What I did on my winter holidays - media edition
Lately it seems like the only time I ever watch movies is on airplanes.
* On the way out I watched Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials. I enjoyed it less than the first one. I felt like almost everyone, but especially the villains, was putting on their worst acting forward, as in a backwards competition. It doesn't help that there were basically zombies - they may not call them as such, but that's the essential plot device of the "infection". It was good to see more girls as part of the Resistance, given that the mazes seemed to have been set up in a purposefully sexist way. I knew Theresa was going to be a villain(ish) as soon as we met Brenda, because obviously you can't have two important female characters. *rolls eyes*
* Not a movie, but I also watched the first three episodes on Humans, because they were available and I'd been curious for a while. I'm not sure I'm convinced, even with so much Tom Goodman-Hill. (I think I miss his geordieness from Hut 33. :P)
* On the way back I had a wide choice of Marvel movies, except for Age of Ultron (yep, still haven't seen it). (I tried to watch The Martian, but they restarted the entertainment system as I started it, and I didn't have the energy to start again from the beginning and fast forward through the bits I'd seen.) So, did I finally watch Ant-Man? Or did I rewatch Captain America: The Winter Soldier? No trophies whatsoever for guessing right.
* After that I didn't have the mental energy for more Marvel, or for the promised "continued violence throughout" of Fury Road, so I thought I'd take care of my renewed Bucky feels (like I said, no trophies) by watching Inside Out. It was cute, I guess? I both liked it and rolled my eyes at some of the stereotypes and oversimplifications in it. Good visual language for core memories, though. The cheerful feel-good assumption that the common child will basically be a bundle of joy and happy core memories upset me. Know what I really liked? That the main character is a hockey player, and it's a core part of her personality. And I say that as someone who's really uninterested in sportsball in general, but glad to see sportsball associated with girls and women. Like I said, it's not the hockey that made it hard to identify with Riley, but her exceedingly happy core. No one ever had reason to call me a bundle of joy... It felt wrong that Joy would be the first "inside" aspect to come to life, honestly. I think I'd be more of a Fear girl myself. :P
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* On the way out I watched Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials. I enjoyed it less than the first one. I felt like almost everyone, but especially the villains, was putting on their worst acting forward, as in a backwards competition. It doesn't help that there were basically zombies - they may not call them as such, but that's the essential plot device of the "infection". It was good to see more girls as part of the Resistance, given that the mazes seemed to have been set up in a purposefully sexist way. I knew Theresa was going to be a villain(ish) as soon as we met Brenda, because obviously you can't have two important female characters. *rolls eyes*
* Not a movie, but I also watched the first three episodes on Humans, because they were available and I'd been curious for a while. I'm not sure I'm convinced, even with so much Tom Goodman-Hill. (I think I miss his geordieness from Hut 33. :P)
* On the way back I had a wide choice of Marvel movies, except for Age of Ultron (yep, still haven't seen it). (I tried to watch The Martian, but they restarted the entertainment system as I started it, and I didn't have the energy to start again from the beginning and fast forward through the bits I'd seen.) So, did I finally watch Ant-Man? Or did I rewatch Captain America: The Winter Soldier? No trophies whatsoever for guessing right.
* After that I didn't have the mental energy for more Marvel, or for the promised "continued violence throughout" of Fury Road, so I thought I'd take care of my renewed Bucky feels (like I said, no trophies) by watching Inside Out. It was cute, I guess? I both liked it and rolled my eyes at some of the stereotypes and oversimplifications in it. Good visual language for core memories, though. The cheerful feel-good assumption that the common child will basically be a bundle of joy and happy core memories upset me. Know what I really liked? That the main character is a hockey player, and it's a core part of her personality. And I say that as someone who's really uninterested in sportsball in general, but glad to see sportsball associated with girls and women. Like I said, it's not the hockey that made it hard to identify with Riley, but her exceedingly happy core. No one ever had reason to call me a bundle of joy... It felt wrong that Joy would be the first "inside" aspect to come to life, honestly. I think I'd be more of a Fear girl myself. :P
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