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Have been contemplating putting together a post about body image and body acceptance but am not entirely sure what I want to say. Plus, you know, it's all tied up in crazy issues because, well, doesn't everyone have crazy body image issues? So I guess I'll spare you all that for the moment.
I have seen things besides Star Trek in the past week. No, really, I have. ;-) Yesterday I watched the first disc of season one of Mad Men and, well, I'm intrigued enough to stay with it but wow do the vast majority of the men seem like ginormous tools. I don't think they've yet introduced one male character whose ass I haven't wanted to kick. I am suddenly so relieved that I wasn't born fifty years earlier because dayumn. And ugh.
Last week I watched the Branagh-directed As You Like It that came out a couple years ago. Anything with Adrian Lester is always FTW. It also starred David Oyelowo who played Danny on the first few series of MI-5 and a whole bunch of recognizable actors. The performances were terrific but I was strangely disconnected from the story. I think a large part of the problem was the way Branagh directed it. He started off relatively serious and then, suddenly, in the middle of the film it became this relatively lighthearted tromp through the forest. I never quite recovered from the tone-whiplash to really enjoy the rest of the film. Which is a shame because the crossdressing element could've been very interesting but it didn't quite hit the mark.
I'm always much more annoyed by movies/tv that almost hit the mark than those that aren't even aiming at all. I guess that can explain a lot of my ambivalence re: Joss Whedon.
I did watch the entire Back to the Future trilogy before I went to Virginia and do, actually, have some more things to say about those movies. That meta deserves its own post but I will say that the first movie, despite its 'Let's have fun with cultural appropriation' moments, is definitely the best movie of the three. In the first one Zemeckis had a story to tell and a message that he was trying to convey (about the fairytale that is the modern conception of American adolescence in the 50's and how GenX is tasked with correcting the Boomers' mistakes) while the latter movies were mostly gloss with little depth. They saw a formula and they stuck to it. Which kind of leads me to believe that Zemeckis didn't really understand what he'd created in the first movie. But, yeah, I should save it for another post.
Though I do kind of want to see the scene where Doc and Marty first meet. I have this picture in my head of this crazy-haired guy practcally running over a pre-teen sitting on the curb, covered in dirt and bruises cause the kids were picking on him again. Hmmmm *ponders*
Okay, I'm going to go finish watching The Last King of Scotland and think about what I should have for dinner. Forward Ho.
I have seen things besides Star Trek in the past week. No, really, I have. ;-) Yesterday I watched the first disc of season one of Mad Men and, well, I'm intrigued enough to stay with it but wow do the vast majority of the men seem like ginormous tools. I don't think they've yet introduced one male character whose ass I haven't wanted to kick. I am suddenly so relieved that I wasn't born fifty years earlier because dayumn. And ugh.
Last week I watched the Branagh-directed As You Like It that came out a couple years ago. Anything with Adrian Lester is always FTW. It also starred David Oyelowo who played Danny on the first few series of MI-5 and a whole bunch of recognizable actors. The performances were terrific but I was strangely disconnected from the story. I think a large part of the problem was the way Branagh directed it. He started off relatively serious and then, suddenly, in the middle of the film it became this relatively lighthearted tromp through the forest. I never quite recovered from the tone-whiplash to really enjoy the rest of the film. Which is a shame because the crossdressing element could've been very interesting but it didn't quite hit the mark.
I'm always much more annoyed by movies/tv that almost hit the mark than those that aren't even aiming at all. I guess that can explain a lot of my ambivalence re: Joss Whedon.
I did watch the entire Back to the Future trilogy before I went to Virginia and do, actually, have some more things to say about those movies. That meta deserves its own post but I will say that the first movie, despite its 'Let's have fun with cultural appropriation' moments, is definitely the best movie of the three. In the first one Zemeckis had a story to tell and a message that he was trying to convey (about the fairytale that is the modern conception of American adolescence in the 50's and how GenX is tasked with correcting the Boomers' mistakes) while the latter movies were mostly gloss with little depth. They saw a formula and they stuck to it. Which kind of leads me to believe that Zemeckis didn't really understand what he'd created in the first movie. But, yeah, I should save it for another post.
Though I do kind of want to see the scene where Doc and Marty first meet. I have this picture in my head of this crazy-haired guy practcally running over a pre-teen sitting on the curb, covered in dirt and bruises cause the kids were picking on him again. Hmmmm *ponders*
Okay, I'm going to go finish watching The Last King of Scotland and think about what I should have for dinner. Forward Ho.