"what dimension are you from?" "brooklyn."
today i worked on my bigbang, got my comics (just two - monstress and moon girl), saw spider-man: into the spider-verse (OMG), worked on my bang some more, and got home just in time to see the end of rogue one, by which i mean the part from when they land on scarif to when they all die. cgi!tarkin never bothered me, but the glimpse of young!leia at the very end is still too uncanny valley. now i'm watching a new hope, and a thing i only noticed like a year or two ago about the original trilogy is that leia pretty consistently wears boots with flat heels. even in rotj, when she's on jabba's sand ship in the metal bikini, she's wearing vaguely uggs-looking boots, soft leather ones. flat ones. if someone made those movies today she'd be in high wedge heels pretty much exclusively, except when she was wearing shoes with actual heels.
look, it's a thing. i always look at the ladies' shoes in movies, and every so often the heels make so little sense they kick me out of the story. i may or may not have yelled "those are wrong!" at an instance of nefretiri's heeled sandals in the ten commandments, and i know the costuming in that movie is historically suspect. well, everything about the movie is probably historically suspect, but i can handwave a lot of it on account of it being basically a three-hour bible story. just not some of the footwear.
oh, i also have peanutbutter sandwich cookies, because there were girl scouts selling cookies in the t station and i'm weak. i had a vietnamese coffee during my second round of working on the bang, and now i'm too caffeinated to sleep.
anyway. into the spider-verse was SO GOOD and if you're at all into comic book movies, and you haven't seen it, i highly recommend it. the actual look of it was so cool, with the offset colors and the benday dots and the sound effects and the word balloons/text boxes and the darker lines to indicate, say, the bridges of characters' noses, rather than just using shading. it actively, deliberately looked like an old-school comic and i loved that so hard. so many animated (american-made) movies look the same - like they're trying very hard to be 3d and realistic, even when they're really cartoony - that it was really nice to watch something that's not just aware of its origins but goes out of its way to reference the look of those origins. i think the wavy spidey sense lines were my favorite, but the sound effects were great too. *thwip* and release. *thwip* and release. :D it was funny! and serious, and sad, and surreal (spider-ham! spider-man noir! the entire collider sequence! the christmas song, omg), and i really liked that miles and his parents were a fairly conventional nuclear family, and spider-powers aside, he was just a normal kid. i figured out that uncle aaron was the prowler before miles did, but the reveal was still great. also i knew the cute blonde girl miles met at school was going to be spider-gwen, but i can't imagine her spider identity was supposed to be much of a secret.
the voice acting was likewise fantastic (nicolas cage doing spider-man noir made me giggle, and lily tomlin! as aunt may! how great was that?) altho i have a hard time imagining anyone besides vincent d'onofrio as kingpin, animated or live action.
s ditko and b bendis appearing in miles's and his dad's phone address books was a fun touch.
the theater was pretty full, which is always good to see. when fisk tower blew up a little voice in the audience went "boom", which went unremarked by the rest of us (which is ok!) altho i giggled internally. it was SO CUTE. there was a dad and his small daughter sitting in front of me but i don't think it was her.
so i liked it a lot and if you haven't seen it yet, you should. :D we unsurprisingly got a bunch of previews for animated movies, plus one for a very christian-inspiration live action movie, plus one for men in black, which looks really fun. i mean, come on, tessa thompson, the hotter hemsworth, emma thompson, liam neeson not playing an action hero taking revenge for the death/kidnapping of his kid. there is no bad there.
so there's a stormtrooper in a new hope who hits his head on a doorway as he's running through the death star, and i miss it every time the movie is on, and the only reason i pay attention for it is because it was an accident. i guess the extra playing the stormtrooper was a tall guy who forgot to duck. i don't know if i'm missing it every time or if it's just one of the random bits they cut for tv, and i know it's a little thing but it annoys me.
yesterday i just could not get my shit together at work. i just could not focus. i really need to be able to keep my act together for longer than, like, three days. stuff piles up! like expense reports! oy, self.
