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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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And in response to my desperate flailing for kickass female assassin types, __angela__ points out the Elektra trailer. Gah! Marial arts! Sais! At least two female fighter types! *big grin* This hankering has not been helped out by watching Morgaine's "She Bangs" Faith and Buffy vid about ten times in the past week, because Buffy and Faith fighting! Mmmm.

Had dim sum with fannishly and one of the boy's friends, and I am now very happily full. After having about three days worth of turkey sandwiches, it was nice to have dim sum as a change of pace. Though the turkey/mashed potato/avocado/brie sandwich is also very good. Mmm. Mashed potatoes... You know you have been somewhat overzealous in your sandwich making when the thing doesn't actually fit in your mouth.

More Incredibles links:
fannishly has a review with spoilers, with connections to HP as well.
arethusa2 connects it with fandom (spoilers) and the double-edged swords of competition and expectation.

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