glishara

The Game ends in 2026.

• Inglourious Basterds: I was enticed to watch this movie by being spoiled for the ending, and I would not have watched it otherwise. Good film, I enjoyed the ending. :P Way too gory for my tastes otherwise, I had to look away a lot. Brad Pitt's gang were kind of superfluous, weren't they, wow. If they hadn't existed, Shoshanna and Marcel would still have gotten it done. I guess the other moral of the movie (other than the obvious "kill lots of Nazis") is being multi-lingual is important.



• Scraps: This is a TV show where a cook goes around the country, the idea being to use food scraps in food. For a half hour show (so, effectively, a 20-minute show), they make some really odd choices in what to spend time on showing, like in the first segment of the show they often show things like chocolate making and oyster farming and how to make baguettes, going more in depth than they have time for and then rushing the rest. There’s an odd tension between being a travel show and a cooking show.
  
  Also, because every food thing they make is described as being really good, the best, most amazing thing ever, changing their world, I don’t trust them. Like, in other shows, they for sure go over the top in praise, but by saying something didn’t turn out well, you trust them more when they say that someone is good, you know? This show advertises that their recipes are online and stuff, but I feel like I would approach those recipes as “who the fuck knows” and stuff, because I have no trust that these things actually taste good even coming out as they were meant to be. (A problem with trying new things: does it taste bad because I don’t like the thing, or does it taste bad because I made it wrong.) Also, in the ~magic of tv~ they are clearly not making enough during the shown-on-the-show parts to feed 12 people, but it’s soooo noticeable. So who/when is doing the actual cooking? Where are things being stored? Who is doing the dishes? I won’t even ask how long it takes them; the conceit is this is all done in one day, but there was already a recipe where it was “marinate this chicken for 24 hours”, and they did the tv-switch-thing of one that was already started, so it’s already full of lies. :P (Also, as usual, I pay way too much attention to things like “okay, someone is filming this” and that there’s a whole unseen group, etc.) (This is also what I notice first when there’s those pictures that go around of weird positions photographers get into on nature photoshoots: someone is also there, taking a picture of it.)
  
  OK, also, almost all the “scraps” they highlight? They are often not kitchen scraps you often get in your kitchen from general cooking, they are things you have to seek out. For every “overripe strawberries for jam!” and “stale bread for soup!” there’s equally something where it’s like “where do you even get that”. (such as peanut flour made from the leftovers of making peanut oil), plus they did once outright go "thye don't sell this stuff at grocery stores and never have".



• Lego Batman: fun and enjoyable movie! I feel this was a better batman movie than the two Nolan movies I've watched.



• American Gods: Got like 5 minutes into the first episode, turned it off for too much gore and damage to eyes. I shall probably try again. It's been a while since I read American Gods and I don't think I ever reread it. I don't recall being hugely blown over by it; there are parts I still remember, but I also remember being a bit confused by the plot and, idk, a little meh overall. Anyway, it wouldn't take much for me to like the adaptation more than the book, so long as I can get more than 5 minutes into the adaptation. :P



• Lemony Snicket netflix show: Enjoying it so far! The format of the show makes all the definitions stuff much more palatable and humorous to me than when I was reading. Y'all are right, it is very Jewish.



• Doctor Who: This show needs to stop being good and raising my expectations. It's going to let me down and the higher my expectations get, the further there is for me to fall :( I do like how we've now had two seasons in a row that end off with two ladies going off to explore space and time together.