a return to form
May. 18th, 2014 12:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ironymaidenthe festival officially started Thursday, today was my first movie viewing due to a) being busy at work and b) Friday being the epic finale of an almost year-long D&D Next campaign.
anyway, SIFF. my day was spent at the Uptown. C and Molly dropped me off at the bus, and once i arrived in Queen Anne i grabbed my first queue card and my first Dick's cheeseburger.
The Case Against 8
"Marriage is a conservative value" - Theodore Olson
duh.
very good; very clear pro marriage equality POV throughout as they follow the legal challenge to California Prop 8 from behind the scenes. it's a moving story with excellent production values and compelling protagonists. i came in cranky and exhausted from a long week and too little sleep. it was great to listen to people talk about being in love and wanting to be happy, to see strong friendships and happy families, to see attorneys be clever and wise, and to relive the joy at the outcome. there were many, many tears shed and it felt great. it was an excellent first film of the festival and my mood was much improved.
HBO is the distributor for this one, so everyone with a Game of Thrones addiction will be able to see it next month.
Hard to Be a God
i realized that i had probably made a mistake when my personal anti-programmer* introduced the film. from the program blurb i thought i was getting a Russian SF film that would be a darker version of Inversions or The Warlock in Spite of Himself. i am a very silly person.
i got something with no comprehensible plot and a lot of poop. literal poop. i gave it 40 minutes to improve and then walked out.
Beyond the Brick: A LEGO Brickumentary
fortunately i'd wanted to see the LEGO doc that started during that film, so i popped into line and found![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
scarlettina and oldmangrumpus waiting. i got socializing and an optimistic doc about creativity. do you like LEGO? you will probably like this film. it features Seattle's BrickCon, the build process for a life-size X-Wing fighter, and the man behind Yellow. there's no social justice or gender politics here, just nerds making cool shit, brought to you by the guy who won an Oscar for the doc about acid attacks on Pakistani women.
after that, i headed for the Sounders match. there was a strapping German guy (with impeccable English because that is so often the case) asking if he had a shot at tickets to the game. he was wearing his Borussia Mönchengladbach jersey, and so we talked a little about Kasey Keller. i failed to tell him what an earworm the anti-Cologne song is in my house. (Keller led a round of this nasty ditty about rivals Cologne in the stadium at 'gladbach, for which he was fined something like €5000.)
last week's loss was a fluke, as expected. the Sounders won, and it didn't rain. ultimately a good day.
*this is a real thing. any time that i know she chose a film, i can cross it off of my list unless someone i trust says otherwise.
anyway, SIFF. my day was spent at the Uptown. C and Molly dropped me off at the bus, and once i arrived in Queen Anne i grabbed my first queue card and my first Dick's cheeseburger.
The Case Against 8
"Marriage is a conservative value" - Theodore Olson
duh.
very good; very clear pro marriage equality POV throughout as they follow the legal challenge to California Prop 8 from behind the scenes. it's a moving story with excellent production values and compelling protagonists. i came in cranky and exhausted from a long week and too little sleep. it was great to listen to people talk about being in love and wanting to be happy, to see strong friendships and happy families, to see attorneys be clever and wise, and to relive the joy at the outcome. there were many, many tears shed and it felt great. it was an excellent first film of the festival and my mood was much improved.
HBO is the distributor for this one, so everyone with a Game of Thrones addiction will be able to see it next month.
Hard to Be a God
i realized that i had probably made a mistake when my personal anti-programmer* introduced the film. from the program blurb i thought i was getting a Russian SF film that would be a darker version of Inversions or The Warlock in Spite of Himself. i am a very silly person.
i got something with no comprehensible plot and a lot of poop. literal poop. i gave it 40 minutes to improve and then walked out.
Beyond the Brick: A LEGO Brickumentary
fortunately i'd wanted to see the LEGO doc that started during that film, so i popped into line and found
scarlettina and oldmangrumpus waiting. i got socializing and an optimistic doc about creativity. do you like LEGO? you will probably like this film. it features Seattle's BrickCon, the build process for a life-size X-Wing fighter, and the man behind Yellow. there's no social justice or gender politics here, just nerds making cool shit, brought to you by the guy who won an Oscar for the doc about acid attacks on Pakistani women.after that, i headed for the Sounders match. there was a strapping German guy (with impeccable English because that is so often the case) asking if he had a shot at tickets to the game. he was wearing his Borussia Mönchengladbach jersey, and so we talked a little about Kasey Keller. i failed to tell him what an earworm the anti-Cologne song is in my house. (Keller led a round of this nasty ditty about rivals Cologne in the stadium at 'gladbach, for which he was fined something like €5000.)
last week's loss was a fluke, as expected. the Sounders won, and it didn't rain. ultimately a good day.
*this is a real thing. any time that i know she chose a film, i can cross it off of my list unless someone i trust says otherwise.
