Reviews: the rocking females edition

( how come no one told me the chick from rushmore was in this movie??? )

( how come no one told me the chick from rushmore was in this movie??? )

( thank GOD there was a sequel, or this movie would have no redeeming qualities )



( the men who thought this was a good idea should be shot )( or, the men who read this shit and foolishly thought it would work )
Rating: 0

The cast of this movie is INSANELY good.  What the FUCK were you all thinking? 

Ok, so I laughed a few times.  The dancing was good and the goats were really fucking cute.  But seriously, dudes.  WTF?

I feel like the entire thing was trying for a Wes Anderson feel.  Or whatever style WA uses, if he didn't invent that dead-panned thing he always does.  A LOT of dark comedies try for this, and it seldom works out because a) you are not WA, dude, and b) they pick a situuation what is just TOO WEIRD.

 

James/Lily, Harry Potter (ok, more from shoebox_project, but I'll try to talk more about canon)



01.  The episode/scene that made me love this pairing: In PoA, when Remus first talks about being friends with Harry's parents.  I love high school sweetheart pairings that last.  (It's one of my greater weaknesses.)

02.  A song that reminds me of the pairing:  something to talk about, badly drawn boy

03.  My favorite episode/scene for the pairing:  I realize that in the books they're only in like two scenes, but I still love the whole Snape's Penseive chapter in OotP.  Another trope I love is lovers who hate each other before they love each other.  It really pissed me off when they fucked with this scene in the movie, especially since it ends up being kind of important in DH.

04.  What I love about the pairing:  Here I have to delve a little into shoebox, where Lily is a much more developed character than she is in canon.  In sb, she is smart and prim without being exactly like Hermione, whom I also love.  She leaves angry notes ("you are all imbeciles") and dates Kingsley Shacklebolt.  My all-time favorite James/Lily sb scene is at the funeral for James' parents, when he spills tea on his trousers and can't find his other pair and she goes back into the house to escape Slughorn's pomposity.  Much as I love the books, a big part of me wishes they'd never had (or at least waited) Harry and lived happily ever after.

Rory/Jess, Gilmore Girls


01.  I fell back at Luke and Laura/Sid and Nancy.  They deliberately made a spark with these two, but I allowed myself to be manipulated.

02. femme fatale, velvet underground 

03.  Can't Get Started defines all that is wonderful and screwed up about this pairing.  That kiss is still their best ever.

04.  I love it when two people are obviously perfect for each other but they both aren't mature enough to actually be together.  Once these two actually started dating it was horrible, as it should have been with both of them being as dumb as they were.  Years down the road I imagine them meeting up some random way and having lots of hot well-adjusted sex.

Sally/Patrick, Coupling



01.  Flushed had excellent S/P action, especially when she smiles at him just after Susan breaks up with him and says, "You're single now.  You qualify for my elasticity.

02. brandy alexander, feist

03.  This picture is from one of my all-time favorite scenes from Sex, Love and Death.  That episode defines Sally as I see her, and this scene defines their relationship when he comes in and asks, "Do you want to be my date for Susan's new boyfriend's ex-girlfriend's aunt's funeral?" 

04.  I love that they're both so screwed up.  Listening to Sally is like seeing all of my own insecurities spelled out infront of me, including my weakness for absolute assholes like Patrick.  I love that they get on so well even though they're so different, and that even though she doesn't reform him he acts differently around her than he does around anyone else.

Lane/Dave, Gilmore Girls


01.  The scene in Application Anxiety where they meet and fall into eternal musical love.

02.  rock and roll suicide, david bowie

03.  Deep Fried Korean Thanksgiving, with that first kiss and all the crazy plots to fool Mrs. Kim.

04.  In the beginning they both liked each other but kept it on the down low.  Then they started dating and he pretended to be Christian for her and they kept it a secret from their clueless bandmates.  They are another pair that I imagine reuniting as jaded but intelligent adults. 

Robin/Marian, Robin Hood

01. Speaking strictly about the BBC series, the scene at the end of Will You Tolerate this when he tries to kiss her and she blows him off because he went to The Holy Land for five years. 

02.  angels and angles, the decemberists

03.  I don't remember the episode, but I loved the scene after Guy gave her the horse when Robin was like, "What did you promise him in return?"  If the writers of this show weren't so prudish, there would have been a totally hot sex scene right after that exchange.

04.  I liked them best in series one, before he told her that he loved her and they became like an old married couple that happened to live in two separate places and couldn't be seen together because the sherrif's lackey was in love with her.  They slowly came to care for each other again, and he would watch from the perch outside her window whenever Guy made a play on her virtue.  In every version of Robin Hood mythology I've seen or read before this, Marian hasn't kicked nearly as much ass.  I love that they both want to do what's right but have different ways of doing so.   

Because I'm bored and enjoy reading long episode-related rants about my favorite shows, I decided to give full commentary a try for myself.  I hope this will get everyone one my f-list who has yet to feel the Coupling love to at least watch an episode of the show.  I don't think any of you would regret it.  As for everyone who I know is already turned onto the magic, hopefully you'll enjoy this meta.  Part one of the episode can be found on youtube here, part two can be found here, and part three can be found here.  Watch and feel the greatness.