Latest watched things

[alias_sqbr]

Written to distract myself from the fact Cam will be leaving for a work trip in a couple of hours.

Movies:

Inside Out: Pixar cgi odd couple roadtrip movie about anthropomorphised emotions inside an 11 year old girl's brain. I really liked it! The overall theme is growing up and accepting change and negative emotions and I thought this was done pretty well, even if it was about sane, relatively well adjusted people and I had bittersweet memories of my own much less cheery childhood. The psychology felt plausible and was apparently pretty good, I can see children (mentally ill or otherwise) finding it a useful way to conceptualise things. It wasn't THE BEST movie ever but it was funny and cathartic and had WAY more female characters than pretty much any other Pixar film: the three main characters are the girl Riley and the two female coded emotions Joy and Sadness, and the secondary characters are Riley's parents and the other three emotions who are two guys (Fear and Anger) and a woman (Disgust). I now ship Joy/Sadness which was unexpected. Not especially subversive, or diverse asides from gender but...it's Pixar :/

TV:

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries: All caught up! Season 3 ends in a pretty satisfying place, even if it dragged a little in parts. They even briefly remembered she has a dead sister! EDIT: Have been reminded that it was actually kind of cheesy and odd, even if I enjoyed it anyway.

Utena: Am slowly rewatching this every now and then at TV night, it's interesting now I (vaguely) know how everything fits together, and I'm enjoying it. The remastered animation is surprisingly crisp. I am also enjoying watching my unspoiled friend react to everything :D

Games:

Love Chronicles: The Sword and the Rose: replayed the first Hidden Object game from Big Fish I encountered, it was actually pretty fun, the shallow plot suited my need to just click a bunch of puzzles mindlessly, the art is mostly very pretty and I really like the "building wacky devices" puzzles.

Fairway: Finished it! Played it through again! Definitely worth $5 if you like solitaire with variations and increasing difficulty.

Hmmmmmmm I know there were more but I have blanked entirely.

Comments

[tree]

i wasn't particularly satisfied with the end of mfmm. i mean, obviously i was very happy that we finally got THE THING we were all waiting for (YES FINALLY THING) but i think the way they orchestrated THE THING was unrealistic and out of character for jack. also it felt a little shoehorned to me?

actually the whole ending was just off, imo. dramatic? yes. but, i mean, they could have just sent a telegram.

[alias_sqbr]

Yeah you make some good points, maybe I was just happy they had ANY emotional resolution.

[hokuton_punch]

I enjoyed Inside Out when I went to see it with my BFF and some friends of hers I didn't know, but it was a bit embarrassing to find out afterwards that one of the friends had laughed at what she thought were little kids crying, only to find out it was some of us (including me - Mr. Bingbong fading away was just too much for me).

[bunny_m]

Awkward!

[hokuton_punch]

Just a bit, yeah. XD But there were no hard feelings.

[alias_sqbr]

I cried a BUNCH. And it was a movie all about the importance of being willing to embrace sadness, so I feel no shame :) (Luckily I saw it with my husband, who is accustomed to my weepiness)

[bunny_m]

d'Awwwww...

I shall take note to watch it on the small screen when I have a few hours privacy so that None Shall See Me Shed My Manly Tears.

Or something like that, anyhow. ;)

[alias_sqbr]

Yeah, I was glad I was forewarned and took tissues.