Movie Weekend Redux
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Last weekend I watched Cowboys and Aliens and Captain America at the theater, and tried to distract myself from self-indulgent manga with a Biopunk: DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life. The distraction ploy backfired; the paragraph of strong feelings has been deleted. Cowboys and Aliens lived up to one review that it's the sum of its parts and no more. Captain America tried to be a faithfully gung-ho WW2 movie and succeeded admirably. To my shock, the black guy and the Asian-American guy lived. I'm assuming Red Skull will be back too.
I also watched Bride and Prejudice before a last-minute library return. I thought I hadn't seen it before, but I recognized most of the movie. So apparently it made very little impression last time I watched it, unfortunately.
I didn't expect to enjoy it this much, but I'm hit in an expectation sweet spot: matching enough I spot some of the twists, mismatching enough I don't predict everything. Mostly, I overshoot on protagonist darkness (cough Roy cough). Arakawa loves the characters at least as much as I do, but is willing to kill her darlings to advance the plot. Still, I'm waiting for certain State Alchemists to live up to their Survived The Ishbalan Civil War and Not Dead By Serial Assassin Shouldn't That Tell You Something shenanigans. Cough. And if Hoheinheim turns out to be linked to the homonculi? I will go straight to the capslock place, I promise. I'm avoiding spoilers, so nothing past volume 11 of the English translation, please.
dreamwidth and/or dw_codesharing. Finally, LJ is free all the time. Last weekend I watched Cowboys and Aliens and Captain America at the theater, and tried to distract myself from self-indulgent manga with a Biopunk: DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life. The distraction ploy backfired; the paragraph of strong feelings has been deleted. Cowboys and Aliens lived up to one review that it's the sum of its parts and no more. Captain America tried to be a faithfully gung-ho WW2 movie and succeeded admirably. To my shock, the black guy and the Asian-American guy lived. I'm assuming Red Skull will be back too.
I also watched Bride and Prejudice before a last-minute library return. I thought I hadn't seen it before, but I recognized most of the movie. So apparently it made very little impression last time I watched it, unfortunately.
I didn't expect to enjoy it this much, but I'm hit in an expectation sweet spot: matching enough I spot some of the twists, mismatching enough I don't predict everything. Mostly, I overshoot on protagonist darkness (cough Roy cough). Arakawa loves the characters at least as much as I do, but is willing to kill her darlings to advance the plot. Still, I'm waiting for certain State Alchemists to live up to their Survived The Ishbalan Civil War and Not Dead By Serial Assassin Shouldn't That Tell You Something shenanigans. Cough. And if Hoheinheim turns out to be linked to the homonculi? I will go straight to the capslock place, I promise. I'm avoiding spoilers, so nothing past volume 11 of the English translation, please.
