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1. It's another beautiful day that I'm strongly considering just laying low during, since I have to negotiate a change order tomorrow.
Watched "Avengers: Endgame" last night -- and it like the other films, weirdly improves upon re-watching. ( Read more... )
Anyhow, that aside, the bonus materials are interesting -- it has about five hours worth. There's a thirty minute tribute to Stan Lee, featuring all his cameos across the films and footage of him taping each one. And then twenty-thirty minute in depth bits on the casting and creation of each of the major Avengers Characters -- from Iron Man to Black Widow.
Making my way through it...they manage to explain and quite well a few of the controversial decisions they made. Thor's journey, Captain America's (only controversial if you are a) a Bucky/Steve romantic shipper (which honestly is shipping vague and open to interpretation subtext and against text and you gotta know you won't get what you want), b) nit-picky about the time travel bit, and Black Widow.
There's a deleted scenes reel -- the decisions on that were right on the mark. Those scenes needed to be deleted. A gag reel. A making of the series -- how they selected the writers and directors, sort of the congratulatory bit.
And now...we have the film commentary section, where we go through the film with the directors/writers, and they explain all their decisions they made as they go through the film shot by shot.
Basically for the price of $19.99 - I get the movie, and about six hours of the rest. Which is a deal. Considering I spent $21 to see the original. Downside? The commentary for some reason will throw me out every fifteen minutes.
Commentary:
( transcript of highlights from the writer/director commentary )
2. On the walk yesterday with Wales, she informed me that she was off social media - as in Twitter, Facebook, Instagram...due to the law firm she had worked for. Law firms when they defend or prosecute a law suite -- will demand a data dump from all the social media resources out there. Or access to them.
I told her this was why I tend to put stuff on DW, and am very careful on Facebook and Twitter.
She said that DW was not listed in the social media request list or access list. They didn't request stuff from it nor did they know it existed.
( Read more... )
Watched "Avengers: Endgame" last night -- and it like the other films, weirdly improves upon re-watching. ( Read more... )
Anyhow, that aside, the bonus materials are interesting -- it has about five hours worth. There's a thirty minute tribute to Stan Lee, featuring all his cameos across the films and footage of him taping each one. And then twenty-thirty minute in depth bits on the casting and creation of each of the major Avengers Characters -- from Iron Man to Black Widow.
Making my way through it...they manage to explain and quite well a few of the controversial decisions they made. Thor's journey, Captain America's (only controversial if you are a) a Bucky/Steve romantic shipper (which honestly is shipping vague and open to interpretation subtext and against text and you gotta know you won't get what you want), b) nit-picky about the time travel bit, and Black Widow.
There's a deleted scenes reel -- the decisions on that were right on the mark. Those scenes needed to be deleted. A gag reel. A making of the series -- how they selected the writers and directors, sort of the congratulatory bit.
And now...we have the film commentary section, where we go through the film with the directors/writers, and they explain all their decisions they made as they go through the film shot by shot.
Basically for the price of $19.99 - I get the movie, and about six hours of the rest. Which is a deal. Considering I spent $21 to see the original. Downside? The commentary for some reason will throw me out every fifteen minutes.
Commentary:
( transcript of highlights from the writer/director commentary )
2. On the walk yesterday with Wales, she informed me that she was off social media - as in Twitter, Facebook, Instagram...due to the law firm she had worked for. Law firms when they defend or prosecute a law suite -- will demand a data dump from all the social media resources out there. Or access to them.
I told her this was why I tend to put stuff on DW, and am very careful on Facebook and Twitter.
She said that DW was not listed in the social media request list or access list. They didn't request stuff from it nor did they know it existed.
( Read more... )