Two movies and a tv show
- That Thing You Do (rewatch): It's been at least 15 years since I last watched this movie. I could still identify all the scenes added for the Extended Release. Every single one of them was unnecessary and I kept saying "I see why they cut this". Except for the scene where Guy tells Faye how much he appreciates her. That scene can stay. And Tom Hanks and his boyfriend with the flashy car, they look like they have a good relationship.
- Lemony Snicket A Series Of Unfortunate Events, season 3: Much less background Jewish stuff than in previous seasons. :( The sugar bowl was also, wow, such an aggressively pointless macguffin. Things also dragged a bit at the beginning, although the ending episodes were much better. Enjoyable, but I liked the previous seasons more. On the other hand, this season doubled down hard on it being all about siblings and family and complicated family dynamics so, y'know, catnip.
- Clue: So this is famously a movie with three endings to have three different killers. I'm a bit meh about that. Just commit, y'know? Let the actors and the narrative build stuff instead of going "surprise! it was this person! don't think too hard about how implausible it was!" Since it was going for the trick ending, I feel it fails as a who-dun-it, since there's no real clues you can follow, since it wants to have its cake and eat it. This is a problem with a lot of trick ending stuff, that it wants to be so clever and go "ha ha fooled you", it utterly fails to set it up in the narrative at all and so just doesn't work, and this is three times worse since they wanted to have three different endings and didn't set up for any of them.
I really disliked the last "actual" ending that they went with for the home video release. I'm fine with Wadsworth being Mr Body, but ugh, that last kick that Mr Green was just pretending to be gay? No. Especially not with all the backstory re: gay history, the FBI, and J. Edgar Hoover. So that ended on a really sour note for me and it was so unnecessary.
Other than that, generally enjoyable. Tim Curry was having a lot of fun.
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