#government film

[thornshadowwolf]

In complete seriousness, they need to make laws about ads that say they can take no more than one, maybe two, clicks/taps to close/skip. No more "wait 10 seconds until you can skip the video, wait 10 seconds until you can skip the fake playable ad, wait 5 seconds until you can close the 'download now' overlay, puts up a half-screen in-app appstore pop-up (which at least you can close immediately)." This should literally be illegal to do.

Edit: this is blowing up so I just wanted to add (haha ad) that this was my "reasonable request" I also think there should be way more and way stricter laws around all advertising in general. I think most advertising as we know it today should be abolished.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

MDZS x Brazil (1985)

(Yes. Real movie dialogue)

[unholy-fabray]

hey. if you are a queer/trans person who is feeling hopeless and overwhelmed by the election results, i just want to tell you this:

we have existed as long as humanity itself has existed. through every monarchy, every presidency, every dark age and revolution, queer people have existed. we have survived and lived and thrived and loved. in the face of an unwelcoming society, we have always carved out our own niches where we can find community, strength, and peace.

we survived 2004. we survived 2016 and 2020. we will survive this, too. i promise you.

please stay safe, take care of each other, and if you ever feel like it's over - i suggest reading about our queer elders and ancestors who lived through time periods that were even more dangerous and hostile. i always find strength and solidarity in their stories.

but most importantly: hold onto one another, build each other up, and love one another. we will get through this.

[reality-detective]

Jim Breuer reveals that the names on the Epstein list are so powerful and influential that their exposure could bring down governments and topple the entire entertainment industry worldwide. 🤔

[grandwretch]

i do think peak comedy is a steve who is absolutely aware of the effect he has on people, but has never felt that way towards anyone else-- the closest he got was with nancy and robin, because he loved them both in different ways, and sometimes he felt like he was going to go insane if he didn't talk to them or touch them right now, but it was never like he had seen other people act about him. robin and nancy made him a better person. they didn't drive him to ridiculous levels of violence and obsession. maybe people in hawkins were just fucking weird.

and then he meets eddie, falls in love with eddie, and he's like... yeah, okay. alright. no, i get it. if anything happened to this guy i would steal the nuclear launch codes.

[hedgehog-moss]

French TV journalist having a hard time trying to get woman in the street to comment on Macron's latest speech yesterday

Protesters organised casserolades (aka banging on pots and pans) in front of city halls across the country at 8pm, when Macron was speaking, to symbolically drown out his voice. Later that evening, Macron was filmed singing a song with some 'random people' in a street in Paris, trying to show he can go out and meet people and have fun because protesters don't exist. The people he was singing with (members of a choir, some of whom are 'alt-right-leaning') were using a folk song app created by far-right activists that was criticised a few months ago for hosting a Spanish fascist anthem & Third Reich military marches.

The government's response was that the President "couldn't know the background of the people he met that night." Maybe if he wants to avoid being associated with the far-right (that's a big if, I know), Macron should keep in mind that with the kinds of strategies and positioning his government has adopted lately, people in the street who welcome him with open arms and are proud to be filmed with him have a higher than average likelihood of supporting fascism.

[beauty-funny-trippy]

[nando161mando]

[transjackfairy]

velvet goldmine (1998)/ the man who fell to earth (1976)

[six-demon-bag]

when you get into another fight with your toxic boyfriend in the group chat and then he dumps you in public :(

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH and DANIEL BRÜHL THE FIFTH ESTATE (2013) dir. Bill Condon

[straight-to-the-pain]

I didn’t get the maths autism or the science autism or even the fandom autism. I got the ‘reads up on the legal frameworks for prosecuting torture at 3am then resolves to make a letterboxd list of films containing torture according to the UN definition’ autism

[babblingfishes]

it has come to my attention that the Pacific Drive tag desperately needs more content, so i'm giving you this segment of a fic draft. I don't care that I haven't finished researching the film development process in the 1960's. i don't care that the non-dialogue is bare minimum. y'all need more gay-ass cryptid hunters

"So," Tobias takes another swig of the stolen bourbon. "If you're into guys, what kinda guys you into?" Francis looks up from the developing film. "What?" Tobias grins. "You gotta have, like, a type, right? C'mon, how am I gonna wingman for you without knowing who you're into?" "You don't have to wingman for me, Tobias. People don't just go out and date homosexuals." "Sure they do. You ever seen a gay bar? Whole bar full'a gay guys. And gay girls. Some of 'em are dressed up as each other. And they're all dating-- er, not each other, obviously, but each…same? Yanno, like guys 'n guys? Homo stuff. And--" Francis chuckles. "I know what a gay bar is." "Yeah, but you ever been to one? On a date?" He pokes Francis in the chest and pronounces "date" very carefully to emphasize his point. "It's…not really my scene." "Yeah? What's your scene, then?" "A lab?" "What, like they grew ya there?" Francis cracks up. "Come on, you know what I mean." "You dating LIM frequencies, now?" "I may as well be." Francis fiddles with cap on the developer. "The last time I expressed interest in a colleague--" "Francis, everyone knows you ain't supposed to proposition people on the job. We gotta get you a life outside work! Some hobbies!" "I don't have time for hobbies." "Sure you do." "Tobias, any time I'm not working, I'm out here with you. Digging up field recorders and camera traps with you. Where else do you think I go?" "Uh…" Tobias trails off in drunken thought. "Well, that's kind of a hobby, I guess. Not many hunks in the marshes, though. You holding out for Bigfoot?"

[eddiediaaz]

that call center job so far seems okay. the company and colleagues seem really nice, it seems to be a good environment. so far so good. i only have good vibes. but the fucking low salary!!! how am i supposed to get by working part time with that? (because i'll be going to school full time on the 30th, taking yet another school loan) i have no clue. it'll be really difficult. the hourly salary is about 45% of what i used to make working in vfx (after 8 years) so it's like. such a slap in the face and such a rough fall tbh. especially when up till june this year i was expecting to go back to the vfx industry after a couple months being unemployed.

anyway AT LEAST it's a job, it's better than nothing, i know. but still, it's very difficult to come to terms with this and realizing i will never have that salary again, or at least not anytime soon. i won't have the life i think i was gonna have. it'll take like another decade to have an okay salary like i used to have (just for 2 years in 2021-2023 tbh). it's really hard realizing i won't be able to like...put money aside for travel and a car/condo/house or things like that. i'll probably won't be able to get a dog like i've been dreaming of cause i can't afford to move somewhere where dogs are accepted. unless i find a sugar mommy or daddy i guess. i know it's the depression talking but it truly feels like life's not worth it right now and it's hard ro imagine it ever will.

[troutlawyer]

Me downloading a Firefox extension that finds open-source subtitle files for any film on any website then setting my Swedish VPN to India and going on YouTube to find the absolute wealth of free full length HD Hindi movies not available in America and watching on average three of them a day

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

Little moments from Granada's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes S1Ep3 "The Naval Treaty" (1984). Dir. Alan Grint. Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes, David Burke as Dr. Watson, David Gwillim as Percy Phelps, Alison Skillbeck as Annie Harrison, Gareth Thomas as Joseph Harrison

[banefort]

im gonna be sick