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Reviews
Bodies (2023)
Fun and entertaining!
This was an intriguing short series involving time travel and a time loop that is broken in the final episode (#8).
I enjoyed watching it enough that I binged all 8, 1-hour episodes over 3 consecutive nights!
I liked the conjuring up of the different place-times of 1890, 1942, 2023 and 2053. That's part of why I like reading historical fiction: you get to imagine yourself as living there at that time, amidst the different cultures and nationalities. It makes you appreciate how we really are products of our environments.
I had fun hearing one of the main characters explain why he did not believe in free will. Humans always seem to think they are too special (divinely inspired?) to be affected by causation or external forces, even if everything and every other creature has to follow the rules of cause and effect!
When you honestly add up *all* of the previous influences on this moment in time, and consider the chemistry and physics of our thinking processes, it's not too great a leap to feel a certain inevitability is in control.
Spirited (2022)
a Broadway musical rivaling the best
The trailers did not do this movie justice. They are OK, but it's a good thing that their lukewarm promise did not keep me away.
The singing and dancing (choreography) was super, infectious, exciting, and fun. I never tired of it from the opening number through the colorful and mesmerizing last rolling credit.
Every key character went through their own epiphanies as the story unfolded. But no single character won the show.
It's too easy to believe people are good or bad. I like the idea offered here that we make large and small choices every day that affect everyone we deal with.
I look forward to watching this again soon with other family and friends.
Space Force (2020)
Enjoying This Comedy
I'm happy that Netflix is on full on board with a brand new comedy starring Carell and Malkovich.
Lost in London (2017)
Exhausting to watch
The comedy was in short supply in this movie. I wanted it to get funnier throughout the dramatic sequences. I kept watching and waiting for it to become funny again. In fact the movie was more of a tragedy that revealed a redemption in the very end.
It was exhaustive because I convinced my wife to watch it and she would have never let me forget it if I made her sit through another bad movie.
She said she liked it. Shew!
Moral Orel (2005)
not afraid to expose hypocrisy
I was not prepared for the extreme laughter that I experienced watching Season One, front to back on DVD tonight. When religious hypocrisy is exposed with that much skill and enthusiasm, I find it very compelling.
I watched Davey & Goliath shows on pre-dawn TV as a young kid, and I did so even though I was not allowed to - because it was about a Protestant family and my mom felt it was somehow anti-Catholic. This was before there were any controls on televisions, and my mom wasn't serious enough in her admonition to get up that early and make me stop watching it.
I've only seen Season One but I learned here there were two more seasons, so now I have to watch them, too. My favorite so far was episode #5. So funny that I laughed myself to the point where I almost could not get enough oxygen. Ouch :-)