aka Blog v4.0
I don’t think I’ve smiled so much during a movie is a long time.
It was just so fun to watch.
And I found myself singing along to most of the soundtrack.
There was a brief moment that brought me WAY back to my childhood, a sound, and that’s all I’ll say.
Stay for the credits scene. That’s all I’ll say about that. I may have been the only person in the theatre who clapped.
Highly recommended. Go see it!
I hate endings of stuff I enjoy watching.
Monarch, Ted Lasso, even recently, Shogun.
But when it’s something Star Wars related, like Ahsoka or Rebels, it hurts when it ends.
The Bad Batch was no exception.
For me, Omega grew as a character this past season. I was less annoyed with her as I was in previous seasons. Heck, I was happy to see where her journey seems to be headed, with that final scene.
I’m still upset that Tech is (still) dead, but relieved that he wasn’t revealed to be one of Hemlock’s shadow operatives.
Speaking of Hemlock, I didn’t know until I checked the cast credits that Hemlock was voiced by the guy (Jimmi Simpson) who played Logan Pierce in a couple of episodes of Person of Interest.
I was genuinely sad to see the end of Nala Se, but glad it caused the demise of Rampart and Hemlock’s database.
It was a nice touch to see Tarkin divert Project Necromancer’s funding to Project Stardust.
I’m also kicking myself for not remembering that (Mount) Tantiss was originally from Heir to the Empire. It never occured to me to look that up when they first mentioned/showed the planet.
Overall, I thought it was good finale with a satisfying ending. Clone Force 99 is still around at the time of the Rebellion, and that’s good enough for me.
I went in to this movie not knowing what true story this was based on, and I’m glad I did.
Based on the trailer, I just wanted to see Cavill and Ritchson in a period piece where they were killing Nazis.
Which we got. Jack Reacher, Nazi Killer.
But when a certain character introduced himself VERY early in the movie, I kinda started to piece together what this was based on and who one of the main characters was going to be, or rather, the inspiration for another character in a similar genre.
This is definitely going into my list of go-to films when I need something playing in the background while doing other things.
Recommended, though not necessarily a must-see in a theatre.
– I’ve gotten somewhat into a routine on weekends, foregoing my usual Target run, and simply staying home and unwinding and doing laundry.
– I dropped off a good number of books to a local bookstore in the mall, and finally got around to visiting the library that I live behind and getting a library card.
– I’m beginning to dump stuff that I brought to the apartment from the house, finding that I grabbed some stuff that I really have no use for or haven’t used in years.
– I need to go out walking more.
– I also need to eat better. I lost about 10 pounds from the stress of moving, but have gained back a few of those pounds.
This is a fun movie. Definitely a popcorn flick, and nothing like Godzilla Minus One.
The Kong scenes were great, and what little *koff koff* we saw of Godzilla was awesome.
There were more kaiju in this movie than the trailer would lead you to believe.
The bad guy was pretty cool, and TBH I would have loved to see a cut of this film without the humans and no dialogue, just interaction between all the monsters.
My boys were fighting together by the end of the film, and that made me very happy.
Highly recommended if you’re a fan of Godzilla, Kong, the Legendary Monsterverse, or even that Monarch series on Apple TV+
Go see it!
What, you thought I was gonna chronicle everyday that I’m living in an apartment?
The only major thing to report at this point is that a tech came by to try to install broadband internet but for some reason my phone lines(!) are screwed up and they couldn’t hook me up.
So now I’m currently running my phone as a wifi hotspot. Which really isn’t good enough to watch TV, but good enough for web browsing.
So it looks like I’m going to get AT&T fiber (shudder) which I decided to get instead of Xfinity.
Because of scheduling I won’t get hooked up until Monday morning. Ack.
In other news, I brought some of my sports games over and intend to resume play soon.
Also, the shower water pressure kinda sucks.
Something that everyone is frightened of, to some degree.
I’m moving to an apartment.
This is the single biggest change for me, having spent my infancy/childhood/teen/young adult/adult/etc. years in the same house, for my entire life up to now.
It’s a bit scary, yes, but I think I have most of it under some control, at this point.
I have to downsize my stuff, which at first sounded like a lot (it is) but it’s more manageable once I started moving stuff to my offsite storage unit.
Over the course of the next few months or so I’m planning to offload most everything that I’m putting in storage.
Which means donating/trashing or gifting to people.
Which means I might be asking for people’s addresses and shipping off random boxes of stuff out.
Kinda like Loot Crate, I suppose.
I did this maybe 10-15 years ago, and I’m sure some of the stuff I sent off ended up in the trash anyways.
But hey, some of the stuff I need to get rid of may be of some use to someone.
I may start a new blog as a result of all of this, too.
I guess we’ll see.
The Story So Far:
As with last week, I’m trying to figure out what to do now, with tabletop sports and starting the solo RPG being the top contenders.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, ONE AND ALL!
The Story So Far:
I’m leaning toward some tabletop gaming, either sports or maybe finally trying to start the Mythic Game Master Emulator test run.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL Y’ALL!
