Weekly reading/watching meme
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petroniaHaven't updated the read/watch log for a month, but yesterday I was almost able to think about reading a book, so figured I'd do that. XD I mean, I'm still following all the same comics, and I went to see Man of Steel. It has its problems (most of which fall under the rubric of "that shit was dumb, write better draft pls"), but I sort of... don't care? I always wanted Superman to be a sad SF story about dead parents and lonely aliens, and here it is a sad SF story about dead parents and lonely aliens. Also, Lois. Like really I don't remember much about the third act, it was just this white noise crescendo of I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF MY NINETIES HET SHIP REACTIVATING.
You know, it has finally come to this: Clark Kent's glasses are hip. Maybe I'll write a fanfic.
In seriousness, I would have liked it better if it were more "metaphor for immigration experience" and less "metaphor for Jesus," but that's asking a bit much maybe. But I do feel like DC's put themselves in a quandary: how are they going to manage a "dark", "gritty" Wonder Woman in this vein without it coming over all scorched-earth feminist?
Like, there is an Alternate Earth out there in the Multiverse where Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman adaptations are executed as explorations of the complexities of class struggle, the immigrant experience, and feminism respectively. But it's not this one, right at this moment.
...Oh and also I watched Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters on the plane. As G. said, it just misses out on so-bad-it's-good. But actually, the movie works so hard to mitigate the dodginess of basically being all about, yanno, killing women, that it feels quite progressive. The obvious solution of having male as well as female witches seems not to have occurred to anyone. (This would have changed nothing w/r/t the plot.)
You know, it has finally come to this: Clark Kent's glasses are hip. Maybe I'll write a fanfic.
In seriousness, I would have liked it better if it were more "metaphor for immigration experience" and less "metaphor for Jesus," but that's asking a bit much maybe. But I do feel like DC's put themselves in a quandary: how are they going to manage a "dark", "gritty" Wonder Woman in this vein without it coming over all scorched-earth feminist?
Like, there is an Alternate Earth out there in the Multiverse where Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman adaptations are executed as explorations of the complexities of class struggle, the immigrant experience, and feminism respectively. But it's not this one, right at this moment.
...Oh and also I watched Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters on the plane. As G. said, it just misses out on so-bad-it's-good. But actually, the movie works so hard to mitigate the dodginess of basically being all about, yanno, killing women, that it feels quite progressive. The obvious solution of having male as well as female witches seems not to have occurred to anyone. (This would have changed nothing w/r/t the plot.)
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Date: 2013-07-10 09:20 pm (UTC)Weirdly enough, I think Steve Rogers in the modern day does a better job of being a metaphor for the immigrant experience, what with his constant sense of cultural displacement and not to mention all the missed pop culture references! Or maybe this is just the fanfiction.
I really, really wanted to see Hansel and Gretel, because I am all about terrible movies that are also fun, but none of my friends wanted to see it, because none of my friends understand the concept of fun. "Let's go see Zero Dark Thirty instead," they suggested. You guys, that movie is the exact opposite of Hansel and Gretel.
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Date: 2013-07-11 03:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-10 11:55 pm (UTC)OH. MY. GOD. This never occurred to me!!
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Date: 2013-07-11 03:46 am (UTC)