#and i know you haven’t seen the film

[lesbiancolumbo]

Hi!

I am not the substance anon and I haven't even watched the movie but I agree what you both said in general, bc it seems more and more that if the meaning of a movie isn't really plastered everywhere, people won't understand it and the moviemakers know this so the movie is dumbed down to the 100th.

For a lot of people that loved the Darcy hand flex, I don't think now they would understand it, even if it was already very obvious.

I am not against researching after a movie bc you haven't understand it, tell I have done it with decisions to leave and I don't understand some parts of it even now bc it isn't meant for me and it's ok, but sometimes people just don't pay attention or really don't use a single brain cell.

Even I that I have just seen the GIF of the substance knew that Moore and the young girl are the same character, they look practically the same and they kiss the camera in the same way! What did the people want more, a sticker on their forehead with "hi, I am x"?

i don’t want to blame everything on the rise of youtube “X ENDING EXPLAINED!!!!” accounts and cinemasins but those definitely aren’t helping. anyway i agree with you and don’t have a lot to add rn. if those people wanted a literal sticker on their forehead, i have good news for them:

[macksartblock]

Wow I love Four Dads in Fantasy World(???)

[shima-draws]

So. I just watched One Piece: Film Red,

[ct-multifandom]

I don’t usually make posts like this, but I’ve been seeing a lot of anti-intellectual junk lately, and I really think we need to put the word “pretentious” up on a shelf until people learn what it actually means.

It doesn’t describe someone who likes artsy-fartsy deep meaning media. People who are pretentious are fake. They’re posers trying to be sophisticated and unique, not like other girls. They pretend to only like stuff they think will make them sound cool when they talk about it. They want to act like they know something you don’t, and they want attention for it.

By definition, if you genuinely enjoy something, you can’t be pretentious. If it resonates with you, and you analyze it, and you don’t care what people think, that’s the polar opposite, actually. If you love obscure experimental prog music, if you watch underground high concept indie films through English teacher eyes, if you spend hours in a modern art museum reading each piece as a vessel for storytelling, if your backpack’s full of poetry books that inspire you, if you play underrated games that were someone’s passion project, if you have an interest in studying the classics or the masters, you are not pretentious.

Of course, some people just don’t like some stuff, and that’s fine, but that’s not what this is about. Don’t let anti-intellectuals shame you for enjoying things just because your interests are inaccessible to them, because they refuse to be brave and put effort into critical thinking. You’re not stuck up for refusing to overlook the craft of artists.

[starbuck]

i offhandedly mentioned having seen a movie from the 2000s to my friend and she was genuinely flabbergasted because she thought i “only watched old movies”

[0rionz-belt]

The post got notes, here’s my freshly edited list of Iconic Movies I Need To Watch. No I don’t live under a rock I just didn’t like watching movies until I accidentally made being retro my whole personality.

Also just bc it’s further down the list doesn’t mean it’s less notable, there’s a bunch of gut punches there too.

[frmulcahy]

Not my sister going “NOBODY KNOWS WHAT THE FUCK THAT IS” when I’m talking about Trainspotting 😐

[exopelagic]

okay I severely misjudged spaghetti guy he’s actually just really cool

[pop-punklouis]

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[suck-my-figurative-dick]

Here’s summertime from last year in montreal. I intentionally didn’t want to be on my phone as much as possible but now a year out I’m glad I took a few videos cause it’s making me grin sooo much looking back on them!!! Bang of all time!!!!

[seddair]

Briefly back from my (sort of?) hiatus to say holy shit, Oppenheimer genuinely blew my mind

[a-walking-fandom-reference]

the ads for gotg 3 are so funny because they will say “the best marvel movie since endgame” like WILD to imply your best movie was 4 years ago and that none of the NINE other films since then were as good (or *gasp* better…) like i personally have mixed feelings about endgame and in general i’m mcu critical but saying that endgame was the last best mcu movie is wild!! like spider-man no way home exists!! wakanda forever exists!! eternals exists!! shang chi exists!!

[aboutiroh]

Have you ever seen the 80s film Stand By Me? I kind of want an Avatar fan fiction based on that movie. It doesn't have to be exactly like the film. I know you probably don't write fanfiction, but maybe someone else might? It's a suggestion. Thank you

Let’s manifest this for you, anon!

[ech0light]

i haven’t even seen voyagers 2021 but from what i’ve heard about it they could have done soooooo much more with the story than what they did. like are you telling me that an entire group of young adults found out they were having their emotions tampered with and artificially repressed to make them more docile. by the people that bred them purely to birth the next generation no less. and the direction they went with that was lord of the flies except they fuck now? are you being forreal? say sike. what

[elodieunderglass]

changes and trends in horror-genre films are linked to the anxieties of the culture in its time and place. Vampires are the manifestation of grappling with sexuality; aliens, of foreign influence. Horror from the Cold War is about apathy and annihilation; classic Japanese horror is characterised by “nature’s revenge”; psychological horror plays with anxieties that absorbed its audience, like pregnancy/abortion, mental illness, femininity. Some horror presses on the bruise of being trapped in a situation with upsetting tasks to complete, especially ones that compromise you as a person - reflecting the horrors and anxieties of capitalism etc etc etc. Cosmic horror is slightly out of fashion because our culture is more comfortable with, even wistful for, “the unknown.” Monster horror now has to be aware of itself, as a contingent of people now live in the freedom and comfort of saying “I would willingly, gladly, even preferentially fuck that monster.” But I don’t know much about films or genres: that ground has been covered by cleverer people.

I don’t actually like horror or movies. What interests me at the moment is how horror of the 2020s has an element of perception and paying attention.

Multiple movies in one year discussed monsters that killed you if you perceived them. There are monsters you can’t look at; monsters that kill you instantly if you get their attention. Monsters where you have to be silent, look down, hold still: pray that they pass over you. M Zombies have changed from a hand-waved virus that covers extras in splashy gore, to insidious spores. A disaster film is called Don’t Look Up, a horror film is called Nope. Even trashy nun horror sets up strange premises of keeping your eyes fixed on something as the devil GETS you.

No idea if this is anything. (I haven’t seen any of these things because, unfortunately, I hate them.) Someone who understands better than me could say something clever here, and I hope they do.

But the thing I’m thinking about is what this will look like to the future, as the Victorian sex vampires and Cold War anxieties look to us. I think they’ll have a little sympathy, but they probably won’t. You poor little prey animals, the kids will say, you were awfully afraid of facing up to things, weren’t you?

[ghostbusterscantcatchme]

finally started watching the artful dodger. and guys i am freaking out