#disappointing movies

[reelvibes91]

Lost in the Crossfire: A Review of Civil War

There is no story without context. That is something that always plays on repeat when approaching a story. Make sure it is clearly noted why this story on display matters and exactly why it is important.

Civil War does absolutely none of that and it took me right out of the movie. It sets in this warn torn America where the government is on the verge of collapse. This plot sounds like a very interesting concept. What if America had a second Civil War? What would be the root cause?

We don't get any of those answers. Which is what a story like this should give us. We know there are states formed together to be called The Western Forces, California, and Texas are independent and there is a place in the South known as The Florida Alliance.

That is all the political information we get as a core set of war journalists embark to try and interview the president before he is killed. The movie is well acted, of course, but there is no substance to the story. There is no point in caring about the characters because we don't know how this all came to be.

Had their been something in the early stages to let us know what political turmoil led to all of this Civil War would have been an easy contender for one of the years best. Now what it seemed like was a typical run and gun video game with a simple story of "enemy bad".

If the idea was to remain politically ambiguous to play cot, it truly backfired. They did not have to lean into a particular party to piss anyone off, but there should have been some form of extreme idealism that led to an uprising. We get a small glimpse that some things of political structure have changed. Such as the two term ideas, and we learn the FBI had been disbanded. We don't know why this came to be. We know nothing about how the new factions are governed. We know nothing about laws anywhere in the US at all. They skipped out on all the important details so we could get a front-line war correspondence view from the home front.

This, for me, has to be the biggest misfire from a film in 2024. It has the perfect concoction of ideas to really make a hard-hitting statement. What we got still could have remained, but all they had to do was lean into some reason for it all. In an age where we have so much freedom of expression, this film says absolutely nothing.

[chloesimaginationthings]

Michael Afton has bad eating habits in FNAF

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

[landoffish]

[lonelyzarquon]

Aubrey Plaza in Addicted to Fresno (2015)

[hipsterfrankcastle]

logging onto tumblr dot com to see what the freaks have to say about the ghoul in fallout

[fernsnailz]

oh i rewatched the sonic movies AND the knuckles show recently and with sonic 3 out this week i think it's time to share the wishlist i made of crazy things i want to see in the third movie. these are NOT genuine predictions and most would probably make the movie actively worse, but i want them to happen because. i think it would be funny. this list is curated to my specific tastes in trash and my tastes alone

tom dies

bowling is plot relevant

literally any archie sonic reference. can you imagine

musical number (CANNOT be of a licensed song. has to be an original)

eggstone kiss (HAS to be genuinely romantic. cannot be played as a joke)

metal sonic shows up and they kill him within five minutes

the black arms appear but instead of being cgi monsters they're played by actors in practical suits (this would actually rule)

tripod baby by m-flo 2024 remix

shadow's backstory is explained through an extremely tone-deaf medium at some point, such as a puppet show

wade gets a love interest

gerald gets more screentime than shadow (this is my one genuine prediction and something that i Do Not Want. but i will laugh if it happens)

shadow dies dramatically in sonic's arms

no girl cartoon animal character makes an appearance, but one gets a single name drop with no further elaboration (actually i don't want this. this would just make me mad lmfao)

if any of these come true i will draw wade whipple

[s0up1ta]

are you telling me- you built a time machine... out of a DeLorean ?

[hqbits]

“He wouldn’t even look at me.”

[hoziersong]

the reason poolverine is so appealing is also because in all of his two-decade run in the xmcu they have given logan some of the most boring and rushed relationships with women (because it was the 2000s and the mold that they followed for rugged manly protagonists meant an astounding lack of chemistry between them and their love interests in favor of giving them the "dead wife who has a montage at the beginning of the movie" treatment etc etc) and then they put him in a 2 hour long film with a guy even more insane and fucked up than him and they matched each other beat for beat. say what you want about the mcu but they achieved a level of chemistry between logan and wade that fox couldn't reach in 20 years with like four different love interests. which is also a petition for them to either go the gay route or finally let logan find a woman he has good chemistry with and who can pass the bechdel test

[sprinklysparkle]

I desperately need a book accurate dracula movie, like word for word pls no changing characters, names, relationships, or just any plot. I'm going crazy

[fiyeroba]

I think my heart stopped beating when I saw his shadow

[ellydrawsstuff]

Headcanon: Charlie LOVES Mean Girls and Mean Girls the musical, but HATES Mean Girls (2024)

[spongebob-connoisseur]

Nosferatu watching Nosferatu 2024

[rosalie-starfall]

Wicked

Michelle Yeoh as Madame Morrible

[itsamenickname]

Bowser: *adjusts his bowtie before holding out his hand* Let's rule the world, together. Forever. Will you marry me?

Luigi: *staring at Bowser with an annoyed expression as he's tied to a chair and also wearing Peach's dress and wig*