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.
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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Date: 2020-08-01 03:27 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2020-08-01 03:36 am (UTC)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
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Date: 2020-08-01 03:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-08-01 04:45 am (UTC)and the stuff I was spoiled for didn't include half of the stuff in the latter category, either!
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Date: 2020-08-01 05:09 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2020-08-01 02:42 pm (UTC)It doesn't need to be new, it just needs to be itself.
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