new england summers, i guess
Ugh, it's going to rain for the whole stupid week apparently. But whatever, my roommate is in Germany and the apartment is going to be blissfully mine for this whole stupid week. I did a bunch of stuff today/yesterday that wasn't work. Like stay in Dedham too long with tosca1390. But we went to the movies. And I bought stuff from H&M, so, you know.
It wasn't bad. I was really entertained! I've been having such non-reactions to movies lately, so it was nice to be pleasantly surprised by things.
Kristen Stewart was lovely. You can clearly tell she's trying to break out of the pseudo-post-Twilight phase. She had wonderful facial expressions! Her accent wasn't terrible! She had agency and there really was this certain subtlety that I dug when it came to her actual story. I liked that it just right into, "Oh, she's been locked away for this long." I like that that she clearly watched people and picked up on their habits and while she wasn't really wise to what the outside world had become, she was smart and sharp and acted and wasn't waiting for people. She also really fed of Chris Hemsworth really well; their chemistry was fabulous and he was a delight too, as always.
The thing about him is that he isn't overpowering and he doesn't really overact. He played really well to the story and man, the scene where he's drunk and talking about his wife and the other contrasting one, where he's fighting Raveena's creepy brother (omg so creepy, guys) were really, really wonderful and painful. He doesn't hide from being the broken man.
And then they had sex in the woods.
Kidding.
Maybe.
Anyways. I did have a really hard time with Charlize though. I thought she overacted a lot. I mean, I get it. Raveena was supposed to be this elaborate figure and possibly mad, if I read the scene where she's talking to the mirror right and creepy bro is lurking in the corner, watching. I think the saving grace was when she was Kristen because they fed off of each other really well and the contrasting softness - those moments - that she sometimes had almost made her sympathetic to me. I just wished that she had been fleshed out more or, if anything, kept as that sort of mysterious figure much like that whole thing in the woods with the fairies and the elk and the walking on water, which, lol. I think there were a lot of problems with the narrative when it came to the magic element to the story, as if they didn't know where they were going to go with it, and unfortunately, I think her character lost out to that.
But I liked it! It was really pretty! And the costumes were so gorgeous. And I had Starbucks at the movies, which made really happy and loopy too. It was late, lol.
I continue to really, really enjoy Legend of Korra. Like ridiculously so. I think I wish they'd focus more on the world building element of where it's going; while I appreciate character development and the group that they have, I just don't want all the other things getting lost, you know?
Also I need a Black Widow film.
Anyways, fic dump because I'm a crazy person and I'm avoiding the gross mess my roommate left behind. And the rest of my laundry too:
in a sea of shame | legend of korra, korra/mako
Two truths and a lie. Mako and Korra are really getting good at this game.
all things that are dark | sailor moon, usagi/mamoru - shitennou/senshi.
The future is full of stumbling, wrong turns. Usagi still wears her growing pains well.
It wasn't bad. I was really entertained! I've been having such non-reactions to movies lately, so it was nice to be pleasantly surprised by things.
Kristen Stewart was lovely. You can clearly tell she's trying to break out of the pseudo-post-Twilight phase. She had wonderful facial expressions! Her accent wasn't terrible! She had agency and there really was this certain subtlety that I dug when it came to her actual story. I liked that it just right into, "Oh, she's been locked away for this long." I like that that she clearly watched people and picked up on their habits and while she wasn't really wise to what the outside world had become, she was smart and sharp and acted and wasn't waiting for people. She also really fed of Chris Hemsworth really well; their chemistry was fabulous and he was a delight too, as always.
The thing about him is that he isn't overpowering and he doesn't really overact. He played really well to the story and man, the scene where he's drunk and talking about his wife and the other contrasting one, where he's fighting Raveena's creepy brother (omg so creepy, guys) were really, really wonderful and painful. He doesn't hide from being the broken man.
And then they had sex in the woods.
Kidding.
Maybe.
Anyways. I did have a really hard time with Charlize though. I thought she overacted a lot. I mean, I get it. Raveena was supposed to be this elaborate figure and possibly mad, if I read the scene where she's talking to the mirror right and creepy bro is lurking in the corner, watching. I think the saving grace was when she was Kristen because they fed off of each other really well and the contrasting softness - those moments - that she sometimes had almost made her sympathetic to me. I just wished that she had been fleshed out more or, if anything, kept as that sort of mysterious figure much like that whole thing in the woods with the fairies and the elk and the walking on water, which, lol. I think there were a lot of problems with the narrative when it came to the magic element to the story, as if they didn't know where they were going to go with it, and unfortunately, I think her character lost out to that.
But I liked it! It was really pretty! And the costumes were so gorgeous. And I had Starbucks at the movies, which made really happy and loopy too. It was late, lol.
I continue to really, really enjoy Legend of Korra. Like ridiculously so. I think I wish they'd focus more on the world building element of where it's going; while I appreciate character development and the group that they have, I just don't want all the other things getting lost, you know?
Also I need a Black Widow film.
Anyways, fic dump because I'm a crazy person and I'm avoiding the gross mess my roommate left behind. And the rest of my laundry too:
in a sea of shame | legend of korra, korra/mako
Two truths and a lie. Mako and Korra are really getting good at this game.
all things that are dark | sailor moon, usagi/mamoru - shitennou/senshi.
The future is full of stumbling, wrong turns. Usagi still wears her growing pains well.