#but THE THEMES!! THE SINCERITY

[unnonexistence]

having a normal time re-watching pacific rim

[threetrenchcoatsinatrenchcoat]

Why Dev Patel failing to jump out of a window is so cool

This era of movies tends to skirt the line of satirizing so much as to stand for nothing. The tradeoff of sincerity for meta humor is not in a ratio I recall voting for. I get wary every time a story possibly maybe makes fun of me for caring about it, and I've come to accept that I think of sincerity as a fragile thing. But fragile is not the same as meaningless.

Let's talk Monkey Man. Bobby/The Kid/Dev Patel is trying to get out of a building and leaps sideways into a window, ready to smash through it and land on the street. He clunks against it, he falls to the floor out of frame, the window remains fully unscathed, and the action music cuts out. A beat. Then he gets up, the chase keeps going, and the music kicks back in. In a lesser movie, this choice is saying, "Aren't action movies stupid? Anyways I guess here's an action movie." On the other side if nothing is ever changed, it's saying, "Aren't action movies perfect already? Anyways I guess here's more of the same." It's great when you can subvert expectations in a way that doesn't undermine everything else, so here's why this isn't undermining its premise and even enforces it.

First off, after coming back in, the music keeps playing and being a legitimately exciting beat underscoring the rest of the scene. The joke knows when it's over and gets out of the way. Second, this trope is a great target for this bit; windows are so much more reinforced than this genre ever credits. But then the magic is that the entire rest of the movie is consistently brutal. The window bit comes from a unified authorial voice that also earnestly digs into the action before and after it. A deliberate drawing attention to the difficult realities of action only works if the rest of your action does hit harder than the fare of movie you're invoking.

And Monkey Man delivers. Every henchman takes so many hits before going down, and the hits are bloodier, closer, and quieter than Hollywood action. And the last thing that makes it work is that it only happens the once. It brings up John Wick and rather explicitly claims this movie will be smarter, and it does the joke with the window to ask you to take the violence seriously. Every time a movie distances itself from its genre, it's making sincerity take so much more work every other minute. Lots of movies give up on it entirely. This movie chooses the work.

[thedemonraym]

Do you feel Season 2 is different from Season 1 in any particular ways? (x)

bonus GIF:

you just know what they're thinking about

[daily-hanamura]

[mummer]

i think it’s really cute that rogue is just some dorky guy from the future who still plays old earth dungeons and dragons and listens to ancient kylie records and has a themed ring and he became a bounty hunter and named himself rogue to be edgy and cool but purely because of dweeb reasons. like if anyone’s a cosplayer it’s him lol. he’s so clearly a soft nerd pretending to be han solo. like yeah he “”has no moral compass”” but he’s basically doing that as longform actual play. this guy definitely saw a wanted poster of jack harkness when he was a teenager and was like “…. i gotta be that guy…..”. 10/10 character concept

[marivanilla05]

Shinran Week 2023 | Day 4:

Black Knight & Princess + Flowers

[dollyslyfe]

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I know I said I didn’t want to be a bother but god please talk to me…I didn’t want to bother you so you should bother me :( come on </3 post about me again, won’t you? I miss hearing from you, have you lost interest? Have I upset you?

I‘m sorry

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[fisheito]

dante can swim, right? theres' no wauy the Royal Solarian Staff would let their king go his whole life not knowing such a lifesaving skill JUst cuz it's a desert doesn't mean there aren't pools!!! he has to know they HAD to have taught him there's no way he's stepping on a cruise ship surrounded by water while UNable to swim what if he falls in?!? he's not gonna float that's furr sure look at his muscle density and lack of fat the man's gonna sink like cement

[monstersinthecosmos]

I woke up thinking about caregiver burnout in VC and specifically when marius says he sometimes wished the ship would sink so that the parents would be lost in the bottom of the sea and then he panicked that maybe they knew he was thinking it and he felt so guilty

[rebornrosess]

“will you come with me, sporus?”

prints + ig

[volfoss]

i think honestly what irritates me about yoshidas work SO much is that people will tell you that banana fish is THE gay manga (ignoring the many things that came before it and were more groundbreaking, ie MW literally having on screen (or like. on panel but still.) gay sex in it and that came out like a decade before BF did) when there really isn't barely any gay rep outside of the pedophiles and the one time ash drops the f slur. like im sorry but somehow yasha, a work she wrote in 1996, has more gay rep in it but also has the same issues.

i truly do not get how people can enjoy banana fish with the rampant racism every 2 pages or the rampant sexual assault plotlines (on women and ash bc he is just... written like how yoshida writes women lmao) that are handled IMPOSSIBLY bad and sincerely i hoped yasha would be better because it had been like a decade or so between works. and then it proceeds to continue with the heres our blonde genius protagonist who everyone is weird as fuck to and will sexually harrass and everyone finds it a VERY funny joke to point out how feminine he is when theres barely any women in the work (if you exclude the ones that are being raped/killed/creepy to minors. which to be fair yasha has toned down the sa a LOT) and that its funny that hes kind of gay except not really!! and its just absurd to me how it just persists in all of her stuff because she is not an author that handles gay stuff well. like the scene in banana fish where ash is completely ok getting gang raped and did it solely to get into the hospital when its been SHOWN that he has a lot of trauma with that. and then right after his friend makes a joke at ash's expense about that. like sincerely and genuinely is this what we are hyping up as the old retro gay manga. go read some tezuka and stop reading shit that the most the main characters do is share a kiss in a nonromantic sense and is obsessed w making every gay person be evil!!

[kindaorangey]

i truly hate that house s1 e21 is one of the best episodes of television i have ever seen

[thatgirlonstage]

On a lighter topic we return you to one of my favorite internet amusements: earnest 1-star reviews of centuries-old literature

This person is v obviously a teenager both from the language here and the fact that they mentioned they read this for school so I don’t want to be TOO mean but also: oh hon if you think that’s “weird” I have terrible news about the entire rest of the Arthuriana. And frankly also like. Literature in general.

Being confused about the supernatural creature continuing to live while headless is also wild did no one ever show you a version of Sleepy Hollow

[doodle-girl]

Actually I just feel the need to point out something because just realizing it is just.

Y’know “The Monsters of Eastridge: DOAI Playlist”? That playlist I made for DOAI with a sprinkle of sitcom au-related songs mixed in?

Excluding my playlists for my own OCs, that’s my very first fandom-related playlist. And it’s still my only one.

Literally out of all the media and fandoms I’ve ever been in, the one and only music playlist I’ve walked up the courage to officially make has been the stripey child-eating demon analog horror series. Like my brainrot is that fucking bad and I honestly love it 👍

[dollyslyfe]

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I love it when you’re jealous<3

it suits you so much, my darling

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[masteraqua]

i just rewatched puss in boots the last wish after seeing wish yesterday and just. like.

it's insane to me how similar they are in terms of themes and subject matter (wishes, fairytales, etc.) but where one of them is realized with groundbreaking visual artistry and a gripping story rooted in potent human experiences, the other rings hollow and flat, both visually and narratively, in its cynical, weak-willed pursuit of corporatized nostalgia.