#but also fuck jared leto

[water7-ebooks]

am I the only human being literally beyond unexcited about the new haunted mansion movie like besides the fact jared leto being in it makes it feel unwatchable I just feel like they Tried it already, it sucked, still sucks, why dredge it back up again

At the very best it's going to be like jungle cruise where it's a good first watch and then I feel zero desire to watch it again

[martyryo]

Sketches from last night

[pandavalkyrie]

D23 has got to be one of the most soul crushing conventions I've ever watched coverage of. Here we have the corporation that owns the majority of mass media and what they put on parade for an auditorium of screeching millennial influencers is sequel after remake after reboot after prequel.

And the audience applauded and asked for more.

[rbf451]

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Random facts : Käärijä

I drink mulled wine all year round. My dream job was an interior designer. My favourite movie is Kummeli : Goldrush. I sleep in Formula 1 sheets. I have danced on crutches on the same stage with Jared Leto.

[sharky-the-idiot]

hot take but teen titans go wasn't that bad people were just salty

[twinvictim]

@dancehallcrasher tagged me for 9 movies I first watched this year! I actually watched more movies than usual and loved all of these ones specifically I hope I get to watch more <3

[x-crowmancer-x]

then they Morbed all over each other. the end.

[dandylion-s]

Imagine setting a Met gala theme so utterly boring and uninspiring that fucking RIHANNA has to turn up in a white gown. Anna Wintour has literal dust instead of a brain

[thestarmaker]

I was the only one in the theater baby yeah!!!!!!!!

[fridgem0ld]

i love looking at yhr met gala stuff because i have no clue who any of the people are or what the theme was meant to be lmao

[emmcduvcl]

you know that scene idk I think it's from the walking dead where he's like "dooon't care, where's rick?"

that's me watching morbius right now but every time matt smith is not on the screen because it's so awful

[pierrotpriest]

i had this nightmare that i was lestat's assistant and it was TERRIBLE and he was SCARY because he made me do pointless and annoying shit but also the threat that he might eat me was there bc im not a vampireand because he was so mean :'(( and apparently i was returning to this position because id worked with him prior to this but louis was there at the time and louis could control him yknow at least a little bc i guess at this point in time it was when they separated and so the whole time i was thinking shit like god i miss louis so much while doing my little annoying and disgusting tasks and i was telling my brother all about this dream and he was liek oh so its kind of like what we do in the shadows and i was like yes ! because I hadn't thought about that but it was kind of like that but to me it felt like succession because it was all so serious bc i was this scared shitless assistant who's like always worried they'll be blacklisted for not ordering them the right amount of pastries for the board meeting or some shit idk except in my case lestat was getting into painting but he kept stalling and kept making me do shit like replace the bristles from his brushes one by one bc hes so ANNOYING so it's like both succession and wwdits combined anyway then my brother was like which lestat? like amc or ,,and i was like no it was just this guy and then i was thinking maybe it was the guy i pictured when i read the book ?? because it was neither tom cruise nor sam reid lestat and then i realized something HORRIBLE because out of nowhere an image flashed in my mind of long haired scary blue eyed jared leto and i gasped and was like oh my gosh no it was like this jared leto lestat D: and he was like oh my god now i understand why you're so freaked out and annoyed at the same time

[bilandi-shmandi]

Got a monkey's paw situation with the announcement of a new Tron movie

[blushblushdrabbles]

Can someone please draw Cole as Patrick Bateman, and he's doing the whole Huey Lewis speech? Also Anon as Jared Leto's character getting fucking axed

[traceytonight]

Tracey rambles about Tron Ares again

Tron Ares fills me with so much dread, each passing day is like a countdown to the death of a franchise I care so much about.

The producer, title & main character, is literally Joker Morbius alleged pedophile since the early 2000s himself Jared Leto. That alone ruins the movie for me, and yet every following bullet point makes everything about and around it so much worse.

-Premise is explicitly "What if the Grid came to the real world".

