#good movie that was just too expensive

[secretswiftymarvelfan]

I had a big pile of laundry to iron yesterday so of course I had to watch red one and here are my thoughts

young jack is so cute

I of course spotted the hockey stick immediately and can so picture a hockey AU

Eating cookies for carb loading is something my boston bears boys can get behind

The movie is definitely cheesy but not too cheesy for a holiday movie

Ngl had a hard time believing that kid was Jack and that woman who’s name I can’t remember son, but considering who his uncle is its not surprising he got the part (that’s hollywood baby 🙄)

I can see why it didn’t do very well at the box office and I agree with the rest is entertainment podcast for the reason why. It was just far too expensive for the calibre of movie it was going to be and when they decided to put it into cinemas instead of just streaming the paychecks should have been renegotiated to something lower that then included box office bonus's. I wouldn't have called some of the performances I saw to be worth $50m

I thought Chris was great, he played the deadbeat dad who has an ephipany really well and the emotional bits really got me like 'he's my kid'

Having Marc Evan Jackson be his uncle made me believe that Captain Holt is also his uncle, even though the uncle is called rick and is nothing like Kevin (also the fact that he's called uncle rick is brilliant to me as a fan of the OG uncle rick, Rick Riordan and this is my plea to have Chris appear in the PJO series, i mean he's already got a godlike body...)

overall wasn't as bad as i thought, wasn't brilliant but still enjoyable and while Jack might not become a regular fave for fics, there was a bit of inspo

[honey-intherock]

The clearest sign yet that our society is beyond redemption is the way y'all are letting The Fall Guy flop

[pepperpixel]

Some waves! Cuz I finally bought a shockwave toy to go w my soundwave one! So.. I wanted to draw some art of them to celebrate! Cuz I was happy about that lol… I’ll finally have both my fave boys..!

[dellinah]

Anyway I never voiced my opinion about this but man for all the hype it got the barbie movie SUCKED

[toytulini]

i dont want to give in to Modern Shapewear but i really hate when im trying to have a Fun Outfit and theres fucking Distinct Lines from various under wear bands (bra, undies, maybe a pair of tights?) all at separate points? that are impossible to hide bc the outer wear is fucking form fitting spandex

[meownotgood]

HI HI MAGGIE POOOOO HOW ARE U

I'm okay, I'm very sweaty, it's hot as hell where I live right now

[hauntingblue]

I love this movie about.... zoro's past boyfriend being taken over by a curse

[bella-but-not-hadid444]

im so sad rn i watched s1 of phineas and ferb on youtube (for free) and thought that s2 would be on there too but its on disney + but we don't have it 😭😭😭😭

yt is not the place to watch it girl.

let me introduce to you… ✨HDtoday.tv✨

honestly changed my life bc it has almost every movie you could possibly think of.

it has all 4 seasons of p&f (i think) plus the movies, and it’s a fairly trustworthy website. i use it all the time on my ipad when i want to watch something that isn’t currently on the streaming services my parents pay for.

plus it’s COMPLETELY FREE!!! which is fantastic!!! (also milo murphy’s law is also available on the website and i highly recommend u watch it bc it’s in the same universe as p&f and it’s got so many cool characters and running gags and plot lines + there’s a 1 hour long crossover episode w the p&f cast eeeeh)

[themightyrancho]

god live theater / performing arts prices make me so depressed lol

[todayisafridaynight]

Every guy in Yakuza seems like they have enough social awkwardness for Tien to role his eyes at…

there's no feasible chance on earth any man can be more awkward than mountain man tien I'm Going To Hide From My Friends Every Other Year And Then For A Decade After Telling Them I'd Never See Them Again For No Apparent Reason And Only Coming Back Cause the World Was Literally Ending shinhan

[kimmkitsuragi]

should i go see the spiderverse movie again with my friend who i talk to almost daily but havent seen face to face since covid 🤔

[unrestrainedbalderdash]

I swear toy companies forget that Joker isn't the only Batman villain

[troutish]

i am going to spend an irresponsible amount of money on classic horror dvds this summer

[spectroscopes]

I am probably just making up a guy by conflating several Avatar talking points but it’s interesting to me that people want to be so dismissive of those movies and treat them as a waste of time because they are “just visuals” (whatever that means) but then when someone asks why does this other movie look so bad by comparison they’re positioned as an unattainable high standard that no other movie could possibly be expected to reach. But I actually do think it’s fair to ask why Disney in particular doesn’t allocate enough time and resources (and hire competent enough directors) to produce, like, tentpole movies that actually look good. I don’t understand why people defend them churning out visually bland CGI nightmares as if it’s impossible for them to do anything else when we all know because we can see, with our eyes, that it is possible for a movie to look good provided the people making it have the time, dedication, and resources and actually value that as a priority.

