On 3/8/2026 7:20 AM, The True Melissa wrote:
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This is a multi-day catchup.
Yes.
What did everyone else watch?
I don't feel like going over everything I watched. But here are some of
the highlights. Over the past week I watched:
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (4K disc) 1994 movie directed by and
starring Kenneth Branagh as Dr. Frankenstein, and Robert De Niro as the
Sharp Featured Man. This was mostly background noise with a pretty good commentary track.
The Bride (blu-ray) 1985 movie starring Sting as Dr. Frankenstein,
Clancy Brown as the monster, and Jennifer Beals as the Bride. David
Rappaport ("Time Bandits") also stars as the monster's only friend, and traveling companion. This is one of those movies I used to watch all
the time on TV when I was a child. This was background noise with a director's commentary.
The Bride! (theatrical) New Frankenstein movie written and directed by
Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Christian Bale as Frankenstein's monster
(who is now living in the 1930s), and Jessie Buckley as both The Bride
and Mary Shelley's ghost. Where to begin? There were two things on my
mind going into this, first I was pretty sure this was a musical, but
they were intentionally trying to hide that fact in the advertising.
And second, I read a blurb where someone compared this movie to "Joker:
Folie … Deux." But now that I've watched the movie, I think the bigger question is not is this movie a musical, it's is this movie supposed to
be a comedy. Because I think maybe it is supposed to be a comedy,
except it's not funny. In "Young Frankenstein" when the characters
would mispronounce the name "Frankensteene" then correct the
pronunciation, you got it was a joke. In this movie when they do it,
you think, are they referencing "Young Frankenstein?" In "Young
Frankenstein" when the monster sings "Puttin on the Ritz" you get it's a
joke. In this when they do an elaborate "Puttin on the Ritz" sequence,
you realize they *are* referencing "Young Frankenstein," except it's not funny. It's not funny at all. Then it goes from these not funny
moments, to hard core "R" rated gore and violence. Anyway, this movie
is for some people, but it wasn't for me. I think I might have liked it
a little bit more while I was watching, mostly because I was in a state
of shock. But now that I've had time to think about it, I like it less
and less the more I think about it.
I, Frankenstein (3D disc) 2014 movie from the makers of "Underworld"
starring Aaron Eckhart as Frankenstein's monster. Eckhart reluctant
teams up with gargoyles (that are basically angels) to battle against
demons that are seeking the power to reanimate the dead so they can put demonic souls in the reanimated bodies. And as it turns out Dr.
Frankenstein wrote a journal that explains how to reanimate the dead.
It's watchable as long as you turn your brain all the way off.
Frankenstein Unbound (DVD) 1990 sci-fi movie directed by Roger Corman
and starring John Hurt as a scientist who accidentally gets sent back in
time where he meets Dr. Frankenstein Raul Julia). Dr. Frankenstein
forces Hurt's character to help him create a bride for his monster. I
never knew this, because I only just recently watched "Bride of
Frankenstein" for the first time the other week, but this movie is
basically a retelling of "Bride of Frankenstein." All the years I've
been watching this movie, and it never crossed my mind this was a remake
of "Bride of Frankenstein" because I had never seen "Bride of
Frankenstein" and had no way to compare it.
The Man Who Fell To Earth (4K disc) 1976 movie starring David Bowie as a Starman who comes to Earth to secretly harvest Earth's water for his
drought stricken planet. It's an interesting but dated flick. The
director was definitely going for that 70s psychedelic arthouse vibe.
Starman (4K disc) 1984 movie directed by John Carpenter and starring
Jeff Bridges as an alien man who falls to Earth after his rocket ship is
shout down by the military. He takes the form of Karen Allen's deceased husband and kidnaps her, so she'll drive him to his alien rendezvous
location. Of course, along the way they fall in love. Kidnapped women falling in love with their kidnapper was the plot of every other movie
in the 70s/80s. I have been looking forward to revisiting this for a
while now. The movie holds up very well. And it has probably my
favorite John Carpenter score. And as an added bonus the 4K includes as
an extra the entire Starman TV series on a separate blu-ray disc. I
haven't watched the series since it originally aired in the 80s. But I
recall really liking it at the time. So, I will probably try to watch
it. I'll start with the pilot and see if I get hooked and want to binge
it or bored and turn it off.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (Paramount+) "300th Night" - Penultimate
episode which has Starfleet having to once again deal with Braka who has somehow managed to mine the space around the federation. Meanwhile
Caleb set off to find his mother, and finds himself joined by a few
other cadets. This was generally an OK episode, but I took serious
issue with the claim they mined federation space to the point it
couldn't be entered or exited. Federation space is vast and it's in 3 dimensions. How in the universe do you mine 3 dimensional space to that level? I know it's not the first time Star Trek has pulled the they
mined space nonsense, but that's usually around a relatively small fixed location. But this made no sense to me.
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