Tagged by @blackidyll - thank you! (◕‿◕✿)*:・゚✧ I had fun with this, this was a good one.
10 Films I Love: (not in order, because jesus, I can’t pick that)
1. The Little Mermaid. Little me was obsessed with it, adult me still loves it, and all versions of me can still sing it (badly).
2. Top Gun Maverick - MY BELOVEDS. Something that (for me) the sequel was even better than the original. TGM was such a brilliant sandpit to fic writers that I got back from my 2.5yr year writing slump, and got to get back the joy of that as a hobby. Watched the ending in awe, having completely lost track of time in the cinema and with no idea about whether they were going to kill of Tom Cruise in a blaze of glory. (For the record I am glad they did not).
3. Now You See Me - the ending to this day delights me. I caught the movie by accident right at the start cooking dinner at uni one night, with the movie on the communal TV.
4. The Old Guard - undying found family. Beautiful dynamics between everybody. Sweet romance. Insane anti-hero who you know is going to stir some shit up. Very hot woman swinging deadly weapons around. Also love that.
5. Howl’s Moving Castle - Restful. Old Sophie has the attitude on life that I want. This movie is calm-down-and-drop-off-to-sleep - everything’s safe watching.
6. Glass Onion - A Knives Out Movie. Just delightful. The main thing I enjoy about this movie (apart from all of it) is how very obviously each actor is having the time of their lives. They all look like they are having fun. I also suck at murder mysteries and the endings are complete surprises to me every time, which is great fun.
7. Fast & Furious - I saw the trailer for FX yesterday and I am WILDLY excited. It looks absolutely batshit insane and I nearly cried when Paul Walker came on. Another movie where the actors are all having the time of their lives. Fast cars go zoom, cool stunts, great actors, a movie that understands exactly how far outside the bounds of reality and physics it is and still doesn’t give a shit. Inspirational.
8. Pirates of the Caribbean - Boats! Swords! More cool stunts and pretty people! Everything about the series. I was about to say my favourite was the third, but then I remember the fountain of youth and curse of the black pearl and couldn’t commit. Still absolutely obsessed with the King of the Brethren Court, and her hat.
9. Skyfall - I’m with blackidyll here, this was the best. We were given so much - Q, James & Q, everything that happened with Skyfall manor, and James and M. I will say Eva Green as Vespa remains my second favourite Bond Girl, as the first, clearly, is Q.
10. The Martian - Maybe I was lying when I said I couldn’t pick a favourite movie. I adore this movie. I watched it for the first time with my Dad, not having read the book, and then twenty minutes after it finished I found and read the book and loved that even more. The love, emotions, desperation, and humanity gets me every time. “Houston, 6 crew safely aboard”.
I am going to tag @milestaller @luddycris @glitterisblue - if you have the time and spoons xx. Anyone else following me - also feel free to complete!
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we don’t talk enough about how great a job parisa fakhri is doing playing marwa, especially considering the restraints of the role. the way her mannerisms and tone of voice get more and more “cutesy” as the episodes go by and her true personality is altered by the djinn’s magic is honestly horror movie material, and she does it really subtly and gradually. i didn’t even notice at first but if you compare her speech in 4x02 to when she asks nandor about the flowers or her parents in 4x06, the change is noticeable, her voice is much more high-pitched. even in the wedding itself, her voice only lowers in register when she mentions she has had doubts about the wedding - the only moment where her real thoughts are coming through. as soon as she starts talking about how a feeling came over her and now she wants what nandor wants, her voice gets higher again. i may be wrong but i get the feeling that’s an acting choice on her part, and it really adds a new layer of depth to her moments on the show
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I know it's such a cliche at this point to the point of garnering eye rolls, but we really cannot lose sight of the fact that 2x97 is the Most Episode of All Time. You cannot ignore Essek in that episode, obviously, but honestly the fact that that happened only serves to highlight how buckwild everything else was. That was when Veth got her body back. That was when Caleb first directly set his sights on Ludinus. That was when Fjord tried to ask Jester on a date and instead ending up thirdwheeling Yasha and Beau, who WERE essentially on a date. That was when Jester locked Sharpe on the balcony. That was when Cad got Beau SO high and Fjord was forced to babysit. That was when Fjord and Yasha told Marius he had to kill someone to stay on the crew.
If any ONE of these things had happened on top of the Essek reveal, it would've been notable or memorable, but no, the BREADTH of unhinged happenings in that episode is actually stunning.
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Thinking abt the air nomads:
What if, after the war, once the dust has settled a little, Aang goes back to travelling, hoping that maybe he can find at least some trace of surviving airbenders. As an added bonus, he gets to do more of the exploring and wandering that he had to put on hold.
Toph goes with him ofc. She only just got a taste of real freedom and it was overshadowed by ever-present impending doom. While she's on speaking terms with her parents, she isnt quite ready to be back under their roof on a permanent basis. The rest of the gaang have their individual homes and responsibilities that they get back to, though they join for the odd field trip or adventure when they can.
So anyway, they're touring all over the world and over the years they notice just how displaced so many people have become. EK citizens who barely escaped the blaze but lost everything; FN military now decommissioned with no idea how to carry on; people looking for a new start in the hard-won peace. Maybe it starts with Toph heading back to Earth Rumble, where a group of young runaways scrounge for cheap fights to make a little money.
At each turn they find more and more people with no homes to return to and no family to protect them; runaways escaping the roles the war forced them into. Gradually, Aang and Toph start to see that they aren't so different from themselves. They just want a new start.
So they decide to give them one. They clean up the temples and set up villages in the surrounding areas (helps to be master earthbenders), where people can arrive and stay as long as they need. Travellers and refugees pass through in droves, sometimes choosing to stay and rebuild their lives there, sometimes continuing in their wandering with a guarantee that they'll always have a place to return to should they have the need.
Over time, the lemurs grow in number and even some flying bison calfs (hybrids with a relative species maybe?), can be seen in the skies. Whenever the founders visit, it isn't the same but Aang feels a little more at home.
The first time someone asks Aang to teach him his philosophies, and expresses his desire to become a monk, how can he refuse? Maybe it's a former soldier, somebody who's done terrible things, looking for a path to redemption. So Aang teaches him, and then he teaches others. And though they may not be airbenders, they are as earnest and faithful as any nun or monk Aang knew before. The temples become filled with new faces: Firebenders, Earthbenders, Waterbenders and non-benders all wearing Air nomad orange and yellow.
Aang always feared that it would be his responsibility to have airbender children, and the idea of forcing that on someone he loved terrified him. Maybe that's why he waited so long before acting on his feelings for his best friend, his travelling companion, his fellow-village builder and temple-restorer. How could they have a truly happy relationship with this pressure hanging over them? He wishes he could be content with the new way of things that he and his friends have created. But he knows that he can't be the last airbender forever...
Nobody knows why some children can bend the elements and others can't. Is it blood? Is it blessing? Is it the land in which you're born? Or is it the simple allocation of fates decided by the values and norms you're raised believing in? Is it enough to be surrounded by the culture and beliefs of the Air Nomads? Nobody knows...
All they know is that nobody sees it coming when the six-year-old daughter of two non-bender villagers from the Earth Kingdom and Northern Water Tribe sends herself flying twelve feet into the air with a sneeze.
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