I went to the movies TWICE this weekend
Three day weekends are the BEST.
I had an all day day-drinking pool party on Saturday that involved way too much tequila and hula skirts (don't ask), an 8 am riding lesson following by Deadpool on Sunday, and brunch followed by Solo and ice cream on Monday. It's been a pretty good weekend.
Deadpool thoughts:
~ I wanted more of Domino. A lot more. If they do an X-Force movie/sequel/whatever, she better be in it.
~ And way more of Negasonic Teenage Warhead (is she always going to be teenage? will she eventually be Negasonic Twentysomething Warhead? Negasonic Midlife Warhead.... I'm just saying) and her girlfriend Yukio. Both of whom I felt were underused, and only really there for comic relief. Which is fine, but we only got to see them use their powers maybe once and not even more than for 2 seconds each. Maybe NTW can be in X-Force with Domino, please and thank you.
~ Cable was okay I guess. Look at Josh Brolin, having his day 30 years after Goonies lol.
~ I loved the kid who played Firefist/Russell from his work in Hunt for the Wilderpeople. Sincerely hope he continues to work. Would love to see more of him.
~ I do applaude RR and whomever else was responsible on the more diverse casting and representation! RR's passion for the character, and his hard work, really comes through, and I appreciate it.
~ But at the end of the day, this movie was just another "dead baby mama" plot vehicle for the hero/main character, for both Wade and Cable, and, well, *yawn*. Even with everything being reversed at the end, doesn't really save the over used plot device. As Wade would say, "Lazy Writing!" which it is exactly! haha. I was a little amused to read that the writers had never heard of fridging when they wrote the screenplay but it was pointed out to them afterwards. Uh huh...
~ Yet I did laugh through a lot of it, even though I sincerely hope we never see Wade blown into bits ever again ew.
My friends who went to see Solo did not have good things to say, so I went into it with pretty low expectations.
Thoughts on Solo:
~ For the most part, while watching, my biggest thought was "Aw, this movie doesn't suck, that's great!" So, yay! It was fun, and totally enjoyable movie. A + all around.
~ I'm always in love with the Star Wars aesthetic. This movie looked great. From the WW1 sort of trench warfare, to the glitz of Voz's ship.
~ Along those lines, LOVED seeing a new and clean Millennium Falcon, especially the closet and captain's quarters! I'm such a sucker for cool set design. All of Lando's capes haha.
~ L3, who is like K2SO's spiritual older sister. All of L3's scenes were great, but my favorite was the one with Qi'ra in the cockpit of the Falcon. And then starting that rebellion and being bossy.
~ Loved Han meeting Chewbacca.
~ I loved Thandie Newton. Too bad she died.
~ Lando and Han, and all of their scenes together, for the most part. I wanted a bit more "scoundrel" from both of them, but that card game was the best, and their banter was pretty great.
~ I'm always an easy sell for any sort of heist movie, and I did enjoy those aspects quite a bit. And although i was expecting his betrayal, I did also like Tobias. And also his multi-armed friend.
~ Kind of amused that Paul Bettany keeps getting impaled.
~ I was fine with the casting, but I could not watch Han without mentally trying to redo each of his scenes in my mind with how I thought Harrison Ford would have done it. This isn't really the actor's fault. It's just...it's Han Solo. He is burned into my dna I think. I had to more or less think of this Han as a totally different character. Some scenes were closer to the mark.
~ I'm having a hard time describing what bothered me about how they show Han winning (or not winning) the Millennium Falcon from Lando. The way this movie sets it up, I can't help but think the Falcon is still more Lando's ship than it is Han's, and not only because he doesn't actually win it from Lando until the end, after the Kessel run, although that didn't help, and then add to that having L3, Lando's partner, as part of Falcon's brain now. Basically, I wanted the Han/Falcon and Lando/Falcon dynamics reversed, but still keeping the basic set up of "Han won the Falcon from Lando in a card game."
