Comments | tsuki_no_bara: i'm kidding. we're vegetarians.

tsuki_no_bara

i'm kidding. we're vegetarians.

Feb 25, 2018 19:46

my sister and i saw black panther last night, finally. it was a tremendous movie, i liked it a lot, and i totally get why it's gotten so much hype and hooplah. i was completely unspoiled so there were some things that surprised me, in a good way. ( spoilery! )

movie review, olympics, bigbang 2018, cheese, weird shit, curling

Comments 9

amberdreams February 26 2018, 15:21:24 UTC

I saw the USA men won the curling - what an achievement! Our girls bombed out in their bronze medal match against Japan but we were so inconsistent, we didn't really deserve a medal. People weren't so deeply into the curling this year, I felt - we did go curling crazy 4 and 8 years ago.

As for Black Panther - the more I think about all the messages in the film, the more surprised I am that it got made at all. Like you say, it's so political and pointed and I loved that about it. I love that I'm still thinking about it for that reason but that those messages were made so powerful by good storytelling and great characters. My only (slight) disappointment with the story is that they couldn't have one of the ladies take the purple heart thing and become the panther but that the women had to take the thing to a man so save Wakanda. I understand why it had to be done that way - to bring T'challa back - but yeah. That would have been an extra layer of icing on a very tasty cake.

tsuki_no_bara February 28 2018, 05:23:17 UTC

my curling club is having their open house in a couple weeks and it's full up. O.O i guess we took your curling crazy this time.

i don't know what possessed the marvel ptb to let ryan coogler basically do whatever he wanted, but i'm glad they did. we got so many women with so many different kinds of power, i didn't even care that none of them ate the purple flower thing.

jola February 26 2018, 18:36:12 UTC

how DARE you rebuke Bucky-jesus' hair?? and also Okoye is kind of my heart <3 so purposeful and so not sentimental ...

tsuki_no_bara February 28 2018, 02:34:34 UTC

it's the weird little manbun! i can't be having with the manbun. okoye was the best. i loved that she was so unsentimental, but that didn't mean she couldn't be affectionate. the battle rhino liked her. :D

nomercles February 27 2018, 01:05:28 UTC

congratulations very much on the curling news! I know it's not your team, but, you know, it's kind of your team. So hurray!

also...pig cheese. That is one of the strangest things I've ever typed. Wonder what it tastes like. I've had head cheese, which is usually made from pig, and I didn't much enjoy that experience. One would hope that pig milk cheese is better. Poor pigs.

tsuki_no_bara February 28 2018, 02:42:40 UTC

all curling teams are my team. :D but yeah, team usa really kind of is. i totally missed the game, tho, which is a bummer.

head cheese is a totally different thing! also, ew. i applaud your bravery in tasting it, but still, ew. apparently pig's-milk cheese is saltier, creamier, and, er, grainier than cow's-milk cheese, and it melts on your tongue a little faster. and it takes FOREVER to get enough milk from the pigs. poor pigs is right.

nomercles March 3 2018, 08:07:55 UTC

No, I know it's different. I'm just a big dork and enjoyed the play on words. :D

I don't much recommend head cheese. I'm glad I tried it, because that's a hell of a thing to break out at never have I ever, but nope, not repeating it. Not even for money. Well. Depends on what they're offering.

countlibras February 28 2018, 13:47:55 UTC

I also saw Black Panther this weekend! I agree with all your points. I must also admit I went to watch it mostly for the pretty. SO MUCH COSTUME AWESOMENESS! *swoon*

tsuki_no_bara March 1 2018, 02:14:23 UTC

it looked so good! wakanda looked futuristic and so african - it had a great sense of place - and the costumes and hair and jewelry and everything were so fabulous. i mean, let's be shallow for a minute and comment on how pretty everything and everyone was.