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anonygowose · 4 months ago

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the-rewatch-rewind · 2 years ago

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Another Cary Grant movie!

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Hello and welcome back to the Rewatch Rewind, the podcast where I count down the 40 movies I rewatched the most in 20 years. My name is Jane, and today I will be talking about number 29 on my list: Universal Pictures and Granox Company’s 1964 comedy Father Goose; directed by Ralph Nelson; written by Peter Stone and Frank Tarloff, from a story by S.H. Barnett; and starring Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, and Trevor Howard.

It’s 1942 in the South Pacific, and most people are focused on a little thing called World War II, but beachcomber Walter Eckland (Cary Grant) just wants to mind his own business. While he’s stealing fuel for his boat from the Royal Australian Navy, his old friend Commander Frank Houghton recognizes him, and coerces him into becoming a coast watcher – which involves living on a deserted island and reporting Japanese plane and ship movements. Frank “accidentally” instructs his ship to crash into Walter’s boat so he’s forced to stay, and hides whiskey throughout the island to motivate Walter to report in. When another coast watcher is in trouble, Frank sends Walter to rescue him in his still functional but tiny dinghy, with the promise that the other man will replace him. When Walter gets to the other island, the coast watcher has been killed in an air raid, and a Frenchwoman named Catherine Freneau (Leslie Caron) has been stranded there with seven young schoolgirls. Walter has no choice but to take them back to his island, and then to learn to live with them, since there’s no safe way to evacuate them. Proper, particular Miss Freneau initially clashes with uncouth, sloppy Eckland, but they eventually start to care for and learn from each other.

I have no memory of my first impressions of this movie. I know my family borrowed it from the library a few times, and then bought it on VHS when our local Hollywood Video was getting rid of all of its VHS tapes, and then eventually got it on DVD. I watched it once in 2003, three times in 2006, twice in 2007, three times in 2009, then once each in 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2019, twice in 2020, and once in 2021 and 2022. So I seem to have phases when I watch this movie a lot and then stretches when I take a break, but I’m not exactly sure why, unless it just has to do with the availability of copies. It’s a very fun movie that I pretty much always feel like watching, although these days I tend to only get around to it during my annual Cary Grant birthday week marathon.

It always feels particularly appropriate to watch this for his birthday because he said that Father Goose was one of his favorite movies to make, and that Walter Eckland was the character he played whose personality was closest to his own. While the scruffy and vulgar Eckland is very different from the dignified, suave gentleman that tends to be associated with the name Cary Grant, he plays this part so perfectly and comfortably that it’s easy to believe he was really like this, and almost impossible to picture anyone else in the role. I’m not sure how Leslie Caron feels about the film or her role, but she also does an absolutely perfect job. She is so delightfully funny. We meet her character at an incredibly stressful moment, and she makes us laugh without ruining the gravity of the situation. Walter finds her and asks who she is, and she replies, “I asked you first!” and then he asks where the man he’s supposed to be picking up is, and she replies, “I buried him.” And then there’s a pause, and then she adds, defensively, “He was dead!” and I don’t know why the way she says that is so funny to me, but I can’t help but laugh every time.

And from there the film continues to provide excellent comedic moments between Grant and Caron. One of my favorites is when Catherine is trying to stall Walter so the children can steal some of his clothes and supplies – they were going to get more supplies provided via a parachute drop, but Commander Houghton determined that even that was too dangerous, and Walter has already made it clear that he has no intention of sharing. Because Catherine and the children are living in the hut with the radio and Walter is living on his boat, Catherine got the message about the cancelled drop before he did, and the way she passes it on to him as slowly as possible is so funny. First, she lets him call in on the radio only to be told that the message has been given to her. Then she hands him the paper she wrote it on upside down, and once he turns it around he finds out that it’s in French, so he asks her to read it, which she does, and when he protests, “You’re reading it in French!” she responds, “Well it’s written in French!” So he asks her to translate it, and that’s when we get the amazing moment I quoted at the end of last episode when she asks him how to say “parachute” in English, and he pauses and thinks for a moment before exclaiming, “Parachute!” and she just goes, “Oh really? Huh” and moves on, and the way they do that is just so perfectly silly and I love it so much.

Another very funny scene that is maybe my favorite part of the movie is after Catherine has been attacked by what she thinks is a water snake, but is actually just a thorny branch. After being told that all water snakes in the area are extremely venomous and there’s nothing they can do, Walter convinces her to reveal where she hid his whiskey – she objected to his excessive drinking in front of the children – so he can make her as comfortable as possible before the end. So she gets very drunk, and he’s being nicer to her than he ever has before because he thinks she’s dying. The audience knows the whole time that she’s not in any danger, so we’re free to enjoy the humor of the situation, and I have to say, of all the playing-drunk-for-comedy performances I’ve seen, Leslie Caron’s is quite possibly the funniest. I especially love – and frequently quote – the part when she’s telling Walter about dating an official at the Italian consulate in Fiume, and she asks Walter, “Do you know where Fiume is?” and he says, “Yugoslavia, isn’t it?” and she says, “No, it’s in Yugoslavia” and I realize that has no right to be very funny but it still cracks me up. And then there are several more very silly moments until she convinces Walter to talk about himself and open up about his past, and then it actually becomes relatively serious for a little bit, as he reveals that he had been a professor until he realized that school was all about teaching conformity rather than encouraging curiosity and critical thinking. Then Catherine passes out and he assumes she’s dead, so he puts a blanket over her face and tells Frank, but while he’s on the radio we can see her feet moving. Meanwhile, the children have found the stick and realized what happened, so they show it to Walter, and he takes the blanket off her face, she says, “Is it morning already?” and then we get another of my favorite moments, when Walter tells Frank, “She’s alive! The snake’s dead!” and then holds the branch up to the radio microphone as if that will in any way explain what happened. And then he just walks away while Frank is yelling his name over the radio in confusion, in the perfect ending to a perfect scene. Although I did just learn that my favorite joke is slightly ruined by the fact that Fiume was actually part of Italy from 1922 to 1945, so technically it wasn’t in Yugoslavia when the movie takes place, and it certainly wouldn’t have had an Italian consulate. And it’s at this point that I would like to apologize to The Sound of Music for calling it a very 1960s version of World War II because that movie isn’t anywhere near as anachronistic as Father Goose. The most egregious offense is Leslie Caron’s hair and makeup, but there are also factual inaccuracies like the Yugoslavia thing, plus some of the military equipment was apparently from the Korean War. But none of that really matters because it’s just trying to be a fun comedy, and as you’ve probably gathered by now, in my opinion it very much succeeds at that. And there are still some aspects of the story that remind us how devastating and disruptive war is: case in point, there are seven children who have been separated from their parents.

While these seven children are not nearly as iconic as the Von Trapps, I still think this movie does a decent job of making most of them at least somewhat distinct people. Angelique and Dominique are stuck as “the French ones” and they’re pretty interchangeable, but at least they get some funny moments. The oldest, Elizabeth, has a huge crush on Walter; Ann likes to complain and wants to go home; Christine has an imaginary friend named Gretchen and decides to give herself the code name Rumpelstiltskin – everybody involved in the war has a nursery rhyme code name, and Walter’s is Mother Goose, which is where the title of the film comes from. Then there’s Harry, who loves cricket and corrects Miss Freneau when she uses the name “Harriet.” I don’t like assigning labels to people, and I don’t know if Harry was trans or just experimenting with gender expression, but I do know that when Walter and Catherine are getting married and the chaplain asks over the radio who the best man is, Walter looks around for a moment and then says Harry’s name, and the kid’s eyes light up, and it’s kind of beautiful. Perhaps this was intended to be seen as merely humoring a childish whim – like playing along with Christine’s imaginary friend – rather than validating trans identities, but compared to the current manufactured panic trying to force trans kids to conform to cisnormativity, it’s strangely refreshing to see adults in a movie made nearly 60 years ago at least kind of listening when a child says they want to be seen as a different gender than they were designated at birth.

The seventh child, Jenny, is probably the most important to the story. At first, she doesn’t speak at all, and repeatedly bites Walter’s hand. But at one point when she’s gathering coconuts on the beach, some Japanese soldiers decide to land on the island looking for turtles, and Walter manages to hide her before the soldiers notice her – despite her biting his hand again. Later, to thank him, she brings him one of the hidden bottles of whiskey, and he manages to get her to start speaking again, and then she and the other kids start helping him fix his boat. While they’re doing that, he decides to paint her name on the dinghy, but he accidentally does it backwards. Their whole dynamic just strikes the perfect balance of sweet and silly. And while I’m pretty sure that it was a complete coincidence that a couple years after making this movie, Cary Grant named his daughter Jennifer, that kind of makes his fatherly relationship with this Jenny even better.

Grant retired from acting when his daughter was born, so this was his second to last film, and the final time he played a romantic lead. I mentioned in the Monkey Business episode that in the later part of his career he frequently played opposite women who were much younger than him, which is very much the case in Father Goose – there’s a twenty-seven-year age gap between Cary Grant and Leslie Caron. In this particular movie, I don’t actually mind it that much; it works for their characters, and Caron was in her 30s, which feels significantly less creepy than when middle-aged men play opposite women in their early 20s. Still, it’s rather obnoxious that at the time most actresses who were around Grant’s age were faced with the choice of retiring or being stuck in stereotypical grandmother roles, while he was still getting fun and interesting parts opposite women young enough to be his daughters. Although Katharine Hepburn was definitely still slaying in her 60s. But anyway, I’m not objecting to the Grant/Caron pairing in this movie because I think both of them were absolutely perfect for their roles and I wouldn’t replace either of them, but their age difference does still reflect Hollywood’s troubling trend of being particularly agist toward women. And there’s still that part of my aroace brain that wonders why almost every movie with a male and female lead needs them to be romantically involved.

