#did I like the movie? Nope

[bachaboska]

Just two boys in the boat. Guys being dudes. Dudes being gay.

[pangur-and-grim]

one thing that took me embarrassingly long to learn is "sometimes when people say things, they will not be true."

I used to tell people about this revelation and they'd be like yeah.....duh.....but like, why wouldn't my base assumption be that you're communicating to me in a straightforward manner. anyway, I get scammed a lot.

[cassscainss]

some of my favorite things about Anora in no particular order (SPOILERS BELOW):

the goons, wow what all timer movie goons. concussed guy for goon of the year

when anora beats the shit out of those goons for a fifteen minute stretch and they get increasingly more afraid of her. comedy gold, just pitch perfect comedy treading the line between should-i-be-worried-for-her and the disarming buffoonery of the goons

ivan's mom stomping on the last step of the private jet stairs. her incredible houndstooth suit. every second of her on screen.

all of them throwing the pens at the annulment woman

ivan's dad dying laughing during the annulment as anora throws all of the moms shit on the ground

every parking in new york joke from the ticket in front of the courthouse to getting towed down on brighton beach

how the entire time, nobody pulls out a weapon, not once. and yet, the threat of violence and danger still lingers in the periphery because of the deftly constructed tension of the roving camera and contextually what we don't know about this family and the broader scope of ivan's world and the looming threat of the parents. how far can she push the goons until they get violent, and yet they never really do, but baker never lets you exhale that breath.

when they walked into tatianas..... like sean does his RESEARCH

also the t.A.T.u needle drop like i screamed

also the fight over driving or walking for five minutes in the cold. the new york specificity in this movie is pinpoint accurate, down to the mundane

the ending, her having a breakdown release of everything that had happened to her and how humiliated she was, but also how she thought she had gotten out and made a fairytale of her life. how using her body was the only power she has ever had, and how that was what she defaulted to with Igor in that last scene, but it was when he wanted to kiss her that the facade of power broke down and so did she. how she had to face her own humanity, and in that moment ask herself if she wanted to kiss him, because he was giving her perhaps her first real choice in a long time, and that opened a pathway to maybe questioning whether she truly wanted any of what had happened to her. maybe in that moment she realized that her body is not as powerful as she perhaps convinced herself it was. she was far more powerless than all her bravado and will probably always be powerless in the socioeconomic systems of the world that are built up around her. how disposable she was made to feel maybe for the first time, and how she thought she had built up that bravado and detached arrogance around herself so that she would never feel that way, but the feeling still seeped through nonetheless. all of that delivered wordlessly, in silence, buried under the falling white snow that will throw a white, pristine blanket over everything as if nothing significant had happened at all.

but also like igor, i too would fall in love with her almost instantly and tbh i did. rip to Ivan, anora i am hopelessly in love with you, and i would die for you.

[fantasma-de-la-cueva]

Guys… Can we talk about how movie Shadow body’s languaje ressembles the body language vibes of a dog? I mean, here some examples

—The sad puppy eyes at the flashback scene

—When he meets Gerald again he was on the defensive until he recognized him (he caught him by surprise in the middle of his mourn) and when he hears that Sonic, Tail, Knuckles and Eggman were arriving he was about to attack until Gerald tells him “calm down, we are going to receive them properly”. And only because of that he changes the strategy to ambush (Goes from agressive stance to tense, head is peerk up and eyes focused on Gerald, listening to his command)

—After ambushing them he leaves them tied up and while the crazy people do the infodumping and start to monologue he stays still and quiet, only when Gerald gives him the order to look for the key is when he intervenes in a somewhat aggressive way (when watching that scene I can't help but think an attack dogs. Well, first one he’s tensed and with angry expression, trying to look bigger to intimidate them. Then he kinda lounges towards them while demanding for the key, defintly this has a ressemblance to an attack dog barking to either a threat or prey)

—When they were going to steal the second key Shadow wanted to do the job and his body language, again, is reminiscent of a guard dog pulling on the leash and barking to attack. Only when Gerald convinces him to leave the job to the mad scientists in exchange for “getting revenge like never before” does he calm down and stay behind (lounges while talking, again, ressemblance to an attack dog aggressive barking)

—Interferes when he realized the Robotniks plan failed, so he headed straight onto searching the second key and after attacking Tom he just went back to his master, protecting him and giving the object to him (I don’t think I need to elaborate this)

—Also the fact that whenever he is near Gerald he’s just there, watching in silence and his body tensed, attentive and waiting for the next command as if he was a trained dog (body tensed, eyes focused on Gerald, defintly waiting for the next command)

Movie Shadow’s life is just simple miserable because he was probably conditioned by G.U.N into obedience and Gerald exploited this to use him as a tool for his revenge plan. And remember, he might be dubbed by Keanu, but mentally he’s a teen like Sonic. So yeah, here we have fucked up symbolism, showing throught non verbal languaje how due to bad luck, manipulation and grief Shadow got dehumanizated and turned into a tool.

