Watching Monday
Jan. 6th, 2014 02:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brigdhI have missed posting about three weeks of this! On the other hand, most of my TV shows have been on hiatus, so I haven't actually had that much to post about.
Extremely brief movie reviews:
American Hustle: Eh. I liked the concept a lot (conmen! How could I not like it?), but found the execution fairly boring. Acting was very good, though.
Frozen: Lovely and wonderful and had fantastic music, but I wouldn't say it's the best Disney movie in the last twenty years, like some reviews have been arguing.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: There were a lot of great individual scenes or images or elements, but overall I was pretty disappointed. (However, I did see the movie while sick and high on cold medicine, so possibly I'm not the most objective viewer.) I still think this should have been one or two movies instead of three.
Leverage
OMG THIS SHOW IS AMAZING HOW HAVE I NEVER WATCHED THIS BEFORE?? I love Hardison and "Age of the geek, baby" and "Well, somebody got to fight the injured, shoot, that's my niche.", I love Eliot and "I don't like guns", I love strange, strange Parker, I love Sophie and her terrible acting and coaching Eliot on how to flirt.
I love the entire idea of the show. It's ridiculous and over-the-top and completely unrealistic, but the entire premise is how insurance companies and banks and big companies are evil, and our team of conmen will fight for individuals. I was reading something recently that described the mystery genre as "fantasies of justice", and that is such the perfect description of Leverage.
(Also, I have only seen up to episode 1.06- "The Stork Job", about the Serbian orphanage- so no spoilers past that, please.)
Extremely brief movie reviews:
American Hustle: Eh. I liked the concept a lot (conmen! How could I not like it?), but found the execution fairly boring. Acting was very good, though.
Frozen: Lovely and wonderful and had fantastic music, but I wouldn't say it's the best Disney movie in the last twenty years, like some reviews have been arguing.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: There were a lot of great individual scenes or images or elements, but overall I was pretty disappointed. (However, I did see the movie while sick and high on cold medicine, so possibly I'm not the most objective viewer.) I still think this should have been one or two movies instead of three.
Leverage
OMG THIS SHOW IS AMAZING HOW HAVE I NEVER WATCHED THIS BEFORE?? I love Hardison and "Age of the geek, baby" and "Well, somebody got to fight the injured, shoot, that's my niche.", I love Eliot and "I don't like guns", I love strange, strange Parker, I love Sophie and her terrible acting and coaching Eliot on how to flirt.
I love the entire idea of the show. It's ridiculous and over-the-top and completely unrealistic, but the entire premise is how insurance companies and banks and big companies are evil, and our team of conmen will fight for individuals. I was reading something recently that described the mystery genre as "fantasies of justice", and that is such the perfect description of Leverage.
(Also, I have only seen up to episode 1.06- "The Stork Job", about the Serbian orphanage- so no spoilers past that, please.)
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Date: 2014-01-07 12:14 am (UTC)it gets BETTER as it goes
♥! Shows aren't allowed to GET BETTER. That's not how it works!
"Fantasy of justice" also applies very well to Ben January. Just sayin'.