~ Speaking of the Kessel run, I thought that was fun actually, and well done considering the whole "a parsec is a measure of distance not a measure of time" thing. But I did kind of wish it was still a race or a well known run that many have tried and few have succeeded or something. It has to be a well known thing if he can boast to Luke and Ben that he did the Kessel run in 12 parsecs or whatever, but how it plays out in Solo, that doesn't seem to be the case. Also, he only manages to do it in 12 parsecs because of L3's navigational memory banks, and not because he's really skilled. Which he totally is. That was some really cool flying.
~ So I know we all know Han is really a good guy pretending to be a heartless scoundrel, but I wanted a little more heartless scoundrel. A little more of the Han we see in the beginning of Star Wars, which I didn't quite get in this.
~ For the most part I really liked Qi'ra, and I thought the actress was great. I was fine with the story of Han and her's friendship/romance and all, but I kind of wish she hadn't been the source of Han's motivation and character development in the plot.
~ So I can only guess that the reveal of Darth Maul at the end is for a reason? I mean, why show him if they're not planning to do something with it?? I don't know. I have watched Clone Wars so I know all about how he didn't die but to be honest the Maul story line in CW was my least favorite. (but otherwise I loved Clone Wars! And highly recommend).
~~~
In other news, I had a birthday this month, so another trip around the sun, cross that off. My birthday involved a friday night bar excursion complete with lots of tacos, 4 (count 'em FOUR) *double* margaritas, a 90s heartthrob minor celebrity attending, and a foggy memory of how I got home. :D There were whole text conversations that I don't remember having. whoops?
I got birthday flowers. They were really pretty.
~~~
Saw Infinity War three times so far. Want to go again.
Part of me is expecting a Never Ending Story type ending to the next film where one of the Avengers (my money's on Thor) flies around on a luck dragon with his magic axe and gets to magically restore everyone back to life. I'd be okay with this.
I may or may not have started a totally self-indulgent Steve/Thor story that I'm pretty sure no one but myself is going to like lol. This doesn't bother me.
I need more MCU icons.
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I had an all day day-drinking pool party on Saturday that involved way too much tequila and hula skirts (don't ask), an 8 am riding lesson following by Deadpool on Sunday, and brunch followed by Solo and ice cream on Monday. It's been a pretty good weekend.
Deadpool thoughts:
~ I wanted more of Domino. A lot more. If they do an X-Force movie/sequel/whatever, she better be in it.
~ And way more of Negasonic Teenage Warhead (is she always going to be teenage? will she eventually be Negasonic Twentysomething Warhead? Negasonic Midlife Warhead.... I'm just saying) and her girlfriend Yukio. Both of whom I felt were underused, and only really there for comic relief. Which is fine, but we only got to see them use their powers maybe once and not even more than for 2 seconds each. Maybe NTW can be in X-Force with Domino, please and thank you.
~ Cable was okay I guess. Look at Josh Brolin, having his day 30 years after Goonies lol.
~ I loved the kid who played Firefist/Russell from his work in Hunt for the Wilderpeople. Sincerely hope he continues to work. Would love to see more of him.
~ I do applaude RR and whomever else was responsible on the more diverse casting and representation! RR's passion for the character, and his hard work, really comes through, and I appreciate it.
~ But at the end of the day, this movie was just another "dead baby mama" plot vehicle for the hero/main character, for both Wade and Cable, and, well, *yawn*. Even with everything being reversed at the end, doesn't really save the over used plot device. As Wade would say, "Lazy Writing!" which it is exactly! haha. I was a little amused to read that the writers had never heard of fridging when they wrote the screenplay but it was pointed out to them afterwards. Uh huh...
~ Yet I did laugh through a lot of it, even though I sincerely hope we never see Wade blown into bits ever again ew.
My friends who went to see Solo did not have good things to say, so I went into it with pretty low expectations.
Thoughts on Solo:
~ For the most part, while watching, my biggest thought was "Aw, this movie doesn't suck, that's great!" So, yay! It was fun, and totally enjoyable movie. A + all around.
