What did you watch this week? (06/11-06/17)

...cant believe I have to split replies due to length...this might be a dealbraker to continue to use these boards. wth!

beauty and the beast (2017): again, same flight. first half was nearly word-for-word like the animated one. then derailed with more backstory and songs, but so far so good. end was weird when they all came back alive, none of them matched their part/voices. deduct one point but add one for emma so 6/10 is the final verdict.

trivisa (2017): watched this on the plane as well (was a 12 hr flight don't blame me :)). great HK movie with a fantastic ending 7/10. miss the good old days of HK cinema (tsui hark, john woo etc).

orange is the new black season 5 (2017): kept bickering about poussey this poussey that, too drawn out for my taste. no other real storylines except the old ladies in the pool. piper/alex had nearly no screentime, the spanish group was boring, so where the blacks. only flaritza was redeeming and the nazi-whites were alright funny (nicky and lorna not so much, judy king, boring), so 5/10. hope next season will be better.

designated survivor season 1 (2016): very interesting premise, and as i expected it turned into 24 meets west wing :) enough political drama with action, and luckily no boring family drama except a few scenes. and maggie Q is always nice to look at 7/10

iZombie (2015) season 1: funny, kept me engaged throughout, have season 2 lined up now 7/10

Miss March (2009): trailer had lots of boobs. was not disappointed. comedy was alright, solid 6/10

Making a Murderer (2015): quite biased, trying to convince us of the innocence of avery. seemed obvious that the inbred rednecks killed her though. still, felt sorry for Brendan 7/10

That's it :)

Unfortunately I wasn't able to see any movies last week.

I watched The People vs OJ Simpson: American Crime Story... it was good and captured the mood of the time well... it's still very much a TV show, but i think i'll watch the recent OJ documentary as well to see how it compares... Crazy trial

I also watched the new movie "The Mummy" last week. Tom Cruise felt rather out of place IMO but I think the reviews it's been getting are overly harsh. It's just a fun movie. The only thing I didn't like, though this isn't the movie's fault, was that the theater I was in was freezing cold, I sat there with my teeth chattering for two hours, and that may have mitigated my enjoyment of it a bit. But I still liked it.

The plot is basically that Tom Cruise plays a US soldier who stumbles on an Egyptian tomb in Iraq of all places, in which an Egyptian princess had been buried in exile for using a curse to try to unleash the Egyptian god Set back home. Of course the discovery of the tomb wakes her up and she resumes her efforts, effecting a trail of carnage as Cruise's character teams up with a female archeologist and, amusingly, a Dr. Jekyll played by Russell Crowe, to stop her.

Historical accuracy of any kind is DOA in this one, of course, but it's just a lighthearted movie, more of a comedy-adventure than a horror film.

I forgot to include this in my earlier post because I saw it in the theater and I was only thinking of movies i'd rented from Netflix.

I mostly watched the story of a wealthy family who lost everything and the one son who had to keep them all together, it’s Arrested Development.