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Some cool things for a Monday -

For New Yorkers: It's already August and I have not taken advantage of any free New York outdoor movies yet, which is a fact I am somewhat shamed by. The Bryant Park Film Festival is showing The Magnificent Seven next Monday and Brooklyn Bridge Park has Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid on that Thursday; both of these are high up on my list of 'Great Movies I Should See Someday', so if anyone's interested, let me know! I also might go see Twilight in Central Park SHUT UP IT'S FREE AND HILARIOUS.

For Avatar fans:

atla_ladyfest! Not everything for the fic/art exchange is up yet, but if you like Avatar and you like stories and art that focus on awesome ladies, seriously, go check it out! I told myself I was not going to rec anything specific until everything goes up in the interests of not spamming, and I will hold to that (but I am full of joy about the Hama-centric fic that was written for me, also the Azula story and both Yue stories are AMAZING, and and and!) but regardless, I get way too much joy even just from looking at the info page of the comm and seeing all the great female characters that are represented and thinking about all the amazing fics that could be written about all of them. SO MANY.

I am totally spoiled now; I want ladyfests for EVERYTHING. bsg_ladyfest! tutu_ladyfest! dw_ladyfest! YOU KNOW THEY WOULD ALL BE FABULOUS. Time to get on that, fandom!

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Butch Cassidy is one of those films that you need to see because of how often it's quoted and for the amazing dynamic between Newman and Redford. (William Goldman wrote a great screenplay.) But it's very much a film of its day, when Westerns were being reinvented and deconstructed and when there was some demand to make a movie set in 1900 or so look contemporary, if not quite hip.

Which is to say, don't go in with really high expectations.

No worries, my expectations are not towering! It's the screenplay and the dialogue I want to see it for really. I'm more interested in The Magnificent Seven, though - if I end up having to pick, that's the one I'll do.

I recommend Butch Cassidy over Magnificent Seven. They're both good, but Cassidy is just better across the board.

(I've been using my Netflix account to take care of my "must see" list.)

Hmmm, interesting. Duly noted, thanks!

I have no Netflix account, which means in theory I use the library, which is pretty good on "must see" classics . . . but also that in practice, I just tend not to watch movies at home, since twenty-minute or forty-minute chunks are a lot easier for me to justify taking away from the other things I have to do than two-hour chunks. So I often need to make it an Event (like a free movie in the park!) to actually commit to sitting down and watching them.

I just tend not to watch movies at home, since twenty-minute or forty-minute chunks are a lot easier for me to justify taking away from the other things I have to do than two-hour chunks.

I know that feeling. Making it an Event helps, as does just getting a group together (which is, I guess, an Event in miniature).

Oh, absolutely - it is always infinitely easier for me to make the time to watch something if I've got another person/people to do it with! Because, you know, socializing is fun.

Um, I will totally go to see Twilight in the park with you! As will my roommate, if she is here that weekend -- I just asked her across the table. :)

AWESOME. It is a plan. >:D We can bring popcorn to throw at the screen whenever Edward Cullen is particularly creepy!

OMG AN ATLA LADYFEST. oh baby I know where MY night is going!

THANK YOUUU

:D!

:D :D You are welcoooooooome. (LADIES. <3)