#but i basically can't read anything anymore these days except happy-ending Ineffable Husbands fanfic

[ineffablefool]

My household just finished watching Bullet Train (2022), and I cannot remember the last time I’ve felt such sheer *delight* at a new-to-me movie.  Everything keeps happening so much, and it shouldn’t all work together but it does, and Brad Pitt plays a secret agent codenamed “Ladybug” who is the exact opposite of no chill.  Like, all the chill that other people are not?  It’s because he took it.  He has a very good therapist.

The movie is a huge pile of potential triggers (bright flashy things, lots of gunfire, blood and what I consider a small but non-zero amount of gore, so very many onscreen deaths including those of major characters...), but if anyone watches the Netflix preview trailer thing and thinks “huh, there’s no way this can actually be as delightful as they’re trying to make it look”?  No, it is.  It is a zillion miles away from being in the Soft Zone(TM), but it does involve the use of Thomas The Tank Engine characters as a way of reading people.  Apparently one shouldn’t be a Diesel.

#ineffablefool original post #not good omens #i mostly haven't...felt? this much vibrant enjoyment? for anything in possibly years by now? #so i want to note it so i can look back later #it's sheer fucking luck that i've been able to keep in pandemic isolation this whole time and it's a giant privilege #but that doesn't change the fact that i hit the point of 'touch-starved and desperately lonely' back in June 2020 #and that i've been ready to talk to my doc about T for a year now but this is not the time to start a stabbing regimen #and that housemate's steadily worsening chronic lung problem remains untreated as of march 2020 and counting #because people need to go to weddings and have vacations and shit and that's more important than covid-vulnerable people's lives #[insert shrug emoji]) #anyway it's hard to feel anything positive anymore so it's very exciting when some light peeks through the clouds #(ALSO yes i know the movie is based on a book #but i basically can't read anything anymore these days except happy-ending Ineffable Husbands fanfic #so the book will remain unread by me for now) #negativity #(in tags)