#Dead End Drive-In

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Dead End Drive-In (1986)

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dead end drive-in (1986) by brian trenchard-smith cinematography by paul murphy production design by laurence eastwood art direction by nicholas mccallum

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Notable films that were released on August 22nd...

#DeadEndDriveIn (1986).

#NightoftheCreeps (1986).

#TheTexasChainsawMassacrePart2 (1986).

#horror

#TrancersII (1991)(video premiere).

#Mimic (1997).

#scifi

#IllAlwaysKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer (2006)(US & Canada).

#DeathRace (2008).

#VictorCrowley (2017)(premiere).

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Dead End Drive-In (Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1986) Cover for the Blu-ray by Extralucid Films

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Dead-End Drive-In Original Trailer (Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1986)

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Movie Review | Dead End Drive-In (Trenchard-Smith, 1986)

This undeniably looks amazing, thanks to its 'Scope neon aesthetic, and had it been playing in the background at a party with the sound turned down, I'm sure I would have assumed it was a great movie. Actually watching it, it doesn't help that after setting up its aesthetic, it pretty much spins its wheels and sketches out its milieu in the vaguest terms until we get to the climax. At that point there's some bumper car style action that might do the trick for some of you, but I guess I've seen more than one Mad Max movie too recently that this felt underwhelming in contrast. Anyway, you can see glimpses of a much better action movie in the excerpts of The Man from Hong Kong playing on the drive-in screen during the climax.

Also, I was put off by all the mugging by the supporting characters, but given how much I complain about mugging, I clearly need to a do a Robert Bresson cleanse or something. I'll concede that I wasn't in a great mood when I watched this and might have gelled more to its vibes over story approach at another time, but also, this felt like a ready made cult object in a way I found off putting. I concede that neon lighting and new wave music were very much in at the time, but the way this movie packages them together felt like it was pandering a little too directly to the MTV crowd. This is probably weird coming from somebody who could not shut up about Miami Vice for like half a year.

And maybe I wasn't paying enough attention, but my incredulity matched the hero's when the two of us discovered two thirds of the way into the movie that this had a heretofore unmentioned racial hatred subplot and that his girlfriend was a racist. (I would say respectively, but we're in this together.) I guess it's great that the movie thinks racism is bad, but it might have helped if the movie had done anything earlier to set up this dynamic or had actual POC characters instead of having the bad guys antagonize hapless extras.

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[bonefall]

Stormclan is pretty cool, I’m glad they are a direct result of the clans and not Rouge Group 255674385 that pops up like Minecraft mobs at night

Didn’t ivypool kill beetlewhisker? Will they remember it

The mental image of playing minecraft and Darktail spawns on your roof like a spider, refusing to leave in the daylight and making annoying chittering noises, is magical thank you.

Anyway nah, that was Brokenstar. Ivypool killed Antpelt, not Beetlewhisker. I have doubts they're going to remember that though, and if they do, it'll be one of those "don't worry guys we TOTALLY remember the events in our series!" throwaway lines we've been getting recently. The type that's thought in her head or thrown out in passing, but doesn't significantly contribute to Ivypool's emotional struggle.

I think Ivypool's actually the part of this SE that I'm most apprehensive about, funny enough. StormClan's got me pretty excited, but my hopes kinda started falling when I found out Dovewing was going on the road trip. I do not like the story that the Erins tell between the sisters, and I feel like they keep getting forced together to "reconcile their differences" when it would make a MUCH more effective story for the two of them to not do that.

See, what I like about Ivypool is that she's grudge-holding and spiteful. I LIKE that she tried to leverage her sisterhood with Dovewing in ASC to try and make her manipulate her husband. I find the fact she tried to sabotage SkyClan's chances at the lake back in AVoS to halt Dovewing and Tigerheart's relationship, slighting her apprentice in the process, to be COMPELLING.

I ENJOY reading about Ivypool being nasty. Both a victim of the Dark Forest who was targeted because she felt alienated, and yet, someone who has found a way to use Clan culture's most unfair aspects to her advantage. She'll NEVER see herself as the bully she actually is, because in her eyes, she's permanently the underdog.

so... I just have absolutely no desire to see Dovewing and Ivypool be "close."

Every time it happens on the page, it feels like it's Dovewing desperately wanting her sister to not treat her poorly, or believe in her, or just stop actively sabotaging her life. Then, Ivypool realizes this after a while and displays emotional intelligence that feels unfitting for her character, and apologizes.

It feels forced.

