Yesterday before sleeping I read the entire story of the first book of The Old Guard and then because I couldn’t wait I read all the second tome except for the 5th part of it who happens to be the end.
I actually loved it, and it made me regret for a moment that the adaptation is a film instead of a show but at the same time I’m okay with it. I loved everything about it and the idea of these beings, these people who lived and died so many times through a large amount of time and how it’s wearing them down, the psychological effects of it is incredible.
I watched the movie today and I’m okay with most of the changes, what happen to Quynh is actually worst than what happen to Tomiko in the books and weirdly I’m okay with that change, even if I do believe the two situations can end with the same consequences.
I liked how they made Nile question a little more the situation she’s in and not choosing to get with the group by default but because she wanted to be with them and could understand who they were. I know some people were annoyed by her but to me, it made sense, she wasn’t being complicated or difficult for nothing, it was realistic.
The twist about Andy at the end of the movie put me off a little, I’m not fan of that change.
Booker...tssssssssssss...but it made sense...in a way like he was alone while Andy had partners before and then Nicky & Joe have each other since the beginning. I really hate disloyal people and I don’t want to give them any benefice of the doubt or excuses but I do understand his pain and why he did what he did and I feel it’s also because he thought maybe Andy would understand him. I loved when she told him in the books how she didn’t want to die, just a reason to live, I really wanted to have Charlize say the same thing to Matthias in the movie instead of “not this way”. The fact the screenwriter is the comic books writer makes me accept the changes more easily because the heart of the story is still there.
Nicky & Joe, I have nothing to add, everyone is already saying what I feel about them. I absolutely love their story and the fact they have been together for 900+ years, they started the after life together in hatred for a second of their existence and live the rest of it just loving each other and it’s beautiful. This is how romance should be portrayed in general, the subtlety when it needs to be and the love declaration when it should be said, oie oie oie, my feels.
I prefer the comics villain more than the movie villain but in both cases I’m really into both stories and ending. Even if I feel they should have killed the doctor in the movie like in the comics but I understand why they didn’t.
randoms thoughts
While watching the movie, I wondered if the “Immortals” might connect with a few of them like the Sense8 cluster except they’re not specifically 8. Like there would be other “Immortals” in the world connected with each other but not with the Old Guard we know, it would be quite interesting.
I can’t wait to read the final part of Book 2 and I want a sequel of the movie made by the same woman director who made the first movie because that fucking Hollywood trend with first movie made by women then the rest of the franchise is given to men with a better salary and more budget money is making me angry. Also Rucka needs to be back writing scripts, he did a fantastic job, I just love his work.
That last episode of The Good Place made me cry so much.
The last time that a finale did that to me was probably LOST (maybe others but I don’t remember so..meh), I hate crying because it gives me headaches just after. But I am a crier so I made my peace with that misery.
I didn’t think, it would do that to me, when each of them decide to take the path they wanted to take, the moment of realization that it was the time to move on was so sad but not bad sad more like it’s time to say goodbye to them like saying goodbye to an old friend. They did it well and it made me cry, so I guess they did what they needed to do. I have so many questions but at the same time, not having answers to them is okay. This is the kind of ending I like, the ones that breaks your heart because it’s the end and that’s it. I’m happy the ended their show when they wanted to and didn’t drag it for years and years.
This is the one of the rare shows I enjoyed from the beginning to the end. Before watching the Finale, I watched the Pilot and I realized so many moments for the rest of that first season was hinted that pilot, it’s crazy how re-watching it after four seasons gave me a new perspective and made me maybe pay more attention.
I’ll rewatch The Good Place because I love it and it made me care for Philosophy...and it’s incredibly funny because I had a 6/20 in that damned class for my Baccalauréat. This show made me care and made this subject interesting and fun. The character growth was remarkable for each of them, like for LOST, I’m sad that it’s over but also happy.
I saw a tweet of mine from two years ago where I was basically predicting the exact contrary of what is happening in this movie and it’s kind of funny.
It’s the first time, I’m actually writing in this tumblr about any Star Wars movie.
I’ve found a way to not talk about it in this blog and I can’t exactly say why, it’s like I saw the movies like 3 times for the first two and twice for this one and nothing.
It’s kind of crazy.
I’m not part of the fandom, I talk about the movies with friends, I’m as casual as you can be, I don’t ship anything, I don’t anti ship anything, I just go with the flow until now I guess.
I don’t like this movie, I don’t hate this movie. I enjoyed Force Awakens, I liked The Last Jedi and I find this movie meh.
It’s entertaining...it’s meh.
