COVID Watchlist and Music to Movies Idea

Well, my last post was a thank you to all of you wonderful readers, and I now owe you another thank you. I got more likes in one day on that post than I have gotten on any other day in the first five years of blogging that I was talking about in that post. Y’all are awesome!

I was drafting a post the other day with a list of great TV shows streaming right now, but I realized it was getting a little wordier than I wanted, even though I was trying to keep my summaries of the shows to a minimum. So here’s what I’ve decided to do: I’m going to give you the list with just the names of the shows, and the platform(s) they are streaming on today, then I will try to give you more information about each throughout my next few posts (or you can look them up yourself, the links to each show’s IMDb page below might help) in case my list and boredom alone aren’t enough to convince you to watch them. Without further ado:

 

Title logo for television series Psych. by USA Network; Public Domain

 

1. Psych: Amazon Prime, (also marathoning on USA Network, 2 seasons every Wednesday and Thursday. This week, Seasons 3 & 4 are up)
2. Lucifer: Netflix
3. Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Hulu, NBC (only season 6)
4. Grimm: Amazon Prime
5. Parks and Recreation: Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, NBC (only the first three episodes and the series finale)
6. Community: Netflix, Hulu

I will add that when it comes to TV shows, I’m a big fan of comedy. I wouldn’t classify Lucifer and Grimm as comedies, but they both have comedic elements. The other four are unquestionably comedies.

On a note unrelated to those TV shows but related to the title of this post, I had a fantastic idea today: Why aren’t songs turned into movies? I mean, there are lots of good music videos out there accompanying various songs, so why aren’t any of the bigwigs in Hollywood expanding on those videos to turn them into blockbuster movies, or even just taking a song without the video and giving it a video in the form of a box-office-busting film?

 

Music Wallpaper Heartbeat by ColiN00B; License: (Pixabay License)

 

The current state of the movie business delivers audiences largely with questionable remakes of movies we all used to love back in the day. This ranges from sub-par live-action remakes of classic animated Disney movies (tell me I’m not the only one that was glad to hear Mulan‘s live-action release is getting pushed back), to Sony‘s several failed attempts to reboot dead franchises (admittedly, their reboot of Jumanji has not been a failure. That has been well done so far, and I hope that remains true for the third installment).

I want to see stories and characters I haven’t see before on the big screen. I mean, if somebody can take the book The Hobbit (about 300 pages long, it takes the average reader around 6.5 hours to read) and turn it into 3 movies (8 hours and 53 minutes of running time, total), it seems like it wouldn’t be that difficult to turn a page of lyrics and a 5-minute video into an hour-and-a-half-long movie.

It’d be like the reverse of the way movie soundtracks are composed now; The composers watch the movie and write the score to what they see. With my idea, screenwriters would listen to music and write the story to what they hear. To be clear, I’m talking about making a movie about the story within a song. Bohemian Rhapsody doesn’t count because it’s not about that song, specifically, it’s about Queen. Also, I’m not talking about making a musical. The only worthwhile musicals are Disney’s older animated movies (I’m talking, The Lion King and…actually, mostly just The Lion King, though you might have an argument for the likes of Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Little Mermaid).

If you could take a song and/or music video and turn it into a major motion picture, what song and/or music video would it be?

Star Wars, Lucifer, Life, Love

I’ve a lot to discuss in this post:

First of all, I suppose I owe all of you an explanation for my last post. I posted a link to the song And So It Goes by Billy Joel, and I typed up the lyrics to the song. I was going to write some sort of introduction and/or conclusion for that post, but I decided to just let you think about it without my opinions influencing you in any way. So, what did you think? Let me know in the comments (and write a comment about your thoughts on the song BEFORE reading on).

Now, here’s my opinion on the song: I was introduced to the song by a friend who I won’t see for two years because he is Mormon and about to head off on his mandatory mission (for the record, I’m not Mormon). It is an INCREDIBLY powerful song. The lyrics themselves are a poem, which is beautiful enough in talking about the longing for love and the complex nature of love between two people. Add in the longing tone with which Joel performs the song and the minor tonality of the song, and…wow. It’s one of those very few songs that is so beautiful and powerful that it brings tears to my eyes when I listen to it. EVERY time I listen to it.

Second of all, have you ever heard people say that they’re bad at life? I know I have. I have probably even said it before in the past, and maybe you have as well. But, after some very serious thought on the matter, I have decided that people are not bad at life. Rather, life is bad at life. Think about it. So many people say that life sucks when something gets screwed up, but many people say that sort of thing, and each person says it about different somethings getting screwed up. That means that life being bad is the only constant in there. So, life is bad at life. Somehow that all makes sense in my head. 🙂

Third of all, today was the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Blu-Ray and DVD release day. So, being the massive Star Wars nerd/geek/fanatic (pick whichever one(s) you like the most) I am, I of course purchased the movie. Just to throwback and shout-out to a couple of my old posts: here is my no-spoiler review and my spoiler review for the movie. So, I was watching the bonus content for the movie when a quote that I heard caught my attention. I didn’t hear it clearly enough to remember it the first time I heard it, so I reversed to take a second crack and write it down when it was said. One of the Lucasfilm reps that worked on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story said, “What makes something a Saga film is: it’s related to the Skywalker family in some way.” Basically, she revealed once and for all that Rey is a Skywalker. Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens is a Saga film, therefore it’s related to the Skywalker family. Now, Luke and Leia are both still alive, but remember, Leia is essentially an Organa…or a Solo now (basically, she’s never known as Leia Skywalker) and her son, Kylo Ren, is definitely a Solo. This means that the only way that Rey is NOT a Skywalker is if Luke continues to be the focal point of this new trilogy. The logical assumption is that Rey is the Skywalker because she was the main protagonist in Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens. But don’t forget, the whole movie was about the search for Luke, which would make it very much related to the Skywalker family in some way. Futhermore, the title for the next movie in the trilogy is Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi. We know from Star Wars Episode VI: The Return of the Jedi that Luke is a Jedi Knight, while Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens never declared Rey to be a Jedi. So Luke may very well be that name sake “Last Jedi”. We are down to two possibilities, so what do you think? Will Lucasfilm go predictable and make Rey a Skywalker, or will Luke regain the focal point in this new trilogy?

Fourth of all, Timothy Omundson is joining the cast of Lucifer! The man who played Detective Carlton Jebediah “Danger” Lassiter or “Lassie” on the greatest television show of all time (Psych) (side note: Happy Birthday to Psych star James Roday who played Shawn Spencer!) will be playing God in the second greatest television show of all time (Lucifer). I’M PSYCHED! (See what I did there?) Also, apparently he voiced some rebellion characters in Star Wars Battlefront II. He is one of those very few actors/actresses that can act the phone book.

That’s all for TheHaysWay today, make sure to leave a comment on your thoughts about And So It Goes and/or on life being bad at life and/or on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and/or on any Star Wars conspiracy theory and/or on Timothy Omundson and/or on Lucifer and/or on whatever is on your mind, along with a much-appreciated like. If you are not yet a follower, become a follower for Star Wars‘ sake! 🙂 Have a pleasant tomorrow.