Video Log
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10. Title: Hero Ships (disk 2)
Year: around 2008
Genre: documentary
Rating: G
Starring: interviews with ships’ crews
Source: on DVD
Seen Before?: no
Watch Again?: sure
A series of short episodes, each about a different US Navy ship. I especially liked the one about the USS Arizona- I’d watched other shows about it, but I’d never realized they still buried (their ashes, at least) survivors of Pearl Harbor on the ship today.
11. Title: Little Misses and Mr. Men
Year: 1983
Genre: cartoon show
Rating: G
Starring: Pauline Collins, John Alderton (et al.)
Source: online
Seen Before?: no
Watch Again?: probably not
I have the Mr. Men and Little Miss books (with characters like Mr. Bumby, Little Miss Shy, Mr. Tickle, Little Miss Chatterbox and others) and I loved them as a kid. But I’m not really sure about the show. It wasn’t bad, though, and I liked the continuity of even those short bits, where what happened in one would carry through the whole episode.
12. Title: His Girl Friday
Year: 1940
Genre: comedy, drama, romance
Rating: “approved” (probably G)
Starring: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy (et al.)
Source: on Hulu
Seen Before?: no
Watch Again?: maybe
Ah, old movies. This is one of the classics, and pretty entertaining. Also, it’s culture, so it’s good for you.
13. Title: Groundhog Day
Year: 1993
Genre: comedy, drama, fantasy
Rating: PG
Starring: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott (et al.)
Source: on DVD
Seen Before?: no
Watch Again?: yeah, I guess
Watched on Groundhog Day, because we could. I’d seen clips, but never the whole movie, and now I get what all the parodies and jokes are about.
14. Title: Powerpuff Girls: Season 1
Year: 1998
Genre: animated show
Rating: Y7 (G)
Starring: Cathy Cavadini, Elizabeth Daily, Tara Strong (et al.)
Source: online
Seen Before?: no
Watch Again?: maybe
I didn’t really watch this when it was on- I did sometimes, when I felt like it- but it’s a fairly decent kids’ show.
15. Title: Riese
Year: 2009
Genre: action/adventure, fantasy, web-based
Rating: none (probably PG)
Starring: Christine Chatelain, Amanda Tapping, Patrick Gilmore (et al.)
Source: on SyFy.com
Seen Before?: kind of
Watch Again?: sure
This series is only online. I watched the first couple (short!) episodes, but felt kind of lost. Then I found the book, which is actually a prequel that explains pretty much everything, and when I went back to start the series again, it was so much better. I really hope they make a few more episodes!
16. Title: Felicity: An American Girl Adventure
Year: 2005
Genre: drama, family
Rating: none (G)
Starring: Shailene Woodley, Kevin Zegers, David Garner (et al.)
Source: on DVD
Seen Before?: yes
Watch Again?: probably
This was the second AG movie released, but I’m watching them in chronological order, along with my re-read of all the books. It’s a pretty good movie, but not nearly as good as the books. They have to squish six separate stories into one two-hour plot, so a lot of the detail gets lost.
17. Title: Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Year: 1942
Genre: adventure, crime, drama
Rating: “approved” (probably G)
Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill (et al.)
Source: I have a DVD old-time Holmes set, but you could also watch it on Hulu or on X-Finity
Seen Before?: no
Watch Again?: I don’t think so
Sherlock Holmes is in “modern” World War II-era London, trying to keep a (German?) inventor and his invention (not a weapon, but technically a bomb-guidance system) from enemy hands. Another old movie, but still pretty good.
18. Title: Samantha: An American Girl Holiday
Year: 2004
Genre: family, drama
Rating: none (G)
Starring: Mia Farrow, AnnaSophia Robb, Kenner Ames (et al.)
Source: on DVD
Seen Before?:yes
Watch Again?: most likely
As much as I enjoy these, I really wish they’d done them as mini-series instead of feature-lengths. There’s so much of the story that they can’t fit it, not to mention the stuff they move around for no apparent reason. The books make so much more sense than this one! Also, I’m a little distracted now that Uncle Gard is Frankie Rizzoli from Rizzoli & Isles…
19. Title: Skyfall
Year: 2012
Genre: action/adventure, crime
Rating: PG-13
Starring: Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Naimie Harris (et al.)
Source: on DVD
Seen Before?: no
Watch Again?: probably not
I’m an old-school Bond fan (Sean Connery was the best, Pierce Brosnan an acceptable replacement) and I have been less than impressed with Daniel Craig’s Bond. Casino Royale was pretty bad, I thought, and I didn’t even watch Quantum of Solace. This one was a little more in keeping with the old Bond, but they still keep trying to make it a fighting, blowing-things-up action movie, when it’s supposed to be a suave get-the-girl, (okay, blowing-things-up) movie. Maybe the next one…
20. Title: Barbie Fairytopia: Magic of the Rainbow
Year: 2007
Genre: animated, fantasy
Rating: none (G)
Starring: Kelly Sheridan, Lee Tockar, Kathleen Barr (et al.)
