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skull_bearerooI just watched 'My Summer of Love' and am feeling just downright pissed.
Firstly, and most loudly. CAN WE STOP WITH THE FUCKING PSYCHO GAY PEOPLE ALREADY!!!!!!!
Holy shit people! This isn't the fucking 1950s! We're supposed to have grown up a bit since then and realised that being gay is not actually a mental illness!
If it was just that film, I wouldn't have minded. It was okay as a film, if disjoined and the acting was pretty bad. It had great use of colour and interesting relationships otherwise. But no, you look at all the films out nowdays, and all the gay characters are either mad or unhappy (the last is in deference to Brokeback Mountain more than anything else). Posidon- The guy was threatening suicide. Little Miss Sunshine- The guy actually tried to commit suicide. I could go on, but fuck, my blood pressure's high enough as it is. What is the media saying here? Being gay is bad and you die sad and unhappy and alone! (because nothing actually gets better for any of these characters) Right. Please line up the directors, because I have a sharp katana which has a date with their balls (or lack of them).
Oh yes, and while you're at it, line up the leaders of the religious reich, because I'd like to castrate them too while I'm at it.
Sorry, that was very little about the film, but I needed to rant.
Firstly, and most loudly. CAN WE STOP WITH THE FUCKING PSYCHO GAY PEOPLE ALREADY!!!!!!!
Holy shit people! This isn't the fucking 1950s! We're supposed to have grown up a bit since then and realised that being gay is not actually a mental illness!
If it was just that film, I wouldn't have minded. It was okay as a film, if disjoined and the acting was pretty bad. It had great use of colour and interesting relationships otherwise. But no, you look at all the films out nowdays, and all the gay characters are either mad or unhappy (the last is in deference to Brokeback Mountain more than anything else). Posidon- The guy was threatening suicide. Little Miss Sunshine- The guy actually tried to commit suicide. I could go on, but fuck, my blood pressure's high enough as it is. What is the media saying here? Being gay is bad and you die sad and unhappy and alone! (because nothing actually gets better for any of these characters) Right. Please line up the directors, because I have a sharp katana which has a date with their balls (or lack of them).
Oh yes, and while you're at it, line up the leaders of the religious reich, because I'd like to castrate them too while I'm at it.
Sorry, that was very little about the film, but I needed to rant.
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Date: 2006-10-11 12:34 pm (UTC)X-men . . . ah, I remember the days when I bought every comic. (I still have a moderate-sized box full of X-men and other comics.) I haven't read any of their series in a long time. So . . . Ultimate? Fill me in! *LOL!*
The only slashy-sorta thing was a femmeslash possibility between Storm and Yukio from one comic . . . I thought that was pretty hot, because Storm's always been my favorite female character from X-Men. And even though I love Halle Berry, she doesn't fit my image of her in the movies. Too short for one thing. :^|
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Date: 2006-10-11 05:13 pm (UTC)I agree. I wish they didn't make him a whacked-out nut job, even worse than the original, but I have no idea how we were meant to percieve their relationship, because I had an eyebrow raised all the way through the flashbacks- "Right, so Professor X leaves his wife and kid and goes off with Magneto, who he's been spending all his time with anyway. What am I supposed to think here?"
The movies were what started me on the comics, but yeah, Storm was awful there.
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Date: 2006-10-11 05:57 pm (UTC)Magneto and Charles relationship? Never really thought that as slashy . . . but then again, I really didn't think of any man x man slash at the time I was reading X-Men. Was more a woman x woman fan at the time. ;^)
Yeah, she sure as hell was . . . Ah, well. I always pictured someone like Iman playing her . . . Patrick Stewart as Professor X is perfect, however. :^D
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Date: 2006-10-11 08:13 pm (UTC)After the third film it whacked me upside the head, but since you haven't seen it, don't. The film's rubbish. The second one was good though.
Patrick Steward rocks :) He's going to be in London next year, they're putting on 'The Tempest' at one of the West End theaters and he's playing Prospero. I am so there.