Trawling Through The Thrift Stores with Joseph Finn

 

 Howdy folks!     My apologies for the lateness of today’s entry but I was having having computer and other issues.  But to start with, enjoy these plush pumpkins I found today.  Aren't they adorable?

Second in this week's bounty, a nice box set of the Hunger Games paperbacks.   I already had them in various editions, but I'm a sucker for a matched set of things.  And besides, it may be a time for a reread on these; I haven't touched them since the last movie came out and that's almost five years ago now.  (There is apparently a prequel novel out now but hey, I think I'm good when it comes to that.

I've been watching the new Star Trek: Lower Decks show on CBS All Access (very funny and not just relying on Trek in-jokes), and I realized that I simply do not own this, the best Trek movie.  So this was a welcome find today so I can relive my childhood of watching Shatner and Montalban snarl at each other for 90+ minutes.  This is really one of the best '80s science fiction thrillers and holds up damn well.

I finished my collection of Seinfeld!  Some might think I have too many DVD TV sets, but considering how series can jump from streaming service to service I'm quite happy to have my physical media so I can actually watch this whenever I want instead of figuring out what service this is on right now (my guess is Peacock+ or Premier or whatever the pay version is called).  Besides, I'm that basic guy who still thinks this show is classic as hell and Jennifer Louis-Dreyfus and Jason Alexander deserve every bit of praise they have received.  So yeah, I'll still watch it despite some of it inevitably being dated (and oy, is this show white).

OK.  Look.  I love horror movies.  I love all sorts of horror movies.  Slashers are not necessarily a bad genre, despite a lot of them being misogynistic crap.  I'm not even especially a fan of the Friday the 13th series.  But then, at some weird point they just went bonkers, leaned into the "Jason is some sort of immortal being," and you get silly fare like Jason Takes Manhattan.  And then the real bonkers stuff happens in this movie, when Jason is captured by a military team (led by David Cronenberg!) accidentally frozen with a scientist and then woken up a salvage team in the year 3000 who take him aboard their spaceship and accidentally revive him.  This movie leans into the absolute silliness of the Jason mythology, never takes itself too seriously, and is inhabited by a ton of people you've seen on any sci-fi TV series that was made around Vancouver in the 2000s.  I will not apologize for my love of this goofy trash.