L'Effondrement

Yesterday the GF mentioned me a new French mini-series, L'Effondrement (The Collapse).

Since she, of course, knows I have a thing for Post Apocalyptic movies and books, thought that I might find it something worth watching.
It certainly was.
Only 8 episodes, some 30 minutes or less long each one, and, get this, all of them shot in real time on a single shot.
One thing tho, the last episode really ruins the whole thing, at least, IMHO.

Watching this while riding the CV19 wave doesn't help ;)

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 really a movie, but we re-visited an old friend of ours...

Star Trek: Discovery
After a long, long time we started once again with the second season of Discovery.
It might look like, slowly, very slowly, this season might, maybe, perhaps, gets a little better...
I did enjoy the first one, but the second one got really, really boring.

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

F*ck load of movies during the weekend! After all, it rained like hell (on top of a country wide blackout) so, when we had electricity, we had plenty of time to watch movies.

Cujo:
Wow, I haven't seeing this one in decades... It certainly aged really well.
It was a first for the GF, as she sort of hates dogs.

Xanadu:
Man oh man... What can I say about this one?
It was, simply put, put of this freaking world... I can't believe they actually made that movie.

Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack:
This one was obviously a GF Flick, I've watch just a bit here and there.
Lots and lots of scale models are destroyed on this one.

Chernobyl:
We absolutely and completely loved this one.
 Binged watched the five episodes on one day.

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

And another summer weekend with just one movie, or more like a TV series episode.

Star Trek: Discovery:
The newest episode this week, luckily it was better than the last one we watched last weekend.
I still haven't lost faith on this one.

Movies During The Weekend

Another weekend, and another movie seen, or at least, some TV with the GF on Sunday night.
Heat was unbearable, just before the storm broke, so we watched a few things while we waited for the cold front to arrive.

Star Trek Discovery:
We watched this week episode on Netflix.
No, this season, at least so far, doesn't make it for me, too much melodrama for my taste.

Venom:
A total and complete meh.
Just another one of the bunch, if you haven't seeing it, skip it.

Movies During The Weekend

(Past weekend, that is)

Another weekend with movies! Yay! Or maybe, not movies, but TV series and a documentary.

Star Trek Discovery:

We watched the two available episodes, I found these two a bit boring, compared to the one we saw last week.

It is a drag when it gets too philosophical.

FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened

Cool doc about something I didn't even knew it happened... Of course, the GF knew everything about it, acutally, she knows everything about absolutely everything...

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.

Narcos Mexico

Finished the first season (or is it really the fourth?) a couple of days ago, wolfed down the whole thing in less than a week.
I was a little skeptical, not sure it might be as good as the previous ones, but, oh boy, it was really, really good.

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.

Halt And Catch Fire (Literally)

Man, I don't know... According to Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, critical response got better as the series progressed, but to me it was just the opposite.
Saw the first season about four and half years ago, and I thought the first one was the best, in fact, took me years to actually watch the other three.
Anyhow, IMHO, the fourth season was, by far, the worst one.

(More) Random Shit I've Been Watching

Continuing with this, or more specifically, with this two:

Halt and Catch Fire:
Right now past the middle of Season 4... I mean, what a fuck is this? Where the hell are the computers?
It has evolved (or something like that) onto a soap opera of sorts.

Silicon Valley:
With this one, again, I'm right onto Season 4, and, yeah, it is sort of funny sometimes, but nothing to write home about it, at least IMHO.

Movies During (and After) The Holidays

While waiting for the GF to return I have been watching a couple of movies, mostly to fight boredom and combat the MF heat around here.

Altered Carbon:
Actually this one started on Miami, binge watching it with the GF on a lazy afternoon, we watched the first five episodes or so... I've seeing the first one before, but I was really tired, so slept most of it.
It is really good (with amazing influences everywhere), but, IMHO, it tends to get a little boring towards the end of it.

The Florida Project:
Nice cinematography, well, I love it; but if you see the pictures I took over the years on Miami and Florida, you might know why right away.

Thank You For Your Service:
Naah, nothingness... A big bore.

My Friend Dahmer:
Nope, not mine.
Boring.

Buck Rogers In The 25th Century:
Damn!! I must have seeing this more than 30 years ago or something like that... Time proved it to be bizarre, really, really bizarre.
The title scene is out of this world.

Where No Monday Has Gone Before

Due to one of those strange things of international distribution, Mondays the local Netflix airs the newest episode of Star Trek: Discovery around here.
So, Monday nights are Discovery Nights.
Also last night did a bit of a marathon with Star Trek: Enterprise, finished the third season, mostly trying to catch up the GF, who become a major Trekkie fan in the last couple of months...
Incidentally, the TRON influence is really strong on that Discovery's screenshot above.

Trekkie Sweetheart

Well, yes, Discovery is out until this mid-season nonsense pause is over...
In other news, the GF and I are watching (binge watching more like it) Star Trek: Enterprise and enjoying it like monkeys.
I'm suspecting she is a full blooded trekkie.

The Upside Down Got Boring

Finished the second season of Stranger Things during the weekend.
This, incidentally, doesn't fall under the "Movies During The Weekend" post category because I watched it alone, the GF decided to sit this one out; shes confessed she watched the first season just to be polite, if you will.
Well, what a hell, I did not like the second one, it looks like a joke of itself.
Yeah, yeah... All the homages and references, yes, I get those.