Source: online
Seen Before?: no
Watch Again?: nope
Um… yeah. I didn’t exactly expect a lot from a Barbie Fairy film. A lot of movies have dodgy science, but this one somehow has dodgy magic. Seriously, the fairies have to use “flance” (flight + dance) to magic up spring every year. That said, it’s not a bad movie, in a pink-fluffy sort of way.
21. Title: X-Men: First Class
Year: 2011
Genre: action/adventure, sci-fi
Rating: PG-13
Starring: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence (et al.)
Source: on DVD
Seen Before?: no
Watch Again?: maybe
As much as I enjoyed this one, I think they took a few too many artistic licenses with the original story. They’d already done the X-Men movies, which switched around the timeline of the comics, so they had to keep that going. Still, it was a pretty good back-story, especially young!Charles and young!Erik going around looking for the mutants (plus cameo by Wolverine *g*)
22. Title: Guys and Dolls
Year: 1955
Genre: comedy, musical, romance
Rating: none (G)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra (et al.)
Source: on TV
Seen Before?: yes
Watch Again?: absolutely
I caught this one on TV, late at night. It’s a great show, and the movie is a really good version of it. I particularly like this one because Guys and Dolls was the first musical I was in- I was a Mission Doll, sophomore year of high school. Which was where I learned that I found acting really boring, and switched to running the sound equipment junior and senior years (“Oklahoma” & “Fiddler on the Roof”) then stage manager for all four years of college (“Annie Get Your Gun,” “Footloose,” “Bye, Bye, Birdie” & “The Wizard of Oz”) Bonus Fun Trivia Fact! This movie is Marlon Brando’s only singing role.
23. Title: The Artist
Year: 2011
Genre: comedy, drama, romance
Rating: PG-13
Starring: Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, John Goodman (et al.)
Source: on DVD
Seen Before?: no
Watch Again?: maybe?
I knew this was a movie about silent films, but I did not realize before it started that it was a silent film. And a good one! It’s a great story, and actually having no dialogue makes you pay more attention, and catch some of the details you might miss in another film. The only other silent film I’ve seen is “Metropolis” (a sci-fi) but this really seemed like it was filmed in the same style.
24. Title: Clarissa Explains It All: Season 1
Year: 1991
Genre: family, comedy
Rating: Y (G)
Starring: Melissa Joan Hart, Jason Zimbler, Elizabeth Hess (et al.)
Source: online
Seen Before?: mostly
Watch Again?: if it’s on
I mostly missed this show the first time it was on- I was just slightly too young, and I’ve never particularly been a fan of high school drama-type shows. But it’s still pretty entertaining, especially Clarissa’s fabulous 90s fashions!
Current Mood:
awake
10. Title: Hero Ships (disk 2)
Year: around 2008
Genre: documentary
Rating: G
Starring: interviews with ships’ crews
Source: on DVD
Seen Before?: no
Watch Again?: sure
A series of short episodes, each about a different US Navy ship. I especially liked the one about the USS Arizona- I’d watched other shows about it, but I’d never realized they still buried (their ashes, at least) survivors of Pearl Harbor on the ship today.
11. Title: Little Misses and Mr. Men
Year: 1983
Genre: cartoon show
Rating: G
Starring: Pauline Collins, John Alderton (et al.)
Source: online
Seen Before?: no
Watch Again?: probably not
I have the Mr. Men and Little Miss books (with characters like Mr. Bumby, Little Miss Shy, Mr. Tickle, Little Miss Chatterbox and others) and I loved them as a kid. But I’m not really sure about the show. It wasn’t bad, though, and I liked the continuity of even those short bits, where what happened in one would carry through the whole episode.
12. Title: His Girl Friday
Year: 1940
Genre: comedy, drama, romance
Rating: “approved” (probably G)
Starring: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy (et al.)
Source: on Hulu
Seen Before?: no
Watch Again?: maybe
Ah, old movies. This is one of the classics, and pretty entertaining. Also, it’s culture, so it’s good for you.
13. Title: Groundhog Day
Year: 1993
Genre: comedy, drama, fantasy
Rating: PG
Starring: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott (et al.)
Source: on DVD
Seen Before?: no
Watch Again?: yeah, I guess
Watched on Groundhog Day, because we could. I’d seen clips, but never the whole movie, and now I get what all the parodies and jokes are about.
14. Title: Powerpuff Girls: Season 1
Year: 1998
Genre: animated show
Rating: Y7 (G)
Starring: Cathy Cavadini, Elizabeth Daily, Tara Strong (et al.)
Source: online
Seen Before?: no
Watch Again?: maybe
I didn’t really watch this when it was on- I did sometimes, when I felt like it- but it’s a fairly decent kids’ show.
15. Title: Riese
Year: 2009
Genre: action/adventure, fantasy, web-based
Rating: none (probably PG)
Starring: Christine Chatelain, Amanda Tapping, Patrick Gilmore (et al.)
Source: on SyFy.com
Seen Before?: kind of
Watch Again?: sure
This series is only online. I watched the first couple (short!) episodes, but felt kind of lost. Then I found the book, which is actually a prequel that explains pretty much everything, and when I went back to start the series again, it was so much better. I really hope they make a few more episodes!
