#released: 2007

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Movie Review: Surf's Up

Rewatch at Anon's suggestion, I'm not sure how many times I've seen it before that. I've never pirated anything in my life and you have no proof against me. It's a mockumentary sports comedy that came out in 2007.

Main characters in most to least favorite: Cody, Lani, Big Z, Mikey, Chicken Joe, Reggie, Tank

Stepped on me? He was dancing on me! Look at this: broken, broken, gone, gone, broken, broken, broken!

- Glen is very Older Brother but it's also kinda sad how mean he is lolol.

- Glowworms!!! I love you glowworms (These ones are fungus gnats, which are the coolest type of glowworm. I suspect specifically Keroplatus.)

- I choose to believe Cody and Lani are besties.

- It doesn't do much to get things very scientifically accurate but I don't expect most kids movies to do that anyway, and it makes up for it in silliness.

- It's overly dramatic in a silly way, which I enjoy.

- So much nostalgia, I used to watch this so much as a kid.

- Tank is so annoying. I know he's supposed to be, but it's like shut uppp man get out of here.

- The animation is actually really cool. The waves look edible lolol. I like how much it looks like someone's really filming it.

- The baby penguins are so cute, I wanna pat them on the head. Kate is my favorite out of them.

- The Penguans are a blantant racist stereotype against Indigenous people, which is really shitty.

Bechdel test: fail. Advanced Bechdel: fail. Ali Nahdee test: N/A. Deggans test: fail. Kumbalangi test: pass. Sexy lamp test: pass. Shukla test: N/A. Sick dog test: N/A. Vito Russo test: N/A.

7/10, here's the Wikipedia for it.

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[typist-trope]

Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman (Picador, 2017)

Synopsis Andre Aciman's Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, when, during the restless summer weeks, unrelenting currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion and test the charged ground between them. Recklessly, the two verge toward the one thing both fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. It is an instant classic and one of the great love stories of our time. (Goodreads)

+ I don’t usually like film cover of books, but I love the poster and I am so glad that it looks great as a book cover

+ Elio had a lot of thoughts. Since the story is told from the past, he would reference what he wrote in his diary about his thoughts on Oliver, and his thoughts on the relationship and such. He had opinions on sexuality, he talked about his passion, that fire he felt. He would agonize endlessly about his feelings, thus making this a deeply personal tale from Elio’s perspective.

+ This was a well-written book. It had a lot of note-worthy passages. It does use a lot of metaphors, though it doesn’t repeat itself. My vocabulary is terrible so I had to research the definition of worfs, but it seemed like he picked out suitable, non-generic words that enhanced the character’s thoughts and emotions.

+/- It is a slow moving book, but I personally don’t take it against it. It will take time to read. There are some parts that it could do without because the author leaned on making Elio’s character develop through the retrospection of the relationship.

It’s hard to separate the book from the film if you’ve digested both mediums immediately after each other. There’s a disconnection between book Elio and film Elio. The film does make some creative changes, but it didn’t take away the essence of the book.

Rating 4 stars