar-bait period drama that comes in at WELL under two hours??? GOD BLESS YOU, MR. BRANAGH. Also, finally there exists a film unafraid to tell the people that Turkish delight is fucking gross. Anyway, I liked it! Just wholesome slice-of-life stuff, except the entire time, you're terrified of something awful happening! Probably my current Best Picture pick (of the likely contenders) based solely on that tasty 97-minute runtime.
Diamonds Are Forever (1971): Skipping over OHMSS to save it for Christmas as is tradition, keeping all the individual Bond runs nice and separate, is not enough to save this movie. It still always makes me want to go to Vegas so bad, though.
For Your Eyes Only (1981): God, the Bibi subplot is so gross (also I never got the pun in her name until just this second, GROSS). Also the peak of the thankfully short-lived 'great song, shitty Bond theme' era.
Greaser's Palace (1972): I really respect the hell out of this movie's sense of absolute spitefulness, towards the viewer equally as much as any of the characters. This thing does not want you to have a good time on ANY level. I should watch more Robert Downey.
Live and Let Die (1973): I'm really fascinated with how it's only the two movies with racism towards Asian people that got the disclaimer on Crave! How are those movies not okay by today's sensibilities, but this one is? Is it yellowface specifically, I wonder, Joseph Wiseman as Dr. No and Romulan!Bond? Since this movie's racist as hell, but I don't THINK there are any people painted brown in it? That must be it. I QUESTION THE CRITERIA THAT WARRANT THESE 'OLD AND PROBLEMATIC' WARNINGS, BASICALLY.
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974): My favourite Wicker Man reunion. Also thankfully the end of the truly heinous misogyny of the Hamilton era.
Moonraker (1979): I stand by my Jaws comments, for the record.
Octopussy (1983): Iconic.
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977): It likely will never be my favourite of the Moore Bonds, but it's pretty undeniably the best of them, by... a very wide margin. Like, it's not even close. Agent XXX feels like a written apology for the cavalcade of useless bimbo Bond girls we were saddled with for most of the 70s.
West Side Story (2021): I like it the more I sit with it (and I mostly liked it to begin with)? All the talk of it being better than the original makes me Frysquint hard, but I think the two versions actually compliment each other pretty well? It got some things right that the original didn't (speaking of people painted brown), while it flubs some things that the original nailed, and a perfect version probably lies somewhere in between the two, so it... mostly justifies its existence? I guess? Which doesn't sound like high praise, but whatever, I liked it. Even if moving Cool back into Act 1 COMPLETELY fucks up the vibes, holy shit what a terrible call that was. And for as much as I thoroughly enjoyed the attempts to flesh out characters and motivations across the board, it kinda made for a worse movie? Like yeah, it ruled to be able to see more of Bernardo and Chino and what makes them tick, or giving Tony all this extra backstory (that Elgort was NOT a good enough actor to pull off), and non-binary Anybodys was a fun choice, but it all resulted in a whole lot of really long, talky scenes that grind all of the show's momentum to a fucking halt until you're just like 'oh my god can we please get to a song already'. Do we REALLY need to see Riff buying the gun? Does it really add enough to justify the screentime it's given? Not in the slightest. But ultimately I'm glad I got to see it anyway? For me, it works like a... companion piece to the '61 version, just this more in-depth view, colouring things in a little bit more with some way more dramatic sets, while not necessarily holding up on its own.
SHORTS
Les extraordinaires mésaventures de la jeune fille de pierre (2019): Night at the Museum, but make it POLITICAL. I kinda loved this, honestly.
Sink & Rise (2003): This one, though, this one's got me puzzling. That was probably the point. What is the moral here, though!! Why is egg!!!
TELEVISION
Hawkeye 1x04: ALREADY MORE THAN HALF OVER, these super short seasons are gonna be the death of me, they just fly by so quickly (at least when I'm enjoying the thing (which I am in this case (a lot))).
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia 15x03/15x04: That flashback episode felt like a really pointed middle finger at people who complain about continuity errors, and honestly, I respect the hell out of that. MONKEY BEER ISLAND OF GREEN AND FIGHT.
Katy Keene 1x01-1x05: Oh my god, I hate all of these people so much. It's like they said "People love Rent, but the characters are just TOO LIKABLE, what should we do?"
Star Trek: Discovery 4x04: See DISCOurse!
Wrestling
AEW Dark 3x52
AEW Dark: Elevation 1x40
AEW Dynamite 3x49
AEW Rampage 1x18
Before the IMPACT 1x43
IMPACT! Wrestling 18x49
New Japan Pro-Wrestling 1x53
NJPW Strong 2x49
NJPW XTRA 1x06
NWA Powerrr 7x01
ROH Final Battle 2021
ROH Week By Week 2x49
ROH Women's Division Wednesday 1x33
ROH Wrestling 13x49
We are STARDOM!! 2x33-2x37
TJPW Inspiration 3
After a lovely week of mild winter weather, the temperature once again plummeted juuuuuuuust as my week off wrapped. It's about as cold as it can physically get while still dumping shittons of whirling eddies of snow on us, so the roads are utter hell, but I'm not going anywhere again until Spider-Man on Saturday night, so godspeed to my loved ones, but my feet will do me right. Winter Is Coming being tonight is just the icing on the... ice.
