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Poll #22069 Make Life Choices For Me

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Of the DVDs sitting right here that you've never seen and you really should have by now, you should watch:

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Highlander the Movie
14 (12.3%)

Les Miserables (2012)
5 (4.4%)

Lilo & Stitch
65 (57.0%)

Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
21 (18.4%)

GUARDIAN who cares if it's not a movie
9 (7.9%)

Of the manga series sitting right here that you should get around to reading, you should start with:

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Golden Kamuy
4 (8.5%)

Laid-Back Camp
5 (10.6%)

Master Keaton
2 (4.3%)

Shibuya Goldfish
11 (23.4%)

The Homestuck hardcovers yes I know they're not manga so what
25 (53.2%)

The con you should go to this year is:

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Balticon, since for the first time as an adult you have no plans on Memorial Day Weekend
5 (5.4%)

Capclave, since Martha Wells
14 (15.1%)

ConneXions, since slash con in non-con.txt year
6 (6.5%)

Shore Leave, and drag your mom along, since she's been a fan of the show since 1966 but never participated in fandom, and the lady at the church sale last weekend said you should and also Nichelle Nichols would be there
48 (51.6%)

You should go outside and get some fresh air and sunlight. Go on, get.
20 (21.5%)

Meanwhile my sister is defending her dissertation tomorrow and I have been having college stress dreams in her honor all week. Good luck,

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I feel contractually obligated to stare at you gobsmacked about Highlander... b/c - how? why? wait - wut?

I watched every episode of the TV show! And the 4th movie, in some form or another! And the second movie, sort of, only it was in Spanish on a scrambled cable channel. That's more than I've managed for a lot of fandoms I've been in.

But look the movie honestly doesn't come up in the fandom much. And I'm very bad at watching things.

Edited 2019-05-22 03:05 (UTC)

The fourth movie makes me sad. (The 5th one makes me want to slam my head against the wall.) Obviously i have a unique perspective on the 2nd one. XD

And it makes me sad that the movie doesn't come up in fandom a lot - since there wouldn't be a tv show w/o the movie. And Connor is way cooler than Duncan. =)

If it helps, the movie's pretty short - like 1.5 hrs, I think? and you can ffwd through the part where the Kurgan is driving through town and Brenda is screaming. That's a solid 2 minutes right there. Granted, this is also the part where Queen sings "New York, New York", so - toss up. XD

I mean, I think "I watched it in Spanish on a scrambled cable channel" gives me a pretty unique perspective on it, too! :P I have never seen the fifth one, nor ever plan to. (I think I have a DVD for the third one around somewhere too, but not in arm's reach, which was the rule for the poll.)

I'm just. Really super bad at actually getting around to sticking a DVD in the drive. Plus until I watch it it's all potential and possibility, right?! Why collapse the waveform into an actual movie?

It's actually even worse that I've never seen Les Mis since I was way deep in movie-specific fandom there for about three years. And yet.

True - Spanish on scrambled cable is diff... Though, if you want to see both versions of HLII - you'll have to find a VHS, b/c you can't actually find the original theatrical version anywhere else - they legit won't release that one anymore. Only the director's cut. (the differences aren't significant, other than the 'big' one)

With Les Mis - the basic story is the same across all the versions - it's just who sings the songs for you really, i guess. Though, this does mean you've avoided the Russell Crowe singing thing, so you may be better off?

yeah, I did have all the songs memorized off a cassette, so I have the gist! I've never actually seen any visual adaptation though, unless you count Monsterpiece Theater- just the soundtrack and the book.

i think i had the book at one point, but never managed to read it. or am i think of Ivanhoe? (i know i had the latter, not sure on the former - never read either)

i saw a stage production in NYC when we were there for Model UN. we got will-call seats 2nd row center and it was AMAZING. and at the time, i think i knew, maybe, one song from it? and little else. so i absorbed the songs and the whole story all at once, which was pretty cool.

[and i have now exhausted my collection of connor macleod icons on this acct. *g*]

I'm just. Really super bad at actually getting around to sticking a DVD in the drive. Plus until I watch it it's all potential and possibility, right?! Why collapse the waveform into an actual movie?

This is true, and goes a long way to explaining all the DVDs I own and haven't watched.

And also, tangentially, the complete collection of Nausicaa the manga that my brother gave me for Christmas one year and I've never opened.

I could read fanfic for it instead, anyway, right? So why watch the thing and potentially ruin the fanfic??

On the 1st question I voted for "Guardian" because I'm always looking for fellow victims (the first big big fic exchange for the English-speaking fandom just came online, and the quality is STAGGERING), but in reality Lilo & Stitch is the best of those choices, and is also IMHO Disney's best animated film, EVER.

