geek-centric movies fronted by ladies<\/a>! This is where it’s at! BIG DAMN HEROINES.<\/p>\nMonsters vs. Aliens<\/em> is messy around the edges — it’s not as elegant a creation as, say, Wall-E<\/em> or Coraline<\/em> — but amidst all the gee-whiz-style fun, there’s something sneakily awesome going on. The set-up is the kind we’re used to seeing in a different genre altogether: standard-issue rom-coms. Meek woman (not living up to her potential, obvs!) is set to marry clearly-wrong-for-her guy. But then, rather than getting saved by totally-right-for-her-guy, she gets hits by a radioactive meteor and morphs into a giant with blazing white hair. That’s pretty cool, right there. The fact that Monsters vs. Aliens<\/em> continues to be about Susan-now-Ginormica all the way through — and the back-and-forth between wanting to be rid of her new superhero status, then accepting it, then prizing it about all else, and so on — is really<\/em> cool. And though this is all fairly broadly sketched (and amusingly underscored by Seth Rogen’s ever-present chuckle — “HUH HUH HUH”), the general Superhero Struggle themes still come through — enough so that it reminded me a bit of the Jennifer Walters\/She-Hulk dilemma as depicted by Dan Slott during his run on the Shulkie book.<\/p>\nThe flick hasn’t really been promoted as being about “OMG a LADYHERO” and Ginormica’s ladyness isn’t really a story point. It’s all just sort of…there. This is how you do it. Live action flicks could take a few cues.<\/p>\n
And, as I mentioned above, animated movies have really been kicking geek live action ass when it comes to big-time female characters. Coraline — bold, moody, inquisitive — was another great one. EVE was as important to Wall-E<\/em> as Wall-E. This is all very pleasing to me.<\/p>\nWhile I don’t want to have to completely retreat to animated fare for my Big Damn (Movie) Heroines, I’m glad that these films are giving me gals I can root for, positioned front and center. Because even though we geeks love complaining, sometimes it’s nice to see something that just makes you go FUCK YEAH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Had a total moment while watching Monsters vs. Aliens. As gentle giantess Ginormica shoved her size-SUV feet into car rollerskates and prepared to zip through the streets of San Francisco, the thoughts, they started to pile up, falling like anvils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,27],"tags":[165,166],"class_list":["post-1933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom","category-movies","tag-ginormica","tag-monsters-vs-aliens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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