#Cinderella 1997 aka the only Cinderella | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

phoenixlionme · 3 years ago

Text

Favorite Anime (Manga)/Movies/TV Series

EDIT: Deleted first one so that I could make the proper and needed changes on this new one.

ANIME (MANGA)

91 Days

Ace of the Diamond

Afro Samurai

Aggretsuko

Akuma no Riddle

All Out!

Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day

Battery

Beastars

Belle (2021 anime movie by Mamoru Hosada)

Bleach

Bongchun Bride - Korean MLM manga

The Boy and the Beast

Canaan

Cells at Work!

Death Note

Detective Conan - second favorite shonen anime of ALL time; favorite mystery anime of ALL time

Digimon franchise - specifically my favorite parts are Digimon Adventure 1 and Digimon Tamers, more so with the latter

Eureka Seven

Eyeshield 21

Flame of Recca

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood - favorite shonen series of ALL TIME.

Gakuen Babysitters

Great Pretender

Hajime no Ippo

Honey and Clover

Hunter x Hunter - 2011 anime version

Hyouka

Itazura Na Kiss

Joker Game

Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress

Kare Kano aka His and Her Circumstances - only has one (very bad) anime adaptation. I hope it gets properly adapted. Until then, I HIGHLY recommend reading the manga. My fav shojo series of ALL TIME.

Kekkaishi

Kiba

Kill La Kill

Like the Clouds, Like the Wind

Little Witch Academia

Lucky Star

Major

Miss Hokusai

Nana

Naruto - it had its’ flaws, but it holds a special place in my heart

Maid Sama!

One Piece

Pluto

Rurouni Kenshin

Slam Dunk

Strawberry Panic

Studio Ghibli’s Howl’s Moving Castle

Studio Ghibli’s Grave of the Fireflies

Studi Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke - favorite Hayao Miyazaki film of ALL TIME

Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away - second favorite Hayao Miyazaki film of ALL TIME

Studio Ghibli’s The Boy and the Heron

Summer Wars - so far, my favorite film by Mamoru Hosada

Tengen Toppan Gurenn Lagann

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

The Kids on the Slope

The Prince of Tennis

Under the Oak Tree - Korean manhwa

Usagi no Drop - JUST WATCH THE ANIME VERSION.

Yotsuba&!

Your Name

Yu Yu Hakusho

MOVIES

12 Angry Men - ONLY the first one

1917

3:10 to Yuma

300

A Bronx Tale

A Cinderella Story

A Few Good Men

A Quiet Place franchise

A Raisin in the Sun - the very first one with the late Sidney Poitier

A Soldier’s Story

A Walk to Remember

An American Tail franchise

Akeelah and the Bee

All Dogs Go To Heaven franchise

All Quiet on the Western Front 2022

Always Be My Maybe

Ambulance 2022

American History X

Anatasia

Anomalisa

Antwone Fisher

Apollo 13 - possibly my favorite or one of my favorite biopic movie of ALL time

Argo

Atomic Blonde

Baby Driver

Bad Boys franchise

Balto franchise

Batman Under the Red hood

Billy Elliot - starring a young Jamie Bell

Black Jesus

Blue Hill Avenue

Blue Valentine

Boyz N’ The Hood

Brick 2005

Bridge to Terabithia

Brokeback Mountain

Calibre 2018 British movie

Carrie 1976 - fav horror film of ALL TIME; tied favorite Stephen King adaptation with Stand by Me

Cartoon Saloon’s My Father’s Dragon

Cartoon Saloon’s Song of the Sea

Cartoon Saloon’s The Breadwinner

Cats Don’t Dance

Chef - 2014 film

Cinderella (1997) - the one starring Brandi, Whoopi Goldberg, and the late Whitney Houston

Claudine 1976

Coach Carter

Cool Hand Luke

Cool Runnings

Corpse Bride

Crazy Rich Asians

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

DCEU’s Shazam

DCEU’s Wonder Woman

Defiance 2008

Despicable Me franchise - although, I will admit they could do better plot wise

Devil in a Blue Dress - starring Denzel Washington

Dinner with Friends - 2001 TV movie starring Dennis Quaid

Dirty Dancing - starring Patrick Swayze; fav romance and dancing movie of ALL TIME

Disney’s 101 Dalmatians

Disney’s A Goofy Movie

Disney’s Atlantis the Lost Empire - third favorite underappreciated disney film of ALL TIME

Disney’s Encanto

Disney’s Hercules

Disney’s Jungle 2 Jungle

Disney’s Lady and the Tramp movies

Disney’s Lilo and Stitch franchise

Disney’s Meet the Robinsons - second favorite underappreciated disney film of ALL TIME

Disney’s Mulan - possibly my fav disney princess (and disney movie) of ALL TIME.

Disney’s Pinocchio

Disney’s Robin Hood

Disney’s Strange World

Disney’s Tangled

Disney’s Tarzan

Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Disney’s The Lion King trilogy

Disney’s The Little Mermaid trilogy

Disney’s The Princess and the Frog

Disney’s Treasure Planet - favorite underappreciated disney film of ALL TIME

Disney’s Zootopia

Django Unchained

Donnie Brasco - tied favorite Johnny Depp movie, along with Edward Scissorhands and Sleepy Hollow 1999

Dreamworks’ Chicken Run

Dreamworks’ HTTYD Trilogy - favorite movie franchise from Dreamworks of ALL time

Dreamworks’ Kung Fu Panda trilogy

Dreamworks’ Madagascar trilogy

Dreamworks’ Megamind - favorite underappreciated movie from Dreamworks of ALL time

Dreamworks’ Puss in Boots 2011

Dreamworks’ Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

Dreamworks’ Rise of the Guardians

Dreamworks’ Shrek franchise - although, the latter two movies could’ve been written better

Dreamworks’ Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron

Dreamworks’ The Bad Guys

Dreamworks’ The Prince of Egypt

Edge of Tomorrow

Edward Scissorhands - tied favorite Johnny Depp movie, along with Sleepy Hollow 1999 and Donnie Brasco

End of Watch

Enter the Dragon - fav Bruce Lee film of ALL TIME

Ethel and Ernest

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Eve’s Bayou

Fantastic Mr. Fox

FernGully: The Last Rainforest

Forrest Gump

Fresh 1994 - favorite hood genre film of ALL TIME.

Girls Trip 2017

Gladiator

Goodfellas - favorite Martin Scorcese movie of ALL time

Gravity - starring Sandra Bullock

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Hair Love short

Hairspray movie

Hangover - only the first movie

Happy Feet movies

Harlem Nights

Harry Potter franchise - although, I wish it could’ve kept closer to the books

Heathers

Heat (1995) - starring Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino

Hell or High Water

Hidden Figures

Hitch

Hot Fuzz - favortie film starring Simon Pegg movie of ALL time

How the Grinch Stole Christmas - starring Jim Carrey

Hunt for the Wilderpeople

I, Robot

In the Heat of the Night

Inception

Independence Day - just the first one

Inglorious Basterds

It’s A Wonderful Life

Jackie Brown

Jaws - just the first film

JFK

John Wick franchise

Jurassic Park trilogy - although, the very first is my fav

Kill Bill series

Killing Them Softly

Klaus Netflix movie

Knives Out

Laika Studios’ Coraline

Laika Studios’ Kubo and the Two Strings

Laika Studios’ Paranorman

Lens - 2016 Indian movie

Less Than Zero 1987

Life is Beautiful 1997

Like Father Like Son - Japanese movie

Lion - 2016 film starring Dev Patel

Locke - 2003 film starring Tom Hardy

Lord of the Rings trilogy

Marriage Story

Matilda - the one with Mara Wilson as the titled character

MCU’s Black Panther

MCU’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

MCU’s Captain America

MCU’s Captain America: Civil War

MCU’s Captain America: Winter Soldier

MCU’s Endgame

MCU’s Infinity War

MCU’s Shang Chi

MCU’s The Avengers

Mean Girls

Menace II Society

Missing 2023 - sequel to Searching 2018

Monkey Man

Moonlight 2016

Mosaic - 2007 film by Stan Lee

Mowgli 2018

Mystic Pizza

Mystic River

New Jack City

Nimona 2023

No Country for Old Men

Oldboy - 2003 South Korean film

Our Friend Martin 1999 - DTV movie

Pacific Rim - just the first one

Pan’s Labyrinth

Philadelphia

Pixar’s A Bug’s Life

Pixar’s Brave

Pixar’s Coco

Pixar’s Finding Nemo

Pixar’s The Incredibles franchise - favorite franchise from Pixar of ALL time

Pixar’s Toy Story trilogy - while I did like the fourth movie, I personally thought it should’ve ended as a trilogy

Pixar’s Turning Red

Planet of the Apes reboot trilogy

Platoon

Precious

Primal Fear (1996)

Pulp Fiction

Raising Victor Vargaras

Reservoir Dogs

Revolutionary Road

Rhymes for Young Ghouls

Road to Perdition

Roll Bounce

Rush Hour trilogy

Rustin 2023 Netflix movie

Saving Private Ryan

Scary Godmother

Schindler’s List

School Ties

Se7en

Searching 2018

See You Yesterday

Selma

Selma, Lord, Selma

Shutter Island

Sicario

Sin City

Sleepy Hollow 1999 - tied favorite Johnny Depp movie, along with Edward Scissorhands and Donnie Brasco

Slumdog Millionaire

Snowpiercer

Soul Food

Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse

Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse

Spike Lee’s Blackkklansman

Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods

Spike Lee’s Get on the Bus

Spike Lee’s He Got Game

Spike Lee’s Malcolm X

Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It

Spy 2015

Stand by Me - fav coming of age film of ALL TIME; tied favorite Stephen King adaptation with Carrie 1976

Steel Magnolias 1989

Swing Kids

Tammy 2014

The Big Short

The Book of Life

The Boys in the Band 2020

The Condor - 2007 film by Stan Lee

The Craft 1996

The Departed

The Devil in a Blue Dress -starring Denzel Washington

The Equalizer

The Exorcist

The Foreigner

The Gift 2015

The Godfather movies - just the first two

The Great Debaters 2007

The Half of It

The Heat (2013) - starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy

The Iron Giant

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

The Land Before Time franchise

The Lincoln Lawyer

The Loft 2014 - starring Eric Stonestreet and Karl Urban

The Lost Boys

The Mitchells vs the Machines

The Nice Guys 2016

The Northman

The Old Guard

The Outpost 2020

The Place Beyond The Pines

The Raid

The Revenant

Scream franchise - so far, just the first three

The Secret of NIMH

The Siege of Jadotville

The Silence of the Lambs

The Simpsons Movies

The Squid and the Whale

The Usual Suspects

The Wicker Man 1973

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

The Witches 1990

Thirteen 2003

This House - 2022 Horror anthology film

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

TMNT 90s film trilogy - they have a special place in my heart

To All the Boys I’ve Ever Loved Before trilogy

Tom Sawyer (1999) - the movie with the singing animals

Trainspotting

Tremors - only the first one

Two Brothers - 2004 French British film

Unfriended 2014

V for Vendetta

Vera Drake

Watership Down 1978

Wendell and Wild

What Maisie Knew

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?

What’s Love Got to Do With It?

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Wild Things 1998

TV SHOWS

Abbott Elementary

Adam Ruins Everything

All Of Us Are Dead (Korean TV series)

American Dad

Arcane 2021

As Told by Ginger

Avatar the Last Airbender - favorite tv series of ALL TIME. I did like the sequel though

Avatar: The Legend of Korra - could’ve been better but I still liked it.

Band of Brothers - HBO miniseries

Big Mouth

Bless the Harts

Bob’s Burgers - favorite adult animated cartoon

BoJack Horseman

Boy Meets World

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Burn Notice

Carmen Sandiego 2019

Castlevania 2017 series

Castlevania Nocturne - sequel to the 2017 series

Close Enough

Codename: Kids Next Door

Cold Case

Columbo

Craig of the Creek

Criminal anthology series - from Netflix

Danny Phantom - fav Butch Hartman cartoon of ALL TIME

Dark Winds

Dexter - the ending sucked though

DC’s Batman Beyond

DC’s Teen Titans - the ORIGINAL TV series

Disenchantment

Disney’s American Dragon: Jake Long

Disney’s Amphibia

Disney’s Ducktales 2017 reboot

Disney’s Filmore

Disney’s Gargoyles

Disney’s Gravity Falls

Disney’s Kim Possible

Disney’s Lilo and Stitch TV series

Disney’s Recess

Disney’s Sister,Sister

Disney’s That’s so Raven

Disney’s The Owl House - and again, fuck disney for shortening the third season for bullshit reasons

Disney’s The Proud Family

Disney’s The Weekenders

Disney’s W.I.T.C.H.

