#cinemaniacs

[invisibleicewands]

Cinemaniacs E08 28/03/2015 - #2

[flannelandcurls]

Michael Sheen, SUPER ACTOR! takes the "Hit My Mark" challenge.

[marvelmaniac715]

I’ve known about Michael Sheen for years, but not in a way that a lot of you would expect. I’m pretty sure I watched him in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, but if I truly conjure up my childhood memories of him, it’s a CBBC show called Cinemaniacs, hosted by Oli White, and it was all about films and the making of movies, and there was this one segment called Michael Sheen: Super Actor, where Welsh actor Michael Sheen would partake in a challenge. One time he pranked his parents in disguise, one time he competed against a group of children to see if he could fake cry faster than they could chop an onion, and one time he put his acting to the test in this challenge in front of a green screen, it was mad:

It was honestly one of my favourite shows as a kid obsessed with dvd bonus features, so when I finally became obsessed with Good Omens, it was a delight to see an aspect of my childhood there onscreen as the Principality Aziraphale.

[batri-jopa]

Watched Big Eden last night and want to share my thoughts:

[Full of spoilers. If you haven't watch the movie - just go ahead and watch it. It's good! - is all you need to know👍]

Henry - yep, he is cute. Bonus points for prominent nose.

Landscapes - very much okey. Lake. Mountains. House with wood in and out <- as if it was all designed especially for me to stare at it forever and wonder if I'd like to live there

Music in the background - consequently Country and songs are commenting the scenes the way they are expected to👍 [if I were obsessed with this movie like I am with ATWD I would check out all their lyrics but for now I'm satisfied enough]. Yeah, all of this very much okey. I like the mood that it gives

Henry's getting out of the lake all soaked up wet like Pride and Prejudice's Mr Darcy - also okey (umm... am I there to wonder if somebody was watching him behind the trees? Nah, I doubt it)

the local community - authenticly friendly people (not like in Wet Sand when seemingly "friendly" neighbours hide their despise for you as well as their own domestic violence right behind their snarky smiles🤮). These guys seem nice and - surprise! - are nice. And "keeping the secret" is challenging enough to be enrichment for someone who's doing nothing all day...😜

the widow going from "I'll introduce you to all the single girls!" fluently into "in that case I'll introduce you to all the single boys!" after just a little mind-shaking <- cute actually

I might wonder how probable is to a little town be full of gays all of a sudden but considering that most of luckily married couples left this place and only ppl who got back or never left are still-singles-for-some-reason I now believe the little town full of middle-aged queers to be more probable than I ever thought before🤔

Now:

Dean. WTF is wrong with this guy?! Definitely not "straight as an arrow" - straights don't kiss other boys like that... Saying he "wants" but "can't" - what... what is that supposed to mean??? Is he like Irakli from And Then We Danced and his "I can't" is rooted in a worry abt what ppl would say? But Dean's divorced so "free to be taken" and most of all - it's fucking USA 2000!!! so why would he really give a shit!? Or maybe he's more like Clive from Maurice and believes in some kind of morals that prevents him from being able to be intimate with a man? Well, personally as an ace person I suppose his romantic and sexual orientation might be split into biromantic-heterosexual: that he falls in love regardless of gender but when it comes to sexual desire - he only feels it for women. So when Dean is with a woman it does seem as simple as being straight but when to focus on his feelings for Henry alone - it's more like alloromantic-asexual. What I mean is: he's "homo-romantic" (he really loves Henry in the way to truly care about him, treat him as family, dance with him in public (I loved that🫠) and even kiss him) but also "homo-asexual" (not feeling comfortable to go to bed with a man). I mean I can imagine if that's how it works with Dean (and also with Maurice's Clive BTW) - it's confusing as hell and that the guy really struggles that he can't give himself fully to someone he loves the way Henry desires him to... Poor guy😟

which is not to say I don't understand Henry finally couldn't stand it anymore after 20 years of waiting and another 6 months by the side of someone who seemingly "can't make up his mind"😖😮‍💨

thank goodness Dean gets a girl right away because screenwriter is a very nice person who doesn't want a character to suffer (I feel ya there screenwriter!👍 What you can do with the character who actually did nothing wrong other that having their romantic-sexual orientation fucked up...)

Pike - nice guy but quiet one. Morbidly shy. I can't say I don't feel it, I myself was like that as a teenager but I fought with it. And I fully understand the way you prefer to express your feelings with deeds instead of words, I really do... (for some reason I even made one of my OCs to act like that). But you can't play "Secret Santa" to the end of your days, man, that's not a life...😮‍💨 Especially don't do this to someone who's as lonely as you🙄

poor Henry - his choice is either someone who's not sure what he feels or someone who knows what he feels but wants to hide it at any cost... WTF is wrong with all these guys and their fucked-up communicating skills!🤦 And Henry is just so nice. Patient, forgiving, waiting, understanding... (Fuck this altogether😫)

[BUT! there's a hint they could all improve thanks to art-therapy. Surprisingly talking about art and legends is the only thing Pike can get excited enough to talk about feelings! (not his own but... still that's something)]

"Did we teach you shame?" <- Henry, he knew. Not from your words but still.

was the whole "going to the airport" just a prank strategy right from the beginning meant to forcefully pull Pike out of his shell? Because I'm not sure how feel about it. Well since it worked and nobody died (Pike coming back from the airport was probably not the most attentive driver...😵‍💫) then I guess it was... okey?

