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Aug. 11th, 2010 09:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
metonomiaNot so fun things:
Driving around on family errands all evening and then waiting until 9 for dinner to find that mom made something I really just don't eat (fish. i just. eh. seafood is not my thing at all). Which is not a problem; I have leftover chicken and delicious strawberries. But I would have eaten an hour and a half ago if I'd known that I didn't need to be waiting on what she was making. And this is on top of me forgetting to eat all day, which didn't matter all day because I was busy so I didn't notice, but now my stomach is eating itself. BUT. None of this really matters, I'm eating now and I have ice cream for after.
Fun things!
Salt! It was a really great movie, very fun, all action and suspense (but the good kind, not the scary kind), great acting, great plot twists, and I thought it handled the Russia/US international relations thing well. Of course she had to be on the US' side in the end, because there's pretty much no way EVER that an American movie will show Russia as the hero, but. It also wasn't at all like all Russians were bad; what it told us was that look, there are these countries, and their governments, and their people, and then there are these radical groups who can be of any religion, country, or culture. And what made the bad guys bad guys was not that they were Russians but that they were propagating this grand plan which hinged on tormenting young children, brainwashing them, beating them, giving them plastic surgery and then implanting them as spies/assassins. So I really liked it. And I liked Salt's character - she was super bad ass and she wasn't going to apologize, and even as she was undermining Olov's plans she wasn't apologizing to anyone or like, kissing up to anyone. She was getting her revenge, and she was diverting world crisis, and she'd lost her husband who was just a cover but whom she really really loved. And she wasn't undone as a spy superhero by loving, by that relationship expanding beyond cover - it gave her some happiness and love in a life that was really quite crappy. Basically what I'm saying is that Salt is a woman, and she is a person, and she is badass and unflinching and I really liked the movie.
Also fun has been watching the So You Think You Can Dance finale tonight. I haven't really been keeping up with the show but I so love it because it's not bad celebrities, it's these amazing dancers. And the three finalists are so dorky and adorable and fantastic, and I love them all!
Driving around on family errands all evening and then waiting until 9 for dinner to find that mom made something I really just don't eat (fish. i just. eh. seafood is not my thing at all). Which is not a problem; I have leftover chicken and delicious strawberries. But I would have eaten an hour and a half ago if I'd known that I didn't need to be waiting on what she was making. And this is on top of me forgetting to eat all day, which didn't matter all day because I was busy so I didn't notice, but now my stomach is eating itself. BUT. None of this really matters, I'm eating now and I have ice cream for after.
Fun things!
Salt! It was a really great movie, very fun, all action and suspense (but the good kind, not the scary kind), great acting, great plot twists, and I thought it handled the Russia/US international relations thing well. Of course she had to be on the US' side in the end, because there's pretty much no way EVER that an American movie will show Russia as the hero, but. It also wasn't at all like all Russians were bad; what it told us was that look, there are these countries, and their governments, and their people, and then there are these radical groups who can be of any religion, country, or culture. And what made the bad guys bad guys was not that they were Russians but that they were propagating this grand plan which hinged on tormenting young children, brainwashing them, beating them, giving them plastic surgery and then implanting them as spies/assassins. So I really liked it. And I liked Salt's character - she was super bad ass and she wasn't going to apologize, and even as she was undermining Olov's plans she wasn't apologizing to anyone or like, kissing up to anyone. She was getting her revenge, and she was diverting world crisis, and she'd lost her husband who was just a cover but whom she really really loved. And she wasn't undone as a spy superhero by loving, by that relationship expanding beyond cover - it gave her some happiness and love in a life that was really quite crappy. Basically what I'm saying is that Salt is a woman, and she is a person, and she is badass and unflinching and I really liked the movie.
Also fun has been watching the So You Think You Can Dance finale tonight. I haven't really been keeping up with the show but I so love it because it's not bad celebrities, it's these amazing dancers. And the three finalists are so dorky and adorable and fantastic, and I love them all!
