#because i'm so ready for this movie

[illiana-mystery]

Are you ready for it?

[rosalie-starfall]

The Not Ready For Prime Time Players

Saturday Night / Saturday Night Live October 11th 1975

[mrkgrl]

Can I still tag it with TW movie--- or uh... TW movie The Aftermath, maybe. I have so many more of these doodles/comics.

[marypsue]

Because I am literally never not thinking about weird meta, blurring lines between reality and narrative, and the whole concept of actors becoming their characters, I am now entertaining thoughts of a Shadow of the Vampire-style story wherein a late-2010s-style all-female The Lost Boys remake gets derailed when the lead actress suddenly starts not showing up to shooting because she's sleeping all day...

[lesbianwyllravengard]

I'm a real tragedy enjoyer but Luis's death is no longer narratively enjoyable for me, now it just feels like an insult. I'm tired of characters having to die to be "redeemed". It's not their death that is the redemption, it's the fact that they were willing to die in the first place; it's the intent of sacrifice. I much prefer a narrative where Luis survives and is forced to every day atone for his past mistakes. I much prefer when characters don't get the respite of death, when they have to live with their demons, when they have to face their past and maintain their growth. And it's especially maddening when the only reason Luis dies is because he did in the original. They'll change his character so much to give him substance but they won't change his fate? I don't want that.

[littleoddwriter]

So many people -- especially cis men -- not understanding why Elisabeth takes the Substance in the first place, and then continues to take it, despite Sue destroying her/them, is really frustrating for me to see.

Listen. If you make a video essay or write an analysis or whatever, but you don't understand possibly the most important theme of the entire movie, then maybe... do more research first and don't just continue to say everything about said theme is "stupid" because you fail to understand it. That is stupid.

Elisabeth is plagued by intense self-hatred that's been fuelled and made worse by outside forces; i.e. comments made about her age, body, importance, and worth -- and how all of that depends on her being young and sexy; but also just the general misogyny in our society and the industry she works in. People, who have been assigned female at birth, are confronted with that kind of misogyny from day one, essentially.

And Elisabeth is so desparate in the movie, so full of raging hatred toward her own ageing body that she'd do absolutely anything to "go back" and continue to live the life she's known best and felt "most comfortable (worthy)" with. Thus, the Substance is the very real chance she gets to do that with. It works well at first, until "Sue" becomes too greedy, for the lack of a better word.

Here's the thing where most people get confused, despite how much the movie emphasises it.

Elisabeth and Sue are one. They are still the same person, simply split into two bodies, but with one singular consciousness, which basically goes from one body to the other week after week. They both experience the same things every week, but are so dissociated from the "other self" that to some people it may seem like they aren't actually the same person, because Sue often doesn't seem to remember exactly what Elisabeth did during her week, and vice versa.

To me, that's not as confusing because I deal with dissociation myself, and my understanding of it here would be that Elisabeth's self-hatred forces this kind of dissociation between her true self and Sue, who is the perfect version of herself. She's so focused on Sue being perfect and better than her "true self" that they've become different people in her mind.

In her own mind, she can't associate Sue with herself, with Elisabeth, because she -- as Elisabeth -- is nothing like Sue (anymore) and could never be her. Elisabeth, now, only exists to further Sue. To keep Sue alive and successful and living her dream, Elisabeth needs to exist. But that's all the purpose she really has now. Of course, yes, she tried to actually live a normal life as Elisabeth in the beginning, but she was unhappy and couldn't do it because this self-hatred had gotten the best of her. All the time, she could only anticipate to be Sue again and continue to live her "true life".

This kind of self-hatred is incredibly vicious. Every chance Elisabeth had to go back to being just her, she couldn't take it. Even when she ended up terminating Sue, she regretted it and tried to reverse it, which ended in her death.

Self-hatred is not logical, and it can and does alter somebody's perception of themselves and the world around them so much that it can and does result in that person's death, be that figurative or literal. Unless, of course, that person gets the help they need. But for that, they'd have to actually admit that something is "wrong", and also be ready to change things.

