I think the metaphor broke my spleen

[extemporanea]

Movie club! By age-old (i.e. approximately year-long) tradition this entails two movies linked by a theme. I've owned and been wanting to watch the original Godzilla for a while, but kept on coming up blank on something to pair it with. (Re-make? Aargh. Other daikaijū films? eek! Cloverfield would have been ideal, but everyone else had seen it. I

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Heee

[first_fallen]

I watched it last year and immediately thought of you when I saw the mariachi wols. They're so cute!!

I also love all the cameos and references. It is, all in all, a great film.

Re: Heee

[extemporanea]

It is a testament to my love of wols in all their manifestations that they reconcile me to actual mariachi, which normally gives me hives.

[wolverine_nun]

We watched it for New Year's Eve. 6yo passed out at about 9:30, P and I propped our eyelids open with matchsticks. 4yo was going strong at midnight. She insisted, at about 10 or 11, that we set up a little table with her paper dolls in front of the television and she was perkily multitasking as the new year rolled in.

Yes, great film :)

[extemporanea]

It's an extremely frenetic film with a lot of very snappy dialogue, took me hours to get to sleep afterwards, so I'm really not surprised it kept your mad 4yo awake. Her energy levels are a lot higher than mine at the best of times ;>.