Taking a Film Analysis class now, which involves watching a movie every Wednesday. Not sure how many I'll be writing a blog post about, but regardless I thought I would mention it.
Also at the very bottom of the blog there's now the catalog thing of all my posts ever broken down in year/month (same thing that's on Andrew's/Eric's/Mom's blogs). Honestly not sure why I've never added it until now. It's pretty cool.
Onto reviews/thoughts of varying lengths about various media that I've consumed recently:
Alloy of Law/Shadows of Self/Bands of Mourning:
Soooo good! Honestly a lot better than I remember. Especially Shadows of Self. I feel like I've always underrated it because the theme isn't what I wanted it to be.
In other words, after reading the original trilogy, which is (especially the third book) a little bleaker, you get a super fun, refreshing, light-hearted Alloy of Law. And it's fantastic. But then Shadows of Self comes along, and it's darker, sadder, less light-hearted etc. And I kind of wanted more of the light-hearted stuff.
But when I remove my pre-expectations and just go in with a fresh mindset and take the book for what it is, it is so good. I loved it. Better than Alloy of Law?? Not sure yet, I'll have to ponder on that one.
Another thing that surprised me:
In the past, Bands of Mourning has always been my favorite in the series with Shadows of Self being my least favorite. I think those might have switched spots?
I think I always loved Bands of Mourning because of what it introduces to the world/magic systems. But based simply off my enjoyment level of reading it, I think I'd put the other two above it, which rather surprises me.
So pumped for The Lost Metal.
Thor: Love and Thunder:
'Twas alright. I think it's better than what I've heard from other people. For example, I prefer it over Thor: The Dark World. But definitely not my favorite film, and you would be hard pressed to find me watching it again at any given point ever.
Knives Out:
Pretty fantastic. There was quite a bit of language, which was unfortunate. Excited for Glass Onion.
It's A Wonderful Life:
Watched this on my mission. For some reason, the whole mission was given permission to watch it. My companion and I were playing Skull King with a couple other Elders, so I was only half paying attention to it and thought it was alright.
Soooo glad I got to watch it again the other day in Film Analysis class. Super good, super heartwarming. I loved it.
The Grapes of Wrath:
Watched this in film analysis class. I found it incredibly boring. Casey dying was sad. Besides that, I didn't feel invested at all. Things just kind of happened and then the movie ended. I felt like there was little resolution.
Characters felt shallow, so I didn't care what happened to them.
Plot acted like it was going to go places, and then nothing happened. That cycle repeated several times.
In concept, the movie should make me feel sad because of the hard things this family was going through.
In practice, I felt no connection to them.
If you wanted to watch the movie to be sad, I could simply spend 5 minutes reading about the dust bowl/great depression and it would make me sadder than watching 2 hours of this film.
If you want this as a historical piece, then go watch a historical piece.
The only reason I could see someone enjoying this is if they've had personal experiences with similar events. The movie will allow them to relive/remember what those days were like, and that can bring a lot of powerful emotions. I can see it being really powerful for them.
Besides that, I don't understand why someone would enjoy/want to watch this movie.
Pretty harsh review, haha. Hope I'm not making anyone upset.
Spy x Family:
Super fun anime :) Heartwarming. Surprisingly tense at some points, although I didn't actually like those moments because I felt it distracted from the overarching fun-going tone the anime has. Maybe those moments were only tense for me, idk.
Excited for future seasons!
My Hero Academia:
Top Tier anime right here. 9.5/10 overall, I think. It is a long-running show with over a hundred episodes and more to come, which can be intimidating. But it's a blast.
My Rankings of the Seasons: 3rd or 4th, 2nd, 1st, 5th
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