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December Movie Week, Part 1
I've been sick the last couple of days, enough that I had to leave work early on Monday and take the day off completely on Tuesday. I'm feeling mostly better now, and ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
wellfourthings has departed, so now I have a bunch of cleaning and laundry to do that I'm not exactly looking forward to :P
This weekend, however, I managed to see a couple of new movies that have been released. In addition, I rewatched the newest four Star Wars movies and (because I hate myself) started watching the Transformers films from the beginning before seeing Bumblebee this weekend.
Spoilers for Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse and The Favourite, as well as a bunch of Star Wars and Transformers movies.
The Favourite - I only had a vague idea going into this what it was about and what it would be like, based on buzz I've read on twitter and seeing the trailer a few days before seeing the film. That said I wasn't prepared for how messy (bodily) this movie was willing to get. Whatever allure there was to Olivia Coleman's trysts with Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone, and to Emma Stone and Joe Alwyn erotically beating the crap out of each other in the middle of the woods, it was offput by a lot of scenes of characters vomiting or dealing out some other unpleasant bodily excrement.
That said, this movie very subtlely racked up the tension, and was willing to go places plot-wise I didn't think it would. I was also impressed with how the character the audience was drawn to sympathize with slowly changed between the three leads as the film progressed. Also, to say nothing of that end scene, which was, um, something to experience in a theater full of senior citizens.
My favorite part of watching the movie was the scandalized old ladies in front of me loudly exclaiming "Oh my god, the queen is GAY!" the first time there was a same-sex kiss.(I'm lying it was Emma Stone half-heartedly giving Joe Alwyn a handjob while planning strategic countermoves against Rachel Weisz, but he still turns into putty).
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - OH MAN THIS MOVIE WAS GREAT. I saw this about an hour after exiting the Favourite, so it started a bit like a palette cleanser for my mind, but it's palette was so well crafted it immediately owned me. I went into this nervous about how the alternate universe stuff would be handled, as I was more interested in seeing a Miles Morales origin story than I was in seeing a heavy-lore based plot mechanic dominate a kids' movie. Fortunately, that didn't happen, and from start to finish it never felt like it wasn't Miles's story.
I also ended up loving the animation way more than I thought I would. It really gave me a deeper appreciation for what 3D animation can do, and I hope this film is successful and inspires more movies to take these kinds of risks. I could rattle off so many more compliments about this movie, but it would probably just be rehashing all the glowing stuff other people are saying.
Star Wars - Nothing much new to add here except that I hadn't rewatched Rogue One all the way through in a while and I forgot how much of an incoherent mess the first act was. Like, for all of Solo's many, many problems at least it didn't have structural issues that bad. Also I forgot how little screentime Kylo Ren has until the final act of The Force Awakens.
Transformers - I'd only ever seen the first movie before (a few times actually) but oh man I didn't quite realize the level of how bad the writing is. Like, I always knew it was confusing and bad, but WOW. I will say I didn't really hate Revenge of the Fallen, and a lot of the human stuff in it actually worked for me more than the first movie, which was probably because it largely focused on four of the characters rather than dividing equal screentime between twelve. That's the low bar though, and it definitely wasn't colored by my attraction to Megan Fox and Ramon Rodriguez.
On Deck via Home Screening: The rest of the Transformers movies (Dark of the Moon, Age of Extinction, and The Last Knight), Ghostbusters: Answer the Call, A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding, and a re-watch of Mary Poppins.
On Deck via Theatrical Screening: Bumblebee, Mary Poppins Returns, and Aquaman. (And maybe Mary Queen of Scots if I'm up for it).
wellfourthings has departed, so now I have a bunch of cleaning and laundry to do that I'm not exactly looking forward to :PThis weekend, however, I managed to see a couple of new movies that have been released. In addition, I rewatched the newest four Star Wars movies and (because I hate myself) started watching the Transformers films from the beginning before seeing Bumblebee this weekend.
Spoilers for Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse and The Favourite, as well as a bunch of Star Wars and Transformers movies.
The Favourite - I only had a vague idea going into this what it was about and what it would be like, based on buzz I've read on twitter and seeing the trailer a few days before seeing the film. That said I wasn't prepared for how messy (bodily) this movie was willing to get. Whatever allure there was to Olivia Coleman's trysts with Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone, and to Emma Stone and Joe Alwyn erotically beating the crap out of each other in the middle of the woods, it was offput by a lot of scenes of characters vomiting or dealing out some other unpleasant bodily excrement.
That said, this movie very subtlely racked up the tension, and was willing to go places plot-wise I didn't think it would. I was also impressed with how the character the audience was drawn to sympathize with slowly changed between the three leads as the film progressed. Also, to say nothing of that end scene, which was, um, something to experience in a theater full of senior citizens.
My favorite part of watching the movie was the scandalized old ladies in front of me loudly exclaiming "Oh my god, the queen is GAY!" the first time there was a same-sex kiss.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - OH MAN THIS MOVIE WAS GREAT. I saw this about an hour after exiting the Favourite, so it started a bit like a palette cleanser for my mind, but it's palette was so well crafted it immediately owned me. I went into this nervous about how the alternate universe stuff would be handled, as I was more interested in seeing a Miles Morales origin story than I was in seeing a heavy-lore based plot mechanic dominate a kids' movie. Fortunately, that didn't happen, and from start to finish it never felt like it wasn't Miles's story.
I also ended up loving the animation way more than I thought I would. It really gave me a deeper appreciation for what 3D animation can do, and I hope this film is successful and inspires more movies to take these kinds of risks. I could rattle off so many more compliments about this movie, but it would probably just be rehashing all the glowing stuff other people are saying.
Star Wars - Nothing much new to add here except that I hadn't rewatched Rogue One all the way through in a while and I forgot how much of an incoherent mess the first act was. Like, for all of Solo's many, many problems at least it didn't have structural issues that bad. Also I forgot how little screentime Kylo Ren has until the final act of The Force Awakens.
Transformers - I'd only ever seen the first movie before (a few times actually) but oh man I didn't quite realize the level of how bad the writing is. Like, I always knew it was confusing and bad, but WOW. I will say I didn't really hate Revenge of the Fallen, and a lot of the human stuff in it actually worked for me more than the first movie, which was probably because it largely focused on four of the characters rather than dividing equal screentime between twelve. That's the low bar though, and it definitely wasn't colored by my attraction to Megan Fox and Ramon Rodriguez.
On Deck via Home Screening: The rest of the Transformers movies (Dark of the Moon, Age of Extinction, and The Last Knight), Ghostbusters: Answer the Call, A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding, and a re-watch of Mary Poppins.
On Deck via Theatrical Screening: Bumblebee, Mary Poppins Returns, and Aquaman. (And maybe Mary Queen of Scots if I'm up for it).