Movie Reviews: Where the Wild Things Are, and The Plan

[skywaterblue]

First: my dreamwidth paid time is almost up, and I'm not yet sure if I'm going to re-up. Going back and forth about it.

That aside, here are some reviews:

Where the Wild Things Are, I think, is a movie not for everyone and a certain number of reviews have said it's basically for hipsters. I don't THINK I'm a hipster myself, but I loved it. It was

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[selenak]

The Plan: I had pretty much the same reaction. As to why the Fours sided with Cavil when the two Simons - and I loved that they got all this characterisation here, and like you found GalacticaSimon's story very touching - were capable of seeing through him, my current Watsonian fanwank is that if GalacticaCavil was capable of having CapricaCavil boxed - which is the implication of their final exchange - then he could easily do the same for CapricaSimon. And GalacticaSimon was out of resurrection range anyway. Also, don't forget that all the younger models could see what happened to the Threes; methinks that might have intimidated both the Dorals and the Simons. Plus: the New Caprica experience probably left them with the conviction that the Sixes and Eights had been wrong.

[skywaterblue]

Hm. Does that make the Fours vaguely cowardly then? I suppose that could be a legit character trait, so I'll buy it.

GalacticaSimon's story was the highlight of it, though I did like the bookend conversation between the two Cavils. I think the show (and this movie) too often went too far into evil with Cavil, so anything that relends them a little complexity is a good thing.

[skywaterblue]

I've forgotten to put in my review, one thing that did strike me as a particular response to fandom SINCE the ending of this program is that they choose to have Simon's wife have scenes with Tyrol.

Ultimately they don't change what happens to Tyrol, but it's an interesting comment that they show Simon fly off into a very scary, nearly abusive situation with her ... and the person she's turning to for workplace friendship is another male secret-Cylon with anger towards women issues. Hm.

[nicole_anell]

*nods* Yeah, that. And at the same time, I felt like the bits with Chief were all reinforcing his gentleness, in light of him coming off particularly badly toward the end of the series. But that could just be my projection. OR JANE READS MY JOURNAL, heh.

[nicole_anell]

Obviously because Cavil hates any form of love that isn't directed at him
*snerk*

Your review is like the EXACT one I would give if I was being serious and not freaking out with joy because yaaaay Cylons. :) 'Cause yeah, I agree with the flaws you mentioned about how the narrative falls apart. I'm pretty satisfied with the answers we already had on the show (at least about the Cylons and their brilliant so-called plan) so it didn't bother me that there weren't many Huge Revelations in it... but I have a feeling it will disappoint a lot of people that the movie we were told would ~explain~ everything kind of left more plot holes than ever.

[skywaterblue]

The disturbing thing is that I think it basically left the SAME plotholes. So at least it didn't make too many news ones?

That said: I'm one of those people who liked the finale a lot, and thought it answered more or less everything I really desperately needed to hear. The other shit still hanging - like Daniel - is basically just poor writing.