DOTA: Dragon’s Blood

Dreamworks’ HTTYD: Race to the Edge

Dreamworks’ Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts

Dreamworks’ She Ra and the Princesses of Power

Ed, Edd, n’ Eddy - fav 90s and early 2000s Cartoon Network show of ALL TIME

Everybody Hates Chris

Family Guy - guilty pleasure show

Fugget About It

Glitch Techs

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder

Green Eggs and Ham - Netflix animated series

Green Lantern the Animated Series

Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

Hey Arnold

Hulu’s A Murder at the End of the World

Hulu’s Culprits 2023

Hulu’s Reservation Dogs

Hulu’s Under the Bridge

Human Resources (2022) - sequel series to Big Mouth

Law and Order franchise

Love, Death, and Robots

Maya and the Three

Midnight Gospel

Midsummer Murders

Modern Family

Monk

My Life as a Teenage Robot

Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide - my fav live action Nick show of ALL TIME

Poirot TV series

Primal 2019

Reba

Regular Show

Rick and Morty

Rogue Diamonds 2023

Roseanne

Samurai Jack

School Spirits 2023

Seis Manos

Southside

Star Wars Rebels

Star Wars the Clone Wars

Steven Universe

Stranger Things

Sym Bionic Titan

The Amazing World of Gumball

The Boondocks

The Cleveland Show

The Dragon Prince

The Fall of the House of Usher 2023

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air favorite 90s sitcom of ALL time

The Golden Girls - favorite 80s sitcom of ALL time

The Haunting of House Hill 2018

The Life and Times of Juniper Lee

The Nanny (sitcom)

The Powerpuff Girls

The Secret Saturdays

The Wire

Todd McFarlane’s Spawn

Totally Spies

Tuca and Bertie

Twilight of the Gods

Two Sentence Horror Stories

Vivziepop’s Hazbin Hotel

Vivziepop’s Helluva Boss

X-Men: Evolution

Young Justice

SHORTS

Aikane by them

Alleycats by Blow Studio

Aquarium by Yonatan Tal

Crayon Dragon by MoonShadeOsu

Disney’s Far from the Tree

Disney’s Feast

Disney’s John Henry 2002

Disney’s Paperman

Dreamworks’ Bilby - it was originally supposed to be a film but was stupidly scrapped. I hope it gets a second chance.

For a Fistful of Toffees by ESMA

Forgive Us Our Trespasses - 2022 Netflix short film

GOBELINS’ COLZA

GOBELINS’ GOLDEN HOUR

GOBELINS’ KAKOMANDO

GOBELINS’ One Day

GOBELINS’ Thermostat 6

Hair Love

If Anything Happens I Love You - 2020 Netflix animated short film

In A Heartbeat

Pacemaker | A Trans Positive Musical

Pixar’s Bao

Pixar’s Lou

Pixar’s Luna

Pixar’s Purl

Pixar’s Riley’s First Date?

Pixar’s Sanjay’s Super Team

Pixar’s Wind

Ramshackle

Sitara: Let Girls Dream

Taiko Studios’ One Small Step

Taiko Studios’ Pangu

The Amazing Digital Circus

The Brave Locomotive by Andrew Chesworth

The Greatest Gift Short by Malcolm Hadley

There's a Man in the Woods by Jacob Streilein

Welcome to by Life - Cartoon Network Studio Short

#multimedia #cheering up #my posts #fav #mymedia

34 notes · View notes

aion-rsa · 3 years ago

Text

HBO Max New Releases: August 2021

https://ift.tt/3A1bKHN

Back when WarnerMedia (which technically no longer exists in the same form) announced that it would be premiering its entire slate of 2021 films on HBO Max, this is the kind of month they likely had in mind. For HBO Max’s list of new releases in August 2021 is highlighted by an honest-to-goodness blockbuster.

The Suicide Squad is set to premiere Aug. 5 on HBO Max. This film featuring some of DC Comics’ most curious villains borrows its name, format, and many of its characters from the David Ayers-directed 2016 film Suicide Squad. This time around, the rogues gallery is directing by James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy) and his colorful disposition. In addition to The Suicide Squad, August sees the arrival of the Hugh Jackman-starring Reminiscence on Aug. 20.

Movies

The Suicide Squad First Reactions Are In

By John Saavedra

Movies

How The Suicide Squad is Different from Guardians of the Galaxy

By Mike Cecchini

It’s a good month for movies overall on HBO Max. Many intriguing library titles arrive on Aug. 1, including Collateral, The Fugitive (1993), The Shawshank Redemption, and Spawn. The Jurassic Park trilogy (Aug. 14), and Godzilla v. Kong (Aug. 17) make their return to the Warner streaming service a little later on.

HBO Max’s original TV offerings can’t compete with The Suicide Squad in August 2021, but there is still plenty to enjoy. The third season of erstwhile DC Universe series Titans premieres on Aug. 12. That will be followed by the second season of former Comedy Central delight The Other Two.

HBO Max New Releases – August 2021

August 1 2 Days in the Valley, 1996 (HBO) 9/11: Fifteen Years Later, 2016 A Mighty Wind, 2003 (HBO) A Walk Among the Tombstones, 2014 (HBO) The Accidental Spy, 2002 (HBO) The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl, 2005 (HBO) Americano, 2017 (HBO) Anna to the Infinite Power, 1982 (HBO) Backtrack, 2016 (HBO) Basic Instinct, 1992 (HBO) Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction, 2006 (HBO) (Extended Version) Best in Show, 2000 (HBO) Betrayal at Attica, 2021 The Betrayed, 2008 (HBO) The Birdcage, 1996 (HBO) Black Death, 2010 (HBO) Blue Ruin, 2014 (HBO) Brown Sugar, 2002 (HBO) Changeling, 2008 (HBO) Chasing Mavericks, 2012 (HBO) Collateral, 2004 (HBO) Constantine, 2005 Deep Cover, 1992 (HBO) The Devil’s Double, 2011 (HBO) Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, 1988 (HBO) Dolphin Tale, 2011 (HBO) The Double, 2014 (HBO) Empire of the Sun, 1987 The End, 1978 (HBO) Envy, 2004 (HBO) Epic, 2013 (HBO) Extranjero (aka Foreigner), 2018 (HBO) For Your Consideration, 2006 (HBO) Freejack, 1992 (HBO) The Fugitive, 1993 Ghosts of Mississippi, 1996 The Great Gatsby, 1974 (HBO) The Great Gatsby, 2013 (HBO) Gun Shy, 2017 (HBO) Hangman, 2017 (HBO) Heaven Can Wait, 1978 (HBO) Hitchcock, 2012 (HBO) Horror of Dracula, 1958 How to Deal, 2003 (HBO) Hudson Hawk, 1991 Humpday, 2009 (HBO) Imperium, 2016 (HBO) Inception, 2010 Joe, 2014 (HBO) Johnny English Reborn, 2011 (HBO) Julia, 2009 (HBO) Last Action Hero, 1993 The Lincoln Lawyer, 2011 Malcolm X, 1992 Man Down, 2016 (HBO) The Man in the Iron Mask, 1998 (HBO) Mean Streets, 1973 Mr. Soul!, 2018 New in Town, 2009 (HBO) Nobody Walks, 2012 (HBO) Nurse 3D, 2013 (HBO) One Hour Photo, 2002 (HBO) The Out-of-Towners, 1999 (HBO) Popeye, 1980 (HBO) The Pope of Greenwich Village, 1984 (HBO) The Prince, 2014 (HBO) The Reader, 2008 (HBO) Red, 2008 (HBO) Red Riding Hood, 2011 Requiem for a Dream, 2000 Scary Movie, 2000 The Score, 2001 (HBO) Sex and the City, 2008 Sex and the City 2, 2010 The Shawshank Redemption, 1994 Spawn, 1997 The Spirit, 2008 (HBO) The Square, 2017 (HBO) Stand and Deliver, 1988 (HBO) Tango & Cash, 1989 Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo, 2006 Thirteen Ghosts, 2001 Vice, 2015 (HBO) War, 2007 (HBO) Woodstock (Director’s Cut), 1994 You’ve Got Mail, 1998

August 2 Small Town News: KPVM Pahrump, Documentary Series Finale (HBO)

August 3 Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, 1993 Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union, Documentary Premiere (HBO)

August 5 Furry Friends Forever: Elmo Gets A Puppy, Max Original Special Premiere The Suicide Squad, Warner Bros. Film Premiere, 2021 (Available in 4K UHD, HDR10, Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos in English Only on supported devices)

August 6 Sin Aliento (aka Breathless), 2020 (HBO)

August 7 All My Life, 2020 (HBO)

August 8 A Different World

August 10 Hard Knocks ’21: Dallas Cowboys, Sports-Based Reality Series Premiere (HBO)

August 12 FBOY Island, Max Original Season Finale The Hype, Max Original Series Premiere Titans, Max Original Season 3 Premiere

August 14 Jurassic Park, 1993 (HBO) Jurassic Park III, 2001 (HBO) The Lost World: Jurassic Park, 1997 (HBO)

August 15 The White Lotus, Limited Series Finale (HBO)

August 16 Hard, Season 3 Premiere (HBO) Top Gear, Season 29

August 17 Godzilla vs. Kong, 2021 (HBO) (Available in 4K UHD, HDR10, Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos in English Only on supported devices)

August 19 Eyes on the Prize: Hallowed Ground, Max Original Documentary Special Premiere Looney Tunes Cartoons Back to School Special, Max Original Special Premiere Marlon Wayans: You Know What It Is, Max Original Special Premiere Sweet Life: Los Angeles, Max Original Series Premiere

August 20 Half Brothers, 2020 (HBO) Reefa, 2021 (HBO) Reminiscence, Warner Bros. Film Premiere, 2021 (Available in 4K UHD, HDR10, Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos in English Only on supported devices)

August 22 100 Foot Wave, Documentary Series Finale (HBO) San Andreas, 2015

August 24 Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (HBO) Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy, 2021

August 25 Lincoln: Divided We Stand, 2021

August 26 The Other Two, Max Original Season 2 Premiere

August 28 Magic Mike XXL, 2015 (HBO)

cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530", }).render("0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796"); });

Leaving HBO Max – August 2021

August 5 The Windsors: Inside the Royal Dynasty, 2019

August 11 A Mermaid’s Tale, 2017 Against the Wild 2: Survive the Serengeti, 2016 Against The Wild, 2014 Alpha & Omega 5: Family Vacation, 2015 Alpha & Omega: Dino Digs, 2016 Blue Valentine, 2010 Earth Girls Are Easy, 1989 The Escape Artist, 1982 Hecho En Mexico, 2012 Jennifer Lopez Dance Again, 2016 La Mujer de Mi Hermano, 2005 Leapfrog Letter Factory Adventures: Amazing Word Explorers, 2015 Leapfrog Letter Factory Adventures: Counting on Lemonade, 2014 Leapfrog Letter Factory Adventures: The Letter Machine Rescue Team, 2014 Love and Sex, 2000 Mistress, 1992 Mother’s Day, 2012 Tender Mercies, 1983 The Men Who Stare at Goats, 2009 Turtle Tale, 2018

August 14 Leapfrog: Numberland, 2012 Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans, 2019

August 15 Joker, 2019 (HBO) Space Jam: A New Legacy, 2021

August 27 Dead Silence, 2007 (HBO) White Noise, 2005 (HBO)

August 29 Assault on Precinct 13, 2005 (HBO)

August 30 Serendipity, 2001

August 31 54: The Director’s Cut, 1998 (HBO) 40 Days and 40 Nights, 2002, (HBO) A Cinderella Story, 2004 A Cinderella Story: If The Shoe Fits, 2016 A Cinderella Story: Once Upon A Song, 2011 Alpha and Omega: The Great Wolf Games, 2014 (HBO) The American President, 1995 Another Cinderella Story, 2008 Astro Boy, 2009 (HBO) August Rush, 2007 Babe, 1995 (HBO) Babe: Pig in the City, 1998 (HBO) The Barkleys of Broadway, 1949 Barnyard, 2006 (HBO) Barry Lyndon, 1975 Battle for Terra, 2009 (HBO) The Bay, 2012 (HBO) Be Cool, 2005 (HBO) Beverly Hills Cop, 1984 (HBO) Beverly Hills Cop II, 1987 (HBO) Beverly Hills Cop III, 1994 (HBO) Beyond the Sea, 2004 (HBO) Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, 1991 (HBO) Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, 1989 (HBO) Billy Elliot, 2000 (HBO) Black Hawk Down, 2001 Blade, 1998 Blade Runner: The Final Cut, 2007 Blow, 2001 The Bonfire of the Vanities, 1990 Bright Young Things, 2004 (HBO) Butter, 2012 (HBO) Cannery Row, 1982 Capricorn One, 1978 (HBO) Carefree, 1938 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 2005 City of God, 2003 (HBO) City Slickers, 1991 (HBO) City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly’s Gold, 1994 Clifford, 1994 (HBO) Closer, 2004 Code 46, 2004 (HBO) Cold Creek Manor, 2003 (HBO) Cold Mountain, 2003 Countdown, 1968 The Crow, 1994 (HBO) The Crow: City of Angels, 1996 (HBO) The Crow: Wicked Prayer, 2006 (HBO) Daddy Day Care, 2003 Dave, 1993 The Dirty Dozen, 1967 Dream House, 2011 (HBO) Eight Legged Freaks, 2002 El Chata (aka The Sparring Partner), 2019 (HBO) Freddy vs. Jason, 2003 Free Willy, 1993 Free Willy: The Adventure Home, 1995 Free Willy: Escape from Pirate’s Cove, 2010 Free Willy 3: The Great Rescue, 1997 Frequency, 2000 Get Shorty, 1995 (HBO) Gone, 2012 (HBO) The Hard Way, 1991 (HBO) Harry and the Hendersons, 1987 (HBO) Heidi, 2005 The High Note, 2020 (HBO) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, 2012 Home Alone 4, 2002 (HBO) Home Alone: The Holiday Heist, 2012 (HBO) Hudson Hawk, 1991 The Hundred-Foot Journey, 2014 (HBO) Innerspace, 1987 Inside Moves, 1980 (HBO) The Interview, 2014 Jack The Giant Slayer, 2013 Jackie Brown, 1997 Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer, 2011 (HBO) The Last Exorcism, 2012 (Extended Version) (HBO) Lay the Favorite, 2012 (HBO) Let’s Go to Prison, 2006 (HBO) Life is Beautiful, 1998 (HBO) Live by Night, 2016 (HBO) Logan’s Run, 1976 Lolita, 1962 Look Who’s Talking, 1989 Malice, 1993 (HBO) Man on a Ledge, 2012 (HBO) Menace II Society, 1993 Miss Congeniality, 2000 Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous, 2005 Monkey Trouble, 1994 Mr. Nanny, 1993 National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, 1989 National Lampoon’s European Vacation, 1985 National Lampoon’s Vacation, 1983 No Eres Tu Soy Yo, 2011 Ocean’s 11, 1960 The Omega Man, 1971 On Golden Pond, 1981 (HBO) On Moonlight Bay, 1951 Osmosis Jones, 2001 Our Brand Is Crisis, 2015 (HBO) Over the Hedge, 2006 (HBO) Parental Guidance, 2012 (HBO) Pathfinder, 2007 (Director’s Cut) (HBO) The People vs. Larry Flynt, 1996 Pinocchio, 2012 Point Blank, 1967 Popstar, 2005 Prometheus, 2012 (HBO) PT 109, 1963 Replicas, 2019 (HBO) Running on Empty, 1988 Ruta Viva, 2018 (HBO) Saw, 2004 (Extended Version) (HBO) Saw II, 2005 (Director’s Cut) (HBO) Saw III, 2006 (Director’s Cut) (HBO) Saw IV, 2007 (Director’s Cut) (HBO) Saw V, 2008 (Director’s Cut) (HBO) Saw VI, (Director’s Cut) (HBO) Saw: The Final Chapter, 2010 (Director’s Cut) (HBO) Shall We Dance, 1937 Sherlock Holmes, 2009 Sinbad: Beyond the Veils of Mist, 2000 (HBO) Sling Blade, 1996 (HBO) Some Came Running, 1958 South Central, 1992 Spies Like Us, 1985 Spooky Buddies, 2011 (HBO) Steel, 1997 Still of the Night, 1982 (HBO) Striptease, 1996 Stuart Little, 1999 Stuart Little 2, 2002 The Stunt Man, 1979 (HBO) Summer Catch, 2001 Sweet November, 2001 Swimfan, 2002 (HBO) The Tank, 2017 (HBO) This Must Be The Place, 2012 (HBO) Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, 2005 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948 Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie, 1997 (HBO) Twister, 1996 Un 4to de Josue, 2018 (HBO) Unforgettable, 2017 (HBO) Unlocking the Cage, 2017 (HBO) Vegas Vacation, 1997 Wanderlust, 2012 (HBO) Wedding Crashers, 2005 Within, 2016 (HBO) Wolves at the Door, 2017 (HBO) The Year of Living Dangerously, 1983

