Movies and TV

Finally caught up on Rings of Power season 2. While a few moments made me cringe at just how much they tried to imitate scenes from the films, I still thoroughly enjoyed the show. Wish I didn’t have to wait for season 3 though!

Holy shit Disney. I knew this was coming, but I still wasn’t prepared for a $40 a year price increase.

Not worth it!

I’m three episodes in to season 2 of Rings of Power (we rewatched the first season to remember what happened) and loving it. I love how the sense of impending doom never really leaves.

Finished watching His Dark Materials tonight. It’s one of my favourite books, so I had high expectations.

I loved it.

Mary Malone’s story in the last episode just pulled me apart, and then the ending was emotionally exhausting…

Dafne Keen was incredible as Lyra. After what happened with The Golden Compass, I’m so glad this show got made.

This feature on Ahsoka in the latest issue of Empire has me so very, very excited. I want to temper my expectations, but I’m expecting perfection and that’s hard to ease back from.

I enjoyed this enough. I thought Ariel was great, as were Sebastian and Scuttle. But Eric, Flounder and Ursula were all a bit meh.

But I don’t feel like there was anything added here to the original. That said, wife and daughter absolutely loved it, so maybe I’m just a bit too harsh.

It’s been so long since I watched this I had forgotten how much I enjoyed it. Great movie. Lays a lot of groundwork for_Frozen,_ too.

Yeah, I freakin’ loved Guardians Vol 3. They weren’t saving the Galaxy, they were saving each other, and also the Galaxy along the way.

Now give me 23 episodes of Rocket and crew saving small time aliens around the universe, Disney!

Could barely keep my eyes open I was so bored… but it was still better than The Wild.

Finally got to Kara’s favourite Disney movie. She’s very happy.

It took us years to watch this when it first came out. I think we were so jaded by the poor quality of the Disney movies before this one came out, so we never got around to it.

But we missed out, because this is great.

Another classic.

I was reading the other day that Ratatouille, Wall-E and Up were all made at Pixar during a period of time when the studio wasn’t working with Disney, and wasn’t yet owned by Disney either.

The end result were these three movies that took some creative risks you typically don’t see in Disney films.

I’m glad. This is a great film, and makes you ride the full spectrum of emotions.

First time I watched this all the way through. It was pretty good.

So good. I’m still blown away by how much emotion is in this movie about robots that barely talk.

Really loved watching the finale for The Mandalorian. Lots of questions about where things are going from here, but it was everything I hoped for from Star Wars. 📺

Can’t watch this now without thinking about Racacoonie. Still good though.

Definitely weaker than the original. Admittedly it was a tough act to follow, but this just seemed to be missing a lot for me.

Another disappointment in the Disney list. The early 2000s really were full of duds for the big D.

I think this is it. This is the worst Disney movie I have seen. Never again.

It’s better than the second one. At least it has a bit of a story, though it’s fairly predictable.

Ugh. This movie is so boring. It’s a silly plot and a ridiculous premise for a sequel.