The Yellow Rose of Texas

Okay, so I only made it to 46. I was going strong up until September, and then things really petered out. If I had been counting seasons of TV shows, miniseries, and/or rewatches of movies I’d seen before, I can safely say I would have kicked this goal’s ass.

It was interesting to have something like this to work on – usually when I set a year-long goal for myself, I always stop working on it at some point. I definitely went out of my way to watch movies I had no interest in, for the sheer experience of it (The Exorcism of Emily Rose comes to mind). I’m not entirely sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing, but it was an interesting experience.

Why is it so easy to shell out $20 a month for this service, and then totally fail to keep on the ball with sending them back? It rapidly stops being worth paying for. :| I just need to suck it up and start putting them out in the mailbox as soon as I’m done watching them.

This was… kinda… huh. I don’t know; in some ways it was an interesting look into the life of a Venetian courtesan, and in some ways it was wanky and over-blown. The romance didn’t feel realistic, and if they would have canned that and just made it be more about Veronica’s life, it would have been one million times more interesting – and probably would have got the recognition it visually deserved as a period piece. As it stands, it’s more like a tawdry romance novel with an unattractive cast. (Seriously. I’m not going to bother looking up who played the male lead, but that was fuglier fug than ever fugged before.) Candle-lit heterosexual sex scenes can only take a film so far, and the same goes for field-frolicking montages set to dreamy instrumental pieces. Mnngh.