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Monthly Archives: September 2013

She Says/He Says: Moulin Rouge!

28 Saturday Sep 2013

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She Says

by Grace Crawford

moulin rouge poster

All Moulin Rouge! images courtesy of Bazmark Films, Angel Studios, and 20th Century Fox.

When I was fifteen, my school put on a production of Les Miserables (which, as you know, is one of my favourite stories of all time). It was my first year in musical theatre, and I was absolutely psyched—until they cast me as, and I quote, “Whore #3.” Obviously it was exactly the sort of role that every girl dreams about getting, and I didn’t even go home crying about how my teachers obviously thought I was a tramp or anything.

My point is, I was young and had no idea how to act like a hooker, which was necessary for the dock scene in Act 1. No, it wasn’t like I had to mount one of my male classmates on stage in front of a thousand strangers (one of the older girls got to do that), but I did have to gyrate like a deranged stripper with a feather boa. And as the stage manager informed me, I wasn’t slutty enough. So she told me to go home and watch Moulin Rouge!.

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GR Dailies: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Pilot

25 Wednesday Sep 2013

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Action, comics, Marvel, MCU, MCU TV, superhero

by Thom Yee

Why I’m watching… Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Agents of SHIELD-poster

Images courtesy of Disney-ABC Domestic Television

How could I not be watching Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.?  The Avengers was the third highest grossing film of all time.  We get to follow a specialized S.H.I.E.L.D. team through the Marvel Universe we’ve only begun to explore.  Agent Coulson is back!  But how?  If ever Marvel and ABC had a hit on their hands, it would be Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.  Frankly, what kind of confused, alcoholic, unemployable, angry loners won’t be watching Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.?

There’s a problem though.  I still don’t really like Joss Whedon.  While I think the show’s got enormous potential, and I think Whedon’s team has a better shot than most at successfully show-running the series through suitably intriguing and action-packed seasonal arcs while maintaining a measured approach to storytelling, I still think elements of Whedon’s scripts are awkward and unnecessarily silly (“Don’t touch Lola”).  It’s those little Whedonisms.

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GR Dailies: How I Met Your Mother – The Locket, Coming Back

24 Tuesday Sep 2013

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by Grace Crawford

Why I’m watching… How I Met Your Mother

Season 9

Images courtesy of Bay & Thomas Productions and 20th Century Fox.

I’ve been watching HIMYM since… I guess it’s been, what, four or five years now? Right after I graduated high school, at any rate. It’s been a crazy ride, what with the incomparable awesomeness of the first two seasons and the middling-ness of the seasons that followed. More often than not it was a single episode every now and then, not an entire season, that rocked my world, made me believe in the magic of this show, and kept me watching.

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He Says/She Says: Grosse Pointe Blank

21 Saturday Sep 2013

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He Says

by Thom Yee

Grosse Pointe Blank poster

Grosse Pointe Blank images courtesy of Buena Vista Pictures

Remember when you’d talk to your high school guidance counselor?  He’d ask you what you would do if you had a million dollars, if you didn’t have to work.  And invariably whatever you’d say was supposed to be your career.  So, if you wanted to fix old cars you’re supposed to be an auto mechanic.

Hopefully the reason that sounds familiar to you is because you can pick out movie quotes pretty easily and not because it’s a reflection of your life.  It’s a cliche.  I never spoke to my high school guidance counselor; I’m not even sure if my high school had one.  Frankly, I don’t think I’ve ever had a serious conversation about what I wanted to do with anyone.  Careers are a tough thing to get a handle on.  When somebody asks you what you do, do you just tell them where you work?  What your title is?  What you actually do?  Or do you make something up that sounds a little more impressive?  Are you happy with where you’ve ended up?  Is it at all what you imagined?  Does it even vaguely resemble what you would do if you had a million dollars?

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She Says/He Says: The King’s Speech

14 Saturday Sep 2013

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She Says

by Grace Crawford

King's Speech poster 1

All The King’s Speech images courtesy of Momentum Pictures and the Weinstein Company

Like you, Thom, I am an Anglophile. I love all things British, from their flag to their television programming to their remarkably civilized and emotionally understated mannerisms (they make tea in the middle of crises. How delightful). But perhaps one of the things I love best is their astonishingly photogenic royal family. Yes, I’m one of those people (but my practicality beats out my romanticism every time; for example, I watched Will and Kate’s wedding on YouTube like seven hours after it happened, because let’s be realistic here, they got married at like four in the morning my time and I like sleep more than I like them, no matter how adorable they are).

I’ve always had a fascination with royalty. Not in a “I want to wear a crown and have high tea every single day and make everyone call me a pretty princess” kind of way, but in a “how interesting these people are to study” kind of way. It seems so strange to me that, a long time ago, we chose people to be our leaders. And hundreds of years later, we exalted those people’s descendants to celebrity status, even if it occasionally ended in revolution and widespread destruction. Some people like the royals and some people don’t, and it’s become an increasingly common topic of conversation because of the aforementioned couple of Cambridge, whose engagement, marriage, and first child have completely dominated the media over the last few years.

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He Says/She Says: Transformers the Movie (1986)

07 Saturday Sep 2013

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He Says

by Thom Yee

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All Transformers the Movie images courtesy of Hasbro, Marvel Productions, Sunbow Productions, Toei Animation, and De Laurentiis Entertainment Group.

When I was growing up, I had a lot of friends.  Some good, some not so good, some who would eventually become bitter enemies.  But they all had ambitions.  They wanted to be somebody.  Some wanted to become policemen, some firemen, some wanted to work with computers.  One of them, even as a child, knew that he wanted to go into investment banking.  And even in my wavering, barely conscious understanding of who I was and who I was supposed to be, even I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up:

I wanted to be a Transformer.

I saw Transformers the Movie at just the right time for it to leave an indelible mark in the psyche of my older-on-the-inside young soul.  It’s a movie that I remember every part of almost word-for-word.  It had massive battles.  It had the hero’s journey in all of its reluctant-hero, supreme-ordeal, seizing-the-sword glory.  It even had undertones of romance as I’m sure there was something going on between the Autobots Springer and Arcee (the only canonical female Transformer that I’m aware of).

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