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Summer 2022 - Weeks 1/2
Slept good. The Fitbit says so and everything.
Minions later for some reason.
For now? Just vibing. Truly a different person than I was yesterday.
FILMS
The Black Phone (2021): Just a real nice, tense watch. Doesn't try to reinvent any wheels, and the structure of it makes a lot of the developments feel like pointless wheel-spinning for a lot of it (obviously none of these attempts are gonna work until he talks to ALL of the dead kids), but it all comes together very satisfyingly in the end. More movies should have random coked out James Ransone just hanging out upstairs, and the one playing the sister is just an absolute beast of a child actor.
Elvis (2022): Fuck, this was so good. An almost overwhelming sensory experience, and I'm not entirely sure if the pacing will hold up on rewatches (it spends as much time on the rise as the fall, and the rise is obviously a much easier watch), but yeah, I really loved it. The wildest part was having to constantly reconcile Austin Butler's fantastic, magnetic, heartbreaking and lived-in performance that never once descends into impression while still playing up a lot of the physicality for drama against whatever the fuck Tom Hanks was doing opposite him, because WOW. I'm not gonna say it was bad, but Hanks as a villain is always a hard sell to begin with, and they're just... two very different kinds of performance, we'll say. But yeah, I really loved it, particularly the way it uses and plays with the music, cuz Baz gonna Baz.
Lightyear (2022): OKAY, BUT IT'S DEFINITELY A REMAKE OF THE ACTUAL 1995 MOVIE, THERE ARE WAY TOO MANY INCONSISTENCIES WITH TOY STORY OTHERWISE. also why'd they gotta make buzz so hot
Ornette: Made in America (1985): why have I seen this so many times
SHORTS
Antonyms of Beauty (2013): Certainly striking, but it still feels kinda icky and exploitative to me.
Back Home Again (2021): Six years ago, my city caught on fire and we had to leave for a month and lots of people lost everything and now Jeremy Renner is a cartoon wolf singing a song about it. What. RIP to Norm Macdonald, who spends pretty much his entire role here making terrible cat puns. What a hero.
Battered (1989): Oof, this was a hard watch. Important, but hard.
Down and Out in America (1986): The real gut punch of this thing isn't the way nothing has changed in thirty-five years, no; it's the way some of the people interviewed in it were alive during the Great Depression. This is just the way things are and they're never going to improve, huh! Cool!
Eleven P.M. (1928): Starts out with a deliciously Lynch-y vibe to it before giving way to a pretty by-the-numbers crime and corruption drama where everyone plays their own parents and kids, Riverdale-style, before pivoting back into crazytown right at the end. This thing is at least forty years ahead of its time in terms of sheer insanity. YOU CAN'T JUST 'AND IT WAS ALL A DREAM' AWAY A MAN-HEADED DOG, MOVIE.
Hell-Bound Train (1930): God, evangelicals are fucking freaks. Made a pretty fun little movie this time around, though!
Le film de l'été (2017): Made me nostalgic, but I'm not actually sure what for? I don't relate to any of this!
Ten Minutes to Live (1932): The dialogue is pretty much impossible to make out for large swathes of this, which comes as a relief some of the time. It's really bad! Song and dance numbers were fun, at least.
What Sex Am I? (1985): I really wish this felt as dated as it definitely is, like... lots of the terminology is fucked now, putting transvestites in their own category of trans people feels weird as hell, there's a really icky kinda voyeuristic dwelling on trans women's bodies throughout, trans men aren't even MENTIONED until the last fifteen minutes, but at the same time, idk. In its pretty thorough rundown of the difficulties all these people had to deal with in their day-to-days, there's a real sense of optimism through the whole thing, a vibe that things have gotten and will continue to get better and better for trans people that's real tough to stomach these days.
When Women Kill (1983): This thing was a roller coaster, it starts off with a couple of women who killed their abusive husbands in self defense and 1000% should not be in prison, what the fuck, and then BAM, hits you with one of the LaBianca murderers. She is totally still in prison because of the notoriety of the crime and no other reason, though, let's be real. Anyway, why hasn't there ever been a movie about the drug-dealing clarinetist killer, she fucking RULED.
The Willmar 8 (1981): All of these women feel like superheroes, fuck small-town America so hard.
TELEVISION
Disenchantment 1x11-1x20: Why'd I forget about this show for so long! It's so fun! And I still have a whole 'nother season to get to!
