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1. It's two weeks since Fast and Furious 6 came out, and there is no Letty/Riley slash on A03 (or anyplace else I can find.) Universe, why aren't you catering to my needs?

2. rsadelle persuaded me to see "Now You See Me," and despite the fact that neither Jesse Eisenberg nor Mark Ruffalo is much of a draw for me, it was a really fun caper movie, with one of my all-time favorite movie fight scenes. (Magic for the win!)

3. Probably everyone in Avengers fandom has already seen this, but if not, Steve Rogers' American Captain is a fantastic "diary comic" about Steve coping with life in the modern world.

Dear folksy guy at the farmer's market: When I ask you for specific sodium content for a jarred product that I know very well you just redistribute for a larger agriculture company, not make yourself, a helpful answer is NOT "just take more blood pressure medicine, you'll be fine!"

Dear young women in midriff-baring blouses at the farmer's market: please tell me these are shirts you've owned for a long time and not a return of the worst fashion trend of the 00's, please!

Dear Steve/Bucky author: while I approve of any and all Steve/Bucky fic, it strains credulity when the whole premise of your plot comes from a movie that wasn't made until 70 years after Steve committed said premise. (I checked the OED to confirm this--a minimum of research it doesn't seem to have occurred to you to do!)

Dear Bruce Willis: I hope you made a lot of money for the ridiculousness of the latest Die Hard movie, because rsadelle and I both agreed that Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters had a better plot. (I will say it is one of the funniest films I've seen in a long time, though the humor wasn't generally deliberate.)

I just saw The Hobbit, and while I am enough of a LOTR fan (books and movies) that I enjoyed being able to roll around in that universe for 3 hours, as an actual movie I was a bit underwhelmed. The acting is great, the scenery is gorgeous, and I was mostly unspoiled so I was very excited to see familiar faces I wasn't expecting, but wow does this not need to be three movies. I agree with everyone complaining about the pacing and length. Not that that will stop me from seeing the others, of course.

And I feel a little robbed, because they did NOT show the 9 minute Star Trek trailer in my theater. :-(

Between my trip home and fannish excursions with rsadelle and talitha78, I feel like I've seen a lot of movies lately, though I don't have much to say about most of them. Nonspoilery reactions: Sherlock Holmes had ALL THE SLASH (so much I'm surprised it didn't create a sort of vortex sucking all the slash out of every other existing source); Mission Impossible was not nearly as slashy as I had been told it was, though it was still a fun popcorn movie; and We Bought a Zoo was just as formula as you're expecting, though enlivened by a great cast (Colin Ford, aka young Sam Winchester; Elle Fanning, aka that great young actress from Super 8; Scarlett Johannsen, and Maggie Elizabeth Jones, who seriously may be the cutest child in world history). My only real complain about We Bought a Zoo is that Matt Damon has got to stop playing these bad-hair roles; it's kind of traumatizing.

What else? I mainlined Once Upon a Time a couple weekends ago, and now I am reading all the Emma/Regina I can find, because that's exactly the kind of enemy slash I live for. (I'm only about halfway through the Yuletide stories, though, since I'm making myself read alphabetically as an attempt at self-discipline.

My current total obsession, though, is Avengers, and I'm not really sure how that happened, though I'm sure talitha78 shares at least a bit of the blame credit. Possibly if I get more organized, Yuletide and Avengers recs will follow sometime in the near-ish future.

And that's pretty much everything I've been up to on my winter vacation. *Waves**

I had a pretty terrible week at work, capped by a perfectly awful day today (lots and lots of people complaining to me about things I couldn't fix, and lots of stupid glitchy technical problems, one of which needed to be redone seven times--in about a 25 step process each time!--before I finally fixed it), but my day is ending 1000 times better because of three wonderful things:

1. Dinner and a movie with the always delightful rsadelle; we had yummy vegan food and then went to see Julie and Julia, which was completely made of win; I haven't laughed that hard at a movie in a really long time, and my comment as it ended was that I could watch the entire thing over again immediately, I loved it so much.

2. Psych, which is always wonderful but today did a fabulous homage to the Exorcist that I really enjoyed

3. A wonderful plot development in the latest section posted of poisontaster's marvellous A Kept Boy universe, one I've been looking forward to a long time.

Oh, fandom, you make my life bearable. After tonight I'm not even feeling too bad about having to work this weekend.

I've been hearing about this film for months, and I always like to support my favorite CW actors in their film projects, plus I just finished a year-long work-project-from-hell today with two very stressful presentations, so I wanted a break, and so I decided to go ahead and watch this.

Oh, not Watchman. (Someday, I'm sure). Instead I'm talking about the eagerly anticipated, extremely overhyped film that has all the fanboys talking: Kristin Kreuk's Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-li. And despite the fact that it's metacritic score was a whopping 17 (OUCH), I actually enjoyed it a lot, for what it was. More than I liked that Jared Padalecki horror thing, anyway. I definitely would have given it at *least* a 40/100. Maybe even 45!

So for the 4 or so KK fans on my f-list, here's a more detailed (and spoilery) review: ( Read more... )

So I did end up seeing Iron Man yesterday, and I may get around to posting my thoughts on it eventually, but what I really want to do is read reviews of it. And then I was thinking about the fact that I am often a few weeks behind everyone else when it comes to seeing movies, and I never remember to bookmark people's reviews as they come out (for fear of inadvertantly spoiling myself), and how useful it would be if there was a community where people posted their movie reviews.

Does such a community exist, does anyone know?

Edited to add: Spoilers for Ironman in the comments