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watchingspnagain · 3 years

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Rewatching Hook Man

Welcome to “We Root for the Bad Guys: A Supernatural Rewatch Blog” with Lor and Mace!

Up today, s1e7: Hook Man

Sam and Dean come up against an (the?) actual manifestation of the Hook Man legend when they investigate the violent death of a dudebro who, honestly, kind of deserved it. Another person gets hooked and the boys start suspecting there's a connection to dudebro's girlfriend and her super-strict pastor father. They're... almost right. Dudebro's girlfriend gives a lesson on what not to do if a cute boy is hanging around outside your house at night, stalker-style (thank goodness Cute Boy is just Sammy). There's a quality Winchesters in a Library scene, with a Dean with a Pen Cap in His Mouth bonus.

Below is a log of our real-time reactions as we watched. Remember that there may be spoilers for any part of SPN’s 15-season run here. Note also that the nature of our conversation is adult and thus it may contain adult language and themes.

[and we begin:]

Lor:

aw, Jensen is still saying "previously on Supernatural." I wonder when that stops

Mace:

Ha! I never even notice

Lor:

lol

Mace:

"there's a hot chic buried somewhere in there" fuck you, bad friend

Lor:

Laurie looks lovely exactly the way she's dressed

RIGHT?

Mace:

YES SHE DOES

DUDE SHE SAID NO

Lor:

RIGHT?

Mace:

Come on, hook dude, take care of this douche

Lor:

LOLOLOL

routing for the bad guys

look, douchecanoe, in addition to "no means no and only yes means yes," you gotta learn that when the woman says "let's get out of here," YOU SHOULD GET OUT OF THERE

Mace:

Ha, yep. There's this whole thing now about how villains in movies are becoming too relatable and script writers feel the need to make them do something really unforgivable even if it's out of character just to redirect the audience back to the idea that they are, in fact, the bad guys. It's... not exactly wrong...

Lor:

yep

Mace:

FRANCES

Lor:

lol

Mace:

Dean's not saying "Dad doesn't want to be found" INTERESTING

Lor:

Yeah

Lor:

and what are YOU drinking, Dean?

Mace:

he's... liking the new dynamic of he and Sammy and no judgmental Dad, maybe?

not that he would admit that to himself out loud

Lor:

ooo, YEP

LOLOLOL Sam and Dean as fraternity brothers

Mace:

omg Sammy actually paints the dude

Lor:

RIGHT?

Mace:

Adorable

Lor:

and Dean isn't exactly not looking, despite refusing to do it himself

Mace:

Lor:

lol, Dean letting the church door slam shut

Mace:

YES

Cas cringes in heaven

Lor:

SNORK

Mace:

I love her hair pulled back like that

she's adorable

Lor:

agreed it looks so lovely

"young people who are open to the lord's message" the way some of this stuff hits when you know where the show ends up going

Mace:

RIGHT?!

Lor:

Dean blowing the dust off the box and his little "thanks"

Mace:

YES

Oh Dean, honey, that's not really what college is like

Lor:

LOL

he never got to find out, poor lamb

Mace:

was that a Ghostbusters reference?

Lor:

was it? I missed it

Mace:

I think Dean called Sammy Dr Venkman

Lor:

aaaah

omg the Avril Lavigne poster

Mace:

HAHAHAHA I was just about to type that exact thing

Lor:

LOL

Mace:

I love all the little things that date these early episodes, especially the clothes - those nearly-too-little blazers and the low ride chinos

Lor:

YES

it's like getting smacked in the face with college and masters degree school

Mace:

Ha!

Mace:

the first mention of salt shells!

Lor:

YES

Lor:

"he had the gun" DEAN

Mace:

HAHAHA

Lor:

aaaah, nope nope nope behind the couch behind the cooooouch

Mace:

oof yeah, this is very ew

Lor:

this is one of those bits that scared the BEJESUS out of me and made me sleep with lights on when I was an impressionable, tiny 25-year-old

Mace:

Ha! I'm okay unless it's a haunted house

"well you look like a dumbass pledge"

DEAN WINCHESTER

Lor:

SNORK

and Dean is Matlock? Dean is a white-haired old man?

Mace:

OMG DEAN stop thinking about naked pillow fights and FOCUS

Lor:

lolololol Dean, pay attention, goober

Mace:

he really REALLY doesn't have a clear idea of what college is like

Lor:

nope

lol, falling in through the window

this sneaking around and ducking behind things makes them look so tiny

Mace:

well, Dean at least. Sam looks like a Moose trying to hide behind a pencil

Lor:

HAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Mace:

omg their separate views of college I LOVE IT

Lor:

YES

and Sam's little nod when Dean describes what he thinks it was like for Sam

Mace:

YES

Lor:

omg his little pout

Mace:

omg Dean's disappointment

Mace:

YES

Lor:

"next time I get to watch the cute girl's house"

ooo, one of my most favorite shots is coming up

Mace:

ooooo

yes, it's always a great idea to go out and talk to the dude you barely know and seems to be stalking you outside your house

Lor:

RIGHT?

aaaww, Sammy. so adorable

Mace:

but yes he is adorable

Lor:

I mean, SHE doesn't know he's sweet and adorable

Mace:

(I think she has an inkling about his adorableness)

ope there it is, yeah?

