Things watched
Oct. 8th, 2015 06:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nenya_kanadkaSince the other post was getting long:
Things watched:
The Martian:
I'm definitely well within the target audience for this one, with its 20-minutes-in-the-future tech and its teamwork and triumphs and disasters. I loved that reestablishing communication was such a huge plot point, and how they went about it. Plus the team contained Donald Glover, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jessica Chastain, Sean Bean (who's agreeable in person, then does the fuck what he wants--and makes LOTR jokes), and a super cute new-to-me Canadian actress called Mackenzie Davis playing the satellite planner who realizes Matt Damon is alive.
Also, MARS!! Absolutely worth the 3D for the Martian scenery. <3
Magic Mike XXL:
Less actual stripping than I expected, but I liked it a lot. It was both completely saturated in sex (very much the female gaze) and really sweet at the same time. The guys themselves were this interesting combination of dude bros and touchy-feely hippies, and there was a lot less OTT crass humour and aggressive hookers-and-blackjack masculine posturing than I've come to expect from all-dude road trip movies. And they actually treated women well? Even when not playing up to them for stripping/money purposes.
But my favourite part was that Charming Potato spends all this time and sexual energy trying to cheer up a girl who is bisexual and "not in a guy phase right now," and doesn't end up sleeping with her, and there's no resentment at all about that, just "hey, I cheered up a person I like." Like there's actually a shot near the end of her going off with some hot girls, while he heads off with his friends. Not that nobody gets laid, but there's a fuckton less entitlement going on there. The movie is pretty clearly pitched to straight women and bi women who are in a guy phase, but it wasn't hostile to f/f either.
Second-favourite was probably Jada Pinkett-Smith's establishment for women who like to ogle beautiful men while being told how sexy and desirable and worthwhile they are. :-) Ladies of all colours and body types, too, which was nice to see.
Plus, guys with great abs and no shyness about showing off, either. Matt Bomer, you are a blessing.
(As is Donald Glover--who was also in this one! I don't mind. He is very pretty and should be in everything.)
Things watched:
The Martian:
I'm definitely well within the target audience for this one, with its 20-minutes-in-the-future tech and its teamwork and triumphs and disasters. I loved that reestablishing communication was such a huge plot point, and how they went about it. Plus the team contained Donald Glover, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jessica Chastain, Sean Bean (who's agreeable in person, then does the fuck what he wants--and makes LOTR jokes), and a super cute new-to-me Canadian actress called Mackenzie Davis playing the satellite planner who realizes Matt Damon is alive.
Also, MARS!! Absolutely worth the 3D for the Martian scenery. <3
Magic Mike XXL:
Less actual stripping than I expected, but I liked it a lot. It was both completely saturated in sex (very much the female gaze) and really sweet at the same time. The guys themselves were this interesting combination of dude bros and touchy-feely hippies, and there was a lot less OTT crass humour and aggressive hookers-and-blackjack masculine posturing than I've come to expect from all-dude road trip movies. And they actually treated women well? Even when not playing up to them for stripping/money purposes.
But my favourite part was that Charming Potato spends all this time and sexual energy trying to cheer up a girl who is bisexual and "not in a guy phase right now," and doesn't end up sleeping with her, and there's no resentment at all about that, just "hey, I cheered up a person I like." Like there's actually a shot near the end of her going off with some hot girls, while he heads off with his friends. Not that nobody gets laid, but there's a fuckton less entitlement going on there. The movie is pretty clearly pitched to straight women and bi women who are in a guy phase, but it wasn't hostile to f/f either.
Second-favourite was probably Jada Pinkett-Smith's establishment for women who like to ogle beautiful men while being told how sexy and desirable and worthwhile they are. :-) Ladies of all colours and body types, too, which was nice to see.
Plus, guys with great abs and no shyness about showing off, either. Matt Bomer, you are a blessing.
(As is Donald Glover--who was also in this one! I don't mind. He is very pretty and should be in everything.)