Yes, Walter and Catherine have a great enemies-to-lovers arc, but why can’t we get more enemies-to-friends stories? Not everything has to be about romance! Although their wedding scene is a key turning point in more than just their relationship. It starts off very sweet but then gets interrupted when an enemy plane starts shooting at the hut. Thankfully, everyone is fine, and they’re able to finish the wedding and also maintain a relatively lighthearted tone, but at that point it’s clear that they have to get off the island. The wedding wasn’t strictly necessary to move the story to this phase, but it greatly adds to the scene so I can’t be too annoyed about it. Also I guess it would have been kind of scandalous at the time for them to have lived together on an island for a while and then not gotten married, although the movie goes out of its way to make it very clear that they do not sleep together on the island. Before their wedding, they’re living in different places, and then after their wedding they need to escape because the enemy has found out where they are. A submarine is going to rescue them the following morning, so they all spend the night on the beach – very close to the water, for some reason. Early in the morning, while the children are still asleep, Catherine and Walter have an entire weird conversation that seems to have the sole purpose of letting the audience know that they haven’t consummated their relationship yet, and it’s just like, yes, we get it, why are you telling us this? It’s almost a relief when a Japanese patrol boat shows up and interrupts them. But overall I’m not against their relationship. I like the way they help each other grow into better versions of themselves, and I hope they have a happy life together after the events of the movie. I just crave more platonic male-female friendship representation in film.

While I would prefer it without the romance, overall Walter’s character arc teaches a good, albeit difficult, lesson. Often I find myself tempted to adopt the attitude he has at the beginning, when he says, “Several years ago, I made peace with the world. Now if the world isn’t bright enough to make peace with itself, it’s just going to have to settle things without me!” But Walter soon learns that running away from the world and its problems doesn’t solve anything and isn’t even making him happy, and that he and everyone else has a responsibility to help the world make peace with itself, however they can. His participation may not have made a huge difference in the grand scheme of the war, but he still did something, mostly using skills and talents he already had. There is such an overwhelming number of horrible things happening all the time that getting a boat and just sailing around by oneself sounds kind of wonderful, but it’s important to remember that we each have abilities that can help make things at least a little bit better, if we decide to use them – or, as in Walter’s case, are tricked into using them. Of course, the main purpose of this comedy is to entertain, and it certainly doesn’t feel like it was meant to be any sort of call to action, but the message is still unexpectedly inspiring, and that is yet another of the many things I love about Father Goose.

Thank you for listening to me discuss another of my most frequently rewatched movies. Please subscribe or follow, and leave a nice review on Apple Podcasts if you’re enjoying this journey. This wraps up the three-way tie of movies I watched 17 times from 2003 through 2022, so next week I will talk about the shortest in the three-way tie of movies I watched 18 times. As always, I will leave you with a quote from that next movie: “You’ve been taken to the cleaners, and you don’t even know your pants are off!”

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dweemeister · 2 years ago

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2022 Movie Odyssey Awards

And now to (finally) cap off the 2022 Movie Odyssey, here is the annual awards ceremony. To remind you all, the films eligible for the Movie Odyssey are only those that I saw for the first time in their entirety over the last calendar year. Rewatches do not count. Other eligibility rules (such as whether or not a “TV movie” versus a “streaming movie” can count can be found here).

All of these films that were nominated or won (except for Worst Picture) are worth your time and are worth seeking. Even though some of them might be deeply flawed, there are redeeming elements to them that make them wonderful watches. And some, like our ten Best Picture winners - I never distinguish one above the other nine because it’s just too damn hard - are my highest recommendations of the year.

Best Pictures

La bestia debe morir (The Beast Must Die) (1952, Argentina)

The Doll (1919, Germany)

Drive My Car (2021, Japan)

Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)

The Ladykillers (1955)

Nightmare Alley (1947)

A Patch of Blue (1965)

Petite Maman (2021, France)

Sidewalk Stories (1989)

The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

With the fewest movies I’ve seen on record in a calendar year since the blog began, this probably would mean that Best Picture would skew newer, as it does here. For the first time ever, Best Picture has more than three films from the current decade. Drive My Car seems to herald a return to form for Japanese cinema (whose live-action industry has lacked much appeal for international audiences until recently). EEAAO is an Internet favorite, and its fearless filmmaking has proven emotionally resonant while ridiculously entertaining. Little-seen Petite Maman is a low fantasy movie that looks at grief through the eyes of a child - and it is one of the finest films about children I have seen in years. The Tragedy of Macbeth was a stunner for its loaded cast and its deeply atmospheric black-and-white 4:3 aesthetics.

Outside of the current decade, Argentinian noir strikes again with the deliciously deranged La bestia debe morir, saved from oblivion thanks to collaboration of Fernando Martín Peña, the Film Noir Foundation, the UCLA Film & Television Archive, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The Doll represents Ernst Lubitsch at his early silent film best. It is an uproarious time complete with Lubitsch’s sly visuals, but I’m not sure if I could recommend to it folks who haven’t seen a silent film. The Ladykillers drips with British wit as hideous violence threatens to burst through its comedic facade, all thanks to a stupendous ensemble performance. Edmund Goulding’s Nightmare Alley is superior to the Guillermo del Toro remake in almost all the ways that matter. Tyrone Power’s perhaps career-best performance powers a moody noir that always feels a little off-kilter. A Patch of Blue is understated, but intelligent filmmaking by Guy Green. Compassionate performances from Sidney Poitier and Elizabeth Hartman will steal hearts. And lastly, Sidewalk Stories is a neo-silent film from African-American filmmaker Charles Lane as a tribute to Chaplin’s The Kid (1921). But it works beyond as a tribute to Chaplin.

What a slate of ten this was.

Best Comedy

Father Goose (1964)

Glass Onion (2022)

The Ladykillers

A Mighty Wind (2003)

Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953, France)

9 to 5 (1980)

The Oyster Princess (1919, Germany)

Pillow Talk (1959)

See How They Run (2022)

Start Cheering (1938)

As I say every year, this category is not so much looking for the “best” movie as it is awarding the movie that made me laugh the most. The Oyster Princess is the lesser of the two early Ernst Lubitsch movies I saw this year, but it was the more outrageous watch. This farce comedy sees an American heiress’ father attempt to purchase a husband for his daughter, but it does not according to plan. The Oyster Princess contained the best title card I saw in any silent film this year: “A foxtrot epidemic suddenly breaks out during the wedding.” Trust me, you have to see the film to get it. Just behind are Pillow Talk, The Ladykillers, and holiday phenomenon Glass Onion.

Best Musical

Babes in Arms (1939)

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)

Big Fella (1937)

The Gang’s All Here (1943)

Ladies of the Chorus (1948)

Le Million (1931, France)

Love Me or Leave Me (1955)

Meet Danny Wilson (1952)

Oliver & Company (1988)

The Wiz (1978)

This category advantages original musicals, not musical adaptations. If it’s a musical adaptation, it better be superbly filmed/adapted or else I’m gonna have a hard time making a case for it. The Gang’s All Here is a 20th Century Fox musical that combines both original songs and songs from other films from Fox’s back catalog (which, before and after the studio’s acquisition from Disney, was always difficult to access). A musical riot, big splashy fun, somewhat thanks to Busby Berkeley’s direction and signature choreography (see: the reprise of “A Journey to a Star”). I also considered Babes in Arms and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (an adaptation) for this award.

Best Animated Feature

All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)

Belle (2021, Japan)

Flee (2021, Denmark)

Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko (2021, Japan)

Hilda and the Mountain King (2021)

Lightyear (2022)

Oliver & Company

The Rescuers (1977)

The Rescuers Down Under (1990)

Turning Red (2022)

No contest here. Nominated at last year’s Oscars for Animated Feature, Documentary Feature, and International Feature Film (the first time any movie had been nominated for that combination of categories), Flee is about a man who shares, for the first time in his life, his experiences about fleeing Taliban-controlled Afghanistan shortly after the Soviet withdrawal from the country. A pseudonym is used to protect his identity. Some might have quibbles with the film’s artistic style, but I’m of the opinion that the way the story is told far outstrips any concerns I have about the animation itself.

None of the other nominees came close to matching Flee. But I would consider The Rescuers (the 1977 original) to be the runner-up here. In a stronger year, no way would the scattershot Belle, emotionally unengaging Lightyear, and narratively lacking Oliver & Company stayed in this category.

Best Documentary

American Revolution 2 (1969)

Antonio Gaudí (1984, Japan)

Children of the Mist (2021, Vietnam)

A Crack in the Mountain (2022)

The Donut King (2020)

Flee

The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)

Spellbound (2002)

Three Songs for Benazir (2021 short, Afghanistan)

Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom (2015, Ukraine)

Flee does the double. The competition here, however, is much closer than in Animated Feature. To me, the very close runner-up is the Grand Jury Trống Đồng Award for Best Feature winner from Viet Film Fest 2022 (yours truly is the Artistic Director), Children of the Mist. Hà Lệ Diễm’s feature debut follows the life of a 12, later 13-year-old Hmong girl living in far northern Vietnam. At 13 years of age, she might be subject to the tradition of bride-kidnapping in Hmong culture. The director is mostly an observer to what happens in the film. One wonders what would have happened to the film’s subject if the cameras were not there.

Next up after Children of the Mist would have been The Murder of Fred Hampton and the experimental Antonio Gaudí.

Best Non-English Language Film

Ala Kachuu – Take and Run (2020 short), Switzerland/Kyrgyzstan

La bestia debe morir (The Beast Must Die), Argentina

Buffalo Boy (2004), Vietnam

Drive My Car, Japan

Flee, Denmark

Ganashatru (An Enemy of the People) (1989), India

Loves of a Blonde (1965), Czechoslovakia

Memoria (2021), Colombia

Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, France

Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom, Ukraine

Let’s spotlight a few others here I haven’t mentioned yet. Nguyễn-Võ Minh’s Buffalo Boy is a coming-of-age tale in far southern rural Vietnam that goes about its drama methodically, capturing a place and time so unlike anything you will find in the movies. Like an American Western, Buffalo Boy asks questions of morality and masculinity in an unforgiving landscape. Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot or Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday is Jacques Tati's introduction of his iconic character - the silent, pipe-smoking, behatted, clumsy M. Hulot. The best Hulot movie would come later, but so began the legend of one of the most important silent comic protagonists in filmmaking.

Best Silent Film

The Doll

The Oyster Princess

Sidewalk Stories

Three Women (1924)

I wasn’t too much a fan of Three Women, but I wasn’t able to get to many silent films in 2022. Hopefully that changes for the next year.

