movie catchup
Jan. 13th, 2018 01:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psocopteraOk, I had dreams of writing a long review about everything I loved about Last Jedi, and, earlier, a long writeup of how I would have fixed Justice League, but I'm not sure I'm going to prioritize either of those any time soon, so here's a placeholder review for my own recordkeeping.
Justice League was a flat, incoherent mess without tension or conflict or urgency, topped off with patriarchy. I only saw it because I didn't want to miss a minute of Diana but many of those minutes were actively bad. I had a lot of fun thinking about how I would fix it though, so I guess it was useful as an exercise.
The Last Jedi was amazing and blew me away with what it dared to do and is certainly the most personally meaningful Star Wars movie I've seen. I don't know what Small Me would have thought about it - the one who dressed up in the sheet and side buns - but Big Me felt like it had been made for me. Was it perfect, no, of course there are things I could poke at. But I'm just so pleased that this is what someone decided to do with the Star Wars franchise, right now. People have done other things before and they might do other things later but this year, we got this one.
Justice League was a flat, incoherent mess without tension or conflict or urgency, topped off with patriarchy. I only saw it because I didn't want to miss a minute of Diana but many of those minutes were actively bad. I had a lot of fun thinking about how I would fix it though, so I guess it was useful as an exercise.
The Last Jedi was amazing and blew me away with what it dared to do and is certainly the most personally meaningful Star Wars movie I've seen. I don't know what Small Me would have thought about it - the one who dressed up in the sheet and side buns - but Big Me felt like it had been made for me. Was it perfect, no, of course there are things I could poke at. But I'm just so pleased that this is what someone decided to do with the Star Wars franchise, right now. People have done other things before and they might do other things later but this year, we got this one.
