End of summer update, the fun stuff - or not serious
So I've got about an hour before I take The Boy out for a birthday lunch - then he's got a week off and will head over to his GF's house for the next seven days, which is a birthday gift to me and The Spousal Unit. ;)
I've forgotten all the new or returning programming I've checked out over the summer - some of it stuck with me, other things did not. We do like Brain Dead on CBS that still has a couple more episodes, though given its ratings I doubt there will be a season two. But, hey, at least CBS is airing all the episodes and that's about as good as you can expect for summer fare. Plus, of course, it's funny how it's almost like South Park in the way each new episode is so politically topical that it feels like they just wrote it the night before.
The "it" summer program this year has been, of course, Stranger Things on Netflix, which everyone in the family loved. And just this morning Netflix finally announced a second season for 2017. Yay!
Movies we've seen over the summer include Captain America: Civil War, where I went into it being Team Tony, and left it even more Team Tony than before. It was weird how just about week or so after we saw the movie the comic series apparently made a radical change in turning Steve into a Hydra agent. And I had to laugh because, IMO, that twist actually explains CA/Steve Rogers' motives of the movie franchise a lot better, especially after this latest movie. I'm just saying.
Other movies we saw were the Ghostbusters reboot that I thought was a lot of fun and would have liked a sequel, but last I heard Sony wasn't considering it (boo); the latest Star Trek movie, which was surprisingly really good, but sad too with Anton Yelchin's freak accident death that will obviously cause Chekov to likely have to be killed off at the beginning of the fourth movie (*sniff*); Suicide Squad, which was kind of a mess, but I really enjoyed the relationship between Will Smith and Joel Kinnaman's characters a lot; and just this weekend TSU dragged me to see Don't Breathe, which was well done, but a little/lot too intense for me. The best thing about Don't Breathe is that we decided to see it in the new Epic Theater that opened up about six months or so ago, and the facility is incredibly awesome that we decided we have to see the next Star Wars flick there, hands down. If we had seen a movie there before the Trek film opened, we definitely would have seen that one in the Epic Theater instead of the Regal that we usually go to.
The big summer movie that we were going to see, but ended up not because of the negative buzz, was the ID4 sequel. Not that negative buzz always keeps us from seeing a movie, as we can attest with the two most recent DC 'verse flicks, but sometimes it does harsh our pre-squee, as it did this time. We'll see it when it hits cable.
I also wanted to see the AbFab movie, but it only came to two theaters in the Orlando area - both of them really out of the way, and I didn't need to see it that badly. Another cable fare.
I also went to the GeekyCon here in Orlando at the end of July, since a friend and her family were coming into town to attend it, so I went mostly to spend time with them. And I did enjoy the con, they have great panels, lots of pro writers, several actors, and a good dealer's room. If they hold GeekyCon here in Orlando next year, I'll make more of an effort to attend the entire three days. This time I only attended on Saturday.
Other than all that, I've done a lot of reading over the summer and have watched a lot of HGTV because I just can't stand the news, especially the political coverage. HGTV is my safe space.
Have a great day!
I've forgotten all the new or returning programming I've checked out over the summer - some of it stuck with me, other things did not. We do like Brain Dead on CBS that still has a couple more episodes, though given its ratings I doubt there will be a season two. But, hey, at least CBS is airing all the episodes and that's about as good as you can expect for summer fare. Plus, of course, it's funny how it's almost like South Park in the way each new episode is so politically topical that it feels like they just wrote it the night before.
The "it" summer program this year has been, of course, Stranger Things on Netflix, which everyone in the family loved. And just this morning Netflix finally announced a second season for 2017. Yay!
Movies we've seen over the summer include Captain America: Civil War, where I went into it being Team Tony, and left it even more Team Tony than before. It was weird how just about week or so after we saw the movie the comic series apparently made a radical change in turning Steve into a Hydra agent. And I had to laugh because, IMO, that twist actually explains CA/Steve Rogers' motives of the movie franchise a lot better, especially after this latest movie. I'm just saying.
Other movies we saw were the Ghostbusters reboot that I thought was a lot of fun and would have liked a sequel, but last I heard Sony wasn't considering it (boo); the latest Star Trek movie, which was surprisingly really good, but sad too with Anton Yelchin's freak accident death that will obviously cause Chekov to likely have to be killed off at the beginning of the fourth movie (*sniff*); Suicide Squad, which was kind of a mess, but I really enjoyed the relationship between Will Smith and Joel Kinnaman's characters a lot; and just this weekend TSU dragged me to see Don't Breathe, which was well done, but a little/lot too intense for me. The best thing about Don't Breathe is that we decided to see it in the new Epic Theater that opened up about six months or so ago, and the facility is incredibly awesome that we decided we have to see the next Star Wars flick there, hands down. If we had seen a movie there before the Trek film opened, we definitely would have seen that one in the Epic Theater instead of the Regal that we usually go to.
The big summer movie that we were going to see, but ended up not because of the negative buzz, was the ID4 sequel. Not that negative buzz always keeps us from seeing a movie, as we can attest with the two most recent DC 'verse flicks, but sometimes it does harsh our pre-squee, as it did this time. We'll see it when it hits cable.
I also wanted to see the AbFab movie, but it only came to two theaters in the Orlando area - both of them really out of the way, and I didn't need to see it that badly. Another cable fare.
I also went to the GeekyCon here in Orlando at the end of July, since a friend and her family were coming into town to attend it, so I went mostly to spend time with them. And I did enjoy the con, they have great panels, lots of pro writers, several actors, and a good dealer's room. If they hold GeekyCon here in Orlando next year, I'll make more of an effort to attend the entire three days. This time I only attended on Saturday.
Other than all that, I've done a lot of reading over the summer and have watched a lot of HGTV because I just can't stand the news, especially the political coverage. HGTV is my safe space.
Have a great day!