#dark city movie

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[peterkothe]

Inktober 2023 Day 20- DARK CITY

-What is the mystery of the nameless city, that each night, it and it’s in citizens, literally stop and drop into an un-waking sleep? And who are the dark clad Strangers, with the psychic powers to alter the city’s landscape and who go about altering l memories of the people!? You’ll have to watch director Alex Proyas’s Dark City to find out! A true hidden gem of a sci-fi film noir!

[souleaterpostanime]

Soul Eater Post Chapter/Episode/Draft 43

Read it on Webtoons or A03

So yeah, finally it's here - the reason it took so long is also the reason why I didn't spam stupid comments while refreshing the Soul Eater tag on tumblr - wastes of times, poor impulse control, getting distracted and scatterbrained - so yeah, I'll try to finish this arc, then do the iceberg, while not really engadging with the "community" (because of this and many other reasons which if I tried to explain would only confuse people and make them hate me lol ((even if I say LOVE EVERYBODY))

Anyways, hopefully see the next one in a week, if not - Yeah...Sorry

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres/techniques: anime horror

[xxplastic-cubexx]

you open my Super Important Documents and its just pictures of charles xavier

[world-of-celebs]

Melissa George in 'Dark City' (1998)

[nikswonderland]

[vertigoartgore]

The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told Vol.1 TPB cover by cover artist Walt Simonson (1988).

[nihillist-blog]

Dark City (1998)

[slutpoppers]

[boardsdonthitback]

Raymond Lam , Philip Ng - Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (2024)

[bishopsbox]

source: bishopsbox

Jennifer Connelly in Dark City (Alex Proyas, 1998)

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

Adding on to my The Batman post, I forgot to mention how much I adore the way they handle the no killing rule. In terms of plot, I don't think it's mentioned at all as a sticking point. He won't kill and that's that.

But there's one particular scene. Carmine and Selina. Bruce has just punched Carmine to the ground, saving Selina's life, and is now trying to wrestle the gun away from her. She tries to convince him. "He has to pay!"

And right here is where I thought that stupid classic line was gonna be. I could see it coming like a freight train. "If you kill him, you'll be just as bad as he is." But then... I'm wrong. It doesn't happen. Instead, Bruce makes a very different statement.

"You don't have to pay with him. You've paid enough."

And with that, he gets the gun and Carmine is arrested. There's no moral high ground, there's no shitty logic.

Bruce has seen what The Roman has done. Who he's hurt. What he's taken away. Selina's mother. Her girlfriend. Bruce's own parents. He knows better than anyone the need for revenge. For justice. But he also knows that this man before him, lying bloodied on the floor, has taken enough. He's taken their families, their morals, their innocence. But he doesn't get to take away their lives. He doesn't get to have that power.

And then Carmine is shot and killed anyway so Selina got what she wanted in the end either way.

[rhiannons-bird]

Any good tsc adaptation would need horror

It’s not just set dressing but a feature

(It’s been ages since I’ve seen the CoB movie but from what I remember I do appreciate what they did there, at least with some of the demons)

Looking back on my time with this series I realise I always enjoyed these elements a lot; they were part of the reason it fascinated me so much. Because a lot of ya lit at the time was supernatural and featured ‘creatures of the night’ but mostly didn’t really deliver on the premise. Meanwhile, I was obsessed with the chills I got from TMI when I was 12, and never succeeded in resurrecting that feeling until I started reading actual horror lit as an adult.

Some personal highlights were:

- The disgusting demons in TMI (some of my core memories are the Abbadon fight in CoB and the Raum demons in CoA)

- Agramon & the massacre in the silent city

- The clockwork creatures in TID

- Overall the way the fae are portrayed, some of the descriptions in CoA still haunt me

- Lilith’s snake eyes aah I loved it

- Malcolm with his silly little Hands of Glory, also later on: the state his resurrected corpse was in, so disturbing, amazing, 10/10

- The Belial possesion scene in ChoT

[watcher-in-the-woods]

He said is this the return to Oz? The grass is dead The gold is brown And the sky has claws

Return to Oz (1985)

Directed by Walter Murch Written by Gill Dennis and Walter Murch

Based on The Marvelous Land of Oz and Ozma of Oz, both written by L. Frank Baum

[nastyphoenix]