#i saw that movie trailer and my brain went ! bc he looks how i pictured peter in this fic

[bunisher]

There’s a light on in Frank’s apartment window.

Pete notices it from the street, stepping up out of the subway stairs across from Frank’s building. It didn’t feel right to swing, and if he’s here for the reason he thinks he is, it makes more sense to be bundled up for the walk home anyways.

There’s a light on in the window, but there’s no movement -- no shadows. That feels more final than the news report that’s been running on the tv all night.

last grasp (at the life worth living)

[groundramon]

i just watched detective pikachu too what are your thots on it!

I enjoyed it actually!!  More than I thought I would.  I’ll give my slightly more spoiler-ish review under the cut:

I’m not a big fan of adult humor shoved into movies just for the heck of it but I felt like the adult jokes in the movie were actually written with intention and care rather than “oh shit our script is bad…we need to make the adults laugh, let’s make a cocaine joke!”  Maybe part of it is that that’s exactly where my brain went too with that shit and it was humor based on important plot points, and the dialogue didnt feel awkward (well it did but it was supposed to because tim was in a tizzy).  Another part of it might be ryan renold’s just natural inclination towards those kinds of witty roles but tim’s actor (IDK HIS NAME SORRY) played off the same energy and made them flow okay too.  All in all, I can completely agree with the statement that Detective Pikachu is what hollywood video game-to-movie adaptations should be.  It feels very hollywood while also not being an insult to the Pokemon franchise, which is a very delicate balance although in retrospect it’s not that hard bc pokemon and hollywood both just want to make money.  I just have low expectations.

Seeing Braviary made me rlly rlly happy!! he looked so good!! I saw rufflet in the trailer ofc but I never saw Braviary and he looks super cool!  I really loved the treecko on the window at the apartment building as well.  The torterra were another cool surprise.  I can agree that most Pokemon in the movie are in at least one of the trailers in some form tho.  But seeing their full performance in the movie is much more fun imo!  Overall the CGI was really great, there was like…one scene or two scenes where I noticed slight awkwardness between Tim/Pikachu when they were interacting physically, but it was pretty minor (like when Pikachu was unconscious, Tim wasn’t cradling him as baby-like as I would, he seemed more tense and less careful than I’d expect).

The bulbasaurs made me cry and my mom liked the mr mime scene.  I saw that one post a lot and still didn’t believe it until I saw it.  He’s fucking dead now I guess.  ALSO I FEEL SO BAD FOR MEWTWO just let him be free and happy!!! he just wants to chill with the bulbasaur and the morelull!! goddamn!!! I wanna do that too, just fuck off to the woods and hang with some bulbasaur and morelull, tbh

Plot-wise I think the villain was the most relatable villain in the entire Pokemon franchise because I, too, would do anything to become a Pokemon.  Idk why he thought it was necessary to do that to other people tho.  Like he could just charge money to do that to people?  And he’d get paid AND not get arrested?  People would pay to do that.  I would pay to do that.  Is it ethical?  No.  I just thought his motivation for that part was kinda weak.  Typical weak hollywood twist villain tbh.  But god his actions were great, i wish I could copy paste his goal onto an actually good character.

Girl character is girl and romance is cliche.  Would’ve been more fun if she stayed a psyduck and Tim had an ethical dilemma as to whether or not it’s okay to fuck a psyduck with a human-level consciousness (a pussyduck, if you will).  And I hate it when fictional scenes make me think of the ethical-ness of inter-species breeding so that’s saying a lot.

The story’s main pull was the relationship between Tim, his father, and Pikachu, and the mystery they had to solve, and while the plot is kind of rough, the emotion behind it makes it all worth it imo.  It’s a typical hollywood film, I’m only 18 and barely watch any movies but I’ve literally seen this story done before.  But to do it with Pokemon, and to do it with actors who really seem to care…that’s what made it worth it.  You’ve seen the story before, but it’s still a cute film.  It’s not bad or obnoxious even though the story is pretty rough.  It can still make you emotional even though it’s kinda cliche.  It’s just…fun.  Turn off your brain because it’s Pokemon and Pokemon never has a good story, and you’ll just have a lot of fun.

I wish I was in rhyme city when that all happened so that I could ask mewtwo to keep me a pokemon

Oh I was also surprised by the amount of gen 5 Pokemon, although I was in the trailers too.  I’m gonna count up all the Pokemon I remember seeing now - I’ll probably forget a few gen 1 pokemon since it’s definitely gen 1 heavy and I was mostly looking for non-gen 1 pokemon, but hopefully I still got them all.

