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cahnSo I watched several movies in the last several months! This is… very odd. (I've apparently lost the ability to sit through a movie, so I hardly ever watch any anymore.)
Avengers (2012): Yes, I just watched Avengers. Only two years (and a couple more movies?) late! And the only reason is that J gave it to me for my birthday. Last summer. And… umm… I think that at some point in the last ten years I've outgrown superhero movies. I would have been all over this in college! What actually happened is that D and I treated it as a comedy, laughing at totally inappropriate times, usually when one of the characters had just said something like "He's figured out how to stabilize the quantum tunneling effect!"
I did like Banner a lot. And Captain America, although it wasn't until I got my post-movie briefing from D (who somehow manages to be more clued in to cultural movie gestalt even though he doesn't follow fandom at all) that this "Steve" person that fandom is all excited about was the same guy. I AM THICK, OKAY. (…but in looking at scripts online, I think his name was used exactly once! Also, this was before CA2 came out :P)
I would also not say no to fic recs if you have them (though I am not particularly interested in any pairings). Combing through AO3 is more trouble than it's worth.
Frozen (2013): I really, really loved it. Not that it's a perfect movie by a long shot, but — Disney basically went and pulled out from my brain everything that was going to make me seriously fall for it, and it turns out anyway that my brain has been molded into Disney pathways by repeated childhood exposure when the Little Mermaid etc. movies came out. Darn you, Disney! I thought it was very well put together, and then SISTERS AND DUETS BETWEEN KRISTEN BELL AND IDINA MENZEL OKAY you just tapped into a foolproof way to get me to love it, and I really liked how it had the major subtheme of "You can love someone and have the best intentions and still really screw things up" and the minor subtext of "It's cool to be comfortable with your sexuality." Although I was so mad at the trolls starting at the beginning and lasting through the entire movie, because they should have known better.
E watched half of it during a playdate but got bored after that. But in the past couple of weeks I have found her singing bits of "Let It Go" (mostly, sadly, the title words, although we're both trying to learn the song so we can actually sing it properly), clearly learned through immersion from all the kids at her daycare/preschool who sing it nonstop, as far as I can tell when I pick her up. So it's a good thing that I liked the movie (and the song), as in any case I've had it as an earworm for the last couple of weeks. E, being her E self, loves Olaf the most. (I didn't like Olaf at all, although Josh Gad did as good a job with him as anyone really could, and I liked the trolls less.) I suppose this is what I get for all those college-era rants against cutesy Disney sidekicks. Disney knows what it's doing, news at 11. I suppose it's good that she isn't a big fan of "Fixer-Upper," because that song I find rather... terrible.
Also: I did not know Kristen Bell could sing! Also, I have only ever seen her in Veronica Mars, and it was Really Weird to hear her voice being… happy.
Veronica Mars(2014): Speaking of Kristen Bell! I was pleased. Although it isn't going to be my favorite movie of all time, it did tap into much of what made the original so great, it was absolutely lovely and wonderful to see Keith and Wallace and everyone else again (CLIFF! I had no idea how awesome it would be to see him again until it happened. MORE PLEASE). And Weevilllllll. My headcanon is totally that Weevil lives happily ever after, okay? LA LA LA CAN'T HEAR YOU.
Although I was really worried about the Logan/Veronica, it was treated, I think, just about as well as I could have expected (I thought it was hilarious that all the characters kept reminding Veronica how dysfunctional it was), and I could believe that this version of Veronica and Logan had gotten over some of their issues while still remaining themselves. (Also, Jason Dohring is really hot in uniform. I realize this was pure fanservice, but… yeah. I am okay with that given how hot he is, so.)
Avengers (2012): Yes, I just watched Avengers. Only two years (and a couple more movies?) late! And the only reason is that J gave it to me for my birthday. Last summer. And… umm… I think that at some point in the last ten years I've outgrown superhero movies. I would have been all over this in college! What actually happened is that D and I treated it as a comedy, laughing at totally inappropriate times, usually when one of the characters had just said something like "He's figured out how to stabilize the quantum tunneling effect!"
I did like Banner a lot. And Captain America, although it wasn't until I got my post-movie briefing from D (who somehow manages to be more clued in to cultural movie gestalt even though he doesn't follow fandom at all) that this "Steve" person that fandom is all excited about was the same guy. I AM THICK, OKAY. (…but in looking at scripts online, I think his name was used exactly once! Also, this was before CA2 came out :P)
I would also not say no to fic recs if you have them (though I am not particularly interested in any pairings). Combing through AO3 is more trouble than it's worth.
