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Iron Man 2
I WAS SO EXCITED FOR THIS MOVIE, and i liked it! But i did not quite love it. I mean, okay, it's NEW IRON MAN, so of course it's awesome (asdfhasjf seriously wasn't it just, like, yesterday when the first movie came out?!?! that was such a good summer!) but when your expectations are so high it is always harder to be impressed. It felt kind of weirdly paced, like it had a lot of slow/disjointed parts, or something. BUT it was certainly fun and entertaining, as it should be.
PEPPER POTTS, CHAIRMAN AND CEO OF STARK INDUSTRIES. :D :D :D :D
HOWARD STARK, shkfjhsdf. I was so so delighted about John Slattery in that role, and the film of him was one of my very favorite things. (oh man when he called to Maria i wanted so badly to see her. and then i kind of just wanted a whole movie of Howard and Maria and the nuclear age and, well.) Which ties in neatly to how much i FUCKING LOVED Stark Expo because it's GODDAMN EPCOT CENTER and i am a lifelong Epcot fanatic. The similar layout, the globe in the center, the domed garden! I mean of course Epcot was originally conceived as a permanent World's Fair, which is what Stark Expo is too! BUT IT WAS JUST REALLY EXCITING FOR ME. '70S STARK EXPO RETRO FUTURISM AFSAKLJGSJGHL. And the song in the credits, exactly like the Carousel of Progress song! (Carousel of Progress was also a World's Fair show! AND THE STARK EXPO SONG WAS WRITTEN BY ONE OF THE SAME DUDES WHO WROTE THE CAROUSEL OF PROGRESS SONG.) Oh my god if this movie had been all retro futurism all the time i would have been all over that shit.
Tony inventing the new element = ABSOLUTE #1 FAVORITE. STANDING INSIDE PRETTY HOLOGRAM LIGHTS, AKJGFLHGSAFG TONYYYYY. Honestly my very favorite Tony stuff is just him being a genius, inventing and building shit. That is the awesomest.
TONY AND PEPPER. KISSINNNNNNNNG aaaaaaaaaaaaaajgfsdkjfh the look on his face as he was getting closer to her. Actual kissing oommmggg. I always kind of forget that they never ACTUALLY kissed in the first movie, they just came really close. So like... KISSING! IN A RELATIONSHIP, WHAT. HE COULDN'T TELL HER HE WAS DYING. HE DRUNKENLY TOLD HER HE LOVES HER. HE MADE HER FOOD AND WANTED TO RUN AWAY WITH HER. HE TRIED TO KILL HER WITH STRAWBERRIES. (they both looked THE PRETTIEST in the strawberry scene.) The kiss did feel a little weirdly placed, though. Like it was just, oh explosions, day saved, i guess it's time for them to kiss finally! But, um, nonetheless that scene was great, because MAKEOUTS, and also haha Rhodey, A+.
I also super appreciated that there was no Tony/Natalie hookup because Tony loves Pepperrrrrrrrrrrr. HE WAS DYING AND SELF-DESTRUCTING AND WANTING TO TELL PEPPER BUT ALL HE COULD DO WAS MAKE AWKWARD FAILED HINTS AT HIS LOVE FOR HER.
I did kind of have more issues with Gwyneth this time, because MAN, so shrieky. And i wish Pepper had been more pivotal in the end besides arresting Justin Hammer and getting rescued from an explosion. Then again she also does not wear robot suits or have martial arts training, so.
I really liked Don Cheadle even though recasting: IT'S FUCKING DISTRACTING. But my issue with Rhodey was that it seemed like he was barely in the movie. IDK i just really want more Tony/Rhodey best friend time. I could have done with a little less Ivan and Justin Hammer and a lot more Tony/Pepper/Rhodey. Which is not to say that i disliked Ivan or Justin Hammer. Whiplash was pretty fuckin cool, and Sam Rockwell is ALWAYS awesome and amazing and hilarious and various other superlatives, he's great. It's just that those guys aren't the characters i am invested in.
