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Things I Have Been Putting In My Eyeballs
Apr. 12th, 2019 12:57 amThe Miseducation of Cameron Post movie popped up on my Netflix recommendations. Good job for once, Netflix algorithm, as that is one of my favourite books of all time. It's funny, but when I read the book the pray away the gay camp was the part I was least invested in. The minutiae of being a wee baby lesbian in the nineties spoke to me on an almost cellular level, and the save a horse, ride a cowgirl stuff was wish fulfilment. But by the time I was coming out to my family the pedophile priest scandal had broken years before and my mum had experienced something that was less a crisis of faith than a car crash of faith, and her obvious but unspoken discomfort with my sexuality wasn't religious in nature, so the pray away the gay stuff was pretty alien to me, but obviously if you were going to make a movie that's what you'd focus on. And it's a great movie that I highly recommend.
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Another thing that popped up was Suicide Squad. I almost watched Suicide Squad back in late 2016 when I was avoiding current affairs for, ahem, obvious reasons and catching up on my comic book movies. My sister told me not to watch it, that I wouldn't like it, that I would object to the objectification of Harley Quinn. She was wrong. The objectification of Harley Quinn was the only good bit. It did not, however, do anything to make up for everything that was wrong with the movie, to whit: the Joker, the weird hula hooping villain, the Joker, there being a character called Captain Boomerang, the Joker, somehow Captain frickin' Boomerang being one of the better characters, the Joker, the weirdly incongruous soundtrack that was doing its best to convince me I was having more fun than I was, and whatever that fuck was going on with Jared Leto's fucking Joker.
Thank the ever loving frick that someone at DC recovered from their collective aneurysm long enough to cancel the Harley & the Joker rom-com movie that was mooted.
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I watched Love Death + Robots, which whenever I'm talking about I keep accidentally calling Sex, Death & Robots. I watched them all in one go with my mate who needed a diversion the day that his dog was in at the vet's being fixed. I think that must be a thing with dudes who own boy dogs; like, when I took Freya to be fixed I was sad about leaving her at the vet's and I worried about her going under the anaesthetic, but I wasn't having an existential crisis about having her uterus yoinked out.
Anyway, we watched Love Death + Robots and in places it had that thing that a lot of adult animation does, where they went 'ooh, we could put bums in this' and then went totally overboard on the bums. And like all anthologies it was hit and miss in places, but for me it had more hits than misses. My favourite was the bumless and delightfully self-explanatory When The Yogurt Took Over, and my second favourite was the mostly bumless and equally delightful Hitler killing simulator Alternate Histories.
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Another thing that popped up was Suicide Squad. I almost watched Suicide Squad back in late 2016 when I was avoiding current affairs for, ahem, obvious reasons and catching up on my comic book movies. My sister told me not to watch it, that I wouldn't like it, that I would object to the objectification of Harley Quinn. She was wrong. The objectification of Harley Quinn was the only good bit. It did not, however, do anything to make up for everything that was wrong with the movie, to whit: the Joker, the weird hula hooping villain, the Joker, there being a character called Captain Boomerang, the Joker, somehow Captain frickin' Boomerang being one of the better characters, the Joker, the weirdly incongruous soundtrack that was doing its best to convince me I was having more fun than I was, and whatever that fuck was going on with Jared Leto's fucking Joker.
Thank the ever loving frick that someone at DC recovered from their collective aneurysm long enough to cancel the Harley & the Joker rom-com movie that was mooted.
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I watched Love Death + Robots, which whenever I'm talking about I keep accidentally calling Sex, Death & Robots. I watched them all in one go with my mate who needed a diversion the day that his dog was in at the vet's being fixed. I think that must be a thing with dudes who own boy dogs; like, when I took Freya to be fixed I was sad about leaving her at the vet's and I worried about her going under the anaesthetic, but I wasn't having an existential crisis about having her uterus yoinked out.
Anyway, we watched Love Death + Robots and in places it had that thing that a lot of adult animation does, where they went 'ooh, we could put bums in this' and then went totally overboard on the bums. And like all anthologies it was hit and miss in places, but for me it had more hits than misses. My favourite was the bumless and delightfully self-explanatory When The Yogurt Took Over, and my second favourite was the mostly bumless and equally delightful Hitler killing simulator Alternate Histories.