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...make a post about my weekend, which saw us attending and enjoying the heck out of a concert and a movie on Saturday and Sunday.
Beck & the National Symphony Orchestra What a blast. This was the fourth (alas, not fifth) time I've seem Beck live, and the first show where he got to focus on stuff from Sea Change and Morning Phase over the big albums. He also, to his very evident delight, played a bunch of covers of obscure British and French artists. ("Think of this as $100,000 karaoke," he said at one point.) The NSO was unsurprisingly fabulous. The conductor's shimmy rivaled Beck's, and I also spent a lot of time watching the oboist. ("You guys really don't get to do much," said the GC. Which is true, but when we do get those 4-6 bars, it is our moment to shine.)
From memory (and in no particular order), they played Cycle, Morning, Lost Cause, One Foot In The Grave, New Pollution, Paper Tiger, Waking Light, and a song called Tarantula that Beck apparently composed for a movie soundtrack, and which could have been a Siouxsie-Sioux B-side. The show closed with the symphony's exit and Beck and his longtime touring band doing the crowd pleasers: Where It's At, Devil's Haircut, and Loser...and also Mixed Bizness, which is my favorite from Midnight Vultures (yes, even more than Debra), and which I had never before seen him perform live. So that was excellent.
The show was at a local outdoor venue, which has great acoustics and a BYO food and drink policy, and two of our friends got there super early so we had a great spot on the lawn with an excellent view of the stage. The weather was great, and we brought far more to eat drink than we were able to consume. It was, all around, an absolutely excellent event.
Deadpool & Wolverine Exceeded my high expectations; will watch again (and again). First off, this is a movie for fans: the more familiar you are with not just the comics, and not just the main event MCU or X-Men movies, but the a-, b-, and c-tier back catalogue, the more you are going to get out of this. I love that. As someone who has put time into all of these things, it's nice to not have to sit through minutes of exposition or "As you know, Bob" explanations for every reference because someone high up the production ladder doesn't want to potentially alienate viewers who aren't familiar with the above. Which isn't to say that the movie won't be great fun for people who aren't familiar with some or all of that stuff: there's more than enough humor, action, and (yes, really) drama that doesn't rely on deep-cut knowledge to make the experience worthwhile. But the creative PTB, bless them, understood that stopping to explain jokes is neither fun for people who already got them, nor magically makes them funny for people who didn't, and opted not to do so. So, hurrah.
The teasers and trailers, funny as they were, are far from the funniest moments in the film. I did not see how they were going to top the opening scene, in which Deadpool exhumes a Logan variant's corpse and then proceeds to TPK a squadron of TVA hunters with its dismembered bones while dancing to *NSYNC. But top it they did. Some favorite moments include:
The whole thing was a great ride from start to finish, it's my favorite of the movies yet, and I hope they mean it when they say "till 90."
これで以上です。
Beck & the National Symphony Orchestra What a blast. This was the fourth (alas, not fifth) time I've seem Beck live, and the first show where he got to focus on stuff from Sea Change and Morning Phase over the big albums. He also, to his very evident delight, played a bunch of covers of obscure British and French artists. ("Think of this as $100,000 karaoke," he said at one point.) The NSO was unsurprisingly fabulous. The conductor's shimmy rivaled Beck's, and I also spent a lot of time watching the oboist. ("You guys really don't get to do much," said the GC. Which is true, but when we do get those 4-6 bars, it is our moment to shine.)
From memory (and in no particular order), they played Cycle, Morning, Lost Cause, One Foot In The Grave, New Pollution, Paper Tiger, Waking Light, and a song called Tarantula that Beck apparently composed for a movie soundtrack, and which could have been a Siouxsie-Sioux B-side. The show closed with the symphony's exit and Beck and his longtime touring band doing the crowd pleasers: Where It's At, Devil's Haircut, and Loser...and also Mixed Bizness, which is my favorite from Midnight Vultures (yes, even more than Debra), and which I had never before seen him perform live. So that was excellent.
The show was at a local outdoor venue, which has great acoustics and a BYO food and drink policy, and two of our friends got there super early so we had a great spot on the lawn with an excellent view of the stage. The weather was great, and we brought far more to eat drink than we were able to consume. It was, all around, an absolutely excellent event.
Deadpool & Wolverine Exceeded my high expectations; will watch again (and again). First off, this is a movie for fans: the more familiar you are with not just the comics, and not just the main event MCU or X-Men movies, but the a-, b-, and c-tier back catalogue, the more you are going to get out of this. I love that. As someone who has put time into all of these things, it's nice to not have to sit through minutes of exposition or "As you know, Bob" explanations for every reference because someone high up the production ladder doesn't want to potentially alienate viewers who aren't familiar with the above. Which isn't to say that the movie won't be great fun for people who aren't familiar with some or all of that stuff: there's more than enough humor, action, and (yes, really) drama that doesn't rely on deep-cut knowledge to make the experience worthwhile. But the creative PTB, bless them, understood that stopping to explain jokes is neither fun for people who already got them, nor magically makes them funny for people who didn't, and opted not to do so. So, hurrah.
The teasers and trailers, funny as they were, are far from the funniest moments in the film. I did not see how they were going to top the opening scene, in which Deadpool exhumes a Logan variant's corpse and then proceeds to TPK a squadron of TVA hunters with its dismembered bones while dancing to *NSYNC. But top it they did. Some favorite moments include:
- The Honda Odyssey
- The fight in the Honda Odyssey
- Deadpool's self-insert into Thor: The Dark World and subsequent dreams
- Chris Evans' cameo
- Oh, and btw, he's freaking Human Torch
- The utter, utter creepiness of Cassandra Nova
- Nicepool (and his gentle tapping at the fourth wall)
- Blade
- Elektra
- Peter!
- The final Deadpool and Wolverine vs the gazillion Deadpools battle is a freaking sidescroller
- Welshpool!
- The blink-and-you'll-miss-it "Stan Lee Steamer: Grime Fighting Since 1922" advert on the bus
- Logan's dramatic scenes (particularly one near the movie's final act) which are really emotionally affecting
The whole thing was a great ride from start to finish, it's my favorite of the movies yet, and I hope they mean it when they say "till 90."
これで以上です。
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