The post HBO Max New Releases: August 2021 appeared first on Den of Geek.

from Den of Geek https://ift.tt/2TNiOZn

#aion-rsa #Den of Geek

10 notes · View notes

obsessivedilettante · 5 years ago

Text

20 in 10: A Drama Retrospective

Since I’ve been all quiet on the drama front this year because of life reasons, I thought it would be fun to go back and pick out 20 of the most memorable dramas of the last decade. Maybe not necessarily the best dramas or even my favorites (although some are!), but two dramas each year that were somehow notable moments in my drama-watching timeline.

2009: Gateway Drugs

Boys over Flowers (KBS)

This is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a good drama. It is not one I think I can ever really rewatch (although I will happily revisit the 2005 Japanese version, and I had a hellava fun time watching the latest Chinese version). But! It was the first kdrama I remember watching, and the first step on the slippery slope of eventually becoming a Drama Addict. I mostly remember it being crazy popular on places like mysoju (RIP), and so I checked it out due to curiosity, and the rest, as they say, is history. Or, should I say, almost paaaaradise!

You’re Beautiful (SBS)

This one I also watched because it became crazy-popular online, and curiosity got the better of me. I really didn’t know much about k-pop prior to dramas, so I had no idea until after this drama that k-pop was more about pretty people in crazy fashion, dancing in syncopation in bizarrely lit rooms, rather than playing instruments. Because it was thanks to this drama that I got my crash-course on k-pop as a phenomenon -- both the fandom side, and the crazy things that artists have to go through to claw their way into the public’s view (nevar 4get the glorious ramen dance). Since Angel was a group that played instruments, and Hongki and Yonghwa were also from groups that played instruments, I assumed that all kpop were groups that played instruments. Oh, sweet summer child...

But it did get me started on my k-pop journey, first falling in love with FT Island and CNBLUE, before falling into the rabbit hole of the other prominent groups of the day. (SNSD! The Wonder Girls! Super Junior! DBSK! SS501! Kara! 2PM! 2AM! Shinee! BEG! Epik High! U-KISS! All the debut groups, like 2NE1, MBLAQ, B2ST, 4Minute, f(x), T-ara, After School... basically 2009 was a magical year in k-pop.)

If I had just watched Boys Over Flowers, I don’t know that I would have become a Drama Addict. But You’re Beautiful pushed me closer to the edge, with the zany humor of the Hong Sisters (and the desire for a pig-bunny of my own!). It would really be Coffee Prince that would push me over the edge, but that aired in 2007 so it doesn’t count for this list. But I had to mention it anyway, because, well, it’s Coffee Prince and where my love for Handsome Oppa began.

2010: More Than Candy

The Woman Who Wants To Marry (MBC)

A lot of the dramas I watched at first had that typical “Candy” character, the poor-but-scrappy girl who would somehow be saved by the guy and become the Cinderella she never knew she wanted to be. So it was a delight when I encountered women who were not only older than high-school-age or early twenties, but in their thirties, with rich full lives! Plus, this was one of my earliest introductions to the concept of the “noona romance” (a concept that I’ve since heartily embraced, of course). I started it primarily because Kim Bum was my favorite of the Flower Boys, but I stuck with it because I fell in love with the women (and I still have a girl-crush on Bu-ki).

Harvest Villa (tvn)

This show is insane. But in the good way, the way that the writer intended, and not in the “are a bunch of monkeys typing this script?” train-wreck way. There was basically no buzz about this show, and I feel like I somehow accidentally stumbled over it, but it was love at first sight. I’ve never forgotten the late hours binging it, being so sucked into the story that I absolutely had to finish it as soon as I could, disappointed that there wasn’t more of it to enjoy when I finally finished, bleary-eyed and sleep-deprived, but satisfied.

I then later gobbled down this writer’s next drama, and her next drama, and the next, until everyone else finally realized thanks to Signal that Kim Eun-hee was as amazing a writer as I kept insisting to anyone who would listen (aka no one).

2011: To Binge or Not To Binge?

White Christmas (KBS)

I did not watch White Christmas in 2011. I actually watched it in 2013. I was always a steadfast binger, preferring to wait until the buzz about a show would sway me into spending my precious free-time watching something that would be worth my while (not that my drama choices were always good, but at least I tried to avoid the duds). I still prefer to binge, since waiting weeks for new episodes is vaguely frustrating when I want to know what happens next, right now! Plus, I’m very good at forgetting that I’m watching a show in the week-long wait for new episodes, and then just... never picking it back up again.

Despite watching White Christmas a couple years after it aired, it remains one of my favorites, and one I love to rewatch, even though I’ve already experienced whodunnit cliff-hangers and psychological rollercoasters. It became a tradition of sorts here on tumblr for a bunch of us to rewatch it over the holiday season -- alas, I haven’t joined in that tradition for the past couple of years, but I hope that somewhere in this blue hell hole that there are a loyal few keeping the tradition alive.

At least we have this drama to thank for bringing us all the model-actors that were new and clueless in White Christmas, but would later go on to be leading men in their own right. Of course, some of them haven’t exactly made the best drama choices (*cough*SungJoon*cough*), but then there are others (*cough*SooHyuk*cough*) that I’m impatiently waiting for to pick up a new drama so I can see those post-army abs.

Tree With Deep Roots (SBS)

This is the first drama that I recall live-watching. I vaguely remember regretting it at the time, since it was agony waiting for new episodes, but it was also fun to have a week to speculate and ponder the show. And what a beautiful show to ponder! This was also one of the few sageuks I actually watched, being generally intimidated by anything longer than 16-20 episodes, and my historical knowledge was a little shaky (before embracing my inner nerd and diving into mundane historical stuff just so I could better understand whatever drama I was watching at the time).

I don’t think I intended to continue live-watching shows, preferring the ease of binging at my own pace and schedule. But that was when I was still a casual, innocent addict, and not someone who would eventually make dramas a huge part of her life.

2012: The Joy of Overthinking

Gaksital (KBS)

Having had a taste of live-watching, I started to live-watch enough dramas to the point where I began to make notes about the premiere weeks. It was only a couple at a time, and binging was still my preferred way to watch, but now I was delighting in being part of the fandom, sharing in speculation each week, posting my thoughts on dramas and analyzing them to my heart’s content -- even though I knew no one except me would read my ridiculous essays.

But I started to feel more comfortable sharing my opinion with the world, interacting with fandom and not merely content to be a consumer, but gradually becoming a producer as well.

Reply 1997 (tvN)

This is it. This is when I went full-on Drama Addict. This is the tipping point from casual fan who quietly kept to herself, to becoming someone who stood on the mountain top yelling about ALL THE DRAMAS ALL THE TIME. I began to interact with other fans! To swap theories and share squee-worthy moments! I even watched episodes RAW just because of how desperate I was to know what happened, and even though the Busan accent stumped me more than once, it made me realize that my casual study of Korean was something to take seriously since I understood more than I gave myself credit for.

It was also the first time any post I made got more than a handful of notes, since I’d mostly hovered in the “less than 10 notes per post” category at the time. I was so proud of myself back then!

(This drama also notably marks the start of my Hoya obsession, which continues to this day.)

2013: Tumblr Friends (and Foes)

Flower Boy Next Door (tvN)

Having made myself comfortable on tumblr as a Drama Addict, I then discovered some other dedicated fans -- many of which I still follow to this day and who are now just a permanent part of my dash, no matter what their current interests may be -- in the FBND squad.

But I also discovered Kim Seul-gi as the Webtoon Editor (who I still love and adore and continue to use as my avatar), and her adorable romance with Dong-hoon remains one of my forever OTPs. As much as I enjoyed the drama romances, I’d never fallen so deeply for one to be so obsessed by it as I was Webtoon Editor and Dong-hoon. And tbh I still am. They’re just so adorable and pragmatic and she buys him a bag. Ugh. I love her so much, you guys.

Heirs (SBS)

Ah, yes. This hot mess.

I don’t know what possessed me to live-blog each episode. But I did. With snarky commentary and terrible screencaps. And suddenly I went from maybe 200 followers to over a 1000. That was a total shock! I met a lot of people because of that (and made some friends, as well as a few enemies who didn’t appreciate my opinion of certain characters), and ensconced myself as part of the drama-blogging crew.

It was from this that someone suggested I apply to be a minion at Dramabeans. Back then, I had a lot more free time than I do now, and I was watching a lot of dramas that Dramabeans didn’t cover, and wished they did so I could read more opinions about those shows. So I thought, “Eh, why not? It can’t hurt to submit something because the worst that would happen is I’d waste their time making them read my take on episode 10 of Let’s Eat.”

I fully expected them to turn me down. No one was more surprised than I was when I found myself agreeing to dive into the world of recapping.

2014: It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times

Trot Lovers (KBS)

Recapping. It seems so easy when you’re reading the recaps. But actually creating them is a bitch. Hours out of my life were spent on this disaster of a trope-laden show with no plot. This was the third show I worked on for Dramabeans, and I hated it to the point where I seriously considered handing in my notice. (Immediately following up this show with the mediocre My Secret Hotel certainly didn’t help matters!)

However, it turns out that what I actually hated was being forced to watch a terrible rom-com and pretend to come up with insightful-or-at-least-neutral thoughts about it (since we were still new and couldn’t go full-on snark yet).

Misaeng (tvN)

This is what saved me. Being given the chance to immerse myself in such a unique, ponderous, thoughtful show restored my faith in dramas and the drama community. I loved spending hours on this show, soaking up all the little details, and then sharing that love with the world.

Misaeng made dramas magical again.

2015: Fight Me

Valid Love (tvN)

Realizing that I only seemed to enjoy rom-coms at arm-length, I discovered that my tastes often ran counter to the general drama-viewing public. Not all the drama-viewing public -- I’m not a “not like other fans” kind of fan -- but enough that I began to realize the whether a drama was popular or had good buzz was not necessarily the primary reason to watch it.

I began to have more faith in my own taste, based on past experiences with various writers and directors. Even if the premise (or first couple of episodes) seemed kind of weird and out-there, I at least wanted to give these artists the benefit of the doubt that I would enjoy their work, like I had previously.

So many people seemed to hate Valid Love, but I adored it. Still do (and still desperately wish Kim Do-woo would come out with a new drama -- it has been too long, writer-nim!). There were a lot of opinions about this show, even among people who seemed to enjoy it, but I vividly recall having to repeatedly insist that it wasn’t about the romance and argue that the knee-jerk infidelity-is-BAD opinions should make space for something more nuanced.

Ho-gu’s Love (tvN)

DramaFever was a pretty great site. It brought together so many drama fans and gave them a place where they could legally (and without fear of downloading random viruses) watch dramas to their heart’s content. Yes, there may have been some lingering resentment that they were the primary reason that so many amazing other sites were shut down (RIP mysoju and daebaeksubs), but dramas were more accessible than ever!

