Simon ,'Jaynestown'
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Katee Sackoff seems so perfect for it
Nah. She's too... I dunno. She's not my Carol. I'm very meh on her, TBH.
Now to find the footage from the Marvel Event. The one with Steve and the logs.
Mmmm.... logs. Sorry, but yesterday, about a zillion lumberjack fantasies people NEVER KNEW THEY HAD were activated.
It took less than 24 hours for there to be a Clint Barton's Farm canonical tag on Ao3. Fic happened FAST.
Lumberjack Steve appears to not yet have reached 3 uses.
I'm trying so very hard to get my T-shirt problem under control, but I am being very tempted by this GotG shirt.
I'm watching Hansel and Gretel, and the gore is a bit too much for me when it's there. But what ticked me off was when H and G reunite in the cabin and he sees her face and asks, all big brother "I'm gonna whoop someone's ass" "Who did this to you?", and I really wish she'd retorted "Who did this to you?!", especially since both of their faces are fucked up at that point. Um, she's your badass sister who has been killing witches and getting the shit beat out of her in the process since you were kids, she was the one who ganked the first witch first. Are you seriously going to cop a women-are-the-weaker-sex attitude and they need protecting? This isn't even a feminist sticking point, but one based on the world which we're shown, with what they've been through, where they are equal partners, in giving violence and receiving it. The protective-big-brother vibe seemed out of place. Too coddling.
Did anyone else see Book of Life? I thought it was pretty cool, what did you think?
Now I'm watching Jack Reacher, and the fight scene halfway through was the most hilarious I've seen to date. Just the two guys getting in each others way and doing more destruction to the room around them than to their target. But choreographed well enough as to not devolve into slapstick.
Okay, so who else has seen John Wick because we need to talk about how fucking great it is. I agree with this entire review. The action scenes are creative and kinetic: John is very focused on maneuvering his enemies and his environment in order to most efficiently kill people. It's hard to pick a favorite kill but I am especially fond of hitting a guy with a car and then shooting him through the fucking roof. But what elevates the film is how smartly written it is: it masterfully implies worldbuilding and character history with very little in the way of direct exposition. Credit also goes to the many talented actors in small roles. It's bloody and violent but it also gets plenty of crowd-pleasing laughs. This is a movie that reduced the entire audience to uncontrollable laughter with the word "Oh." Plus, it has way cool subtitles.
If John Wick looks like the kind of movie you want to see, you definitely want to see it.
Wow, really? The ads were not making me want to see it at all, but you are making it sound right up my alley.
The trailers made it look sort of silly in a "Keanu Reeves kills a bunch of people because someone killed his dog" kind of way but it's the CUTEST DOG IN THE UNIVERSE and also it has personal significance that makes his actions make sense. It's still pretty ridiculous at times, but it manages to be over-the-top without becoming a parody of itself (as opposed to, say, Shoot 'Em Up, which was not grounded at all). And the worldbuilding is so solid; you can tell there's so much more to this world and these characters than what we see. Just in the way characters address each other, you can tell what their relationship is immediately. You hardly get any real details about anyone's past, but it's all so clear anyway, just based on their interactions and dialogue.
It's the sort of movie that reminds you that, dammit, we do deserve better from our action movies. It can be done. (Granted, we do yet again have a male character being motivated by a dead wife, and some more of the mobsters could have been women [Adrianne Palicki is having a badass time these days, though], so there's always room for improvement.)