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Bad Guys - An outstanding movie!
3 years ago
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I just got back from seeing the Bad Guys movie and oh my GOD, it's fantastic 8D I'm not a film critic and I don't even watch or listen to people who are, so there's going to be no structure or real point to this besides raving about whatever comes into my head, but I don't care, I have thoughts that I want to share so here goes! Oh, and I won't spoil anything, but I'd still reccomend seeing the film first before reading this!
First thing I have to say is a bit of advice, do NOT see it late at night when there's minimal traffic and then drive home. You WILL commit crimes!! And I hate cars, by the way, can't stress that enough! I would build a city with no roads if I could, just trains, trams, and bicycle lanes! And even I got more into the brief car chase sequence at the start of the movie more than any of the 2000s Bond films! I used the manual transmission mode in my car for the first time since I bought it so I could hear the engine rev harder in a lower gear when accelerating, taking turns too hard to feel like I was Wolf pulling sick handbrake turns as I went around the on ramp, undertaking drivers to feel like I was escaping from police cars. So I was not a very safe driver going home!
That ties into another point I want to make: You know you've just seen an excellent movie when it literally changes the way you move when you leave the theatre. Let me tell you, I walked out of that cinema like I was walking away from a successful heist. I was swaggering confidently, swishing an imaginary tail, adjusting imaginary cuff links on my wrists, smugly adjusting my mask (which, perfectly, had a grinning grey wolf face on it because I specifically picked that one for the occasion), and shoulders back like I owned the joint and everyone else was a fool who didn't realise they'd already been robbed. It was brilliant. Very few movies have managed to leave me in this kind of headspace, especially since I was 18 or younger!
I went in blind, the only thing I saw was the first trailer 4 months ago when it was released, which I'd completely forgotten. I knew nothing about the book or comic or whatever IP it was developed from. And unlike Turning Red, which people were spoiling the best moments of on Twitter within 24 hours of it being released (another downside of digital streaming and why I prefer the traditional cinema release followed by digital/physical media), nobody had spoiled anything about this movie for me yet. No gifs or memes on Twitter at all that I had seen!
Anyway, let's get straight to the good stuff. Diane Foxington, oh my GOD. What an unbelievable hottie! For once I actually felt a moment's jealousy for present-day children and teens when it comes to their entertainment. They're unbelievably lucky to have Diane as their first furry waifu. Stick with me, I just want to go on an old-man rant for a minute. Think about the two dimensional, barely even cell-shaded anthro crushes some of us grew up on, like Minerva Mink and Miss Kitty. Garbage quality animation. Oh the characters were still sexy in their own right and they had good personalities, voices, and appeal with their design, but come on, they look like shit today. I can't imagine being a future furry-in-the-making kid seeing a closeup of Diane in UHD 8K 60fps 3D, giving Wolf a smoulderingly intense eye-watering dismissive up and down glance, watching the muscles on one side of her face twitch as she half-smiles a smirk of pure confidence, as light dully reflects off her ray-traced eyebrow piercing to reflect its surroundings with the blurry realism of dully polished stainless steel. Any kid seeing that doesn't know how lucky they are! We were lucky if Miss Kitty even managed to have all her lines stay the same thickness while she shook her ass!
Anyway, Diane was a just a great character and an instant crush, naturally. Immediately started contemplating what fanart I would be getting of her, and happy to say I already have something fun in mind and lined up to write tonight! :D
Starting to run out of steam now, what else can I rant about... Oh, the comedic timing and the inherent hilarity in the animation style was golden. There were at least three separate times when I involuntarily barked out a laugh because something was just so unexpectedly funny to me, which is rare because I'm a very quiet movie goer (I open my choc top BEFORE I walk in so that no one has to hear that ungodly loud plastic wrapper noise). I liked the cast, actually speaking of hotties by the way, Ms. Tarantula wasn't half bad herself! I could see myself wanting to snuggle a same-size version of her, which is saying something because, y'know, giant spider. Any film that makes spider girls hot or even just cute is already doing a great job! The voice acting was all on point, and it was great to see Moss from the IT Crowd getting to expand his range and try something besides loveable goofball for a change! Oh and the police chief woman was absolutely hysterical, I loved her, every scene she was in was pure gold, most of my hardest laughs were for her XD
Okay memory and motivation is definitely fading at this point. I'll try and sneak in a second viewing with a friend if I can but for now I'll just say it was fantastic, go and see it in cinemas while you still can! Thanks for reading! :)
First thing I have to say is a bit of advice, do NOT see it late at night when there's minimal traffic and then drive home. You WILL commit crimes!! And I hate cars, by the way, can't stress that enough! I would build a city with no roads if I could, just trains, trams, and bicycle lanes! And even I got more into the brief car chase sequence at the start of the movie more than any of the 2000s Bond films! I used the manual transmission mode in my car for the first time since I bought it so I could hear the engine rev harder in a lower gear when accelerating, taking turns too hard to feel like I was Wolf pulling sick handbrake turns as I went around the on ramp, undertaking drivers to feel like I was escaping from police cars. So I was not a very safe driver going home!