I LIKED BLACK WIDOW. Her asskicking scene sort of had the air of fanboy fantasy pandering (so many poses?!), but also it was way cool. ScarJo sure looks good in a catsuit! And has the prettiest face of all the faces! But really what i loved was Pepper and Natalie and holy jeez i would like further exploration of lady CEO/assistant shenanigans. I WOULD LIKE THAT A LOT.
Happy! Nick Fury! Christine Everhart! AGENT COULSOOOOON
OH, OH, SHALLOWNESS: RDJ, STILL LOOKIN' GOOD. I love the blue racing suit so, so much. And like, i am not really someone who pays much attention to people's asses, but i was really noticing how rockin' his ass looked there. I am just saying. DAMN GURL. Although seriously WHAT was that robe Tony kept wearing, ugh.
BRIEFCASE ARMOR AKJFHHSGFLJHSG RADDEST
The Iron Man/War Machine fight in the house made me cringe the whole fucking time because GOD, stop ruining Tony's pretty pretty house! So painful. :(
Captain America's shield! Used as a piece of junk to prop up a particle accelerator! Oh, Tony.
HEY GUESS WHAT! TONY/PEPPER.
IRON MAAAAAAAAAN
Community
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So i don't watch the show when it airs, right, because i'm a sucker who still watches Survivor (it is a Thursday ritual with my family!). But i briefly saw enough effusive "BEST EPISODE EVER" reactions to get really nervous and avoid tumblr like the plague and wonder what the hell would cause such a response. My main thought was "....Jeff/Annie?!?!?" but at the very least i instinctively knew there had to be some sex happening with somebody. Even the BEST episodes don't send people into those kinds of fits unless there is some monumental shippiness occurring, okay, that's just how fandom works.
AND THEN. UM. BEST EPISODE EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Literally as soon as Jeff woke up in his car and was walking through the deserted post-apocalyptic campus i knew without a doubt we were in for something special. And then came the moment when Abed jumped over Jeff by kicking off the fucking wall and EVERYTHING WAS THE GREATEST. "Come with me if you don't want to get paint on your clothes." !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Troy greeting Jeff! The girls ambushing them in the bathroom! Nighttime bonding! So many assassinations! So much ridiculous badassery for people running around with neon-colored paintball guns! EVERY ACTION MOVIE EVER. This was the Hot Fuzz of Community episodes.
OH AND JEFF AND BRITTA HAD SEX AND MY BRAIN SHORTED OUT AJKGFLSHKHSLKSHG HOLY SHIT FANFIC COME TO LIFE, HOW IS THIS EVEN A REAL SHOW
JEFF AND BRITTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT WHAT THEY CHOOSE TO BE. Oh my god jokey fake makeout turning into hardcore real makeout, ohmygodwtfkasjhdfkjasf AND ALSO MORE KISSING LATER, AND ALSO GUNS AND BADASSERY, AND ALSO AWKWARDNESS, AND UHHHH HOLY SHIT. My only regret is that we didn't get to see anything more than kissing, aslkhflksudgkjhdblkjhdgkjdhg, CURSE YOU NETWORK TELEVISION
Joel McHale's body is just absolutely fucking ridiculous, i don't even know. WHAT THE FUCK, MAN
Annnnd the gun taped to his back. FUCK YES DIE HARD, WAY TO WIN MY HEART FOREVER
JEFF
AND
BRITTA
WHAT
THE
FUCK
oh god ships playing out exactly the way they should, WHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN
MAKEOUTS
SEX
BRITTA PERRY
JEFF WINGER
I LOVE THEM
SO MUCH
SEEING SCREENCAPS OF IT GIVES ME EVEN MORE FEELINGS THAN WATCHING IT BECAUSE WTF IT IS REAL!?!??!? THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED??!?!??!?!??! I CAN STARE AT IT FOREVER?!??!?!?!!@$#^%&*GSHADFJKASFGSH
AOUAGLFJSHLGHKJSHG
SDGTCBUVYGIHWSDRYTFGYUHYQASWD^TFVBYGUNHJQASW^TFV&BYGNUH%A
BASICALLY RIGHT NOW IS A PRETTY GOOD TIME FOR FICTIONAL PEOPLE MAKING OUT ALL OVER THE DAMN PLACE
I WAS SO EXCITED FOR THIS MOVIE, and i liked it! But i did not quite love it. I mean, okay, it's NEW IRON MAN, so of course it's awesome (asdfhasjf seriously wasn't it just, like, yesterday when the first movie came out?!?! that was such a good summer!) but when your expectations are so high it is always harder to be impressed. It felt kind of weirdly paced, like it had a lot of slow/disjointed parts, or something. BUT it was certainly fun and entertaining, as it should be.