GLOW 3x03/3x04: So much of this show hits so differently now, lol, I'd rewatch the first two seasons if I wasn't still so annoyed at how it got cancelled.
The Life of Edith Surreal: Oh wow, she gets SO personal in this, it's so engrossing and borderline uncomfortable? Like damn, the bit about how freaked out she still gets giving herself injections and then filming the whole thing anyway? Good for her! It took me an embarrassingly long time when I started watching GCW to realize that Still Life person I'd heard about was just her with a different name, so it was nice getting to know her better.
Marvel Studios: Legends 1x18-1x20: lol the Thor one was so choppy, they had to cram a LOT into ten minutes -- Jane and Valkyrie ones were much better LOVE & THUNDER IN TWO DAYS LFG
Ms. Marvel 1x03/1x04: Man, I wish I was getting what everyone else seems to be getting out of it, but idk. It just doesn't seem very well-written to me? Shit just happens, and lots of it is lame or pointless. If not for the sheer overpowering charm of the lead and my utter baffled delight by them pulling ClanDestine of all things out of their asses for the villains, I'd be having a tough time with it, but as it is, it's been an okay stopgap in the wait for Thor.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1x08/1x09: Episodic Trek where each episode feels important is such a fucking paradigm shift, my god. This show is my everything, I'm going to feel so bereft after this week.
Westworld 4x01/4x02: At least there's good shit stepping in to fill the gap! There's just something about Westworld that makes me instantly forget everything that has ever happened in it as soon as it's over, and the two-year gaps between seasons certainly don't help, but for all that the internet loves to hate it for not being as good as the first season, I've never stopped really digging it! PROHIBITION ROBOTS TIME.
Wrestling
AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door: The Buy-In
AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2022
AEW Dark 4x28/4x29
AEW Dark: Elevation 2x26/2x27
AEW Dynamite 4x25/4x26
AEW Rampage 2x25/2x26
IMPACT Against All Odds 2022
Before the IMPACT 2x25/2x26
IMPACT! Wrestling 19x25/19x26
MLW Fusion 5x19/5x20
NJPW on AXS 6x17/6x18
NJPW on Roku 1x81/1x82
NJPW Strong 3x24/3x25
NJPW XTRA 1x25/1x26
NWA Powerrr 9x02/9x03
NWA USA 3x02/3x03
We are STARDOM!! 3x25/3x26
Minions later for some reason.
For now? Just vibing. Truly a different person than I was yesterday.
FILMS
The Black Phone (2021): Just a real nice, tense watch. Doesn't try to reinvent any wheels, and the structure of it makes a lot of the developments feel like pointless wheel-spinning for a lot of it (obviously none of these attempts are gonna work until he talks to ALL of the dead kids), but it all comes together very satisfyingly in the end. More movies should have random coked out James Ransone just hanging out upstairs, and the one playing the sister is just an absolute beast of a child actor.
Elvis (2022): Fuck, this was so good. An almost overwhelming sensory experience, and I'm not entirely sure if the pacing will hold up on rewatches (it spends as much time on the rise as the fall, and the rise is obviously a much easier watch), but yeah, I really loved it. The wildest part was having to constantly reconcile Austin Butler's fantastic, magnetic, heartbreaking and lived-in performance that never once descends into impression while still playing up a lot of the physicality for drama against whatever the fuck Tom Hanks was doing opposite him, because WOW. I'm not gonna say it was bad, but Hanks as a villain is always a hard sell to begin with, and they're just... two very different kinds of performance, we'll say. But yeah, I really loved it, particularly the way it uses and plays with the music, cuz Baz gonna Baz.
Lightyear (2022): OKAY, BUT IT'S DEFINITELY A REMAKE OF THE ACTUAL 1995 MOVIE, THERE ARE WAY TOO MANY INCONSISTENCIES WITH TOY STORY OTHERWISE. also why'd they gotta make buzz so hot
Ornette: Made in America (1985): why have I seen this so many times
SHORTS
Antonyms of Beauty (2013): Certainly striking, but it still feels kinda icky and exploitative to me.
Back Home Again (2021): Six years ago, my city caught on fire and we had to leave for a month and lots of people lost everything and now Jeremy Renner is a cartoon wolf singing a song about it. What. RIP to Norm Macdonald, who spends pretty much his entire role here making terrible cat puns. What a hero.
Battered (1989): Oof, this was a hard watch. Important, but hard.
Down and Out in America (1986): The real gut punch of this thing isn't the way nothing has changed in thirty-five years, no; it's the way some of the people interviewed in it were alive during the Great Depression. This is just the way things are and they're never going to improve, huh! Cool!
