Movies...

But I'm a Cheerleader

I watched this movie the other day and I LOVED IT!!! I'm not normally this crazy over movies and I'm definitely more of a TV person but this one was like... made for me. The plot itself is pretty serious but it still manages to be a really funny and sweet movie~
If you've never seen it, it's about a girl named Megan (played by Natasha Lyonne), and she's a pretty average girl who loves cheerleading, typical girly stuff, and supposedly her boyfriend... but her friends and family all suspect her of being a LESBIAN (gee, i wonder why... see picture 1), so her parents send her to a conversion therapy place called True Directions to make her "normal" (picture 2). This obviously doesn't work, but there she makes friends with her fellow gays and lesbians and eventually has a romance with one of the other girls there (picture 3! EEEEEEE!!!!!!)...

Sooooo... YEAH. No movie is perfect and this one isn't either, but it is very very very special to me!!!! It makes me extremely happy as a little lesbian myself and I see a lot of myself in Megan lolololol. The movie was made by Jamie Babbit who is a lesbian herself, which is so cool because like half the time lesbian characters don't feel like lesbians because they aren't written by lesbians.
IN CONCLUSION: this is such a good movie especially if you are a hopeless sapphic who goes absolutely insane over girls kissing... like me. And it has a very sweet happy ending so you won't feel like absolute shit when you're finished watching it!!!!!

Titanic

Somehow, I've never seen Titanic. Today I just had the urge to see it for the first time, and so I did. I spent 3 hours today watching this movie, and boy do I have thoughts...I really enjoyed it! It's a good movie. It's well done, and it did make me feel emotions... I love romance, so of course that got me, but also I'm fascinated by tragedies and disasters like that... I know it sounds cruel and heartless, but I don't know how to explain... I'm interested in how people respond to fatal situations and the feelings that are evoked... :P I don't know how not to sound weird. ANYHOO, this movie was great. I don't particularly like Leo DiCaprio and I think he's a creep, but I managed. Whatever. I loved Kate Winslet and I thought she was very good!!! I love Rose quite a bit. I think she's very strong and just a good person, and I like that she's brave enough to define her existence by herself. However, I do believe she could have been done more justice... When the ship starts flooding, and she needs to save Jack, we get to see a totally kickass side of Rose that I absolutely ADORE. She's incredible. She wades through the freezing water and forces her way through the ship to save him, she punches a guy in the nose so hard when he won't let go of her that he bleeds, and she grabs an axe from the wall to smash his handcuffs. IT'S FUCKING AWESOME. But at the same time, I think when she's not alone, when she's with Jack (which is most of the time), she's held back. Not like, he's holding her back, because he's not and that's the point, but the writing is holding her back. Sometimes it felt like she wasn't allowed to be such a badass bitch when she had her big strong reckless man by her side. I dunno. Not to say she isn't awesome at any other points in the movie, it's just that I wish we could have seen more of that girl power. She's still clever and daring the whole movie, and even as a 101-year-old lady, but meh. She makes Jack do a lot of the heavy lifting sometimes when I just want her to go "fuck it, I'll do it myself." But it's not her fault. She's just a character.

Anyways. OKAY. Wow I said a lot there. I wondered a lot about how they shot all these scenes... I know there were some miniatures involved and I picked up on a lot of green screening that was kind of laughable but maybe not I don't know I'm not the smartest but sometimes I did go teehee. I alsooo thought about, like, I'm pretty sure they did go down to the wreckage for the beginning sequence, or so I've heard... did anything get damaged? Or maybe it's just a computer generated thing. I hope it is. That ship is obviously not in perfect condition and I know it is very easily hurt. Concerned!!!!

I like that Jack and Rose share a passion for art. I think that's cute. I think they're kind of a nerdy couple and I like that about them, and I like that they love adventure and mischief and stuff like that. The tumblrina in me wants to make them T4T lesbians. I'm projecting. Because that's me. And I want what they have. But whatever. I love their antics.

Lastly.......Oh shit I forgot what I was going to say here....OH YEAH. You know how everyone always says "There was totally room on the door for Jack!!!! She should have just moved over!!!!" ? Well I'm here to tell you THERE WASN'T ROOM ON THE DOOR FOR JACK!!! YOU'RE ALL WRONG!!!! Didn't you see how it was tipping when they were both handling it??? Yeah. It doesn't matter if there was space on there.... there was absolutely not enough weight to hold them both. Sure, you can say there totally was enough weight and I'm just being contrarian. But come on. That door is also sopping WET in the ocean, and also the wood is damaged, and that's going to get weaker and weaker. One person is probably a lot but two full bodies would probably not last a long time......okay........also, I don't think they expected death to come for Jack so quickly either. Like, they knew it would eventually, and they knew the cold water would be bad, but they probably thought he could tough it out. So y'know, he would be fiiiiine in the water for a bit. They also probably expected a lifeboat to come for them sooner than it did. Yeah. Okay?

In conclusion I HAVE A LOT OF THOUGHTS ABOUT TITANIC. And there they are. Blablablablablablabla.