in totally other news, thursday's episode of the good place was the season finale! it was a disconcertingly sad way to end the season. also very clever. but sad! i don't want to wait until next fall to find out what happens. hmph.
i've been too busy watching tv and dicking around online to finish this, and now the empire strikes back is on. >.< han is about to discover he landed the millennium falcon in a very large asteroid snake with mynocks in its stomach.
look, it's a thing. i always look at the ladies' shoes in movies, and every so often the heels make so little sense they kick me out of the story. i may or may not have yelled "those are wrong!" at an instance of nefretiri's heeled sandals in the ten commandments, and i know the costuming in that movie is historically suspect. well, everything about the movie is probably historically suspect, but i can handwave a lot of it on account of it being basically a three-hour bible story. just not some of the footwear.
oh, i also have peanutbutter sandwich cookies, because there were girl scouts selling cookies in the t station and i'm weak. i had a vietnamese coffee during my second round of working on the bang, and now i'm too caffeinated to sleep.
anyway. into the spider-verse was SO GOOD and if you're at all into comic book movies, and you haven't seen it, i highly recommend it. the actual look of it was so cool, with the offset colors and the benday dots and the sound effects and the word balloons/text boxes and the darker lines to indicate, say, the bridges of characters' noses, rather than just using shading. it actively, deliberately looked like an old-school comic and i loved that so hard. so many animated (american-made) movies look the same - like they're trying very hard to be 3d and realistic, even when they're really cartoony - that it was really nice to watch something that's not just aware of its origins but goes out of its way to reference the look of those origins. i think the wavy spidey sense lines were my favorite, but the sound effects were great too. *thwip* and release. *thwip* and release. :D it was funny! and serious, and sad, and surreal (spider-ham! spider-man noir! the entire collider sequence! the christmas song, omg), and i really liked that miles and his parents were a fairly conventional nuclear family, and spider-powers aside, he was just a normal kid. i figured out that uncle aaron was the prowler before miles did, but the reveal was still great. also i knew the cute blonde girl miles met at school was going to be spider-gwen, but i can't imagine her spider identity was supposed to be much of a secret.
the voice acting was likewise fantastic (nicolas cage doing spider-man noir made me giggle, and lily tomlin! as aunt may! how great was that?) altho i have a hard time imagining anyone besides vincent d'onofrio as kingpin, animated or live action.
s ditko and b bendis appearing in miles's and his dad's phone address books was a fun touch.
the theater was pretty full, which is always good to see. when fisk tower blew up a little voice in the audience went "boom", which went unremarked by the rest of us (which is ok!) altho i giggled internally. it was SO CUTE. there was a dad and his small daughter sitting in front of me but i don't think it was her.
so i liked it a lot and if you haven't seen it yet, you should. :D we unsurprisingly got a bunch of previews for animated movies, plus one for a very christian-inspiration live action movie, plus one for men in black, which looks really fun. i mean, come on, tessa thompson, the hotter hemsworth, emma thompson, liam neeson not playing an action hero taking revenge for the death/kidnapping of his kid. there is no bad there.
so there's a stormtrooper in a new hope who hits his head on a doorway as he's running through the death star, and i miss it every time the movie is on, and the only reason i pay attention for it is because it was an accident. i guess the extra playing the stormtrooper was a tall guy who forgot to duck. i don't know if i'm missing it every time or if it's just one of the random bits they cut for tv, and i know it's a little thing but it annoys me.
yesterday i just could not get my shit together at work. i just could not focus. i really need to be able to keep my act together for longer than, like, three days. stuff piles up! like expense reports! oy, self.
in totally other news, thursday's episode of the good place was the season finale! it was a disconcertingly sad way to end the season. also very clever. but sad! i don't want to wait until next fall to find out what happens. hmph.
i've been too busy watching tv and dicking around online to finish this, and now the empire strikes back is on. >.< han is about to discover he landed the millennium falcon in a very large asteroid snake with mynocks in its stomach.