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rose_griffes) wrote2020-02-02 07:15 pm
rose_griffes) wrote2020-02-02 07:15 pm
film + show = post
I finished one thing! And watched something else, too! Hurrah!
While I still think that seasons one and two were the strongest for The Good Place, they rallied well in the second half of season four. Once Chidi was back on the team--confident Chidi really is sexy, by the way--the energy picked up quite a bit. They moved through a lot of plot in those last three or four episodes, but it didn't feel too hasty; the execution was solid.
That last episode was a fantastic way to wrap things up. Jason's departure--both times! Chidi and Eleanor, and Eleanor learning to let go because she loves him and it's not fair to make someone else sacrifice their desires for her! Tahani and Kamila! The sisters and their parents! (I do like "found family" as a storytelling staple, but SISTERS! FAMILIES, AND SISTERS WHO LEARN TO LOVE AND APPRECIATE EACH OTHER IN SPITE OF THEIR DIVISIVELY ABUSIVE PARENTS! My heart!)
TAHANI AS AN ARCHITECT! I saw someone else describe it as the ultimate party planner role, a lovely way to let her move forward. Edited to add: I think it wasladytharen's reaction post that I read just before making this post?
The frog-loving doorman gets a real frog and Michael gets to be a real boy after all; even Mindy St. Clair has a promise of eventual progress.
Yeah, that made my brain happy. Good job, show.
The movie Little Women (2019) was well-written and crafted; the acting is what truly makes it, with Saoirse Ronan as Meg and Florence Pugh as Amy. Pugh in particular made a huge impression; I get why she's the current Hollywood blonde It-Girl. Also, the costumes were glorious.
Still undecided if I should watch Knives Out before it leaves theatres. I still have a smidge of residual ugh, Rian Johnson's annoying smugness resentment left from The Last Jedi and his commentary about the film. On the other hand: it could be fun? I like what I've seen of Ana de Armas, and the rest of the cast is a top-notch bunch. So it's a quandary.
While I still think that seasons one and two were the strongest for The Good Place, they rallied well in the second half of season four. Once Chidi was back on the team--confident Chidi really is sexy, by the way--the energy picked up quite a bit. They moved through a lot of plot in those last three or four episodes, but it didn't feel too hasty; the execution was solid.
That last episode was a fantastic way to wrap things up. Jason's departure--both times! Chidi and Eleanor, and Eleanor learning to let go because she loves him and it's not fair to make someone else sacrifice their desires for her! Tahani and Kamila! The sisters and their parents! (I do like "found family" as a storytelling staple, but SISTERS! FAMILIES, AND SISTERS WHO LEARN TO LOVE AND APPRECIATE EACH OTHER IN SPITE OF THEIR DIVISIVELY ABUSIVE PARENTS! My heart!)
TAHANI AS AN ARCHITECT! I saw someone else describe it as the ultimate party planner role, a lovely way to let her move forward. Edited to add: I think it was
ladytharen's reaction post that I read just before making this post? The frog-loving doorman gets a real frog and Michael gets to be a real boy after all; even Mindy St. Clair has a promise of eventual progress.
Yeah, that made my brain happy. Good job, show.
The movie Little Women (2019) was well-written and crafted; the acting is what truly makes it, with Saoirse Ronan as Meg and Florence Pugh as Amy. Pugh in particular made a huge impression; I get why she's the current Hollywood blonde It-Girl. Also, the costumes were glorious.
Still undecided if I should watch Knives Out before it leaves theatres. I still have a smidge of residual ugh, Rian Johnson's annoying smugness resentment left from The Last Jedi and his commentary about the film. On the other hand: it could be fun? I like what I've seen of Ana de Armas, and the rest of the cast is a top-notch bunch. So it's a quandary.
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Little Women was a decent film adaptation of a well renowned piece of American literature.
For Knives Out, the acting performances were good but the script/dialogue was rather messy and too loquacious that it does not flow.
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Knives Out was a bit too... something. I think Rian Johnson has a very different sense of humor than me / doesn't trust the audience to believe that they're having fun unless it's over the top. But I did enjoy it a lot.
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Marta is my favorite character out of Knives Out. Ana De Armas carried the film. She was great!