PEPPER POTTS, CHAIRMAN AND CEO OF STARK INDUSTRIES. :D :D :D :D
HOWARD STARK, shkfjhsdf. I was so so delighted about John Slattery in that role, and the film of him was one of my very favorite things. (oh man when he called to Maria i wanted so badly to see her. and then i kind of just wanted a whole movie of Howard and Maria and the nuclear age and, well.) Which ties in neatly to how much i FUCKING LOVED Stark Expo because it's GODDAMN EPCOT CENTER and i am a lifelong Epcot fanatic. The similar layout, the globe in the center, the domed garden! I mean of course Epcot was originally conceived as a permanent World's Fair, which is what Stark Expo is too! BUT IT WAS JUST REALLY EXCITING FOR ME. '70S STARK EXPO RETRO FUTURISM AFSAKLJGSJGHL. And the song in the credits, exactly like the Carousel of Progress song! (Carousel of Progress was also a World's Fair show! AND THE STARK EXPO SONG WAS WRITTEN BY ONE OF THE SAME DUDES WHO WROTE THE CAROUSEL OF PROGRESS SONG.) Oh my god if this movie had been all retro futurism all the time i would have been all over that shit.
Tony inventing the new element = ABSOLUTE #1 FAVORITE. STANDING INSIDE PRETTY HOLOGRAM LIGHTS, AKJGFLHGSAFG TONYYYYY. Honestly my very favorite Tony stuff is just him being a genius, inventing and building shit. That is the awesomest.
TONY AND PEPPER. KISSINNNNNNNNG aaaaaaaaaaaaaajgfsdkjfh the look on his face as he was getting closer to her. Actual kissing oommmggg. I always kind of forget that they never ACTUALLY kissed in the first movie, they just came really close. So like... KISSING! IN A RELATIONSHIP, WHAT. HE COULDN'T TELL HER HE WAS DYING. HE DRUNKENLY TOLD HER HE LOVES HER. HE MADE HER FOOD AND WANTED TO RUN AWAY WITH HER. HE TRIED TO KILL HER WITH STRAWBERRIES. (they both looked THE PRETTIEST in the strawberry scene.) The kiss did feel a little weirdly placed, though. Like it was just, oh explosions, day saved, i guess it's time for them to kiss finally! But, um, nonetheless that scene was great, because MAKEOUTS, and also haha Rhodey, A+.
I also super appreciated that there was no Tony/Natalie hookup because Tony loves Pepperrrrrrrrrrrr. HE WAS DYING AND SELF-DESTRUCTING AND WANTING TO TELL PEPPER BUT ALL HE COULD DO WAS MAKE AWKWARD FAILED HINTS AT HIS LOVE FOR HER.
I did kind of have more issues with Gwyneth this time, because MAN, so shrieky. And i wish Pepper had been more pivotal in the end besides arresting Justin Hammer and getting rescued from an explosion. Then again she also does not wear robot suits or have martial arts training, so.
I really liked Don Cheadle even though recasting: IT'S FUCKING DISTRACTING. But my issue with Rhodey was that it seemed like he was barely in the movie. IDK i just really want more Tony/Rhodey best friend time. I could have done with a little less Ivan and Justin Hammer and a lot more Tony/Pepper/Rhodey. Which is not to say that i disliked Ivan or Justin Hammer. Whiplash was pretty fuckin cool, and Sam Rockwell is ALWAYS awesome and amazing and hilarious and various other superlatives, he's great. It's just that those guys aren't the characters i am invested in.
