Free HBO weekend strikes again
Apr. 7th, 2014 04:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
If you were tempted by the presence of either Dylan O'Brien or Aasif Mandvi to see The Internship but the trailer made you nope the heck out, I'm pleased to tell you that the movie... isn't worse than the trailer?
I was worried it'd be two hours of variations on that awful, awful google hangout job interview clip, and the bit with "Professor Xavier," and it wasn't! I did mute the TV during those two bits, though. It's not like I needed to watch them again.
*shrug* I liked it, anyway. It is, however, still a comedy starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn, so, if that is absolutely not your jam, this is probably still not your jam.
On the positive side: 1) Dylan O'Brien, 2) reasonably diverse cast, 3) a fairly awesome fangirl character, 4) a romance b-plot that didn't make me want to stab myself in the face, and 4) once they're all in a room together, Owen Wilson's and Vince Vaughn's characters are unexpectedly awesome and sincerely supportive with unexpected competencies, and the general message is of the everyone has value, we should support each other, connections to people are important, variety.
On the other hand, I'm pretty sure it's a Bechdel fail, and there's relatively constant negative, everything-ist and/or objectifying language from a 3 or 4 secondary ("evil") characters, and a whole lot of bro-y humor in general including an extended scene of the group's night out in a strip club, with all the drinking and scantily clad women that you'd expect from that. But again, given that the writers chose to send them to a strip club *sad trombone* I thought it served the plot and the characters relatively well.
Also, finally watched Pitch Perfect, and have The Sessions and Admission queued up for eventually.
Re: Admission, did you know the plot was not just rom-com genericness with Tina Fey and Paul Rudd playing Tina Fey and Paul Rudd? "A Princeton admissions officer who is up for a major promotion takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption" Why was that in the description in the channel guide, and yet not at all present in any of the commercials I saw?
Floki and Athelstan continue to be the only reasons for me to watch Vikings. At least partly because it's so dark for half of every episode that I never have any idea what's going on.
I was worried it'd be two hours of variations on that awful, awful google hangout job interview clip, and the bit with "Professor Xavier," and it wasn't! I did mute the TV during those two bits, though. It's not like I needed to watch them again.
*shrug* I liked it, anyway. It is, however, still a comedy starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn, so, if that is absolutely not your jam, this is probably still not your jam.
On the positive side: 1) Dylan O'Brien, 2) reasonably diverse cast, 3) a fairly awesome fangirl character, 4) a romance b-plot that didn't make me want to stab myself in the face, and 4) once they're all in a room together, Owen Wilson's and Vince Vaughn's characters are unexpectedly awesome and sincerely supportive with unexpected competencies, and the general message is of the everyone has value, we should support each other, connections to people are important, variety.
On the other hand, I'm pretty sure it's a Bechdel fail, and there's relatively constant negative, everything-ist and/or objectifying language from a 3 or 4 secondary ("evil") characters, and a whole lot of bro-y humor in general including an extended scene of the group's night out in a strip club, with all the drinking and scantily clad women that you'd expect from that. But again, given that the writers chose to send them to a strip club *sad trombone* I thought it served the plot and the characters relatively well.
Also, finally watched Pitch Perfect, and have The Sessions and Admission queued up for eventually.
Re: Admission, did you know the plot was not just rom-com genericness with Tina Fey and Paul Rudd playing Tina Fey and Paul Rudd? "A Princeton admissions officer who is up for a major promotion takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption" Why was that in the description in the channel guide, and yet not at all present in any of the commercials I saw?
Floki and Athelstan continue to be the only reasons for me to watch Vikings. At least partly because it's so dark for half of every episode that I never have any idea what's going on.