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i saw "the best christmas pageant ever" with one of my church youth group leaders. i had mixed feelings on it. i rly liked the setting and the cinematography. i thought the protagonist was rly boring and it'd be more interesting if it focused on the herdmans instead. the acting can be kinda unnatural at times. i don't like how future-beth keeps narrating it the entire time, it's distracting and i don't need the plot of the movie to be spoonfed to me. there's no tension in it at all bc of the 2 things i just mentioned, the movie trying too hard to be funny, or a combination of these things. the part where they pulled the pageant off was rly beautiful but the ending feels kinda lazy. also, the one girl imogene is so trans lesbian coded, with the way she homoerotically bullies the pretty girls at school (it's like a pg version of "welcome to the dollhouse"), always focuses on pretty girls in posters and paintings, and looks tough on the outside but wants to be seen as sweet and innocent on the inside. i doubt that was intentional but i think it's cool
there was a crane machine at the theater and i wanted to try to get this pink bunny out of it, but it was broken and took my youth group leader's dollar ! also i was stressed out bc i lost some of my bracelets and my mom looked for them while i was at school but they weren't there... |