shallowness

Mainly short fic recs in the following fandoms: The Artist, The Dark Knight Rises, It Happened One Night, The Lake House and Original fic.

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Sticking with early nineteenth century France, but watching a French film made by French people, I went to see The Count of Monte Cristo at the start of the month. I haven’t read the book, I vaguely remember the Guy Pearce adaptation from years ago. I believe this is from the team who made the two The Musketeers films recently, and the desire to watch them has been reignited in me by this.

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I went to see Lee, a biopic of Lee Miller, starring and a passion project for Kate Winslet (who is very good). While it was interesting to watch it in the same year as I’d seen One Life and Civil War, I would emphasise that it’s about the impact of trauma (it has a 15 certificate in the UK), and even though I knew that going in, I was probably in too raw a state for it. Much is made of truth-telling in this movie (yes, especially in news!), but you are allowed to want your entertainment to provide you with bright, sparkly things on a Saturday too.

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I took the chance (like a lot of other people at the screening I was at) to see The Batman in the cinema a few days ago. (Though I rolled my eyes at the people who were so late they came in after it had started and they annoyingly had to switch the lights on on their cameras because the film had started because they were so late.) I’ve watched it before, but on Blu-Ray (and relied on audio description then. I could see it better now and on a big screen, and I think I followed some details better from having ‘watched’ it before, (although it was interesting that some things hadn’t left a deep impression on me.) I think it’s fairly well done, but definitely too long.

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So, a month topped and tailed with movies about the price of revenge/vengeance, (sandwiching a film about trauma from a female gaze.) Oh, and what they all had in common was that I didn't particularly want to see any of the upcoming films featured in the trailers section.

I’m a degree less excited about James Gunn’s new role with the DCU after watching this. How did he and the suits miss the fact that it should have been a Harley Quinn movie, especially after the best sequence in the whole film involves her ( Cut for spoilers. Instead we get a slightly different flavour of the amoral sludge that was Suicide Squad. It leaned more into the weird and tried to be funnier, but I mainly thought Guardians of the Galaxy is better and at least I didn’t make the effort of going to the cinema to see this. But I have a new ship, apparently. )

Fic recs in the following fandoms: The Bourne franchise, The Hour, Original fic, Push and Wonder Woman.

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Final recs post of the year. All fic (none from this year's Yuletide as I've only saved links to read, and it's me. I'm more likely to rec fics that are years old. Oh, one of them is from last year's Yuletide.)

( In the following fandoms: DC Cinematic Universe, Fairy Tales, Harry Potter, Into the Woods and Little Women. )

Fanfic and fanvid recs in the following fandoms: Alice (2009), Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Center Stage, Enchanted/The Dark Knight and Gilmore Girls.

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Happy new year! May it be better than the last.

I normally post my top 10 or so films of the year*, but, obviously, I went to see far fewer films in the cinema than usual this year, a total of six, which is probably the least since I became a teenager. They were: Little Women, Bombshell, A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood, Emma., Birds of Prey: or the Fantabulous Emancipation of Harley Quinn and Misbehaviour (in chronological order). Themes include: literary adaptations, films about the making of TV, strongly female casts and feminist themes. Five of them were directed by women.

So instead of doing a list of my faves, I’ll rank the ones I saw in reverse order of preference:

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Title: Cat Got Your Tongue?
Author: shallowness
Fandom: Gotham
Rating: Teen
Characters/Pairing: Bruce Wayne/Selina Kyle
Summary: Three times Bruce Wayne doesn’t apologize to Selina Kyle.
Author's Note: Post-series fic. 2,071 words.

( Cat Got Your Tongue?: shallowness )

Since lockdown, I’ve made Saturday night movie night, and rewatched my The Hobbit and LOTR extended edition DVDs and now all my Batman movies (which don’t include the live action TV series, the animated stuff or Batfleck). The Lego Batman Movie capped it off very amusingly as it riffs off past iterations. I was going to list them in my preferred order. Indeed, the other week I was going to list some of what is wrong with Batman and Robin, (so much!) but Joel Schumacher recently passed away, so maybe now is not the time.

( Mainly about my emotional investment in the above. )