"The details of plots were never really my strong point."

[shihadchick]

Odd day. For one thing, we're off daylight savings now, which means the Northern portion of the world I am intimately concerned with is now an hour further away.

Comments

[katrin]

I really want to go through this and make many intelligent comments. But it's ten to seven, so intelligence? Not with the happening.

[shihadchick]

I'll take the intelligent comments as a given and extend a 'discuss it later' invite for when you've, you know, actually slept and stuff? *hugs* How much longer til school's done for a bit?

[katrin]

Rock.

Um. Never. I have a midterm on Tues and then a debate on Thurs and then I'm taking Friday to fucking SLEEP and then I have to get into papers.

[shihadchick]

fwee. awwwwwwwwwwHAMISH.

ugggggh. baby steps til then, i guess? *pets you* *a lot* Roll on Friday. *hugs more*

[rhythmsextion]

See, I don't think a really good movie like WW is supposed to make you entirely comfortable. Skeezy boy is not supposed to be likable (though, they could've gotten a better actor, really) and you're not supposed to LIKE that Buddy's cheating on his wife and you're not supposed to LIKE that Dan keeps trying to kill himself. What I thought was great about the film is that it shows all these flawed characters, but how they all rely on each other (or, you know, Duck) to get by. To survive.

But that's just me.

[jigofspite]

they all rely on each other (or, you know, Duck)

That just cracked me up. SO TRUE. Hehe.

[rhythmsextion]

HEE. It is true. Ah, Duck.

[jigofspite]

*snuggles Duck*

Is it just me or does he seem a bit waddle-y in the overalls?

[joandarck]

You know, I was thinking about what you said up there about Emily and the skeezeboy and her being too aware for that. And that was one of my problems with it, that all his lines and their whole relationship seemed too stereotypical to be real, just like Buddy and Carol are total stereotypes of the cheat-on-me career woman and the who-am-I-now husband, so how can I care about them if I could write their dialogue by numbers myself, right? But after reading what you said -

wait, okay, getting back to Emily being too smart here - I'm wondering if maybe she basically is aware on some level that he's being trite and gross, but she's choosing to ignore it, choosing not to get it, because she wants something better than what her mom has ("Sometimes it's about love.") You know how it is when you're a kid, how you can understand something underneath and still not get it on the surface, at the same time. You think? Because I agree, she has those wise eyes, she just knows too much.

[shihadchick]

You know how it is when you're a kid, how you can understand something underneath and still not get it on the surface, at the same time

Ooh. That is a really good point, yeah. Hrm. I think you might be onto something there. And as well as that, every time I start thinking about it and being a bit uncomfortable with the stereotypicalness I then also remember how often I've seen people more or less act out the exact same fight/scene themselves (and, actually, h ave wondered then how the people involved didn't see how stereotypical they were being in their real life, but I guess it's harder to see when it's your actual self involved and not fiction) and so then I swing back to seeing the movie's point. Heh.

And having said that, I will now proceed to ogle your icon for a bit longer, because, um, yes. I also don't understand how that colour looks so good on him because in my head it shouldn't, and yet... *is shallow*

[joandarck]

Oh, he looks so good in the cowboy shirt, it's shocking. *is shallow too*

[shihadchick]

Wilby icons are totally one of my favourite things about LJ. Because... ohthepretty. Did you see the other day where someone (I think Anna? Maybe?) had an animated gif of the hands in the hospital and I'm just like CALLUM HANDS and FACE and I could watch that for hours (and, um, a little bit did). :D

[katrin]

Because I HAVE NOT commented enough to this entry (Grandmaster J-Funk, self).

CSI on tv is not, like, my prom date -- SEZ YOU. It's crying in the bathroom now. It thought you really loved it.

Come back and visit me again, and you can have mountains AND fish and chips. **tempty**

Bank robbers = funny crime.

Suuuuure you don't drive like Bono, even a little bit.

Not going to go into the WW stuff because a) generally I agree and have nothing new to bring to the discussion and b) one of these years I'll watch it again and post something long about my thoughts. Or maybe not.

Buffy DVDs = yaye!

That is all.

[shihadchick]

oh, you totally haven't. not at all. not like we spammed on it for half the night or nuthin'.

I do really love it! I do! Maybe I better go in there and. ahem. explain. *evil grin*

PERCHAPS I WILL THEN.

Bank robbers = funny crime well, maybe, but the thing is - it's always such a huge, heartbreaking life-affecting thing. For Fraser and Maggie and (lesser extent) RayK, at least.

I don't! Honest! You have only driven with me a tiny amount of times! Ask Joy or Izzy or Chris! *pouts and uses many exclamation marks*

No worries, yo.

INDEED.

[katrin]

Exactly.

Don't you go taking advantage of its innocence now.

FINE.

Yeeeeeah. That was more about, like, Vault. But I can kind of see writers being all "Damnit, we need another crime. What can we make funny -- ooh, bank robbers!"

Suuuuure. **totally believes you. rillyrilly.**

[shihadchick]

But it WANTS me to take advantage of its innocence!

:D

And, yeah, I know what you mean, but still...

SIGH.