Random Shit I've Been Watching Lately

Actually this is more like, "Random Netflix Shit I've Been Watching Lately"...

Narcos: Mexico:
Love this show, the first season was really good, but this one -and there might even be a pattern here...- it seems a bit too long.
For instance, the whole story of the member who wants to leva the gam ebehind seems quite longish.

Don't F*ck With Cats:
Pretty interesting doc, but, once again, IMHO, it is a bit too long.

Horse Girl:
A total and complete bullshit... What was the point of this????

Movies During The Weekend

A cool, relaxed weekend, in part because it rained like Hell on Saturday.
So, we did a bit of catch up, maybe forced, with a couple of TV shows.

Star Trek: Discovery:
We watched the two final episodes from Season 2, it was hard, but someone had to do it, I guess.
Not much to say about this, I guess... Except that, no, most definitively the last season doesn't do it, at all.

Project Blue Book:
I have been struggling with this one for the last 3 weeks, or so.
I'm a big fan of The X Files, at least of the mythological episodes; so I thought that this new series might be amazing, but it turned out to be quite dull and boring.
It was almost painful to go thru it.
A real shame, since it has everything to be fantastic.

Movies During The Weekend

We had a relaxed, sunny (somewhat hot) weekend, so not much time for movies, but, nevertheless, we watched some.

Star Trek Discovery:
Our weekly episode, but, boy oh boy, it is getting harder and harder.... This season sucks so much, at least so far (we are on episode 11).

Crawl:
Nice one, plenty of action and thrills.
Both the GF and I were waiting for this one ever since we saw the trailer.

Movies During The Weekend

Not many movies, actually more like only one, a documentary, but with many episodes.

The Defiant Ones:
Really interesting doc, I would never thought I might find the subject matter even remotely related, or something that I would watch, but, the GF did, and she emphatically recommend it to me.
And she was dam right.
I loved the doc, specially the first two episodes, as I love Tom Petty, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Nicks too.
Also, I had a very vague notion of who Dr. Dre was, but I had no idea who Jimmy Iovine was and that he had produced some of my favorite musicians.

Random Shit I've Been Watching Lately

A couple of movies I've somehow been able to watch lately...

Hesher:
The indie one of the bunch, one of those mixed genre, modern films.
Nice one.

Tolkien:
Nice one, used to love Tolkien books when I was a young kid.

Saints and Soldiers:
Nope, not at all... Don't even understand what they see on this one.

The Great Hack:
Maybe I'm a cynic but every single one of the discoveries from this documentary seems pretty obvious.

They All Laughed:
Not even Robby Müller's cinematography on am early 80's NYC helps on this one...

Movies During The Weekend

After a weekend with no movies, we had a jumbo sized one, a holiday upon a holiday... One of those Argentine inventions... And of course, it was filled with a very mixed bag of movies.

Barfly:
I watched -re-watched actually- this one, the GF slept thru this one out.
Guess I saw it 20 years ago or so.
As usual, Robby Müller's photography is amazing.

Prediction by Numbers:
A nice Netflix documentary, a mixed bag with just about everything.

Thunderheart:
A re-watch for me, first time for the GF.
Nice one, it aged really well.

Pet Sematary:
The new one, from this same 2019; which, I guess, is better than the fist movie but completely different than the original book.

Shazam!:
It was actually funny, not quite funny, but funny.

Movies During The Weekend

Sweet Mother of Jeebus!
We certainly watched a shitload of movies last weekend!
Winter, and specially a totally crappy cloudy and humid weather, certainly helps a lot.

When They See Us:
Got to see this one bt chance, I've tried to watch it earlier, but fell sleep.
We got to gulf down the thing in one go, and it was rather good.

She's So Lovely:
Wanted to re-watch (I guess?) this one for quite a while, back from the 90's when everyone was indie.
Did not liked it, it aged badly.

The Mean Season:
This one for the GF, who hates winter, so she has a glimpse of the brutal Miami summer.
Good movie, I haven't seen it in I don't know how many years, maybe 20.

Krampus:
The GF wanted to see this one, as she is on the quest of seeing every movie that Michael Dougherty made... Yes, he is the director of the last Godzilla movie, a flick that she loved, of course.

Dreadful Mirror

Man, what a magnificent way of destroying a franchise!
I loved Black Mirror right from the start (Link 1) and watched the following seasons (Link 2 & Link 3), but damn if the latest one is not a complete piece of stinking shit.
What a hell were they thinking? And only 3 episodes? I mean... C'mon, dudes! If you'are going to kill one of your best products, at least do it with some grandeur.
 

Movies During The Weekend

Only one movie this weekend, we had a special belated anniversary dinner on Saturday and not much free time on Sunday, as we rode like maniacs on our bicycles.

The Circus:
An excellent PBS documentary, we Netflixed this one with the GF, not really convinced that we'll made thru the whole of it, but, as usual, American Experience never disappoints.

Movies During The Weekend

Ok, so, yeah, right, summer ended for good, no more asados, and also, as the rain piles up, no more outdoor stuff to do and shorter days.
So, that means more movies, which is good.
Two movies this weekend.

Brexit:
The GF thought, or was planning, on sleep this one thru, but, it caught her attention, and even tho she was beat, finally watch it with me... We tried a couple of times before, but we were really tired and fell sleep.
Really good movie, of course, as usual, it portraits people as stupid.

Green Book:
Much better than what I thought it'll be.
The GF simply loved it.

