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the constellations are good-hearted
Some things, a list:
# it feels very autumnal this morning, and I am absolutely loving it!
# It was a good job I impulsively bought that heated airer, because the other morning, literally as I was about to go out of the door to work, my other (non-heated) airer broke on one side!
So I had to prop it up on some stuff, so that the wet washing wasn't touching the floor. I hoped it wouldn't collapse entirely while I was out of the house, and it did not, and I was pleased about that.
But yeah, that was a good call on past me's part!
# I have started rewatching the X-Men films because of partly spurious reasons (that you don't get to know), and partly because I dunno, it's been a while since I watched them last, and I haven't seen the more recent ones - I only got as far as Days of Future Past last time, despite buying Apocalypse at the time (I have had to buy Dark Phoenix, and I also got New Mutants, so now I feel my collection is complete :D )
I have a lot of nostalgia for the first film, but it is Not Good. The writing is awful, apart from a couple of lines here and there, and I spent some of the time wondering how some of the cast (primarily Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen) could say some of that with a completely straight face (but I guess that's why they call it acting, right? ;) - turns out I made exactly the same comment when I watched it ten years ago, lol ). That said, "I saved your life!" "No, you didn't." and "You ain't part of the group." have lived rent free in my head for the last twenty odd years, so...eh.
I feel X2 is better written and better paced, but I still feel like there's too much going on at once. I think they should have picked one thing and stuck to it rather than trying to cram two stories in there and added Phoenix stuff out of nowhere.
I have mixed feelings about how I will feel about X3, but I'll cross that bridge when I eventually get to it
# I have managed to finally make a tangible change in the house wrt redecorating! \o/ it's about bloody time!! I have new carpeting on the landing upstairs, which is probably a mistake because I haven't sorted the walls out yet (whether painting or wallpapering), but whatever. It is A Thing, and I did it, and I am stupid proud of myself!
# Nobody cares that I am playing Umamusume: Pretty Derby, but I wanted a list of my current wins, so I'm slapping it under a cut here:
List of wins in chronological order:
Biwa Hayahide (3 star)
Maruzensky
Gold Ship
Air Groove
Daiwa Scarlet
VODKA! (FINALLY!!)
Biwa Hayahide (4 star)
Haru Urara
Gold Ship (again)
Vodka (again; she's my fave though)
Winning Ticket
Mejiro Ryan
# I've got nothing else for the time being, I haven't really had a lot of time outside of work to do anything even remotely interesting. But perhaps that will change, who knows!
# it feels very autumnal this morning, and I am absolutely loving it!
# It was a good job I impulsively bought that heated airer, because the other morning, literally as I was about to go out of the door to work, my other (non-heated) airer broke on one side!
So I had to prop it up on some stuff, so that the wet washing wasn't touching the floor. I hoped it wouldn't collapse entirely while I was out of the house, and it did not, and I was pleased about that.
But yeah, that was a good call on past me's part!
# I have started rewatching the X-Men films because of partly spurious reasons (that you don't get to know), and partly because I dunno, it's been a while since I watched them last, and I haven't seen the more recent ones - I only got as far as Days of Future Past last time, despite buying Apocalypse at the time (I have had to buy Dark Phoenix, and I also got New Mutants, so now I feel my collection is complete :D )
I have a lot of nostalgia for the first film, but it is Not Good. The writing is awful, apart from a couple of lines here and there, and I spent some of the time wondering how some of the cast (primarily Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen) could say some of that with a completely straight face (but I guess that's why they call it acting, right? ;) - turns out I made exactly the same comment when I watched it ten years ago, lol ). That said, "I saved your life!" "No, you didn't." and "You ain't part of the group." have lived rent free in my head for the last twenty odd years, so...eh.
I feel X2 is better written and better paced, but I still feel like there's too much going on at once. I think they should have picked one thing and stuck to it rather than trying to cram two stories in there and added Phoenix stuff out of nowhere.
I have mixed feelings about how I will feel about X3, but I'll cross that bridge when I eventually get to it
# I have managed to finally make a tangible change in the house wrt redecorating! \o/ it's about bloody time!! I have new carpeting on the landing upstairs, which is probably a mistake because I haven't sorted the walls out yet (whether painting or wallpapering), but whatever. It is A Thing, and I did it, and I am stupid proud of myself!
# Nobody cares that I am playing Umamusume: Pretty Derby, but I wanted a list of my current wins, so I'm slapping it under a cut here:
List of wins in chronological order:
Biwa Hayahide (3 star)
Maruzensky
Gold Ship
Air Groove
Daiwa Scarlet
VODKA! (FINALLY!!)
Biwa Hayahide (4 star)
Haru Urara
Gold Ship (again)
Vodka (again; she's my fave though)
Winning Ticket
Mejiro Ryan
# I've got nothing else for the time being, I haven't really had a lot of time outside of work to do anything even remotely interesting. But perhaps that will change, who knows!
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That being said, and with all my criticisms. I don't think Dark Phoenix is terrible. It's got the whole issue of trying to cram not only two pretty long comic series into a single film, not to mention the years of character development and story for the protagonist, and it's a team movie with not enough time to devote to everyone who needs it (Storm, once more, is just there to be there) but it's got good parts. It's more psycological than the previous movies, and at least it lets Jean have some agency-- and her lack thereof is part of the narrative and serves the story opposed to X3's use of her as a plot device within her own story. The music is insanely good.
And of course, there's a cameo that makes me just so, so happy.
Hope you enjoy going back through the film series!
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I shall bear this in mind when I eventually get to it (and I guess I'm going to have to see if I can figure out who the cameo is, if I remember when I get there).