Nicola: His treehouse is flasher than his car!

[starshone_storm]

HSM3 was amazing. 8D Say what you like about the franchise and I admit it is silly and unrealistic as all get out, but it's really cut its teeth, and the big budget for cinemas showed. :D :D :D

I guess what gets me about this movie is that it was basically "WHY ARE YOU LIVING MY LIFE GET OUT." At the start Gabriella was all "the future is coming so quickly, I want everything to just slow down and stop ;_;" which is kind of where I've been at all year. And Troy was annoying this movie (see below), but I really liked his indecision over basketball vs. theatre, making his own decisions vs. doing what everyone's telling him to. Again, it's something I've been struggling with this year as well. Although obviously not basketball vs. theatre.

Ridiculous moments (of which there were many, lol Disney):

When on earth did Martha A) lose weight, and B) become the star of the cheerleading squad? :|

Gabriella standing up in the middle of a basketball game to sing encouragement. No. Just. No.

The sudden introduction of minor characters who, though awesome, are all stalkers.

After match victory party. Lead and his girlfriend get away from the crowd. In most movies, this would be where they have sex for the first time. This is a Disney movie. They sang instead.

What kind of musical is the perfect prom, anyway?

Troy driving to Stanford from Albuqueque. And back, apparently.

Troy, you don't decide on which college you're going to because of where your girlfriend's going. (In my defense, UBC is an awesome school for film; he was more "wah wah Gabriella".)

Gabriella changed East High. No, thanks.

Troy, sweetie, what are you doing the graduation speech for? Are you valedictorian? Did you suddenly take up oratory on the side of basketball and theatre?

I feel the Ryan/Kelsi was incredibly ambiguous. Did he really like her, or was he just trying to infiltrate? Ah well, more fuel for the shippers.

Because every song was so much bigger, there was this gap after each of them that'd be for applause if it was a live show, but because it was a film, it was just rather awkward going from this huge song and dance number back into 'natural' conversation.

Ridiculous moments of awesome:

Troy's Unflinching Walk through the middle of a basketball game.

Rocketman. Just. Rocketman.

Kelsi, as always. Oh, your dedication to composition and orchestrations. (I don't understand what she's doing as a DJ, though.)

Gabriella's mom, not stopping in her promotion of her daughter's Huge Success with Stanford in the middle of a party.

Sharpay: "That [Julliard] scholarship is ours."
Ryan: "Wait a minute, Ms. D says there's only one scholarship. There's two of us."
Sharpay: "We're twins; they're gonna have to take us both."

Gabriella being the sensible one of Troyella and taking the chance to go to Stanford for early orientation instead of sitting around in Albuquerque moping over Troy. THANK YOU!

Mr. and Mrs. Evans were ridiculously cute as usual.

Troy's gotta go his own way and going to UC at Berkeley. Good boy.

Crowning moments of awesome:

Troy not making the winning shot and giving it to Rocketman.

Sharpay's entrance. The booty shot amused the hell out of me, so did all the swooning boys (especially considering she had to shoo everyone out of the way in the first movie), and her good luck for Troy's basketball game that they'd already won. XD

Sharpay's wardrobe. All the short skirts! :D When did she get nice legs?

Taylor being president of YEARBOOK COMMITTEE!

Kelsi signing up the entire class for the spring musical out of desperation.

I Want It All.

A Night to Remember

Taylor, turning down Chad's invitation to the prom part un because it sucked.

And Chad, working through Troy's managing to get the entire cafeteria interested in it and asking her to it anyway.

The Boys Are Back. Oh god, I loved that one bit with flashback!Troy and Chad. And the choreography was incredible. I kind of wish they'd just kept it a duet instead of bringing in all those backup dancers because I was really impressed with how well the boys were carrying it on their own.

Characters reacting like the audience. Exhibit A: Troy had an app for Julliard; Zeke cracks up laughing. Exhibit B: Chad has a ridiculous costume; Ryan cracks up laughing.

Surprise, Troy: Ms. Darbus put your application for Julliard in.

Gabriella to Troy: "What is it with you and trees?"

Sharpay as Gabriella in the show. Oh, Sharpay, you and your showiness. I love you.

Tiara revealing that she went to the London School...of Performing Arts.

Crowning moments of fail:

Why the hell are there so many Troyella songs?!

I hated this one shot in the treehouse scene at the end of Right Here, Right Now. It's when the treehouse is all "lol, I'm a convertible treehouse!" and there was this hideous low angle shot of the kids and the starry sky. I get the point of the shot; it was just a really bad angle for Troyella.

What are teachers doing at the aftermatch victory party, anyway?

Troy was a real jerk this movie. I guess I'd be a jerk too if I kept getting interrupted with my girlfriend, but telling Rocketman Sharpay liked him? That was uncalled for. Even if Rocketman is a little creepy.

The first (onscreen) Troyella "I love you", and it's when they were breaking up. No thanks, Disney.

There was this one bit in Scream where Troy starts walking on the walls and ceiling and the set's going crazy to accommodate this little thing called gravity. It physically made me sick; I actually couldn't watch it.

Troy mucking around in the goddamn flyloft. You just don't do that! You'll fall and break your neck and take down half the lights and backdrops with you! You stay well clear of any ropes in the theatre!

That musical was an unqualified disaster. You don't rock on up halfway through the show because you were an idiot and drove a thousand miles to see your girlfriend and only txt your understudy about it, especially when you're the lead! You don't keep your costar waiting onstage because you've decided to put your own obnoxious spin on the part with a ridiculous costume and throw out the choreography! You don't crash your understudy's performance! AUGH, KIDS THESE DAYS.

CONTINUITY!:

The locker (well, wall) shots in Walk Away. :D

Troy screaming in frustration. Cracks me up every single time.

Troy's fail!shooting whenever he's indecisive.

Scream was, actually, shot an awful lot like When There Was Me and You. It was kind of nice.

Mrrr, and Gabriella's constant white dresses annoyed me. Maybe they were trying to play up her purity after Vanessa's scandal.

Oh yeah, book return. Got my testimonial, which was nice. Cracked the hell up at their including sport in the "contribution she has made to the College" - hey there, I haven't played since Year 11 and I was never any good. :) Apparently I'm "quietly self-contained" (among other things - this is just the one that made me go "wait, what?"). And they seem to think I did Marjorie Nicholls this year: I didn't. Oh well.

It still doesn't quite feel like it's summer; it still hasn't truly hit me that it's over. Maybe because the weather's swung back to the winter end of the continuum of Wellington weather. Maybe because I have to go in to school for four hours tomorrow for music rehearsals for prizegiving. (That said, I love long rehearsals, and I'm more excited about playing and singing than whatever prizes I'm getting.) I don't know; I'm waiting for this feeling of release that isn't hitting me, that isn't letting me go.

Mom wants to get me something for New Zealand's lame equivalent of 'graduation'. Her mom always gave her and her sisters jewelery for big things like this, but Dad pointed out that I'm not that kind of girl, so I don't know what to ask for.