Personal Favorite Film

The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)

Drive My Car

Glass Onion

Go for Broke! (1951)

Hilda and the Mountain King

The Ladykillers

The Masque of Red Death (1964)

Misterios de ultratumba (Black Pit of Dr. M) (1959, Mexico)

A Patch of Blue

Time After Time (1979)

I’ll always point out that the films I considered to be the best of what I’ve seen in a calendar year aren’t necessarily my favorites. Too many film critics conflate the quality of the films they see with their personal preferences. There’s a strict separation for me. This year, Roger Corman’s The Masque of Red Death - starring Vincent Price and distributed by American International Pictures (AIP) - takes the cake as my personal favorite. AIP made eight Edgar Allan Poe adaptations from 1960-1964; each one directed by Corman and starring Price, each one not strictly keeping to Poe’s text. I’m a fan of Poe, and don’t expect a strict adaptation from the AIP/Corman/Price movies. The garish Technicolor? The complete commitment to character from Price though he’s surrounded by other actors who can’t act half as good as him? The sumptuous costuming and production design for this gothic horror movie? Couldn’t get enough of it.

Close behind were Glass Onion and the delightful sci-fi Time After Time, which imagines what would’ve happened if H.G. Wells actually built a time machine and transported himself to late ‘70s San Francisco. Now only if they can get a home media release of Misterios de ultratumba with English subtitles, because what a treat that movie was.

Best Director

Román Viñoly Barreto, La bestia debe morir

Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog (2021)

The Daniels, Everything Everywhere All At Once

Edmund Goulding, Nightmare Alley (1947)

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car

Ernst Lubitsch, The Doll

Alexander Mackendrick, The Ladykillers

Céline Sciamma, Petite Maman

Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans (2022)

Jacques Tati, Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday

This category usually aligns pretty closely with Best Picture. Never nominated in this category and having never won before, it’s Ernst Lubitsch who takes Best Director this year for his saucy and vivacious silent romantic comedy. Lubitsch was a foundational director when it came to comedies in cinema, and I don’t a lot of contemporary filmmakers know enough about him or appreciate him enough. What an achievement too, to have made The Doll only a year after the conclusion of the Great War and the economic turmoil Germany was facing then.

Runner-up would have been Hamaguchi, and perhaps Mackendrick after that.

Best Acting Ensemble

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)

Drive My Car

Everything Everywhere All At Once

The Fabelmans

Glass Onion

The Ladykillers

A Mighty Wind

Nightmare Alley (1947)

9 to 5

Hats off to the gangsters played by Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Danny Green, and Peter Sellers. And a huge ovation for Katie Johnson, who plays the old lady who gives their “string quintet” lodging. She is incredible and terrifically funny in this. Perfectly cast, incredibly acted, dripping with comedic sensibilities threatening to explode into violence (at least from the men’s side of things), they take Best Acting Ensemble.

This was a close call though, as several others had a shout to win here.

Best Actor

Austin Butler, Elvis (2022)

Soumitra Chatterjee, Ganashatru (An Enemy of the People)

Cary Grant, Penny Serenade (1941)

Alec Guinness, The Ladykillers

Narciso Ibáñez Menta, La bestia debe morir

Hidetoshi Nishijima, Drive My Car

Sidney Poitier, A Patch of Blue

Tyrone Power, Nightmare Alley (1947)

Jason Robards, The Ballad of Cable Hogue

Denzel Washington, The Tragedy of Macbeth

Arguably Tyrone Power’s finest few hours in any movie. As the scheming con man who stumbles his way into a carnival, this film is extremely removed from Power’s roles as crowd-pleasing, romantic, dark-and-handsome, swashbuckling heroes at his home studio 20th Century Fox. Power said later in life that Nightmare Alley was his favorite of all the films he made, and it is easy to see why.

I was also strongly considering Chatterjee, Menta, Nishijima, and Washington as well here.

Best Actress

Joan Crawford, Johnny Guitar (1954)

Doris Day, Pillow Talk

Irene Dunne, Penny Serenade

Elizabeth Hartman, A Patch of Blue

Katie Johnson, The Ladykillers

Frances McDormand, The Tragedy of Macbeth

Tôko Miura, Drive My Car

Barbara Stanwyck, No Man of Her Own (1950)

Michelle Williams, The Fabelmans

Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All At Once

So often the talk around Doris Day is to liken her to that “prudish innocent blonde that your mother/grandmother wanted to be”. That is reductive, and ignores her incredible dramatic (I almost double-nominated her here for Love Me or Leave Me, which was a dramatic role) and comedic talents. And she is something else here in Pillow Talk - a raunchy (for the time) romcom that helped contribute to the demise of Hollywood’s self-censoring Hays Code. Comedic timing? Perfect. Facial and bodily acting? Exactly what the part calls for and then some. Pillow Talk was the first of three groundbreaking romcoms she made with leading star Rock Hudson and supporting Actor Tony Randall (1961′s Lover Come Back and 1964′s Send Me No Flowers).

So many choices here, with almost every actress nominated here having a case to win it. This was a difficult decision.

Best Supporting Actor

Guillermo Battaglia, La bestia debe morir

Lyle Bettger, No Man of Her Own

Bobby Darin, Pressure Point (1962)

Troy Kotsur, CODA (2021)

Masaki Okada, Drive My Car

Nathán Pinzón, El vampiro negro (1953, Argentina)

Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All At Once

Tony Randall, Pillow Talk

Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog

David Warner, The Ballad of Cable Hogue

As I joke every year, this is the category that favors villains. The winner this year is no different. If you have seen Fritz Lang’s M (1931, Germany), then I don’t have to say much other than that Nathán Pinzón plays the Peter Lorre character in this adaptation of M. Pinzón was a longtime character actor well-known to Argentinian audiences, but virtually nowhere else. In Latin American cinema at this time, “melodrama” is not a pejorative term when it comes to the acting style. The default in this era is to be histrionic. So how startling it is to see Pinzón play his role - a serial killer - quietly, with sadness and pathos to spare.

His countryman, Guillermo Battaglia, also has a loathsome part to play in another Argentinian noir, and was close to notching this win. So too were Quan and Warner.

Best Supporting Actress

Gloria Castilla, El vampiro negro

Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin

Aunjanue Ellis, King Richard

Kathryn Hunter, The Tragedy of Macbeth

Julie London, The Red House (1947)

Mercedes McCambridge, Johnny Guitar

Nina Meurisse, Petite Maman

Edna May Oliver, Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)

Park Yoo-rim, Drive My Car

Shelley Winters, A Patch of Blue

Fiery, antagonistic, scene-stealing. That’s Mercedes McCambridge in Johnny Guitar for you. In the battle of feminine Western intelligence and will, McCambridge’s character may be the loser in the end, but the performance is an absolute winner. Colored by repressed sexuality (which has lent many queer interpretations between her character’s relationship to Crawford’s) and a stiffness that works in the context of the film, this was a memorable performance from McCambridge. Condon, Ellis, Hunter, and London were my next choices.

Best Adapted Screenplay

Nguyễn-Võ Minh, Buffalo Boy

Hanns Kräly and Ernst Lubitsch, The Doll

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe, Drive My Car

Satyajit Ray, Ganashatru (An Enemy of the People)

Miloš Forman, Jaroslav Papoušek, Ivan Passer, and Václav Šašek, Loves of a Blonde

Jules Furthman, Nightmare Alley (1947)

Guy Green, A Patch of Blue

Jane Campion and Thomas Savage, The Power of the Dog

Nicholas Meyer, Time After Time

Alberto Etchebehere and Román Viñoly Barreto, El vampiro negro

A touching, meditative from Hamaguchi and Oe gets the Adapted Screenplay crown, over very stiff competition. Closest competitors, to me, were Loves of a Blonde and Nightmare Alley.

Best Original Screenplay

Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin

Ron Shelton, Bull Durham (1988)

The Daniels, Everything Everywhere All At Once

Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner, The Fabelmans

William Rose and Jimmy O’Connor,The Ladykillers

Colin Higgins and Patricia Resnick, 9 to 5

Jordan Peele, Nope (2022)

Céline Sciamma, Petite Maman

Stanley Shapiro and Maurice Richlin, Pillow Talk

Charles Lane, Sidewalk Stories

Steven Spielberg has become so legendary, he’s come full circle: audiences and critics and historians now take him for granted. The Fabelmans remains in theaters as of the writing of this sentence, and it’s going to make very little money (blame COVID, a moviegoing culture that only goes to theaters when it’s mainstream American animation or superheroes, etc.). But it’s a beautiful screenplay from him and Kushner, exploring how filmmaking was a means that allowed him to understand his friends and family, and all the childhood trauma that emanated from both.

After that, I might have given this to The Ladykillers or Petite Maman on another day.

Best Cinematography

Alberto Etchebehere, La bestia debe morir

Yves Cape, Buffalo Boy

Hidetoshi Shinomiya, Drive My Car

Bert Glennon and Ray Rennahan, Drums Along the Mohawk

Harry Stradling, Sr., Johnny Guitar

Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Memoria

Victor Herrera, Misterios de ultratumba (Black Pit of Dr. M)

Lee Garmes, Nightmare Alley (1947)

Ari Wegner, The Power of the Dog

Gabriel Figueroa, The Scapular (1968, Mexico)

In his first appearance in this category, arguably Mexico’s greatest cinematographer ever takes the prize. Figueroa started out as a still photographer when, in the 1930s, he was introduced to filmmaking by his friends. He took some time in the late 1930s to earn a scholarship and study under Gregg Toland (1940′s The Grapes of Wrath, 1941′s Citizen Kane) for one year. He came home to Mexico and became a black-and-white cinematography specialist. And in The Scapular comes some of the most evocative, terrifying, and awe-inspiring images I’ve seen in a black-and-white film. All this after that format was already losing momentum in Hollywood itself. Fantastic work.

After Figueroa, I was thinking perhaps Mukdeeprom, Garmes, or Cape.

Best Film Editing

David Brenner, James Cameron, John Refoua, and Stephen E. Rivkin, Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)

Paul Rogers, Everything Everywhere All At Once

Sarah Broshar and Michael Kahn, The Fabelmans

Ray Curtiss, The Gang’s All Here

Bob Ducsay, Glass Onion

José Serra, La bestia debe morir

Pamela Martin, King Richard

Miroslav Hájek, Loves of a Blonde

Nicholas Monsour, Nope

Joel Coen and Lucian Johnston, The Tragedy of Macbeth

Best to watch it yourself and see what I mean. EEAAO would be an absolute mess without its terrific editing. Avatar, The Gang’s All Here, and The Tragedy of Macbeth were next considered.

