Spoiler re: movie context:
She is her natural age in the movie but plays an ancient character.
Yeah old guard was not good. Cartoonishly boring “action” movie. Usually Charlize picks better roles, this was not one.
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Well it was based on a cartoon, so yeah.
I dunno, I thought the premise was a clever twist on the Highlander thing. Wasn’t too heavy and didn’t drown in overly drawn out action scenes, imo.
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Old Guard was a fine for a couple hours of basic entertainment. I won’t remember anything about it in 6 months, but it held my attention and I didn’t find anything in it to hate.
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Watched Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga last weekend.
I lost interst about 3/4 of the way through. The ending dragged on for 30 minutes longer than it should have. Will Ferrell movies are always hit-or-miss with me and this was a miss.
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Confirmed. Wife and I are watching an episode per day during lunch. Love it so far.
Just watched Palm Springs, fantastic. Best of covid season so far 
I started watching that but then my wife wanted to watch the Eric Andre special instead. (It’s pretty good; it’s Eric Andre, and you’re getting pretty much exactly what you should expect from that.)
Is the anecdote the Al Pacino one? I do think that one’s pretty funny, but he told it on his last special I think.
Mark Normand’s standup special on YouTube is really good, FYI.
I wanted this to be good. It was okay. My main issue was
no explanation for when they do or don’t lose their immortality. Instead of that risk carrying weight and stakes, it’s just something that happens when required by the plot. Especially when someone is going to give a speech on the Theme.
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Eric Andre’s stand up was kind of meh imo. Wasn’t terrible but it pales in comparison to the hilarity of his show.
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I’ve been watching The Day I Met El Chapo, which is the true story of one of Mexico’s most famous telenovela actresses writing a drunken tweet about El Chapo, who then writes her a letter from prison and they eventually workshop the idea of her producing a movie based on his life. Then El Chapo escapes from prison and they agree to meet in the Sinaloa mountains. Then Sean Penn shows up and fucks up everything. I’ve been watching it for Spanish immersion, but it’s a fun watch if you like Narcos and stuff like that.
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Liked Greyhound. Tom Hanks as Captain of a destroyer on convoy duty to England in WW2. Not as good as DAS BOOT, but not much is. Nice companion piece though.
Old Guard was entertaining in a shallow way. Substituted body count and action for world building and nuance.
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Finished Dark Season 3
Gotta admit, didn’t love it. It got good in the final two episodes, but overall, this season was just WAY too confusing. The first two were confusing, but in a good way, as it was interesting and you could eventually figure out what was going on. But the third season felt like it just got complicated for the sake of getting complicated until they finally explained things and had some big reveals in the last couple episodes.
I got a bit tired of all the riddles and enigmatic conversations. One person would be like, “What the fuck is going on? What should I do?” and then the other person is all like, “You will know when the answer is presented to you lest you know what you already know and the knot this the knot that.”
I mean, shut the fuck up already and get to the point. And then it turns out everybody was wrong all along and Claudia figured everything out. Again, the end was interesting, especially when you realize how completely fucked up the family trees got and why certain people disappeared in the end, but I didn’t think Season 3 was nearly as fun as the other two.
EDIT: Despite my complaints, the season was still enjoyable overall and way better than most shows.
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Finished S1 of Dark. Was good but didn’t quite live up to the hype imo. Is S2 better?
Will probably start S2 anyway this week I suspect because Mrs j enjoys it.
It’s about equal to season 1.
Ok, it’s a reasonable way to spend several evenings I guess.
Just finished snowpiercer. If you can get past the physics lols and like the look of the concept I would give it a thumbs up.
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Fuck
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Channel surfing and ads are back, baby!
The free version comes with commercials and plenty of vintage hits like “The King of Queens” and “Everybody Loves Raymond.” And it offers something viewers might have missed while they were logged onto other streamers: the ability to channel-surf.
The service said it has brought back the analog-era pastime by grouping its programming into distinct feeds, with one dedicated to NBC’s late night hosts and another for the network’s morning franchise, “Today,” among others.
The ad-supported version offers more than 10,000 hours of content, with no more than five minutes of commercials for each hour of programming. The platform also comes in two other versions: Peacock Premium, with ads and more 20,000 hours of content, at $5 a month (or free for Comcast and Cox cable subscribers); and a second iteration of Peacock Premium, with no commercials, at $10 a month. The basic Netflix plan costs $9 a month. Hulu offers a low-cost option, with ads, for $6 a month.