#R-Rated Movies

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Y'know, there's this gripe I've had for years that really frustrates me, and it has to do with Love, Simon and people joking about it and calling it too-pg and designed-for-straight-people and all the like. (A similar thing has happened to Heartstopper, but that's another conversation.)

I saw Love, Simon in theaters when it came out my senior year in high school. I saw it three times, once with my friends/parents on opening night, once with my brother over spring break, and once with my grandparents.

On opening night, the air in the room was electric. It was palpable. Half the heads in there were dyed various colors. Queer kids were holding hands. We were all crying and laughing and cheering as a group. My friends grabbed my hands at the part where Simon was outed and didn't let go until his parents were saying that they accepted him. My friend came out to me as non-binary. Another person in our group admitted that she had feelings for girls. It was incredible. I left shaking. This was the first mainstream queer romance movie that had ever been produced by one of the main five studios, and I know that sounds like another "first queer character from Disney" bit but you have to understand that even in 2018 this was groundbreaking. Getting to have a sweet queer rom-com where the main character was told that he got "to breathe now" after coming out meant so much to me and my friends.

But also, from a designed-for-straight-people POV (which, to be frank, it was written by a bisexual author and directed by a gay man, this was not designed for straight audiences), why is it a bad thing that it appealed to the widest possible audience? That it could make my parents and grandparents see things in a new light? My stepdad wasn't at all interested in rom-coms but he saw it with me because it was something I cared about and he hugged me when we came out of the theater. My very Catholic grandparents watched it with me and though my grandpa said he still didn't quite understand the whole 'gay thing,' all he wanted was for me to be happy and to have a happy ending like Simon did. My Nana actually cried when Simon came out and squeeze my hand when his mother told him he could breathe.

And when Martin blackmailed Simon, my mom, badass ally that she is, literally hissed "Dropkick him. Dropkick him in the balls" leading to multiple queer kids in the audience to laugh or smile. Having my parents there- the only parents, by the way, out of my group of queer and questioning friends- made multiple people realize that supportive adults were out there. That parents like those in Love, Simon do exist in real life.

When people complain about Heartstopper not being realistic or Love, Simon being too cutesy, I remember seeing Love, Simon on opening night. I remember my friend coming out and my stepdad hugging me and my mom defending us through this character. I remember the cheers that went through the audience when Bram and Simon kissed and the chatter in the foyer after the movie was over and the way that this movie made me understand that happy endings do exist.

Queer kids need happy endings. Straight people need entry points to becoming allies. Both of these things can come together in beautiful ways. They can find out about more queer culture later, but for now, let them have this. Let them all have a glimpse at a better, happier world. Let them have queer joy.

[cordiallyfuturedwight]

now playing 🎞️ who (2024) by jimin (cr. anahilation)

[morganbritton132]

Steve, anytime he has a problem: Hm, yeah. I’ll get my people* on that.

*Dustin, a fourteen year old.

[deadpoetyogurt]

"pg rating" my ass the only guidance you need to be watching this with is a paramedic with a gurney ready

[landoffish]

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

[cherryinterlude]

josh hartnett's slightly toned dad bod in trap is infinitely hotter than him dehydrating himself for a temporary six pack and i will die on this hill. also it feels grounded in reality for cooper as a character. he wants to appear as a typical, harmless suburban dad so of course he wouldn't work out and get ripped (if he did then his wife would've been suspicious of him earlier lol). cooper's lack of an insane, intense workout routine implies that he's confident in his existing brute strength which is... hot as fuck. he doesn't need extra bulky muscles to do what he wants to do, evident in the tazing scene

[addicted-to-the-knife]

he's so important to me

[sysig]

Two skeletons in a trench lab coat (Patreon)

Bonus:

He’s very careful! Everything was fine before you interrupted!

[mintaikk]

Venom 3 "pushing the borders of PG13" can mean two things and I think it's best for tumblr to decided which one of those two it is

[wuntrum]

honestly sooo crazy to me that people will make sex-focused movies (especially the nc-17 ones) and yet we don't get to see penis? at all? not even a little bit? need equality in my movie nudity...cmon now...

[stfrancisprayer]

DEXTER FLETCHER as CHARLES HIGHWAY THE RACHEL PAPERS (1989) - dir. DAMIAN HARRIS

[spending-life-pretending]

guys I (american, never heard of robbie williams until three months ago and then listened to “candy” and was like ‘oh yeah I know that one’) did in fact just watch the robbie williams chimpanzee biopic and I genuinely feel I will never be the same. this is an inflection point in my life. there is no way to explain this movie to anyone who hasn’t seen it. no one else cares. they have to see it to understand but they won’t because they won’t care until they see it. robbie williams and his nefarious team of filmmakers have made me a cassandra in my own house; I bear cursed knowledge none will ever know.

[eemoo1o-animoo]

This man is a goddamn living-breathing mother hen.

[sparrowlucero]

Sorry if you’ve already covered this but the Larrow self-operate correct? And find it strange that humans get other humans to do it. Are they able to feel pain then, if so how do they go through with this procedure? Or is it different for them?

They feel pain but have a different response to it. Partly because they've habituated themselves to it (in the same way people who work in hospitals or give themselves shots aren't extremely queasy about surgery or needles) and partly because they just inherently don't have a severe physical/emotional reaction to violence - a fear of blood or gore is a very unusual phobia and they don't really get woozy or pass out from pain like humans do