movies
1 - no one should watch this, ever
2 - hated it
3 - wish I hadn't watched it
4 - disliked it
5 - meh.
6 - okay
7 - liked it
8 - would watch it again
9 - loved it
10 - obsessed with it
Doctor Who: "Survival"
The last classic episode: the 7th Dorctor vs. The Master vs. teleporting cat people. Unusually well-written for 80's Doctor Who, but too little too late I guess. 7/10
300
What. The hell. I wasn't expecting a plot or anything, but you'd think with the green screen business they could at least make it visually interesting. Or maybe have some action or something, to make up for the lack of story? Guys in speedos running in slow motion is not an action movie. Seriously. 2/10
Doctor Who: "Robot"
The 4th Doctor's first episode. Standard recycling of the "Invasion"/"Spearhead from Space" formula (but somehow without any aliens), which is I guess appropriate since it's sort of the last UNIT episode. Tom Baker driving Bessie is one of the only high points. 6/10
The Tick vs. Season 2 (2 discs)
"Let me at him! I'm filled with tinier men!" 9/10
Best of The Jimmy Dean Show: Vol. 2
Got it for the Rowlf skits, but was surprised to find the music segments (aka the rest of the show) rather enjoyable, Hank Snow especially. I don't know what crack they were on putting together the rubbish on Vol. 1. 7/10
Old School
1/10
The Muppet Show: Season 2 (4 discs)
! 10/10
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
The trailers for these movies always look like crap, and I continue to be pleasantly surprised by each of them. This one's nowhere near as good as the first two, but given the premise (Two Chimps travel back in time to 20th-Century Earth) that's pretty unavoidable. Bonus points for casting Ricardo Montalban as a kindly circus owner. 7/10
Saturday Night Live: Season 1: Discs 7 & 8
6/10
Peter Pan
One of the many classic Disney movies I'd never seen. The animation was great, the story adaptation was okay (I had been expecting to be appalled), and the music was bad enough to make the movie almost unwatchable. 5/10
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 5 (7 discs)
Most of this season is at best tedious, and usually outright terrible. But the handful of good episodes are amazing and more than make up for it: "Darmok" (Picard learns to communicate with a species on whom the universal translator doesn't work because they use proper nouns), "Conundrum" (everyone loses their memory), "Cause and Effect" (basically Groundhogs Day, ending in the destruction of the Enterprise), "I, Borg" (of course), "The Inner Light" (Picard lives a lifetime in 25 minutes), and "Time's Arrow part 1" (Data's head is found burried beneath San Francisco --> Time Travelin' Samuel Clemens). 8/10