NO, the interesting part of the series is THE GRID, where all of the deeply meditative commentary about our world and visually interesting splendor is supposed to be! Yes we had the lingering plot thread of Quorra coming to our world, however;

-Nothing directly tied to Tron Legacy is specifically being followed up

So no seeing where Sam Flynn could have taken Encom, no Quorra adjusting to our world, No Edward Dillinger Jr scheming with the resurrected MCP; But most disrespectfully of all, they didn't even bother to get Bruce Boxleitnter back, THE GUY WHO PLAYS TRON (and Alan Bradly & Rinzler). The one guy who actively loved this series and campaigned for a Third Tron film for over a decade, and previously Tron Legacy for even longer. But you know who they are bringing back?

-Kevin Flynn is back

THE GUY WHO FUCKING DIED IN THE LAST MOVIE. Undermining the noble sacrifice that was integral to the core themes of the film.

And just today we got this:

This is so far from an advancement design wise of the Light Cycle from either film. None of the simple shape language of the original. None of the sleek visual melding of human & technology of Legacy. While the light cycle was always cool for being a futuristic video game-ass motorcycle, its was just one of the multitude of visual elements that served the thematic purposes of Tron flawlessly.

Meanwhile, this not only physically separates the driver from the cycle, they further emphasize it through all the little gaps where there were none on either prior design. They so easily could've had the red line on Ares connect into the obviously aligned part of the bike.

Even if this is meant to show the separation of the programs from the grid for some thematic element we're unaware of at the moment, we're already going to be getting a lot of that considering the movie takes place in an average ass city.

Also, to be truly nitpicky, it looks really uncomfortable to sit in & I don't like all the added greebles.

To circle back around, what I really hate about the cast, besides the obvious one, is that there are a lot of actors who I think will work extremely well in the world of Tron. Greta Lee, Gillian Anderson, Evan Peters? Inspired casting choices.

Meanwhile production wise we're literally taking David Fincher's collaborator trifecta. Jeff Cronenweth (Cinematographer), Tyler Nelson (Editor), and Trent Reznor (Composer, backed up by Nine Inch Nails) all worked on The Social Network, another one of my favorite films. Jeff is literally the son of Blade Runner's cinematographer, Nelson was co-editor on The Batman, a film with incredible pacing thanks to their hardwork, and while I'm not the most familiar with Reznor's full body of work, I've sincerely liked everything I've heard and think in conjunction with Jeff & Tyler he will make something fantastic and fitting for the tone of this film.

However, the screenplay is done by the writer of Harry Potter & the Cursed Child, and is being handled by the director of Pirates of the Caribbean 5. Choices that feel at odds with the prestige praise I was just handing out a paragraph ago.

Theres so many good elements that are eclipsed by its central glaring protagonist, seeming lack of the interesting setting/designs or integral thematic elements that I look for in Tron, and lack of expectation regarding the choice of director & writers.

Because my two greatest fears are not about if the movie is awful and destroys the franchise as I'm expecting it could, it's either:

What if the movie is genuinely good? Well acted and performed, somehow actually has the same level of philosophical inquiry that Legacy & Identity have? How am I gonna face that reality with the enormous horrific issue starring in it?

What if the movie is bad in everyway that I think it will be, but does financially and/or critically better than the first two? The franchise is not killed again, but revives and bases everything going forward around this awful outlier in the series?

Unless this movie fails so horrifically that Disney wants to scrub it from existence, as they tend to do, the future of any Tron media will undeniably be forced to cohere itself to the existence of Ares.

If you want something that actually expands on the musings and universe of Tron, play Tron Identity. A game so lovingly crafted for fans of those elements of Tron as a connected series. And I know this factually, as the writer of the game itself (who also created Thomas Was Alone) watched my twitch stream of it and confirmed my ramblings about the deep seeded lore and intent of design of the TREES that appear in the game. Only one example of the incredible attention to detail the game delivers on. Plus its also getting a sequel that unlike Ares, I'm awaiting with bated breath.

[askmovieslate]

Do you remember that scene where Patrick Bateman stabs a homeless man and then stomps his puppy to death? Or when he gets into a shootout with the police after killing two men? How about the scene where he drops a chainsaw down a stairs' chute and impales a woman with it?

But no, the scene that stays in everyone's memory is the one with the business cards. You guys are so boring.

Also maybe it's just me, but it's very funny how Christian Bale beats Jared Leto to death with an axe. Batman didn't fuck around when killing the Joker on this one.