I'll cover some other stuff in the comments if time permits today, but...World War Z.
I avoided comments on it back when everyone else was talking about it, so I'm sure this was discussed, but if the movie changes this much from script sale to production, why even keep the name? This movie had no social commentary at all, which was primarily the book's focus. If one read the synopses of each thing back-to-back they'd never know one was related to the other. Pointless.
Still, I would have forgiven everything if the movie had been particularly good, but it wasn't. I shrugged my shoulders at the end of 110 minutes where I really never felt all that tense, and that was that. Oh well.
This month I continued sort of enjoying the highs and eye-rolling lows of Dexter and the starting-to-feel-played-out Archer. I watched the first two episodes of Bob's Burgers, which shows some promise, though the belly laughs aren't coming yet. I braved the first episode of Hemlock Grove (a Netflix original about werewolves that the Netflix algorithm insisted I would hate) and it could probably be interesting if it weren't so hammily acted. I also saw the first two episodes of Sword Art Online, an anime series with a preposterous premise (a game developer has enslaved thousands of players into an MMO and is forcing them to try to survive the tower. If they die in the game, they die for real!!1!11). It's fun so far, as it's just so committed to the idiocy. I saw but a single movie: It's a Disaster. It is hilarious. I loved the performances and relationships all the way through and by the end I truly cared what happened to the characters, despite the fact that it was just a bit of absurdist comedy.
Not a bad month here. I've got some commentary on Frozen and In Bruges, as well as the extreme ups and downs of Dexter, but it's too late to type it up now.
My schedule is such that I'll miss most of this. It's not much of an issue, as I saw a few episodes of Justified (I'm still in season one), finished season four of Dexter (it's still a show that should be awesome but is merely good) and...I don't know, something else. I'm about to try for another big movie month here. There's too much I want to see before I die.
I saw a few excellent episodes of Game of Thrones and some average episodes of sitcoms. I don't think I've seen any movies in the last month, though I did see the first 20 excellent minutes of Skyfall, which had the proper lack of believability. Maybe I'll see the rest today.
Third Monday already?! I was hoping for another big movie month, but my Kickstarter derailed that (and everything else). I saw about four...I'll cover them a bit later. As I type this, it's pretty late and I'm not feeling great. I now have two straight days off with very few commitments...I'll probably see as many as I saw all last month.
