Clone Wars(Mostly because of the Sith and the Bounty Hunters) and Family Guy. Both good shows. The first has progressively got darker for a kid's show.

Still watching The Guild. Lots of fun. I actually laugh out loud when I watch it, which I almost never do. (Most comedies just bore me). Today I found out that Do You Want To Date My Avatar? came from The Guild! I am so swooning over Felicia Day. Come to think of it, she would make a great Teresa, if she were only paler...

Hehe.

This weekend we went to see Disney's John Carter...Which was really good actually, didn't expect much from it and got so much more than I thought...So well done that film...Like a less pretentious Avatar...And I'll be honest, I'd sooner sit through John Carter twice...

And yesterday we went to see The Raven, which is about "the last few days" of Edgar Allen Poe...Really good film...Proper old school horror-ish/thriller...Some nasty stuff in there, but more pleasant to watch than say...Saw...Which I haven't seen, but I'd sooner watch an old school horror than the torture po*n that they seem to like doing now...

Anyways, John Cusack is always fun...Loved it...

Just finished watching "They Might be Giants" with George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward. Without saying too much, it is about a retired judge in modern-day (well 1971 modern day) Manhattan who believes he is Sherlock Holmes.

Upon being taken to a clinic to be evaluated for commitment, he meets Dr. Watson- (Woodward).

The cast is filled with character actors an old dog like me recognizes with pleasure. The story has an innocence that worked at the end of the 1960's, before Watergate, before- well, so much of the last 40 years.

The title is from Don Quixote- regarding the windmills that he perceives as giants.

Perhaps the best quote is delivered near the end- as George C. Scott demonstrates WHY he was brilliant at his craft:

"Dear friends, would those of you who know what this is all about please raise your hands? I think if God is dead he laughed himself to death. Because, you see, we live in Eden. Genesis has got it all wrong. We never left the Garden. Look about you. This is paradise. It's hard to find, I, I'll grant you, but it is here. Under our feet, beneath the surface, all around us is everything we want. The earth is shining under the soot. We are all fools."

We’re having a Games of Thrones marathon this weekend. It’s raining, and the calendar is otherwise mostly empty.

Oh, that will be fun for you... ...We did the first few episodes (the wife enjoyed the Jason Momoa...Um...Parts a little too much )...But then we got all...*Yawn*...Not for us...

But amywho...Just saw Wrath of The Titans...And was seriously impressed...It's like, 2 bazillion (real number) times better than the first one...Brilliant stuff...

I saw the first season for sale on blu-ray a few weeks ago for $50. I was so tempted to buy it. But I still have not seen it yet. I never watch tv shows on tv. If it looks interesting I either netflix it, or buy it. That way I can watch the whole thing at once, without having to wait a week between episodes. I want to get it netflix first, just to be sure I like it. Seeing that Sean Bean is in the first season (at least until, well, I don't want to spoil things for anyone), I am sure I will like it though.

Spartacus: Vengeance, season finale episode.

Depressing. Don't watch it if you seen the series before.



Now, I never seen the new Wrath of the Titans, but I will definetly check it out. I take your word for it, Badgere. I never got into Game of Thrones, but I heard it's AWESOME.

I've just finished watching Wall-E, for only the second time ever...We have the DVD...The kids have watched it but I never seem to be around when they do...

I've decided...It's pretty much almost my most favourite film ever...

The Rock...Sean Connery in his finest post-Bond... ...Loved it!!...

I finished the X-Files a few weeks ago. Now I am experimenting with several different shows. I found that there is a follow-up to Battle 360. This one is about General Patton. So I have been watching that. The final disc came in the mail today in fact. It is as good as the original, going into much more depth then you normally see in a tv documentary.

I started watching Millennium as well. Sort of natural following X-Files after all. I only watched a little of it back when it was on tv. I am taking a while to warm up to it. It is really dark, and where X-Files revolved around weird paranormal killings, this revolves around all to normal killings, by all too normal murderers.

