I got two categories: current and retro. Retro will be media between the years '95-99. Here's the list.
Current:
Games - Banner Saga Trilogy. Banner Saga 3 is listed on wiki but Gamestop is taking preorders for a trilogy collection, so I'm on that. I played BS1 but not BS2 yet, even though I own it digitally. I just love the concept, art and strategy gameplay. I still wonder at my lack of time spent on them. Sometimes I buy a game purely for the artistic merit and then hardly play them. It's like I want to frame it and put it on my wall instead. Maybe that's possible?
Film: Hotel Transylvania 3. Adam Sandler is dracula. Ever since the first one, I thought it had good writing and was very funny. I like all the different monsters too. It's kind of weird of me, a middle aged man, to choose this over Ant Man and Wasp or Mission Impossible, but I'm not into those films. I like funny stuff, interesting graphics, and The Weird - as I like to call it. If only there were still surrealist black-and-white films like Cabinet of Caligari still being made. I'd be seeing that.
Retro: '1995-99:
Games: This includes Sega Saturn, Playstation One, N64 and Game Boy Color. I'm going to break out the Saturn first and play the only game I have for it: Shining the Holy Ark. We'll see if I can stand what I remember as bland graphics of a very early open world RPG. Then I might sell it. The game is going for $150 right now.
Books: Seamus Heaney's Spirt Level. It's a poem collection. It was the late 90s when I became aware of Mr. Heaney. I read his Beowulf translation in those years. I've yet to really take in his original poetry. This will be the first.
Film: Unsure yet. Need to do some research but off the top of my head is Ace Ventura When Nature Calls, one of my very favorite comedies. It's Jim Carey at his zaniest. The movie was directed by ThumbWars creator Steve Oedekerk. He made it nearly a live-action cartoon. I love it. I use lines from that movie to this day: "Spank you very much helpy helperton."
TV: Unsure. More research as yet. Two things come to mind. Star Trek Voyager. I remember wanting to like this show. I thought it was the only one doing something different with a female captain. I never got past the movie length opener though. Then, me on the sideline, decrying the addition of 7of9, an attempt to sex up the show to gain ratings. But, I'd like to watch it. Second is Dexter's Laboratory of which I only saw a few episodes but really liked it. I think Dexter and Dee Dee reminded me of me and my sister when we were kids. I liked the animation and all the robots too.
And that's all for now.
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