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Raccoons and skinless bodies
11 years ago
Heyyyyy everyone, it's time for the Tiger's (non-weekly) review of the week!
Last Sunday I went to see Guardians of the Galaxy with a few friends. I might be late to the call, but who wants to be mainstream anyway? I was the only furry in the group, so I might've been the only one who wanted to see that movie just because of Rocket Raccoon. Although I was able to convince the only other gay guy in our clique that Rocket is great because he's voiced by Bradley Cooper (yummy!).
We all really enjoyed that movie, it had everything that a good action flick needs: great sense of humour, interesting characters and character development, a standard (nothing too confusing) epic save the world plot and of course awesome special effects! I'd give it five stars out of five.
Of course, if I'd had to pick a favorite character, it'd still be Rocket. Because I'm biased, but also because he got some of the best lines :-D
Groot came in as a close second, though.
Now for the second part of the journal's title:
On Thursday I went to the Body Worlds exhibition in Hamburg. In case you haven't heard of it before: it's an internationally traveling exhibition that showcases all (and I mean all) aspects of human physiology and anatomy through the use of plastinated, real human corpses and body parts. it's actually pretty cool, the whole bodies are arranged into poses (the chess player, Atlas, a cyclist, etc.) with parts of the body opened so you can really see how taught muscles are stretching over certain areas in those positions. And of course with an open chest cavity you can also look at how the inner organs are arranged. Of course there are also single parts on display like blood vessels, the central nerve system, organs like the heart, liver, male and female reproductive system, and so on. It was really educational.
I was struck by a few waves of Reality is Unrealistic though. Sometimes I had to remind myself that I was looking at real bodies and body parts. One skeleton, for example, looked a lot like the ones made of plastic that you know from biology class in high school. Maybe playing violent video games or watching shows like Bones and CSI makes you rellay desensitized to the supposably "gross" aspect of human anatomy. I don't know. Or maybe it was just because it really isn't that big a deal what happens to us after death. So the exhibition also invoked a reflection about philosophy, sort of. Nonetheless, Body Worlds was a very interesting and educating experience.
Last Sunday I went to see Guardians of the Galaxy with a few friends. I might be late to the call, but who wants to be mainstream anyway? I was the only furry in the group, so I might've been the only one who wanted to see that movie just because of Rocket Raccoon. Although I was able to convince the only other gay guy in our clique that Rocket is great because he's voiced by Bradley Cooper (yummy!).
We all really enjoyed that movie, it had everything that a good action flick needs: great sense of humour, interesting characters and character development, a standard (nothing too confusing) epic save the world plot and of course awesome special effects! I'd give it five stars out of five.
Of course, if I'd had to pick a favorite character, it'd still be Rocket. Because I'm biased, but also because he got some of the best lines :-D
Groot came in as a close second, though.
Now for the second part of the journal's title:
On Thursday I went to the Body Worlds exhibition in Hamburg. In case you haven't heard of it before: it's an internationally traveling exhibition that showcases all (and I mean all) aspects of human physiology and anatomy through the use of plastinated, real human corpses and body parts. it's actually pretty cool, the whole bodies are arranged into poses (the chess player, Atlas, a cyclist, etc.) with parts of the body opened so you can really see how taught muscles are stretching over certain areas in those positions. And of course with an open chest cavity you can also look at how the inner organs are arranged. Of course there are also single parts on display like blood vessels, the central nerve system, organs like the heart, liver, male and female reproductive system, and so on. It was really educational.
I was struck by a few waves of Reality is Unrealistic though. Sometimes I had to remind myself that I was looking at real bodies and body parts. One skeleton, for example, looked a lot like the ones made of plastic that you know from biology class in high school. Maybe playing violent video games or watching shows like Bones and CSI makes you rellay desensitized to the supposably "gross" aspect of human anatomy. I don't know. Or maybe it was just because it really isn't that big a deal what happens to us after death. So the exhibition also invoked a reflection about philosophy, sort of. Nonetheless, Body Worlds was a very interesting and educating experience.
I didn't have to convince anybody that Rocket was the best character, since Isaw the movie with only furries. Everyone went awww when Drax scritched Rocket ^^
I saw Body Worlds years ago. I only remember that it was both really interesting and creepy. And there was a controversy if it should be allowed to do this with dead bodies
And yes, that wasn't limited to furries... the whole theatre went "Awww" during that scene XD
Frankly, I don't see the problem with real dead bodies. All people whose corpses are on display donated their remains to Body Worlds after all. But I remember years agao Der Spiegel published a story about the exhibits actually being the bodies of executed prisoners from China. In the end it turned out to be not true.
My mom, who works at a clinic, took us there. And it was great (even though I found the part where you could touch some organs a bit creepy back then ^^;)
As for the movie, will just wait til it comes out on Blu-ray. I definitely prefer Rocket even over Groot.
Oh, you'll love the movie when you get to see it ^.^
Can't wait for the movie to hit Blu. Will get it when it does come out.
Definitely interesting, too. Reminds me of the medical museum of the Charité in Berlin.
I don't know if Body Worlds would have grossed me out.
And heh... I personally think it sounds grosser than it is. You should take the chance and go there the next time it's in California ^^
I find it so neat you got to go to Body world, (Wow what a name if you think about it. Amusement park rides would be quite weird if they used that a as a title....Though my mind does think some rather...different names.) I'll admit, I've liked to see all those body's with ya, ya lucky Tiger. ;-D I think it's fine you didn't feel it was real. Maybe it is the TV shows or VG's that caused it but that's not so bad. It can help you focus on how those different systems are you in. So you're not one of the few who see a skinless body and head straight for the trash can to hurl. XD
Well, it's hardly surprising, considering if you'd ever built your own theme park it would be "Tim Burton Land"
But yes, next time I should try out an autopsy, see how I like it XD
Why on earth would you think "Tim Burton Land" of all things? XD There's other idea's, but why you think that'd be mine? 0.o
Yeaaaaah....Um....S'long as it's not someone either of us know or caused to get into that predicament. >.>