[weaselle]

i want to talk about real life villains

Not someone who mugs you, or kills someone while driving drunk, those are just criminals. I mean VILLAINS.

Not like trump or musk, who are... cartoonishly evil. And not sexy villains, not grandiose villains, not even satisfyingly two dimensional villains it is easy to hate unconditionally. The real villains.

I had a client who was a retired executive for one of the big oil companies, i think it was Shell or Chevron. Had a home just outside of San Francisco that was wall to wall floor to ceiling full of expensive art. Literally. I once accidentally knocked a painting off the wall because it was hanging at knee height at the corner of the stairs, and it had a little brass plaque on it, and i looked up the name of the artist and it was Monet's apprentice and son-in-law, who was apparently also a famous painter. He had an original Andy Warhol, which should have been a prize piece for anyone to showcase -- it was hanging in the bathroom. I swear to god this guy was using a Chihuly (famous glass sculptor) as a fruit bowl. And he was like, "idk my wife was the one who liked art"

I was intrigued by this guy, because in the circles i run this dude is The Enemy. right? Wealthy oil executive? But as my client, he was... like a sweet grandpa. A poor widower, a nice old man, anyone who knew him would have called him a sweetheart. He had a slightly bewildered air, a sort of gentle bumbling nature.

And the fact that he was both of these things, a Sweet Little Old Man and The Enemy, at the same time, seemed important and fascinating to me.

He reminded me of some antagonist from fiction, but i couldn't put my finger on who. And when i did it all made sense.

John Hammond.

probably one of the most realistic bad guys ever written.

If you've only ever seen the movie, this will need some explaining.

Michael Crichton wrote Jurassic Park in 1990, and i read it shortly thereafter. In the movie, the dinosaurs are the antagonists, which imo erases 50% of the point of the story.

book spoilers below.

In the book, John Hammond is the villain but it takes the reader like half the book to figure that out. Just like my client, John is a sweet old man who wants lovely things for people. He's a very sympathetic character. But as the book progresses, you start to see something about him.

He has an idea, and he's sure it's a good one. When someone else dies in pursuit of his dream, he doesn't think anything of it. When other people turn out to care about that, he brings in experts to evaluate the safety of his idea, and when they quickly tell him his idea is dangerous and needs to be put on hold, he ignores his own experts that he himself hired, because they are telling him that he is wrong, and he is sure he is right.

In his mind, he's a visionary, and nobody understands his vision. He is surrounded by naysayers. Several things have proven too difficult to do the best and safest way, so he has cut corners and taken shortcuts so he can keep moving forward with his plans, but he's sure it's fine. He refuses to hear any word of caution, because he believes he is being cautious enough, and he knows best, even though he has no background in any of the sciences or professions involved. He sends his own grandchildren out into a life-threatening situation because he is willfully ignorant of the danger he is creating.

THIS is like the real villains of the world. He doesn't want anyone to die. Far from it, he only wants good things for people! He's a sweet old man who loves his grandchildren. But he has money and power and refuses to hear that what he is doing is dangerous for everyone, even his own family.

I think he's possibly one of the most important villains ever written in popular fiction.

In the book, he is killed by a pack of the smallest, cutest, "least dangerous" dinosaurs, because a big part of why we read fiction is to see the villains face thematic justice. But like a cigarette CEO dying of lung cancer, his death does not stop his creation from spreading out into the world to continue to endanger everyone else.

I think it is really important to see and understand this kind of villainy in fiction, so you can recognize it in real life.

Sweetheart of a grandfather. Wanted the best for everyone. Right up until what was best for everyone inconvenienced the pursuit of his own interests.

And my client was like that too. His wife had died, and his dog was now the love of his life, and she was this little old dog with silky hair in a hair cut that left long wispy bits on her lower legs. Certain plant materials were easily entangled in this hair and impossible to get out without pulling her hair which clearly hurt her. When i suggested he ask his groomer to trim her lower leg hair short to avoid this, he refused, saying he really liked her usual hair cut.

I emphasized that she was in pain after every walk due to the plant debris getting caught in her leg hair, and a simple trim could put an end to her daily painful removal of it, and he just frowned like i'd recommended he take a bath in pig shit and said "But she'll be ugly" and refused to talk about it anymore.

Sweet old man though. Everyone loved him.

[maddy-ferguson]

like a month ago a guy told my friend he thought she was cold and disrespectful the day before at a girl's party and since she and i are always together the description has to apply to me too especially because he was talking about a moment where we were talking just the two of us so we reference it 24/7 and the other day we were like this is just like art and patrick who's cold and who's disrespectful...