Lor:

YES

Mace:

the match?

Lor:

Dean holding the match

LOVE IT

Mace:

YES

Lor:

oh gross, preacher dad

I forgot about that piece of it

Mace:

omg Sam's face is very "um I have no idea how to deal with this information"

"AM UNCOMFORTABLE"

Lor:

yeah

Mace:

Ooooh, yeah, she clearly is aware of the Sam Cuteness

Lor:

YEP

still probably not the swiftest move

Mace:

what, you mean, "my boyfriend and roommate were just killed, let's snog" isn't smooth?

Lor:

LOLOLOL

I'm also just amused that she's all "gonna go talk to the strange boy stalking my house" and then it turns out he in fact has a bag full of guns at his feet

Mace:

HAHAHAHA YES

omg Dean's goofy smile

Lor:

YES

Mace:

"HEY, BROTHER"

Lor:

"hey, brother!"

Mace:

my god these boys are pretty

Lor:

RIGHT?

Mace:

I should be listening to their explication but somehow I'm... distracted

Lor:

naaah

eeeee, talking at the same time

Mace:

PEN CAP

Mace:

Ha!

Lor:

YAAAAAS

and the RING

Mace:

YES

Lor:

sigh

I'm gonna need them to go back and do some more filming and give me more shots of Dean lounging with his feet up and a book on his lap

Mace:

Ha!

avenging angels, eh?

Lor:

oooo, avenging angels

Mace:

Interesting

Lor:

LOL

poor Sam. like, how do I comfort this girl when she's RIGHT?

Mace:

YES

Mace:

Dean's over-the-shoulder look

Lor:

YES

the way they SHOOT these. and the LINES of the shots

Mace:

Yeah

Lor:

"oh, don't worry, we're leaving town" poor boys

Mace:

Yep

Lor:

always with the "get out of town"

Mace:

sing off key Ooooouutsiiiiiiderrrrrs*

Lor:

YES

"we could stay"

Mace:

Dean's willing to stay for Sammy though

so sweet

Lor:

YES

Mace:

(I think he knows it's a safe offer, though)

Lor:

(yeah)

(kind of putting the nail in the idea from the previous ep with the whole "you can't have friends" thing. Sam's learned it now)

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hello-robin-goodfellow · 4 years

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My Sugestions of Seven Feel Good Movies

1º The Castle of Cagliostro.

The first animated long feature film of Hayao Miyazaki. Combining exciting action, energetical phisical comedy and bittersweet fairy tale romance with a likable and charismatic cast of characters, it shows how promising Miyazaki and his team were to the world of animation, and tells a story that combines several genres of fiction i really, really envyyyyy not have writen!

2º O Auto da Compadecida (2001).

O Auto da Compadecida (also known, among English viewers, as A Dog's Will) is a 1999 brazilian movie, based on a play of the same name by Ariano Suassuna. The story takes place the in impoverished, dry deserted region of Northeast Brazil and follows two friends trying to get by using their wits and silver tongue: the lively Jack (played by Matheus Nachtergaele) and the cowardly Chicó (played by Selton Mello). The two men work as assistants to the local baker and get wrapped up in several misadventures, including: tricking a priest to deliver the last rites to a dog as part of its will, trying to marry a landowner's daughter or risk loosing a lump of flesh as the price and an fatal encounter with a bloodthirsty bandit. That last misadventure lands Jack on a trial ministered by the Devil, Jesus and the Virgin Mary. The movie is ostensibly a comedy, and it was also released as a 4-part minisseries for TV.

I was born in Pernambuco, the state in wich the play that served as a base for the filme was first performed, and were it was the concentration of the artistic and literary Armorial Movement, of wich this story is one of the representants. It is one of the movies i watch and rewatch the most, i laugh of the same jokes over and over, and quote a lot of the lines. It was one of the first examples of archetypical character writing and social denounce comedy, tackling dark subject matters like death, that i came contact with, influencing the kind of writing i want to make. And i personally saw the original author of the play, Ariano Suassuna, do public speaking, when i was fifteen years old :)!

3º The Incredible Army of Brancaleone (1966).

L'Armata Brancaleone, known to the english-speakers as The Incredible Army of Brancaleone and For Love and Gold is an Italian comedy movie released in 1966, written by the duo Age & Scarpelli and directed by Mario Monicelli, featuring Vittorio Gassman in the main role. It was entered into the 1966 Cannes Film Festival. The film is set in the tragically realistic Italy during the Middle Ages. After mugging a valiant but wounded German Knight, some raiders find out that he was going to inherit the fief of Aurocastro. The bandits manage to persuade the fallen knight Brancaleone of Norcia to go to the fief in lieu of the German Knight and take possession of it, sharing the goods with the others, of course. So the Ragtag Bunch of Misfits (or Armata Brancaleone) start its long journey towards the fief, meeting up with various characters on their way, including a princess, a fanatical priest who want to force them to join the crusade, a fallen byzantine prince and many others.