Now there's the kiss. While dancing. Is it romantic? I guess so... (as aromantic person I can only guess). And what about kissing extremally shy person who's probably paralized from embarrasement when kissing IN FRONT OF ALL THE PEOPLE? Okey, I suppose it was not their first kiss actually... It was not as naturally build up as the one between Henry and Dean (spending time together, alone, after a day of intense emotions - as short as it was it felt very much organic🫠) Make me think: maybe that kiss between Henry and Pike was actually meant to be a public act of "let's show them all we're over this already, shell we?". Or maybe it was their first kiss indeed, Pike felt how Henry really so soooo much wanted it that he decided to sacrify himself and ignore his own discomfort only not to let Henry feel let down again... And why does Pike not lift his hand to touch Henry's neck or his face, is he really so paralised by the thought of everybody watching? Or maybe it's Henry's fantasy while they'll actually kiss each other later when left alone finally?

[Ps - I just got the joke with cutting out stars for the flag from the movie beginning: Henry's a painter specialised in depicting stars!]

All in all: very much OKEY movie!👍

Signed: autistic creature

Alright, jokes aside - I liked it! Might not be very great movie to make me laugh and cry in turns but definitely pleasant one. Very pleasant. Wouldn't mind to watch it again one day. Maybe I'd spot more little details? As fairy-tale as it was depicted I want to believe in that world full of good people, where there's no fear of violence and no villain (Dean is NOT a villain). And I really want things to be nice for them. For all of them❤️

[assreen]

stills from my upcoming film #theopera

[inemi]

Marilyn Monroe, 1955

[#Cinemaniac ]

[termiteterraceclub]

Termite Terrace Club - October 10th

1936 - Boulevardier From the Bronx - Dir. Friz Freleng

1959 - Wild About Hurry - Dir. Chuck Jones

#LooneyTunes #LooneyTwt #roadrunner #wileecoyote

TV

1990 - Tiny Toon Adventures Season 1: "Cinemaniacs!" ("Superbabs" / "Duck Trek" / "Pasadena Jones")

1992 - Taz-Mania - "The Outer Taz-Manian Zone" / "Here, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty, Part 2".

1997 - Pinky and the Brain Season 3: "The Real Life"

1998 - The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries Season 4: "The San Francisco Beat" / "Triangle of Terror"

2002 - Baby Looney Tunes Season 1: “Band Together” / “War Of The Weirds”

[fillertumblername]

Truly shocking that my introduction to Michael sheen was through cinemaniacs (2015 CBbc show) where he was quite rightly actor extraordinar and pretended to be gorrilas and things , and I being about ten thought who's he whys he beinh actor extraordinar he's not in anything,,,

Anyway sorry about that , happy birthday Michael actor extraordinar

Happy 55th birthday to our feral, light and fluffy, serious actor and truly just the nicest person: Michael Sheen!!

[famousmortimer]

[el-cheung]

[invisibleicewands]

Cinemaniacs E08 28/03/2015 - #1

[jerrylewis-thekid]

The gaze of Jer/American cinemaniac, tho 😍​

Jerry’s face in “Hollywood Or Bust” (1956) appreciation post because reasons

Part II: The American, Russian and French movie fan. 

[meridianrose]

Movie Star Michael Sheen Pranks his parents on CBBC's CINEMANIACS

[bastard-of-the-realm]

Some of you Good Omens stans never watched the Michael Sheen Super Actor segment in Cinemaniacs and it really shows.

[batri-jopa]

Okey, my day of Contemplating the claimed "pitiability" of a single life is coming to an end, so here's the summary:

Riding a bicycle for the first time in the season finally - trip was not too long but I had my delights of wide space and morning dew lovely shining in the grass. Nobody's around to tell me "not now", "what for" or "who cares".

Listening to my favorite podcast - so I've been laying half naked in the sun and regularily shaking with laughter hearing how two 40 y.o. guys are discussing about the greatest absurds in The Blob movie from 1958.

Pyrography - also first time since... half a year? Only about an hour of work this time

The movie (My Happy Family / ჩემი ბედნიერი ოჯახი, 2017) turned out to be more "single-life-contamplating" than I thought... Mixed feelings: I wanted to fully sympathise with the main character - but then I so understand why her family is feeling hurt by her decision - and of course not everyone should get married and have children in the first place - but then if you already do have husband and children it's not like you can just suddently change your mind and leave them - but everybody is a free person to do what they feel - but then again why would your feelings matter if you don't care what others are feeling? - but they're all grown up and nobody gets hurt - but then... learning that your husband also could have had left you long time ago but decided not to and yet you decided to left him just like that... I have very mixed feelings with sympathising with a woman who probably was depressed and maybe even AroAce forced for marriage by society norms, even though she always wanted to kuve alone... (Society norms are like: her 20 y.o. son is asked "Why don't you marry yet?" - jeez...😑) But to sacrifice yourself for others, for "the happiness of your family" is what I've been taught and believed in and lived by all my life... So, okey, that was more theatre than a film and one most valid conclusion is: multi-generetional family living in one apartament is VERY BAD IDEA. Unless "the queen" would be retired. Maybe.

[fictosphere]

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