~ I'm always in love with the Star Wars aesthetic. This movie looked great. From the WW1 sort of trench warfare, to the glitz of Voz's ship.
~ Along those lines, LOVED seeing a new and clean Millennium Falcon, especially the closet and captain's quarters! I'm such a sucker for cool set design. All of Lando's capes haha.
~ L3, who is like K2SO's spiritual older sister. All of L3's scenes were great, but my favorite was the one with Qi'ra in the cockpit of the Falcon. And then starting that rebellion and being bossy.
~ Loved Han meeting Chewbacca.
~ I loved Thandie Newton. Too bad she died.
~ Lando and Han, and all of their scenes together, for the most part. I wanted a bit more "scoundrel" from both of them, but that card game was the best, and their banter was pretty great.
~ I'm always an easy sell for any sort of heist movie, and I did enjoy those aspects quite a bit. And although i was expecting his betrayal, I did also like Tobias. And also his multi-armed friend.
~ Kind of amused that Paul Bettany keeps getting impaled.
~ I was fine with the casting, but I could not watch Han without mentally trying to redo each of his scenes in my mind with how I thought Harrison Ford would have done it. This isn't really the actor's fault. It's just...it's Han Solo. He is burned into my dna I think. I had to more or less think of this Han as a totally different character. Some scenes were closer to the mark.
~ I'm having a hard time describing what bothered me about how they show Han winning (or not winning) the Millennium Falcon from Lando. The way this movie sets it up, I can't help but think the Falcon is still more Lando's ship than it is Han's, and not only because he doesn't actually win it from Lando until the end, after the Kessel run, although that didn't help, and then add to that having L3, Lando's partner, as part of Falcon's brain now. Basically, I wanted the Han/Falcon and Lando/Falcon dynamics reversed, but still keeping the basic set up of "Han won the Falcon from Lando in a card game."
~ Speaking of the Kessel run, I thought that was fun actually, and well done considering the whole "a parsec is a measure of distance not a measure of time" thing. But I did kind of wish it was still a race or a well known run that many have tried and few have succeeded or something. It has to be a well known thing if he can boast to Luke and Ben that he did the Kessel run in 12 parsecs or whatever, but how it plays out in Solo, that doesn't seem to be the case. Also, he only manages to do it in 12 parsecs because of L3's navigational memory banks, and not because he's really skilled. Which he totally is. That was some really cool flying.
~ So I know we all know Han is really a good guy pretending to be a heartless scoundrel, but I wanted a little more heartless scoundrel. A little more of the Han we see in the beginning of Star Wars, which I didn't quite get in this.
~ For the most part I really liked Qi'ra, and I thought the actress was great. I was fine with the story of Han and her's friendship/romance and all, but I kind of wish she hadn't been the source of Han's motivation and character development in the plot.
~ So I can only guess that the reveal of Darth Maul at the end is for a reason? I mean, why show him if they're not planning to do something with it?? I don't know. I have watched Clone Wars so I know all about how he didn't die but to be honest the Maul story line in CW was my least favorite. (but otherwise I loved Clone Wars! And highly recommend).
~~~
In other news, I had a birthday this month, so another trip around the sun, cross that off. My birthday involved a friday night bar excursion complete with lots of tacos, 4 (count 'em FOUR) *double* margaritas, a 90s heartthrob minor celebrity attending, and a foggy memory of how I got home. :D There were whole text conversations that I don't remember having. whoops?
I got birthday flowers. They were really pretty.
~~~
Saw Infinity War three times so far. Want to go again.
Part of me is expecting a Never Ending Story type ending to the next film where one of the Avengers (my money's on Thor) flies around on a luck dragon with his magic axe and gets to magically restore everyone back to life. I'd be okay with this.
I may or may not have started a totally self-indulgent Steve/Thor story that I'm pretty sure no one but myself is going to like lol. This doesn't bother me.
I need more MCU icons.
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