Movies
That I have watched lately:
Ghost Bird (documentary)
The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker has been extinct for around 100 years. Then a kayaker sees one flying in the woods of Arkansas. What happens next? It's a sort of haunting, hopeful, achy documentary about the mystery of the Ivory Billed Woodpecker, the town that embraced it and the worrisome story in general of how rapidly bird species are disappearing from the Earth. It was really pretty good, and it made me feel especially eco-oriented since yesterday I was hiking in a park with a pretty huge and varied bird population. If only I'd brought my good camera...
The Darkest Hour (sci fi)
A group of American kids are in Moscow for various reasons, when aliens invade Earth. They're electrical-based and invisible and want our minerals. The Americans have to make their way around an unfamiliar city trying to survive.
It was decent. It kept my interest throughout, and the effects were pretty good. The script was predictable but fine for a Saturday afternoon's distraction. And it did sort of subvert that whole 'American patriotism discovers the answer to all alien invasions' thing. While the film is focused on the American kids, it's the Russians who do the hard labor.
Mad World (emo indie teenage boys)
Ahhhhh... well. This one. Four teenage boys are belittled and bullied by their peers and their parents and hurtle toward a dark fate of self-destruction.
Yeah. It was... partly entertaining and partly irritating. I mean, I think it will really, really appeal to a certain demographic, but that demographic is not me. I just found the boys generally irritating and whiny and the whole movie came off as some sort of film-maker's pity party. The world is run by idiots, everyone hates me, I'm more intelligent than everyone else because I can see how The Machine is BROKEN!
And the indignities heaped upon the teens became so over-the-top that I was sort of rolling my eyes eventually. LIke, fine, fine, can we just get to the scene where they're going to clearly shoot up the school? I feel like they really meant for me to be alarmed and LEARN MY LESSON. But mostly I came out of the movie thinking "Cripes, if your life is that bad there are OPTIONS, idiots. It's not like you live under a dictatorship on an island and you'll be shot if you leave." Also, I'm pretty sure we don't execute juveniles.
But I did watch it through to the end, so... I guess they got me just enough.
The Vampire Diaries (because FINE, I'LL WATCH.)
So, I have only seen three eps so far, but it's... entertaining! I liked how spooky it was in the pilot a lot, although that already seems to have died off. Ah well.
Can I just put forth one rant here for a moment: Okay. To all those fans on Tumblr who keep accusing GG Chuck/Blair fans of being 'abuse' shippers, when you are SHIPPING DAMON/ELENA?? BITE ME. BITE ME, BITE ME, BITE ME.
Thanks, I'm done now.
In any case, it's an interesting series. I'm not a huge vampire fan, and yet somehow I keep watching vampire things. Ahaha. It is always interesting to see how the vampires differ from one mythology to the next. The vampires here apparently are not affected by sunlight at all?
After having heard so much about the fandom through my flist, I'm going to assume that Damon, who is pretty much a murderous shithead here, must go through some sort of redemption? Because it seems like the shipping in this fandom is sort of half and half, and despite the propensity of fandom to always forgive a villain as long as he's hot enough, there usually does have to be some sort of change of heart to gain a big hold in the romance ranks.
Seen anything good lately?
Ghost Bird (documentary)
The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker has been extinct for around 100 years. Then a kayaker sees one flying in the woods of Arkansas. What happens next? It's a sort of haunting, hopeful, achy documentary about the mystery of the Ivory Billed Woodpecker, the town that embraced it and the worrisome story in general of how rapidly bird species are disappearing from the Earth. It was really pretty good, and it made me feel especially eco-oriented since yesterday I was hiking in a park with a pretty huge and varied bird population. If only I'd brought my good camera...
The Darkest Hour (sci fi)
A group of American kids are in Moscow for various reasons, when aliens invade Earth. They're electrical-based and invisible and want our minerals. The Americans have to make their way around an unfamiliar city trying to survive.
It was decent. It kept my interest throughout, and the effects were pretty good. The script was predictable but fine for a Saturday afternoon's distraction. And it did sort of subvert that whole 'American patriotism discovers the answer to all alien invasions' thing. While the film is focused on the American kids, it's the Russians who do the hard labor.
Mad World (emo indie teenage boys)
Ahhhhh... well. This one. Four teenage boys are belittled and bullied by their peers and their parents and hurtle toward a dark fate of self-destruction.
Yeah. It was... partly entertaining and partly irritating. I mean, I think it will really, really appeal to a certain demographic, but that demographic is not me. I just found the boys generally irritating and whiny and the whole movie came off as some sort of film-maker's pity party. The world is run by idiots, everyone hates me, I'm more intelligent than everyone else because I can see how The Machine is BROKEN!
And the indignities heaped upon the teens became so over-the-top that I was sort of rolling my eyes eventually. LIke, fine, fine, can we just get to the scene where they're going to clearly shoot up the school? I feel like they really meant for me to be alarmed and LEARN MY LESSON. But mostly I came out of the movie thinking "Cripes, if your life is that bad there are OPTIONS, idiots. It's not like you live under a dictatorship on an island and you'll be shot if you leave." Also, I'm pretty sure we don't execute juveniles.
But I did watch it through to the end, so... I guess they got me just enough.
The Vampire Diaries (because FINE, I'LL WATCH.)
So, I have only seen three eps so far, but it's... entertaining! I liked how spooky it was in the pilot a lot, although that already seems to have died off. Ah well.
Can I just put forth one rant here for a moment: Okay. To all those fans on Tumblr who keep accusing GG Chuck/Blair fans of being 'abuse' shippers, when you are SHIPPING DAMON/ELENA?? BITE ME. BITE ME, BITE ME, BITE ME.
Thanks, I'm done now.
In any case, it's an interesting series. I'm not a huge vampire fan, and yet somehow I keep watching vampire things. Ahaha. It is always interesting to see how the vampires differ from one mythology to the next. The vampires here apparently are not affected by sunlight at all?
After having heard so much about the fandom through my flist, I'm going to assume that Damon, who is pretty much a murderous shithead here, must go through some sort of redemption? Because it seems like the shipping in this fandom is sort of half and half, and despite the propensity of fandom to always forgive a villain as long as he's hot enough, there usually does have to be some sort of change of heart to gain a big hold in the romance ranks.
Seen anything good lately?