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Schweedie

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  1. There's a great little zombie flick on Netflix called Cargo, with Martin Freeman, about a man who's been bitten and tries to figure out where to leave his baby daughter before he turns (in this version, you have 48 hours and there are bracelets you put that count down for you). Right at the end, after he's turned and is about to be put out of his misery, his companion stops it in order to spray some of his wife's perfume in front of him first, and that brief moment of serenity on his face when he recognises the scent is just heartbreaking and wonderful.
  2. They also didn't take her seriously - she was just a hysterical woman, with extra hysteria blamed on pregnancy hormones. She certainly did need medication, the *right* medication, but instead of actually treating her they basically just aimed to calm her down. When she said "I just want to know why I'm feeling this way" and the doctor brushed her off, I felt that.
  3. The time jumps confused me at first, too, until I realised it was a flashback. They made it seem like they spent more time together than the one night. But yeah, Dahmer apparently had an obsession with not being left (whether that was true in real life I have no idea) so although he managed to let him go once, he couldn't do it again. The desire to "keep" Tony ended up being too much. I'm not sure how much of this story, the whole emotional attachment thing, was true, though. All I know about Dahmer comes from Wikipedia and that just says he lured Tony Hughes to his apartment to take photos and then killed him. So dramatic license, I'm guessing.
  4. Schweedie

    S01.E01: Home

    I mean, for them to seemingly be doing this regularly throughout their whole lives, I'd say yeah, they're both nuts. And are we even sure Leni is definitely Mattie's mother? Might as well be Gina? Internal monologues to narrate in shows like this tends to drive me nuts and Michelle Monaghan's here is no exception. But I'll give it another couple of episodes. Premise is wild but could be entertaining!
  5. One of my absolute favourite things about the finale was that Saul took credit - not just blame, but *credit* - for Walt's whole drug empire thing. That's like the ultimate insult to Walt and his ego, like the writers gave him one last kick in the nuts all these years after the show ended. Because Saul probably had a point. Without him, Walt and Jesse wouldn't have been introduced to Mike or Gus - they might've ended up on their radar at some point given how high quality their meth was, but odds are Saul was right that they would've been dead or in prison long before that. I hated that Walt basically got the best ending he could've hoped for in Felina, and I very much appreciated this little dig at his actual kingpin skills.
  6. When the fairy godmothers are attempting to sew a dress for Aurora in Sleeping Beauty: "It looks awful." "That's because it's on you, dear."
  7. The scene in Watership Down when Holly is telling the others about how humans destroyed their warren is one I've never gotten over - the freaky visuals with the rabbits suffocating honestly still terrify me. I love that film, but 30 years later I still skip that scene.
  8. This was also something I wondered about, the universe-wide implications of the villains being cured. Like, either it could set off a separate timeline with them being 'variants' given that they're now sort of part of the MCU, or like you say Spidey 2's and 3's futures might be different.
  9. I laughed hard at that, too. Like, YES, sweetie, they really really were. I felt like that was a large part of why she was being so haughty - it wasn't just that she was hurt, but also feeling really stupid and embarrassed that she hadn't realised it before.
  10. One of my favourite moments was when she looked at what she'd drawn and had that moment of "Oooooh!" before getting her game face on and starting to scribble furiously, haha. ETA - it did amuse how the pandas in the film are depicted as these large, potentially terrifying creatures, when in reality they're basically similar in size to a racoon.
  11. I may have rewound that line many, many times. Sandra Oh delivered it perfectly. That critic clearly doesn't know all that much about demographics!
  12. I wonder about this, too, about how the spell really works. Like, people apparently remember Spider-Man, so they should remember stuff that Spider-Man has been involved in alongside them, like on the Europe trip for Ned and MJ, or the rest of the still living Avengers. I found the ending kind of really depressing. Peter completely alone, literally no one in the world knowing him. He could at least have gone to Strange and explained things.
  13. This would be such a bullshit argument even if it *weren't* for those 300 000 Chinese people in Toronto. Since when can we only appreciate movies that are about us specifically? And even if not being the target audience prevents you from enjoying the movie, which I can understand, why would you just everyone else feels the same? I've heard so many women say how much they recognise their thirteen-year-old selves in this movie, even without the Chinese heritage.
  14. Schweedie

    Disney Films

    Oh yeah, I realised that almost right after when they continued talking, but the panda was what I thought of first.
  15. Schweedie

