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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.
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[identity profile] go-gentle.livejournal.com 2011-12-19 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
1. I haven't seen this yet, but all these posts about it are definitely making me think it would be an A+ life choice.

3. SHOWWWWWWW. I've been watching this too, and, ugh, a lot of it is just so perfect I can't even handle it.

4. I end up re-reading these like twice a year because they are my happy place. Mad Miles foreverrrrrr
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[identity profile] etben.livejournal.com 2011-12-20 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
1. I mean, I can't exactly say that it's a good movie, but it is absolutely an awesome movie, if that is a distinction that is meaningful to you. Attractive badass ladies! Explosions! Implausible science/medicine/plot! And also that Robert Downey Jr fellow, who is okay I GUESS.

3. a;dlfkajs;flkdsjf;a SO GOOD OH MY GOD. I can't watch more than a few episodes at a stretch because I start having too many feelings and have to go have a nap.

4. Oh my god, seriously, MOST DELIGHTFULLEST. Miles just cracks my shit up, I can't even lie. Yes, sass your bosses! Pretend to be a mercenary commander! THAT CAN'T POSSIBLE END POORLY.