Eventually, DramaFever started to sub shows themselves and upload them weekly (instead of just using fansubs and uploading older dramas), and while they weren’t the best translations, they were at least better than machine translations from the Chinese subs. As I became more and more familiar with Korean, I found myself more likely to migrate to Viki since I liked the extra detailed translations. I could get the gist of a show without any help -- I wanted to instead delve into the nitty-gritty of the language.

But I never really hated DramaFever or felt they were particularly awful. Until they mistranslated something so terribly that it changed the entire meaning of a scene and ruined people’s perception of a drama, forcing me to continually defend the true translation.

That was the molehill I died on that day, and never again did I touch DramaFever. I feel bad that it eventually got unceremoniously shuttered. But I don’t think I’ll ever forgive them for the “condom” incident.

2016: Free Solo

Dear My Friends (tvN)

For two years I’d been happily working on one episode a week, sharing a show with someone else, until I was asked if I’d like to tackle a show by myself. I wasn’t sure how I could handle it, but I had the time in my schedule so I said, “Sure, why not?”

I was originally going to recap Another Oh Hae-young, but there was a last-minute switcheroo, and I’m so incredibly glad because this is perhaps my favorite recapping experience of all time, even more so than Misaeng. There was something so special about the luxury of having an entire show to myself, especially one with such a fantastic cast of characters and thoughtful themes. I didn’t have to try and figure out if I agreed with another person’s take -- it could all be my opinion.

Is that arrogant? Perhaps. But it was also therapeutic, as it reminded me once again how incredible and amazing dramas could be, and the privilege I had to share such an exquisite and thought-provoking drama with the rest of the world.

The Good Wife (tvN)

Surprisingly, this was what I had really wanted to recap that year, and the true reason I got Dear My Friends, since it aired just prior in the same time-slot as The Good Wife. I was desperate to have this show, willing to do anything to get it because I needed to see Jeon Do-yeon back on the small screen, to see Yoo Ji-tae smolder, to know how Korea would adapt such an ambitious show.

And I wasn’t disappointed! This is, perhaps, my favorite adaption of another work of art that I’ve seen in dramaland. It remained true to Korean sensibilities, but it also properly felt like The Good Wife. The cast was phenomenal. The costumes were exquisite. I wished I could spend more time in that world.

But I was also thankful, because without The Good Wife, I would have never have had Dear My Friends.

2017: Serial-Killers Are Cool

Voice (OCN)

I can’t remember how I got assigned to this. Maybe it was a scheduling thing. I do know that I really, really wanted it, since it would be Handsome Oppa’s first drama appearance in three years.

But it started me down a road of recapping a lot of serious and serial-killer-centric shows. Except for the times when I’d beg for a break and tackle something lighter, I was generally assigned the darker mystery shows with meaty plots, since apparently I had a knack for condensing complicated shows into something that made sense. (Also literally darker, and I eventually learned to automatically brighten every screencap I posted. You’re welcome.)

Not only did I love working on something with Handsome Oppa, I also had fun recapping the start of what would eventually become OCN’s stock-in-trade -- creepy serial killers. At the time, Voice shattered OCN’s viewer ratings (which would then be shattered again and again as more people would tune in to OCN shows). But Voice really helped put OCN on the viewership map -- as well as catapult Handsome Oppa into the public eye and lead him to a path of getting to choose whatever script he wanted to work on.

(Okay, maybe I made that last bit up, but he did begin to garner a larger following and remind everyone that just because he was gone from dramaland for so long, he hadn’t lost his acting chops -- or charisma -- or cheekbones.)

Black (OCN)

Oh, this show. It was basically my whole life while it was airing (well, the non-day-job part of my life). Each episode was over an hour long and jam-packed full of details that were pertinent to the story, and I had to somehow condense that all into 3000 words or less (I was not always, ah, successful...). It felt like I was back in recapping bootcamp, but the dial had been turned up to 11.

I’m weirdly proud of what I produced (although you’ll never get me to reread my old work). It was one of the most challenging shows to work on, but in the good way, not the Trot Lovers way.

Until the ending, that is. Sigh. That ending will live in infamy. I still, to this day, will get a few comments on the finale from people who watched it on Netflix, went searching online for an explanation of the end, and then discovered that they were not alone in being confused by the utter wtf-ery of the last twenty minutes.

2018: Fighting For My Love

Misty (JTBC)

So, Dramabeans kind of disappeared for a few months. Well, the site was still live. There were a handful of recaps. But... it basically just... stopped.

Those of us on the other side know about as you do as to why that happened. Minions are kept in the dark just as much as anybody, it seems. All we knew is that we weren’t being assigned anything and we seriously wondered if the site was going under, since adsense has become worthless these days.

But Mary and I kept talking about how much we adored Misty and were sad that we couldn’t talk about it with the world (and convince them to watch it with us), so we pleaded and begged and got the go-ahead to do a kind of chatty “open thread” which has apparently been a spring-board format for other shows. We didn’t get paid for this, and we were totally fine with that. We just wanted to provide some kind of content (while swooning over Kim Nam-joo’s pantsuits!).

Let’s Eat 3 (tvN)

This was my first real assignment after the dead period, and I once again got to do full recaps (with pay!). I started watching, thinking I’d merely tolerate the show (since I loved the first season vastly more than the second season), but it turned out to be my favorite of the three. Plus it felt fortuitous that the series I had submitted my application would be a series I’d work on four years later.

Sometimes it’s nice to spend time with a character you met years ago, to see them grow, to see how they became what they became. Drama trends (and love interests) will come and go, but Goo Dae-young’s love of food (and love of explaining the proper way to eat food) will never change. It was a really comforting drama for me to spend my summer on, and I’ll remember it fondly, even if I’m forever sad that it had to suddenly wrap-up two episodes early.

2019: Ten Years Later

Item (MBC)

This was the Trot Lovers of 2019. It was a nonsensical disaster.

I also had the added chaos of my real-life job -- one very different from the one I had when I was working on Trot Lovers -- as it began to increase exponentially in responsibilities and in stress. I reached a breaking point where I began to hate opening my computer where I’d have to spend hours attempting to explain a show that I wanted nothing to do with. I was miserable and depressed and couldn’t do it anymore. I never before asked to be taken off a show because I hated it so much, but there’s a first for everything.

Her Private Life (tvN)

I actually haven’t finished this show -- I’ve yet to watch the last two episodes. But I’m including it because, well, I didn’t finish any other show in 2019 except for Item.

As some of you may know, this has been a difficult year. It started with the unexpected stress of my job, when we suddenly lost one of our directors who passed away, and another director was let go (in a complicated situation that is ongoing, but the important thing is that it was during our busiest time when we really couldn’t afford to lose anyone), and another director left for a different job and I was basically the one to pick up all the pieces she left behind. It was exhausting and we were all past the breaking point but somehow miraculously holding it together.

I was looking forward to finally getting a much-needed vacation in September, and then, well, you all know how that went: the first night, on our layover in New Zealand before what was supposed to be three weeks in Australia, my father was taken to the hospital, and then, two days later, he passed away. Life has gotten even more chaotic and stressful and bizarre since then.

So no, I haven’t finished this drama, but it was one of the most wonderful moments of the year for me, watching this fizzy rom-com with my favorite actor, where he got to be charming and handsome and charismatic and finally kiss the girl he loves and have her love him back (and not die or be dumped, as he had been in so many dramas that had gone before). Lion Oppa was everything my heart could desire, and living in his world helped me endure the insanity that I wish I’d known would seem so much more tolerable than what would eventually befall.

Her Private Life reminded me of when I first fell in love with dramas ten years ago, when I would giggle and be delighted by the charming nonsense on screen -- of beautiful people falling in love and fighting against the obstacles between them (some more ridiculous than others, perhaps, but there are always obstacles), and ending up happily ever after. Pure escapism, of the frothiest kind.

A Drama-filled Decade

So, after ten years of dramas, what is the takeaway? What have I learned?

I suppose I’ve learned to trust my instincts and put more faith in writers and directors than actors. That analyzing dramas is fun, and it’s even more fun sharing it with others, and sometimes even more fun if you get paid to do it -- but everyone eventually reaches a breaking point. That I’m too earnest and optimistic to embrace a life of snark. That I want every drama to be good but most of them aren’t, except sometimes they are. That I’m not even sure which genres are my favorite; I just know what I don’t like.

That dramas are best as escapism, and not as work.

I don’t know how many dramas I’ll watch in 2020. I haven’t paid any attention to what’s airing, and I’m okay with that. Perhaps I’m entering a new phase in my life, or perhaps I just don’t have the capacity to escape right now.

But I am pleased to have had dramas in my life, and to have eventually made them my hobby. I’ve met a lot of amazing people and made some genuine friends through a shared love of dramas (or, at times, a shared hatred). I’m honored that all of you are still here and following me, even during this period of fandom silence.

May 2020 treat us all better, and may Kim Do-woo finally write another script.

115 notes · View notes

thejacketandthehook · 4 years ago

Text

The Art of Pretending 5/?

Title: The Art of Pretending 5/?

Author: thejacketandthehook (aka everystareverywhere)

Summary: Killian Jones needs a family and needs one now. In order to impress his boss, Killian hires a single mother and her son to pretend to be his wife and son for the weekend. Nothing can go wrong, right?

Rating: Teen (for language)

Words: 16,587

Author’s Notes: Hello all! Here is my submission for the @captainswanmoviemarathon! This is based off of the Lifetime movie, “Borrowed Hearts,” starring Eric McCormack and Roma Downey. The movie came out in 1997, and I consider it to be one of the first made-for-tv Christmas movies.

A couple of years ago I was watching it and thought this would be a fantastic scenario for our favorite Captain and Savior. I wrote it and then stopped, and then started it again, only to stop again. When I saw this movie marathon, I knew instantly this was the movie I wanted to do and I wanted to make sure that I finished it this time.

I hope you enjoy it!

A30

Chapters: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

And because she asked, @kmomof4. I’m so glad you’re enjoying this!

“So it has come to our attention that perhaps a dinner between the three of you would be a good idea.”

Emma looked over at Killian who was looking up at Regina, like an obedient student following the teacher’s instructions. She then looked over at Henry, who was playing with his napkin. Okay, maybe he wasn’t playing with it as much as he was trying to get it to lay smoothly across his lap.

“Great idea,” Emma replied looking up at Regina. And it was a great idea, honestly, when David first brought it up to her. This way they can take care of all the details. All the small things that form when people spend a lot of time together, hashing out the particulars.

And the fact that they were eating hamburgers at Killian’s fancy ass dining room table made the whole juxtaposition that much funnier to Emma for some reason.

“I agree,” Killian piped up, taking the napkin off the table and placing it across his lap before reaching for the mustard bottle. “This way we can—”

“You like mustard on your hamburger?” Emma asked, probably more forcibly than she should have.

Killian looked at her before he finally grabbed onto the bottle. Opening it up with one hand, he replied, “Aye. Is that a deal breaker?”

She rolled her eyes. “Of course not. I just don’t think…I’ve ever met anyone who prefers mustard on their burger as opposed to ketchup.”

“I don’t like ketchup.”

Emma was squeezing the bottle itself when he made that declaration, and she almost squirted it all over herself. “How can you not like ketchup?”

“I just don’t.”

“I thought that we could discuss other kinds of details about ourselves,” Regina sighed, “then what condiments you liked on your food.”

“Right. Okay,” Emma replied placing the bottle back on the table before putting the top bun on top. She passed the bottle to Henry, who took it gladly. “So. What kind of questions?”

“How long have you two been married?”

“Ten years,” Killian replied at the same time Emma replied, “Twelve years.”

Regina raised an eyebrow. “These are the kind of details I’m talking about, Ms. Swan.”

“Mrs. Jones,” David piped up, his mouth full of burger.

“What?” Killian asked, leaning forward.

“You’re not going to be ‘Ms. Swan,’ for the weekend, you’re going to be ‘Mrs. Jones.’”

“Oh,” Emma took her glass of soda and quickly took a sip. Why the idea of losing her last name (even temporarily) was something that made her want to blush was not something that she wanted to think about too deeply. “‘Course, yeah. Right.”

“Is this a problem, Mrs. Jones?” Regina asked pointedly.

“Nope. No problem at all,” she weakly responded.

“Do I have to change my name?” Henry piped up.

“Only for the weekend,” Regina said a nicer tone. At least Regina was nice to her kid, Emma thought. She had that going for her. “For that one weekend, you’re going to be Henry Jones. Is that alright?”

He shrugged. “Yeah, sounds good.” He then took a bite of his burger, the ketchup falling out of the other side. “What else do we need to know?”

“Okay,” Regina looked at Henry before giving an almost warm smile. “Henry, where was your favorite vacation?”

“Disney World!” he replied happily, bouncing in his seat. “I met Mickey Mouse and Peter Pan and Cinderella!” He then jumped up out of his chair and held out his arm, like he was holding a sword at the end. “Peter Pan was standing in front of the sign—”

“Adventureland sign,” Emma added, giving a small smile to Regina and Killian, who, she couldn’t help but notice, was intrigued with her son’s story and was actually looking at him when he spoke.

“Right, that sign. Anyway, we were walking along, and Peter Pan came out and said to me ‘Any pirates come this way?’ And I—” He looked at his mother, not sure on how to continue. “Mom? What did I say?”

“You cried, Henry,” she said with a chuckle. She looked at the adults at the table and informed them of the details Henry was leaving out. “Henry was like three at the time, and Peter Pan came out of nowhere. He got scared.”

“Oh, right. I got scared.” Henry sat back down before picking up his burger. “Anyway, I liked Disney World.”

