The Face Journey Movie

[minoanmiss]

Tonight TL gathered us all and we watched _The Old Guard_. And I loved it.

The story is not precisely novel but I LOVED how it was told. So much was said in expressions, details, movements -- the acting was phenomenal and the directing was amazing. There was so much subtlety. I'm not surprised Mass Produced Extruded Fanboys found this movie lacking -- so much must have gone over their pointy little heads. It's for the rest of us.

Despite Tumblr I managed to stay unspoiled for some aspects, so this movie made me EVEN HAPPIER than I knew it would.

The Big Damn Declaration Of Love made me scream, for the first time in months and months, and damn that felt good.

I look forward to watching this again, and to Paige Tico's revenge.

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[kore]

I'M SO GLAD YOU LIKED IT WAS IT NOT FANTASTIC AND THE BEST THING OMG ahem

Andy! NILE! Warrior husbands! And Quynh, OMG, Veronica Ngo broke my heart with about two minutes of screentime (just like Paige!). (I totally get a Steve/Bucky vibe from them, lovers horribly separated and then reunited and now they're in conflict, I love it.) Chiwetel Ejiofor didn't die! And it was directed by a black woman! And it's in Netflix's top 10 viewed original films (which are otherwise kind of awful, like that Italian porno and an Adam Sandler movie) and the first one by a black woman!

It was such a bright spot of joy, and we all SO NEED that right now.

[kore]

ALSO, we better see some of this in the sequel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzwmdqjah1w

AND in this movie she's a retired martial arts fighter/gangster who is a single mom and when her daughter is kidnapped, she Takes Revenge, and she produced it and it's the highest grossing film in Vietnam! And she was just in a Spike Lee joint. I hope there's an Old Guard sequel and she gets to return in a big part.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZvojcSbaQA

[raine]

It's my new happy, that's for sure. :-)

[alexseanchai]

most of my reactions to the film were "oh right, there's a reason I don't watch action movies" (my tolerance for graphic violence is way higher in textual than visual media) and "oooh yeah I get why several people I read are over the moon about this!"

and the stuff I was spoiled for didn't include half of the stuff in the latter category, either!

[marcelo]

<3

The Big Damn Declaration Of Love made me scream, for the first time in months and months, and damn that felt good.

IIRC, the writer of the original comic put in the contract that, however and wherever the story was adapted, that scene should be shown and kept without changes.

[darkmarcy]

Yay! I was pretty sure you'd like it and am happy to read all this squee :)

[china_shop]

Yayayay, I'm so glad you loved it! *\o/*

[gingicat]

I'm also really happy that we made certain that Wolf was unspoiled so that he could have All The Reactions. :D

[used_songs]

I liked it too, and I have to give a shout out for the comic because it's great!

[sabotabby]

So good, right?

It doesn't need to be new, it just needs to be itself.

[clevermanka]

I'm so glad it gave you some happy squee moments!

[hitchhiker]

yay :)