A Week of Movies and TV

I saw two movies this week – yay! – and both of them were pretty cool!

Yesterday was Captain America. The cgi was incredible to make Chris Evans into the “small guy” and as always it was fun to see Hugo Weaving and his gravity defying eyebrows planning yet more dastardly evil. I did find it fascinating to see how they spun the Thor mythos into it, with the bad guys finding a jewel from Odin’s throne to power their superpowered evil. They even mentioned Yggdrasil! Of course, the major highlight of the whole thing was…. THE TRAILER FOR THE AVENGERS AT THE END. OHMYGODI’MSOEXCITEDABOUTTHIS!!!!JOSSWHEDONISMYHERO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *drool, drool, drool*

Today I saw Cowboys and Aliens with my ‘rents. I have to say, it was not what I was expecting. Which is odd, because as it’s called Cowboys and Aliens, I was expecting a movie about… cowboys and aliens. And the movie did, in fact, revolve around cowboys and aliens. But it was way better than I expected. It was almost a horror movie at some points – those aliens were freaking scary! And there were some deeper implications about imperialism. Plus it way more realistically dealt with the situation of “what if aliens had arrived in western America in the 1800s” than I expected it to. I’m not sure I liked the portrayal of Native Americans (although, that part was from the cowboys’ perspective – a surprising amount of the movie dealt with how our perspective alters our perception). And the very end had something I’ve never seen before **Huge spoiler alert, so big and revealing of something that happens that I’m writing it in white because you should NOT read this if you haven’t seen it, but I can’t help commenting on it because it was  a moment for me** This is the first time (I think ever) I’ve seen the man ride away while the woman sacrificed herself. It’s ALWAYS the other way around. I commented on this to my mother, and she agreed. It was… sad and very prideful at the same time. And strange because it NEVER happens. **Spoiler over**

I recommend Cowboys and Aliens. It’s more than the previews make it look like. (And Harrison Ford is back in good form!!! *skips in delight*)

On other other news, I am ALMOST caught up on True Blood. Are you?? And is anyone else disturbed that Eric Northman, my favorite character in the book and TV series, played by the delicious Alex Skarsgaard, HAS A BACKSTREET BOYS HAIRCUT AND HAS LOST A MILLION POUNDS?? Please somebody feed that boy a sandwich. And fire his hairdresser. I even LIKE that cut. But with the almost gaunt thing he’s got going on, it makes him look like he’s twelve.

Otherwise, the season is kick ass.