17th Mickey

I need to stop watch black comedies...

Mickey needs to get away from Earth, so signs up with a not cult expedition to a new planet of purity, but didn't read the fine print when he ticked the "kill me" box. And so he gets to be the guinea pig for every bad thing around. Except the latest bad thing doesn't kill him, but they already produced a replacement, so wackiness ensues!

I'm gonna start with, I didn't really enjoy this. The black comedy aspect of it didn't hit home, so it just felt drawn out and not going anywhere. The creepy minister (political not religious, but...) is creepy, the creepy aliens aren't, and you can largely guess where the plot is going and wait for it to shake out.

Robert Pattinson is fine here, but frankly this felt like a role anyone could do so that Robert doesn't bring anything special to it. And that holds true for the rest of the cast. The effects are fine as well, and... this was over two hours? Don't need that.

Yes, I'm going to say that Moon did this better, which is unfortunate because that cast is 33% shit.

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Waiting for Sunrise

I've seen the video game... this is nothing like the video game...

With her sister gone missing, Clover and her friends go to Glore Valley to find her... and instead find death. More than once. Because when they die, they come back to life. To survive the night, they need to survive... until dawn!

While this has definite nods to the game, this is nothing like it. The game is all about Wendigos, this movie just has it as a minor monster. The game has the clown faced killer as a stalking menace, this movie has that as just one of many killers. The game has Peter Stomare as a over the top doctor... this movie does get that right.

We have Ella Rubin as the main girl, Odessa A'zlon I recognised from Ghosts, and Ji-young Yoo stood as the token Asian... but I could not tell you the difference between the two guys. The killers are decent enough, but aren't really on screen long enough to stand out as more than momentary jump scares.

The video game had a strong enough story, and plenty of characters. This pares down the number of characters... and the idea of a story. It's rather weak, because of that. Feel free to skip.

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Doctor Cruise

Medical shows are always something (The Pitt was The Bomb) and ads for this caught my eye, so yeah, let's binge it!

Set on a cruise ship, a new doctor heads up the medical team of two other nurses, and each episode is a different theme cruise with medical mishaps happening. The three medical people get into a situation, yes, a full on throuple at one point, but the soap opera comes out because the head doctor wants a solo relationship, but the female nurse doesn't, but maybe does have feelings, and the other male nurse has feelings for her as well, but she doesn't and... it gets messy, but hey, I already said "soap opera". And we have Joshua Jackson starring, last seen in Fringe, and Don Johnson is the captain. I'm sure I've seen Phillipa Soo is other things, but not Sean Teale.

But let's complain. So this is on a cruise ship, and I know a few things about cruise life... this is one of the smaller luxury liners, and there are definite changes for TV, but...

Three medical staff? Nope, way too few. And that medical office they have would be impressive in a stationary hospital, on the high seas there is no way they are having all that stuff!

The Captain and Doctor get fancy suites. Again, TV (and they give every person basically the same suite to save on sets), but I highly doubt they get anything thay really fancy, because they would a) be below decks, and b) cruise ships love to save on money and space by not giving out luxury cabins to staff. (And there don't seem to be any staff elevators either, just plush ones for everyone.)

The staff and guests mingle. A lot. And yes, fraternise... NOPE. That is extremely against all guidelines, and such staff would be thrown off the ship. This would also harken back to that classic series Love Boat... (and everyone calls this a 'boat', although the captain keeps correcting to 'ship').

And it isn't just me complaining.

It's a fun show, but TV beats realism. And network beats TV as there is no sign this is going to get a second season.

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