The cheesy '80s horror movie based on that Stephen King book you didn’t read. Sort of. Almost.
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Every time I see that title, it reminds me of the line from Urinetown where they talk about how a bad title can kill a show pretty quickly.
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Actually a book by his son, Joe Hill, which I know thanks to the educational medium that is twitter jokes.
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I first saw Ólafur Darri Ólafsson in Trapped, and I didn’t realize he could even speak English, much less play a convincing American 
I guess having dual citizenship helps.
But mostly the show seems like a throwback to an era of lower standards.
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Spiderman into the Spiderverse
Awesome film.
(netflix)
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Do you mean Joe Hill? Cause I think Joe Hill wrote the book?
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Loved it! Fantastic animation and loved the story and themes.
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And it’s legitimately funny, too.
“I also did this.” [Douchebag dance from Spider-Man 3] “We don’t talk about this.”
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A couple of episodes in, enjoying it greatly. I’m just past the first appearance of the Black Rabbit of Inlé, which prompted spontaneous cheers and involuntary applause. 
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Dark season 2.
Damn.
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Since NY has moved into its hot and humid time of year, what better movie to watch than the hot and humid NY movie “Serpico?”
Not Lumet’s best movie, but it’s better than “the Wiz.”
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I like how the movie’s theme is
“take a leap of faith off a tall building.”
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I’m watching Battling Seizure Robots. I mean Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Japanese high schools are so weird.
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Watching through The Shannara Chronicles on Netflix…
The good: it’s very pretty, and a fair bit of good vfx shots.
The bad: this show is exhausting to watch sometimes. Every other scene feels like it ends in a cliffhanger as things shift to a different location’s viewpoint, and if you try to construct a timeline of what’s going on it quickly starts to seem like every location is one, maybe two days travel on foot away from every other location, no matter how drastically different the landscape is.
I’m pretty sure I’ve read the books, but it would have been ages ago so I have no idea how closely the story follows them. It does tend to feel like they’re trying to cram a bit too much into a season and I’m just getting the Clif Notes version of the story.
There’s also a tendency to make the actors a bit too pretty no matter what the characters have gone through.
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One episode was enough for me to see I was not the target market.
All the characters were under 30 and looked about 14.
And there didn’t seem to be any difference between humans and elves except it was an excuse for some people to have pointy ears.
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I was killing time with Keanu Reeves in Replicas (what a stinker).
20 minutes in I realized I was watching The Brain That Wouldn’t Die.
Research scientist, sketchy partner, home lab, lab rat family (substitute for Jan in the Pan), even a “beast” (in this case, a cyborg). Total blueprint copy.
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Need to finish my chores before watching…
For a short while I thought the “making the actors a bit too pretty” thing was actually a subtle way to distinguish the elves from the other races… but then they started adding humans with the same issue.
Just to clarify it… the main characters have a tendency to be perfectly made up, no matter the circumstances. If someone wakes up in a sick bed after being mortally wounded and going through days of being carted through a forest while slowly dying, they’re going to wake up with perfectly-applied makeup, plucked eyebrows, the works. Doctors in this world must also be very dedicated beauticians. Usually the only time someone looks disheveled is if they’re evil, dying, or already dead, and even then there’s exceptions…
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I hate that so much.
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