I am also a few discs into Dark Angel. I never watched past the pilot episode when it was on tv. Watching it again, I remembered why. The main character is not at all likeable in it. They fix that in the following episodes however, and the show improves dramatically.

I just wish it had more of a Third World/Post Apocalyptic feel to it. We are told that the pulse wiped out the financial industry, and turned the U.S. into a Third World country overnight. But most of the time it does not seem that way. Instead we see shiny new cars filling the streets, the night sky lit up with lights from all the skyscrapers, everyone has working elevators, and squatters in abandoned buildings have water and power, not to mention really nice and clean apartments. I would like to see things look older, worn out, dirtier. Like in the Max Headroom tv series. Now that gave us a wonderfully dystopian future, with people getting around by rickshaws.

Finally, I streamed the first two episodes of Outcasts. The first episode started with us seeing Jamie Bamber, and I so got my hopes up (I just adore that man, I wish he was in more movies/shows). Unfortunately he is not in anything beyond the first episode. But it is still a good show. It is too bad it only went about 8 episodes. I liked it so much I put it in my disc queue. (I usually stream the things I am not really sure about. That way I do not waste a disc).

Just watched the latest (over here) Body of Proof...

Jamie Bamber's in that at the moment!... ...

Watched The Magnificent Seven last night...Oh-ho-ho YES!!... ...

One of my all time faves...Brilliant...

The kids were about half-watching too, and it was just "But it's so ooooold!" and all the rest of it...It's 52 years old...Still amazingly brilliant though...

They'd been paying attention (and presumaby, enjoying) enough to be all "Oh-no!" when those that got offed, went...

Is that a spoiler btw? ...

And then we watched the next part of Once Upon A Time...Which is really very good...Robert Carlyle is sooo ace in it... ...

Alex Haley's "Roots".

Robert went to see the Avengers... ...

Oh yeah...Oh yeah...*Does dance of joy*... ...

Absolutely almost my most favourite film ever...

Totally the best Marvel film...And genuinely, it is incredible...

Joss Whedon needs a Knighthood for services to Awesome!!...

Every one of the heroes gets decent screen time...Of which there is nearly two and a half hours of altogether...And from what we read, there was nearly 40 mins cut out to make it that long...And from where we sat, it was a mistake...Could have quite merrily sat through the rest... ...

Go see!!...Go see now!!...

Goosebumps!
Yes it's a very old show, but it's awesome!
....and still creepy.

Marvel's The Avengers.

Saw the Avengers a little while ago. It is awesomeness. Pure 100% Win. Go see it, now.

The Avengers impressed me. I expected it to be a shallow mash-up, but each of the heroes got a share of personal development that made the movie more than the sum of its parts. That, and it didn't seem to drag on.

[Edit] And I've essentially reposted what McBadgere said

Whatever, awesome piece of work. Go see it.

I finished Earth 2 last night. I enjoyed it quite a bit. I can see why it got canceled after a season. No male hero who beats someone up every episode. No space battles. No gunfights. No evil overlord with an army of faceless mooks. Come to think of it, it hardly seems like sci-fi at all!

Instead there are good stories, where shooting things is usually the worst possible idea. The alien races we meet have their own motives, which are sometimes at odds with the main characters, sometimes in line with them. Then throw in a sci-fi world based on the Gaia Principle, where people live in symbiosis with the planet, and thusly actually have a responsibility to it. Rather than exploiting their world and discarding it after it has been used up.

I also just got done watching Haywire. It is not spectacular, but I did like it. It reminded me a lot of The American, with George Cloony. Gina Carano stars, and she impressed me. She makes an excellent action heroine because she is not a soft and curvy supermodel. Instead she is a RL mixed martial artist. So she comes across as very believable in a role as a tough girl/spy. In fact it was seeing her in a fight that got the attention of Steven Soderbergh. He saw her beat up someone in a cage and thought "Why isn't someone making a movie about this woman?"

In fact, I am thinking Gina might be perfect to play Tadrose Helas in the imaginary Teresa of the Faint Smile movie.

