Newsies!
Well, this is unexpected, but: Newsies!
Because of amazingly_me (mostly; it's also got Christian Bale, which is always a good thing), I decided to watch Newsies. And I LOVED IT. It's a musical set in turn of the century New York about the boys who sell newspapers, starring Christian Bale at about age 17 (guys, he looks EXACTLY THE SAME. He doesn't even really look younger. It's weird), with Bill Pullman as well (I love him. I only know him from Spaceballs and While You Were Sleeping, but I think he's adorable).
About halfway through, I was like, "Ok, I'm definitely enjoying this." And from that point, my love steadily increased until I was kind of grinning and crying as the credits started to roll. Fantastic. Christian Bale is, as usual, adorable as Jack, a smart good-hearted rough-and-tumble kid with bucketloads of charisma. His new best friend, Dave, played by David Moscow, is also cute, as the brains of the operation, from a family who only recently came on child-labor-hard times when his father was injured and fired. Also, the last few scenes, he's running around in one of those clingy long-underwear type shirts, and he's unexpectedly built. (Kind of like Hodgins, actually: you're like, where did THAT come from? And he's about 17 in this movie, so we're going to stop this train of thought right there.) Also, I suspect he was dating the actress playing his sister: she's got this cute sub-plot romance with Christian Bale, but from doing lots of plays with teenagers, I can tell when there's something going on behind the scenes! :P And all the other boys are fantastic, too. I love boys. I love the ways they interact, and the deep trust and total hurt when that trust is betrayed, and the way they'll mock each other to death but always be there when it counts. Jack and Dave have one of these awesome, awesome friendships, and I love to watch it. There's a reason I want minimal romance in movies like this: as much as I love awesome girls, sometimes I just want to watch the boys, and they're fundamentally different when girls are around, which means I rarely get to see that side of them.
It's kind of like Annie with boys, except instead of the rich adoptive father, the boys help themselves. And I LOVE IT. :D
Because of amazingly_me (mostly; it's also got Christian Bale, which is always a good thing), I decided to watch Newsies. And I LOVED IT. It's a musical set in turn of the century New York about the boys who sell newspapers, starring Christian Bale at about age 17 (guys, he looks EXACTLY THE SAME. He doesn't even really look younger. It's weird), with Bill Pullman as well (I love him. I only know him from Spaceballs and While You Were Sleeping, but I think he's adorable).
About halfway through, I was like, "Ok, I'm definitely enjoying this." And from that point, my love steadily increased until I was kind of grinning and crying as the credits started to roll. Fantastic. Christian Bale is, as usual, adorable as Jack, a smart good-hearted rough-and-tumble kid with bucketloads of charisma. His new best friend, Dave, played by David Moscow, is also cute, as the brains of the operation, from a family who only recently came on child-labor-hard times when his father was injured and fired. Also, the last few scenes, he's running around in one of those clingy long-underwear type shirts, and he's unexpectedly built. (Kind of like Hodgins, actually: you're like, where did THAT come from? And he's about 17 in this movie, so we're going to stop this train of thought right there.) Also, I suspect he was dating the actress playing his sister: she's got this cute sub-plot romance with Christian Bale, but from doing lots of plays with teenagers, I can tell when there's something going on behind the scenes! :P And all the other boys are fantastic, too. I love boys. I love the ways they interact, and the deep trust and total hurt when that trust is betrayed, and the way they'll mock each other to death but always be there when it counts. Jack and Dave have one of these awesome, awesome friendships, and I love to watch it. There's a reason I want minimal romance in movies like this: as much as I love awesome girls, sometimes I just want to watch the boys, and they're fundamentally different when girls are around, which means I rarely get to see that side of them.
It's kind of like Annie with boys, except instead of the rich adoptive father, the boys help themselves. And I LOVE IT. :D