That ties into another point I want to make: You know you've just seen an excellent movie when it literally changes the way you move when you leave the theatre. Let me tell you, I walked out of that cinema like I was walking away from a successful heist. I was swaggering confidently, swishing an imaginary tail, adjusting imaginary cuff links on my wrists, smugly adjusting my mask (which, perfectly, had a grinning grey wolf face on it because I specifically picked that one for the occasion), and shoulders back like I owned the joint and everyone else was a fool who didn't realise they'd already been robbed. It was brilliant. Very few movies have managed to leave me in this kind of headspace, especially since I was 18 or younger!
I went in blind, the only thing I saw was the first trailer 4 months ago when it was released, which I'd completely forgotten. I knew nothing about the book or comic or whatever IP it was developed from. And unlike Turning Red, which people were spoiling the best moments of on Twitter within 24 hours of it being released (another downside of digital streaming and why I prefer the traditional cinema release followed by digital/physical media), nobody had spoiled anything about this movie for me yet. No gifs or memes on Twitter at all that I had seen!
Anyway, let's get straight to the good stuff. Diane Foxington, oh my GOD. What an unbelievable hottie! For once I actually felt a moment's jealousy for present-day children and teens when it comes to their entertainment. They're unbelievably lucky to have Diane as their first furry waifu. Stick with me, I just want to go on an old-man rant for a minute. Think about the two dimensional, barely even cell-shaded anthro crushes some of us grew up on, like Minerva Mink and Miss Kitty. Garbage quality animation. Oh the characters were still sexy in their own right and they had good personalities, voices, and appeal with their design, but come on, they look like shit today. I can't imagine being a future furry-in-the-making kid seeing a closeup of Diane in UHD 8K 60fps 3D, giving Wolf a smoulderingly intense eye-watering dismissive up and down glance, watching the muscles on one side of her face twitch as she half-smiles a smirk of pure confidence, as light dully reflects off her ray-traced eyebrow piercing to reflect its surroundings with the blurry realism of dully polished stainless steel. Any kid seeing that doesn't know how lucky they are! We were lucky if Miss Kitty even managed to have all her lines stay the same thickness while she shook her ass!
Anyway, Diane was a just a great character and an instant crush, naturally. Immediately started contemplating what fanart I would be getting of her, and happy to say I already have something fun in mind and lined up to write tonight! :D
Starting to run out of steam now, what else can I rant about... Oh, the comedic timing and the inherent hilarity in the animation style was golden. There were at least three separate times when I involuntarily barked out a laugh because something was just so unexpectedly funny to me, which is rare because I'm a very quiet movie goer (I open my choc top BEFORE I walk in so that no one has to hear that ungodly loud plastic wrapper noise). I liked the cast, actually speaking of hotties by the way, Ms. Tarantula wasn't half bad herself! I could see myself wanting to snuggle a same-size version of her, which is saying something because, y'know, giant spider. Any film that makes spider girls hot or even just cute is already doing a great job! The voice acting was all on point, and it was great to see Moss from the IT Crowd getting to expand his range and try something besides loveable goofball for a change! Oh and the police chief woman was absolutely hysterical, I loved her, every scene she was in was pure gold, most of my hardest laughs were for her XD
Okay memory and motivation is definitely fading at this point. I'll try and sneak in a second viewing with a friend if I can but for now I'll just say it was fantastic, go and see it in cinemas while you still can! Thanks for reading! :)
Beowolfgrimm
~beowolfgrimm
Love Mr fox and the miss foxington.
