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Saturday, May 5th, 2012 08:06 pmI've seen two movies recently with Chris Heimdall in them, but neither of them had any shirtless shots of him to make up for their other errors. I'm trying to dial down the disappointment, but it's a little difficult.
First of all, there was ( The Cabin in the Woods, with spoilers: )
And then there was "The Avengers." Yeah, yeah, after all my grumbling about how I wasn't going to see this newfangled nonsense, you young people get off my lawn, etc. etc.,![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
yebsiu9 pulled out his most-excited voice and shiniest eyes and the reviews were decent enough that I didn't feel like I could refuse.
My favorite scene was the one at the very, very end, after the credits rolled. Without giving it away, I can safely say it's the sort of thing I normally have to go to fanfic for, and to have it as part of canon narrative... well, it's nice to know that other writers want to have the same sort of scenes I want to. :)
( More talk, with spoilers! )
This is a lot of Joss Whedon for a few weeks. In fact, not since Buffy/Angel/Firefly were on TV have I had so much JW storytelling in such a short amount of time. And it's funny because it reminds me in short order what I love (banter, and not as an afterthought, or intended to further a franchise) and hate (kickass female characters with infinite possibility for power and agency... until they don't) about his writing all at once. CitW and Avengers are some of his better work, but neither one is perfect.
First of all, there was ( The Cabin in the Woods, with spoilers: )
And then there was "The Avengers." Yeah, yeah, after all my grumbling about how I wasn't going to see this newfangled nonsense, you young people get off my lawn, etc. etc.,
yebsiu9 pulled out his most-excited voice and shiniest eyes and the reviews were decent enough that I didn't feel like I could refuse.My favorite scene was the one at the very, very end, after the credits rolled. Without giving it away, I can safely say it's the sort of thing I normally have to go to fanfic for, and to have it as part of canon narrative... well, it's nice to know that other writers want to have the same sort of scenes I want to. :)
( More talk, with spoilers! )
This is a lot of Joss Whedon for a few weeks. In fact, not since Buffy/Angel/Firefly were on TV have I had so much JW storytelling in such a short amount of time. And it's funny because it reminds me in short order what I love (banter, and not as an afterthought, or intended to further a franchise) and hate (kickass female characters with infinite possibility for power and agency... until they don't) about his writing all at once. CitW and Avengers are some of his better work, but neither one is perfect.
