Pop Culture
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Le Domaine des dieux et, mieux encore, Le Secret de la potion magique ↩︎
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j’étais nourrisson pour France-Allemagne en 82 et toujours pas bien grand pour France-Brésil en 86 ↩︎
Jordan Klepper, on the Daily Show:
I didn’t even know Mississippi had Democrats. It’s like finding out McDonald’s serves a risotto.
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Watched: A Minecraft Movie 🍿
Funny, nicely made, full of cinema sins but who cares? Ever since I watched School of Rock, I became a fan of the exuberant/borderline-exhausting energy of Jack Black. Jason Momoa somewhat works. This is not a great movie, but it is a decent movie that my kids watch repeatedly and I am okay with it.
Watched: Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom 🍿
Excellent. Funny, really nicely made.
Watched: Iron Boy 🍿
Une vraie réussite visuelle. Ça parle d’émancipation, de musique, de société, du cou des filles et de l’affreux monde des adultes. Seul léger bémol : les dialogues sont parfois inintelligibles pour les durs de la feuille. Rappel : les Astérix du même Louis Clichy1, co-réalisés avec Alexandre Astier, sont aussi recommandés.
Watched: Ted Lasso Season 4
I loved the first three seasons of Ted Lasso. When Season 4 was announced in August 2024, I wrote a note to myself: “There might be a season 4 for Ted Lasso. Not sure it is a great idea.” I still think so. I like things that are contained, things that end. I do not like things that get dragged back out because they sold.
Season 4 was OK. Not amazing. Not lame. OK.
The premise is the point: AFC Richmond gets a women’s team. It is an important idea, and the show knows it. It still leans on caritas, the notion that a community is built through the work of drawing strength from one another, the same engine that ran the first three seasons. It runs fine. But it felt like déjà vu.
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Watched: The Odyssey
Quite a movie. To be honest, while I was watching it, I didn’t think much of it. I found it a bit formulaic, not very imaginative—maybe even boring at times. But during the few hours after leaving the theater, I couldn’t stop thinking about it, and my opinion of the film was growing with each passing minute. It’s a movie with a delayed impression.
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Watched: Ice Age: The Meltdown
I used to love the Ice Age series. While my affection for Scrat remains strong (here is a best of), I find the rest of the narrative to be very subpar. I often hoped my kids wouldn’t ask questions about obvious inconsistencies in the story and the animation.
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Watched: Cool Runnings
Cute family movie with heartwarming stories (the bromance between Yul and Junior, what winning can bring and what it cannot).
Hopefully, a good gateway for watching classic underdog sports movies when the kids are older: Blades of Glory and Dodgeball.
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Watched: Spy Hard
Neither the best nor the worst of my recent binge-watching of Leslie Nielsen movies.
While it’s not essential, the opening credits song by Weird Al Yankovic is worth a watch.
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Watched: Platini
Une série un rien trop formatée, mais avec des archives très sympa.
Je n’ai pas vraiment été contemporain de Platini joueur ou du moins je n’en ai aucun souvenir1. Mais j’ai vu Platini sélectionneur, organisateur de France 98, président de l’UEFA et candidat à la présidence de la FIFA. Tout cela n’avait causé ni sympathie, ni antipathie à son égard. Grâce à cette série, je connais Platoche un peu mieux, mais aucune attache ne s’est créée pour autant. Et le sujet chaud que je m’attendais à voir sur la table a été soigneusement évité.
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