“Okay,” Regina smiled before looking at a notepad next to her plate. She was using a knife and fork to eat. Figures. “Let’s see. Now, you should know some details about each other. Just in case.”

Just in case. Emma has heard those words so many times over the course of the week she’s ready to scream. “Like what?”

“Family.”

Emma gestures to Henry. “You’re looking at it.”

“She means more than that, love,” Killian piped up, before sipping on his rum.

“I’m not your love,” she replied more harshly than she should have. “And that’s it. Just Henry.”

Killian looked at her, his eyes wide before asking in almost a dumbfounded way, “You don’t have anyone else?”

“Mommy’s an—” Henry starts to say before Emma cuts him off.

Emma, herself, however, looked down at her plate and asked, “Do we really need to get into all of this? I thought this Mr. Woodman guy was only staying for forty-eight hours. I don’t think he needs to know my life story.”

“Normally, I would say you were right, Emma,” David says as he wipes his mouth with the cloth napkin. “But we want to make sure that we’ve covered every spot. That includes,” he pauses before looking at her, “backstories.”

“No.” Emma puts her napkin next to her plate. That’s all she says before she pushes back her chair and gets up from the table, walking towards…well, she’s not really sure until she feels the cold air biting at her cheeks and realizes that her thin long sleeve shirt is not appropriate for the outdoors in December.

But she can’t do this. She can’t have a virtual stranger know her story. No way. Yes, she’s attracted to Killian, she won’t deny that. But one kiss in the badly lit hallway does not mean that he gets to know her story. That he gets to know her. Besides, after the weekend is over, Henry and Emma will walk out of Killian’s life, and this Mr. Woodman guy will never see either of them again. So why does everyone need to know her story for one lousy weekend?

“My father abandoned my brother and I.”

Emma quickly turned around and saw Killian leaning against one of the pillars leading up to his front door. He was so casual about it, she was sure that she misheard him, because there was no way that he just—

“What?”

He looks up at her before straightening himself and walking closer to her. “My father abandoned my brother and I. I was seven years old when I woke one morning and he was gone.”

Her mind is racing from the conversation inside and now this one, that she shakes her head because she just can’t keep up with these conversations. “That’s, um –”

Because what do you say in reply to that?

“I’m telling you this,” he says, taking a step closer, though remaining a distance away from her, “because I want you to know that you don’t need to share your story if you’re not comfortable. I get it. I had a horrible childhood, but I don’t think Mr. Woodman is going to quiz us about it.” He pauses for a moment before saying, “I just want you to be comfortable.”

“Killian—”

“I know that I’m asking a lot, but knowing your backstory…that’s obviously private, and I don’t need to know it for this weekend. So,” he shrugs, “we make something up. If you want.”

“Make up my backstory?”

He nods. “Yeah. In case Marco asks. I don’t think he will, but you know. Something for us. Just in case.”

She huffs. “I’m so sick of those three words.”

He chuckles. “I know. Me too.” He looks at her for a second, and Emma thinks about that night, two years ago. It was clear that they made a connection, even if it was just lust. But it seems that they’re making another one right now. “I can’t do this without you. And I know you’re getting paid, and I know you don’t feel right about it—”

“Oh, I’m definitely taking your money. There’s no way that I’m not.”

He shakes his head with a small smile. “Of course. But you need to be comfortable about this.”

“Just like you need to be comfortable with your furniture being moved around,” she retorts.

He stills for a moment, asking, “How did you…” He sighs. “David.”

She nods. “Yeah, he and his wife are not great at keeping secrets. FYI.”

“I hope they can keep one for a weekend,” he mutters.

Emma crosses her arms, rubbing them as she says, “I’m sure they can.”

He looks at her for saying, “Bloody hell, you must be freezing.” Before she can say anything in response, he takes off his zipped up sweater and stepping closer, places it against her shoulders.

“You don’t have to—You’re going to be cold.”

He takes a step back. “Ah, the cold doesn’t bother me.”

She shakes her head before replying, “Okay, Elsa.”

He grins. “That’s my sister-in-law’s name.”

She smiles now, like she can’t believe it. “Get out. I didn’t think there was anyone actually named Elsa.”

“Oh yeah. When they met, my brother asked her if she wanted to let it go.”

She starts laughing before saying, “Oh God, no! He didn’t!”

“He did!” he laughs along with her. “She almost punched him! I was dying.”

“And she married him?”

He smirks. “Well, the Jones Brothers have a way with the ladies.”

She snorts as she shakes her head. “I think you just think you have a way with the ladies.”

He takes a step closer and gives a wicked grin. “I have a memory from two years ago that disputes that, love.”

Emma looks to side and scoffs, hoping that he thinks the redness in her cheeks is nothing more than the wind. Clearing her throat (and her mind from the memories from that night), instead she replies, “Listen, I’ll help you out. ‘Cause I’m nice like that,” she gives a big smile and he grins back. “But my private life is that. Private.”

“Duly noted, love. If he asks, and he won’t, but if he does, just make something up.”

She agrees, muttering a “Yeah,” under her breath. She looks back at the house and sees Henry looking out the window. She gives him a small wave, and he waves back before she turns to Killian. “Thanks. For coming out and for…” She clears her throat. “I’m sorry. About your dad. That…that sucks.”

He breaths out heavily before looking away, putting his thumbs through the loopholes of his belt. “Thanks.”

He holds his elbow out for her to take and leads them to the door as he says, “Oh, by the way, my favorite color is blue. Just in case.”

Emma chuckles and for the first time this began thinks that maybe everything will be alright in the end.

~*~

Marco Woodman was due to arrive by Friday, December 20 at 6:00pm local time. Killian kept looking at the calendar. It was Thursday, December 19, 9:00 am local time and Killian has already panicked. This was going to end in disaster. He just knew it. Not because of Emma or Henry, no. Of that he was certain. He has spent the equivalent of six hours with them (more than that if he counts how much he and Emma have messaged each other), and he knows that he has nothing to worry about when it comes to either of them. Henry’s a great kid and Emma…

No, he’s not worried about them. He’s worried about himself. Killian may be a lot of things, but he does not like to lie or be deceitful. What you see is what you get, that’s Killian’s motto. He may have some skeletons in his closet, to be sure, but nothing that would be deemed absolutely horrible. Mostly bad mistakes and things he wishes he could have done differently.

But this whole situation with Emma and Marco…He doesn’t like it. He doesn’t like lying. He’s sure that he will be the one to mess up; he’s so sure that he’ll say or do the wrong thing and blow his chances of ever getting to run the corporation in London.

33 hours. But you know, who’s counting? :p

Killian smiles at the text from Emma. Ever since her minor…well, panic attack basically, she’s gotten a tiny bit more open with him. And he likes it. She’s funny, and incredibly intelligent, and….

Well, it’s nice having someone in the same boat as him. True that she doesn’t have the same outcome as him, but she’s also pretending here. Anyway, it’s just nice having someone in his corner.

He types back. Aye. Not like anything big is happening, right?

I think the Mets are playing

Love, I don’t follow baseball, and even I know they don’t play in the winter.

Argh! I was trying to go for a joke

Anyway, Henry and I will arrive tomorrow at your place at ETA 4:00

You can’t get there earlier??

Dude I have work and he has school. You’re lucky it’s 4:00 and not later

Please don’t be late.

I’m going to ignore that because we haven’t been late once

How come you end every sentence with a period? You know you’re not writing a paper right?

Because I like it.

Period.

Weirdo

He laughs before putting his phone back on his desk. His secretary, a young man named Arthur who, while good at his job, needs to learn the meaning of the word ‘humble,’ pops his head in. “David is here for you,” he says.

Killian waves him in and Arthur closes to door behind David. He looks back to make sure the door is closed before asking, “You ready for tomorrow?”

He nods. “Aye. I believe so. I’m so bloody nervous, though.”

David laughs before sitting in the seat opposite Killian. “Why?”

“Oh, it’s just my future on the line, nothing more.”

“Killian, they’re going to be fine.”

“I know.”

“And so are you.”

He pauses. “You think so?”

“I know so.”

Killian releases a breath before looking at his watch. “32 and a half hours to go.”

“Stop worrying. It’s like a damn rocking chair.”

Killian raised an eyebrow. “Mate, you’re going to need to explain that one.”

“Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but you’re not going anywhere.”

Shaking his head, Killian gets up from his desk and walks over to the filing cabinet. “Well, thank you so much for that bit of fortune cookie wisdom.”

“Sure.” He’s quiet for a second as Killian gets out the file he needs. “You know I’ll be there every step of the way. Regina too.”

“Regina better be there. She’s the reason I’m in this mess.” He turns back around and walks over to his desk.

“She meant well.”

“I know.”

David sighs before asking, “33 hours?”

“33 hours.”

~*~

Killian looks at his watch. It’s ten past 6 on Friday, December 20, and David messaged that they were on their way back from the airport, but just got stuck in traffic.

The house currently smells like cooked meat and spices, and while that smell usually makes his mouth water, right now it’s just making his stomach turn.

He’s barely gotten a second to talk to Emma or Henry, since they were both taken immediately by a team that Regina hired to “spruce up their imagine,” whatever the hell that meant. They were currently upstairs in her guest room, doing God knows what, and all Killian can think about is that Emma and Henry both looked fine the other night.

When Regina comes down the stairs, she looking at her phone and how she doesn’t trip is something that is beyond him. “What’s going on up there?”

“Just making them look like they are a family that has money,” Regina replies nonchalantly without looking up.

“They were fine the other night.”

That makes her look up at him. “Killian, I hate to break it to you, but you have money. Your “wife” is supposed to look like she shares that money. Rich wives don’t weather red leather jackets they found at Goodwill.”

“I like the red leather jacket,” he mutters.

“And when it’s Sunday night, by all means, you can tell her. But for right now, she needs to look a tad more elegant.”

“And Henry?”

She shrugs. “He wants to talk to his mother about something.”

“Does he look elegant?” he asks, stressing elegant like it’s a word associated with horrible bodily functions.

“He looks like an eight-year-old boy. He’s fine.” Her phone beeps and she immediately looks down at it. His phone beeps too. His stomach sinks and his heart pounds. His head is rushing from the amount of bloody pumping into it (maybe? He’s not sure.)

She clears her throat before lifting her head. “He’s here.”

Killian nods and tries to remember how to breath. This was such a stupid idea.

Regina walks towards the door.

He never should have agreed to this. He should have told the truth from the beginning.

“Wait!” he shouts, just as she’s about to put her hand on the doorknob.

“What?” she hisses at him.

“The ring!”

Regina’s hand drops towards the pocket of her pantsuit. “Shit, I have it somewhere,” she mutters before pulling out a silver circle. She walks back over to him and grabs his hand roughly and tries to get it on, but he mutters, “Wrong finger, wrong finger, wrong finger!”

“God!” she huffs before shoving the ring in his hand. “You do it!”

“Thanks,” he mutters as the doorbell rings. He quickly put it on the correct finger and fixes his suit (Regina insisted) before he walks over to the door. “Show time,” he mutters before he throws open the door.

“Mr. Woodman! Welcome!”

#cs fanfiction #csmm #captain swan fanfiction #captain swan movie marathon #the art of pretending

1 note · View note

wandering-bitch · 4 years ago

Text

Annotations on Falling in Love with Love (Again) pt 1

Falling in Love is my 3zun Cinderella/Qin Su Solidarity Fixit fic. It’s got some dumb angst, but i promise every ch with Angst (tm) has at least some soft gentle fluff with it.

It’s structured like cinderella (servant gets surprised with the clothes + disguise for the ball, falls in love, runs away but leaves behind a trinket, gets found out later and happily ever after), but really it’s About recognizing the growth you’ve gone through, and uh. falling in love again. It’s also, to a lesser degree, about how important Qin Su is.

Notes on writing the first third of this below the cut

Every chapter title is a riff on a song lyric from Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (which you might remember as the Brandy and Whitney Houston movie from 1997). Title is “falling in love with love,” the BITCHIN ballad from the stepmother

i keep stumbling on cinderella aus from parts of 3zun and i never like them bc im picky so i started thinking about this and now im HERE, writing thousands of words and thinking about social shit

in this house we love qin su, by the way

Don’t Believe in Sensible Rules

this chapter was called “Enter the Fairy Godmother” in my outline

writing this fic made me like jin zixuan pfffff

look im not saying that qin su is fucking vital BUT

having qin su know that she’s meng yao’s sister means that he has someone who can empathize with wanting but hating jin guangshan’s attention, and so someone who can remind him that jin guangshan’s respect isn’t worth the effort

aka qin su being actively meng yao’s sister fucking stops him from making terrible choices aka this is my fixit.

originally i just was hand-waving away “it’s a good au bc i said so” but as i built the timeline more, i realized that it all comes down to qin su

which is valid!! because yeah, the middle and end of the fic are about qin su

anyway back to this first chapter

i know in canon qin su is probably younger than meng yao but counterpoint i wanted her to have more respect built into her role

what’s up with meng yao’s makeup? it’s a combination of opera + tang dynasty makeup!!

you know that promo image of zzj playing an opera performer for a movie next year??? this one??? it’s basically this but on crack

if you’re not thinking about that promo image twice a week then i highly recommend u do it bc it certainly brings me joy and serotonin

oh hmmm meng yao is wearing a fancy emotionally important accessory??? i wonder what might happen

You’ll Never Know a Finer Night

”a lovely night, a lovely night/ a finer night you know you’ll never see”

qin su + meng yao rights!!!

the mengyin han sect is something my spouse came up with for their Nie Parents fic that they’re never gonna write.

you should bug @isimplydonotvibewithjgy to write it. why???

it’s about happy healthy nie parent polyamory!!!

nie huaisang is named in part after nie mingjue’s mother’s sword

meng yao is only a little bit kidding about stealing a baby for qin su. qin su, in turn, is only a little bit kidding about stealing a baby for meng yao

meng yao fucking with wangxian is very important to me, a bitch

Back In the Past, lan xichen wasn’t so much Jealous as he was frustrated with himself for not saying anything for so long (so long was barely a few months)

“second daughter of a third rate sect” is the type of dumb meng yao shit i love

qin!!!! su!!!! rights!!!!!!!