Under The Silver Lake:
Loved -sort of, actually it was scary as hell- his last movie.
This one is pretty messed up, no doubt that's intentional, but, what a hell, man!

Movies During The Weekend

As the weather gets better and better (that is, colder and colder) the amount of watched movies increases...
In this case, two during past weekend.

The Towering Inferno:
Man, it must been something like 20 years since the last time I've seen this one...
Stevie steals the show, as it should be.

Catwalk: Tales From The Cat Show Circuit:
We Netflixed this one, the GF is a cat freak, so I recommended this one eons ago, but we didn't get the time to watch it until last Sunday.
Nice documentary, full of beautiful and ridiculous looking cats.

Movies During The Weekend

Yes! We finally watched a movie (or something!) Summer makes it hard, yadda, yadda... But we finally did watched one, and something that we were waiting for quite sometime to see..


Star Trek Discovery:
The first episode from the second season, here in Argentina, Netflix has the rights to stream it, no need to get CBS All Acess, on of the few nice things about the Third World :p
It was a cool one, tho it gets a bit repetitive when it comes to the blurry and infant Spock, yes, we get it, he is and will be important on this season...
Nice to see that, as all the other early reviews noted, this Discovery got back on track to what TOS had to offer.

(No) Movies During The Weekend

The GF and I are not watching anything lately... Too much bicycle rides with Blue Thunder, asados, and when we do have some free time, we sleep like bears...
We managed to see a documentary a couple of Sundays ago, tho.

Apollo's Daring Mission:
Really cool one, as usual, if its Nova, it is wonderful.
It has a bit of everything, compacted onto the doc, but really well made.
This is a topic that is certainly a favorite of mine (Link 1, Link 2 & Link 3)

The other thing I'm watching obsessively is Adam Savage's Tested, I'm Youtube watching on the Roku every day till who knows what hour... It is an amazing show, and, of course, I was huge fan of Myth Busters as well.

The Affair AFAIK

I fell for this one like a sucker.
Effing binge watching it like a bat out of hell...
The GF is seating this one out, so it is a one man show.
Right on the third season now (about episode four), and I'm beginning to dislike the show a bit as it goes along, the last episode from season two was already a bit rough to swallow...
Just when you are thinking what a hell of a stupid soap opera is this crap, and I'm about to quit on it, something happens, and somehow gathers my attention once again.
Will see where this whole thing goes.

Random Shit I've Been Watching Lately

Along For The Ride:
Really cool documentary, archive footage is superb, you might even think its a Criterion film (most of all because of the cover art), but it doesn't.
The film is sort of a post facto Entourage kinda tale.

Halt And Catch Fire (Season 2 & 3):
Just finished this season, kindy goofy, it took me literally, months to actualy finish the second season.
The third one went fast ;)
Right now watching the fourth season.

Silicon Valley (Season 2):
Not really why I'm watching it, first season was really stupid IMHO, specially after all the hype created around it; I can't ven believe it has so many seasons aftewards.
Anyway, just giving it a chance.

Doctor Strange:
Who the hell watches this shit????? By Jeebus, it is a humongous pile of crap.
I've started to watch this one about a year and half ago, and never had the nerve or time to finish it... Don't know why I even bother to.

The Post:
Pretty good one, as usual, Spielberg doesn't disappoints.

Movies During The Weekend

They're back!
I mean the weekend movies with the GF! We saw one movie and some streamed a couple of episodes.

It
I really don't see what the whole fuzz is all about.
Just another 80's nostalgia thing, if you ask me, Stranger Things (season 1) was way better.

Black Mirror
We sort of binge watched the first four episodes, IMHO, "USS Callister" & "Hang the DJ" were the best so far.

(No) Movies During The Weekend

Well, actually it's been a while since we watched a movie.
The GF is away doing some errands, and the last weekend we have been terribly busy and had no time to watch anything.
During the holidays I got to see a couple of things, tho...

The Toys That Made Us
Fantastic documentary, the local Netflix released the first four episodes.
The episode dealing with Star Wars toys is fantastic, although it is recommended to also watch Plastic Galaxy.
He-Man's episode is fantastic, the thing looks like something Tom Wolfe might have written.

Lincoln
Most of all because, along with War Horse (which I saw a couple of week ago) this one was in the "to watch" list.
It was really good, interesting, but looooong.

Cosmos
A re-watch of course, these last couple of days I've been watching the (classic of course) Sagan's Cosmos before going to sleep.

Movies During The Weekend

Once again, only one movie during our weekend... We are living on strange times...

The Void
A mighty cool one, even tho it was a terror flick.
Lots of Lovecraft, Carpenter's The Thing and H. R. Giger vibes on this one.
Wanted to see this one ever since saw the trailer on Popcorn Flix.

The Viet Name War

At last!
Watching Ken Burns' The Vietnam War on Youtube (thanks a bunch to whoever uploaded those!!!) on the TV thru the Roku 3.
Guess I heard about this documentary for the first tine on 2012 or so, and after seeing his masterpiece The War, I wanted to see this one ever since.
Even tho I love Ken Burns docs, I think the flash forwards on the first episode were not really necessary... IMHO those were sort of a bait, something to assure audiences that the doc will be focusing more on the USA part soon.

Movies During The Weekend

Only one movie, strange days are we living...

• The Mummy

What a bummer, man!
Slept almost thru the whole movie... Tom Cruise should retire, he doesn't look convincing, anyway, at least IMHO.

• Narcos

Also, during part of the weekend, while the GF was sleeping a bit, binge watched most Narcos 3rd season, which turned out to be quite good.