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Movie notes
Jan. 25th, 2019 10:42 pmIt's very cold here, and going to get colder. I dog sat today, another greyhound, so I decided to just stay in and watch my library movies with the dogs.
Pacific Rim: Uprising was very fun. John Boyega is a real star, and I love his humor especially. The other actors in this were largely unfamiliar to me. A teenage girl plays one of the heroes; she's an engineering genius who built her own small Jaeger out of stolen and scrounged parts. I loved her. The two scientist characters return from the first film, and I enjoyed their interactions. The other lead is a very boring white man, but I liked that he had a sort of rivalry-friendship and chemistry with John Boyega's character. There is a nice moment where the woman they are both interested in kisses white guy's cheek, and then Boyega's cheek, which is universal fandom language for OT3. Except for a few clunky parts, I thought the writing was good.
Content notes: character deaths; destruction of cities (Sydney and Tokyo).
3 Days of the Condor: "A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust." (imdb). 1975.
This is apparently an influential film, starring Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway. There is a Leverage episode named after it, for example. The point of the story is that the CIA is corrupt and a low-level insider exposes the corruption. This story suffers greatly from using the trope where a man (Redford) kidnaps a woman (Dunaway) and then she falls for him and they have a supposedly romantic sexual relationship. I know there's a name for this trope but I've forgotten it; it's not quite "stalking is love" but the same concept. It's so gross and I never want to see it in a story ever again. Anti-rec for that reason only.
I tried to watch "John Wick" and "Atomic Blonde" recently, but both are hyper-violent and I'm just not in the mood for these stories right now.
Pacific Rim: Uprising was very fun. John Boyega is a real star, and I love his humor especially. The other actors in this were largely unfamiliar to me. A teenage girl plays one of the heroes; she's an engineering genius who built her own small Jaeger out of stolen and scrounged parts. I loved her. The two scientist characters return from the first film, and I enjoyed their interactions. The other lead is a very boring white man, but I liked that he had a sort of rivalry-friendship and chemistry with John Boyega's character. There is a nice moment where the woman they are both interested in kisses white guy's cheek, and then Boyega's cheek, which is universal fandom language for OT3. Except for a few clunky parts, I thought the writing was good.
Content notes: character deaths; destruction of cities (Sydney and Tokyo).
3 Days of the Condor: "A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust." (imdb). 1975.
This is apparently an influential film, starring Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway. There is a Leverage episode named after it, for example. The point of the story is that the CIA is corrupt and a low-level insider exposes the corruption. This story suffers greatly from using the trope where a man (Redford) kidnaps a woman (Dunaway) and then she falls for him and they have a supposedly romantic sexual relationship. I know there's a name for this trope but I've forgotten it; it's not quite "stalking is love" but the same concept. It's so gross and I never want to see it in a story ever again. Anti-rec for that reason only.
I tried to watch "John Wick" and "Atomic Blonde" recently, but both are hyper-violent and I'm just not in the mood for these stories right now.
