I treated myself to the DVD of Captain Marvel ... got a little teary over the beginning, which has what looked like all of Stan Lee's appearances.
Spike: I'm not a monster. Xander: Yes! You are a monster. Vampires are monsters! They make monster movies about them! Spike: Well, yeah. Got me there.
'Dirty Girls'
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Toddson - Dec 16, 2019 1:24:06 pm PST #2332 of 3433
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
amyparker - Dec 16, 2019 1:53:05 pm PST #2333 of 3433
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
I'm thinking I might give Rise of Skywalker a miss. It would be better to have my inevitable messy emotional reaction to knowing Connie's not in the world to watch it in private.
amych - Dec 16, 2019 2:37:41 pm PST #2334 of 3433
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
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Space Mom Carrie Fisher would tell you to take care of yourself. You can always catch the movie later if/when you decide it's time.
Calli - Dec 16, 2019 3:00:58 pm PST #2335 of 3433
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Space Mom Carrie Fisher would tell you to take care of yourself.
And she'd give the bird to anyone who said otherwise.
I watch the LotR trilogy the day after Thanksgiving as I put up the tree and decorate. I'm not sure what I'd replace it with. The Miyazaki suggestions upthread sound promising. Or original trilogy Star Wars.
Beverly - Dec 16, 2019 3:36:07 pm PST #2336 of 3433
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Space Mom aside, I'm truly about Star Wars'd out. We lived in walking distance of a huge new-built single-theatre movie house--just before smaller theatres and stadium seating became the thing. My mom was willing to watch the toddlers, and H and I must have watched both Star Wars (at the time, tha one, tha only) and Raiders a hundred times each. When the kids were seven or so, both movies went into re-release and we took the kids multiple times to both movies (and to Outland and The Howling on a double bill, but we'll discuss our abysmal parenting choices later), thereby cementing both of them as firm lifelong fans of both franchises (Indiana Jones and Star Wars, not...the Howling).
Hauled protesting to the prequels by said offspring, I've seen two of those exactly once, and the third I managed to escape. We have seen Solo, Rogue One, the Last Jedi, alla the sequels. Once. Enjoyed but not enough to repeat, and frankly my Star Wars feels are pretty much felt. Not buying into Baby Groot Yoda, not this time, not nohow.
Y'all go 'head on, enjoy. Save me some popcorn.
Jessica - Dec 17, 2019 3:48:27 am PST #2337 of 3433
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
DH is seeing an 11am screening of RoSW, and then I'm joining him at 7pm for Cats. I am SO MUCH more excited for Cats than I am for RoSW.
Vonnie K - Dec 17, 2019 4:46:23 am PST #2338 of 3433
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I am moderating my expectations for The Rise of Skywalker because it's JJ Williams. I don't expect to love it. Hopefully I'll like it and find parts of it moving. Kinda resigned to having one of the things I loved the most about TLJ -- the democratization of Force/Rey's heritage not being important -- be overturned in this one 'cause that seems like such a JJ move.
I had to shut my eyes against the abomination that is CATS trailer every time it played during coming attractions this past month. I cannot imagine sitting through 2 hours of it. *shudders*
Tom Scola - Dec 17, 2019 4:49:59 am PST #2339 of 3433
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
It's JJ Abrams, but I'm totally with you on adjusting expectations.
I'm sure it will be a pretty movie to look at, but I'm equally sure that the plot will completely fall apart upon closer examination.
Steph L. - Dec 17, 2019 5:22:32 am PST #2340 of 3433
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
I'm looking forward to RoSW, in a "yeah, I want to see what happens" kind of way. (There are only so many fictional universes I can be obsessed with, and Star Wars is not one of them, which is actually quite nice. Endgame was actually stressful for me, because I don't like big changes to things I love.)
But I actually want to see the new Jumanji movie more than RoSW, because apparently I will see anything with Mr. The Rock in it. (And because the first one was ridiculously fun.)
Dana - Dec 17, 2019 5:57:26 am PST #2341 of 3433
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
I want more Poe, Finn, and Rey. Anything on top is gravy.