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Star Wars: Rogue One, and other movies
Apr. 30th, 2017 05:26 pmI went into this completely spoiled. Not on purpose, but because it was impossible to not be spoiled by the time I got to it. I liked it, but I feel the animated universe has made it so I feel a bit unsatisfied by the movies. It happens On the off chance someone hasn’t seen it, and has managed to avoid spoilers…
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I also watched Moana and Hidden Figures recently. Hidden Figures was obviously highly dramatized, but most of it worked. I say "most" because the white characters are obviously there to make white people feel better and like THEY would stand up against racism in the same situation. There' this one much-discussed scene with Kevin Costner's character where you can practically FEEL all the middleaged white men in the audience sitting up a little bit straighter, certain that they, too, would have taken a dramatic stand against injustice and segregation if they. Moana was lovely and wonderfully mythic and definitely worthy of the "classic Disney musical" label, though, like Tangled and Frozen, it's a little TOO aware of Disney Princess tropes and cultural standing, and wants to make sure you know it knows. People talk a lot less about Moana's lack of a love interest than they do Merida's in Brave, but I think it actually worked a lot better in Moana. Brave reminded us every chance it got that Merida didn't have a love interest and didn't want one. Moana never brings it up. It treats Moana having her on adventures without a boyfriend as the norm, not as an exception to the rule that should be applauded. It simply never comes up at all.
I watched 3 movies in April, which is 1 more movie than I watched in the previous 3 months combined. I also removed one movie from my backlog-The Phantom of the Theatre (no relation to Phantom of the Opera, as far as I know)-but got bored.
( spoilers )
I also watched Moana and Hidden Figures recently. Hidden Figures was obviously highly dramatized, but most of it worked. I say "most" because the white characters are obviously there to make white people feel better and like THEY would stand up against racism in the same situation. There' this one much-discussed scene with Kevin Costner's character where you can practically FEEL all the middleaged white men in the audience sitting up a little bit straighter, certain that they, too, would have taken a dramatic stand against injustice and segregation if they. Moana was lovely and wonderfully mythic and definitely worthy of the "classic Disney musical" label, though, like Tangled and Frozen, it's a little TOO aware of Disney Princess tropes and cultural standing, and wants to make sure you know it knows. People talk a lot less about Moana's lack of a love interest than they do Merida's in Brave, but I think it actually worked a lot better in Moana. Brave reminded us every chance it got that Merida didn't have a love interest and didn't want one. Moana never brings it up. It treats Moana having her on adventures without a boyfriend as the norm, not as an exception to the rule that should be applauded. It simply never comes up at all.
I watched 3 movies in April, which is 1 more movie than I watched in the previous 3 months combined. I also removed one movie from my backlog-The Phantom of the Theatre (no relation to Phantom of the Opera, as far as I know)-but got bored.