I think it says a lot about how necessary a movie like this is when so many people misunderstand it, despite being so obvious with everything it's trying to say. A lot of people have complained about The Substance not being a subtle movie, yet at the same time, those people are most often the ones, who question Elisabeth's motivations and don't understand the most important theme of the movie -- self-hatred.

[coquelicoq]

eva green is a native french speaker???

[thebirdandhersong]

a shameful confession: I haven't read Emma yet :')

[areyoudoingthis]

I think I've arrived at a strange place where I've accepted that s3 was dropped at the last minute even when it seemed a sure thing, and that given the current landscape seeing it renewed by max or picked up by another streaming service is unlikely, but also there is a tiny possibility however small that it may happen (and if any show has a chance, it's definitely one as successful as ofmd). and what does it hurt to keep making noise while I mourn my show, I can do both

[dragonanne4fun]

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[seaofreverie]

So I actually finished listening to the whole Sparks studio album discography today, with Plagiarism, which I probably would have put off still for an indefinite amount of time, but since that was the last album on the list and the new Sparks era is now imminent... felt fitting to sort of finally listen to that. So I've been thinking of making a (short-ish? lol) post and talking a (little? lol) bit about all the albums I've left off from my Sparkstember writeups because I wasn't familiar enough with them yet at the time. So that the essay collection is completed at last yay. But well yeah, big day I guess, I'm officially all caught up, after... A year and 10 months?! I take my time with things... even if I'm super into them, or maybe especially??

[self-indulgent-paw-patrol]

I don't know if you've seen the movies but the first one is about wtf Ryder, how you take your traumatized dog to the city that traumatized him and you hope he's okay and in the end he resolves his trauma?? Idk

I like it it's interesting, the second one isn't so much of my favorite maybe it's because I don't think Skye is like that at all. The first movie seemed very Chase to me, but the Skye thing? It didn't seem too much like Skye to me.

But it just my opinion. :D

Yeah I didn't get to watch the movies yet because I only started watching Paw Patrol last month and I'm trying to do this in the "correct sequence" for seasons, specials and movies. I just started 5th season last night, and from what I saw, I'll watch the first movie after the 8th season, so YEAH, LONG ROAD AHEAD FOR ME YET

But I've seen some gifs here and there around Tumblr AND LET ME TELL YOU THAT'S THE SAME IMPRESSION I HAVE SO FAR ABOUT THE FIRST MOVIE LMAOOOO ALL I SEE IS CHASE IN DISTRESS AND I'M LIKE RYDER WHAT ARE YOU DOING ARE YOU GIVING YOUR CHILD ANXIETY

[supercasey]

10,750 words, I am absolutely fucking insane, wtf

[kurthorton-moving]

can i admit to the dash can i be vulnerable for a sec i am actually a little scared to remake

[ragnarlothcat]

Thots on life as a house au anakin??? (Note: I have never seen that movie so this ask is a shallow shallow one based on ✨aesthetics✨😔✊🥵)

I've never seen it either! I know Life as a House from the gifs people post and mostly from The Shower Scene that I've watched for totally normal reasons. I do not know the plot (there's probably a house???) but if we're just going based on ✨aesthetics✨ I am very sold because sulky emo boys hold a special place in my heart.

Okay I just googled the plot summary (I do not care about spoilers) and I guess emo college boy Anakin can be helping his dad(?) Qui-Gon with the construction of his house and instead of meeting a cute girl his age who helps out he meets Obi-Wan, who is indeed very cute but also an adult man in his 30s. And he's friends/neighbours with Qui-Gon but he and Anakin bond while...constructing things (if it's just aesthetics it probably doesn't matter that I don't know anything right?) and Obi-Wan is charmed by Anakin's bratty attitude and piercings and pretty face and they get to have a shower scene because I have so willed it.

The plot summary didn't mention scenes of sexual tension for some reason (useless!) but I imagine that days of manual labour out in the sun with handsome, freckled Obi-Wan (wearing a white t-shirt I should think) and emo but surprisingly pretty with a tan Anakin (who is probably really good at building because he's good at engineering?) would lead to lots of sweating and heated glances and eventually more. It makes sense to me!!!

[pynkhues]

Having little nephews is having them scream-sing happy birthday to you over the phone and then when your sister asks them how old they think you are, one says a-million-and-six and the other says fifteen 😂