Best Adaptation or Musical Score

George Burns, Babes in Toyland (1961)

Carol Hall, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

Charles Henderson and Alfred Newman, The Gang’s All Here

George Duning, Ladies of the Chorus

George Stoll and Robert Van Eps, Love Me or Leave Me

Eugen Illin, Loves of a Blonde

Tom Halm, A Mighty Wind

Ernest Irving, The Proud Valley (1940)

George Parrish, Start Cheering

Charlie Smalls, The Wiz

In a category that advantages original musicals over adaptations and combination scores or original and adapted musical, it’s an original musical mockumentary that wins here. If I learned anything about my followers over MOABOS, it’s that many of them don’t like American folk music. Alas, for the amount of songs composed for this film, and for the instrumental fidelity to the American folk tradition, A Mighty Wind blows the competition away.

Well, mostly. The Gang’s All Here and Love Me or Leave Me had a decent chance, too.

Best Original Score

Terence Blanchard, The Woman King (2022)

Elmer Bernstein, The Black Cauldron (1985)

Bruce Broughton, The Rescuers Down Under

Simon Franglen, Avatar: The Way of Water

Michael Giacchino, The Batman (2022)

Jerry Goldsmith, A Patch of Blue

Marc Marder, Sidewalk Stories

Miklós Rózsa, The Red House

Miklós Rózsa, Time After Time

Victor Young, Johnny Guitar

Okay, some of my friends, family, and followers didn’t like “Johnny Guitar”. But Victor Young’s score to that movie incorporated the central tune gorgeously across the film’s runtime. A rumbling, dramatic dynamo of a score fits the action and dialogue scenes beautifully, and wins for the second time in this category in as many attempts (in 2013, Young won for his score to another Western, 1953′s Shane).

Rózsa for Time After Time, Blanchard, and Franglen were also under consideration as the winners here.

Best Original Song

“I’ll Never Stop Loving You”, music by Nicholas Brodszky, lyrics by Sammy Cahn, Love Me or Leave Me

“Island in the Sun”, music and lyrics by Harry Belafonte and Irving Burgie, Island in the Sun (1957)

“Johnny Guitar”, music by Victor Young, lyrics by Peggy Lee, Johnny Guitar

“A Journey to a Star”, music by Harry Warren, lyrics by Leo Robin, The Gang’s All Here

“A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow”, music and lyrics by Michael McKean and Annette O’Toole, A Mighty Wind

“Love Survives”, music and lyrics by Al Kasha, Joel Hirschhorn, Mike Curb, and Michael Lloyd, All Dogs Go to Heaven

“9 to 5”, music and lyrics by Dolly Parton, 9 to 5

“Someone’s Waiting for You”, music by Sammy Fain, lyrics by Carol Connors and Ayn Robbins, The Rescuers

“Tomorrow is the Song I Sing”, music by Jerry Goldsmith, lyrics by Richard Gillis, The Ballad of Cable Hogue

“Why Should I Worry?”, music and lyrics by Dan Hartman and Charlie Midnight, Oliver & Company

My thanks again to those of you who participated in the Movie Odyssey Award for Best Original Song’s (MOABOS) tenth edition. I certainly hope you all had a lot of fun listening and watching, and that you might have learned something or became interested in a film along the way.

Details for this category here.

Best Costume Design

Christof Roche-Gordon, Death on the Nile (2022)

Catherine Martin, Elvis

Shirley Kurata, Everything Everywhere All At Once

Eugene Joseff, The Gang’s All Here

Uncredited, Ladies of the Chorus

Laura Nightingale, The Masque of Red Death

Luis Sequeira, Nightmare Alley (2021)

Uncredited, The Oyster Princess

Kym Barrett, Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)

Gersha Phillips, The Woman King

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Pat McNalley and Ruth Sandifer, Babes in Toyland

Pete Altobelli, Cindy Baggett, Marvin G. Westmore, Irene De’Atley, and Barbara Lorenz, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

Michelle Chung and Anissa Salazar, Everything Everywhere All At Once

Guy Pearce, The Gang’s All Here

Helen Hunt, Ladies of the Chorus

Uncredited, Le Million

Evangelina Garibay and Agripina Lozada, Misterios de ultratumba (Black Pit of Dr. M)

Carolyn Cousins, See How They Run

Lesley Vanderwalt, Three Thousand Years of Longing

Babalwa Mtshiselwa and Louisa V. Anthony, The Woman King

Best Production Design

Kurt Richter, The Doll

Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy, Ian Gracie, and Damien Drew, Elvis

Rick Heinrichs and Andrew Bennett, Glass Onion

Jim Morahan, The Ladykillers

Lazare Meerson, Le Million

Tamara Deverell and Brandt Gordon, Nightmare Alley (2021)

Rochus Gliese and Kurt Richter, The Oyster Princess

Wilfred Shingleton, The Proud Valley

Roger Ford, Nicholas Dare, and Sophie Nash, Three Thousand Years of Longing

Stefan Dechant, Jason T. Clark, and Christina Ann Wilson, The Tragedy of Macbeth

Achievement in Visual Effects

Avatar: The Way of Water

The Batman

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Nope

Robin Robin (2021 short)

Worst Picture

The Ancestral (2022, Vietnam)

The Black Cauldron (1985)

Don’t Look Up (2021)

Please no.

Honorary Awards

Aardman Animations, for their innovations in stop-motion animation

Sidney Poitier, for his trailblazing artistic and human accomplishments (posthumously)

FILMS WITH MULTIPLE NOMINATIONS (excluding Worst Picture; 56) Eleven: Drive My Car

Ten: Everything Everywhere All At Once

Nine: The Ladykillers

Seven: La bestia debe morir (The Beast Must Die); A Patch of Blue

Six: The Gang’s All Here; Nightmare Alley (1947); The Tragedy of Macbeth

Five: The Ballad of Cable Hogue; The Doll; The Fabelmans; Glass Onion; Johnny Guitar

Four: Ladies of the Chorus; Loves of a Blonde; A Mighty Wind; 9 to 5; The Oyster Princess; Petite Maman; Pillow Talk; The Power of the Dog; Sidewalk Stories

Three: Avatar: The Way of Water;The Banshees of Inisherin; The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas; Buffalo Boy; Elvis; Flee; Ganashatru (An Enemy of the People); Love Me or Leave Me; Le Million; Misterios de ultratumba (Black Pit of Dr. M); Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday; Nope; Oliver & Company; Three Thousand Years of Longing; Time After Time; El vampiro negro; The Woman King

Two: All Dogs Go to Heaven; Babes in Toyland; The Batman; Drums Along the Mohawk; Hilda and the Mountain King; The Masque of Red Death; Memoria; Nightmare Alley (2021); No Man of Her Own; Penny Serenade; The Proud Valley; The Red House; The Rescuers; The Rescuers Down Under; See How They Run; Start Cheering; Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom; The Wiz

WINNERS (excluding honorary awards and Worst Picture; 25) 3 wins: The Doll; Everything Everywhere All At Once

2 wins: Flee; La bestia debe morir (The Beast Must Die); Drive My Car; The Ladykillers; Nightmare Alley (1947)

1 win: The Batman; The Fabelmans; The Gang’s All Here; Johnny Guitar; The Masque of Red Death; A Mighty Wind; Nope; Le Million; The Oyster Princess; A Patch of Blue; Petite Maman; Pillow Talk; Robin Robin; The Scapular; Sidewalk Stories; Three Thousand Years of Longing; The Tragedy of Macbeth; El vampire negro; The Woman King

83 films were nominated in 26 categories.

#Movie Odyssey Awards #2022 Movie Odyssey Awards #My Movie Odyssey

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stevishabitat · 9 months ago

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I never watched any of it until 2021, with the exception of the Netflix Marvel series, which weren't even considered "real MCU" at the time.

I pirated the first season of Daredevil on a friend's recommendation, but was kind of turned off by the unexpected level of violence. When I actually subscribed to Netflix a few years later, I tried it again and fell in love. Watched all three seasons plus the Defenders. Then watched Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage. (could not get into Iron Fist or the Punisher, sorry white boys)

In 2021, I literally binged the whole of the MCU so I would have context for a rumored Matt Murdock cameo in Spider-Man No Way Home.

Then watched Hawkeye because I always kind of liked the concept of the one totally non-powered guy in the Avengers who has a family back home and just seems to keep getting pulled into shit.

Subsequently, I watched the Loki series and fell hard and fast into the fandom.

I was kind of broken by season 2 of Loki and will have to prepare myself for a rewatch, but it was really excellent, just sad.

Echo was absolutely fantastic. My kiddo really enjoyed The Marvels more than most other MCU stuff (kiddo is now a major Goose fan).

So yeah, I'm showing up at the party after everyone else has left. But damn, there are still good snacks!

Just curious...

Doesn't matter your opinion of it, just pick the one you last actively decided to watch (even if you didn't finish it)

My sister and I were wondering, we know there was a huge drop off after endgame, but it's been a while since then.

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chaotic-plotter · 2 years ago

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@dreamerinsilico <3 sent me a lot of emojis and i'm going to answer them all. from this ask meme

✨What's a fic you've posted you wish you could breathe life into again and have people talking about it? (or simply a fic you wish got more credit)

is it cheating to say "any of them"? 😂

i haven't written all that many so there's not a lot to choose from. we'll go with "a lighthouse five hundred yards down". at the time, i never planned on writing it, but the idea hit me like a damn anvil one really stupid humid day in summer 2021 and i was haunted until i finally wrote it.

💫what is your favorite kind of comment/feedback?

the kind where people either tell me why something struck them or where they dive into language/images/etc. mostly because that's what i like to do when i read something (dive into language, images, etc) and also because, even though it's a super limited dataset, fic is the only place i can get random reader feedback (not writer feedback, i have critique partners). i come from throwing myself against (....and sliding on down) the glass hill of trad pub and had never actually gotten any kind of feedback/response from people who didn't know me or my writing before and it was really useful to see what people responded to, if they liked my style, etc.

💘Is there any posted fic you want to rework/re-edit/re-write?

funny enough.....yes? and also funny enough, i sort of get to? in a sense?

i started my long post-fall fic right after my first rewatch back in 2021 and i planned out the whole thing (yes it's still taking me 800 years to finish it, i apologize). but in reality, i sort of have a different outlook on will and hannibal post-s3 than i did at the time. and i'm really going to be rethinking the back half of that fic as i work towards finishing it.

so, essentially, yes, i wish i could rework those first 6 chapters (especially the first 2, wrt to writing style and tone especially!) to better fit whatever pivot i'm going to do in the last 4. i wouldn't change any of will's internal arc, i'm still happy with that, but there's plot stuff that i would.

