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raincitygirlSo, I understand there's been a major kerfuffle with Tumblr, and people are coming back to LJ and DW. Awesome! Well, NOT awesome that Tumblr are being dicks, obviously, but awesome that people are responding by returning here. I've been more or less absent myself for months, but i haven't been on Tumblr (I never figured out Tumblr, I think my brain is too old). I've just been very depressed. So welcome back, Tumblr refugees!
My friend K and I have already pencilled in March 8 (Captain Marvel) and April 26 (Avengers: Endgame) as movie nights. Easier to avoid spoilers if you go opening night.
And K and I went to a totally non-superhero-themed movie yesterday, Instant Family, in which Rose Byrne and Mark Wahlberg play a California couple in their early forties who become foster-to-adopt parents to two girls aged 15 and 5, and their brother aged 10. It's hilarious! Irreverent and brilliant, with moments of genuine sweetness that feel EARNED instead of schmaltzy. Just watch the trailer, folks. You'll see what I mean.
https://youtu.be/vUgCSuEWhnc
It's not in the trailer, but there's this great scene where the husband goes off on this long, worried tangent with the social workers about how them taking in 3 Latino kids might come across as a "white saviour complex", and his whole tangent is referencing the hinky colonialist messaging in the movie Avatar the entire time. I laughed at that scene until I cried, and it's a great example of how the movie (Instant Family, NOT Avatar) approaches serious topics like transracial adoption from this off-kilter, irreverent perspective. The husband isn't just worrying about "are we equipped to become a transracial adoptive family?" he's doing it from a movie-critiquing perspective. Oh, and there's a running gag about that stupid movie The Blind Side that is also hysterically funny.
Next up, Mary Queen of Scots with my friend C on Sunday, December 16. Margot Robbie as the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England, and Saoirse Ronan as her cousin and heir, the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots. Based on the well-received biography of Mary "My Heart is my Own" by historian John Guy, although apparently the movie takes a few artistic liberties with history.
https://youtu.be/wnqjSgMU36U
My friend K and I have already pencilled in March 8 (Captain Marvel) and April 26 (Avengers: Endgame) as movie nights. Easier to avoid spoilers if you go opening night.
And K and I went to a totally non-superhero-themed movie yesterday, Instant Family, in which Rose Byrne and Mark Wahlberg play a California couple in their early forties who become foster-to-adopt parents to two girls aged 15 and 5, and their brother aged 10. It's hilarious! Irreverent and brilliant, with moments of genuine sweetness that feel EARNED instead of schmaltzy. Just watch the trailer, folks. You'll see what I mean.
https://youtu.be/vUgCSuEWhnc
It's not in the trailer, but there's this great scene where the husband goes off on this long, worried tangent with the social workers about how them taking in 3 Latino kids might come across as a "white saviour complex", and his whole tangent is referencing the hinky colonialist messaging in the movie Avatar the entire time. I laughed at that scene until I cried, and it's a great example of how the movie (Instant Family, NOT Avatar) approaches serious topics like transracial adoption from this off-kilter, irreverent perspective. The husband isn't just worrying about "are we equipped to become a transracial adoptive family?" he's doing it from a movie-critiquing perspective. Oh, and there's a running gag about that stupid movie The Blind Side that is also hysterically funny.
Next up, Mary Queen of Scots with my friend C on Sunday, December 16. Margot Robbie as the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England, and Saoirse Ronan as her cousin and heir, the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots. Based on the well-received biography of Mary "My Heart is my Own" by historian John Guy, although apparently the movie takes a few artistic liberties with history.
https://youtu.be/wnqjSgMU36U
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Date: 2018-12-09 10:14 pm (UTC)As does "Mary Queen of Scots" to be honest. I'll be interested to know what you think of it.
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Date: 2018-12-09 11:17 pm (UTC)So, how've you been?
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Date: 2018-12-09 11:42 pm (UTC)How are you?