Like it's just happening because the authors know the fans want it, and not actually what these two characters would do. You get me?

I don't want to see them reconnect. I want more bittersweet examples in WC where family members have irreconcilable differences, but now and then, there's that little twinge of love, that old spark that you pray, THIS time, could become a fire... but it doesn't. There's just nothing left to burn.

TL;DR I'm feeling overall meh about Ivypool's Heart but looking forward to seeing what StormClan's all about.

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What I need to see is the slow dissolving of a professional relationship into something tender and forbidden!!!!! Like the slow ripening of a fruit picked too early!!! I need them to inch closer and closer to it until they don't know what else to do except embrace each other!!! They both don't know what they want, but the impulse to find it in each other is entropic in nature, and futile to resist!!! That's good television baby!!! And then I want to watch Carmy take her to his penthouse and freak it!!! MY DEMANDS ARE SIMPLE AND SHOULD BE MET WITH URGENCY

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"if you stare into the fire long enough, you can see the whole world pass by." ive been thinking a lot about the early days of the gang

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Hi, could you draw Ophelia as a child, happy with her parents? :')

Here ya go :)

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still not over the fact korn murdered porsche and chay's family and then planted some lousy gambler as their guardian who ruined their lives and put them into constant debt that drove porsche to risk his health and life street fighting. it's insane. especially bc in the later episodes arthee showed a scary lack of care towards porsche, calling him naive and stupid, trying to extort him using his dead family, he did not give a shit. people don't just change like that overnight, he didn't just get evil and uncaring, that stuff was already there. and he was picked to look after two traumatized children??

korn must have done that on purpose, either to put porsche in a constantly vulnerable state he could later exploit, or to keep him busy so he'd never have the time or capacity to think too much about his family's past. there's no way he didn't know.

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While rereading mdzs I am once again shocked by how talked about the "you were the only mistake he ever made" line from Lan Xichen to Wei Wuxian is and how heated it gets some people because honestly... I don't think he actually even believes that.

Stay with me. Look at the actual line. (I Included 2 translations for comparison's sake)

Firstly, yes he is mad at Wei Wuxian in this scene. But his biggest moment of anger was actually before this. By this point he's realized that Wei Wuxian forgot what happened after nightless city (and therefore ISN'T stringing along his baby brother on purpose) so he has in fact calmed down a bit.

Secondly, notice that he starts by talking about how his uncle felt. This is not Lan Xichen making a value statement about what he thinks. When he says Lan Wangji was proper and righteous he is talking about him being a model lan, he's talking about their family and clan's perspective of Wangji. Indeed, in their eyes, Wei Wuxian is the only time Lan Wangji was ever not the textbook perfect Lan.

Thirdly, what is Lan Xichen trying to say here? What is he mad at Wei Wuxian for? It's that he doesn't know Lan Wangji is in love with him. His anger is eased by realizing Wei Wuxian doesn't remember the very blatant confessions lwj made in the cave after nightless city, or Lan Wangji fighting his own clan elders for Wei Wuxian, and so had no way of knowing the whipmarks on Lan Wangji's back were related to him. But he is still mad, he still thinks Wei Wuxian should have been able to figure it out. So what does he highlight?

The fact that the only thing Lan Wangji, perfect model-Lan righteous Lan Wangji, ever defies his clan for is Wei Wuxian.

And Wei Wuxian has seen him do this! Even if he doesn't remember this one instance. Because Lan Wangji has been doing that the whole story through. Wei Wuxian has watched Lan Wangji blatantly stand against the entire cultivation world for him, and here Lan Xichen is highlighting just how unusual that is, how much Wei Wuxian must mean to Lan Wangji that he's willing to do that. The important part of the sentence here is not "mistake" it's "only."

Lan Xichen here isn't trying to say that he disapproves of Wei Wuxian, or telling him to stay away from his brother. Remember, the thing that made him mad in the first place was Wei Wuxian saying that he and Lan Wangji slept in seperate rooms. He thought they were together! He's mad because they're not!

At no point does Lan Xichen say he individually considers Lan Wangji's feelings for Wei Wuxian a mistake. If he ever did, it's clear he accepted them regardless long ago. Mistake or not, what he wants is for his little brother to be happy.

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More films that were released on August 22nd...

#DeadEndDriveIn 1986.

#action #scifi #sciencefiction #thriller #horror

#IllAlwaysKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer 2006(US & Canada).

#DeathRace 2008.

#VictorCrowley 2017(Los Angeles, California)(premiere).

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