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I saw The Avengers again! The screen was disgustingly dark--the whole point I went again in the theater was to get a better view of people's faces during the emotional moments, and it was like it had been filmed behind a screen door. During the scene with Thor in the field of flowers, the sky behind him looked like a storm was coming. Do people just not notice this? That you can't see the characters' faces? I NOTICE. Anyway I am confirmed in my choice to pretty much never see movies at a theater anymore; it might barely be worth the money if they didn't ruin it with wrong bad projection.

HOWEVER, it was still pretty awesome. I still want all the things I want, except more. Also, if I know I'm in that new fandom phase where I try to turn every song I hear into a theme song for a character or a pairing, I should probably switch to something besides the Ani DiFranco playlist. My brain keeps trying to make song calls that make me want to slap myself. (Although the two for Tony/Pepper actually work great, if you are like me and kind of hate that pairing. And the one for Natasha might work, can't tell yet. And it's not like I haven't found all kinds of perfect songs for male characters sung by women, and vice versa, but apparently Ani does not work that way. Like...at all.)

I sat all the way through to the very very end again, to check a fact, and now I can start writing without any more excuses. I KNOW ALL. And I will turn it into porn. Or feelings, anyway.

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ngl Ani DiFranco is totally my go-to for Tony-writing music. idek.

The thing is, I can totally get behind those EMOTIONS as applied to him, it's why my brain kept trying to go there. but somehow the precise lyrics...I just...it does not work for me. It almost works and then fails hilariously.

I can see where it would make good fic, though. He does have a lot of feelings.

if you are like me and kind of hate that pairing

why do you dislike it?

I think it's gross, I was so fucking relieved when the first movie didn't do that to her and then the second movie DID and yeah, their scene in this movie was better, but it's just--he spent two movies treating her like garbage, along with extreme neediness which was somehow supposed to make up for it even though under the adorable manpain veneer it's just more of the same, and it's quite obvious that nobody who wrote their romance plot in IM2 (or The Avengers for that matter) has any idea what's wrong with it and why it is is not a beautiful romance. If it were supposed to be messed up and uncomfortable I'd be fine with it.

Yeah, this was the first time the Tony/Pepper relationship didn't give me goosebumps of horror, and I still didn't like it.

Since I read about the 2D/3D projector issue with dark screens, I checked with my cinema - they have different 2D and 3D cinemas with their own projectors, meaning that's why movies there in 2D have never had this darkness problem that I keep reading about.

I'm sure that's the problem, but since they were showing the 2D version on their smaller screens I didn't think they even had the 3D projectors installed in there. I suppose they just replaced them all in a fit of terrible decision making.