As I’m sure you can all agree, this was a weird week.
Between this being my “Spring Break” (a term I use loosely), this being the week my university decided to hold all classes online for the rest of my last semester of college, and me realizing that going home to my family would likely put my dad’s health in danger, I spent a lot of time indoors. Silver lining? I watched a lot of things to talk about for this blog!
First off, I finished The Awesomes, both season 2 and season 3. Honestly I kept watching it simply because it was easy to pick up and put down; it didn’t require a lot of attention to understand. Especially considering they didn’t seem to pay attention to the vast majority of their plots, it made it easy to finish, if anything just to finally tie up loose ends. Some of the episodes I legitimately enjoyed (the alternate reality/video game episode of season 3 was fun), and the others weren’t bad enough to get me to stop, and that’s kinda the best review I can give of this show.
One night, I decided to absolutely gorge myself on shorts I found on Kanopy, thus accidentally spending all of my movie credits at once. I’ll write a little about each of them in the ratings section below (and, of course, each has a Letterboxd review), but for now, here’s a list:
- Undress Me (2012)
- Jonas and the Sea (2015)
- I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors (2010)
- Flawed (2010)
- Strings (1991)
- Pebble Stone (2007)
- Under Covers (2019)
I finished off the week with a couple of movies. First I watched Psychopaths (2017), which is a horror movie about a serial killer on death row’s spirit influencing random people in a town to murder? I think? Honestly it wasn’t very clear if he had anything to do with the murdering (maybe that was the point?). I will say, it’s a very pretty horror movie. It’s cinematography and use of neon are on point, which is why the rest of it was pretty disappointing. The sound design was rough, the plot was almost nonexistent, a guy was shot in the neck and was perfectly fine, I guess?
After that, I finally watched Toy Story 4 (2019). Why? I couldn’t tell you. It was fine, kind of a bittersweet end to a series that I thought had ended with the last movie (and maybe it should’ve). Forky was cool though. I relate to his need to be amongst trash.
Unofficial Ratings
Undress Me
This movie is how I realized I still know the Swedish word for pussy, something that I didn’t realize I had learned during my pewdiepie phase when I was thirteen and stupid.
Jonas and the sea
Oh, to be a giant metal scrap fish swimming in the deep blue sea with all of your fish friends at your side!
I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors
This is a short film about the inheritance of your parent’s trauma, when the trauma comes from being Holocaust survivors. Yeah, heavy stuff.
Flawed
By far the best part is the art styling, which felt like a YouTube Draw my Life but with watercolors.
Strings
Sometimes you’re so focused on your upstairs neighbors’ leaky pipes, you never stop to wonder about how your in-apartment string quartet rehearsals might bug your other neighbors.
Pebble Stone
That awkward moment when you’re lonely AF so you decide to make yourself a friend out of literal garbage but then that friend becomes sentient and almost kills you on accident. Also you’re, like, 5.
Under Covers
He sees you when you’re sleeping, he know when you’re awake.
HES THE MOON! THE ALL-KNOWING MOON! ALL HAIL THE MOON!
Psychopaths
Female serial killers are cool, so at least this movie has that going for it.
Toy Story 4
All Toy Story movies follow the same rough plot, and no one can convince me otherwise.
The Awesomes: season 2
I’m glad I saw this through because no matter the plot, it’s still an amazing fucking cast
The Awesomes: Season 3
I think that I mainly just wish this show had tried to be a true sitcom rather than shoehorning in as many story arcs as possible, because it just cluttered up the episodes.
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