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 OI. I totally forgot to flail about Made of Honor!

I saw it last Saturday with my darling titania_torres, and omg yay Scotland! Okay, so they were mostly making fun of Scottish traditions, lolololol haggis is made out of gross things, and so on.

But there was highland dancing! (Not especially impressive technically, and they just showed like two shedding movements, but whatever! Highland dancing! Done properly!* In a movie!) And there was caber tossing! And sporrans! And lots of kilts! And bagpipes! And when I left the theatre, I was singing the Laddie cause the main Scottish guy (the one the female lead is going to marry) plays it at one point. The other tunes they played on the bagpipes during the course of the movie were all really familiar ones too.

Seriously though. Awesome. I guess I should have expected it, since the trailers clearly say they all go to Scotland, but for some reason it never occured to me that Hollywood cramming every stereotype possible into the movie would include dancing. So I got really excited when all of a sudden the screen was full of ghillies, wool socks, and second position.

bluebonnets, someday we should totally get all the dancing-types together, rent this and pretend we're back in Scotland. There were no chocolate muffins though, which is how you know it's not realistic.

(Other than the highland dance nerd factor, it was a pretty good movie. A nice chick flick. Jokes, good looking man, happily ever after, you know.)

And xsilvan, where are youuuu? I just found out that I have to go to my family reunion, so I have a couple days less time in Ottawa =(  Now I get in sometime the night of Thursday the 26th, then Saturday afternoon to Monday morning I'm in Brockville. So Friday, d'you want to do something?

*Anyone ever see Fred Astaire pretend to highland dance? I forget what movie it was in, but it was brutal and made me cry in my heart a little bit. Actually come to think of it, it might have been Gene Kelly. I've seen a lot of old dancing movies, okay, give me a break.

 In nerdy and belated news,

Saw Ironman on Monday, and OMG wow it is much love. The same sort of much love as Transformers.

-fangirls-

ALSO! The trailer for the new Batman movie played, and it looks AMAZING. Amazing.

-fangirls more-

Across The Universe?

Fucking fantastic.

Um yeah. Seriously. Amazing. It's been nearly twenty-four hours and I still am not coherent on the subject. Great movie.

Incredibly moving. So, so sad for a good chunk of the middle. Really interesting re-envisionings of the Beatles songs. (I particularly enjoyed Let It Be... half young boy's solo, half gospel chorus, it was wicked. And really sad.)

You know, I think in general, cathartic would be a good way to describe this movie. At least for me... it really was dragging you through a bunch of insane emotions (and a bunch of acid trips) and tragedy to let you purge yourself of those emotions and be able to resume normal life. Or maybe that's just a product of my feeling much less than sane the past while, and studying way too much ancient Greek history/writing.

Anyways, that's how I felt. And it featured two very cute boys, one with a very wonderful accent. And I loved Prudence's character... actually, all the other characters too. They really... I don't know quite how to describe it. They're the sort of characters who so clearly have their own lives and a million different personality quirks that you never get a chance to see on-screen, but that doesn't mean they aren't there. They have history, and a future beyond what you see. They're real.

And I love musicals, especially when the songs are well integrated into the narrative and all the lyrics and the mood and the instrumentation and everything just makes the whole atmosphere of the movie so charged. Which the songs in this movie were. (Though I'm thinking, just a hunch, that if you don't like the Beatles, you won't care so much, but still worth giving it a shot. Because yeah, re-envisioning and all. It's awesome. And did I mention the cute boys?)

And hey, any movie with Eddie Izzard reminding me weirdly and strongly of Tim Curry has got to be good.

This is why I should never be a movie critic.

First of all: 

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15.3% Finished chapter three!!

And then:

Babysat today, though things didn't go as planned at all, and I was home a lot earlier than planned.

Adorable moment from that: she was telling me how she's afraid of "fighters". Took me a little bit to figure out that she meant "spiders" (why on earth would fighters be in her backyard?). Anyways, then it went something like this:

me: why are you afraid of spiders?
her: because a fighter bit Peter.
me: who's Peter?
her: Peter Parker. From fighterman. Actually he IS fighterman. He was bitten by a fighter, that's why he's fighternan.

Adorable! I love kids. Haha, of all the reasons to fear spiders...

Anyways, when I got home from that, dad and I went to watch La Vie en Rose, the biopic of Edith Piaf that was playing at the Bytown.

That... Well... Wow.

Um, I don't really know what else to say. Holy shit the actress who played her did a good job. I love watching French movies. The music was incredible. The story was amazing. The scenes were not confusing precisely, but mosaic-like. You had to be paying attention to know what was happening when. Three cheers for unreliable narrators. But yeah, it was amazing. Incredible attention to detail, incredibly powerful.

Depardieu was not that prevalent in it, which was nice. Don't get me wrong, I love Depardieu. But he's been around a while, and I'm pretty sure there are lots of other good French actors out there waiting to step into the roles he's been filling for so long. He was very good in this film, though.

If that movie doesn't move you, inspire you, make you cry, open your eyes... then you're a lost cause. And that's all I have to say about that.