Thoroughbreds – a movie that is like the original 30’s but with the main character gender-bent to female, added a touch of psycho-chaos, cut down the horse story majorly and sprinkled in a bit of scrumptious subtext.
You know what that means…
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Water Lilies [Fr-Movie]
Water Lilies ~ Naissance des Pieuvres
A debut movie from a French Female Director?
Oh God…
A Simple Favor [Trailer]
Wow, talk about bait!
Here we have Anna Kendrick, the Anna Kendrick, looking all smote with one hot and irresistible Blake Lively, the two having this thing going on that seems to be way beyond simple friendship, and you know fishes are gonna bite!
I am one of them!
Usually a trailer gives away how the movie will look in terms of vfx and cinematography and I tell you now, I am just salivating at what this movie will look like! I love artistic movies and this promises to be one of them first of all. I am also expecting a smoothly edited movie, that takes its time with scenes, lets you soak in everything before cutting away and this looks to be it too.
So, even without the one master reason, I am already going to watch this when it comes out!
Speaking of the main reason, which is of course GAYNESS, if you just watch the trailers you can’t help but ship Stephanie (Anna) and Emily (Blake). Even in those few minutes you can just sense something in the air and it is not one-sided! It sure as hell doesn’t help that Emily is perspiring hotness and Stephanie looks like a girl with her first crush!
If you don’t know more than that you might wonder then what I mean when I say BAIT. Well, first of all this movie is based off a book with the same title by Darcey Bell. I am of course going to be buying and reading it and while I have a feeling I might regret it, I will still watch the movie because these days you never know, adaptations have started taking liberties with the source material and the movie might go a different route or sprinkle in some stardust!
Anyway these two all have kids, which means husbands and boyfriends but what’s confusing, and perhaps might be telling of some changes from the book (only speculating), in the trailer Stephanie says that she only met Emily a few weeks prior but they consider each other Best Friends? That doesn’t add up!
But then again, the way Stephanie looks at Emily can only be from people that have only recently met (and smitten by).
The story is of course a thriller, which is funny since they both starred alongside Batman Ben Affleck in thrillers; The Accountant (Anna) and The Town (Blake), it is almost as if he rubbed off on them.
Anyway, there is going to be emotions and just seeing the two suffering in the trailers already has me choking up so I know I am in for a wild ride! I wonder if the story will turn out to be like Gone Girl, in that Emily…Okay, I need to get off Ben’s…er…you know what.
Anyway, I am getting that book, like I did Sharp Objects and The Girl With All The Gifts (a movie that took liberties too BTW) and I am also def going to see that movie!
Any who, that is all.
Ja
Renai Shindan ~ Seifuku no Eve [J-Drama]
Fine Deadpool, Let’s Talk
So, finally been to the cinema after a long time and while there I got to see two movies; Solo – A Star Wars Story and Deadpool 2. I liked both movies personally and I don’t see what the gripe was all about for Solo (and no, I am not blinded by Emilia’s sexy, sexy, sexiness, okay? Okay!) What fuss? The usual internet trolling, which sadly seemed to affect even my country because for the first time ever, a film saw less than 30 people on opening day in an iMAX screening, in the evening!!!! I was frankly shocked!
But this post is not about Solo (And oh so sexy…ahem)! This post is about Deadpool 2, the movie that I loved a lot, actually, laughed so much and made me realise that I did not waste that wonderful day before my birthday!
But you want to know the shocker? The shocker is that I did not love it for the reason I actually went to see it in the first place! I of course watched and loved the first Deadpool, but not in cinemas. I had to wait for it to be home released! But this time I went all in and it was of course because of all the talk of Negasonic Teenage Warhead (henceforth to be known as NTW) being gay and the lovely, lovely Yukio (pink haired and oh so gothic Asian girl) being her girlfriend!
Now as you might guess, there is a lot of whining out there about the couple and other things and while I think they have the wrong reasons to be whiny, I have to join them but my reasons are much simpler.
It’s 2018, almost half-way to 2019 and yet in addition to the two very annoying clichés about lesbians, and Deadpool being a frikkin rated 16 (probably R in US), the movie went ahead and pulled another Power Rangers Movie crap where they go out of their way to tell you how their characters are gay but they don’t show you at all!
It Power Rangers there was no action on Becky’s part to tell you at all that she was gay! If she did not say it during that campfire there is no way you would know. And even in knowing, the movie was showing you the opposite with her constantly in situations with Zack. That was so annoying to me!
As for Deadpool 2, it did something even worse. The clichés were already bumming me out but then they went out of their way to slap you in the face with the two like (hold hands and shout out she is your girlfriend without anyone asking you about it or how about resting heads the next time you appear so they know that yes you are girlfriends)
God, that got on my nerves so hard! I swear I ship Colossus and Deadpool, heck, I even ship Cable and Deadpool more than those two! I mean, God, couldn’t you just have them be walked in on by Wade while he was at the mansion and them stammering at having been caught and thus giving themselves away then if you wanted you could confirm that later? They don’t have to be doing anything inappropriate, and the fact that I am saying this in a damn 16-rated movie just adds salt!
God, that was so painful! Like, why was even Yukio, nay, include NTW in there too, why where they here? They were not needed in the story! Colossus was the only necessary piece here! Like, those two showed up and did only one thing! Yukio lied up Juggernaut’s legs and NTW blasted him once and that was it! That was their contribution!
I am all for representation but not like this, not to be put on display like this! It’s frikkin 2018, almost one tenth of the world supports gay marriage, like, get outta here with that unnecessary bul…
Okay, I am calm. I am calm!
Other than that though, I am glad I went to see it. It was a great experience. I needed a good laugh. We already have plenty of great lesbian characters so it’s not like we are starved and really, like I said, those two were in there for a few forgettable moments so…
Ah but I agree with Wade, Yukio is super cute!
Bye Yukio~
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