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[shadowkat]

1. Finished Paddington 2 -- which was adorable, even the villain was adorable. We need more adorable movies with fun British Character Actors playing all the roles. It was the perfect antidote.

2. Hee... Movie Trope Meme Shows Us what is Wrong with Movies -- you can thank yourlibrarian for the link.

I have to admit I don't like lazy movie tropes either. Meg Ryan movies had a lot of them for some reason.

Actually one of the reasons I adore some of John Cuzack's films is he makes fun of them. Grosse Point Blank made fun of the high school reunion bit in films. So too did The Middlemen series.

Examples:

Hello, I'm an programmer in a movie. I'm white, male, and conspicuously nerdy, and everything I code works on the first try. I'm the Best Coder because I'm a fast typist, and I type extra fast in programming emergencies. I never Google error messages. There are no error messages.

Sigh. And also can hack into anything without any issues.

Apparently The lazy Movie trope meme goes on and on via Twitter. Twitter and social media is doing a better job of critiquing culture than well professional critics are. Much to their considerable chagrin. And they are having a field day exploding movie tropes and stereotypes...some of which are rather sad.

Here's the response to the tweet that set the meme off

And Here's the original one about the professor.

And they say Twitter has nothing interesting to offer the world.

2. I opened a window, was frigging boiling in my apartment. Now I'm freezing. So will have to shut it. Also started watching the Greatest Showman on HBO...because, "Hugh Jackman" and it has some great musical numbers...mainly because..."Hugh Jackman".

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[petzipellepingo]

That's N U C K E L S .

[shadowkat]

Hee.

Although..Hugh Grant's musical number at the end was lovely as well.

[cactuswatcher]

That's a good meme!

I'm a naval captain in a movie. My ship randomly changes shape as we sail the wartime seas. I am gruff and tough on everyone because my last ship got sunk. I will have a breakdown toward the end of the movie so my handsome, caring executive officer can take over.

I'm a nurse and the girlfriend of the hero in a war movie. My best friend is married to a guy in my boyfriend's outfit. Her husband is as good as dead meat.

I'm a guy in a rom-com. I literally trip over my new girlfriend who I've never met at the start of the movie. One of us, it matters not which, instantly falls in love and the other fortunately never has a healthy relationship with anyone else till we can get together.

I'm a minor villain in a cowboy movie, gangster movie, cop movie, space opera, what have you. I have a gun and shoot lots of bullets. But only my evil boss can actually hit anything. My big scene is when I decide to jump out of cover for no reason and let the heroes shoot me.

[shadowkat]

LOL!

I am nerdish woman in a movie, who wears glasses, but when I manage to finally swing contacts and my best buddy gives me a makeover, the local hunk falls in love with me instantly -- because I suddenly look like a runway model.

I have to change seats so a kid can be with his parents on a long flight and find myself next to a handsome man who falls madly in love with me, and we get married two weeks later.

I'm the assistant of a major female executive, who goes on vacation and I take over, her boyfriend doesn't know I'm her assistant, he falls for me, and I end up getting a promotion, and a six figure job in two weeks.

I have to infilterate an evil company in order to get the dirt on them to save my family. I'm trained as an accountant and have never worked a computer in my life. But I'm magically able to hack into the corporate's private accounts, download the information on a flashdrive, and hide in my boss's closet, escaping through the ventilation system before I'm detected.

[yourlibrarian]

Did you end up getting tickets to Jackman's show? Mike was willing but I decided against it because we might be traveling at that time of year and I didn't want to be limited by the dates.

[shadowkat]

I haven't -- cost, timing (I hate planning things that far in advance -- need a bit more flexibility) and I don't really want to go solo. But I may look again if available.

[shadowkat]

So, I looked at the cost -- in the nosebleed section of Madison Square Guardian they are going for $72-92 a ticket. If you want to actually "see" him -- it will cost between $230-192 in the balcony, and any closer? Orchestra? $1448-$2335.

Eh. No. I don't like Hugh enough for the price of a coffee table or a plane ticket or Hamilton Tickets.