Recent Media
Dec. 28th, 2021 10:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sprocketHappy holidays, and happy binge-viewing!
The Mummy and The Mummy Returns: excellent low-brain background for data entry, would do again.
Black Widow: would watch Natasha and Yelena bicker for hours. CGI fights overrated.
Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings: There's a 30 minute slice of Zoomer gen life, a fun fight scene on a 1-California that clearly has a divergent route in the MCU AU, some killer acting by Awkwfina and Tony Leung Chiu-wai, and a completely average MCU origin story. It's great to see the MCU expand past whiteness and dudes, but it's expanding by applying the same formula that's worked for it so far.
Venom: Let Theee Be Carnage: billed by fandom as a rom-com; I forgot that usually most rom-coms are Not My Thing.
The Amazon Wheel of Time: I wandered away from the books around the eighth installment, I wasn't planning to watch the adaptation until peer excitement pulled me in. All the way until ep 4 I wasn't sold. Turns out angry, angry Nyanaeve is my catnip. Logain starting at angry!Nynaevae with that "step on me" expression is gold. Not sure if I'll be watching S2 with appropriate respect... oh, who am I kidding. I'll be watching this show with great shirt-posting energy.
The Mummy and The Mummy Returns: excellent low-brain background for data entry, would do again.
Black Widow: would watch Natasha and Yelena bicker for hours. CGI fights overrated.
Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings: There's a 30 minute slice of Zoomer gen life, a fun fight scene on a 1-California that clearly has a divergent route in the MCU AU, some killer acting by Awkwfina and Tony Leung Chiu-wai, and a completely average MCU origin story. It's great to see the MCU expand past whiteness and dudes, but it's expanding by applying the same formula that's worked for it so far.
Venom: Let Theee Be Carnage: billed by fandom as a rom-com; I forgot that usually most rom-coms are Not My Thing.
The Amazon Wheel of Time: I wandered away from the books around the eighth installment, I wasn't planning to watch the adaptation until peer excitement pulled me in. All the way until ep 4 I wasn't sold. Turns out angry, angry Nyanaeve is my catnip. Logain starting at angry!Nynaevae with that "step on me" expression is gold. Not sure if I'll be watching S2 with appropriate respect... oh, who am I kidding. I'll be watching this show with great shirt-posting energy.