Fireball Review
Mar. 9th, 2011 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
iariaThe movie was okay. Cheezy but kind of fun. The fact that the two leads are familiar faces and that I like both Lexa and Ian helped to make it more enjoyable.
• I enjoyed Lee and Ava’s interactions quite a bit but at the same time I really like that while there was a mutual attraction and respect between them they didn’t get together at the end. Still a kiss might have been nice. I’d watch another movie about these two working as partners, bickering and working really well together.
• I liked Ava the smart scientist. It would have been nice if she hadn’t been knocked out during the final confrontation and had been able to do something but she was pretty great throughout. I really loved how she dealt with everyone in this calm and no-nonsense manner. She didn’t take crap, and when Lee pull rank she just rolled with it (while rolling her eyes). She was pretty cool. Plus she wasn’t running around in a tank top or artfully ripped/burned clothing.
• I liked how Lee was kind of dorky and awkward. How he both disliked and was bemused by the small town life. I liked that he was also very composed.
• There were so many contrivances and plot holes and people being really dumb – like, using the reporter as bait (seriously? someone is so going to be fired) or the lack of cops/military for the entirety of the movie – and just general ridiculousness (dodging fireballs) but then that’s kind of expected in a TV movie.
• “One of our brothers…” I realise that this was meant in a positive way. It’s an ‘oh, look, he really does consider Ava as one of them, worthy of respect and pack loyalty and support’. But that could have come across with ‘one of ours’ just as well and it wouldn’t have had the nasty aftertaste of ‘a woman being just as good as a man and accepted by men as one of their own’ being the highest honour a woman should aspire to. She’s not one of their ‘brothers’ and she shouldn’t have to be because she’s a woman and it’s fucking insulting. I hate when people use ‘one of the guys’ in any form as the highest compliment a woman can get because it really fucking isn’t. Ugh.
• Lee’s monologue in the van on the way to confront Draven was weirdly personal and random and actually really embarrassing. I mean who opens up like that to random strangers? I could buy it if it had just been Ava since they’d been bonding but with the other two there? Not so much.
• I was so sure by about half way through that Lee would turn out to be Draven’s son and yet while everything seemed to point that way it never really became fact. It still makes sense to me.
• The end, as Lee drives away from town, was a bit weird. It was played with this ominous music over Ava looking in her mirror and then Lee driving away with a cigarette in his mouth and yet… nothing happened. It just ended. Considering the music choice I was expecting his cigarette to light itself.
• I enjoyed Lee and Ava’s interactions quite a bit but at the same time I really like that while there was a mutual attraction and respect between them they didn’t get together at the end. Still a kiss might have been nice. I’d watch another movie about these two working as partners, bickering and working really well together.
• I liked Ava the smart scientist. It would have been nice if she hadn’t been knocked out during the final confrontation and had been able to do something but she was pretty great throughout. I really loved how she dealt with everyone in this calm and no-nonsense manner. She didn’t take crap, and when Lee pull rank she just rolled with it (while rolling her eyes). She was pretty cool. Plus she wasn’t running around in a tank top or artfully ripped/burned clothing.
• I liked how Lee was kind of dorky and awkward. How he both disliked and was bemused by the small town life. I liked that he was also very composed.
• There were so many contrivances and plot holes and people being really dumb – like, using the reporter as bait (seriously? someone is so going to be fired) or the lack of cops/military for the entirety of the movie – and just general ridiculousness (dodging fireballs) but then that’s kind of expected in a TV movie.
• “One of our brothers…” I realise that this was meant in a positive way. It’s an ‘oh, look, he really does consider Ava as one of them, worthy of respect and pack loyalty and support’. But that could have come across with ‘one of ours’ just as well and it wouldn’t have had the nasty aftertaste of ‘a woman being just as good as a man and accepted by men as one of their own’ being the highest honour a woman should aspire to. She’s not one of their ‘brothers’ and she shouldn’t have to be because she’s a woman and it’s fucking insulting. I hate when people use ‘one of the guys’ in any form as the highest compliment a woman can get because it really fucking isn’t. Ugh.
• Lee’s monologue in the van on the way to confront Draven was weirdly personal and random and actually really embarrassing. I mean who opens up like that to random strangers? I could buy it if it had just been Ava since they’d been bonding but with the other two there? Not so much.
• I was so sure by about half way through that Lee would turn out to be Draven’s son and yet while everything seemed to point that way it never really became fact. It still makes sense to me.
• The end, as Lee drives away from town, was a bit weird. It was played with this ominous music over Ava looking in her mirror and then Lee driving away with a cigarette in his mouth and yet… nothing happened. It just ended. Considering the music choice I was expecting his cigarette to light itself.
