You Go Halfway, You Get Hurt

[redbrunja]

[+] I have reached a heretofore unimagined level of adulthood; I now have matching crockery. Matching plates, matching bowl, matching appetizer plates, matching glasses, matching mugs.

[+] I have also followed latenightcuppa's lead, and had a friend change my tumblr password. It's been amazing tumblr, and I mean that truly. But I want to start writing again.

[+] However, prior to leaving tumblr, I noticed someone - no idea who, commenting about how Cutting Edge was one of their formative-as-fuck movies, so I watched that tonight with backtothesea a.k.a. the friend who locked me out of tumblr  (l lurve you too). It was, as promised, a deliciously '80's love story between an ice skating ice queen and the working class former hockey player. I feel that will either appeal to you or it won't. It had a very nice defrosting the ice queen arc and the male lead was delightfully doofy.

[+] This movie also got me thinking about what my formative-as-fuck movies are. Thus,

#the formative as fuck movies meme
#pick five movies that were pivotal to your personal development/media tastes/etc
#ideally movies you’ve watch multiple times
#now talk about them

[1] Anastasia and [2] Star Wars both contain scrappy, snarky princesses who have romances with scoundrels. I mean... just go watch the movies if you haven't already. And if you have (and come on, you totally have) come talk to me about them in the comments. [3] Indiana Jones & The Raiders of the Lost Ark. The ONLY good thing I will say about the fourth movie is that it married Indiana and Marion. THE ONLY THING.
[4] Titanic (I don’t feel this one was as developmentally relevant as other movies, but I owed it and rewatched it often for several years, so it goes on here. [5] Labyrinth is a movie that I can literally use to trace my personal development. The first time I watched it I hated Sarah because she was too similar to me (to be clear, too similar to me at ten, not fifteen) and hated that she and Jareth didn’t end up together and didn’t understand why they hadn’t. The second time I watched it I understood that Sarah was growing and changing as a character, and that’s why she’s such a brat at the beginning, and why she couldn’t stay yes to Jared when he asks her to at the end. I also didn’t get how wonderfully, gloriously, hopeful the ending is. Think about what a great, progressive, positive message that Labyrinth ends on; that you do not ‘grow out’ of magic but can keep it with you.

Also, for those of you playing at home, yes, I have always shipped the inappropriate fierce young girl with the older, more emotionally open man. (I shipped Nick and Cassie from the trailer, people. The trailer. I remember watching the trailer and going ‘I don’t think they want me to ship hot older guy with inappropriately young multi-colored hair girl, but I totally am.’)

Comments

[streussal.livejournal.com]

Shia LaBeouf, you are not the son of Indiana Jones. (My dad agrees with me on this.) And definitely not the son of Indiana and Marion. That movie. ...I did enjoy Cate Blanchett's hilarious fake accent though.

...sob Push. Dakota Fanning and Chris Evans had inappropriately good chemistry.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I sort of enjoyed the fourth Indiana movie in the moment but it was... not good.

Dakota Fanning and Chris Evans had inappropriately good chemistry.

The best.