#i really wanted to like it

[mikimeiko]

Wicked (Jon M. Chu, 2024)

[justascrollingghost]

hmm so I’ll be honest I didn’t love When the Moon Hatched.. don’t get me wrong I love the idea of it but the actual story felt jolty and confusing and to be honest I didn’t know whether I was coming or going.. did anyone else get the same vibes? and I could do with some recommendations?

[catedunlapgodu]

deadpool and wolverine was soooo bad lmao :(

[jasongracedefenseattorney]

here’s my full review of the tortured poets department: the anthology by taylor swift. i’m just going to start off by saying this is a grown ass woman and a billionaire and if you believe her music is above reproach just because she embodies girlhood or you liked the album or whatever just keep it trucking because i get to say whatever i want here.

first here’s the songs i like:

the black dog (what girl hasn’t checked a location, i ask you?!?)

chloe or sam or sophia or marcus (it could be traffic sounds and my name being in the title will still make me like it)

the alchemy

clara bow (this one makes me go 🎀🧚🏻‍♀️💕)

thank you aimee (grandchild of mean)

the albatross

peter (really mostly just the ending)

the bolter

the manuscript

the smallest man who ever lived (i will never hate a song that is about how matty healy sucks)

i can do it with a broken heart (corny but i have already seen edits with it and the right edit could make me like any song plus certain parts remind me of yoyok)

guilty as sin?

my boy only breaks his favorite toys (specifically for the line “im queen of sandcastles he destroys” which i like)

but daddy love him (she’s real for saying cut the fucking whining)

the prophecy (me coded)

fortnight (post malone’s positive affect on my enjoyment cannot be overstated)

now for my opinions:

many of the songs aren’t BAD just completely unmemorable like i remember nary a lyric or tune of cassandra or the prophecy or robin etc etc

jack antonoff should be strung up! the only good things he’s done are 1. melodrama by lorde, and 2. inspiring margaret by lana del rey (plus the occasional good taylor song like getaway car and sweet nothings but whatever) honestly the two have outgrown each other and their music apart is way more interesting than anything they do together. aaron dessner is a hero.

i have no technical issues with florida!!! but as someone who has spent quite a bit of time in florida it feels like someone romanticizing newark, new jersey and that feeling stretches so deep that not even florence + the machine could make me enjoy what is otherwise a really fun song

there must be something about british men bc people dating british guys write so american by olivia rodrigo and paper rings and people who have broken up with british guys write so long, london

who’s afraid of little old me feels like the perfect example of every criticism taylor gets. she is the most powerful voice in hollywood, is extraordinarily litigious, and has won in every way that matters but still she acts like every criticism of her is an attack on girlhood and feminism. like she is a grown woman writing “i’m just a girl” music about how not being universally adored is such a huge tragedy and it just feels so corny

i look in peoples windows and down bad are both songs i’m sure i’ll love two months from now

the line about 1830 without the racists is CRAZY. even without the racists that was not a good time!

overall a very weak album. it’s like she’s stuck in some sort of perma-youth where she is unable to mature beyond “all of my exes are either the devil or taylor lautner” and it shows how very insular her adulthood has been. she’s been famous her entire adult life and her music sounds like the kind of lyric a teenager writes in their notes app. like i don’t hate the music but it’s all just so extraordinarily mid. every song on this album could be on any other album of any other pop girlie and i wouldn’t blink. taylor is supposed to be one of the strongest lyricists of our time and we’re getting lyrics like “touch me while your bros play grand theft auto”

[moonchild-namgi]

I'm trying not to be too negative so all I'm gonna say is that I don't think that was a good collab for JK. The song itself has a very Justin Timberlake sound/feel to it which I'm fine with, but Jack Harlow needs to go. A lot of his lyrics made me cringe and just ick. I was kinda getting into the song and then it all left the more he rapped. I've read some people say there's an version with just JK and I sincerely hope that's true because I don't think I can bring myself to listen to the version with Jack again despite how much I wanna support JK.

[quino7]

Finished Tokyo Revengers, my feelings on it are complicated so this is getting a long review, First off before anything else that ending is pretty bad, somehow like 4 different people learned about/had the time powers in the last like 20 chapters for some reason. And yeah the ending was as bad as I’ve heard it was

This series isn’t all bad, in my mind it’s kinda like Jagaaaan in the sense that it’s pretty bad but it has some great parts. Those parts being Mikey and Draken, Draken just has an amazing design and he’s a cool guy not much else to say about him. And Mikey, he’s the only thing that kept me reading this, he’s the only character that got treated with the delicacy needed for characters in a good delinquent manga (at least that’s the word id choose there’s probably a better one). And also he’s kinda just like one of the only well written characters. The final praise I have for Tokyo Revengers, is the fact that it’s willing to kill characters.

Now for all of the bad stuff

First off just a few of the minor gripes I have, 1 these guys are all way too young. 2 the generations were super wacky just on a time scale wise. And I’m kinda reaching with 3 here but there’s a real lack of police here, especially since this takes place in 2007 a few years after some of the anti Bousouzoku laws were passed.

Now for my real problems with this series. One of my main gripes I had throughout reading it was the lack of buildup between and during arcs. Especially with the time travel stuff, it just felt like we were floating from plot point to plot point. Adding on to that, new characters just kept getting introduced right when they needed to serve a purpose, the most glaring example in my memory being Mucho? I think his name was, the 5th captain just shows up to kidnap Takemichi to build more drama for kisaki.

Speaking of kisaki, he did pretty well as a villain but when you think about him he’s kinda a mess story wise, we get no real driver for why he wants to ruin Manji until there’s that bs about him proposing to hina. And like apparently past him knows about that even if he isn’t a leaper. And like I got invested in his scheming and how he kept messing stuff up in the future and masterminding stuff. But like most of the things in this series,What’s the fucking point.

