#cinema incoming

[spacejellyfish3]

I believe in the almighty power of BARBIE (2023)!!!!

[yvtro]

thinking about batman jay (earth-15) being so strikingly similar to bruce in attitude (as he is in every universe. it just really shines through when he's wearing a cowl) and missing bruce, who is dead in their world.

"so your batman is paranoid, too. there's a shocker" "why are we helping these people? they're obviously incompetent."

"does it make you feel better, that bruce is still alive somewhere in some incarnation?" "i wasn't thinking about it." "hmm, sudden intake of breath, slight increase in heart rate, and an almost imperceptible catch in the voice– once a boy wonder, always a boy wonder, eh, jason?"

[k-wame]

that queer trailer

[cryscendo]

kurt hummel in every performance

3x09 - Extraordinary Merry Christmas

Let It Snow - Blaine Anderson and Kurt Hummel

“Hello! Well, I guess we're all in the spirit of the season by now. Let me apologize for not introducing myself sooner. I'm Kurt Hummel, one of your hosts this evening. And this is my, um… best friend and holiday roommate, Blaine Anderson.”

[mylifeincinema]

My Week(s) in Reviews: August 25, 2024

Yikes... it's been damn-near a month, and I've only got three new ones. That's summer, though. With my concert schedule, most of my free time goes toward keeping up with reading, and anything else has been going to reruns (of Seinfeld, mostly). ::shrugs::

Anyway, here they are...

Alien: Romulus (Fede Alvarez, 2024)

I mostly liked this one. Cailee Spaeny and David Jonsson both turn in phenomenal performances. Alvarez handles the tension and terror beautifully. And the production design is a perfect blend of the Alien & Blade Runner films of the past. Unfortunately, whatever that abomination of a final act was damn-near ruined the entire experience, for me. Still a solid piece of sci-fi/horror, overall, though. - 7/10

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (Gil Kenan, 2024)

I actually really liked this one. There's a charm here that kinda seemed missing from the last one. Still nowhere near the brilliance of the original, but it's really not a bad way to spend a couple hours in a familiar, likable world filled with familiar, mostly likable characters. - 6/10

Incoming (Dave & John Chernin, 2024)

Pretty damn bad. But it's kinda the type of bad that I didn't entirely hate wasting my time on. It shamelessly plunders its elements from just about every teen movie of significance over the past 40 years. There's heavy doses of Superbad, Booksmart, License to Drive, 10 Things I Hate About You and more, and poorly veiled hints of countless others. The characters are types and nothing more, making everything that happens seem inconsequential at best. It's at once a warning and a wet dream, and too few of the lessons learned feel quite like they stick. However, there are two elements that I really liked. And that's the outcome of the stolen Tesla storyline, and Bobby Canavale. The former actually feels super '80s, rather than feeling like a ripoff of the '80s, and the moral of it—that kindness begets kindness—is something refreshing to see in a film about today's youth. And the latter is just having the silly, absurd time of his life. I love Cannavale, and the dedication that he brings to this trainwreck of a character is simultaneously delightful and wholly cringe-worthy. I especially liked that they checked his nonsense in the end. - 3.5/10

Also got a couple revisits in. Bone Tomahawk held up well, but lacks the overall "holy shit" factor when you know what's coming, so I had significantly less fun with it this time around. Then I watched Rosemary's Baby because I finally got around to reading Ira Levin's book. It really is an all-around perfect adaptation. What an unholy masterpiece.

Enjoy!

[manuvstheworld]

ZACK SNYDER’S GONCHAROV (2023) dir. Zack Snyder

[odetodilfs]

Just watched A Strange Way of Life, holy shit this is amazing, put that shit on the Louvre right now

[parkercore-69]

most humiliating/humbling/worst situation of my entire life atm is confidently telling a restaurant waiter that im paying for the meal for me and a female friend i’d spent the day with- and then not being able to pay when she told me the cost 😍😍

“yeah, I’ll be paying today 😎”

“Okay! that’ll be £31.”