I’m just sad because of the lack of imagination and the bad script who tells you everything instead of showing it or it tells you what will happen before showing the moments and it’s bad. Fanservice and nostagia can be such a bad mix. I know some people were living their best lives while seeing so (too) many references to the past movies or having their reddit theory becoming true but all I can think is how lazy it was.
It’s just sad to watch such an unremarkable movie, it exists, it’s okay because it’s a Star Wars movie, it has a few good shots and that’s why I can’t find in me to hate/dislike it but after that this movie was pretty mediocre.
If people love it then I’m happy for them, they find what they needed in it, if they hated it, it’s life.
I just find it so lacking of imagination, it’s just depressing.
Little Women (spoilers I guess for a 200+ years old story)
I was supposed to finish reading the book but I was tired and I just read like 80 pages out of 200, it’s kind of laughable but I had to work the next morning so, priorities!
Since, I’ve read a lot about the book, and saw all the movies, I already knew everything about the subject, the characters and the endings, the author concession to her editor. So I was ready to watch the 2019 version of the movie.
I saw this last version last night and I liked it but I completely understand why it bothered people, the way the story is told works for me but at the same time, I was annoyed because I do believe it had the potential to be the best version of the movie adaptations IF Gerwig would have done the movie chronologically.
During the movie, I was kind of bothered by the flashback between the past and the present, it annoyed me the most after Beth’s death, that moment was so painful and sad because you’re seeing the loss of someone and instead of letting that moment being lived and take a moment for her family and us, the audience to mourn her, HOP there is a wedding and then the Laurie love declaration and I was like “What the fuck!” then back to the mourning the loss of a family member, meanwhile you have that when previously you saw Laurie falling in love with Amy and with the accumulation of everything, I had to force myself to stop thinking because this whole editing process was a fucking mess.
I don’t like the movie for what it is, but because it gave me everything, all the scenes that I liked and enjoyed in the book or the interpretations of moments of the book were well acted and felt true to me, but the way the movie was made, I understand why it doesn’t have the Award success everyone want it to have. I know Hollywood and the masses need to have their white woman champion but why settle for Gerwig when fucking Céline Sciamma exist with Portrait of the Lady on Fire! That movie is a lifetime superior than most movies considered as 2019 best picture! (not Parasite lol though, that movie is a jewel)
I feel the movie was made in a way to say, the end of the book makes sense but at the same time saying...this end is total fiction and Jo would actually end up alone. Basically, it feels like the movie was like the fictional version of the book Jo, a fictional character, wrote so the entire thing is an adaptation of an adaptation...crazy thoughts but after the end when she is debating with her editor about the ending of the story it feels like she never actually marry Bhaer and the way the final scenes were built, I read the last moments with her family in the school were the happy ending written purely for the editor and the public. That ending works for me, I was actually saying in my previous post that maybe Gerwig should have done an Alcott biopic instead of doing Little Women because it feels like this was the story she actually wanted to do.
Casting wise, I feel everyone was well picked except for Emma Watson, she was okay but she was the English sister, none of the sisters were played by an American actress ( I know Ronan has the nationality but she her true accent is Irish) so it was fascinating to hear all of them speaking with an US accent and you have Watson’s English accent showing up every five seconds, I got used to it after a while. She was an okay actress but I wonder how Meg would be with a stronger actress, someone who would be subtle enough to show how vain, envious Meg is but also how she is mothering her sisters. Watson is doing all that in such a telling way instead of showing that it felt meh. Overall she was okay but you could see out of everyone she was the weakest link.
Florence Pugh as a 12 years old works even if you have to suspend of disbelief because of her voice, her voice is an adult voice but the behaviour was working for me, I feel they gave Amy more focus because it was needed to make the ending coherent but it’s like by doing that, they made her in he same level as Jo to show the rivalry and made the acceptance of each other at the end like some growth for Jo.
Eliza Scanlen is my favourite Beth, I’m a little disappointed that we didn’t have more of her. When Beth died, it made me cry and I’m still annoyed that we couldn’t even mourn her one minute because it switched to Meg’s wedding. I really enjoyed the father/daughter relationship with Mr Laurence, and her relationship with Jo.