Dark Shadows...It was...Disappointing...Put it this way...The wife had to elbow me 'cause I fell asleep in it...

Some of it was funny...And the last fifteen minutes was nicely done, but...Go see Avengers, much better value for money... ...

I dusted off my copy of Cosmos. After all these years, it is just, wow.

Modern science shows like The Universe just do not compare to it. They have flashier graphics, melodrama on steroids, and loud sound effects and quick cuts to appease an ADD audience. But they do not have the simple love for the Universe that Carl Sagan possessed, something that resonates through all of Cosmos. Many describe the series as inspirational because of that. It is not only about the stars and planets and galaxies. It is about us. Because we are an integral part of the Universe. We are made of star-stuff. The stars are where we come from, and they are where we go back to in the end.

In some ridiculous amount of sessions, I watched a 4 hour documentary film about Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers...

It was amazing...

Sadly, it's cost me much money this evening... ...

Well, I've started watching Big O on youtube. It has an awesome score and is among my fonder childhood memories... even if one could argue batman with megadei.

On another note, I watched the two seasons of Rosario+Vampire. Stop give me weird looks!

Prometheus...

Meh...The wife loved it...I thought it was okay but not great...*Shrug*...

Should have been better, but not by a long chalk was it the worst film I've ever seen... ...

Snow White and The Huntsman on sunday and Men In Black III on monday...

Snow White was alright...Not amazing, but not awful...

Men in Black was brilliant though...Really was...Fave film for ages...Nice one!...

Literally watching anything to avoid revision.

Including that history channel, forget its name, showed something on the Battle of Trafalgar.

Completely irrelevant to what I'm learning, but it was pretty awesome! Coupled with the fact Pirates of the Carribean has been showing on BBc3 recently, definitely in some weird naval mood now

Just saw the new Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. It was meh. Daniel Craig was excellent, and Chris Plummer and Stellan Skarsgard turn in their usual solid performances as well. But Rooney Mara was just flat and dull as Lisbeth. It made watching her scenes an effort in "can we get this over so I can see someone with talent again?"

The original Swedish version was much better. Noomi Rapace owned that role. She made Lisbeth Salander come alive. I could even overlook some of the groaner moments of the plot, like how the lesbian character naturally hooks up with the male lead (because of course all lesbians cannot wait to get some sausage *rolls eyes*), and of course he is a man twice her age. Just love seeing those 50 year-olds banging a girl in their twenties. Yep, that is true love for sure!

On a better front, I saw the first episode of Joseph Campbell's Mythos. Excellent stuff. He surprised me with his humor. I do not recall him having such a good sense of humor in his interviews with Bill Moyers. But it has been a while since I have seen those. The first episode was on the psyche and formation of the self, and how that relates to myth. Good stuff, and I often found myself nodding along. As a lesbian especially, I can relate to how he describes the persona, which thrust upon people from their society, and a person's choice to either conform with that in spite of their personal feelings (the right hand path), or to break free of that and instead follow their bliss (the left hand path).

I saw the original Swedish version of the Dragon Tattoo, too. I have to agree with you, Noomi Rapace truly shone in that role. I felt everything she went through with her "guardian", and cheered when she claimed payback. I also felt that the relationship with the male lead was a copout, though he was good in the character.

As much as I love Daniel Craig, I just can't bring myself to see his version of the same, not after seeing Noomi Rapace. I just can't see Rooney playing the role with the same gritty depth.

Working on the second season of Veronica Mars. It stumbled a bit in the early episodes- not surprising given the roller-coaster that was season 1. But it had picked up nicely.

Black Books for a bit of light relief- enjoyable- but hearing a laugh track again after all these years is a bit disconcerting.

Rationing our Homicide: Life on the Street still- only allowing ourselves one episode per week. Even so, we are into Season 6.