Most Entrancing Sight Of All

from “the greatest love,” the first song from the brandy version

i actually hate this song whoops

i lov every time i get to write meng yao being clever

it is very convenient for me that im writing the entire fic from his perspective

it’s sword content!!!! hooray!!!!

i looked up so much sword dancing for this it made me so happy

swords!!! good!!!

i do wish i had been better at figuring out ways meng yao could eat li bolin alive, but i wrote it, it’s done, im never editing it again

sword! content!!

The Sweet Invention of a Lover’s Dream

AWWW YEAH my favorite chapter because the xiyao troll showed up and said “oh so meng yao’s a selfish little slut now then” and i think about that every fucking day

the title is from “do i love you”

the breakup was hard to write bc like. neither’s in the Wrong, sometimes u just don’t fit, and that sucks

like it wasn’t Hard emotionally, but it was hard to balance properly

“Eat Wen Xu Alive” -- meng yao

in my early draft, meng yao + qin su had an agreement to check on each other every hour. i scrapped that but u can see

“time to meddle”

i had fun learning about azaleas + azalea poisoning

i spent SO LONG trying to decide who meng yao would pin the poisoning on but settled on the li sect being complicit in wen imperialism

nie mingjue is here because nie huaisang whined about it. lan xichen is here because he wants to date someone to move on from meng yao

what’s that? he’s dating nie mingjue? that’s not enough to move on? no, actually, it isn’t

sorry lan xichen the way to move on is just time, not dating

to be clear it’s not that lan xichen is greedy or nie mingjue Isn’t Enough, it’s just that there’s an ache still in lxc’s heart

(there’s an ache still in nmj’s heart)

we’ll actually go over all of this in an auxiliary chapter where nmj + lxc snuggle in the middle of the night

healthy polyamory rights

in case it’s somehow not Obvious, the song lxc is distracted by reminds him of meng yao.

lxc is one hundred percent that friend who doesn’t let u say anything slightly mean about urself

my one ex specifically wouldn’t let me say i wasn’t smart enough to talk about a sociological issue/socialism thing. it was so sweet honestly

like she would let me not have an opinion but i couldn’t say i wasn’t smart enough

lxc is so proud of himself for that “tell me what this song is about” line and he SHOULD be. it WAS sexy it WAS polite it WAS a good line!!!

im not tooting my own horn im just talking about lxc being a polite, sexy hunk

never forget: so meng yao is just a selfish little slut then lol ok

come back next time for ch 5-8 where we see boys being cute and together and also where qin su gets many more rights

#mo dao zu shi #lan xichen #jin guangyao #nie mingjue #mdzs #3zun #behind the scenes #falling in love with love

2 notes · View notes

otherwiseknownasme · 6 years ago

Text

Also can we talk about how 1997’s Roger & Hammerstein’s Cinderella starring Whitney Houston and Brandy is the most underrated adaptation?

Not only do you an excellent, talented multiracial cast but also a catchy, singable soundtrack AND a lead who wasn’t even 20 at the time and still held her own with some of the greats(aka THE Whitney Houston).

Also, my favorite line is when Cinderella first meets the Prince:

Cinderella: I doubt he has any idea how a girl should be treated.

The Prince: Like a princess, I suppose.

Cinderella: No, like a person, with kindness and respect. 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

#disney #brandy #whitney houston #cinderella #black girl magic #underrated

7 notes · View notes

aris-main-blog · 7 years ago

Text

Rules: Answer the questions in a new post and tag 10 blogs you would like to get to know better

Tagged by @super-fabulous-killjoy , the actual definition of perfection, so go and follow her and talk to her!

Age: 18

Birthplace: North CA

Current time: 11:39

Drink you had last: Almond Milk

Easiest person to talk to: My little brother, my little sister, myself aka my writing

Favourite song: Right now? Uhhh im currently being nostalgic over the Cinderella 1997 version so The Sweetest Sounds from there. My all-time favorite song however is Someday by Eternal from The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Grossest memory: ...idk im trying to think but nothing comes to mind… uhhh maybe when i threw up in my mouth once, but im sure theres a more gross memory somewhere in my mind

Hogwarts house: Hufflepuff

In Love: Nope, but I love soooo many of my friends and family and friends that i call family

Jealous of people: past me, jealous of her, and a few of my cousins who have different lives that I kinda want sometimes

Killed someone: ...not without good reason. Im kidding! Maybe.

Love at first sight or should I walk by you again: Lust at first sight is possible, but not love. Plus if you looked at me in normal situations, aka school, random family party, etc, im shier there than I am with ppl I love, so youd fall in love with a different version of me if it existed

Middle name: Raval

Number of siblings: one biological younger brother and three little kids who I consider my siblings, all younger

One wish: ...this is hard, uh, based on a recent nightmare, protect my brother from violence… it was a very bad nightmare

Person you called last: called… thats hard. I dont call ppl often, lets check! Its my dad, no surprise.

Question you are always asked: the first one i thought of was one i was asked a lot in high school which was “Where are you from?” cuz i was an asian in a predominantly white high school. Now in college, its, i guess, “Why do you rip the corners of your papers?” (answer: I fidget to concentrate so i tear off the corners of my paper and fidget with it.)

Reason to smile: my brother being amazing, books exist and you can check them out for free in a library!, colorful pens, stuffed animals to cuddle with, and disney movies

Song you sang last: As ive said before, “The Sweetest Sounds” from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella 1997

Time you woke up: 9:00

Underwear color: grey

Worst habit: I get distracted reeeeeaaallllly easily when I’m doing something im not genuinely interested in, aka school, writing stuff i don’t want to write, talking about stuff i dont know too much about. Sucky because there are people i love and i talk to them and they talk about something i dont know anything about and i zone out, and it hate that about myself

X-rays: only once when doctors thought that one of my bones was growing too fast

Your favourite food: my mom’s alfredo spaghetti or pollo inka’s chicken, and now i want chicken

Zodiac sign: scoripio

… idk who to tag, i guess @jedi-ren and @wofwalker ! Because I don’t know people….

#personal #tag game!#tagged

4 notes · View notes

hamaon · 7 years ago

Text

Present: an old, US-centric cartoon meme sort of thing that I (apparently) started filling back when LJ was still a thing and then got distracted in the middle of, most likely.

- x what you saw - o what you haven't finished/saw sizable portions - ? if you just can’t remember if you’ve seen it or not - bold what you loved - strike through what you disliked/hated - leave unchanged if neutral

(I only did what I remember from my initial impressions when I first saw each film. There are movies bolded here that I doubt I could suffer through now, but loved as a kid, and also perfectly good cartoons that I hated.)

Classic Disney

[x] 101 Dalmatians (1961) [x] Alice in Wonderland (1951) [x] Bambi (1942) [x] Cinderella (1950) [x] Dumbo (1941) [x] Fantasia (1940) (it was mostly boring, back then) [x] Lady and the Tramp (1955) [x] Mary Poppins (1964) [x] Peter Pan (1953) [x] Pinocchio (1940) [x] Sleeping Beauty (1959) [x] Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) [ ] Song of the South (1946)

Score: 12/13

Disney's Dark Age

[x] The Aristocats (1970) [x] The Black Cauldron (1985) (saw it earlier this year, it has so many pacing issues) [x] The Fox and the Hound (1981) [x] The Great Mouse Detective (1986) [x] The Jungle Book (1967) [?] The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) [?] Oliver and Company (1986) [ ] Pete's Dragon (1977) [ ] Rescuers, The (1977) [x] Robin Hood (1973) [ ] The Sword In The Stone (1963)

Score: ~6/11

The Disney Renaissance

[x] Aladdin (1992) [x] Beauty and the Beast (1991) [x] A Goofy Movie (1995) [x] Hercules (1997) [x] Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (1996) (I had a strange relationship with this film, always loved the visuals though) [x] The Lion King (1994) [x] The Little Mermaid (1989) [x] Mulan (1998) [x] Pocahontas (1995) [x] The Rescuers Down Under (1990) [x] Tarzan (1999)

Score: 11/11

Disney's Modern Age

[x] Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) (the critical adult me was burned by the missed potential) [ ] Bolt (2008) [ ] Brother Bear (2003) [ ] Chicken Little (2005) [0] Dinosaur (2000): [x] Emperor's New Groove, The (2000) [x] Fantasia 2000 (2000) [ ] Home on the Range (2004) [x] Lilo & Stitch (2002) [ ] Meet the Robinsons (2007) [x] Treasure Planet (2002)

Score: ~5/11

Pixar

[x] A Bug's Life (1998) [ ] Cars (2006) [x] Finding Nemo (2003) [x] The Incredibles (2004) [x] Monsters Inc. (2001) [ ] Ratatouille (2007) [x] Toy Story (1995) [x] Toy Story 2 (1999) [x] Wall-E (2008)

Score: 7/9

Don Bluth

[ ] All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989) [ ] An American Tail (1986) [x] Anastasia (1997) [x] The Land Before Time (1988) [ ] The Pebble and the Penguin (1995) [ ] Rock-a-Doodle (1991) [x] The Secret of NIMH (1982) [ ] Thumbelina (1994) [x] Titan AE (2000) (I had such good memories of watching this in the theatre. I tried watching it again a couple of years back and it wasn’t very good at all. I guess the scifi setting was so new to me back then that it carried the film) [ ] A Troll in Central Park (1994)

Score: 4/10

Claymation

[ ] The Adventures of Mark Twain (1986) [x] Chicken Run (2000) [x] Corpse Bride (2005) [ ] James and the Giant Peach (1996) [x] Nightmare Before Christmas, The (1993) [x] Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005). [ ] Coraline (2009) (alas)

Score: 4/7

CGI Glut

[x] Antz (1998) [ ] Happy Feet (2006) [ ] Kung Fu Panda (2008) [ ] Madagascar (2005) [ ] Monster House (2006) [ ] Over the Hedge (2006) [ ] Polar Express, The (2004) [x] Shrek (2001) [x] Shrek 2 (2004) [ ] Shrek The Third

Score: 3/10

Imports

[x] Arabian Knight (aka The Thief and the Cobbler) (1995) [o] Fantastic Planet [x] The Last Unicorn (1982) [ ] Light Years [x] Triplets of Belleville, The (2003) [x] Persepolis (2007) [ ] Waltz With Bashir (2008) [ ] Watership Down (1978) [ ] When the Wind Blows (1988) [ ] Yellow Submarine (1968)

Score: 5/10

Studio Ghibli/Miyazaki

[x] Grave of the Fireflies [x] Howl's Moving Castle (2004) [x] Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) [x] Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986) [x] Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979) [x] My Neighbors The Yamadas [x] My Neighbor Totoro (1993) [x] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) [x] Only Yesterday (This was my favorite animated film for a while, but it has been almost ten years since I last saw it, so I don’t know how well it would hold up, now) [x] Pom Poko (Tanuki War) [x] Porco Rosso (1992) [x] Princess Mononoke (1999) [x] Spirited Away (2002) [x] Whisper of the Heart

Score: 14/14

Satoshi Kon

[x] Millennium Actress (2001) [x] Paprika (2006) [x] Perfect Blue (1999) [x] Tokyo Godfathers (2003) [?] Memories - "Magnetic Rose" (1995)

Score: ~4/5

Shinkai Makoto

[ ] She and Her Cat (1999) [x] Voices of a Distant Star (2001) [?] The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004) [x] 5 Centimeters per Second (2007)

Score: ~3/4

Other Anime Films Released In The U.S. (either shown at indie theaters / colleges or available for rent / purchase at some point)

[x] Akira (1989) (Loved the comic, should watch the film version again) [ ] Appleseed [ ] Appleseed: Ex Machina [ ] Arcadia of My Youth (U.S. Title - Vengeance of the Space Pirate) [x] Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2003) [ ] The Dagger of Kamui (U.S. Title - Revenge of the Ninja Warrior) [ ] Dirty Pair: Project Eden [x] End of Evangelion [ ] Fist of the North Star [ ] Galaxy Express 999 [x] Ghost in the Shell (1996) [x] The Girl Who Leapt Through Time [ ] Lensman [ ] Macross: Do You Remember Love (U.S. Title - Clash of the Bionoids) [x] Metropolis (2001) [ ] Neo-Tokyo [ ] Ninja Scroll [ ] Patlabor the Movie [ ] The Professional: Golgo 13 [ ] Project A-ko [x] Robot Carnival [ ] Robotech: The Shadow Chronicle [ ] Silent Mobius [ ] Space Adventure Cobra [ ] Steamboy (2004) [ ] Sword of the Stranger [ ] Unico and the Island of Magic [ ] Urotsukidoji: The Movie [ ] Vampire Hunter D [x] Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust [ ] Wings of Honneamise: Royal Space Force

