Asteroid City - I watched this because it looked visually interesting and I couldn't tell what it was about. I can now add that after seeing the whole movie, I still don't know what it was about.

( A little more about that )

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice - I've been meaning to see this anyway, and Halloween season felt right for it.

( More on that )

(I also watched the first like ... ten minutes or so of Transformers One and realized I was very much not in the mood for that, although I enjoyed the more classic designs for the characters.)

Yet another instance of the Whumptober prompts basically being used for creative inspiration, but not really whump as such.

I feel this works equally well for TV-verse (future) or bookverse (probably post-System Collapse, but it could be somewhere between Fugitive Telemetry and Network Effect).

No. 20: "That's New."
Symptomatic | Fancy Event | Resignation

( 450 wds under the cut )

I am traveling and sightseeing with helen_keeble and having a LOVELY time. I've also watched about as many movies in the last three days as I normally do in six months. It's been great! I figure I'll just write them up quickly here. The end of spoilers for each movie are marked, so you can pick and choose which to read about.


Thunderbolts - watched on the plane, really enjoyed it!

( Thunderbolts details and spoilers )

Kpop Demon Hunters - what fun, I can see why it's so popular!

( Kpop Demon Hunters details and spoilers )

We also rewatched the first two X-Men movies from the early 2000s. I don't think I've seen them since they first came out!


X-Men (original 2000 movie) - This held up really well.

( X-Men details and spoilers )

X2 - Most of it was a great time, but then the end happened.

( X2 details and spoilers )