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Sexploitation in DC's reboot.
 

You know, I really do usually try to withhold final judgement on something until I've actually read/watched it.  But there are times I feel it is completely valid to be 100% judgmental about something with no intentions of ever checking it out.

Meanwhile, I watched the liveaction Taiwanese adaptation of Hayate the Combat Butler while I was recovering from the stomach flu.  It's been a few years since I read any of the manga, but it was basically like how I remember the manga being, only with the characters being a bit older and having more romance (unless there was more romance later in the manga).  So it was absolutely hilarious and oddly endearing.  Though, I don't know what wardrobe was thinking with Xiao Shi and Chu Ju's hair.  Actually, Xiao Shi's actual hairstyle is a perfectly decent hairstyle in and of itself, it's just a bad hairstyle for Park Shin Hye (as highlighted by the flashbacks where she played Xiao Shi's mother).

movie: 39 Steps

The 39 Steps is a somewhat-absurd-at-times thriller from BBC that's set in 1914 and is, for the first half of the movie, basically about Rubert Penry-Jones looking quite sharp and dashing in his suits as he is chased through every scenic spot in England and Scotland after being given a spy's secret coded notebook and then being framed for the spy's murder..

Basically, his suit is immortal.  Jogging dozens of miles? Train smoke? Walking through rivers?  holing up overnight in a grimy shepherds cottage? Nary a loose thread or speck of dust.  Why, he even gets chased through the hills by a fighter plane with no ill effects to man or suit.  Even when he rolls down about 5 hills and lands in the road right in front of a car, the suit is fine.  He does get a twig in his hair though.

Sadly, the suit does eventually get blown up.  I mourned it.

About halfway through, Lydia Leonard shows up as a suffragette whose dress, sadly is not as impressive as the suit.  Her hairpins can do literally anything, though, and she's pretty good at scaling walls.

Later, she makes him wonder if he's the heroine of a gothic novel for a bit.

 

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The number  of twists and reveals are a bit absurd even if you like them and if you look too closely, you start to notice that a number of things (like, say, cars) are a decade or two out of place, but it's lots of fun.