Love is the Way
Feb. 5th, 2023 10:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tracker7Had a good visit with Dad. Didn't see the comet, and it was really too cold to do very much, but I enjoyed the brief getaway.
Podcasts and my streaming queues have led me to watching and rewatching a slate of supers movies. Spider-Man 2 remains one of the best of the mix, and I put it at the top of the live-action Spider-movies. Alfred Molina just shines as Doctor Octopus. Superman 2 is also stellar, forty years on. I will still defend Man of Steel, on the whole - Cavill is good! Diane Lane and Kevin Costner are very good! I would pay full-price for a Russell Crowe-as-Jor-El, Action Scientist movie. To balance things out, Morbius is really that bad. It's clumsy and wastes a lot of talent.
One of the shows responsible for all of this is the fantastic How Did This Get Made. It's easily one of my favorite listens, and among the very funny rips on bad movie, I find myself learning more about the filmmaking process. Anyway, a couple of nights ago, I listened to the lengthy episode they did on the Snyder cut of Justice League. I expected it to be pretty vicious, and the episode did start out with bad notes, but ultimately, the podcasters declared the Snyder cut better than the theatrical release. And now I'm looking at throwing a few bucks at HBO Max to watch the Snyder cut. And probably Black Adam, too.
Podcasts and my streaming queues have led me to watching and rewatching a slate of supers movies. Spider-Man 2 remains one of the best of the mix, and I put it at the top of the live-action Spider-movies. Alfred Molina just shines as Doctor Octopus. Superman 2 is also stellar, forty years on. I will still defend Man of Steel, on the whole - Cavill is good! Diane Lane and Kevin Costner are very good! I would pay full-price for a Russell Crowe-as-Jor-El, Action Scientist movie. To balance things out, Morbius is really that bad. It's clumsy and wastes a lot of talent.
One of the shows responsible for all of this is the fantastic How Did This Get Made. It's easily one of my favorite listens, and among the very funny rips on bad movie, I find myself learning more about the filmmaking process. Anyway, a couple of nights ago, I listened to the lengthy episode they did on the Snyder cut of Justice League. I expected it to be pretty vicious, and the episode did start out with bad notes, but ultimately, the podcasters declared the Snyder cut better than the theatrical release. And now I'm looking at throwing a few bucks at HBO Max to watch the Snyder cut. And probably Black Adam, too.