#good good movies

[beefcake-penguin]

9 favorite films that I watched for the first time in 2023 | tagged by @occidentaltourist (thank you, my friend! ✊🏼🥺 🐧❤🐧)

In no beefticular (beefcake particular) order:

The Holdovers - A really heartwarming movie. Saw this one with my mom and we both really enjoyed it. Can't recommend this one enough!

Asteroid City - I love Wes Anderson's films and this is my favorite of his recent work. Great performances from the whole cast and a really interesting concept

Dream Scenario - Just such a wild premise, a great performance from Nic Cage and some surprisingly relevant social commentary. Would have been the biggest pleasant surprise of the year for me, had it not been for...

Godzilla Minus One - Biggest surprise of the year for me from a movie. Please go see this in theaters if you can. Surprisingly heartfelt movie. Really has no right being so good and it breaks my heart that some will just write this off as "another Godzilla movie"

When Evil Lurks - Just a truly WILD horror movie. Fair warning: NOT for the faint of heart.

Poor Things - There really isn't any movie like this one. A really wild ride. Beautiful looking set design, really creative shots, Emma Stone is brilliant, and it's a really great movie but be warned: there is some dark subject matter in this one.

The Boy and the Heron - Ghibli movies will generally always make my list. I'm a simple penguin: I let Hayao Miyazaki take me on another whimiscal, heartfelt, uplifting, and beautifully animated adventure and I will simply recommend it to anyone and everyone I see

Cobweb - Criminally underrated horror movie. An absolutely WILD performance from Lizzy Caplan and just a really fun horror movie to watch on a dark night. It's not an "elevated horror" film (whatever that means 🙄) but just a really fun, spooky experience

Killers of the Flower Moon - One of Scorsese's best movies, full stop. Really harrowing subject matter. Really upsetting at times. Never treated trivially and never feels exploitative. These are the types of stories of America's shameful past that absolutely need to be told and this is told with the respect that the subject matter deserves. Lily Gladstone is AMAZING.

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[lambergeier]

the real danger of spending too much time with friends is you stumble out of ten days of happiness and good food like oh my god THAT was real life. my job means NOTHING

[thesociallyanxioussociopath]

Something something, living rent free in my mind and such, anyway I love them.

[antennatoheaven]

[ofswordsandpens]

idk why people get super pedantic about the movie logic in Home Alone and start and try to pick it apart, because like, its a Christmas movie about a child accidentally being left home alone, the premise isn't exactly asking us to suspend our disbelief that much, and yet nearly every single "gotcha" question I see people bring up about this film is literally answered within the first 15 minutes :/

[thisshadowwrites]

i have seen gay porn less homoerotically charged than whatever the fuck they were doing in that hyundai civic

[nitw]

i miss the bad guys. like they really took the only good thing about zootopia (furries) and made it infinitely better by Not being copaganda

[rainydayspecial]

[podcastwizard]

not enough fucked up little freak animals in the barbie movie. not enough busted ass capital-c Creatures. barbie god's™ mistakes.

[kensatou]

acting strange on tumblr.com with the mutuals <3 | SEARCHING (2018)

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[reallybadblackoutpoems]

secrets of farming (1863) - john w. large

"yeowch augh taking damage ough eurgh"

[ayo-edebiri]

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse + text posts

[mynnthia]

was talking with a friend about how some of dunmeshi fаndom misunderstands kabru's initial feelings towards laios.

to sum up kabru's situation via a self-contained modernized metaphor:

kabru is like a guy who lost his entire family in a highly traumatic car accident. years later he joins a discord server and takes note of laios, another server member who seems interesting, so they start chatting. then laios reveals his special interest and favorite movie of all time is David Cronenberg's Crash (1996), and invites kabru to go watch a demolition derby with him

[susiephone]

*puts hands on hollywood exec's shoulders, staring unblinking into their eyes* listen to me. you will never get people who hate musicals to like musicals by making your musical less of a musical. if you hide the fact that your film is a musical in the advertising, you're going to get a lot of low ratings from people who hate musicals and went into your movie not expecting a musical and got one anyway. people who hate musicals will hate them no matter how realistic and diegetic and lowkey you try to make it. they will hate musicals even if you completely excise anything complicated, over the top, silly, or even slightly challenging. they will hate musicals even if you cut half the songs. they will hate musicals even if you cast that a-lister who can't sing worth a damn. stop trying to market to people who hate musicals. they're a lost cause. your audience should be people who love musicals. this half-assed middle ground pisses off both camps. just embrace the fact that your movie is a musical. lean into it. don't try and trick musical haters into coming to your film when you could be marketing to the theater kids. better cringe than a coward.

[rad-roche]

watchin some akira kurosawa movies and i could mention that they're good. and they are. or i could post a picture of toshiro mifune and we can all sigh dreamily together. alright three two one