Eleven P.M. (1928): Starts out with a deliciously Lynch-y vibe to it before giving way to a pretty by-the-numbers crime and corruption drama where everyone plays their own parents and kids, Riverdale-style, before pivoting back into crazytown right at the end. This thing is at least forty years ahead of its time in terms of sheer insanity. YOU CAN'T JUST 'AND IT WAS ALL A DREAM' AWAY A MAN-HEADED DOG, MOVIE.
Hell-Bound Train (1930): God, evangelicals are fucking freaks. Made a pretty fun little movie this time around, though!
Le film de l'été (2017): Made me nostalgic, but I'm not actually sure what for? I don't relate to any of this!
Ten Minutes to Live (1932): The dialogue is pretty much impossible to make out for large swathes of this, which comes as a relief some of the time. It's really bad! Song and dance numbers were fun, at least.
What Sex Am I? (1985): I really wish this felt as dated as it definitely is, like... lots of the terminology is fucked now, putting transvestites in their own category of trans people feels weird as hell, there's a really icky kinda voyeuristic dwelling on trans women's bodies throughout, trans men aren't even MENTIONED until the last fifteen minutes, but at the same time, idk. In its pretty thorough rundown of the difficulties all these people had to deal with in their day-to-days, there's a real sense of optimism through the whole thing, a vibe that things have gotten and will continue to get better and better for trans people that's real tough to stomach these days.
When Women Kill (1983): This thing was a roller coaster, it starts off with a couple of women who killed their abusive husbands in self defense and 1000% should not be in prison, what the fuck, and then BAM, hits you with one of the LaBianca murderers. She is totally still in prison because of the notoriety of the crime and no other reason, though, let's be real. Anyway, why hasn't there ever been a movie about the drug-dealing clarinetist killer, she fucking RULED.
The Willmar 8 (1981): All of these women feel like superheroes, fuck small-town America so hard.
TELEVISION
Disenchantment 1x11-1x20: Why'd I forget about this show for so long! It's so fun! And I still have a whole 'nother season to get to!
GLOW 3x03/3x04: So much of this show hits so differently now, lol, I'd rewatch the first two seasons if I wasn't still so annoyed at how it got cancelled.
The Life of Edith Surreal: Oh wow, she gets SO personal in this, it's so engrossing and borderline uncomfortable? Like damn, the bit about how freaked out she still gets giving herself injections and then filming the whole thing anyway? Good for her! It took me an embarrassingly long time when I started watching GCW to realize that Still Life person I'd heard about was just her with a different name, so it was nice getting to know her better.
Marvel Studios: Legends 1x18-1x20: lol the Thor one was so choppy, they had to cram a LOT into ten minutes -- Jane and Valkyrie ones were much better LOVE & THUNDER IN TWO DAYS LFG
Ms. Marvel 1x03/1x04: Man, I wish I was getting what everyone else seems to be getting out of it, but idk. It just doesn't seem very well-written to me? Shit just happens, and lots of it is lame or pointless. If not for the sheer overpowering charm of the lead and my utter baffled delight by them pulling ClanDestine of all things out of their asses for the villains, I'd be having a tough time with it, but as it is, it's been an okay stopgap in the wait for Thor.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1x08/1x09: Episodic Trek where each episode feels important is such a fucking paradigm shift, my god. This show is my everything, I'm going to feel so bereft after this week.
Westworld 4x01/4x02: At least there's good shit stepping in to fill the gap! There's just something about Westworld that makes me instantly forget everything that has ever happened in it as soon as it's over, and the two-year gaps between seasons certainly don't help, but for all that the internet loves to hate it for not being as good as the first season, I've never stopped really digging it! PROHIBITION ROBOTS TIME.
Wrestling
AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door: The Buy-In
AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2022
AEW Dark 4x28/4x29
AEW Dark: Elevation 2x26/2x27
AEW Dynamite 4x25/4x26
AEW Rampage 2x25/2x26
IMPACT Against All Odds 2022
Before the IMPACT 2x25/2x26
IMPACT! Wrestling 19x25/19x26
MLW Fusion 5x19/5x20
NJPW on AXS 6x17/6x18
NJPW on Roku 1x81/1x82
NJPW Strong 3x24/3x25
NJPW XTRA 1x25/1x26
NWA Powerrr 9x02/9x03
NWA USA 3x02/3x03
We are STARDOM!! 3x25/3x26