Saoirse Ronan was a perfect Jo but since I’m a huge Megan Follows Anne Shirley from the 80s tv movie, she was so much like that Anne, I looooooved it and I know it’s anachronistic as fuck because Little Women was wayyyy before Anne of Green Gables but these two female characters from the same age and the same passion for writing and theatre is so interesting and it works for me because I discovered the tv movies when I was 12/13/14 so Anne stayed with me for years and now Jo, I’m discovering at almost 30 reminds me of the character I loved when I was in that age. And reading Little Women, I feel Ronan did an amazing job as Jo, she brought to life that character so easily, it was like Jo took Ronan’s body entirely. She is my favourite Jo, she surpassed Katharine Hepburn, I don’t have the 1994 version with Winona love like everyone seems to have. But gosh Ronan was perfect and her chemistry with Chalamet’s Laurie pfffff, at first I was so baffled by the placement of the love declaration scene but while watching I was like “aie aie aie, this is the perfect adaptation of this scene” I was so into it, and I felt it, and I could feel and understand Jo at that moment because that happened to me years ago, and you might love someone a lot but it’s not romantic and everyone around is looking at you expecting for you to have romantic love for that person you love as a friend and then you break that person’s heart because you can’t find in yourself to lie to them and you owe them truth and sincerity and I found that scene so real and true, it worked for me.
Timothée Chalamet was a great Laurie. I have nothing to say except that he was great and he had chemistry with every single sisters, which is crazy to me, he fit that March family so much. He was a perfect addition to the family. I feel the way it was, Jo is the true love if his life, no matter the media but I felt like he wanted really to be part of the March family, and I could see him without realising he kind of settle with Amy. It’s terrible to say that but she loved him since she was a child, so her wanting to be with him is not a stretch but him it felt like he wanted her because she’s pretty and she was challenging him, fight him for being lazy, I see the chemistry between them but their past and the fact that he was really deep in love with Jo makes me think, they cute together and at the same time he wants her because she is doing what Jo said he was doing for her, he loved her completely for who she is, Amy loves him completely for who he is, meanwhile him, that kind of love can work for him and she grew up to be pretty. This movie made me understand why Alcott picked Amy as the one to marry Laurie, because she wanted to piss her audience up because no one actually liked Amy, because of the rivalry between Amy and Jo and it would show a character growth for Jo even if Jo was actually more inclined to see him marry Meg, she never saw herself marry anyone but she could see Laurie marry Meg instead of John Brooke.
Just to say, I liked the movie but the editing was awful. I think, I need to finish the book, rewatch the different movies and then go back to this movie.
If I don’t pay attention to the editing of the movie then it’s my favourite adaptation movie but if I had to take the movie as it is, it’s number 3.
It’s interesting to see people wondering what was the point of Jon Snow if he wasn’t the one destined to kill the Night King, you don’t pay attention to this story.
It’s never about the person who is obvious. Never. If that was true then half of the previous character would still be alive. Ned Stark would be the great noble hero but it’s not.
The beauty of seeing Arya killing the Night King is realizing that her entire journey was created for that moment. Her meeting Syrio Forel and learn how to use Niddle and the words to Death, then Jaqen H’ghar and Lady Melissandre who told her they would meet again and when they did, you see that one scene made her remember and realize what she needed to do.
This show is not only about Daenerys, Jon and Cersei and this episode, this glorious episode showed us that in every possible aspect.
Jon is important but in this episode it wasn’t about him only and that idea that only him because he fit some archetype should have save the day is not understanding the show we are all watching.
I’m an idiot...I wanted to start watching Good Omens in that new streaming site I found and instead of watching the Pilot, I saw the Finale...
I watched the whole thing like it was the first episode and I didn’t question half of it as a pilot...I was thinking ‘oh I like this show why not reblog gifs about the first episode’ to realise that what I’ve just seen wasn’t in them and then go to wikipedia to see what was wrong aaaaaand what I saw was the last episode huuuuuum.
Now, this is weird because when I was a teenager I was used to read the last chapter of a book before starting the book from the beginning, there were no logic for this, except that I liked that idea of Knowing the end without really knowing it since I didn’t know what happen to have this conclusion. I guess, I will have to apply this logic there, but I didn’t do that for a decade so it’s weird.
Instead of having a post saying “what a pretty interesting beginning, it’s fascinating because now what will happen if you start with an end that isn’t happening anymore”...I’ll say: “What a fascinating end, what was the events that lead to that conclusion?” .
Let’s begin this show, I guess. I shot myself in the foot, but I’m incredibly intrigued by this show, I know most of angelic and demonic references because of me watching the six first seasons of Supernatural, that helped.
David Tennant huuuuuuuum, I really love this actor, Micheal Sheen is adorable with his little BCBG angel outfit, he’s so cute.
I cannot not watch this show until the end now, the three first episode rule as a test is kind of dead now lol. It won’t work.
