I watched Rocketman (2019) tonight. It was great. I loved the creative approach they took to telling the story and I loved how they integrated the music. Everyone did such a great job and it was definitely worth the watch. And yes, I did get a bit emotional when “I’m Still Standing” played but that song always makes me emotional.
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This comment on the scene of Rocketman where Elton John is doing therapy???
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Still thinking about the musical choices in Rocketman (2019), how they treated it like a musical rather than a biopic with songs like so many normally do. I loved how the songs acted as transitions, and how they underscored the emotion of whatever was happening. The thing i keep coming back to though is how angry and over it “Bennie and the Jets” sounded. Like within the first two chords the anger just flowed, showing the frustration and agitation growing. It was so effective and gave new perspectives on some songs that I grew up with.
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Cannes 2019 was a whole wedding mood, wasn't it?
Pictured: the groom and his groomsmen
Pictured: the groom and his stylist (we miss you Gar, come back)
Pictured: the groom, fully dressed and taking a tea break for the nerves
Pictured: the groom, on his way to the venue
Pictured: meanwhile, the other groom
Pictured: "am I really wearing a Bond Tux™?"
Pictured: "is my fiancé really wearing a Bond Tux ™ and why didn't anyone tell me he'd try outshining me on my our big day?"
Pictured: "alright you know what, we look fucking good together so I don't mind"
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OK, so I’ve been thinking a bit about how I fell into c dramas lately. Because I can’t seem to make the timeline make sense in my head. And after much research this afternoon, I think I’ve finally figured out why: the pandemic really has just entirely fucked with my perception of time. O_o;;;
I keep thinking that I just got into DMBJ like... “last year.” It FEELS like it should have been last year. But after that one WiP Title meme response, I was abruptly reminded that I was just getting into HeiPing almost exactly a year ago... and that was at LEAST a year after first getting into DMBJ. So I did some looking.
I reblogged my first TLTR posts in mid-late July OF 2020. Definitely NOT a year ago. XD And I caved and got an iQIYI subscription around the end of July/beginning of August of 2020 to watch it. So it’s been like... 2 1/2 YEARS, not ONE year. OTZ
Thanks pandemic... everything that happened around when you started was “a year ago” I GUESS???
Then I got curious about when I first got into c-dramas, because in my head that was “a couple of years ago” but CLEARLY IT WAS NOT.
My first tagged The Untamed post was from November of 2019.
...............REALLY.
I’m almost certain I started watching that in the summer of 2019. But either way, it was only a YEAR (or less???) from my first forays into c dramas to landing in the DMBJ pit?
No WONDER my mental timeline construct on that one is so fucked up. I was so sure I was in TUD fandom for longer than a year before branching out into Guardian and I was sure I was in Guardian for at least a year before stumbling into DMBJ but CLEARLY THAT COULD NOT HAVE BEEN THE CASE????
OMG, I am so confused. O_o;;;
I was writing (and posting) Legacies Lost up until the first full semester of lockdown began, which would have been Fall of 2020. And I don’t THINK I was in Guardian fandom before that? Maybe I overlapped more than I thought?
...my first Guardian post was May of 2020, but I’d clearly been watching for at least a little while by the time I reblogged that post.
I am SO fucking confused, you guys. I REALLY THOUGHT I was in c drama fandoms for much much longer before landing in DMBJ. HOW IS THAT SO CRUNCHED AND CONDENSED???
Ooooooooooh. OK, I see. I forgot that the summer of 2019 was Rocketman summer. And I was definitely NOT yet in c drama fandoms at the time. But now I remember that a friend was putting The Untamed on my dash for at LEAST 6 months to a year before I started watching it. That might be why it seemed like it was longer. And I guess I really must have overlapped more between Guardian and TUD than I thought I had. The tipping point to me posting more Guardian stuff was in June of 2020 and it was a month after that that I fell into DMBJ.
WOW.
Sorry guys; probably no one cares, but this is weirding me out a little. XD All this time I really thought I was in Guardian fandom for way longer than DMBJ but APPARENTLY NOT??? I’m so confused. XD
OK. I’m gonna go... toddle off and think about other things now. XD
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