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Minute reviews of what I’ve been watching lately

My good time is being spent on movies, TV-shows and not so much anime these days. I prefer to have company to watch stuff together with and thus there's either one of my housemates or someone else upstairs with me watching something. That, or I'd be outside watching a movie or just hanging out. With this recent obsession over spending time NOT watching things alone, I've discovered various rather amusing things. So here's some reviews.

Watchmen (movie)
I'll start with saying I haven't read the comics, but I like Rorschach somehow because of an artist that did awesome artwork for Quake 2 mods back in the day, who signed everything as 'Rorschach'. My attraction to this movie was then based on knowing there was a guy in a coat with a hat walking around being awesome with his white mask with inkblots from the Rorschach test on it, and my expectations next to none.

I'll be brief, as there wasn't much to say. I felt like I was tossed into episode 4 of an ongoing TV-show with Watchmen. Something was missing, and the characters were really badly introduced and I had no real grasp on who any of them were except the Comedian and Rorschach at the end. The effects were... cool. Some will watch this for the effects, I wasn't too amused. There were however some moments where I was being all 'ooh shiny' and then Dr Manhattan comes with his blue penis to ruin it. The moments I enjoyed most of this movie were with the Comedian and Rorschach. I laughed at Night Owl and Silk Spectre II's scene in Arkimedes with the godawful misplaced song and the flamethrower. I did not laugh at anything Involving Ozymandias. Rorschach (again) should just have had his own movie where he narrated his own random investigations like a journal - I really didn't enjoy any other parts of this movie. I rate it 4/10 for Rorschach, and if they ever decide to keep using the Joker in the Batman movies, please make Rorschach's actor the new one.

The Mentalist (TV show)
It was C.C. that told me I should watch this show, while warning me the main character is a big jerk. I don'' get it - I love the guy. I love this show. It's a extremely intelligent and very socially smart guy walking about helping crime investigations while his mental condition is a mystery and all you really know is that he will slaughter his wife's murderer in stead of prosecuting him. And yet you just sit there and enjoy the ride.

Having Patrick Jane troll and zing every person he can come over and always flaunt his superior intelligence and knowledge, always putting his beliefs and what he believes is justice and right in front of him and making it the norm for anyone he encounters. He is just so amusing with how he always gets his way - and nobody really tries to get back at him for doing it. The rest of the cast supplement him really well too, although I feel the boss is a bit poorly written. I absolutely love Cho ('it's time for CHO BUSINESS') and how his extremely straight and unshaken character keeps the stone face, even when someone drunk and hurt is sitting next to him near a bed - crying her eyes out - in stead he just zinged her in stride.

I'm all out of episodes now and I can't wait for more. For me The Mentalist is like watching Code GEASS or Death Note without the superpowers and the will to dominate the world. It's a relief from the oh-so-evil-boo-hoo mentality that Lelouch and Light have their characters based around. In stead, the superior intelligence is used for a greater good, although with an ulterior motive to get himself some peace of mind - at least not by dominating the world.