melannen | (no subject)

So I finally saw Guardians of the Galaxy in a Friday afternoon matinee. It was a very fun and very very pretty movie and the plot even mostly made sense, which is a sadly high standard to hold action movies to these days, but sadly I can no longer watch a movie without noticing all the times it takes the lazy way out and could have done better. (Note : never read "Save The Cat" if you want to be able to enjoy an action movie ever again.) Anybody still interested in talking about that movie? About how Rocket's thing with prosthetic limbs was simultaneously a one-note disablist joke and a really deep commentary on prosthetic as disability vs. cybernetics as enhancement, and on the concept of the social model of disability in a massively polymorphous society? About Groot growing his flowers around little girls and how CREEPY that is when you think about it? About how they apparently couldn't resist throwing out all of Drax's literalism out the window in favor of a snappy one-liner (is that a rule for Marvel movies now, they have to do that to at least one character.) About how, for a movie with only .5 of a human character, it managed to be SO FREAKING WHITE that I have to come home and re-read all three Saga trades to get the taste out of my mouth?

(about how Saga needs to be a blockbuster movie okay)

(about how I maybe wouldn't even have noticed it if I hadn't just come off Pacific Rim - which has its own issues, whoa boy - but which never ones depersonalizes a woman in order to make a characterization point about a man - and it wasn't even OOC for the characters in GotG the way Tumblr lead me to believe, but as Pac Rim proved, it's just so freakin' unnecessary, when you're building a world from scratch, to build it on the bodies of disposable women.)

Anyway yes it was a really fun movie but I think the only fanfic I came out of it wanting was a) something about what the little girl did with the groot-flower, and b) Bucky and Rocket bonding over being torn apart and then woken back up as a different person in a body that's not yours.