jenna_marianne

So, I haven't posted in a really long time! Not much has been happening, which is good because the first half of the year sucked. A lot.

I just let me paid LJ account expire. I'd forgotten how few icons you're allowed (15) and about the ads, which reminds me that I need to download Ad-block on one of the computers I regularly use.

Went and saw two movies this weekend: Hotel Transylvania and Wreck-It Ralph. The first I went to see only because my mother really wanted to see it. My husband and I had been anticipating the second for a long time.


( Hotel Transylvania was awful. )

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( Wreck-It Ralph was lots of fun. )

So, I was looking at someone's icon journal and stumbled upon a post of Suckerpunch icons and it reminded me of the GIANT HATE I have for that film. The icons were all nice, but the IRE they induced was a shock.

I watched Suckerpunch at a second-run theater for ONE DOLLAR and it was still too much. I wanted that bit of my life back. A group of people walked out, and they'd only paid a buck.

There are so many bad things about that movie: its terrible sexual politics, fake girl power, and the glimmers of what could have been.

( Spoilers and triggering content )

The thing that always makes some films stand out in awfulness is when they are almost good. There is little glimmers of brilliance. It makes the bad that much worse. The opening sequence if brilliantly done and the fantasy action sequences (with samurai robots, Nazi zombie cyborgs, dragons, and women kicking ass) being most notable. I want to see the movie that could have been. Throw out the trash that was what happened in the insane asylum and brothel and give me the action movie lurking underneath.

Ever have a movie dry-spell? You know, when every movie you see for ages is mediocre or worse. It feels like I've been suffering from bad-movie-itis for months (maybe everything after seeing Inception this summer, though that is a hard act to follow).

Well, that dry spell ended as of last week!

( Red )

( (500) Days of Summer )

( Megamind )

ETA: ( Unstoppable )

I also have hope for the coming months, with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Nov. 19), Tangled (Nov. 26), TRON: Legacy (Dec. 17), and The Green Hornet (Jan. 14).

I'm also curious about:
Unstoppable (Nov. 12), directed by Tony Scott and starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine (sort of Speed with trains). Just saw it, review above.
Skyline (Nov. 12), Independence Day-redux?
Gulliver's Travels (Dec. 22), starring Jack Black!?!