{"id":336,"date":"2019-04-12T12:31:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T18:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/?p=336"},"modified":"2020-01-01T19:56:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T02:56:08","slug":"stuff-not-from-my-2018-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/12\/stuff-not-from-my-2018-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuff not from my 2018 goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Included here, this time, are movies found in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/10\/my-favorite-and-not-movies-of-2018\/\">2018 favorites list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TV<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Hadn&#8217;t seen before:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Daredevil (season 3)<\/li>\n<li>Iron Fist (season 2)<\/li>\n<li>Luke Cage (season 2)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Had seen before:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Angel (seasons 1 &#8211; 4)<\/li>\n<li>Arrested Development (seasons 1 &#8211; 4)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Daredevil<\/em> was just as compelling as the first two seasons.&nbsp; <em>Iron Fist<\/em> was a marked improvement over season 1.&nbsp; <em>Luke Cage<\/em> was not as great.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t mind its cancellation, but I would have liked to see more <em>Iron Fist<\/em> and especially <em>Daredevil<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned elsewhere, in 2018 I showed <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/em> to my daughter (and occasionally my sons) for the first time.&nbsp; I was going to skip <em>Angel<\/em>, but she wanted the full experience (and <em>Angel<\/em> is pretty good), so I bought the DVDs and we watched them intermixed with <em>Buffy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I rewatched <em>Arrested Development<\/em> in anticipation of season 5.&nbsp; I enjoyed the recut episodes of season 4 more than the originals.&nbsp; Seasons 1 &#8211; 3 remain the best.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Movies:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Hadn&#8217;t seen before:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh<\/li>\n<li>Batman: Gotham by Gaslight<\/li>\n<li>Batman Ninja<\/li>\n<li>Daddy&#8217;s Home 2<\/li>\n<li>The Death of Superman<\/li>\n<li>The Hitman&#8217;s Bodyguard<\/li>\n<li>Ingrid Goes West<\/li>\n<li>Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle<\/li>\n<li>The LEGO Ninjago Movie<\/li>\n<li>Logan Lucky<\/li>\n<li>Magic Mike<\/li>\n<li>A Quiet Place<\/li>\n<li>Saludos Amigos<\/li>\n<li>Se7en<\/li>\n<li>The Spy Who Dumped Me<\/li>\n<li>Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay<\/li>\n<li>The Three Caballeros<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Had seen before:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Batman &amp; Mr. Freeze: Sub Zero<\/li>\n<li>Deadpool<\/li>\n<li>The Hunger Games<\/li>\n<li>The Hunger Games: Catching Fire<\/li>\n<li>The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1<\/li>\n<li>The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2<\/li>\n<li>X-Men<\/li>\n<li>X2: X-Men United<\/li>\n<li>X-Men: The Last Stand<\/li>\n<li>X-Men Origins: Wolverine<\/li>\n<li>X-Men: First Class<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With a few exceptions (<em>Funny People<\/em>, <em>Bedtime Stories<\/em>, <em>Grown Ups<\/em>) I haven&#8217;t seen any of Adam Sandler&#8217;s movies that have come out since&nbsp;2005.&nbsp; Somewhere around that time his films just stopped looking like something I wanted to watch (of course I still love &#8220;classic&#8221; Adam Sandler films like <em>Billy Madison<\/em>, <em>Happy Gilmore<\/em>, <em>The Wedding Singer<\/em>, etc.).&nbsp; I decided to check out his new stand-up special, <em>100% Fresh<\/em>, on Netflix.&nbsp; It took 15 or 20 minutes to get going for me, but after that it was just hilarious.&nbsp; The Chris Farley tribute song was very touching.<\/p>\n<p>Of the new DC animated films that came out in 2018, I enjoyed <em>Batman Ninja<\/em> and <em>The Death of Superman<\/em> the most.&nbsp; I&#8217;m usually a sucker for any Superman movie that isn&#8217;t <em>Man of Steel<\/em>, <em>Batman v Superman<\/em>, or <em>Superman IV<\/em> (though, faced with only those choices, I would pick <em>Superman IV<\/em> to watch any day of the week).&nbsp; I want to watch <em>Reign of the Supermen<\/em>, but for some reason Netflix doesn&#8217;t have the disc, so I&#8217;ll have to wait for a potential Black Friday sale.<\/p>\n<p>I saw <em>Ingrid Goes West<\/em> because I like Aubrey Plaza.&nbsp; I also saw it described somewhere as a modern <em>The Cable Guy<\/em>.&nbsp; I prefer the latter, but the former was a good one-time view.<\/p>\n<p>I had heard about <em>Se7en<\/em> before, and finally decided to watch it one night on Netflix.&nbsp; It was somewhat disturbing.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing to watch movies with my daughter for the first time, we watched <em>The Hunger Games<\/em> series and began <em>X-Men<\/em>, since she loves Patrick Stewart so much after watching <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em>.&nbsp; We&#8217;re both looking forward to seeing <em>Dark Phoenix<\/em> this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Included here, this time, are movies found in my 2018 favorites list. TV Hadn&#8217;t seen before: Daredevil (season 3) Iron Fist (season 2) Luke Cage (season 2) Had seen before: Angel (seasons 1 &#8211; 4) Arrested Development (seasons 1 &#8211; 4) Daredevil was just as compelling as the first two seasons.&nbsp; Iron Fist was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}