Tokyo revengers had legit potential, but it’s hampered by the fact that Wakui is just bad at writing. There’s even more stuff I could complain about but I’ve made my statement and criticisms clear. My rating for it is a 3-4/10

[maddiescinema]

sex education season 4 did NOT do it for me

[emodennis]

shit was fools paradise bad/not funny?? is it still worth going to see? i thought the trailer was good and wanted to see it but maybe it’s not all that

ok so i can’t give a fair criticism of it because i left like 20 minutes before it ended because i was so bored and uncomfortable. someone on tumblr said they liked the ending so maybe i would have liked it more if i stuck around, but i read a bunch of imdb user reviews before seeing it and most people said the ending was bad, so that informed my decision to leave. but yeah it didn’t get a single laugh out of me. which was crazy, because i laugh at everything and i find charlie very funny. but he just… wasn’t funny? which i didn’t even know he was capable of? i didn’t know he was capable of writing such flat satire either. i went on discount tuesday so i only paid $7.50 to see it and didn’t have anything better to do with my time so i don’t regret giving it a try and supporting charlie. but i don’t think it’s worth a regularly-priced movie ticket at all.

[lemonfreshlysqueezed]

Currently the cherry magic thai remake is not hitting for me. I really hoped I would like it.

First I realy loved the Japanese version and I was/am sceptical that they would try to make a remake. Because I did/do not see the necessity of it. The japanese version was realy good and was not made that long ago.

Second I love tay and I love seeing him in series also because of his personality and care for the job.

I’m not particularly fan of taynew as a couple, they are great friends and their chemistry worked for me in dark blue kiss because of the rivalry and friendship their relationship was build on.

(I might be extremely biased but I would have loved to see OffGun take this project instead, because I think the dynamic of achi and karan would have suited them better)

I hated the inner monologue in episode 2 while achi was ‘sleeping’ on the couch. Karan actually debating doing something while achi was asleep just rubbed me the wrong way. We are done with the icky cliche of ‘doing something to someone that is asleep’

They changed some more things from the Japanese version and not really for the better. But also they did not change enough for me to keep my focus while cherry magic japan is one of my favorite bls and I rewatch it on the regular.

[frodo-baggins]

finally watched the new pinocchio and honestly i’m a little disappointed 🧍

[huntress-the-wolf]

so i finished it

i finished tron identity a few days ago and am not sure how to feel about it

it was nice to have some new piece of tron media but some thing just feels off (i am aware that is super vague but thats the best way i can describe it)

the art was cool i really liked the backgrounds the detail in them were super nice

i didnt vibe with the music that much it just didnt feel right apart from the odd piece

the story was confusing the writing was good it was just super convoluted

i hated the defragging mini game it was so poorly explained that i just had to bullshit my way through

it was super short which sucked i know it had so many choices but it was such a shame that we only had one crime to solve

so yeah i have super mixed feelings about this game sorry for making you read all of this nonsenses but i was super exited for this game to come out and now all i feel is a bit empty

end of line

[puppppppppy]

filipina miku!! my mom helped me with her outfit ^_^

[valtsv]

stuck between "psychological horror statement" and "objectively the funniest thing you could say to your real flesh and blood dad" in the father's day card aisle

[tawnysoup]

Finally now that the comic is fully public on comicfury, I get to share it with all of you here, too <3

If you enjoyed, please consider supporting by buying a PDF of the comic on itch.io: https://tawnysoup.itch.io/home-in-the-woods

[inkskinned]

it's extremely critical that you see the photo of the perp walk for luigi mangione as being propaganda. i've seen so many people wave it off and instead fawn over his looks. and trust me, i know it ended up being kind of pathetic and weird - but please don't brush it off as a "modelling opportunity" for him. it's a fucking terrifying message the police are sending.

i want to make a few comparisons here, in case you're not from the US or familiar with why the perp walk thing is something to pay attention to. just to set the groundwork for why this is a purposeful, unusual, and cruel act by the nyc police - for why this is not a common occurrence and for why that matters.

the prosecution alleges the show of force is due to the charge of "terrorism." for comparison, in june 2015, tsarnaev was found guilty for the boston marathon bombing, which killed 3 people and injured hundreds. his actions are considered to be an act of domestic terrorism. i have spent the last hour looking through google for pictures of similar to mangione's perp walk - and so far, i have found zero. i also just do not personally remember a moment like that, despite living in boston at the time.

they allege that luigi is a stone-cold killer who carried out a longterm plan, making him particularly dangerous. again for comparison: in nyc, recently cory martin was found guilty of the killing of brandy odom. the murder was planned and premeditated to steal insurance money. and yet no staged perp walk. why didn't her life matter enough for a "show of force"?

but mangione gets paraded by a veritable army of police officers as if he is a rabid animal. for a single citizen who allegedly killed one other single citizen, the "largest perp walk ever" occurs.

so what is the "strong message" that the mayor and the police were trying to send here? the mayor speaks as if mangione is already convicted of terrorism. there is a very thin number of people who feel threatened by the CEO's death. none of us felt like mangione needs to be under massive armed guard.

the message is that you shouldn't resist. they are trying to "make an example" of him - that if you behave badly and kill a single rich person, you'll be treated as if you killed hundreds of people. you will be treated worse than a man who was found guilty of terrorism. you will be considered guilty without trial. the message is that the rich are a protected class, and you cannot touch them without massive punishment. they are trying to prevent a revolution by showing dominance and force against you.

the message is that the police are a puppet of the wealthy and that the law is not equally applied across class disparity. it is "some are more equal than others." it is "one life is more precious than another."

the show of force wasn't for luigi. it was for us. it was a warning. they are trying to remind us who is really in control.