Thursday, February 4, 2021

What are you watching?

Well I guess we're all watching a lot more TV, except there's nothing on sooooo...
There's Netflix, Hulu, Disney, CBS All Access, The Peacock, Prime Video, Discovery +, Apple TV, Pluto, Sling, etc., etc., etc. So what do watch? 
We have a few of those channels, but not traditional cable. Why spend a couple hundred $$ on cable when you can get all this other stuff for 1/2 the cost! 
I've actually been trying to watch the old classics. Like Little Foxes with Bette Davis. That was pretty good. Rear Window, there's a classic! I watched it for the first time this year. Adams Rib, Citizen Kane, The Nightmare Before Christmas, which was a fun idea but not really my cup of tea. 

-We watched a movie on Hulu called Run. That was great. I was completely surprised by the ending.  
-On a free preview of HBO, we watched a Brad Pitt movie called Ad Astra. We enjoyed it. It's a good sci-fi movie but not an action movie. Captain Phillips was fantastic! Was Gemini Man, with Will Smith a remake? No matter. I hadn't seen either version before. It's a good guy movie :-) And that wildly popular horror movie Get Out! Whoa. The whole movie was so odd I just kept saying, what the hell is going on?! The horror part didn't happen until the last 10 minutes and they could've done without that. I liked it until then. The last 10 minutes was just a slasher movie. Oh! and have you seen the documentary, Free Solo?? It's about Alex Honnold, the young man who climbed the face of El Capitan, without ropes!!!! Whoa. It was pretty intense.

The next ones are all on Prime; 
-Midnight Sky. It stars George Clooney. It wanted to be a good movie...alas. The twist at the end was kind of cool and George did a good  job but the movie was just meh. 
-Winchester, mostly because we love Helen Mirren. It was just alright. 
-The Vast of Night-it was like a pretty typical 50's style alien movie so that made it kind of fun. Plus, sometimes a movie that's loaded with dialog instead of special effects is a nice break!
-Aeronauts was good. But the real story that it was based on, was better. Still a good adventure movie though. 
-Archive, was a little confusing so you have to pay attention, but it was a good sci-fi robot movie and the special effects were amazing. Also an ending I didn't see coming.
-the CORE. We tried to watch it but after about 20 minutes it was so predictable, we bailed. 

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