random babble about the cutting edge
Apr. 19th, 2010 12:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
healingmirthI recorded The Cutting Edge and its three sequels a couple weeks ago, and just finally got around to (re)watching them today. I watched all four, in order, mostly so I can never watch them ever ever again. Oh, basic cable curse-dubbing.
The first time I saw The Cutting Edge, I was, like 15? It was all about the romance. Now, I am mostly trying to figure out why Doug's hanging off a door header driving nails into it seemingly at random, instead of framing it on the ground like a normal person. Or using a ladder. Or standing on the ground in the doorway and just driving the nail over his head standing up, because he's a big guy. I can do that, and I'm a twig.
I still like the first movie, although it's probably more fondness now than anything else. I don't have an embarrassment squick so much as an aversion, but I spent more time than I expected wanting to fast-forward through scenes. It got worse, going in to the second one.
The second movie (Go for the Gold) is by far my least favorite. I think the problem is that Christy Romano reminds me of Sarah Silverman, except uptight instead of funny, and I'm not really a fan of Sarah Silverman to begin with.
I totally misremembered who the coach in Cutting Edge 3 was. In my memory, I thought it was Kate, and was really annoyed because I thought it had broken up Doug and Kate, where in fact, it just broke up Jackie and Alex from the second one. I don't know how I feel about that. Jackie seems really bitter, but she spends pretty much her whole movie being bitter and closed-off (and fake, but I'm not sure if that was intentional or bad acting), so.
Alex (the boy one) is not a winner. And the movie just isn't set up to be about his journey, so when he's the one.
I never bought that she was in love with him. I guess he was pretty consistently not serious though. And their biggest jump at the end of the long program? really?
In conclusion, I can't help but with Ryan Hansen had been the skater instead of the surfer-dude buddy in the second movie, and then stuck around for the next two. I miss him. I should have watched the rest of the episodes of Party Down
Also, there was a total Checkov's gun moment with an announcement at the rink during the performance that just pissed me off.
The first time I saw The Cutting Edge, I was, like 15? It was all about the romance. Now, I am mostly trying to figure out why Doug's hanging off a door header driving nails into it seemingly at random, instead of framing it on the ground like a normal person. Or using a ladder. Or standing on the ground in the doorway and just driving the nail over his head standing up, because he's a big guy. I can do that, and I'm a twig.
I still like the first movie, although it's probably more fondness now than anything else. I don't have an embarrassment squick so much as an aversion, but I spent more time than I expected wanting to fast-forward through scenes. It got worse, going in to the second one.
The second movie (Go for the Gold) is by far my least favorite. I think the problem is that Christy Romano reminds me of Sarah Silverman, except uptight instead of funny, and I'm not really a fan of Sarah Silverman to begin with.
I totally misremembered who the coach in Cutting Edge 3 was. In my memory, I thought it was Kate, and was really annoyed because I thought it had broken up Doug and Kate, where in fact, it just broke up Jackie and Alex from the second one. I don't know how I feel about that. Jackie seems really bitter, but she spends pretty much her whole movie being bitter and closed-off (and fake, but I'm not sure if that was intentional or bad acting), so.
Alex (the boy one) is not a winner. And the movie just isn't set up to be about his journey, so when he's the one.
I never bought that she was in love with him. I guess he was pretty consistently not serious though. And their biggest jump at the end of the long program? really?
In conclusion, I can't help but with Ryan Hansen had been the skater instead of the surfer-dude buddy in the second movie, and then stuck around for the next two. I miss him. I should have watched the rest of the episodes of Party Down
Also, there was a total Checkov's gun moment with an announcement at the rink during the performance that just pissed me off.
