You're gonna be bothered by how cool I am.

I'm still working out exactly how I feel about this movie - meaning that I'm trying to figure out if I merely love it or OMG LOVE it. I'm leaning toward the latter. There was something about the very end that was ... I don't want to say unsatisfactory, but it wasn't quite the "woaaaah" I was expecting after the twenty minutes that immediately preceded it. Twenty minutes which, I must say, make up perhaps the most perfect movie climax I've seen on a movie screen this year. Period.



( I just want to be perfect. )

Excellent, excellent movie. Man, I love this time of year!

I love our little group that meets in Brooklyn (usually) once a month to watch a Rifftrax movie or MST3K episode. There was another one tonight. We watched The Last Airbender and hoo boy is it every bit as horrible as everyone said. More so, I think. Horrible acting, amazingly awkward dialogue (references to Tommy Wiseau and The Room were not at all unfitting), bizarre editing, and no storytelling skills whatsoever.

As usual, my navigational skills failed me when forced to make my way through the labyrinth of DUMBO, despite my having been to this particular meetup location several times before. I was glad to see that I was not alone in my befuddlement (though, I guess I should concede that most of those people were probably trying to find this place for the first time). I always have the vague thought as I enter the building (which is former munitions factory that has been adapted into a few lofts) that I'm either secretly in an Adrian Lyne film and on my way to a smutty tryst or in a horror movie about to be stabbed. This time I had the added joy of imagining that I was in A Serbian Film, where both those eventualities would be possible, perhaps at the same time, in a location such as this. Oh my dear brain, what have you become?!

Next month, we sparkle on with Eclipse ("Volturi - that's Chevy's new midsize sedan, right?"). Rifftrax is the only way to see the Twilight movies.

* Remember a few weeks ago when Kurt told Blaine that Karofsky kissing him in the locker room was his first kiss (or at least the first that counted)? Not true! Perhaps this "doesn't count" (though I don't see why), but he made out with Brittany last season. Does Karofsky basically attacking him in the locker room somehow count *more* than that, just because he was faking straight? This bugs me, because it's either canon amnesia from the writers of the dang show (and the actors, too, I guess, since no one corrected it) or ... well, it kind of strikes me as misogynist. Like it doesn't count with a girl because he doesn't like girls.

* I'm not one to root for people's marriages to fail, and I don't like the way the show (or at least Emma's storyline) has messed around with marriage, but I do think something is up with Emma's quickie Vegas wedding. It happened almost immediately after she tells Will that she and Carl fought because of the Sectionals ticket and that Carl has issues with Will. I wonder if this is building to some fallout later in the season. I can definitely see where Carl might have acted out of threatened feelings and Emma might have done it because she felt guilty. Maybe that's not what's going on, but I can see where the writers might be going that way.

* On a related note, LOL at Finn and Rachel getting couples counseling from Emma. The only person who could give them worse relationship advice is Will.

* I know people hate Rachel because she's obnoxious and self-important, but that is why I love her and think she is awesomesauce. Every time she makes me cringe or roll my eyes, I have to smile. I knew loads of people like this - I occasionally WAS someone like this - in high school. And in many ways she's a caricature (there are parts - PARTS - of her that remind me of Hermione Granger, actually). That said, making out with Puck to get back at your boyfriend? DUMB MOVE, GIRL!

* Okay, I didn't really like "The Substitute", but this is something that especially bugged me. Holly intimates that New Directions got last place at Regionals because the songs they sung were too old. But the group that WON did an even OLDER song. "Bohemian Rhapsody" was released in 1975. The oldest Journey song New Directions did was from 1979.

Can I volunteer myself as Fact Nazi for their writing staff?