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thawreckaI paid for a month HBO Max subscription for Heated Rivalry, but then after watching that I was like, oh, they have all of Adventure Time, and the Distant Lands specials, and Fionna and Cake, I wonder if I can watch all of that in a month?
...The answer to that is yes, actually. Massive Adventure Time marathon. Having many feelings about post-apocalyptic gender and identity, and also 🩷🖤bubbline, and also aaaah Huntress Wizard aaah!
I'd never actually finished it when it was on an Australian streaming service, so I finally got to see the final seasons and Marceline and Bubblegum getting back together ♥ and Finn growing up! I truly thought no finale could live up to ten seasons of build up, and I won't say it was perfect, but it was pretty good. I was moved! If you told me at the beginning of the series that I would end up with so many emotions about Ice King, I would not have believed you, but there's some very rich stuff there about loss of identity, especially with regards to his relationship with Betty.
Fionna and Cake also does some pretty interesting stuff, and is especially thoughtful about gender. To the point where I really liked it even though I didn't particularly like the main characters.
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Anyway, I had a great time with that. And literally the night after I finished this massive TV marathon I went out to see two movies.
First: Hamnet, which only just released here. It's interesting, though I don't think it was entirely successful for me. I have to admit I did laugh when he took his shirt off to go swimming and it turned out Will Shakespeare had abs. Not Marvel abs or anything, but certainly more visible abs than I would believe the average Elizabethan playwright to have.
My tears were not jerked out of me, alas, and there was so much shaky cam, but I did think the most interesting part was ( Read more... )
I feel like there used to be a lot more of this kind of film, so I like that it seems fairly successful, even if I wasn't nearly as moved as I wanted to be.
Then I went to see No Other Choice, which was kind of funny. I did laugh. I also didn't find it as funny as I wanted, but it certainly wasn't bad. It ends basically in exactly the place you think it will end, and I do find it an effective satire. Apparently it's loosely based on a Donald E. Westlake story? The best part was some of the comedy of errors at the start of his attempt at a murder spree, and then later it was kind of sad. I'm not sad I went to see it, anyway, even if I was very tired when the movie let out and the cinema had already closed down their escalators.
...The answer to that is yes, actually. Massive Adventure Time marathon. Having many feelings about post-apocalyptic gender and identity, and also 🩷🖤bubbline, and also aaaah Huntress Wizard aaah!
I'd never actually finished it when it was on an Australian streaming service, so I finally got to see the final seasons and Marceline and Bubblegum getting back together ♥ and Finn growing up! I truly thought no finale could live up to ten seasons of build up, and I won't say it was perfect, but it was pretty good. I was moved! If you told me at the beginning of the series that I would end up with so many emotions about Ice King, I would not have believed you, but there's some very rich stuff there about loss of identity, especially with regards to his relationship with Betty.
Fionna and Cake also does some pretty interesting stuff, and is especially thoughtful about gender. To the point where I really liked it even though I didn't particularly like the main characters.
( Read more... )
Anyway, I had a great time with that. And literally the night after I finished this massive TV marathon I went out to see two movies.
First: Hamnet, which only just released here. It's interesting, though I don't think it was entirely successful for me. I have to admit I did laugh when he took his shirt off to go swimming and it turned out Will Shakespeare had abs. Not Marvel abs or anything, but certainly more visible abs than I would believe the average Elizabethan playwright to have.
My tears were not jerked out of me, alas, and there was so much shaky cam, but I did think the most interesting part was ( Read more... )
I feel like there used to be a lot more of this kind of film, so I like that it seems fairly successful, even if I wasn't nearly as moved as I wanted to be.
Then I went to see No Other Choice, which was kind of funny. I did laugh. I also didn't find it as funny as I wanted, but it certainly wasn't bad. It ends basically in exactly the place you think it will end, and I do find it an effective satire. Apparently it's loosely based on a Donald E. Westlake story? The best part was some of the comedy of errors at the start of his attempt at a murder spree, and then later it was kind of sad. I'm not sad I went to see it, anyway, even if I was very tired when the movie let out and the cinema had already closed down their escalators.
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