🕯️was there a fic that was really hard on you to write, or took you to a place you didn't think it would take you?

not one that anyone can read, but i tried, thinking it would be darkly funny and maybe a good time (why i thought this is a mystery) to write about will post sex with margot. but writing about it in a "will has had sex that was Not Enjoyable but hey it was Sex With a Real Human Person and is reminded of his profound loneliness and has a little cry in the bathtub about it" way.

.......yeah i legitimately made myself upset with that one and had to stop. maybe i'll circle back around to it when i'm not so profoundly lonely.

🪄what is your post-writing/sharing aftercare? How do you take care of yourself or celebrate yourself when you've finished a fic?

i don't have any writing aftercare 😛 i probably should though

mostly i just take a couple of days off from writing after i finish something. idk, does checking your email hoping someone comments count as aftercare? i'm afraid i'm a terrible obsessive and putting things down is not my greatest skill, even if i am exhausted and glad to be done with actively working on them.

💌share something with us about an up-and-coming work (WIP) that has you excited!

hmmmmmm. well.

the next wip i actually have on the docket is a s1 nudist will au. i'm excited to jump back into hannibal's headspace after being outside of it for so long. he's absolutely insufferable and i can't wait to go full goose menace on everyone in the story (until it turns back on me and he never shuts up 😛)

and then, well, i've got another one-shot challenge after that, which is all about stretching muscles i rarely stretch 😏. i'm still deciding if i want to run a poll about it or if it should be a complete surprise

send me more asks if you like! i love these emoji meme post things

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margareth-lv · 3 years ago

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The human mind is the great mystery of our existence...

I'll never get to understand the people who truly believe that THIS woman welcomed her “first child” in August 2021:

(I’ve just rewatched the episode 603, the green trees in the background seem to be added in post-production, the background looks artificial, it’s not only the gif)

I agree, the exact dates cannot be established.

They both (Sam and Cait) hide the truth about their situation, their actions are intended to confuse people, to blur facts. Smoke and mirrors.

I mean, I can understand that.

But we’ve collected some certain data (and dates). And this is a fact.

And besides, Ladies, let's not forget our real-life experience and let’s not pretend that we don't know that tall and thin women tend to carry smaller. Especially if it is their “first pregnancy”.

🤰🏻

The most important facts we've collected:

1. Cait’s IG story on Mother’s Day in the UK (Sunday, March 14, 2021):

(notice the vegetation in the park and the trees without leaves, I bet this is a lategram)

—————

... but we have also:

2. Sam's IG post "That's a wrap. Well, on Friday", shared on IG on June 1, 2021.

Thus, they wrapped on May 28 or June 4, 2021 (Fridays close to June 1).

—————

... and we have also:

3. The Apron Gate (episode 603):

Or: How Best to Hide a Baby Bump. Lesson no. 1773.

————— Of course, the evidence was designed to send us on a wild goose chase, but we are all smart.

—————

... so I went to the effort of analysing past weather records for Scotland in January/March 2021.

It's taken me about three minutes.

You can actually check these yourself:

Between January 2021 and March 2021 it snowed on January 4, 6, 7, 14 and on February 8, 9, 13 and never after.

❄️🌨❄️

Thank you, @malu1997 for reminding me this IG post shared by Sophie Skelton on February 9, 2021:

The snowy day in Scotland, indeed.

🌨❄️🌨

So when these scenes were filmed?

You know, associating facts and concentration has a positive impact on the entire nervous system, especially in these extremely difficult times.

—————

🥳🍾👏🏻

Sam and Caitríona, congratulations on your new arrival in February/March 2021!

You two deserve every bit of happiness…

💃🏽🕺🏻

[March 24, 2022]

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feelingofcontent · 3 years ago

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DNP Rewatch: Something we want to tell you!

Date video was published: 01/04/2021 (X)

DNP Main Channel Rewatch: 434

The first true joint video since PINOF 10. When Phil announced Dan as the final Stereo guest (1, 2), it really shouldn’t have been that much of a shock, but I didn’t actually believe he would be until it happened.

0:06 - just seeing Dan’s huge smile in the preview bit... 😭

0:30 - the ‘afterparty’ show! that one was really fun too. they must have made bank from the first one to do this additional one so quickly, and then to end up planning even more with Stereo

0:38 - the classic Phil hide-the-guest thing

0:43 - Phil immediately looks so happy to have Dan there

1:18 - and Dan has sweater paws right away

1:26 - Phil forgets about looking at the camera a lot in this video and looks more comfortable then in any of the other Stereo shows, even the one with Martyn

1:53 - why did Dan think ‘penis’ was a swear?! Phil does not bleep that usually

2:09 - Phil left in a lot more full-frame clips without the Stereo sidebar in this one than in the other Stereo shows

2:32 - less than ideal circumstances for sure, but this was the first time DNP had ever spent Christmas Day together. and Dan had shared a couple of photos (1, 2) 😭

2:37 - still not over Phil getting Dan this bear jumper. that also goes with the branding of YWGTTN

3:07 - Phil liked the long hair!

3:41 - I had missed Dan’s facial expression reactions so much

3:48 - “Danny” the first of a couple just in this

3:52 - “this is how well I know Phil” Dan is still so proud that he knows Phil the best...Phil trash #1 indeed

4:28 - I remember having bath pearls as a child!

4:40 - why did Dan lick his lips and raise an eyebrow there

5:00 - Dan is trying so hard to not be amused but failing. it was indeed one of Phil’s draft tweets

5:45 - that does sound exactly like something Phil would do...to be fair, I was wiping down packages with disinfectant too. although not fresh fruit...

6:11 - Phil has no idea where this is going. Dan must have been saving up this story for YEARS

6:16 - ...and then Phil realizes 😂 and the Dan eyebrow raise

6:44 - sees the look on Dan’s face and can’t hold it together

6:50 - oh Phil 😂 I bet when this happened Phil immediately came from getting the delivery at the door and told Dan this story

7:08 - the zoom in on the editing so we can’t miss the “top that...literally” from Dan

8:04 - “lick me” alrighty there Dan...I’m not sure Phil’s made it any better with the goose thing

8:34 - Dan’s exaggerated sad face but then his real one right after...this must have been so hard for Phil

8:48 - even back in April 2020, Dan’s projects were already being shuffled around 😕

9:04 - Phil is so excited for Dan! he wants to spoil things so bad

9:21 - it really seemed like Dan could not wait to get to this announcement. they were so excited!

9:36 - Phil’s smile is so big! 🥺

9:46 - hmmm, Phil talked about this story in The Scary Reason I Didn’t Buy A House, but he made it sound like they were thinking of buying a house to flip, not live in

10:01 - SO long working on the house. but now they’re in it and they seem so happy and any talk of the forever home still just makes me 😭

10:12 - and the first new house picture they showed!

10:34 - still can’t believe their original plan was to both move and come out in the middle of the tour. though I wonder if those two things were somewhat tied together for them, and when they found out they weren’t moving that year, it took off some of the pressure to come out then

10:46 - that is a lot of boxes and not a lot of space to live with for what ended up being 6-ish months

10:52 - ah, candid Dan photo!

11:13 - I’m glad they want their privacy, but I would still love love love to know some of the design decisions they made. I’m with Dan on the reasons for liking house tours

12:17 - Dan’s mind has gone...somewhere 👀

12:22 - Dan had talked about this D&D game in a live show in 2017, actually. minus the gay bit

13:18 - Phil pulling his sleeves down into sweater paws too

13:28 - we still haven’t seen much of the green wall! a bit in some Phil shorts and this picture shortly after they moved in

13:34 - “a desk” way to share something exciting Dan 😂

13:50 - of course Dan was attached to Steve and Scraggy too

14:03 - and apparently they are getting updates from the person who lives there now!

14:23 - they’re not seeing Steve at this point even though they haven’t fully moved, since they were just living in the ‘filming’ flat

14:39 - still don’t know exactly where Dan was going here but it was a lot. pretty sure his general point may have been ‘don’t expect our lives to move that fast’

15:19 - they didn’t announce that Norman had died until later in January, but it’s hard to tell if he was still alive at this point or not

15:44 - “you can’t be afraid to live and love” Dan 😭

15:57 - I can’t believe they almost did this and got a dog! Dog when?! they mentioned dogs so much in 2021, especially towards the end of the year

16:30 - clips from the last moving video 🥺 god every time I think about how many times they’ve moved together and everything I can’t handle it

17:07 - they really were giving all the updates at once here

17:29 - Phil does not want to share his plans! also he definitely almost said “everyone’s more worried about you” but switched it to “wondering”

17:56 - Phil just watching Dan fondly as he talks about all this

18:30 - unplanned segment! good on Phil for coming up with that one

18:40 - I am still obsessed with this clip of Dan dabbing on their balcony. just...why?! neither of them are normal (fond)

19:01 - Dan is just so nice and appreciative in this video

19:20 - Phil editing the “sexy” music over the picture...what even. and then saying “it’s a very sexy pose” 👀

19:29 - still cannot believe they discussed this photo. and Phil cut out some of the discussion for the video! it was even longer in the live show. I mean, they succeeded with the nipple coverage I guess

19:39 - “this was not a sexy moment” jesus christ this whole bit

20:29 - laughing at them using separate bathrooms in that flat and wondering who had to climb over the boxes down the hallway of the gaming room to get to that one

21:05 - Dan’s reaction to Phil starting a sentence with “we tried to...” right after the pee discussion...WHAT did he think Phil was going to say?! 😳

21:40 - love that Phil included art for this!

21:48 - Dan did not have to do that look there

22:05 - “I like playing video games with you” and the eye contact, help 🥺

22:37 - little did we know we would get two months of “this” very soon!

23:33 - love Phil’s gentle teasing of Dan for this

23:49 - little punches from Phil. he’s excited about this story

24:33 - “Dan ass reveal” is really not a sentence I was expecting

24:44 - both of them HATE not having full control of things. but Dan looks great with the pink background...do wish we had gotten to see the full jumpsuit though

25:14 - the contradiction of that to literally less than a minute ago when he wanted horny DMs...

25:44 - I can’t believe Phil was there because of pandemic restrictions and everything, but he’s telling this bit of the story as if he was

26:44 - that was hilarious that the had to take off the logo in that photo

27:03 - I’m so sad for Dan and for us that we still haven’t gotten this content, whatever it is

27:36 - oh Phil 🙁 he looks so disappointed talking about this. I want to see a creative solo Phil project so much!

28:20 - I’m so glad Dan at least fixed it a bit after that disaster. I would have loved to have seen Dan’s reaction to seeing it after that

28:53 - “crisis twink” Phil era when?!

