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ROCKET ([personal profile] beatupgrass) wrote in [community profile] entrancelogs2017-03-04 09:20 pm

[open] you were content to let me shine, that's your way.

Who: Rocket and anyone who wanders into this hot mess
Where: Wonderland's "movie theater."
When: Various points throughout the month of March, except during events. (Catch-all)
Rating: PG-13 for Rocket's mouth, probably
Summary: Rocket doesn't always play Beat the Clock with bombs in the hedge maze or shoot things for fun... sometimes he catches up on Terran pop culture.
The Story:

ᴀ. ɢᴇɴᴇʀɪᴄ ʜᴏʀʀᴏʀ ᴍᴏᴠɪᴇ

We find Rocket seated comfortably in the first row of comfy couches, a bowl of trail mix situated beside him, which he keeps idly reaching his disconcertingly human-like hands into, as he stares at the scene unfolding before him with the look of someone wondering if the movie is going to actually get good if he looks away for a second.

"Bet he's still alive," he mutters, popping a pretzel in his mouth. Unsurprisingly, the killer gets to his feet, limping along and ready to have one last stab- hah- at the quirky killer. "Dippy broad. You're supposed to shoot his face in before you turn your back."

He ends up going through several horror movies and being continuously disappointed in all of them and their lame excuses for twists. He's probably even figured some out way before the ending, and isn't shy about proclaiming his theories, therefore ruining the suspense. He's a bro like that.


ʙ. ɢᴇɴᴇʀɪᴄ ꜱᴄɪ-ꜰɪ ᴍᴏᴠɪᴇ

If you thought watching horror movies with Rocket was annoying, then wait until you see how he gets with science fiction. Most of it is yawn-worthy to him, having lived in space. More importantly, it's horribly unrealistic. He spends most of the ones he watches flopped in one corner of the couch with his head on the armrest, rolling his eyes.

People watching with him get treated to a raccoonoid in various states of agony, running his hands over his face, muttering things like, "You can't freakin' do that, jackass. You'll burn up your d'ast engines" or "Did they hand a bunch of frickin' children laser guns? Why can't any of these people hit anything?"

But also, occasionally, he'll perk up and you get things like, "Now that's a nicely designed spacecraft. Y'all can imagine that, but you can't legitimately build it? What a waste."


ᴄ. ʙᴇᴀᴄʜᴇꜱ

It's hard to say where Rocket was when this movie began, but right now he's in the middle of the comfy floor pillows with a blanket over his head, staring with wide eyes at the screen. He may or may not be sniffling a little bit as "Wind Beneath My Wings" starts playing.

Look, the story of an unlikely friendship withstanding the test of time and people being selfish and stupid, only for one of them to die really hits home for him. And while he's too manly to admit why it gets to him so deeply, he's not too manly to admit he can be genuinely moved by the film. God, people. He has feelings too, you know.

He definitely spent the entirety of this one engrossed entirely and threatened to shoot you if you interrupted it. Look, he's been thinking about Groot a lot lately. He was bound to find some way to deal with this.

ᴅ. ᴛɪᴛᴀɴɪᴄ

You probably stumbled upon this viewing because Rocket has spent most of it yelling at the screen, ranging from things like "YOU ARROGANT DICK" to "oh my flark- YOU CAN'T GET OUT OF THAT?" and so on and so forth. It's hard to tell whether he's pissed at this movie or worked up because he actually likes the characters and wants better for them. It's Rocket. He's difficult to read.

As it draws to an emotional climax, Rocket is tugging at his ears and looking somewhere between wanting to yell or cry. Or both. "You both could've fit on that d'asted raft! What the hell, Rose?!"


