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misuraInterstellar (2014) (Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway)
At some point in the future, everyone on Earth stands in imminent danger of starving and/or choking to death, so NASA sends one last mission to space to find a new place for mankind to live.
I love how unabashedly sentimental this movie was? Just, in nearly any situation where people can make a rational, logical decision that makes sense or an irrational, illogical decision that ~feels right~, the rational decision turns out to be wrong. From 'I have to leave my family to save the world' to 'the data from this planet looks great and we should go there' - it's always wrong, wrong, or very wrong.
If I'd watched this in a different mood, I think I might have hated that? Because um, sorry, if we're talking 'fate of the world', I'd kind of prefer the person in charge to go with 'all data and evidence suggests this is a good idea' rather than 'well, I've just got a good feeling about this!'.
But I watched this when sentimental, so when we got to 'LOVE IS THE MOST POWERFUL FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE!!!' (or, okay, the way us poor, limited humans perceive that force because we aren't smart enough yet to develop the tech to perceive this force in any other way), I was 100% there for it.
Also: there are robots with a sense of humor. (I loved the robots with a sense of humor.)
Renfield (2023) (Nicholas Hoult, Awkafina, Nicolas Cage)
what the blurb promised: Dark comedy where Renfield tries to get out of his toxic, codependent relationship with Dracula. (set during present day)
what I watched: Fairly gory and bloody action movie where Renfield gets super powers from eating bugs and beats up roomfuls of bad people, and also there is a plot involved one (1) cop who isn't corrupt taking on the crime family who killed her father and the rest of the very corrupt police department (but her sister works with the FBI and is also not corrupt).
All right, so there's also a bit of the promised relationship stuff, but ... I still felt like I was promised a completely different movie from the one I got, and I didn't like it half as much.
Miss Sloane (2016) (Jessica Chastain, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mark Strong)
Ruthless female lobbyist who lives for her work joins a campaign supporting gun control legislation.
I loved how manipulative the MC was and how the movie didn't end with her 'learning a lesson' or 'realizing there's more to life than work'. I mean, she does end the movie in prison, so it's not a 100% rainbows-and-unicorns happy ending, but ... I liked it? I liked that there was no reconciliation between her and the people on her own team she hurt. I loved the plots and the tricks and the manipulation.
AO3's section for this movie is small but it's got the femslash I went looking for, so I'm pleased there as well.
At some point in the future, everyone on Earth stands in imminent danger of starving and/or choking to death, so NASA sends one last mission to space to find a new place for mankind to live.
I love how unabashedly sentimental this movie was? Just, in nearly any situation where people can make a rational, logical decision that makes sense or an irrational, illogical decision that ~feels right~, the rational decision turns out to be wrong. From 'I have to leave my family to save the world' to 'the data from this planet looks great and we should go there' - it's always wrong, wrong, or very wrong.
If I'd watched this in a different mood, I think I might have hated that? Because um, sorry, if we're talking 'fate of the world', I'd kind of prefer the person in charge to go with 'all data and evidence suggests this is a good idea' rather than 'well, I've just got a good feeling about this!'.
But I watched this when sentimental, so when we got to 'LOVE IS THE MOST POWERFUL FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE!!!' (or, okay, the way us poor, limited humans perceive that force because we aren't smart enough yet to develop the tech to perceive this force in any other way), I was 100% there for it.
Also: there are robots with a sense of humor. (I loved the robots with a sense of humor.)
Renfield (2023) (Nicholas Hoult, Awkafina, Nicolas Cage)
what the blurb promised: Dark comedy where Renfield tries to get out of his toxic, codependent relationship with Dracula. (set during present day)
what I watched: Fairly gory and bloody action movie where Renfield gets super powers from eating bugs and beats up roomfuls of bad people, and also there is a plot involved one (1) cop who isn't corrupt taking on the crime family who killed her father and the rest of the very corrupt police department (but her sister works with the FBI and is also not corrupt).
All right, so there's also a bit of the promised relationship stuff, but ... I still felt like I was promised a completely different movie from the one I got, and I didn't like it half as much.
Miss Sloane (2016) (Jessica Chastain, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mark Strong)
Ruthless female lobbyist who lives for her work joins a campaign supporting gun control legislation.
I loved how manipulative the MC was and how the movie didn't end with her 'learning a lesson' or 'realizing there's more to life than work'. I mean, she does end the movie in prison, so it's not a 100% rainbows-and-unicorns happy ending, but ... I liked it? I liked that there was no reconciliation between her and the people on her own team she hurt. I loved the plots and the tricks and the manipulation.
AO3's section for this movie is small but it's got the femslash I went looking for, so I'm pleased there as well.