    Disney Films

    I wondered about that, too. I think I read it as her having been pushing down everything she was feeling harder than the others her whole life, especially compared to Mei - Mei still had outlets where she could be herself, with her friends and everything. I got the sense that her mum didn't have that, which affected the form her panda took when it was let out. Or maybe it was big but not THAT big before, getting bigger this time when it was finally let out after such a long time and Mei's mum was so angry. Also, when we saw her as a young girl during the ritual, crying and saying "I hurt her", I actually thought she meant that she hurt her panda at first. That that was why her panda was the way it was. (Am I overthinking this were-panda thing? Probably.)
  16. Schweedie

    Disney Films

    I LOVED Turning Red. I think it felt more clearly aimed at that particular age group than many other Pixar movies, which might be why audiences don't love it as much, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with that and I still found it super enjoyable. And I laughed so hard at "Did... the red peony bloom?"
  17. It really bothered me, because I think the show failed in making us see WHY she was roped in. Anna was nothing but unpleasant to her. Why did she care? She had the whole story (as did the rest of Scriberia), what on Earth made her believe or even want to believe that Anna was anything but a sociopath and a con artist? Like you say, wanting to get that first article done made sense to me, but the way she acted in this episode? Nope. This was *after* she figured out that Anna lied to get herself into rehab. Neff frustrated me so much. After all that, you still maintain that Anna didn't do anything wrong? It's one thing to stand by your friend despite their wrongdoings, but you can't just keep pretending she isn't guilty when there's a mountain of proof. You can't maintain that her dad just temporarily cut her off and that it would've worked itself out when you now have proof that there was no money there. And you don't have to like Rachel to accept the fact that she actually was a victim in this. I couldn't tell if the show wanted to portray Rachel as a villain or if it wanted us to see how Anna managed to twist it into her being the villain, but no matter how shallow or opportunistic she was, she was *not* the villain here. It didn't make sense to me that Kacy would take the moral high ground over Rachel like that after everything, either, and I'm gonna chalk that up to a failing of the show.
  18. I did like the ending with Stan ending up a geek, even though you could see it coming - after Willem Defoe's character described the process it was like, yeah, that's gonna end up being a plot point. Like the alcohol. They weren't exactly subtle with the foreshadowing. But Stan ending up a geek was kind of poetic in a way; not that *anyone* deserves that, but at least he walked into it with eyes open. But I didn't think they were all that clear about why Lilith did what she did. Was she just a psychopath who did what she did because she enjoyed it, was she one of the girls Grindle hurt and used Stan for payback, or was it all to get back at Stan because he embarrassed her when they first met by besting her? Or a combination?
  19. Ha, I kept wondering the same thing. And I kept being similarly distracted by Mark Rylance's fake teeth - it almost looked like he was having trouble keeping them in his mouth while talking. I -- kinda liked this, didn't love it. Felt like it could've been about half an hour shorter and maybe just a little bit more subtle. There were bits that I loved, like Jennifer Lawrence's character being hung up on being charged for the free snacks, and I liked that it felt like how something like this might actually realistically go, but on the whole I thought it felt a little meandering. I did absolutely assume that the US were responsible for the failed attempt of the others to destroy the comet.
  20. When he was giving his spiel about how he had what he'd earned taken away from him, although he fucked up with the whole 'oldest son' thing, you can sort of see where he was coming from - messy though he is, he clearly put in a lot of work at Waystar throughout the years and he probably would've made sense as a successor.
  21. I mean, part of it could be that she doesn't want to officially, legally, be a part of that mess of a family, heh. Although she already has to deal with them anyway, so there's that. I did think she looked genuinely happy after she finally said yes (or, well, 'fuck it'), though.
  22. Now that was a season finale, dang. I loved the moment with Shiv, Roman and Kendall when they were heading off after they finally got Kendall up off the ground - she asked him where he wanted to wait and he asked "Can I be with you guys?" Even with how fucked up their relationships with one another are, they're still the best they all have.
  23. It's interesting - I had a different view of that conversation. I took that line as her acknowledging that she hadn't been a good mother, wasn't cut out for it and thus shouldn't have had children. I read it as an almost-sort-of apology.
  24. Same here! I don't handle second-hand embarrassment well and Kendall makes me feel it so much. If he weren't so insecure and felt this need to seem cool and above-it-all I don't think he'd be half as cringe-y.
  25. But she only decided to not use them because Keeley was determined to find out who took them and who hired that person, and Rebecca realised they could be traced back to her if she didn't just stop it from running. Early season 1 Rebecca really wasn't a good person - or she was, deep down, but she certainly didn't behave like one.
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