#and supporting movie roles

[catharsistine]

The scene in the Barbie trailer when Barbie is skating around with Ken and asks "Why is everyone staring at me?"

THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE AN ADOLESCENT GIRL.

Living in Barbieland (childhood girlhood) but then suddenly you're all grown up in the real world subject to scrutiny and sexualisation (the guy slapping Barbie's ass) and feeling like existing is a crime?

Being forced by adult men into a box (which leads to the not like other girls syndrome) and exploring the 'real world' (being forced to grow up too quickly) while fighting the realisation that maybe the world sucks and being a woman is so difficult while hoping with all your heart that it's not always going to be this way.

Losing touch with the very things that made you happy because they're considered immature and girly? (The group of teens that said they hadn't played with Barbies since they were five.)

Older women telling you that you have to learn the truth about the world and that you can never have your old life back (Kate Mckinnon's Barbie) despite it being the only thing you yearn for, but also older women being a bright spot and support (the old woman on the bench) in the endless slough of life.

And this is just the trailer!!! I'm so excited for this movie I can't breathe, Greta Gerwig the woman that you are 😭

[freepassbound]

A Note On Reality

Okay, one more Picard-related thought (though it applies beyond just that) - lots of people seem to either be forgetting or being intentionally obtuse about the fact that this is a television show? Something that has to be created in the real world?

And that basic reality usually explains so much:

"why wasn't Character X, etc. there?" - well, probably because they couldn't afford the actor, or couldn't get the scheduling sorted out

"why didn't they do this, etc.?" - well, probably because they couldn't afford it, or didn't have the time

Relating to Picard, I have read for some time from multiple sources notes to the effect that they were having to scrimp on various things to save money - sets, locations, actors, effects. Which is a damn shame... but is, again, reality: Paramount has to pay for that giant video set, and the TNG cast, somehow - to say nothing of Champions League football or Kiefer Sutherland or any other thing.

And then, there's another aspect of reality... which I think had a direct bearing on the last two seasons of Picard. This is just my guess, and it's wholly unsubstantiated... but... I think Sir Patrick Stewart did Season 1 - and realized he may not be able to do this for much longer.

He hadn't done a TV show since 2016 (which means it was probably shot in 2015), and I don't think any of his movie roles had been major ones since Logan (which was around the same time, maybe a bit later - anyway, movie filming is an entirely different animal).

SPS originally said the show wouldn't feature the TNG cast, and would have nothing to do with Starfleet - and I don't think Sir Patrick is a liar. But I feel like, after Season 1, he started thinking about how his career was going to end, or at least how that character was going to end... and he changed his mind.

So they shot the last two seasons back-to-back, in the middle of the pandemic no less (I also feel like people forgot that fact), because he wanted to get them done while he still could... and they brought back the TNG cast for a season because SPS wanted to work with his friends one last time. And to me, that explains several important things about these past two seasons.

[pianokantzart]

LUIGI IS CANONICALLY A SHY BEAN WHO DOESN’T CRAVE ATTENTION OR A SPOTLIGHT. HE JUST WANTS TO HELP OUT AND KEEP THINGS TIDY. 

[ormymarius]

anyway if Patrick Wilson doesn’t get cast in James Wan’s Cthulhu movie I’ll be a little disappointed but it won’t be the end of the world

[t-errifier]

i told my mom i wouldn't open my art box in front of my dad bc i had a feeling he would call the art doll ugly despite me loving him & my mom was like ' WHY DO U GIVE A FUCK WHAT UR FATHER THINKS?? ' absolute queen mindset, my biggest supporter

[thefabelmans2022]

no one except steven spielberg is brave enough to hold open auditions and chemistry tests these days. no one wants to work anymore everyone just wants to cast twitter white boys of the month when they could be CREATING twitter white boys of the month.

[rascallyrose92]

Yk its hilarious seeing Paramount say that Shadow needed to be different than Knuckles so the power of friendship wont heel face turn him when if they had just stuck to the source material they wouldn’t have that problem.

[totheverybestoftimes]

i hope Rhys Darby becomes a leading man in more stuff after this. turns out the world has been sleeping on him.

[misiahasahardname]

i have no idea how the american school system works so i’m currently trying to figure out what kind of subjects the tales turtles would choose for their highers

[fizzigigsimmer]

I literally have to be up early tomorrow * (today lol), but I am laying in bed consumed by the realization that Billy is Jesse Greenwood from Free Willy, if Neil had fucked off earlier and his mom had abandoned him when he was still young enough to be considered precious and worth the effort of saving.

[pianokantzart]

Mario is the protector, Luigi is the emotional support

Exactly! And they fit the bill of exactly what they need from each other.

[declanisms]

ppl say it’s not that deep to like morally grey/straight up villainous male characters and that is true!! u can absolutely like your shitbag dickface character and not condone their actions irl!! but like so many of u r just straight up misogynists like. u can love your emotional support asshole man without degrading women in the process. it’s rlly not difficult

[cowboycannibalism]

Dan Stevens you never let me down

[koheletgirl]

is this really where we're at are we boycotting authors because their books are sold in israel

[cantsayidont]

THE RED KING (2024): Over the past couple of years, I've been frustrated at seeing Anjli Mohindra criminally underutilized in a whole succession of TV dramas, and fervently wished that someone would finally give her a proper leading role. Well, the old monkey's paw has curled, for she is prominently featured in this infuriatingly stupid new Alibi mystery-thriller, where she stars as Grace Narayan, a police sergeant reassigned to a remote Welsh island that's a hotbed of a sinister faux-Celtic cult called the True Way, which has been known to practice (shhh) human sacrifice, and which may be connected to the suspicious death of a young local boy.

If this premise sounds awfully familiar, you may rest assured that this six-part series is indeed a clumsy pastiche of THE WICKER MAN, with Adjoa Andoh in essentially the Chrisopher Lee role. That might sound promising, but it's painfully evident that writer/creator Toby Whitehouse did not grasp at all what THE WICKER MAN is about; one supposes he's long dreamed of rewriting the story so that the Edward Woodward character would come out on top. Consequently, THE RED KING doesn't work as a mystery, as a thriller, as a drama, or as a horror movie, and any goodwill it might have had is squandered by an extremely reactionary plotline about why Grace has been assigned to this punishment posting — she blew the whistle on some other cops' unethical actions and thereby caused a Sexual Predator™ to be acquitted in court, an action for which the entire story is constructed to punish her — making it copaganda of the worst sort.

Mohindra is good, and Andoh is excellent, but the script is hopeless and the finale so maddening that I wanted to throw things at the screen. CWs apply for references to CSA. CONTAINS LESBIANS? Local weirdo Winter (Maeve Courtier-Lilley) spends the story throwing herself at Grace, but Grace's uncertainty about whom she can trust means it never progresses beyond an awkward hug. VERDICT: Is Mohindra under some kind of wizard's curse? How can we free her?

[quetzalpapalotl]

It is honestly concerning how often I hear people commenting on an actress or other female celebrities appearance completely unprompted whenever they don't perfectly match their own standards of beauty. Like it happens all the time.