So watch it, and THEN watch Guardian.

You don't have to talk me into Guardian, I've been on that train for a year! But I got derailed on canon the first time it was pulled from YouTube, and I'm very bad at actually watching things, so I've been stalled c. episode 10 for months. And behind on fic because I keep thinking I'll finish canon *next* week and then read up.

The DW community is amazing though! An exchange with 0 pinch hits!!

Oh wow, you haven't even watched to halfway yet?! I didn't realise that!

Nope, they have spent the past eight months on a road trip to a creepy village! Also at this point I should probably just start over.

There is SO MUCH GOOD ahead of you! :-D

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I don't think I parsed this how you intended. ;-)

I am on my way home from watching Nausicaa in the theater, and I have all the feels (partly because it was a major influence on my husband as a child and it makes him weep). It's beautiful and terrible and strange.

It was the first manga I ever read and it was amazing, so it's kind of odd it's one of the only Ghibli movies I haven't seen yet.

Oh, you must watch Lilo and Stitch. I watch it at least once a year, and cry every time.

Wait, I thought it was a fun happy beach movie with surfing! :D

AND FEELINGS.

Though, I must offer up a disclaimer on the subject of social services: As a non-parent relative taking care of Lilo, Nani was eligible for a stipend, which would've gone a long way towards alleviating their bad situation that called for a social worker in the first place. And even if that ultimately was unfeasible and Lilo had to spend some time in foster care while Nani got her feet under her, that certainly doesn't mean that they would be out of contact with each other or anything like that.

For a kid's movie to use social services as the outside threat is an irresponsible choice, especially in this case where Lilo really isn't having her needs met.

But it's a really good movie and you should watch it.

Edited 2019-05-23 16:05 (UTC)

On the one hand, that is true that it's maybe not the best lesson, but in-world I can see that it would make total sense that someone like Nani (young, poor, woman of color) would feel like social services were the enemy and a stipend (if she could jump through the red tape to get it) was a trap - because for families like that, they can be. I don't think Native Hawaiians ever experienced stolen generations on the same level as some other Indigenous groups, but I don't think culturally they've had a great relationship with Social Services either. There's a long history of even well-meaning Social Services defining "getting your needs met" as "being raised exactly the way a middle-class White family would raise you" which is... problematic.

...Not that I've seen the movie. And I kinda doubt they directly addressed any of that in it. But. At least it's better than the Sesame Street movie where Big Bird runs away from his foster home and hitchhikes with truckers to get back to the big city where he can live by himself on a vacant lot, and this is presented throughout the whole movie as good choices? (I'm still not over that one.)

I was torn between Lilo and Stitch & Nausicaa, but the latter is more beautiful and terrifying.

I like that they are both on the same scale, though.

I voted Highlander because I have not seen it either! If you do it, I will get the vicarious-watching benefits. :)

Oh, wait, do I have to post about it if I watch it? :P

You don't have to, but it is basically a moral imperative, that's all I'm saying.

Can I pick "Balticon or Shore Leave, and get some fresh air now"?

Unfortunately Balticon/Fresh Air Now is one or the other, because Balticon is during the time I would be getting fresh air. :P

Personally I'm skipping Balticon this year for the fresh air and sunlight option.

That is sounding better and better to me.

In fairness to Balticon, it is one of the better equipped cons for spending enjoyable outdoor time... I went for a few nice walks and bike rides around the harbor during last year's con.

I have fond memories of Balticon, though the last time I went was, uh, a long time ago. Over thirty years ago wtf? how did I get so old? But I'm always in the fresh air and sunlight camp.

Yeah, it's supposed to be beautiful most of the weekend, so I'm leaning strongly in that direction.

In fact, I think of you as the director of Camp Fresh Air & Sunlight

I voted for the Highlander movie because it's kinda epic and it's also shorter than finishing Guardian. Highlander is worth it for Sean Connery wtfery and also for Connor Macleod having a better sense of masquerade than Duncan ever had.

Not that I would force anyone to go outside (pollen is my enemy for part of the year so 'fresh air' is a bit of a mixed blessing) but I'm not a con-going person so I wouldn't recommend it.

Out of your DVDs, the only one *I've* seen is Lilo and Stitch so that got my vote. but it really is very good and sweet while also fairly low-investment, which is a big driver for me when working through backlogs.

I might be thinking of the wrong person entirely, but years and years ago I saw a post about speculative takes on sexuality/relationships (sedoretus featured, as did the homestucky quadrants) and I thought that was by you? huh. I read some of homestuck but unfortunately petered out before I got to the weird alien (?) stuff, which was the point for me in the first place. I know my library has the books though... maybe I'll check it out too!

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