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healingmirthI've now attempted to type this post about the 2005 Colditz twice, and had it eaten by my browser twice. You would think I would have learned the first time, but no.
And really, the only reason I'm persisting in making this (now much shorter) post at all is because I may want to wrap something into my Yuletide requests and I try to not include spoilers in my dear writer letters for things they have not seen.
I understand why they couldn't have titled this movie "Life is shit and everyone dies, except for you, young Tom Hardy, this once your character gets a pass."
And I get that it's about a war. It's about the war where millions and millions of people were murdered. But really, did everyone with a name have to end in death or misery when the setting was a more-or-less safe environment under the Geneva Conventions? Urgh.
I am particularly not on board with how the story of Willis (Laurence Fox) wrapped, for what are mostly obvious fannish reasons.
His breakdown was beautifully done - all his systems had deserted him, his solitary buddy wasn't there to walk back into the yard with him, he'd been betrayed by his... XO? Whatever Rhett was to him. I almost buy that the straw that broke it was proof of his absolute failures to escape, at the news that the remaining PoWs would soon be freed. The hallucination was a lovely touch. We couldn't just fade to black on his despair?
I just want someone to live who's got potential for (and a need for) growth, post-war. Lizzie and Jack have healing to do certainly, but I believe they're both basically functioning human beings at that point.
Willis, in contrast, is a train wreck without a structure or a goal. And my absolutely favorite part of his storyline was when he is talking about how overbearingly perfectionist his Brigadier General father is (was?) and someone else tries to break in about how he didn't even know his father, and Willis just doesn't even hear him he's so focused on his own problems. I really wanted to know what happened next. Besides mental breakdown and death.
And so, I have chosen to agree with - I can't remember anymore whether this was fanfic or original media - but there was definitely a character who said that Thelma and Louise had a happy ending because we didn't literally see them die on screen. So they shot Willis. Sure. But maybe he's just... resting there in the courtyard and will receive adequate medical attention shortly.
So, this. Willis is not actually dead. Go.
Also, remembered some movies that I forgot from Movie Binge Weekend.
- Prometheus, the Aliens prequelish thing where Fassbender plays an android. (Newsflash - I am still not a fan of people's bodies being invaded by parasites, sentient or otherwise. It's a wonder that I managed it for SG-1) It was... okay? Like, I wouldn't watch it again, but I don't hate that I saw it the once.
- Step Up...4? Revolution? The Miami one with Kathryn from SYTYCD in this iteration of uptight ballerina. It seemed to have largely the same plot as Step Up...3? (but not the same as the first two, which IIRC were purely about the boy and the girl from different dance worlds learning to love and/or dance like each other). Except the real estate scale of this one was simultaneously bigger and slightly more sense-making. I think this probably had my favorite dance sequences of the series thus far.
And really, the only reason I'm persisting in making this (now much shorter) post at all is because I may want to wrap something into my Yuletide requests and I try to not include spoilers in my dear writer letters for things they have not seen.
I understand why they couldn't have titled this movie "Life is shit and everyone dies, except for you, young Tom Hardy, this once your character gets a pass."
And I get that it's about a war. It's about the war where millions and millions of people were murdered. But really, did everyone with a name have to end in death or misery when the setting was a more-or-less safe environment under the Geneva Conventions? Urgh.
I am particularly not on board with how the story of Willis (Laurence Fox) wrapped, for what are mostly obvious fannish reasons.
His breakdown was beautifully done - all his systems had deserted him, his solitary buddy wasn't there to walk back into the yard with him, he'd been betrayed by his... XO? Whatever Rhett was to him. I almost buy that the straw that broke it was proof of his absolute failures to escape, at the news that the remaining PoWs would soon be freed. The hallucination was a lovely touch. We couldn't just fade to black on his despair?
I just want someone to live who's got potential for (and a need for) growth, post-war. Lizzie and Jack have healing to do certainly, but I believe they're both basically functioning human beings at that point.
Willis, in contrast, is a train wreck without a structure or a goal. And my absolutely favorite part of his storyline was when he is talking about how overbearingly perfectionist his Brigadier General father is (was?) and someone else tries to break in about how he didn't even know his father, and Willis just doesn't even hear him he's so focused on his own problems. I really wanted to know what happened next. Besides mental breakdown and death.
And so, I have chosen to agree with - I can't remember anymore whether this was fanfic or original media - but there was definitely a character who said that Thelma and Louise had a happy ending because we didn't literally see them die on screen. So they shot Willis. Sure. But maybe he's just... resting there in the courtyard and will receive adequate medical attention shortly.
So, this. Willis is not actually dead. Go.
Also, remembered some movies that I forgot from Movie Binge Weekend.
- Prometheus, the Aliens prequelish thing where Fassbender plays an android. (Newsflash - I am still not a fan of people's bodies being invaded by parasites, sentient or otherwise. It's a wonder that I managed it for SG-1) It was... okay? Like, I wouldn't watch it again, but I don't hate that I saw it the once.
- Step Up...4? Revolution? The Miami one with Kathryn from SYTYCD in this iteration of uptight ballerina. It seemed to have largely the same plot as Step Up...3? (but not the same as the first two, which IIRC were purely about the boy and the girl from different dance worlds learning to love and/or dance like each other). Except the real estate scale of this one was simultaneously bigger and slightly more sense-making. I think this probably had my favorite dance sequences of the series thus far.
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Date: 2013-09-15 11:34 am (UTC)Ha, ha ha ha ha! Exactly. Yeah, this movie was made for fix-it fic.
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Date: 2013-09-15 12:08 pm (UTC)