29:29 - “in the Dan and Phil house” is so casual but so much

29:32 - Phil’s face as Dan puts his arm behind him...Phil definitely thought he was doing something other than fixing the cushion

30:00 - “it’s not suitable for YouTube” christ, Phil

30:10 - YouTube content, tour?, book!

30:42 - the seem to have such fond memoires of TABINOF and TATINOF

31:10 - Dan smiling so fondly at Phil doing promo for him...and the start of the majority of Dan’s 2021 promo of things being in videos on Phil’s channel 😂

31:14 - and a “this guy”

32:29 - Phil is so excited about that too! him saying “I’m the first person to read it” has the same proud energy of Dan saying “this is how well I know Phil” towards the start of this video

33:36 - “I’m hyped for you Danny” 🥺

34:13 - the full audio version is also available on YouTube thanks to In Depth Bants! (they did have some audio issues at the start since they were sitting right next to each other, but they fixed it fairly quickly)

It was just so nice to see them on camera together again. And for them to want to tell us this big news about their lives. 🥺 I don’t rewatch this video as much as the other joint videos from 2021, but it still makes me so happy.

The live show was on December 29, but it took Phil a bit of time to edit and post this one (likely because of the audio issues at the beginning). In between there, for New Year’s, they had a quiet evening at home, apparently including texting memes to each other.

#dan and phil #dnp #dnpRewatch #amazingphil #daniel howell #phil lester #danisnotonfire #amazingphil videos #Something we want to tell you!

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golddustdyke · 3 years ago

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been so depressed the last couple of months and i just remembered that i didn’t do my annual rewatch of gilmore girls in 2021 ... i’m such a silly GOOSE that’s why i’ve been depressed

#also why is there she goes by the la's a perfect song #text

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mothman-misato · 3 years ago

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this post is super long i'm sorry in advance...

i got curious so i was looking up stuff about Iwanuma City bc bakuten brain rot is wild and i found an article that said bakuten "is part of a three part plan called Zutto Ouen Project 2011 + 10.. (ずっとおうえん。プロジェクト 2011+10…) These anime are about the affected areas of the Great Tohoku Earthquake and will be aired on Fuji TV to try to help promote the affected areas." source

so i got super fascinated and looked up more of the Zutto Ouen Project. The article I looked at said, "The three major projects are not directly related. But they all take place in either Fukushima, Miyagi, or Iwate prefectures in the Tohoku region." source These prefectures were all specifically affected by the 2011 tsunami and earthquake. The projects are as follows:

Bakuten!!

Miyagi Prefecture

for those finding this post that aren't in the bakuten fandom, bakuten is a 12 episode sports anime about men's rhythmic gymnastics (there is also a movie coming soon)

The first episode was released in April 2021

Can be streamed on crunchyroll

Misaki no Mayoiga

Iwate Prefecture

this one is a movie based on a novel by Sachiko Kashiwaba

Released on August 2021

I can’t find a streaming service that officially has a sub or dub, but if anyone knows of one please let me know (i am not above watching bootleg versions)

Hula Fulla Dance

Fukushima Prefecture

this is a movie about a girl who works at a hawaiian spa in fukushima

This was released 10 days ago in Japan (on Dec 3, 2021)

I also can’t find a streaming service that this is on in the US, but it was released very recently so I’m not sure if there will be or not.

i will definitely have to go watch the two movies now.

it gets bakuten specific from this point on btw

the project is specifically to promote tourism to those prefectures to help rebuild the economy which is super cool but it also allows for some easter eggs and culture to show up in/for bakuten

• it's why we get this image of the boys in this specific outfit, which was already explained in this post by paul

• also in episode 7, during the flashback where the third years are talking to shida in a small restaurant, there's a little doll in the bottom left corner. that doll is actually Iwanuma's PR character, Kakarichou

i'm sure there's a ton more easter eggs but that's all i could find offhand (i might go rewatch the whole show just to try to find more easter eggs like this)

but it got me thinking, a lot of animes use real life places as a basis for their scenery, especially sports animes, and since this sports anime in particular is meant to show off miyagi, there's probably very specific locations used in bakuten that shouldn't be too hard to find images of online. and i was right.. a quick google search of iwanuma city got me these things:

*disclaimer: there is no actual proof that i can find of this, this is just my own best guess based on basic googling so if i'm incorrect don't be surprised. that being said, i'm pretty confident in what i found.

millennium hope hills

takekoma shrine (from the art above)

the path that shida is always walking on

there's definitely more places i could find if i looked hard enough. it's 4am when i'm making this though, and i have finals tomorrow, so i will have to look next week. that being said, someone remind me that i want to try to find: sekiou university (where they use the mat), the place where they have the competitions, maybe the high school (but i imagine this will be particularly difficult), and the goose wall (this one may be impossible but if it exists i have to know).

on top of all that, i found out that the characters names (last name specifically) are all actual towns and cities and places in the tohoku region. a lot of them are places in miyagi specifically (though not all of them).

i double checked all of them. both teams.

most of them are cities, towns, districts, etc. not all of them though. ryugamori is a mountain. azuma is a mountain range.

anyway thats all i am allowing myself to look up right now since i need sleep

#i thought this was super cool so i thought i'd share #i'm scheduling this to be posted at a time where it's not absurd to be awake #i would just post it then but finals #long post #bakuten #bakuten!!#backflip!!#zutto ouen project #anime #this felt like a whole research project #misaki no mayoiga #hula fulla dance #edens thoughts

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jumpscaregoose · 1 year ago

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Shaman King (2021) rewatch: episode 2

more of this hooray

REN REN REN. MY BOY

star motif. my beloved. hao thoughts

I love how ren clearly knows who yoh is and where to find him but instead of just showing up to steal his spirit he had to do it in the most dramatic way possible by ambushing his friend in a cemetery

I also love how yoh's just been treating ren like another best friend since before he even knew him 😭 they're so fun your honour I want to put them in a magic bullet together

ren's random environmental motives that go away in like ten chapters my beloved. it's so random and basically never brought up again

car bisection iconic moment

cannot unsee the absolutely hilarious way this scene is drawn in the manga takei just made ren tiny for no reason

personally I think ren should have kept calling him this for the entire rest of the series I think that would have been fun. maybe the monkie kid has poisoned my brain idk

love him

ok pokemon rival. I bet you drop your credit card information in front of random strangers too.

HE'S SO DRAMATIC I LOVE HIM

BABY

IT'S HEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

#shaman king #goose rewatches 2021 #yessss the faves are here now #I love feral first introduction ren he's so fucked up and silly

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polygarnstars · 3 years ago

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facts about me that you could state to my face that would hurt more than that ask did

I own three copies of Okami HD, and have beaten exactly zero of them

I paid $40 for Balan Wonderworld, knowing full well that any enjoyment I drew from it as a game would be ironic, and I plan to spend another $10 on the novel so I can be mad about the fact that approximately two percent of the story actually made it into the game

I played Kingdom Hearts as a kid and was attracted to Zexion, and given I am currently attracted to another edgy squenix bastard with emo hair in the form of Therion Octopathtraveler, my taste has apparently not changed since I was ten

I played Sonic 06 and thought it wasn’t terrible

I learned and did a partial speedrun of PMD Red Rescue Team for the sake of getting on someone else’s Let’s Play of the remake

I tried streaming once, only to have to stop because my capture card ate my sound card

The last week and a half of my Spotify history is comprised almost entirely of the Persona 5 soundtrack and various covers of those songs

I’m a furry who can’t even decide on his own fursona’s species or design

I spend so much time reading Nuzlockes, challenge runs of Pokemon games, games for children, I was brought on as staff of the official forums

I do the aforementioned work as Nuzforums staff knowing full well that it is a volunteer position while I am unemployed in real life

I watched the Kirby anime as a kid instead of doing my schoolwork. Years later, I plan to rewatch it in its entirety instead of seeking employment

I voted for Bandana Waddle Dee in the Smash Ballot

On that topic, I’m a Kirby main! I played through the entirety of World of Light using only Kirby! Like, I love Kirby, but who the fuck mains him unironically like that? I don’t even do that strat of succing your opponents and spitting them out over the blast zone where they can’t recover or taking them down with you, like, cmon

I was in anime club in high school

Despite owning it, I’ve never played Among Us, but I still watch other people play it regularly

I didn’t realize the Guardians of Ga’hoole series was a WW2 allegory until I read the TV Tropes page in high school

I got into Kingdom Hearts for the Final Fantasy stuff, and yet to this day the only Final Fantasy game I’ve ever beaten was the DS rerelease of Final Fantasy III

I 100%ed Breath of the Wild less than three weeks after it released, and proceeded to help various streamers do the same, because I had literally nothing better to do with my time

As a teenager I uploaded two mashups, one of All Star and In The End, the other of All Star and Lonely Rolling Star, to YouTube because in the summer the only device I had to get online with was a Nintendo 3DS, I wanted to be able to listen to them year round, and my 3DS would not play Soundcloud uploads

I’m currently making a mashup of the Balan Wonderworld credits theme and Wonderwall

I think Pokemon peaked in Gen V and I trust Spike Chunsoft with the series more than I trust modern GameFreak

I have owned literally every Animal Crossing game except Amiibo Festival, but I do still own Amiibo from the sets released for it

I’m still waiting for Pikmin 4!

I’m still waiting for another real Chibi-Robo sequel!

I’ve still not beaten the prior games in the series despite owning them, but I’m still waiting for Bayonetta 3!

