dear livejournal
I have been neglecting you, and I'm sorry. Here, have some thoughts.
I just saw this, and I know am the lastest, but as I had mentioned, I was trying to save this as an experience for my father and I, but it was playing for the cheap at the theater by me and I had to. And, other than it triggering me (it is an incredibly tense film, with very little breaks in the tension and it got me worked up)I think it was brilliant. And not just because ♥Kathryn Bigelow♥, but because it is a fairly effective desconstruction of the myth of the maverick war hero.
In particular, the first scene of James disarming a bomb, comes to mind. Sanborn lets James know exactly how much he has endangered everyone. Another soldier comes up and calls him a Wild Man, asks him how many bombs he's disarmed, and shakes his hand. It's a pretty obvious allegory - we fetishize people like James, we thnk their neuroses are ones to be emulated. But he is a not a good person. He gets people hurt, and gets them killed. He has sociopathic tendancies. He's dangerous, and he should not be rewarded for that. But we, as a society, do reward him. And I know my bb Kathryn gets some flack for not making movies about women, but I think that examing the ways that men get fucked over by the patriarchy is another essential part of the process of dismantling it, and her films speak to this (see: the homoeroticism of Point Break).
Well, it was kind of lackluster and boring, but I don't have a problem with no one "caring" about Freddy. He left a note and told people he was leaving. Just so happens he was killed first.
Honestly, it's hard to write about it because the episode was essentially a non-entity. It felt like filler until the movie. All I can say is, I hope to god Cook made it out alive - something I never thought I'd ever think.
I'm not sure about the retconning of Naomi's sexuality. It was hackneyed and out of nowhere, and I don't really think it was a good resolution of the myriad of problems they were having, but it was also sweet. And right now, I can forgive a lot for sweetness.
I had my doubts about ol'footface, but now I love him. Like, seriously love him. I can see why they picked Matt Smith - he very much gets the charismatic side of the Doctor, but he is also recognizably alien and offputting in his mannerisms. Near the end of Tennant's tenure, I felt he was basically relying on his eyebrows to do all the acting, and honestly he seemed ...normal. And I was basically sick of the angst and arrogance. Christ, enough already.
But I think the most happy-making thing about this new season is AMY POND who I love. I love her backstory - I can't have been the only one with an imaginary friend. I love the whole outsider in a small town thing. I love that she is flighty, flaky and impulsive. I love that she has grown up her entire life waiting for an adventure and not finding one. I essentially identifiy with her way too hard, and I am excited to see where this goes.
Now, homework. Later, loves.
I just saw this, and I know am the lastest, but as I had mentioned, I was trying to save this as an experience for my father and I, but it was playing for the cheap at the theater by me and I had to. And, other than it triggering me (it is an incredibly tense film, with very little breaks in the tension and it got me worked up)I think it was brilliant. And not just because ♥Kathryn Bigelow♥, but because it is a fairly effective desconstruction of the myth of the maverick war hero.
In particular, the first scene of James disarming a bomb, comes to mind. Sanborn lets James know exactly how much he has endangered everyone. Another soldier comes up and calls him a Wild Man, asks him how many bombs he's disarmed, and shakes his hand. It's a pretty obvious allegory - we fetishize people like James, we thnk their neuroses are ones to be emulated. But he is a not a good person. He gets people hurt, and gets them killed. He has sociopathic tendancies. He's dangerous, and he should not be rewarded for that. But we, as a society, do reward him. And I know my bb Kathryn gets some flack for not making movies about women, but I think that examing the ways that men get fucked over by the patriarchy is another essential part of the process of dismantling it, and her films speak to this (see: the homoeroticism of Point Break).
Well, it was kind of lackluster and boring, but I don't have a problem with no one "caring" about Freddy. He left a note and told people he was leaving. Just so happens he was killed first.
Honestly, it's hard to write about it because the episode was essentially a non-entity. It felt like filler until the movie. All I can say is, I hope to god Cook made it out alive - something I never thought I'd ever think.
I'm not sure about the retconning of Naomi's sexuality. It was hackneyed and out of nowhere, and I don't really think it was a good resolution of the myriad of problems they were having, but it was also sweet. And right now, I can forgive a lot for sweetness.
I had my doubts about ol'footface, but now I love him. Like, seriously love him. I can see why they picked Matt Smith - he very much gets the charismatic side of the Doctor, but he is also recognizably alien and offputting in his mannerisms. Near the end of Tennant's tenure, I felt he was basically relying on his eyebrows to do all the acting, and honestly he seemed ...normal. And I was basically sick of the angst and arrogance. Christ, enough already.
But I think the most happy-making thing about this new season is AMY POND who I love. I love her backstory - I can't have been the only one with an imaginary friend. I love the whole outsider in a small town thing. I love that she is flighty, flaky and impulsive. I love that she has grown up her entire life waiting for an adventure and not finding one. I essentially identifiy with her way too hard, and I am excited to see where this goes.
Now, homework. Later, loves.