movie recommendations
Apr. 21st, 2026 11:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adrian_turtleWhat would you recommend, if you had a week to catch up on almost 30 years of visual media? I have been carefully avoiding movies and TV since the end of the 20th century. I sometimes read fanfic, or listen without watching, or look at isolated scenes of The West Wing or Babylon 5 or Sherlock or so I have some idea what everyone is talking about. But I am more or less clueless.
I will be in the hospital for a week, bored and sleep deprived and deliberately removing all my usual anti-seizure precautions. I expect I'll have plenty of migraines, because so many of my migraine triggers are also seizure triggers. Ick. There is no need to seek out movies with strobe effects. The EEG techs will shine a strobe light in my face every so often just to see what happens. But while I am staying up all night, I will be free to watch movies on my laptop as well as read or crochet.
What should I watch? I have library cards from the Boston Public Library and the Minuteman Library Network which might give me access to movies but I haven't tried to use that feature. Which commercial service should I subscribe to for the next month? I want to only buy one month service, from one dealer, rather than watching 3 movies from Netflix and 4 from Apple and 6 from someplace else. Murderbot and Black Panther are on the maybe list, but I don't want to buy two subscriptions.
My favorite movies are Muppet Christmas Carol and Princess Bride.
I watched Star Wars the week it came out in theaters and hated it.
I quite liked Star Trek:TNG, even though many of the episodes gave me headaches.
I liked the first Superman movie and Galaxy Quest.
I like movies where people talk to each other, and hate that thing where it looks like the cameraman is riding a trotting horse.
I will be in the hospital for a week, bored and sleep deprived and deliberately removing all my usual anti-seizure precautions. I expect I'll have plenty of migraines, because so many of my migraine triggers are also seizure triggers. Ick. There is no need to seek out movies with strobe effects. The EEG techs will shine a strobe light in my face every so often just to see what happens. But while I am staying up all night, I will be free to watch movies on my laptop as well as read or crochet.
What should I watch? I have library cards from the Boston Public Library and the Minuteman Library Network which might give me access to movies but I haven't tried to use that feature. Which commercial service should I subscribe to for the next month? I want to only buy one month service, from one dealer, rather than watching 3 movies from Netflix and 4 from Apple and 6 from someplace else. Murderbot and Black Panther are on the maybe list, but I don't want to buy two subscriptions.
My favorite movies are Muppet Christmas Carol and Princess Bride.
I watched Star Wars the week it came out in theaters and hated it.
I quite liked Star Trek:TNG, even though many of the episodes gave me headaches.
I liked the first Superman movie and Galaxy Quest.
I like movies where people talk to each other, and hate that thing where it looks like the cameraman is riding a trotting horse.
