film: Prometheus

Up to this point, I hadn't seen Prometheus mainly because I knew from rumors that I wouldn't like it, and didn't want to subject Jingping to something I knew she wouldn't like and that I wouldn't like.

I didn't like it. It was stupid and didn't make a lot of sense, and when it did make sense it wasn't interesting. It was a waste of time, and I hear it caused Guillermo del Toro to be unable to make At the Mountains of Madness. So, in fact, I hated it.

F+.

Game: Mass Effect Series

Great game series, better than any I've played in a long time. Great story, and as I see it, an incredible ending. Apparently the ending made some people angry, I don't really get it. You play the game as an invincible super-soldier, but you aren't a god. The enemy of the series really is presented as something unfathomably powerful, and defeating it takes a huge sacrifice. I thought it was a brave ending, very satisfying.

Overall great series: A+!

TV show!?: game of thrones

we watched all of game of thrones a couple of weeks ago: it was exhausting but highly entertaining. we have joined the cult, i suppose.

A!

we also watched the first season of desperate housewives; or rather, jingping did, and i watched intermittently. not as bad as i expected.

B!

favorite coen brothers movies

Inside Llewyn Davis: A (great!)
A Serious Man: A+ (best!)
The Big Lebowski: A+
Raising Arizona: A
Blood Simple: A

also this past weekend:
Suspicion (1941): B- (not the best Hitchcock movie but still fun - lame ending)
Jane Eyre (1943): A

forgot one

from a couple months back:
Spring Breakers: A (pretty good!)

from this past weekend:
The Godfather 2: B
新天龙八部之天山童姥: B+ started out pretty confusing but got pretty good. typical Louis Cha warring kung fu factions stuff, with Gong Li vs Brigitte Lin!

next weekend (edit on 12-23):
Elysium: C (neat special effects, etc, but the plot was super dumb and the logical problems were glaring. is LA the only city left on earth? does living in outer space make you completely retarded?)