🎧 Listened to: The Incomparable | Sometimes You Need a Wookiee (Episode 408)
🎧 Listened to: The Incomparable | Sometimes You Need a Wookiee (Episode 408)
🎧 Listened to: H.I. #104: Fruitbooting — Hello Internet
I had already listened to this episode when it was first released but at that time I hadn’t watched Solo: A Star Wars Story so I skipped that part of the episode. Now that I have watched the movie I went back and listened to the episode.
I enjoyed Grey and Brady’s discussion about it and I’m glad they more or less liked the movie. I agree with them that it probably is the second best new Star Wars movie.

🎞 Watched: Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
Since this is a Star Wars movie and today was the first time I watched it I’m probably contractually obligated to write something long but that’ll have to wait for another day. For now, suffice to say it was a really enjoyable movie and I’m looking forward to seeing it again. Alden Ehrenreich – the guy that plays Han – is just perfect for the role!

🎞 Watched: Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Snoozefest.

🎞 Watched: Thor: The Dark World
Yet another Marvel movie. This one was definitely or the sillier side and parts of it felt really bad but as a whole still quite entertaining.
🎧 Listened to: Robot or Not? | Toasters (Episode 142)
🎧 Listened to: Avsnitt 27 – Belägringen i Waco och bomben i Oklahoma City by Kvalificerat Hemligt on SoundCloud – Hear the world’s sounds
🎧 Listened to: H.I. #111: Disgusting Wheel of Filth — Hello Internet

🎞 Watched: Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Another highly entertaining movie. The spy thriller elements are more interesting than the action scenes.

🎞 Watched: The Avengers
Now this was a movie that absolutely benefited from me watching a bunch of other MCU movies prior to it. I originally watched The Avengers a few years ago, having only watched the first Iron Man beforehand. I was mildly entertained by The Avengers then, but nothing more. At times it seemed really silly and I didn’t feel engaged.
Fast-forward to yesterday when I was supposed to watch this for a few minutes during my lunch break. Since I had watched most of the preceding MCU movies, I suddenly felt myself caring about the characters and even understanding them. I cared about Captain America, a character that I’d never given a damn about before. I cared about Coulson because I’d seen him in multiple movies. I even understood where Thor came from. And I really cared about Erik Selveig, for more reasons that simply him being played by Stellan Skarsgård.
The result of this was that I blew off work for more than two hours and actually watched the entire movie in one sitting and I had a blast. Two and a half hours of solid entertainment!