Opinions
4. Christina Hendricks’ talents were wasted in Drive.
I still… don’t really know how I felt about this movie. Apparently, the processing process is still in effect. But I do know that my baby could have been given a lot more to do. She is so capable of so so much.
3. Ian McShane’s talents were wasted in Pirates.
I mean, he was the best thing in the movie, by a long shot, but they still didn’t know what to do with him and his awesome. Yeah.
2. I’m still a cynical bitch about romantic comedies.
Even the ones that I can logically say that I liked more than the rest, I don’t feel compelled to ever see again. Crazy, Stupid, Love.: it was cute, and until the end, it didn’t suck, but just… no. Once was enough.
1. Haters of Sucker Punch to the left.
I mean, I get why people don’t groove on it. Like I get why people don’t groove on Repo or something. But… see, the thing is, I actually don’t think it’s just some fetishy fanboy wet dream. Yes, they’re young women kicking people’s asses. Yes, they’re doing so in a lot of tight, short clothing. No, Lisa Schwartzbaum of Entertainment Weekly, they are not “psycho sluts.” In the first reality, yes, it’s a mental hospital. But that doesn’t automatically mean psycho. They don’t really go around killing people for fun, they’re just setting themselves free. And save the deleted scene between the High Roller (Jon Hamm) and Babydoll (Emily Browning), you don’t see any of them actually partaking in sexual behavior except dancing and that time that Rocket (Jena Malone) almost gets raped and Amber (Jamie Chung) sitting on that guy’s lap. So, uhm… sluts? How? It’s not bad to partake in sexual behavior, far from, but it’s not really cool to judge someone in that fashion, or judge a movie in that fashion. It’s a chicks-kicking-ass movie, and it’s stylized, and it’s weird, and… yeah, I get why it’s not for everyone. But I have developed a strange protectiveness over it.
Predictable favorites
2. Hugo
Gorramit, this movie was adorable. I do tend to like love letters to filmmaking, and I love period pieces, and it was stylistic, and there was a steampunk robot and Chloe Moretz. A recipe for win.
1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2
There was never any question about if I’d like this movie or not. I mean, there are things I still wish were there, but… it made me cry. Nothing makes me cry. That’s magic in and of itself.
Adorable (pairs of) people
3. Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Anna Kendrick (50/50)
Predictable, maybe (especially because I like both of them: Anna Kendrick is one of the only forgivable things about Twilight, Joseph Gord0n-Levitt is unquestionably endearing). But true.
2. Amy Adams (The Muppets)
Again, true.
1. Kat Dennings (Thor)
Yeah, I get it. Darcy was a brat, a little. But she was just a damn precious brat. With precious glasses. And honestly, her reactions to all of the superhero stuff seemed silly because that’s not how a lot of people in movies act, but it’s how a lot of real people would probably act.
Awesome cameos
3. Jon Hamm (Sucker Punch)
Because if you watch the deleted scene with the High Roller, it’s… kind of completely different than how it seemed in the theatrical release. Baby’s just like… “oh okay, I guess I’ll have this intimate time with you now,” and it’s consensual, and it’s good. It makes sense why the doctor then says that when he was lobotomizing her, it’s almost like she wanted him to do it. And Jon Hamm is just… all kinds of good.
2. Jim Parsons (The Muppets)
Spoiler alert, finally. I don’t think there could have been a better humanized nerdy Muppet man than Jim Parsons.
1. Nathan Fillion (Super)
Nathan Fillion anywhere would have been brilliant, but Nathan Fillion in a terrible wig and a cheap-ass super-suit? In what just may have been the most effed-up movie of the year? Priceless.
Kickass people
2. Matthew Lewis (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2)
Neville my darling. My badass darling. Coming into his own, being so heroic and amazing.
1. Hayley Atwell (Captain America)
Peggy Carter my darling. Being so efficient, so adorable, kicking ass and taking names and everything. She is perfection.
So yeah. Brief synopses and one giant, giant, 24% of the overall post word-wise tl;dr.
–your fangirl heroine.
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