I LIKED BLACK WIDOW. Her asskicking scene sort of had the air of fanboy fantasy pandering (so many poses?!), but also it was way cool. ScarJo sure looks good in a catsuit! And has the prettiest face of all the faces! But really what i loved was Pepper and Natalie and holy jeez i would like further exploration of lady CEO/assistant shenanigans. I WOULD LIKE THAT A LOT.
Happy! Nick Fury! Christine Everhart! AGENT COULSOOOOON
OH, OH, SHALLOWNESS: RDJ, STILL LOOKIN' GOOD. I love the blue racing suit so, so much. And like, i am not really someone who pays much attention to people's asses, but i was really noticing how rockin' his ass looked there. I am just saying. DAMN GURL. Although seriously WHAT was that robe Tony kept wearing, ugh.
BRIEFCASE ARMOR AKJFHHSGFLJHSG RADDEST
The Iron Man/War Machine fight in the house made me cringe the whole fucking time because GOD, stop ruining Tony's pretty pretty house! So painful. :(
Captain America's shield! Used as a piece of junk to prop up a particle accelerator! Oh, Tony.
HEY GUESS WHAT! TONY/PEPPER.
IRON MAAAAAAAAAN
Community
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So i don't watch the show when it airs, right, because i'm a sucker who still watches Survivor (it is a Thursday ritual with my family!). But i briefly saw enough effusive "BEST EPISODE EVER" reactions to get really nervous and avoid tumblr like the plague and wonder what the hell would cause such a response. My main thought was "....Jeff/Annie?!?!?" but at the very least i instinctively knew there had to be some sex happening with somebody. Even the BEST episodes don't send people into those kinds of fits unless there is some monumental shippiness occurring, okay, that's just how fandom works.
AND THEN. UM. BEST EPISODE EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Literally as soon as Jeff woke up in his car and was walking through the deserted post-apocalyptic campus i knew without a doubt we were in for something special. And then came the moment when Abed jumped over Jeff by kicking off the fucking wall and EVERYTHING WAS THE GREATEST. "Come with me if you don't want to get paint on your clothes." !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Troy greeting Jeff! The girls ambushing them in the bathroom! Nighttime bonding! So many assassinations! So much ridiculous badassery for people running around with neon-colored paintball guns! EVERY ACTION MOVIE EVER. This was the Hot Fuzz of Community episodes.
OH AND JEFF AND BRITTA HAD SEX AND MY BRAIN SHORTED OUT AJKGFLSHKHSLKSHG HOLY SHIT FANFIC COME TO LIFE, HOW IS THIS EVEN A REAL SHOW
JEFF AND BRITTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT WHAT THEY CHOOSE TO BE. Oh my god jokey fake makeout turning into hardcore real makeout, ohmygodwtfkasjhdfkjasf AND ALSO MORE KISSING LATER, AND ALSO GUNS AND BADASSERY, AND ALSO AWKWARDNESS, AND UHHHH HOLY SHIT. My only regret is that we didn't get to see anything more than kissing, aslkhflksudgkjhdblkjhdgkjdhg, CURSE YOU NETWORK TELEVISION
Joel McHale's body is just absolutely fucking ridiculous, i don't even know. WHAT THE FUCK, MAN
Annnnd the gun taped to his back. FUCK YES DIE HARD, WAY TO WIN MY HEART FOREVER
JEFF
AND
BRITTA
WHAT
THE
FUCK
oh god ships playing out exactly the way they should, WHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN
MAKEOUTS
SEX
BRITTA PERRY
JEFF WINGER
I LOVE THEM
SO MUCH
SEEING SCREENCAPS OF IT GIVES ME EVEN MORE FEELINGS THAN WATCHING IT BECAUSE WTF IT IS REAL!?!??!? THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED??!?!??!?!??! I CAN STARE AT IT FOREVER?!??!?!?!!@$#^%&*GSHADFJKASFGSH
AOUAGLFJSHLGHKJSHG
SDGTCBUVYGIHWSDRYTFGYUHYQASWD^TFVBYGUNHJQASW^TFV&BYGNUH%A
BASICALLY RIGHT NOW IS A PRETTY GOOD TIME FOR FICTIONAL PEOPLE MAKING OUT ALL OVER THE DAMN PLACE