Score: 8/31

Cartoons For Grown-Ups

[ ] American Pop [x] The Animatrix (2003) [ ] Beavis & Butthead Do America (1996) [ ] Cool World [x] Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) (I will fight you on this) [x] Final Fantasy: Advent Children [ ] Fire & Ice [ ] Fritz the Cat (1972) [ ] Heavy Metal (1981) [ ] Heavy Metal 2000 (2000) [ ] Hey Good Looking [ ] Lady Death [ ] A Scanner Darkly (2006) [x] South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999) [ ] Street Fight (AKA - Coonskin) [ ] Waking Life (2001)

Score: 4/16

Other Animated Movies I Can't Categorize

[ ] Animal Farm [ ] Animalypics [ ] Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon The Movie [ ] Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker [ ] A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969) [ ] The Brave Little Toaster (1988) [ ] Bravestarr: The Movie [x] Care Bears: The Movie [ ] Charlotte's Web (1973) [ ] Fern Gully [ ] G.I. Joe: The Movie [ ] Gobots: Battle of the Rock Lords [ ] He-Man & She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword [x] The Hobbit [ ] The Iron Giant (1999) (alas) [ ] Justice League: The New Frontier [x] Lord of the Rings [ ] Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1992) [?] My Little Pony: The Movie [ ] Pink Floyd's The Wall (1982) [x] The Prince of Egypt (1998) [ ] Powerpuff Girls: The Movie [ ] Quest For Camelot (1999) [ ] Ringing Bell [x] Road to El Dorado, The (2000) [ ] Rock & Rule [x] Space Jam [ ] Starchaser: The Legend of Orin [ ] Superman: Doomsday [x] The Swan Princess [ ] Transformers: The Movie (1986) [ ] Wizards [x] Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) [ ] Wonder Woman [ ] The Sea Prince and the Fire Child [ ] Flight of Dragons [x] Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. [x] Balto [ ] Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter

Score: ~10/39

Final Score: ~100/201

#animation

2 notes · View notes

hellosaltysaladcollectionstuff · 6 years ago

Link

Based on the Arabic folktale Aladdin and the Magic Lamp from the book One Thousand and One Nights (aka "Arabian Nights"), plus the 1940 film The Thief of Bagdad, Disney's animated Aladdin from 1992 was the most successful movie of that year, grossing $217 million in the US and over $504 million worldwide. The hand-drawn animated film's massive success led to two direct-to-video sequels, The Return of Jafar (1994) and Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996), an animated series for TV, and a Broadway musical adaptation. Now, after the success of other live-action Disney remakes like Cinderella, The Jungle Book, and Beauty and the Beast, British director Guy Ritchie is reimagining the beloved animated classic as a big-budget, live-action, Bollywood spectacle with flying carpets, magic genies, and a lot of wishful thinking.

Co-written by Ritchie and John August (of Dark Shadows, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Big Fish), the story follows Aladdin (Mena Massoud of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan), a charming scoundrel and street urchin living in the desert kingdom of Agrabah with his monkey, Abu. After befriending the feisty Princess Jasmine (Naomi Scott of Power Rangers, "Terra Nova"), Aladdin is recruited by Card-Carrying Villain

Jafar (Marwan Kenzari of Murder on the Orient Express) to retrieve an oil lamp from the Cave of Wonders. In the process, Aladdin rubs the magic lamp and unleashes a shape-shifting blue genie (Will Smith) who grants the boy three wishes and teaches him the true meaning of friendship along the way.

Like Tim Burton's Dumbo, Guy Ritchie's Aladdin sounds like a good idea on paper, but it's really a tonally confused live-action adaptation of an animated classic with a lot of questionable decision-making behind and in front of the camera. Ritchie, known for crime comedies like Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, as well as slick, stylish retellings like Sherlock Holmes and King Arthur, seems like a perfect fit for a Pirates of the Caribbean-esque spin on the Aladdin folktale; a fantastical crime caper with emphasis on action, adventure, and dazzling special effects. Unfortunately, that isn't this movie. Tasked with delivering a faithful adaptation of the 1992 musical film, Ritchie is woefully ill-equipped to imbue the story with anything resembling magic. He cannot, in fact, show you the world – shining, shimmering, splendid.

Don't get me wrong, Emmy Award-winning production designer Gemma Jackson (of "Game of Thrones", King Arthur) and Oscar-nominated costume designer Michael Wilkinson (American Hustle, Noah, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice) create a vibrant and richly detailed world of bustling marketplaces, majestic palaces, and magical caves, it's just overshadowed by ineffective visual effects and dodgy chroma key compositing that takes you out of the story. Further complicating matters are the performances. Mena Massoud and Naomi Scott are sufficient as Aladdin and Jasmine, but watching them fall in love in front of poorly rendered computer-generated backdrops is reminiscent of Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones; fine actors with zero chemistry trying to perform on a set with a little sand and a whole lot of green screen.

And then there's the Genie. Originally portrayed by Robin Williams, the shape-shifting blue entity demands an actor with considerable range – someone who can play funny and dramatic, who can elicit emotion, and sing and dance. Williams, who delivered the first real celebrity performance of an animated character – and quite possibly the best – set the bar so high that recreating his iconic performance would be impossible. Instead, Ritchie sought out the iconic Will Smith to reinvent the character and make it his own. Again, on paper, the decision to cast Smith is sound. The rapper turned actor is an international superstar whose films have grossed $7.5 billion at the global box office, but here all that star power actually hinders him. Unlike Williams, who had the benefit of voicing a character that he didn't resemble, Will Smith is the genie here, or rather the genie is Will Smith. Thanks to motion capture technology, the genie is a big blue Will Smith that raps "Friend Like Me" with all the realness of 1997's Big Willy Style.

Smith's overpowering presence is even more so when you consider he is the only recognizable face in the movie. Navid Negahban (FX's Legion) pops up as the Sultan, along with Nasim Pedrad (Saturday Night Live) as Dalia, Jasmine’s free-spirited handmaiden, but this Aladdin lacks the roster depth that Kenneth Branagh's Cinderella and Jon Favreau's The Jungle Book have. It also lacks the exuberance of Disney's other recent live-action movies – only the Bollywood-inspired "Prince Ali" musical number comes close to capturing the original's spirited whimsy. Not once during the movie's 128-minute time does it make an argument for its existence, instead it only serves to remind us that our time is better spent watching the animated classic (for the umpteenth time), rather than some wishy-washy, half-hearted live-action remake.

Adam's Rating: 2 out of 5 Follow Adam on Twitter - @AdamFrazier

from FirstShowing.net http://bit.ly/2YIuWaE

#Blogger

0 notes

maonesa · 8 years ago

Text

Kdramas that I’ve watched

About Time

Beautiful Gong Shim

Be Arrogant

Because This Is My First Life

Cheese in the Trap

Cinderella and 4 Knights

Click your heart

Drinking Solo

Entertainer

Falling for Innocence(aka beating again)

Fight My Way

GOBLIN*

Hello, My Twenties

Hwarang

Hwayugi

I Am

Individualist Ms. Ji Young*

I Need Romance 2012

I’m Not A Robot

Introverted Boss(My shy boss)

Jealousy Incarnate

Just Between Lovers

Last Minute Romance

Legend of the Blue Sea

Let’s Eat

Let’s Eat x2

Let's Eat 3

Let’s Fight Ghost

Love Cells(season 1)

Love in the Moonlight

Madame Antoine

Manhole

Melo Holic

Moonlovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo*

My Love From Another Star

My Only Love Song

My Secret Romance

Noble, My Love

Oh My Ghostess

Oh My Venus

One More Happy Ending

One More Time

One Percent of Something

Protect the Boss

Reply 1997

Romance Blue

Sassy Go Go

She was Pretty

Shopping King Louis

Splash Splash Love**

Strong Woman Do Bong Soon

Surplus Princess(the idle mermaid)

Suspicious Partners(love in trouble)

Sweet Stranger and Me

Tempted

The Heirs

The Idle Mermaid aka Surplus Princess

The Liar and His Lover

Tomorrow With You

Uncontrollably Fond

What's Wrong with Secretary Kim

Warm and COZY

Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo

Wednesday 3:30 pm

kdramas to finish:

the best hit

healer

ruler: master of the mask

descendants of the sun

Strongest Deliveryman

The Bride of the Water God (Habaek)

Secret Healer

dropped kdramas_/will try to finish someday^:

rooftop prince_

Heart to heart^

personal taste_

sly and single_

radiant office^

blood_

love rain_

father is strange_

orange marmalade_

My Girlfriend is a Nine-Tailed Fox_

reply 1994_

heard it through the grapevine^7

The undatables_

Other dramas in other languages i enjoyed:

My Amazing Boyfriend

My Little Princess

The Eternal Love*

A Love so Beautiful

You’re my pet

Love Storm

#reference #bolded are those worth watching again and hopefully buying in the future #to edit #kdramas #this is for me don't reblog tbh #also #kdrama list

14 notes · View notes

chicagoindiecritics · 5 years ago

Text

New from A Reel of One’s Own by Andrea Thompson: In Praise of Jane Fairfax, the Austen Heroine Everyone Ignores

By Andrea Thompson

In Jane Austen’s world, her heroines aren’t typically reduced to (shudder) actual work. Why would they want to be, given the options for women, which tended to be the degrading kind where they would be at the mercy of their employers? To be considered a success is to escape such requirements, or optimally, avoid them altogether. The Dashwood sisters are able to make it work in a cottage in “Sense and Sensibility,” the Elliots simply rent out their estate in “Persuasion,” while the Bennets and the Morlands are able to marry their way out before things get truly desperate in “Pride and Prejudice” and “Northanger Abbey,” respectively.

“Emma” is bound to stand out in such company. It’s the only one of Austen’s novels to not only be named for its heroine, but to endow her with a fortune and a life of ease. Not only is she “handsome, clever, and rich,” she’s reached the age of 21 with “very little to distress or vex her.” Even in her small circle she is an exception to the rule; she needs nothing from no one, and has none of the usual inducements to marry.

Miss Woodhouse is unique to today’s audiences as well. Emma is not any kind of precursor to modern women like Elizabeth Bennet, whom many readers did and still long to be, given her wit, intelligence, and firm commitment to remain herself in spite of all the pressures bearing down on her to conform, including the future loss of her home to her ridiculous cousin Mr. Collins. Yet it is Emma Woodhouse who represents what an independent woman looks like, at least in the early 19th century. She is intelligent, capable, and wealthy, and also very much lacking any real outlet for her skills. So she chooses to indulge in matchmaking by attempting to pair off those around her, only to discover how unpredictable love can be, much to her dismay.

But it is “Emma,” a seemingly light, fluffy comedy of manners, with little plot to speak of and a heroine who has the least to fear, that gives us one of the most vulnerable characters Austen ever created, who may actually be Emma’s true foil. The 2020 adaptation chose Harriet for this role, but despite her relative class difference to her more genteel neighbors, Harriet has still been relatively protected, and provided with a home and income of her own, albeit a limited one.

Jane Fairfax has had no such luck. She’s not only a penniless orphan, her relatives, the Bates women, are about as destitute as she is, and essentially survive on the generosity of their more fortunate neighbors. Various characters may continually remark on how Jane’s beauty and accomplishments surpass even those of the lovably meddlesome Miss Woodhouse, but her many skills are due to the generosity of a family far more fortunate than her own, who charitably took her in and raised her alongside their own daughter. Everything she’s been taught has also had a very practical purpose, to prepare Jane to earn her own money by working as a governess, where she’ll basically be at the mercy of the wealthy class who raised her and spat her out. She may be the one person who provokes Emma’s jealousy, but her position could hardly be called an enviable one.

While Austen gives Jane as much attention as she can, what with the novel’s limitations, which is almost entirely from Emma’s perspective, the various adaptations give her almost none. The 2009 BBC miniseries probably comes the closest, which is most likely why a Google Image search for Jane will bring up quite a few stills from this particular source. But even this one neglects many of the most touching developments between Jane and Emma, including their reconciliation near the end of the book. Jane fares even worse in the 2020 version, which gives her almost no attention, and only includes one scene to indicate that Jane is not a perfectly trained robot who mostly exists as a possible rival for Mr. Knightley’s affections. But her suffering is very real.

How could it not be? Throughout “Emma,” Jane is secretly engaged to Frank Churchill, who often flirts with Emma Woodhouse to deflect suspicion from his and Jane’s relationship. How painful, to watch the man you love play suitor to another woman, especially one who was born with everything you were deprived of, while practically the entire neighborhood encourages them both. Many cite Frank’s general caddishness, and it’s quite true he takes no small amount of pleasure in the secret he and Jane share. Yet the seemingly carefree and independent Frank is also completely dependent on the aunt who took him in and made him her heir after his mother died and his father was unable to care for him. From what the other characters say about her, there’s little reason to doubt Frank’s need to keep his and Jane’s engagement hidden for fear of the consequences should his proud, domineering aunt discover it. It’s a lot to keep straight at times, and given Austen’s skill at small town drama and secrecy, she probably could’ve had a great career as a writer on “Riverdale.”

There’s another reason Jane has been repeatedly neglected. Probably the only thing many audiences, be they book lovers or moviegoers, dislike more than imperfect (aka unlikable) heroine like Emma is a perfect one like Jane. Except for the deception around her engagement, Jane Fairfax is an unquestionably morally upright heroine. Even worse, she’s what could be referred to as uptight. Jane doesn’t smile cheerfully through her troubles, she’s reserved, holding back not only her secret but her true character from those who try to befriend her, including Emma Woodhouse.

