Turquoise Beads

Last night I went to the premiere of the Avengers movie. Suffice it to say, it was amazing, and you all should go see it. The dialogue was witty, the chemistry between the characters was strong, stunning visual effects and cg that didn’t detract from the film, and a few surprisingly well composed cinematographic shots. While the pacing for my personal taste felt at times a bit rushed, and certain emotional key moments needed more weight, overall the film was enjoyable and adrenaline inducing. I also saw it in 3D, and while it surprisingly didn’t detract from the movie, and provided some cool moments where you felt that you were physically present in the scene, it didn’t really add that much more to the experience as I imagine seeing it in 2D would.

One other pleasant surprise of the night was the portrayal of the only female Avenger, Black Widow. Now, those of you that know me know that I’m not exactly the last word in feminism, but I have to give credit where credit is due. Scarlett Johansson is undoubtedly a sexy, attractive, beautiful woman. I honestly expected them to discard her as just fanboy fodder, since you know, no need to give the female fans a woman to identify with because we don’t like and don’t know shit about comic books anyway. But instead of ass shots and “look at me I’m a hot chick with a gun, but can’t really do anything” poses, Black Widow was a strong, intelligent, take-no-shit from anyone badass, who wasn’t afraid of using the world’s stereotypes of women to her own advantage and turning those stereotypes on their heads. On top of that, she didn’t need to act like a man or “one of the guys” to be seen as strong; she in all of her womanly strength was respected by her fellow teammates as one of the team, and not just the woman on the team. Additionally, her role in saving the world was important and pivotal; the part she played actually mattered. Often, when there’s one female team member, she gets delegated the job that if she were to suddenly disappear, the guys would have won anyway. I was also impressed that her costume wasn’t just all cleavage, and while it did hug ScarJo’s behind quite nicely, there were never any close up ass shots that reduced her merely to a fanboy’s wet dream. As a female member of the audience I was happy to have a woman superhero to relate to, who wasn’t useless or just there for fanservice. I walked away from the theater wanting to know more about the character and perhaps pick up some comic books that feature her.

So if you haven’t seen it yet and aren’t planning to, get your butts to the theater and see it! You won’t be disappointed.

korranation:

Korra Nation,

Now that you’ve all gotten a glimpse into the new Korra universe, we have a question we’d love to pick your brain on:

If you could have any single piece of Korra swag, what would it be? A Naga dog bowl? A Fire Ferrets t-shirt? A waterbending water bottle? Reblog, comment and let us know!

-Team Korra

4/8/2012

Shirts! or hoodies!! basically something I can wear to rep the show :]

Full moon and reverie
that the same thought
should traverse over about 8,500 miles of optic wiring and satellite signals
that you weren’t and I wasn’t
and that we never
those could have’s, would have’s, and should have’s
turning to maybe’s and somewhere-someday’s
Full moon bright and unabashedly glaring through the slits in my window slats
to transport lonely hearts to other times