Also yes, due to how mad Gerald was in this movie and as pointed by other posts, he stopped caring for Shadow or even he never cared, forcing this confused, lost kid into a master-servant bond all his life

[possiblyawesometmblr]

here's my theory based on the trailer: vanessa is a bold-faced liar. because look at this. this shot right here.

abby is stood well within lunging reach of foxy. she's right there. and sure, this could just be foxy getting distracted in the moment, but look at abby. she's not backed away. her hands aren't thrown up in defense, she doesn't even look scared.

if their goal was to "make her like them", they should be attacking her, right? at the very least, abby should be scared or something, but she's not.

my guess right now is that the animatronics and the kids inside are likely trying to protect abby from becoming like them. but vanessa can't let mike know that. she has to keep him distracted from the real person who's out to get abby --

the same one who got the original five.

[z-mizcellaneous-z]

denki: life hack: if a room in your house starts to smell, make some popcorn and open the bag in there, eat the popcorn, and leave the empty bag in the room for a couple of hours. now the room smells like popcorn! shinso: it is THREE in the FUCKING morning denki, GO TO BED.

[jessaerys]

hate to say it but strictly on a storytelling level civil war kind of slaps. this can be said about alex garland: he knows how to spin a yarn

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

i read part of the first chapter of sea glass gardens a while ago but decided to come back once I knew more about the characters and world building of jjk. Anyways and I watched jjk 0 and your telling me he actually blew up the school with the power of love??? Like full on textually the power of love??? He straight up used the power of love to nuke Geto and subsequently the school??? Are you kidding me?? I'm losing my mind. What the fuck

my boy has powerful love within him and also incredible and indiscriminate violence. what more could you want from a character.

[klutzytomb]

the brain worms. THE FUCKING BRAIN WORMS

[hermit-frog]

god the visuals and sound design in this movie, i want to scream. think that last time i've been this hyperaware of my own body was while watching the martyrs (2008). (my dad made me to watch it when i was in the middle school lmao yay trauma) it haunts me to this day. but my distress was caused by the visuals and the idea itself, while with the nosferatu movie, it's the sounds (visually, didn't find the movie scary). got so focused on his breathing that didn't even notice the soundtrack, which is unlike me. it's the ✨Count Orlok effect✨ jk, but if you've seen the movie, you know what i'm talking about. nosferatu, the chasing scene, possession… not going to lie, i was struggling with those parts because of how conscious my breathing felt, which made the whole experience suffocating and dizzying. have you ever felt claustrophobic inside your own body?

[the-acid-pear]

Hands of hips looking down shaking my head I don't know how to sugarcoat this so I won't but signs is so much better than nope. I don't know how people even say the movie aged bad. I think the feelings they have for the director cloud their view (I don't even know how either of his names). You got a 1:30hs movie vs a 2hs movie (I'm cutting the 10 minutes of credit for both) where in one you are never bored and are gripped by emotions and the other where you sit waiting for anything to happen. Like I'm sorry but there's no fight here. Hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby.

[shopcat]

i think people rlly don't realise how unfamiliar they are with pretty normal things like being light hearted or joking around in the face of very dramatic or traumatic things which is odd to me bc i know people know about using humour to cope. like maybe they think it's not the same or some things are too serious of a subject matter or something to then joke around with or about or that using humour to cope = making jokes about like, your depression, not your capital t Traumas during or right after them idk ..

i just really think it is the human condition to be able to fall back on something easy or release tension even if you don't even particularly feel like it even if it makes you feel WORSE like i see people say they wouldn't joke at a particular time or so x or y or z that is similarly at least SEAMINGLY blasé but in my experience after a lot of my own traumas i really did joke immediately after. when i got robbed last month i joked IN THE MOMENT to the ROBBER. all of this to say i think being a bit unserious or letting comedy or lightheartedness or even random positivity in the midst of very big bad horrible things is not only very normal it's like the thing that keeps people from losing their minds.

i think this is why i prefer comedy horror out of all the genres bc i think that particular ability to find humour in things even if it's kind of wrong to is very realistic and human ... and from a genre standpoint in media, being able to balance these things without making the horror feel as unserious and still holding something tangible is what can make it really fucking good. anyone can technically make a horror movie or a tragedy or a stupid comedy but marrying the two is both paradoxically way harder (in making it believable) and way easier (any situation can be comedic if you try enough and the hysterical nature of horror lends to this) than you'd think imo. ik there's a lot of schools of thought about what makes a movie a good movie or a movie vs a film and it's like yeahhh whatever blah blah but i appreciate and love realism a LOT in general in media but particularly in comedy where it's something that can make the entire thing feel more grounded / make the horror more intimate

[a-little-monotonous]

I still hate that the movies put sonic and co (who are very cartoony) into literal real life next to actual people

[chiliger]

Anyone have recs for horror movies in the same vein as Alien and The Thing?

I like movies that don’t rely on a ton of jump scares and excessive realistic gore.

[short-wooloo]

Maybe it's because of hindsight and the fact that I already have the knowledge of how the manbaby fan boys treated him, but every time I rewatch Phantom Menace I'm befuddled at the reaction to Jake Lloyd's acting

Like, what is it about his portrayal as Anakin that was so terrible? This isn't even bad acting by child actor standards, Jake Lloyd pulls off the role very well, he plays a child in the SW universe,and more specifically he plays exactly what Anakin is in Ep I, an excitable, kind, somewhat naive little boy

[itsalwaysdark]

grahh this sucks . my entire famiyl is like Being a little weird bc of my whole little moment yesterday and i dont like it . but wtvr