16. Title: Felicity: An American Girl Adventure
Year: 2005
Genre: drama, family
Rating: none (G)
Starring: Shailene Woodley, Kevin Zegers, David Garner (et al.)
Source: on DVD
Seen Before?: yes
Watch Again?: probably
This was the second AG movie released, but I’m watching them in chronological order, along with my re-read of all the books. It’s a pretty good movie, but not nearly as good as the books. They have to squish six separate stories into one two-hour plot, so a lot of the detail gets lost.
17. Title: Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Year: 1942
Genre: adventure, crime, drama
Rating: “approved” (probably G)
Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill (et al.)
Source: I have a DVD old-time Holmes set, but you could also watch it on Hulu or on X-Finity
Seen Before?: no
Watch Again?: I don’t think so
Sherlock Holmes is in “modern” World War II-era London, trying to keep a (German?) inventor and his invention (not a weapon, but technically a bomb-guidance system) from enemy hands. Another old movie, but still pretty good.
18. Title: Samantha: An American Girl Holiday
Year: 2004
Genre: family, drama
Rating: none (G)
Starring: Mia Farrow, AnnaSophia Robb, Kenner Ames (et al.)
Source: on DVD
Seen Before?:yes
Watch Again?: most likely
As much as I enjoy these, I really wish they’d done them as mini-series instead of feature-lengths. There’s so much of the story that they can’t fit it, not to mention the stuff they move around for no apparent reason. The books make so much more sense than this one! Also, I’m a little distracted now that Uncle Gard is Frankie Rizzoli from Rizzoli & Isles…
19. Title: Skyfall
Year: 2012
Genre: action/adventure, crime
Rating: PG-13
Starring: Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Naimie Harris (et al.)
Source: on DVD
Seen Before?: no
Watch Again?: probably not
I’m an old-school Bond fan (Sean Connery was the best, Pierce Brosnan an acceptable replacement) and I have been less than impressed with Daniel Craig’s Bond. Casino Royale was pretty bad, I thought, and I didn’t even watch Quantum of Solace. This one was a little more in keeping with the old Bond, but they still keep trying to make it a fighting, blowing-things-up action movie, when it’s supposed to be a suave get-the-girl, (okay, blowing-things-up) movie. Maybe the next one…
20. Title: Barbie Fairytopia: Magic of the Rainbow
Year: 2007
Genre: animated, fantasy
Rating: none (G)
Starring: Kelly Sheridan, Lee Tockar, Kathleen Barr (et al.)
Source: online
Seen Before?: no
Watch Again?: nope
Um… yeah. I didn’t exactly expect a lot from a Barbie Fairy film. A lot of movies have dodgy science, but this one somehow has dodgy magic. Seriously, the fairies have to use “flance” (flight + dance) to magic up spring every year. That said, it’s not a bad movie, in a pink-fluffy sort of way.
21. Title: X-Men: First Class
Year: 2011
Genre: action/adventure, sci-fi
Rating: PG-13
Starring: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence (et al.)
Source: on DVD
Seen Before?: no
Watch Again?: maybe
As much as I enjoyed this one, I think they took a few too many artistic licenses with the original story. They’d already done the X-Men movies, which switched around the timeline of the comics, so they had to keep that going. Still, it was a pretty good back-story, especially young!Charles and young!Erik going around looking for the mutants (plus cameo by Wolverine *g*)
22. Title: Guys and Dolls
Year: 1955
Genre: comedy, musical, romance
Rating: none (G)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra (et al.)
Source: on TV
Seen Before?: yes
Watch Again?: absolutely
I caught this one on TV, late at night. It’s a great show, and the movie is a really good version of it. I particularly like this one because Guys and Dolls was the first musical I was in- I was a Mission Doll, sophomore year of high school. Which was where I learned that I found acting really boring, and switched to running the sound equipment junior and senior years (“Oklahoma” & “Fiddler on the Roof”) then stage manager for all four years of college (“Annie Get Your Gun,” “Footloose,” “Bye, Bye, Birdie” & “The Wizard of Oz”) Bonus Fun Trivia Fact! This movie is Marlon Brando’s only singing role.
23. Title: The Artist
Year: 2011
Genre: comedy, drama, romance
Rating: PG-13
Starring: Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, John Goodman (et al.)
Source: on DVD
Seen Before?: no
Watch Again?: maybe?
I knew this was a movie about silent films, but I did not realize before it started that it was a silent film. And a good one! It’s a great story, and actually having no dialogue makes you pay more attention, and catch some of the details you might miss in another film. The only other silent film I’ve seen is “Metropolis” (a sci-fi) but this really seemed like it was filmed in the same style.
24. Title: Clarissa Explains It All: Season 1
Year: 1991
Genre: family, comedy
Rating: Y (G)
Starring: Melissa Joan Hart, Jason Zimbler, Elizabeth Hess (et al.)
Source: online
Seen Before?: mostly
Watch Again?: if it’s on
I mostly missed this show the first time it was on- I was just slightly too young, and I’ve never particularly been a fan of high school drama-type shows. But it’s still pretty entertaining, especially Clarissa’s fabulous 90s fashions!
Current Mood:
awake