Jane is flawed enough to resent Emma, however. Much has been made of Emma’s moral awakening after she insults Miss Bates, but another large component of her reform is a determination to be kind to Jane Fairfax. But by this time, Jane hasn’t just witnessed the blissfully unaware Emma parade around with her fiance for weeks, she believes she’s lost him. Jane could hardly be blamed, then, for refusing Emma’s many, and long overdue, attempts at friendship, from invitations to visit, offers of a ride in her carriage, or even any medicine for her illness.

Much like the Cinderella of any story, Jane Fairfax wins her prize in the end, mostly by sheer force of luck. After Frank’s aunt dies near the end of the book, the always fortunate young man is able to easily gain the approval of his remaining relatives, allowing both him and Jane Fairfax to openly acknowledge all and renew their engagement. It’s a happier ending than most women in her position likely received, and Jane likewise is continually given less than her due. Nevertheless, the true platonic love story of the novel is between Emma and Jane, who is the source of much of Emma’s emotional and moral growth, and whom Emma might have easily become without her privilege.

Depressingly, there doesn’t seem to be much media that gives Jane Fairfax the time and attention she deserves, aside from a 1997 novel by Joan Aiken, which also bears her name and tells the story of her life, including the events of “Emma,” from her perspective. The silver lining though, is that just as a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife, you can always count on another Jane Austen adaptation to appear sooner or later. Hopefully a major film will give Jane Fairfix her due, but as Austen wrote in “Emma,” “Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure.”

from A Reel Of One’s Own https://ift.tt/2T2BbWF via IFTTT

from WordPress https://ift.tt/2Z4mkyG via IFTTT

#IFTTT #WordPress #CIFCC #film critics #movies #film #Chicago

1 note · View note

aion-rsa · 4 years ago

Text

HBO Max New Releases: November 2020

https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

There are only two months left to go in this truly hellish year and relatively new streaming service HBO Max is trying to make the best of them. While most other streamers recover from Halloween and get prepared for Christmas, HBO Max is using November 2020 to fill out its servers.

Things are pretty light not the new original series front this month with only Industry (Nov. 9) and His Dark Materials season 2 (Nov. 16) making a splash. But the streamer has a couple of notable original films to complement them. Between the World and Me, based on the book by Ta-Nehisi Coates, arrives on Nov. 21 and Melissa McCarthy comedy Superintelligence arrives on Nov. 26. That’s not even to mention two intriguing projects that don’t have dates yet: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Reunion Special and The Mystery of DB Cooper.

Thankfully, the real appeal in November 2020 is all the fresh library content making its way to HBO Max. Nov. 1 sees the arrival of The Dark Knight, The Hobbit Trilogy, all the Lego Movies, and even the first episode of Rick and Morty season 4 (with more presumably to follow). Those offerings will be augmented later on by the always-entertaining Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on Nov. 7.

Here is everything else coming to HBO Max in November 2020.

HBO Max New Releases – November 2020

TBA

12 Dates Of Christmas, HBO Max Original Series Premiere

Colin Quinn & Friends: A Parking Lot Comedy Show, HBO Max Original Special Premiere

Crazy, Not Insane, Documentary Premiere (HBO)

The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air Reunion Special, HBO Max Original Special Premiere

Full Bloom, HBO Max Original Series Premiere

I Hate Suzie, HBO Max Original Series Premiere

The Mystery Of DB Cooper, Documentary Premiere (HBO)

Sesame Street, Season 51 2020

Valley Of Tears, HBO Max Original Series Premiere

Veneno, HBO Max Original Series Premiere

November 1

10,000 BC, 2008

13 Going On 30, 2004

2 Fast 2 Furious, 2003 (HBO)

Above The Rim, 1994

All Is Bright, 2013

America, America, 1964

Anchors Aweigh, 1945

Another Cinderella Story, 2008

The Arrangement, 1969

Austin Powers In Goldmember, 2002

Autumn In New York, 2000 (HBO)

Baby Doll, 1956

Battleship, 2012 (HBO)

Beasts Of The Southern Wild, 2012 (HBO)

Billy Madison, 1995 (HBO)

Blast From The Past, 1999

Blood Work, 2002

The Bridge Of San Luis Rey, 2005 (HBO)

Broadway Danny Rose, 1984 (HBO)

The Bucket List, 2007

The Children, 2009

A Christmas Carol, 1938

Chronicle, 2012 (Director’s Cut) (HBO)

City Island, 2010 (HBO)

City Slickers, 1991 (HBO)

Clash Of The Titans, 2010

Critical Care, 1997

Cruel Intentions, 1999 (HBO)

The Dancer Upstairs, 2003 (HBO)

The Dark Knight, 2008

David Copperfield, 1935

Dead Man Walking, 1995 (HBO)

Desperately Seeking Susan, 1985 (HBO)

The Devil’s Advocate, 1997

Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, 2003 (HBO)

Dolphin Tale, 2011

Dumb And Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd, 2003

The Eagle, 2011 (HBO)

East Of Eden, 1955

Eight Legged Freaks, 2002

Elf Pets: Santa’s Saint Bernard’s Save Christmas, 2018

The Enforcer, 1976

A Face In The Crowd, 1957

The Fast And The Furious, 2001 (HBO)

Femme Fatale, 2002

The Five-Year Engagement, 2012 (Extended Version) (HBO)

A Flintstone Christmas, 1977

A Flintstone Family Christmas, 1993

Free Willy, 1993

Friday The 13th, 2009

G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra, 2009

The Gauntlet, 1977

Genius, 2016 (HBO)

Get Santa, 2014

Girl In Progress, 2012

Grumpier Old Men, 1995

Grumpy Old Men, 1993

Guys And Dolls, 1955

Hacksaw Ridge, 2016 (HBO)

Happy Gilmore, 1996 (HBO)

Heidi, 2006

High Fidelity, 2000 (HBO)

High Society, 1956

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, 2012

The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies, 2014

The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug, 2013

Hollidaysburg, 2014

House On Haunted Hill, 1999

Ice Age: Continental Drift, 2012 (HBO)

Impractical Jokers: Inside Jokes

The Iron Giant, 1999

J. Edgar, 2011

Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday, 1993

Jason X, 2002

King Kong, 1976 (HBO)

The Last King Of Scotland, 2006 (HBO)

The Lego Batman Movie, 2017

The Lego Movie, 2014

The Lego Ninjago Movie, 2014

License To Wed, 2007

Life Stinks, 1991

Linda And The Mockingbirds, 2020 (HBO)

Little Man Tate, 1991 (HBO)

Looney Tunes: Back In Action, 2003

The Losers, 2010

Lowriders, 2017 (HBO)

Made, 2001 (HBO)

The Madness Of King George, 1994 (HBO)

Magic Mike, 2012

The Magical Wand Chase: A Sesame Street Special, 2017

Magnum Force, 1973

Malibu’s Most Wanted, 2003

The Man With The Golden Arm, 1955

The Mask, 1994

Menace II Society, 1993

Miss Julie, 2014 (HBO)

Money Talks, 1997

Mr. Nanny, 1993

Music And Lyrics, 2007

Must Love Dogs, 2005

Mystic River, 2003

National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon 1, 1993

Needful Things, 1993

The Neverending Story, 1984

The Neverending Story II: The Next Chapter, 1991

New York Minute, 2004

Nights In Rodanthe, 2008

Nothing Like The Holidays, 2008

Now And Then, 1995

Ocean’s 11, 1960

Old School, 2003

On The Town, 1949

Once Upon A Sesame Street Christmas, Special Premiere

A Perfect World, 1993

Pleasantville, 1998

The Pledge, 2001

Popstar, 2005

Practical Magic, 1998

The Prophecy, 1995 (HBO)

The Prophecy 2, 1998 (HBO)

The Prophecy 3: The Ascent, 2000 (HBO)

Prophecy 4: The Uprising, 2005 (HBO)

Prophecy 5: The Forsaken, 2005 (HBO)

Radio Days, 1987

Red Tails, 2012 (HBO)

Rick And Morty, Season Four Premiere

The Right Stuff, 1983

Rock Star, 2001

Rosewood, 1997

Rumor Has It, 2005

Salvador, 1986 (HBO)

Scoop, 2006 (HBO)

The Sea Of Grass, 1947

The Secret Garden, 1993

Sesame Street, 1969

Sesame Street: Elmo’s Playdate, Special Premiere

Sesame Street’s 50th Anniversary Celebration, Special Premiere

Sinbad Of The Seven Seas, 1989 (HBO)

The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants, 2005

The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants 2, 2008

Smurfs Christmas Special, 1982

Some Came Running, 1958

Space Cowboys, 2000

Splendor In The Grass, 1961

Sudden Impact, 1983

Summer Catch, 2001

Swingers, 1996 (HBO)

Swordfish, 2001

A Tale Of Two Cities, 1935

Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines, 2003

Terminator Salvation, 2009

Terms Of Endearment, 1983

Thief, 1981 (HBO)

Thirteen Ghosts, 2001

Tightrope, 1984

The Time Traveler’s Wife, 2009

Tis The Season To Be Smurfy, 1987

Titans, Seasons 1 & 2

Torque, 2004

Tower Heist, 2011 (HBO)

The Town That Santa Forgot, 1993

Troll, 1986 (HBO)

Troll 2, 1990 (HBO)

True Crime, 1999

Tweety’s High-Flying Adventures, 2000

Twilight Zone: The Movie, 1983 (HBO)

Una Semana (HBO)

Unaccompanied Minors, 2006

Untamed Heart, 1993 (HBO)

Veronica Mars, 2014

A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, 2011 (Extended Version) (HBO)

We Bought A Zoo, 2011 (HBO)

When You Wish Upon A Pickle: A Sesame Street Special, 2018

Wild Wild West, 1999

Win A Date With Tad Hamilton!, 2004 (HBO)

Witches Of Eastwick, The, 1987

The Wood, 1999

Wyatt Earp, 1994

Yogi Bear’s All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper, 1982

Yogi’s First Christmas, 1980

Young Justice, Seasons 1-3

Zoo Animals (HBO)

November 2

Quadrophenia, 1979

We Are Who We Are, Season Finale (HBO)

A Woman Under The Influence, 1974

November 4

Looney Tunes, 1930 – 1969

November 6

Pecado Original (Aka Original Sin) (HBO)

November 7

The Dead Don’t Die, 2019 (HBO)

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2020 Inductions

November 9

Industry HBO Max Original Premiere

Food Wars! Shokugeki No Soma, Season 5 (Subtitled) (Crunchyroll Collection)

November 11

Patria, Season Finale (HBO)

November 12

My Sesame Street Friends, 2020

November 13

De Lo Mio (HBO)

Entre Nos: LA Meets NY (HBO)

November 14

Dolittle, 2020 (HBO)

November 15

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, Season Finale (HBO)

Murder On Middle Beach, Docuseries Premiere (HBO)

November 16

His Dark Materials, Season Two Premiere (HBO)

Linda and the Mockingbirds, 2020 (HBO)

November 20

Porno Para Principiantes (Aka Porno For Newbies) (HBO)

November 21

Between the World and Me HBO Original Special Premiere

Real Time with Bill Maher, Season Finale (HBO)

Underwater, 2020 (HBO)

November 24

Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (HBO)

Smurfs, Season 4, 1981

November 26

Stylish with Jenna Lyons

Craftopia: Craft the Halls, HBO Max Special Premiere

Craftopia: Merry Craftmas!, HBO Max Special Premiere

The Flight Attendant, HBO Max Original Series Premiere

Superintelligence, HBO Max Original Film Premiere

November 27

Chateau Vato (HBO)

How To With John Wilson, Season Finale (HBO)

November 28

The Call Of The Wild, 2019 (HBO)

November 29

cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530", }).render("0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796"); });

The Undoing, Season Finale (HBO)

Leaving HBO Max – November 2020

November 4

Aquaman, 2018 (HBO)

November 5

Rolling Stone: Stories From The Edge, 2017 (HBO)

Signs, 2002 (HBO)

November 25

Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar & Grill, 2016 (HBO)

November 26

All Def Comedy, 2017 (HBO)

November 30

24/7: Kelly Slater, 2019 (HBO)

All The President’s Men, 1976

Anastasia, 1997 (HBO)

Badlands, 1973

Batman Begins, 2005

Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead, 2007 (HBO)

Blinded By The Light, 2019 (HBO)

The Bodyguard, 1992

Bridesmaids, 2011 (Unrated Version) (HBO)

Bridget Jones’s Baby, 2016

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, 1958

Charlotte’s Web, 1973

Cheech & Chong’s Up In Smoke, 1978

Chicago, 2002

Child’s Play 2, 1990 (HBO)

Child’s Play 3, 1991 (HBO)

Commando, 1985 (Director’s Cut) (HBO)

The Conversation, 1974

The Dark Knight, 2008

Dave, 1993

Deliverance, 1972

Dog Day Afternoon, 1975

Election, 1999

Ella Enchanted, 2004

Father Of The Bride, 1950

Going The Distance, 2010

Good Boys, 2019 (HBO)

The Haunting, 1999

JFK, 1991

The Kitchen, 2019 (HBO)

Little Shop Of Horrors, 1986 (Director’s Cut) (HBO)

Malcolm X, 1992

The Mask, 1994

Marathon Man, 1976

Pearl Harbor, 2001 (Director’s Cut) (HBO)

The Pelican Brief, 1993

Roger & Me, 1989

Sky High, 2005 (HBO)

Son Of The Mask, 2005

Stuber, 2019 (HBO)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, 1990

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2, 1991

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3, 1993

TMNT, 2007

The post HBO Max New Releases: November 2020 appeared first on Den of Geek.

from Den of Geek https://ift.tt/2HUtPl6

#aion-rsa #Den of Geek

1 note · View note