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Picard Season 1 (2020)

Started: May 18, 2025
Finished: May 20, 2025

I had so much fun with this show!! And experienced a lot of emotions, particularly around Data (of course)

Picard Season 2 (2022)

Started: May 22, 2025
Finished: May 24, 2025

We were happily binging the show at this point can you tell

Picard Season 3 (2023)

Started: May 25, 2025
Finished: June 2, 2025

??? wtf happened with this sesaon. who did all this

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Superman (2025)

Watched July 16th, 2025

I really liked this!! I've never been a humongous Superman fan, in that I've never followed the franchise/character very closely, but there has certainly been Superman stuff that I like. The Christopher Reeves movie from the late 70s was my foundational knowledge for Superman as a child, of course, and it wasn't too long ago that I was watching the more recent animated series My Adventures with Superman with my spouse. I think that David Corenswet did a wonderful job playing Clark, and found him charming and very likeable--a force of good without being preachy or over the top. I really believe his Clark Kent and the values he's built his identity upon. Without spoiling anything, I think the themes this movie tackled were great and commend the writers and director for standing by them and hope anyone who is mad about Superman being 'woke' or dealing with his identity as an immigrant or anything get media literacy soon!
Anyway, a delight. I'd recommend seeing it even if you have no emotional stakes in DC because it's an actually good DC live action movie!!!! And it filled me with joy and hope!!! Let's gooooo

The Lego Batman Movie (2017)

Watched July 14th, 2025

I fear they made this movie just for me...I've been meaning to watch this movie for years, and finally got around to it with my spouse. The serotonin I derived from seeing this movie's portrayal of Dick Grayson was outrageous. They made him the sweetest little guy, silly but still so loveable...I am very pleased by the explicitness of his and Bruce(/Batman)'s bond as being that of father and son, and of Alfred as Bruce's surrogate father as well. While it's obvious that Robin sees Batman as a father figure, I think reckoning with it so directly here (rather than Dick being Bruce's 'ward' this is explicit adoption) puts the emphasis on family that this movie wants to discuss. Michael Cera did a lovely job portraying the innocence, joy, and humor of Robin, to the point where I forgot it was Michael Cera at all. I knew it was a voice I recognized but didn't put my finger on it until seeing his name in the end credits! Maybe that's a skill issue? But I think he did great. I also loved the visuals--while they were a bit over the top at times, I can only expect that of what is primarily a children's movie. What I really loved visually was how grounded the lego pieces looked, like, actually worn down lego people and sets, I just thought that was cute and liked the committment to the silliness of 'being' legos!! Like the end when they click the city back into place. Super funny. I also love Joker and Batman's dynamic here, the writers' little jab at 'ships' which in the end turns into Batjokes being canon in a strange way? XD Anyway, a lot of whimsy and heart in this one.

The Naked Gun (1988)

Watched July 7th, 2025

I don't remember what we were going to watch, but when my spouse saw this on the Amazon Prime home page and realized I had never watched this movie before, we knew what had to be done. I commented early on in the movie--I think as early as the intro credits wherein the camera followed the POV of the cop car crashing into increasingly ridiculous places--that I was annoyed at how suited to my sense of humor this was XD But really, this was such a treat. I was impressed by how jam packed this movie was with gags, like every scene had a joke baked in either environmentally or in the dialogue or both, no matter how short the scene was. I now completely understand why this movie is so iconic. And I was also happily surprised that its humor didn't draw upon racism, sexism, or other cheap punching-down sort of tendencies the way I was worried it might. In contrast, a few years ago my spouse and I tried to watch Austin Powers: Goldmember and couldn't even make it past the intro where there was almost immediately a very racist joke at the expense of a young Asian woman and we were like 'no, we're shutting this off.' (Crazy that I grew up watching Austin Powers with my parents as, like, a toddler; there's a reason I knew all the right contexts to use curse words already.) In the Naked Gun, though, the humor is dependent way more on slapstick and subverting your expectations of the average James Bond or cool-detective type suave main character. In fact, a lot of the jokes are at his expense entirely. One of my favorite scenes is the 'car chase':

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(clip here; quality is super borked but eh)

KPop Demon Hunters (2025)

Watched June 20th, 2025

What an absolute joy this movie was! My spouse has been following a lot of the artists that worked on this film on social media for years now, and the creative control they gave the artists really shows. This whole movie feels like a love letter to K-pop and it's fans, of course, and it's also a beautiful piece of art. The expressions are SO cute, and I really love how the characters are modeled; they're almost more like dolls (without the uncanny valley feeling) than 3-d models, I don't know, its very unique! The songs were also bangers. Visually and musically a treat.

Napoleon Dynamite (2004) rewatch

Watched May 9th, 2025

WIP

Thunderbolts (2025)

Watched May 7th, 2025

WIP

A Goofy Movie (1995) rewatch

Watched April 18th, 2025

WIP

Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)

Watched March 21st, 2025

WIP

The Last Unicorn (1982) rewatch

Watched March 8th, 2025

WIP

Look Back (2024)

Watched February 11th, 2025

WIP

Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)

Watched January 1st, 2025

WIP