I finally remembered to grab the liner to my winter coat! Not in time to actually make use of it this morning, of course, but I schlepped it all the way to work and zipped it in there, so I am GOOD TO GO from here on out!
Man, I wish I felt one iota of the ridiculous hype everyone else is feeling for No Way Home, but I have never been less excited for a Marvel movie, bleh. Still gonna stay out until 1 in the goddamn morning on a work night because I'm sure some crazy shit will go down! And then I will have the 2023 slate to look forward to, at least.
FILMS
Belfast (2021): What's this? A meandering, self-indulgent, black-and-white Oscar-bait period drama that comes in at WELL under two hours??? GOD BLESS YOU, MR. BRANAGH. Also, finally there exists a film unafraid to tell the people that Turkish delight is fucking gross. Anyway, I liked it! Just wholesome slice-of-life stuff, except the entire time, you're terrified of something awful happening! Probably my current Best Picture pick (of the likely contenders) based solely on that tasty 97-minute runtime.
Diamonds Are Forever (1971): Skipping over OHMSS to save it for Christmas as is tradition, keeping all the individual Bond runs nice and separate, is not enough to save this movie. It still always makes me want to go to Vegas so bad, though.
For Your Eyes Only (1981): God, the Bibi subplot is so gross (also I never got the pun in her name until just this second, GROSS). Also the peak of the thankfully short-lived 'great song, shitty Bond theme' era.
Greaser's Palace (1972): I really respect the hell out of this movie's sense of absolute spitefulness, towards the viewer equally as much as any of the characters. This thing does not want you to have a good time on ANY level. I should watch more Robert Downey.
Live and Let Die (1973): I'm really fascinated with how it's only the two movies with racism towards Asian people that got the disclaimer on Crave! How are those movies not okay by today's sensibilities, but this one is? Is it yellowface specifically, I wonder, Joseph Wiseman as Dr. No and Romulan!Bond? Since this movie's racist as hell, but I don't THINK there are any people painted brown in it? That must be it. I QUESTION THE CRITERIA THAT WARRANT THESE 'OLD AND PROBLEMATIC' WARNINGS, BASICALLY.
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974): My favourite Wicker Man reunion. Also thankfully the end of the truly heinous misogyny of the Hamilton era.
Moonraker (1979): I stand by my Jaws comments, for the record.
Octopussy (1983): Iconic.
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977): It likely will never be my favourite of the Moore Bonds, but it's pretty undeniably the best of them, by... a very wide margin. Like, it's not even close. Agent XXX feels like a written apology for the cavalcade of useless bimbo Bond girls we were saddled with for most of the 70s.
West Side Story (2021): I like it the more I sit with it (and I mostly liked it to begin with)? All the talk of it being better than the original makes me Frysquint hard, but I think the two versions actually compliment each other pretty well? It got some things right that the original didn't (speaking of people painted brown), while it flubs some things that the original nailed, and a perfect version probably lies somewhere in between the two, so it... mostly justifies its existence? I guess? Which doesn't sound like high praise, but whatever, I liked it. Even if moving Cool back into Act 1 COMPLETELY fucks up the vibes, holy shit what a terrible call that was. And for as much as I thoroughly enjoyed the attempts to flesh out characters and motivations across the board, it kinda made for a worse movie? Like yeah, it ruled to be able to see more of Bernardo and Chino and what makes them tick, or giving Tony all this extra backstory (that Elgort was NOT a good enough actor to pull off), and non-binary Anybodys was a fun choice, but it all resulted in a whole lot of really long, talky scenes that grind all of the show's momentum to a fucking halt until you're just like 'oh my god can we please get to a song already'. Do we REALLY need to see Riff buying the gun? Does it really add enough to justify the screentime it's given? Not in the slightest. But ultimately I'm glad I got to see it anyway? For me, it works like a... companion piece to the '61 version, just this more in-depth view, colouring things in a little bit more with some way more dramatic sets, while not necessarily holding up on its own.
SHORTS
Les extraordinaires mésaventures de la jeune fille de pierre (2019): Night at the Museum, but make it POLITICAL. I kinda loved this, honestly.
Sink & Rise (2003): This one, though, this one's got me puzzling. That was probably the point. What is the moral here, though!! Why is egg!!!
TELEVISION
Hawkeye 1x04: ALREADY MORE THAN HALF OVER, these super short seasons are gonna be the death of me, they just fly by so quickly (at least when I'm enjoying the thing (which I am in this case (a lot))).
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia 15x03/15x04: That flashback episode felt like a really pointed middle finger at people who complain about continuity errors, and honestly, I respect the hell out of that. MONKEY BEER ISLAND OF GREEN AND FIGHT.
Katy Keene 1x01-1x05: Oh my god, I hate all of these people so much. It's like they said "People love Rent, but the characters are just TOO LIKABLE, what should we do?"
Star Trek: Discovery 4x04: See DISCOurse!
Wrestling
AEW Dark 3x52
AEW Dark: Elevation 1x40
AEW Dynamite 3x49
AEW Rampage 1x18
Before the IMPACT 1x43
IMPACT! Wrestling 18x49
New Japan Pro-Wrestling 1x53
NJPW Strong 2x49
NJPW XTRA 1x06
NWA Powerrr 7x01
ROH Final Battle 2021
ROH Week By Week 2x49
ROH Women's Division Wednesday 1x33
ROH Wrestling 13x49
We are STARDOM!! 2x33-2x37
TJPW Inspiration 3