Finally- checked out the first episode of Longmire on A&E. Watchable- with Australian Robert Taylor in the title role as a Wyoming sheriff. We first see him as he is dealing with the first anniversary of his wife's death. There is history- mostly alluded to without explicit discussion- e.g. a conflict with the tribal police on the nearby reservation. Additional cast includes Lou Diamond Phillips and Katee Sackhoff.

So I have seen the Avengers. Not really too excited about seeing that one. I liked the character Loki and a few others, but the movie itself was decent. I actually am stoked to watch the Dark Knight Rises! Not the lighthearted movie that the Avengers was.

Last night I saw both Prometheus and Snow White. Prometheus was pretty good. It had some "eh" parts but there was some funny parts too! Such as the moment where David was standing in awe and the epic music was playing and all of the sudden it stopped as the holograms around him vanished. Don't know why, but the entire theater had a few laughs and chuckles. It was like a kill moment for the guy. The movie itself did delve into judeo-christianty and a few questions being asked like "who was man's creator?" and etc. I loved the ending of the movie, however! I rate it a 9/10.

Snow White? Eh, I fell asleep during a few parts of that. Mainly because it was late at night already. But there was a few good parts. It wasn't extravagant or anything. I was totally surprised to watch two movies in a single night with Charlize Theron. She was sort of a mean person in Prometheus and an even meaner person in Snow White.

I have been watching The Tudors lately. I am about half-way through season two. I like it. It gets a little confused on history at several points, such as Charles Brandon marrying Princess Margaret, when he in fact married Princess Mary. A princess who does not even exist in the series I might add. I guess somehow they misplaced her during the casting... Then of course neither Princess Margaret nor Mary ever married the King of Portugal, and said King at that time was not a decrepit old letch, but in fact a young man who was already married.

But in spite of the historical inaccuracies, it is still a fun show to watch. The acting is solid, and the characters are all well-portrayed. No one just sits there like a cardboard cutout. Everyone has their own agendas, their own passions, and especially their own egos! Goodness sakes, it is hard to believe they could fit all those people and their egos into just one palace! The latter is something I particularly liked, as an overabundance of pride is one of those things that comes with the positions of power that those people wielded. Not just Henry, but Queen Katherine, Anne Boleyn, Thomas More, Cromwell, Cranmer, etc... None of them are on good terms with a sense of humility. Every one is absolutely certain in that their view/agenda/position is divinely right, and everyone else has to be wrong, and no one will compromise. At least not until the headsman's axe compromises their heads from their bodies...

I really like John-Rhys Meyer's portrayal of Henry (is he related to John-Rhys Davies?). We all think of the King in his later years, as the overweight letch painted by Hans Holbein. But the truth is when he was young, Henry was a magnificent athlete. He played tennis (which was the sport of kings at the time), jousted, hunted, wrestled, etc... He was a man just dripping with testosterone. One moment he could be all charm, the next he could be raging fury. As Thomas Wyatt once wrote - "Around the throne, the thunder rolls". But most of all he was a man with voracious appetites. Especially when it came to feeding his vanity, and his genitals. The Anglican Church was created by his schlong after all. If he could have kept it in one woman England would still be Catholic to this day. They did extremely well in portraying him.

It is interesting to watch the other characters rise and fall around him. Wolsey is the only one I felt sorry for. In part due to Sam Neill's outstanding portrayal of the man who held England in his hands, and in part because he sacrificed so much of his personal ambitions for the sake of Henry. Who of course turned on him in the end, as Henry did everyone sooner or later. Compared to the others, he is also somewhat of a milk-toast. He just embezzled money and lived the life of luxury in palaces finer than Henry's. The ones who followed him were burning people at the stake. Like good old humanist Thomas More. The man who started with burning books, and went on to burning people. After all, we can't have the common people actually knowing what is written in the bible after all! Let alone knowing what the priest is saying during mass. I was not the slightest bit sorry to see his head parted from his vanity.

Django Unchained

Looks fantastic.

Barney's Version - powerful visual insight into one man's lifetime made even more poignient by the tremendous acting portraying each role, even the bit actors were so well chosen that their minute parts became as immersive as the main character's were. Huge work of art.

