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Sun, Nov. 28th, 2004 12:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterYay! 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.
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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Sun, Nov. 28th, 2004 04:13 pm (UTC)And Black Widow!
Hee, Catwoman must have warped me from a very early age to go for the morally ambiguous female characters with weapons ;).
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Sun, Nov. 28th, 2004 04:27 pm (UTC)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.
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Sun, Nov. 28th, 2004 04:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Sun, Nov. 28th, 2004 04:35 pm (UTC)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.
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Mon, Nov. 29th, 2004 11:27 am (UTC)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!