ᴇ. ᴛʜᴇ ɪꜱʟᴀɴᴅ ᴏꜰ ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏʀᴇᴀᴜ

This one starts out promising. Plane crash. People duking it out for survival. Iceman from Top Gun is in it. All really great points, but as it goes on, it occurs to Rocket that maybe he should have paid a little bit closer attention to the details. At first, the strange hybrid humanoid animals and the talk of experimentation only make him tense and a little annoyed, but he manages to keep watching, if anything, out of stubbornness, growing continuously more on edge the longer it goes on. He doesn't even make it halfway, however, after a brutal scene involving bringing the Beast Folk into submission through their implants forces him to snarl and slam a hand down on the remote.

Once his fur settles, he tries to play it off. "It was boring anyway."


[OOC: ALSO AVAILABLE FOR WILDCARD OPTIONS if you'd like to force Rocket to sit through your personal favorite movie.]
shivving: (smiling (almost))

[personal profile] shivving 2017-03-20 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
"I'll take that bet." Joel settles back, putting his feet up and crossing his arms over his chest, never looking away from the movie. "Ain't no way they'd pay her to come back, jus' t'kill her off right away. They'd just kill her offscreen, have someone else talk about how tragic it all was." He knows how this works, okay.

The therapy session proceeds, the doctor asking question after question while the woman grows more and more agitated. Finally, she snaps, launching herself across the room at the doctor and screaming at him as she produces a knife out of nowhere. Ten seconds later, the doctor's lying in a puddle of his own blood on the floor, and the once-heroine is racing through the corridors, clearly unstable and now bloodthirsty to boot. It's not hard to guess who the villian of this piece is going to be. Joel raises his eyebrows.

"Huh. Didn't see that comin'."
shivving: (smiling (almost))

[personal profile] shivving 2017-03-24 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
Joel smirks, dipping his head in agreement. "He kinda was, wasn't he. Dunno if he deserved that, though." Poor guy was just trying to do his job, after all. And what kind of monster would you have to be to kill a doctor just trying to help?

Joel glances down at Rocket, tilting his head. "Still think she's gonna bite it?"
shivving: (i'm not mad just disappointed)

[personal profile] shivving 2017-03-26 10:59 am (UTC)(link)
Joel smiles. But he's not nearly so invested as winning the bet as Rocket might have been, and he sure doesn't need a whole bowl of popcorn for himself. He takes a handful of popcorn, then sets the bowl between himself and Rocket, in reach of them both.

"Yeah, you were half right. So I'd say we both won." He gestures to the screen, and the movie's painfully awkward introduction to the new protagonist. "Much as anyone can win anything while watchin' this, at least."
shivving: (smiling (almost))

[personal profile] shivving 2017-03-31 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's true enough."

Sometimes he gets restless, not having anything to do. No need for smuggling here. No scrounging for food and supplies. Everything's just provided. Of course, when that happens, he can always go to Tess. She's somehow kept herself just as busy here as she ever was back home, and she never has any problem finding work for Joel, either.

The thought of a raccoon holding down a job makes him smirk, though, and he turns to Rocket with a raised eyebrow, teasing.

"What was your job? Garbage collector?"

Get it? Because raccoon?
shivving: (talking)

[personal profile] shivving 2017-04-06 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
Message received. Joel raises his hands in surrender.

"Sorry, sorry. Just kiddin' around."

Not funny. He gets it. Joel ignores the movie for a moment, just studying Rocket.

"Savior of the galaxy, huh?"
shivving: (i'm not mad just disappointed)

[personal profile] shivving 2017-04-10 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
"Bet it does," Joel agrees. Not that he would know, but he's willing to take Rocket's word on this one.

He tilts his head, considering. "So who exactly foots the bill for that kinda thing? Savin' the galaxy?"
shivving: (talking)

[personal profile] shivving 2017-04-17 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
Well, he's officially lost now. Is he supposed to know who these people are? Is this a space reference, or just a future reference? Joel nods somberly, as if anything Rocket just said makes sense.

"Least you got paid," he offers instead, kicking his feet up and checking on the movie. No gore happening yet, just a bunch of supposedly creepy foreshadowing.