I dip dill pickle spears in chocolate pudding Snack Packs and I enjoy it

I know all the lyrics to the opening of Pichu Bros. in Party Panic, that anime special that was viewable exclusively on Pokemon Channel

I plan to romance Ann in my first playthrough of Persona 5 Royal purely for the sake of cucking the cat. I do not plan to do this because I dislike Morgana, but simply because I think it would be funny

I say KEKW, Pog, OMEGALUL, and Sadge in real life, with my actual human mouth

I have spent money on microtransactions for mobile games

I bought well over a dozen packs of the Unbroken Bonds Pokemon TCG expansion in an attempt to obtain a rainbow rare Reshiram & Charizard GX. I found zero of them

Until earlier today, when I cleaned out my drawers of old clothes I no longer wear, I owned two Big Bang Theory shirts. Instead of burning them like a reasonable person, I donated them to my local Goodwill for some other poor fool to find

At the age of 23, I still cannot swim

I’ve gotten used to every other bug in my house, including the bees in the walls and the stinkbugs who refuse to just stay outside, but whenever I see a silverfish I consider committing arson

I collect dice but do not play D&D or any other TTRPG, I just think they’re neat

I’m too physically weak to take apart a PS4 controller

I haven’t ridden a bike in a decade, and at this point if I tried I would probably fall over or ride uncontrollably into the street and be hit by a car

I still have art on my wall of a Pokemon character I made in sixth grade at the absolute latest

I buy sketchbooks despite not drawing traditionally literally ever

I cannot draw on a normal tablet, because I look at my hands instead of the screen, and so I had to buy a 2-in-1 laptop to do art

I bite my nails

I compulsively pluck the hairs from my legs

Despite compulsively plucking the hairs on my legs, I cannot be bothered to do the same for the ones that have grown into a unibrow

When I was a child a goose whacked me with its wing

I’ve been bitten by two dogs, one of which bit me twice

Despite domesticated animals hating me, I’m the world’s worst Disney Princess, having taught a grey catbird to recognize Zelda music and having watched the entirety of Avatar the Last Airbender with a baby mourning dove perched in the bush outside the window watching with me

I spell grey grey instead of gray despite being American

I’m American

I’m still on tumblr in 2021

do with this information as you will

#new ask game: send me anon hate but make it targeted

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charleskenny · 4 years ago

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Nickelodeon Kills the Golden Goose in Search of Avatar Gold

Avatar: The Last Airbender is the quintessentially perfect animated TV series. Its three seasons (or books) set the gold standard with meaty stories and lovable, complex characters. Recent news that Nickelodeon are establishing a special studio to expand the Avatar ‘universe’ is akin to killing the goose in search of perceived gold within.

Why is Avatar A Golden Goose?

The classic fable of the golden goose is an allegory for the destructive power of greed. As the man and his wife, not being satisfied with receiving golden eggs, decide to kill said goose and harvest the large amount of gold they believe lies within. After killing the bird, they discover that there is no gold and its innards are the same as every other; leaving the man and his wife destitute as the source of their livelihood is gone.

The original Avatar series is a kind of golden goose for Nickelodeon. Popular when broadcast and released on DVD, the series never really faded away and retained a core following while attracting late comers (including yours truly) and those who weren’t even born when the series was on the air.

The franchise also never completely ended. Follow-up graphic novels filled in details missing from the series and provided fans with further adventures of their favourite characters. The Legend of Korra was the first trip back to the Avatar world in animated form and lasted for five seasons. It was never as popular as the original series but it certainly didn’t help that Nicklodeon lost interest in the series to the point where there was a genuine chance the last episodes would never see the light of day. Much like the original series however, Korra lives on and remains popular among fans and newcomers.

Recent Developments

Six years after Korra ended, the original series arrived on Netflix; becoming the service’s top streamed animated show for 2020 beating out every other animated show in Netflix’s vast library in the process. Jolted into action by this news, Nickelodeon announced that there will not just a new series, but an entire studio dedicated to cranking out Avatar-related content; the first of which will be an animated film but with more films and TV series to come:

Creator-driven stories and characters have long been the hallmarks of Nickelodeon, and Avatar Studios is a way to give Mike and Bryan the resources and runway to open up their imaginations even more and dive deeper into the action and mythology of Avatar as we simultaneously expand upon that world and the world of content available on Paramount+ and Nickelodeon.

Following Disney’s Lead

If you’re reading carefully, you’ll find the reason for this announcement at the end of that quote. Netflix stole a march on all of Hollywood, and they’re straggling to catch up. OTT services are all the rage and companies from Disney to CBS are gambling that the public will pay a monthly fee to access their libraries of content.

Consumers however, are fickle and cost-conscious; only willing to pay for a service if it has a decent library to choose from. Disney+ didn’t have the largest library at launch, but the company got the ball rolling with The Mandalorian and demonstrated that exploiting existing franchises was a low-risk/high-reward way of attracting consumers to your fledgling service. Viacom aims to mimic the formula and its success with both Spongebob Squarepants (RIP Steven Hillenberg AND his principles) and Avatar.

Which is very much like killing the goose in search of the gold on the inside isn’t it? Not content to take the regular delivery of a small golden egg, Nickelodeon feels there’s more gold to be had by dispensing with the eggs and going for the whose goose. In contrast to the fowl in the fairytale though, Nickelodeon will likely find an awful lot of gold inside of Avatar in an almost identical manner to what Disney found within the Star Wars universe.

When Gold Ceases to be Special

A lot of fans are happy there’s more Star Wars content, but there’s a price to pay, and that is what made the original films special to begin with. They are rare, self-contained, and make for endless rewatching and interpretation. Is that still the case though?

There will be no nostalgia; the specialness of the characters, their tale, and the universe they inhabit will fade away as all three traits acquire different meanings, interpretations, and portrayals. Korra demonstrated the presence of the effect as the adult versions of the original series’ characters show them in a different light but whose portrayals can and are retconned to the original series for better or worse.

The original Star Wars trilogy holds a special place for those who saw it when it came out, but for those born long after that time, they are simply the films that came first. Avatar may suffer a similar fate. The original series is exceptionally special but with more and more coming after it, it’ll start to feel a little diminutive; a mere piece of a larger jigsaw puzzle. It will start to be viewed through the lens of the newer content too.

Lamenting the Death of the Avatar Legacy

At a time when original ideas are shockingly rare even by Hollywood’s low standards, its disappointing that one of the very brightest stars of original ideas is being pulled into the black hole of revenue targets. It follows a bad precedent and continues the trend of endlessly rebooting and rehashing old stuff.

The show’s legacy as a groundbreaking original series waves goodbye.

What do you think though? Does this opinion make me a cranky old curmudgeon, or do I have a valid point?

Originally published at https://animationanomaly.com/2021/03/05/avatar-golden-goose/

#Avatar: The Last Airbender #Disney #Legend of Korra #Nickelodeon

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titusmoody · 4 years ago

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It’s the end of the first quarter of 2021. Here’s a brief review of the things I watched/played/read.

Games

Donut County- pretty charming, very easy, fairly satisfying to play. I’d recommend Untitled Goose Game over this, though.

Heaven’s Vault- If you only have room in your life for one space archaeology game, play Outer Wilds instead. However, you get to translate alien writings yourself (in a simplified game way) in this one, so I’d recommend both.

Donkey Kong Country 3 103%- so many fun level mechanics in this one. The difficulty of finding and completing everything in the game was spot-on for me.

Donkey Kong Country 2 102%- Each level mechanic in this one is explored and used in far more interesting ways than DKC3, though I honestly had more fun with 3 this time around. This one is the “dark, edgy” one aesthetically which is extremely dumb. Also, there was a lot of guesswork involved in finding some of the hidden stuff, which I didn’t enjoy.

The Room 4- I like escape room games. This one was good. It continued 3′s trend of trying to shake up the format a little, which is fine (better here than in 3, I think) but I wouldn’t have minded if all 4 stayed exactly the same, just with new puzzles.

Spider-Man: Miles Morales- Everything about it was competent. Not only was each gameplay activity fine-tuned to feel good, but the structure of the game also kept kept you experiencing a good variety of each activity. PS5 graphics are good, too. Nothing about it really got me excited to play it, it was just a good after work unwinding thing.

Cyberpunk 2077- Exactly the opposite of Spider-Man in terms of quality consistency. There are aspects of this game that are amazing, horrible, and every step in between. However, I’ve thought about it quite a bit and will probably continue to think about it for both good and bad reasons.

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair- Donkey Kong Country has better level design and controls. Well, the best levels of this were every bit as good as the best DKC levels, and maybe I’m just so familiar with DKC levels that I zone out a little during the boring bits, but had to pay attention to every moment of this game. Still, I didn’t have as much of an overall good time as the DKC games I played earlier.

Hue- Good 2D puzzle-platformer. I’m no longer surprised by these, but I still appreciate them, much in the same way as I like playing escape room games. I was under the impression for a few years that because I understood the potential of puzzle platformers, it meant I wouldn’t want to play any more of them, but that’s simply not true. I had a good time with Hue.

Shows

Gravity Falls- It’s fine. Pretty entertaining. I wish there were more low-stakes kinds of episodes, just to get more familiar with different sides of the characters. It would have made the characters and setting feel more rounded.

Cowboy Bepop- I didn’t get the hype for this show when I first watched it at 21, and now I can say that it’s simply not my kind of show. I have much more appreciation for it now than I did the first time, but it doesn’t hit me emotionally the same way that it seems to hit so many people.

Seinfeld- It’s Seinfeld. There was precisely one episode that I had never seen before, plus confirmation that I didn’t dream the episode that’s told in backwards chunks like Memento and is set in India.

Paranoia Agent- While it was disappointing that this ended up being a more simple morality tale than every Satoshi Kon movie I’ve seen, I still enjoyed watching this a lot.

Aggretsuko- I liked the mundane, every-day storylines like a modern, more empathetic Seinfeld. Unfortunately as the show went on, there were more and more wacky situations that no one actually gets into. I might watch the upcoming season if I hear that it’s less ridiculous.

Over the Garden Wall- This was really cool and I’m glad it exists. It’s ten episodes long, which is perfect for it. I thought it was at its weakest during the more lighthearted or humorous moments--precisely the opposite of Gravity Falls. The word “classy” comes to mind to describe this show.

Beastars- Really good when it isn’t falling into anime plot and dialog cliches. A lot of this first season is dedicated to introducing characters and the setting, which I thought was very well done. I’m curious to see what Season 2 is like.

Movies

Scott Pilgrim vs the World- It’s a fun movie to watch. It definitely makes many of the characters’ flaws seem like more fun than it probably should, but I’m more bothered by the criticism I hear that boils down to “it’s a bad movie because the characters are bad people” which I suspect is an impression you only get if you lack both empathy and media comprehension.

Big- Kinda bad. It has iconic moments that are only possible with its weird premise, but it’s just not a premise that supports an entire good movie.

Phantom of the Opera- Way better and way worse than I remember. Has the precise right amount of horses.

Knives Out- Not really a movie I needed to watch a second time, but it sure is good.

District 9- I didn’t remember most of this movie and unfortunately I zoned out for most of this rewatch, so I still feel like I don’t know what it’s about.

From up on Poppy Hill- Not one of the top tier Ghibli movies, but still really good in a down-to-earth way that I like from Ghibli.

Enter the Dragon- I knew to expect everything to be turned up to 11, which is good because it really is a lot. I liked it, though.