HBO's "Rome". Good show! Great characters, sad scenes and wonderful story that mostly stays true to history! Very realistic, so much so that it had to be cancelled because of the budget

I just saw the 2 hour pilot for tthe new series of Dallas. Never seen the original. It's got some of the trappings associated with Soap Operas (conflict rears its ugly head at every turn), but the characters are interesting. I also live in the Metroplex, so it's nice to see some familiar landmarks.

JR is gives me the creeps how he can look old and kindly without betraying how he's planning to screw someone over. Looking forward to the next episode.

I don't really watch a lot of television but the last movie i watched was 'Meet Monica Velour'. DEFINITELY one of Kim Catrall's finer projects. It was a truly amazing movie. Very moving.

Anybody else seen it?

EDIT: OH! and I've been watching Desperate Housewives season one on DVD. Good god I love that show!

Dark Knight Rises. I had a Batman marathon and watched all three movies in one day. It was great!

Ra's Al Ghul and Bane were my favorite characters! I also love Miranda Tate and Selena Style too! Such a quality film, better than that Avengers thing.

Teeth - possibly unintentionally hysterical !!

Seen this today as well.

And whilst I don't think it was quite as good as The Dark Knight, still a great conclusion to possibly the greatest portayal of a superhero ever.

My favourite was Bane, he is an absolute beast of a villian!

The Last Hard Men - not what I thought it would be at all. Thumbs down.

I can’t imagine how I managed to miss this show, but I never got around to watching How I Met Your Mother. Netflix to the rescue. Oh my gosh, it’s funny. I'm still in season one.

Pixar's Brave...Lovely film...Brilliant...

Oooh, I really want to watch this one, if only for the amusing Shire horse I saw in the trailers!

In between Korean dramas and samurai movies on Netflix, I've been watching reruns of Adam-12. You have to be a certain age (or older) to remember this series, but I enjoyed it without closed captioning when it was originally broadcast. I'm enjoying it even more now that it has subtitles.

It's the classic concept of gruff veteran/idealistic rookie that drives so many of the older television shows, and Martin Milner is perfect as the older cop. One thing that escaped me the first time around (and surprised me this time) is that he is the consummate bachelor ("I ain't the marrying kind."), while Kent McCord is the happily married one. I get a kick out of the young'un trying to match the old vet up with some lady - typical of most happily married people I know. And *I* ain't the marrying type, meself!

I remember Adam 12! I was a huge Kent McCord fan back in the day. I was so tickled when he played John Chrichton's dad in Farscape.

I wrapped up my annual viewing of Sharpe's Rifles last week, and have gone though most of my Horatio Hornblower's as well. Today I took a break and watched The Hunger Games. It was decent. The shaky hand-held cam it was all shot in nearly made me puke near the beginning though. After a while I either got used to it, or they found a cameraman with a steadier hand.

I would not say it was very original. It borrows ideas (and names) from classic gladiator stories, Metropolis, and even mixes in a little bit of The Truman Show with its arena. There is a Japanese movie called Battle Royale that does the same thing, only with much greater intensity. Still, the characters are interesting, and the main character is very cute. So was Lenny Kravitz, and coming from a lesbian, that is saying something! But I have always been a big Lenny fan.

The ending felt very anticlimatic. It is obviously just the first entry in a series (there are 3 books after all), so I am sure they will follow with more films. The world they give us is a classic utopia for the select few, built upon a dystopia of the lowly masses. The first movie is plainly just the first act in a larger revolution that one expects to see played out in the sequels.

Yes, I loved Kent McCord myself too!

My only...Um...Exposure to Kent McCord was Galactica '80... ...*Shudders*...Oh, and his minute role in Airplane II...

The horses in Brave are soooo lovely...As is pretty much everything else too...No...No I didn't cry...No...

The Bourne Legacy...Ummm...It was alright...Bit slow in places...Odd film...Good though...

That is the new one without Matt Damon right? It seems weird to me to have a Bourne movie without Jason Bourne.