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[oyceter]

Yay! The rats are one year old today!

Urgh, of course I can remember the birthday of my rats but not the birthdays of anyone on LJ (or of anyone not me or my sister, for that matter).

Saw After the Sunset yesterday because me and the boy are complete suckers for heist movies, and throwing Pierce Brosnan and Salma Hayek in there was simply too hard to resist. It was ok, but not heist-y enough for me. Although it was so incredibly slashy it wasn't even subtextual. At least the two women in the movie weren't wimps, though part of it was the old "guy misses his glory days and wants to go back while girl is perfectly content as is" plot thing that was part of The Incredibles and pretty much all of those "one last heist" movies. And again (I'm sure everyone saw this coming), now I want movies with female thieves! There's a huge dearth of female spies and female assassins, and now female thieves too! Though I feel there are more female thieves than the other two, but they never seem to have movies centered around them. Any good guy cop chases female thief movies, sort of like Thomas Crown Affair backwards?

I suspect this big hankering on my part is because I wanted to be Catwoman when I was six years old. Hee hee.

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[yhlee.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday, rats!

[angeyja.livejournal.com]

Did you catch the _Elektra_ trailer yet, by any chance?

Just *grinning*.

[oyceter]

Elektra trailer?? As in, angsty assassin girl from Daredevil?

Oooooooooooooo.

I never saw Daredevil, but I keep almost reading the comics because of Elektra.

Ooooooooooooo.

Thanks for the heads up!

[angeyja.livejournal.com]

*grin* that would be she...

... wanders off in Google of red leather corset and sai...

( I have to say too that Catwoman (not Halle, as lovely as she is) was always a fave.. then we have Storm, Dark Phoenix... Emma Frost, Scarlet Witch, Black Widow, The Cat.. Buffy Faith ah well, I drone...)

[oyceter]

I adore Emma Frost because she's such a strange, morally ambiguous character. Alas, the current mini-series doesn't seem to be working the morally ambiguous angle, so I've stopped reading it for now.

And Black Widow!

Hee, Catwoman must have warped me from a very early age to go for the morally ambiguous female characters with weapons ;).

[angeyja.livejournal.com]

Yes. Exactly. Jean Grey got a lot more interesting oneve they colored her a bit (at least to me.)

Yes. *grin* Black Widow... more seriously (argh, I shouldn't) there is something in all of these.. that really spoke to me growing up. Powerful. Edgy. Conflicted. I will never every say comics don't make great YA reading.

Every quarter (eat your heart out wouldn't that be a lovely dream today) was well well spent. My only regret is selling that collection. The value really wasn't money, and I think the best present I got leaving the private school environment for public wasn't the student plaque, as lovely as that was, but the two collectors editions bagged comics, and Xmen and a Batman.

Yeah they _really_ knew me.

And that's another really cool thing. That there's this link there that you can connect across age across gender across culture with characters with story.

I am reading _Founding Bros_ this week and part of that is because of the same thought, of the connection across differences. Ellis is speaking to something dfferent but it remind sme of this of how these strong edgy women speak.

I'm awfully boring here.

Yeah Elektra. I am very revved as the trailer looks amazing, and so does the Batman one which is an "Origins of."

I really loved Burton, the I saw and enjoyed the others but this next looks much closer to Burton, closer to how I see Batman.

[angeyja.livejournal.com]

Sorry. I have three windows rolling and I don't multitask.. the typos are prodigious.

[oyceter]

I was so happy when Black Widow made an appearance in Gaiman's 1602!

I wasn't really able to keep up with comics when I was a kid, due to the whole being in Taiwan factor, but I would borrow people's compilations and stand and read in bookstores and the like as much as I possibly could. So my knowledge of canon is rather spotty. I was also the only girl in my class who really seemed to read them. The guys would stare at me a little funny the first time I asked to borrow them, but I think they got used to me after a while.

But yes, I used to watch the Adam West Batman show when I still lived in Colorado, and me and my sister would run around pretending to be Catwoman and Batgirl, respectively. And then I got my hands on The Greatest Batman Stories (or something like that), which had a few Catwoman stories, and then I read Frank Miller (girl Robin!). And Dark Phoenix, mmmm.

I am so glad Joss is writing Emma Frost in his Astonishing X-Men!

I really need to see the Batman trailer! I saw an article on it in Entertainment Weekly, and I was very excited! It sounds very Frank Miller-esque and Burton-esque, and those have always been my favorite Batman interpretations. Needless to say, I adored Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman.

[angeyja.livejournal.com]

Modesty Blaise? (I was very very young.)

I do hope it will be good, and "yes" about Batgirl and didn't she have a secret panel (mini batcave) and a motorcycle? I have sort of vaguish memories of one winter's humongous snowfall and digging caves into a huge snow bank.. really, when you think about it, surviving childhood must have involved a good bit of luck.

I used to draw the superheroes and make my own up and stories to go with. That and the myth characters and the SF/F. I was pretty fond of MZB and Andre Norton and such CS Lewis, Lloyd Alexander, and a lot I've already mentioned so there where all sorts of stories that flowed out as I drew. Wow, brings back memories!

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

I suspect this big hankering on my part is because I wanted to be Catwoman when I was six years old

Didn't we all? Although those of us who grew up watching reruns of the Batman live-action television series were really warped because we wanted to be Petula Clarke as well.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

I suspect this big hankering on my part is because I wanted to be Catwoman when I was six years old

Didn't we all?

Some of us wanted to be Emma Peel.

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

Ah, I didn't see the Avengers til much later.

[oyceter]

Petula Clarke? Hrm, don't remember her...

brain, brain?!

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

Bloody hell, was not at all Petula Clarke but rather Eartha Kitt (with that delightful Roy Orbison-type gurgly growl)....how my brain did that rather whack little transmutation I'll never know. Bloody bloody....

Re: brain, brain?!

[oyceter]

Ooo Eartha Kitt, yes. Although I think I may have seen more eps with Julie Newmar, so she's the visual I have in my head for Catwoman.

Re: brain, brain?!

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

Julie Newmar was first two seasons, oh yeah (I remember wondering where she had gone. But Eartha Kitt!).

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Well, there's no good guy cop in it, but excellent female thiefness in Entrapment. And Sean Connery, too.

I thought After the Sunset was a lot of fun, but it weas the specific sort of lot of fun that works best in March or April after months of snow on the ground, when lots of sun and surf are really really soothing, and November was not an ideal time for a release in Montreal.

And Pierce Brosnan's right about how being Irish means one expresses what one feels.

[oyceter]

Oo, yes, I remember watching Entrapment. That was fun. Catsuits ;).

I think you may be right about After the Sunset -- were you the one who wrote a post on the special genre of February beach movies?

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

That was me, yes.

[fresne.livejournal.com]

Well, there's always Innocent Blood, with our main character/female vampire starting the movie with the words, "I feel like Italian tonight."

Not exactly a serious movie, but fun.

[oyceter]

Ooo, sounds like fun!

Thanks for the heads up!

[fannishly.livejournal.com]

Although it was so incredibly slashy it wasn't even subtextual.

True! I really enjoyed those scenes. Especially the shark one, which cracked me up. And the suntan lotion! *giggles*

At least the two women in the movie weren't wimps,

But they were so formulaically not wimps, if that makes sense.

[oyceter]

LOL! I very much liked the shark scene ^_^.

I liked the police officer better than Salma Hayek's character, actually. But that's probably because there are too many "girl wants out of crime thing, guy is still thrilled" plots going around.