Shutter Island- I have never actually liked this kind of twist-reliant movie. I thought I would for many years, but I was always disappointed. At least now I am aware that it’s not what I’m into.

Soul- The premise is much too convoluted, but it does have an excellent moment near the end.

Onward- I liked this one a lot. Why don’t more people talk about this one? It’s definitely better than Coco, which itself was really good.

A Silent Voice- The kind of movie that reminds me that sometimes Japanese storytelling is more to my taste than Hollywood style, in that scenes can be more emotionally ambiguous.

Tangled- Good in exactly the same way as Frozen and Moana. I can’t really complain, but this isn’t the same situation as puzzle platformers or escape rooms. In this case, I do get a little sick of being completely unsurprised. This movie was made first, so it’s only by chance that this is the one that I saw last.

Monsters University- A good movie, but it really doesn’t have to be about the same characters as Monsters Inc.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail- Still funny

The Departed- Good if you want an enjoyable crime thriller to watch, bad if you want a Scorcese movie.

Titanic- Getting very drunk and watching this with Brittany might be the best time I had in the past three months. Maybe I won’t think too hard about why a movie about the overdue, violent death of a social order resonates with me right now.

Prince of Egypt- Impressive and grand, but I didn’t really care about the characters or story.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan- A good but not great (by TNG standards) concept for an episode that was made extremely enjoyable by the added budget and longer runtime of a movie.

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock- Not as good, but still watchable.

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home- The kind of ridiculous concept you’d only make when you’ve already had three successful movies and are confident that you’ll be able to make at least another couple. The gang go back to the 1980s (present day to the original audience) and save the whales. It’s apparently exactly the right movie to watch if this is the third consecutive Star Trek movie you’re watching.

Mamma Mia- A lot of fun, but has weird problems that seem like they would’ve been easy to solve at the script level. Maybe if the conflicts had been introduced early on instead of dragging the whole pace of the movie down for much of the last 20 minutes, I would’ve enjoyed the whole thing.

Books

The Well of Ascension- The second book of a trilogy. Very competent. Introduces a whole lot of minor conflicts that really keep the momentum going and give the characters short-term goals that contribute to the overall plot and their arcs.

The Hero of Ages- The final book in the same trilogy. Equally competent. I wish there had been more long-term payoffs, which is the trade-off you make by stuffing the books full of those short-term conflicts. Spoilers ahead, but not ones that I think ruin the experience of reading. It’s very odd that of three of the central characters, one dies, one becomes a god and then dies, and one becomes God.

Check Please- About as pleasant as it gets. Full of the type of minor character that sitcoms end up running into the ground because they’re too one-note (Creed from The Office, for instance) but in a series with a pre-planned length, there’s no chance for it to get stale. Plus, I really liked both of the lead characters.

Milkman- Good book about “The Troubles” in Ireland. Very odd collection of characters, but the narrator had an extremely enjoyable voice to read.

And Then There Were None- Classic mystery story for a reason. Feels more like a Hitchcock movie than Sherlock Holmes. I read it in one day both because the prose was easy and I wanted to know what happened next. Not much substance to it, unfortunately.

Homegoing- Extremely ambitous book where each chapter is narrated by the descendant of a previous chapter, alternating between two branches of the same family. I liked it quite a bit, though because I only finished it yesterday I don’t have much reflection done yet so my opinion has yet to solidify.

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gbees-nonsense-realm · 3 years ago

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I posted 1,097 times in 2021

18 posts created (2%)

1079 posts reblogged (98%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 59.9 posts.

I added 27 tags in 2021

#gbee rambles - 8 posts

#reference - 3 posts

#rats - 2 posts

#vent - 2 posts

#like - 2 posts

#brotha goose - 2 posts

#/lh - 2 posts

#finally - 2 posts

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My Top Posts in 2021

Love is letting your boyfriend ramble excitedly for four literal hours about a story he's writing and asking questions and laughing at his dumb jokes as he screws up reading parts of it aloud

3 notes • Posted 2021-10-16 06:41:17 GMT

That moment you accidentally fall asleep curled up on the foot your boyfriend's bed and wake up with your head in his lap instead

3 notes • Posted 2021-10-26 05:59:51 GMT

I'm going to shove pictures of my rats in your faces again!

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6 notes • Posted 2021-05-22 02:55:22 GMT

OH NO...

This was a bit of a style test that got out of hand! My sona Gbee and his kids Tumnus (sprout hat) and Toby (halo) getting caught doing trash. Oddly enough that's where I die the most in this game?

The story behind the multicolored suit is that I just swapped out parts of other fitting suits until I got a color combo I liked, though my code color would be yellow.

Unshaded version below!

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12 notes • Posted 2021-01-03 06:36:48 GMT

Anyway thanks to @astraldemise I rewatched Robots (2005) and was inspired to make this funky dude:

He's a DJ, has been arrested for hosting illegal raves on several occasions, and purposefully paints himself neon so he glows under his blacklight.

His red is the only parts of him that glow! Also his visor/shades do not come off those are how he sees.

He lost his arm in a scuffle and is slowly raising funds to buy a new one because "If you think my music is good now just wait until I can work with a record AND a sound mixer again!" Because he lost his arm he has problems finding actual jobs and his friend let's him crash on her couch in exchange for DJing her parties. He is 100% down for the arrangement: more parties means more donations for his new arm.

His name is Skratchie btw

47 notes • Posted 2021-04-11 03:12:21 GMT

Get your Tumblr 2021 Year in Review →

#my 2021 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review #the fact my top post is one that I completely forgot existed is hilarious to me #I just thought it would be cool to see my review #also tumblr literally wouldn't shut up about me seeing it #so

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adultswim2021 · 3 years ago

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Sealab 2021 #15: “The Policy” | November 3, 2002 - 11:00 PM | S02E05

Nasty episode! I really hate it. In this one, Sparks gets Murphy to rack up credit card debt by lying to him about what credit cards are. Murphy then sends his crew to go find some pirate treasure on a World War 2 ship. This is a wild goose chase that proves to be deadly when it’s revealed that Sparks has rigged the whole thing with dynamite so he can kill them all and collect on their life insurance policies.

This results in one of the worst episodes of Sealab ever. I am certain that I’m repeating myself when I say this, but it’s astounding how bad this show got, and how many “new lows” the show had. When I watch these early bad episodes I am struck by the realization that there are episodes and even whole seasons that are actually worse than this.

Why is it bad? Well, the story is mostly coherent, but not particularly humorous. You can fix this by writing really funny jokes for each scene, but here they’ve delivered the bare minimum of what qualifies as a joke. Most of the comedy comes across as either dashed off or forced. Stormy is particularly awful in this episode, his schtick is that he’s convinced that there are pirate ghosts on the ship and keeps doing a ghost-story voice to go on and on about them. His crewmates get fed up immediately and just yell at him to shut up over and over. Usually Stormy’s stupidity results in fun back-and-fourth, but not here. Everyone just seems so... tired. Was this the first draft of the script? And if not, what did that read like?

Weirdly enough, I found out a few things from the DVD commentary track: during a scene where we see the charred remains of Murphy’s hot tub, an artist on the show chimes in with “I drew that carbon scoring” and I remember getting this DVD and listening to these commentaries the day I got it and being like “holy shit, is THAT what that’s called???”. So, yeah, I literally know the term “carbon scoring” because of the DVD of this.

Also in the commentary there’s a part where they keep talking about how good the movie The Electric Horseman” is and somebody in the room scolds them for using a “third-party reference”. This leads them to question why it would be a problem, since all they’re doing is talking about how good the movie is. This wouldn’t be the first instance of Warner Bros.’ over-zealous standards and practices ruined an audio commentary track. For example: the kerfuffle over South Park’s season one commentary (Matt & Trey mentioning Contact was threatened to be edited out, causing them to pull the tracks and give them away on CDs). This was a real bummer to learn: the #1 aspect of Sealab that I’d wanna hear more information on was identifying the myriad of references each show makes. The fact that Warner Bros. wouldn’t let them do that for no good reason really sucks shit.

Enough DVD talk. Back to the episode. Here’s a brief exchange from the episode that, weirdly enough, once appeared in the signature of a message board I posted at, and iIt’s absolutely remarkable to me that anyone would quote this:

STORMY: When did pirates live? DEBBIE: Like, in the 1700s. STORMY: Were they Aztecs?

Maybe the last-funny piece of supposed-to-be-funny dialogue I’ve ever seen quoted for any reason. Yuck!

MAIL BAG

Anonymous writes:

No more Home Movies please. Either you are doing this to be funny or provocative or you have completely lost your mind. Either way! I would like to hear more about Aqua Teen and all the other great shows. This show is one nobody in their right mind would watch now. It looks too silly. Might as well be Blue's Clues for all I care. Thank you for understanding.

Thanks for your message. I’m not doing it to be provacative. In fact, I’m doing it to be kind. Thank YOU for UNDERSTANDing.

Kon! writes!

In around 1998-99 I wrote South Park fan fiction about a tornado hitting South Park Elementary. I didn't even have the internet then, it was just purely for the sport of it. There was a scene where Chef drives around and saves the boys, and a bit of dialogue comparing getting sucked into a tornado to a "fun ride". I think of it whenever I watch Storm Warning. Just thought I'd share.

Wow! Around that time I too tried to write a South Park once, and it was really terrible. It was based on literally this one bad kid I knew who said he wanted to join the IRA and murder protestants? And I had no real idea about what that actually meant other than what he himself told me and I came up with an idea that the boys go to a mini-golf place and they overhear that it’s run by protestants but they think it’s prostitutes and try to have sex. I forget how the IRA figured into it, but it did. I was WAY in over my head.

Anonymous writes:

You've wrapped up Simpsons Night for the year. How do you fee? A heavy burder lifted? Do you just feel plain silly for doing it? What? Why? Where? the 3 W's of jounralism. Thank you!

GREAT question. Simpsons Night was a real chore and I let it get pretty bad because I was on a fixed schedule. But it was honestly just a way for me to note which of the bad Simpsons episodes were truly bad and which ones were “almost good”, so I could, in theory, come up with some kind of list of episodes that might be worth rewatching, but good lord I’m almost fucking 40 (yikes) and I’ve seen the good seasons a billion times already and if I never watched the Simpsons again it wouldn’t be that big of a deal. Luckily we live in AMERICA and as long as DVD players are legal they will never be able to take those episodes away from me.

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