Frozen (2013): I really, really loved it. Not that it's a perfect movie by a long shot, but — Disney basically went and pulled out from my brain everything that was going to make me seriously fall for it, and it turns out anyway that my brain has been molded into Disney pathways by repeated childhood exposure when the Little Mermaid etc. movies came out. Darn you, Disney! I thought it was very well put together, and then SISTERS AND DUETS BETWEEN KRISTEN BELL AND IDINA MENZEL OKAY you just tapped into a foolproof way to get me to love it, and I really liked how it had the major subtheme of "You can love someone and have the best intentions and still really screw things up" and the minor subtext of "It's cool to be comfortable with your sexuality." Although I was so mad at the trolls starting at the beginning and lasting through the entire movie, because they should have known better.
E watched half of it during a playdate but got bored after that. But in the past couple of weeks I have found her singing bits of "Let It Go" (mostly, sadly, the title words, although we're both trying to learn the song so we can actually sing it properly), clearly learned through immersion from all the kids at her daycare/preschool who sing it nonstop, as far as I can tell when I pick her up. So it's a good thing that I liked the movie (and the song), as in any case I've had it as an earworm for the last couple of weeks. E, being her E self, loves Olaf the most. (I didn't like Olaf at all, although Josh Gad did as good a job with him as anyone really could, and I liked the trolls less.) I suppose this is what I get for all those college-era rants against cutesy Disney sidekicks. Disney knows what it's doing, news at 11. I suppose it's good that she isn't a big fan of "Fixer-Upper," because that song I find rather... terrible.
Also: I did not know Kristen Bell could sing! Also, I have only ever seen her in Veronica Mars, and it was Really Weird to hear her voice being… happy.
Veronica Mars(2014): Speaking of Kristen Bell! I was pleased. Although it isn't going to be my favorite movie of all time, it did tap into much of what made the original so great, it was absolutely lovely and wonderful to see Keith and Wallace and everyone else again (CLIFF! I had no idea how awesome it would be to see him again until it happened. MORE PLEASE). And Weevilllllll. My headcanon is totally that Weevil lives happily ever after, okay? LA LA LA CAN'T HEAR YOU.
Although I was really worried about the Logan/Veronica, it was treated, I think, just about as well as I could have expected (I thought it was hilarious that all the characters kept reminding Veronica how dysfunctional it was), and I could believe that this version of Veronica and Logan had gotten over some of their issues while still remaining themselves. (Also, Jason Dohring is really hot in uniform. I realize this was pure fanservice, but… yeah. I am okay with that given how hot he is, so.)
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Date: 2014-05-20 04:14 am (UTC)Which, it turns out, is all West Wing/Avengers crossover.
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Date: 2014-05-20 12:23 pm (UTC)On the other hand, WEEVIL HAS KIDS and KEEEEEEIIIITH and all the other reasons I enjoyed that movie.
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Date: 2014-05-20 03:38 pm (UTC)Also, I guess I cut the movie a little more slack in the sense of trying to condense down to a couple of hours a choice between the life that everyone else thinks she ought to want versus the life that she needs to have... That being said, I do agree with you about everything being tied together in a package being lazy -- though Show!Veronica might have seen it in that kind of binary, honestly, but one likes to think movie!Veronica might have grown up a bit from there... What I really wish is that we'd gotten Season 4 FBI!Veronica, but alas.
Also, shallowly, I SO wanted Veronica to end up a lawyer just so she and Cliff could snark about it.
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Date: 2014-05-20 06:30 am (UTC)On the more serious side, Edonohana wrote post-movie Natasha and Clint. Domenika Marzione did some interesting writing on the Captain America side. It borrows heavily from comics continuity. Lettered did Responsible Science. The tin says ensemble, but I think the series reads at least as well as really intense Bruce Banner character study. And when you're going, "wow, this is really serious and long", there's the one with the lightsabers and the pop culture references which cracked me up all over again when I went fishing for this.
Frozen was cute, but... I would have liked this a lot more at a different point in my life. Sometime with more small children in the audience. Or maybe if I hadn't heard "Let It Go" a few dozen times first. (Radio Top 40 is a frequent feature at work.) Idina Menzel is to be saluted for making what I hope is a pile of cash on the royalties.
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Date: 2014-05-20 01:26 pm (UTC)Yeah, I hear you about Frozen (which, ha, is pretty close to the way I feel about Avengers). I think you only caught the tail end of the Disney renaissance? I sort of feel like Disney broke my brain to its will, somewhere along the time Beauty and the Beast came out, and I thought I was safe during That Time Where All the Disney Animated Movies Sucked A Lot, and then it turned out... I wasn't.