Sudden "rush" of readers for my stuff on AO3. Curious to think I'd be benefiting, so to speak, from the new movie, but I have to assume that's what it is. Anyone else seeing an increase in readership action?
Yeah, there are still good movies. But they tend not to hit the 10-Plex at the Nanuet Mall :)
Formula is comfortable, for the studios as well as the audience. It can be used in clever ways, but it usually isn't. I can enjoy a film/book/tv show on its surface level if pushes the right buttons, but I also have this urge to dissect underneath that, just to see why/why not it works. English lit major, we're such killjoys ;)
The two main women in the movie come off quite well. Underwritten, but not sex objects. There's an obligatory sex object for Solo to play with, they couldn't help themselves. But it's a very short scene and weirdly unsexy.
I'm really generalizing - I haven't even seen this film! - and there are exceptions, I know it. People like what they like.
However, I certainly noticed that the promos for the UNCLE film featured one of the women [or, more accurately, the ass of one of the women] in (very non 60s) underwear. I just am so tired of women characters being about their tits and their asses, rather than the person. STOP constantly taking their clothes off, you brain-dead male movie-making jerks. Unless the men spend equal time in their skivvies.
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Date: 13 September 2015 05:32 pm (UTC)Formula is comfortable, for the studios as well as the audience. It can be used in clever ways, but it usually isn't. I can enjoy a film/book/tv show on its surface level if pushes the right buttons, but I also have this urge to dissect underneath that, just to see why/why not it works. English lit major, we're such killjoys ;)
The two main women in the movie come off quite well. Underwritten, but not sex objects. There's an obligatory sex object for Solo to play with, they couldn't help themselves. But it's a very short scene and weirdly unsexy.
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Date: 13 September 2015 11:26 pm (UTC)However, I certainly noticed that the promos for the UNCLE film featured one of the women [or, more accurately, the ass of one of the women] in (very non 60s) underwear. I just am so tired of women characters being about their tits and their asses, rather than the person. STOP constantly taking their clothes off, you brain-dead male movie-making jerks. Unless the men spend equal time in their skivvies.