This and Roberto Benigni’s Life is Beautyfull were my first contact with Italian Cinema. At first, The Incredible Army of Brancaleone scared me away as a child, because, as part of presenting a image of the Middle Ages more distant of fairy tales, it opened with a very gory scene of pillage, where a man have his arm cutted. But then, a few years later (when i was eight to nine years old), i gave it a second chance, watching it from beggining to end. And, oh my stars, is just so colorful (so much so that Brancaleone’s horse, Aquilante, is somehow yellow), and funny. Brancaleone (who aparently was inspired on Don Quixote) and his man are some of the most likable morans ever putted on screen. For me, this movie is proof that you still can present a grimm dark world balanced with an idealist, tough not very competent, group of likable characters, thus avoiding coming out as cynical and/or gratuitous darkness induced apathy, making a more profound point about society and human contradictions.

4º Amélie (2005).

This movie follows the story of Amélie Poulain, a lonely young parisian waitress with simple pleasures, as she decides to become a sort of guardian angel to those around her: reuniting a stranger with a box of his childhood treasures, gently prompting her retired father to follow his dreams of world travel, matchmaking café regulars, playing practical jokes on a greengrocer who's being cruel to his assistant, writing love letters to a woman whose husband left her, etc. During her adventures, she meets an odd young man called Nino, who we quickly realize is her soulmate — but she is too shy to make direct contact. She must find the courage to fix her own life as she's been fixing those of others.

How to start guching about this movie? The work with the green and red colors are a wonder to the eyes, we want to hear over and over again the memorable soundtrack, the inteligent script managed to make everyday life into a great adventure, the theme of sex receives a funny, yet natural, treatment, and i came to consider Audrey Tautou one of my favorite actressess for her performance as Amélie Poulain, a character whose curiosity, imagination, shiness, loneliness and buried sadness is very relatable.

5º Chicken Run (2000).

A ginger chicken named "Ginger" is the ringleader in the attempts of the chickens to escape from Mr. and Mrs. Tweedy's Chicken Farm, a prison where any chicken who fails to lay eggs risks being beheaded and cooked for dinner. Ginger is at her wits' end trying to talk the others into any new escape attempts, (all of which fail and earn her a trip to solitary confinement in a coal bunker). Then a rooster named Rocky, who can apparently fly, falls from the sky and agrees to teach the chickens how to fly like him, in return for Ginger keeping mum on his presence. However Mrs. Tweedy, tiring of the low profits selling eggs brings her, decides to convert her business into chicken pot pies. Needless to say, things get drastic in a hurry and Ginger must get the whole coop into the air before they all become mincemeat.

This movie was my first contact with british animation, and one of my first memories of stop motion animation. And, ho boy, that animation still aged so well. My favorite scene is of the first flying trainging. Mrs. Tweedy is a very intimidating villain, Ginger is a brave and intelligent leader i would follow, the military style rooster Fowler is hilarious, Babs is adorkable with her needles and I AM MAC, THE NERDY CHICKEN! And plus: the soundtrack, oh, the soundtrack. Just, amazing.

6º The Ray Harryhausen Sinbad Movie Trilogy (1958, 1974, 1977).

Speaking of stop-motion animation, i decided to honour with a spot here the three movies staring the legendary Arabian Nights sailor Sinbad, The SEventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958), The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974) and Sinbad and The Eye of The Tiger (1977), with storyboards and monster animation made by the team of master of stop-motion himself, Ray Harrihausen. Taking the viewer into aventures to save a princess and a prince from malefic and spels and searching for the pieces of a map to the fountain of youth, this movies present us with a rich fantasy world influenced by the Arabian Nights and the Greek Mithology, two of my personal favorites pantheons of fantastic mithologies. The second one of the trilogie, 1974′s The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, is probably the best crafted, specially with his variety of animated creatures and the writing of his main villain, the wizard Koura, played by Tom Baker. But i highly recomend all three for a great ride into the evolution of Harryhausen’s stop motion animation and storytelling.

7º The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004).

One world: nostalgia.

This movie is the best episode, and the finally of the series. Period.

I wannabe best friends with Princess Mindy. And i want a Goofy Goober Icecream.

‘I’m a Goofy Goober. Yeah! You are a Goofy Goober. Yeah! We are Goofy Goober. Yeah! Goofy, Goofy, Goofy Goober, yeah’!

I TAG: @giuliettaluce, @princesssarisa, @anne-white-star, @thedyingtimelady, @witches-ofcolor, @jasminesa73, @tipsywench

#tag yourself #tags #asks #ask

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