“…w..what-?”

[ic-napology]

Habemus a release date guys!

[saintoflostmonsters]

SPIDER-MAN!!!!!!

[mariocki]

Donald Sutherland steals the show as a disarmingly charming bank robber (turned convict, turned escaped convict), as John Wood in The Saint: Escape Route (5.14, ITC, 1966)

[weather-phenomenon]

we can't pay you more there's no money in the economy if we raise prices the economy will crash yada yada yada uhm well how about we start with more equitable wealth redistribution huh

[milesgmorales]

need to rewatch atsv immediately

[venomgender]

i miss being able to get high

[halfxspider]

[[Your Miguel is gr8. I can feel the brooding dad energy. You make me wanna see the atsv movie even more!]] ~Glory-HasNoPlaceHere

How's my Migs?

[moltengoldveins]

so we can all agree that the newest 2WEI song (take the crown) is the trailer song for an Antarctic Empires Emerald Duo pg14 movie where Techno is a gladiator who earned his freedom and has vowed to destroy the government that enslaved him and Philza is an old demigod banished to a solitary plane of existence for five decades after attempting to run a coup against the ruling class.

They meet on a battlefield, Techno having joined up as brute muscle and Phil having used some minor illusions to pass as a quirky avian and join the bombardment team. Combining some similar plot beats as Oceans 11 and Atlantis: The Lost Empire, they gather a specialized team of insurrectionists, anarchists, battle mages, and warriors to take down the imperium from the inside, eventually planning on restoring the nation to the democracy it was in Phil’s earliest memories. But will they manage it, or will their bloody pasts and violent present seat Technoblade on the throne as the Antarctic Emperor, with Philza as his right hand, the Angel of Death? (Spoiler, the second option. It’s the most controversial film finale decision of the decade.)

The movie is filmed in a style somewhere between Dune 1, the Prince of Egypt, and Topgun. (denis villeneuve is too busy and too expensive, but it’s clear they’re taking inspiration. Bold colors and lighting and a lot of shots of the sky, wildlife, architecture, or of characters’ hands.) It’s scored by an up and coming indie musician, working under the consultation of Ludwig Gorannson in his spare time as a pet project, though his association with the film doesn’t really come out until it Smashes the expected theatre income in the first two days of release and critics start Raving about it. Techno’s actor is nominated for an Oscar for one of the most compelling intricate portrayals of ptsd and platonic devotion in modern cinema, but doesn’t actually get the Oscar.

Tumblr is flooded with gif sets of Techno in the Obligatory No Armor After Gladiator Fight Scene and the Late Night Vibing With Phil In A Loose Poet Shirt scene (firelit, lots of closeups of his eyes, the film is obviously attempting to express his complex emotional state and his deep relationship with Phil, and is failing miserably at doing Anything but making him hot. The internet is ✨gay✨ about it, because when is the internet not?) Also most of the simps are calling Phil a dilf.

Fit MC is the fan-favorite side character, his four scenes and nine lines of dialogue are clipped and edited and giffed and memed into the dirt. (His armor and prosthetic, the makeup and costuming department say, were the hardest thing to do in the entire film, which is why he isn’t in too many shots.) Though, a close second is Niki, who is played by a woman built like a brick house who doesn’t wear sleeves, so…. Yeah. We all know what the response is there. The effects, including Phil’s wings, are almost entirely practical and the only real places it gets iffy is Steve, the giant war polar bear that’s pretty clearly clipping through a few snowbanks here and there. Nobody can agree on which characters are morally reprehensible.

Within a few years, very few people outside a dedicated fan base have seen it and a few assume it’s made up like Goncharov. It’s also, for some ungodly reason, been labeled a Christmas film. (most of the plot happens in the ice and snow, hence ‘Antarctic Empire.’) I guess nothing says ‘Christmas spirit’ quite like ‘unmitigated violence, platonic yearning, and overthrowing oppressors.’