This is what I wore to go see Scott Pilgrim vs. The World yesterday (I wanted to see Inception, but Matt thought that the trailer looked too pretentious.). I actually wore this a couple of weeks ago at one of the blogger lunches, but the pictures from then turned out shitty and I really liked this outfit, so I documented it (slightly, jeez camera) better this time.
Rundown:
Fluevog engineer boots, Hot Topic dress, vintage skirt-slip, H&M lace top via eBay, Tarina Tarantino bracelet, secondhand amethyst necklace. Which broke later last night. Boo, hiss.
My thoughts on the movie: (slight spoilers ahead)
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I haven’t read the comics, so I don’t know if they’re any better. I didn’t think it was AMAZING, but I didn’t think it was really terrible either. I was mildly annoyed by the fact that Ramona (the love interest) had a total lack of agency through most of the movie; I mean, she obviously wanted to date Scott, but the movie revolved around how her exes all decided to make it difficult for anyone else to date her, no matter how she felt about it, Scott had to fight the exes for/over her, and at the end of the movie one of the exes literally puts a chip in her brain so she has to be saved yet again. As Matt said, it’s essentially a “save the princess” sort of deal. Also, I am kind of wondering when Michael Cera will be too old to be the go-to guy for movies like this. I think he’s adorable, but I’m also pretty sure he’s played essentially the same character in EVERY MOVIE he’s been in, EVER, in the history of the universe, and I mean, there’s only so much cute-awkward-geeky-skinny-indie-kid shenanigans you can watch. Or I can watch, anyways.
It was pretty funny at parts, though. I’m pretty sure there was some sort of Jungian archetypes thing going on but I was never much into Jung so they went right over my head.
The avatar maker is also pretty cool:
They even had my hair color! Which I guess makes sense, seeing as how Ramona’s hair goes from pink to blue to green throughout the film…
Speaking of hair!
It is LONG, y’all. Or at least for me; this is the longest it’s been in ages. I kind of forgot how to take care of it when it’s this long, I probably need to take a few pokes around the Naturally Curly site or something. Not to mention figure out something else to do with it other than pigtails, since that’s currently how I’m wearing it every other day. The movie made me want to cut it short again BUT NO, I shall persevere. If nothing else it needs to be long(er) so I can have a majestic teased mess of hair for my Halloween costume.
As for general state of the me things; I’m doing pretty well. I’ve been feeling inexplicably burned out lately so I’m mostly holing up in a Hogwarts inspired hole; I’m reading my way through the HP series again (between books three and four at the moment) and planning on watching all of the movies too (I never saw five or six at all!). The cover story is that I want to be caught up/refreshed for when the next movie comes out in November, but I think I also just needed some comforting nostalgia. Although the trailer is pretty fucking awesome, amirite? I think I need to take another short internet break & that’s tentatively planned for the 22nd-28th at the moment.
Anyways. Hope your weekend is off to a good start, dear reader. I have more Harry Potter planned, myself. Because I am an adult and that is how I deal with things, dammit.
