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etben ([personal profile] etben) wrote2011-12-18 09:35 pm

media flail!

Hi internet! I...kind of fell off the edge of lj for a while, there - school stuff, mostly, and also a generalized desire to flop on the couch and do nothing. Winter, why must you be the worst? But I have been reading books - some of them with actual pages and things! - and watching movies and TV! And now I will make a post about things that I have enjoyed recently.

1) Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows. DELIGHTFULNESS INCARNATE. I saw this with a huge crowd of fangirls last night, and we were loud and ridiculous and had all of the fun in the world. Every time I thought the movie had reached a new height of ridiculousness, it proved me wrong and became even more absurd. And gay! But mostly I want a million words about Mary Morstan Watson, kicking ass and taking names and smiling serenely.

2) Friends With Kids. Not even gonna lie, I decided we should watch this movie based entirely on a gif of Adam Scott with a small child, and it was an A++++ life decision. I expected it to be a lot more mottsy and terrible than it was, but it was genuinely incredibly charming and adorable. Adam Scott! And a kid! And Jennifer Westfeldt, who I don't think I'd ever seen in anything before, but who I liked tremendously! A+ film, would creep on Adam Scott being a dad again! (Not Adam Smith, as I initially typed. BRAIN WHAT ARE YOU.)

3) Friday Night Lights. SHOWWWWWWWWW. We are halfway through the first season, and pretty much every second of every episode is me flapping my hands and yelling out characters' names. The writing and the acting of this show are just - and the relationships - jfc, so good I can't even handle it. It is a show about football - and I grew up at a Big Ten school, so I can say with some certainty that I am not a football fan, if ever I was gonna be it would have happened a long time hence - and I love this show so much I can't even handle it sometimes. Also I want to form a Tyra Collete Appreciation Society, meetings twice weekly. IN MY PANTS.

4) The Vorkosigan Saga. IDK why I have resisted this series so long, but oh my god, it is DELIGHTFUL and also ridiculous. The amount of cackling in handflappy glee I have done in the past week is absolutely rigoshdarndiculous.

[identity profile] misspamela.livejournal.com 2011-12-19 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
OH GOD IF YOU WANT TO SHARE YOUR FEELS ABOUT CORDELIA AND MILES AND EVERYONE BEING AMAZING PLEASE DO SO.
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[identity profile] etben.livejournal.com 2011-12-19 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
CORDELIAAAAAAAAAA. I love how she is so matter-of-fact and competent and just GETS SHIT DONE ALL OVER THE PLACE. And I just finished Warrior's Apprentice, and oh my god, Miles and the Dendarii hit my "take this rag-tag band of fuckups and miscreants and make them into a team" kink so hard I almost passed out, jfc. RIDICULOUS FAMILY OF SPACE-ADVENTURERS!

[identity profile] misspamela.livejournal.com 2011-12-19 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
And how he just sort of fell into it! Like, "Whoops, raised an army? Sorry?"
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[identity profile] etben.livejournal.com 2011-12-19 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
Yessssssss. And the way everybody is TOTALLY SOLD on his performance as a mercenary commander, even the people who know for a fact that he isn't. I just. OKAY WELL LET'S GO AND DO THAT THEN.

(also, seriously, CORDELIAAAAAAAA.)

[identity profile] misspamela.livejournal.com 2011-12-19 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my god, i can't wait for you to read ALL of them. Just, all of them. They get better and better and better.

Wait, Except the next one is kind of a throwaway? IIRC? Totally fun, but not OH MY GOD AMAZING. But they get AMAZING.