Fast X was a "rip-roaring fun time" to borrow a phrase. Outrageously stupid and self-aware, and my jaw dropped at the absurdity of the last 5 minutes or so. What's a term for jumping the shark but in a positive way? That's what Fast X is doing.
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I think Mirren was only in 8 and 9 before this. And Hobbes & ShawFast Ten is… s’okay. Didn’t realize it was supposed to be a two parter when I went to see it so that ending sure was abrupt.
I feel like Fast & Furious movies must be what it’s like to be Medium Invested in the MCU; there are so many characters introduced and killed off and then just… back again and I can’t keep track of all of them; I think Helen Mireans been in half of them and I’m surprised to see her in every single movie
Three parter!Fast Ten is… s’okay. Didn’t realize it was supposed to be a two parter when I went to see it so that ending sure was abrupt.
His voice was weird and didn't really seem to fit early on, but I think that was the point? Like, you're not supposed to take him seriously early on, just like Miles, so he doubles and triples down until he's a real threat, and at that point he's sufficiently sinister sounding. I think there's also a read of the character that someone should eventually write about how he's emblematic of fragile cis-white-male ego, and the propensity for rightwing extremists to self-radicalize because of it, and misdirect all of their frustrations and anger onto brown people that have nothing to do with any of their woes.
The only vocal performance I wasn't totally impressed with was Jason Schwartzman as The Spot. I guess the idea is that he's this ineffectual nobody who ends up becoming a complete nightmare and Schwartzman was conveying that in his performance, but in execution it just felt like a bunch of weak line readings and kept distracting me. Everyone else was amazing.
“Some stuff” being World War I, yeah.Tolkien must have gone through some stuff, eh?
This reminds me of Ample Vigour's post in the Top 50 Fantasy Novels thread in the previous incarnation of Talking Time, with his contribution to the conversation around the Chronicles of Narnia and Susan not going to Book of Revelations Narnia:“Some stuff” being World War I, yeah.
Probably one of the best posts in TT history.CS Lewis learned what 'growing up' was worth on the Somme.
We aren't supposed to judge Susan or pity her, we're supposed to recognize ourselves in her. I'm Susan, you're Susan, Lewis is Susan. We put on our nice clothes and bitch about not getting laid and drink too much, and most of us are on powerful psychotropic drugs all the time.
But to the charge that a man born to Irish middle class in the 1800s may be insufficiently woke, I have no rebuttal