Gen 1: Bulbasaur, Charmander, Charizard, Squirtle, Blastoise, Pikachu, Jigglypuff, Growlithe, Arcanine, Machamp, Polywhirl/wrath…? (I think but I dont remember aaa), Gengar, Snorlax, Magikarp, Gyrados, Eevee, Flareon, Pidgeotto, Pidgeot, I think there were Pidgeys but I couldn’t really tell…, Mew (picture only), Mewtwo, Ditto, Psyduck (…duh), um…I think that’s it?TOTAL COUNT: 24+ (again I might’ve missed some)

Gen 2: Noctowl, Aipom, Snubbull, SneaselTOTAL COUNT: 4

Gen 3: Treecko, Ludicolo…I think that’s it…TOTAL COUNT: 2

Gen 4: Torterra, um…..?? seriously wait, is torterra the only one? I gotta google this hold on-

…i forgot lickitung, cubone, doduo, dodrio, and rattata in gen 1. and primeape. i also forgot togepi and actually a fuck ton more. i remember all of those tho not some of the other ones. f. i dont remember primeape tho and also i mostly remember doduo and dodrio from the trailer oops

I FORGOT MOTHER FUCKING MR MIME

this post is cancelled but looking on bulbapedia tells me that the totals for each gen pokemon (species, not how many appear) are:

Gen 1: 32

Gen 2: 7, but bulbapedia says 6, i saw several noctowl towards the beginning of the film tho and bulbapedia doesnt have noctowl listed

Gen 3: 4

Gen 4: 3 (lmao)

Gen 5: 8

Gen 6: 4

Gen 7: 2

Overall a kind of weird distribution imo.  I realize the first chapter of Detective Pikachu (the game) came out before gen 7, but still, it’s kinda weird to me personally.  Gen 5 only has a major lead compared to every gen except for gen 2 and gen 1, but still.  The fact that it’s the second most represented gen (more than gen 2, even!) is interesting to me.  Maybe cuz the film was made in the US? so Unova? //shrug emoji//

But anyways yeah, i thought it was good!

[sheerioswifties]

Ok nobody answered BUT my bottom ranked one is Sweeter Than Fiction. I'm sorry. I hate it. It rubs me the wrong way. Lyrically it's good and I think with a rearranged melody and done acoustically it could be something but I just have my issues with it (the change to the chorus sounds like a cheaply made dumb kids show theme song?! But I mean that's production.. there's songs that I HATE on the album with all the production *cough* Clean *cough* but LOVE AND WOULD DIE FOR acoustically okay so take this all with a grain of salt). So. Last night I was feeling like crap and in a lot of pain so we went YouTube surfing for music and Taylor things to distract with. At one point, to tease me, my partner was like "hey how about, what's that one song you really love? The one from a movie it starts with like an s-" (I'm like screaming NO DON'T YOU DARE at this point).... so then I'm like "You know what! You don't understand!" And I explained why like what I said above and then I was like "okay let me just SHOW you okay bc-" so I go to STF to play which it plays just over a picture of like the movie cover. So we're listening and he's like "What even is this movie, have we seen it? I've never even heard of it," and I was like I don't know! I tried to look it up once but it was like some weird unavailable British movie." So then I was like "NOW, listen to this" *plays Safe and Sound* and I'm like "you have to agree when it comes to Taylor and movie songs there is NO comparison, not to mention Eyes Open," and he totally agreed. Well so then. We watched Tay's covers of Riptide and Drops of Jupiter. And then, you know how it goes on YouTube- I was like hmm, covers; I wonder if there's any good covers of Country Roads. Watched that and a few others. Then I was like well as long as I'm here, I want to watch two of my all time favorite covers which are also all time best moments on Britain's Got Talent EVER (does anyone see where this is going yet); so first I played when Susan Boyle SLAYED Les Mis' "I Dreamed A Dream," which I've watched a million times in all it's forms and is kind of an anthem for me but ANYWAYS THEN I watched my OTHER favorite; Paul Potts singing Nessun Dorma, which gives me SUCH chills every time like oh my GOD that song, right? But okay. DUDE. That's one of my all time favorite YouTube videos. Watched it last night. Cried to it.

Just now: I thought to myself hmm, I should see again if that weird "One Chance" movie is available. So I look. There it pops up and I see James Corden's face,

...and I'm like, oh this must be wrong, this looks like some kind of another British talent show... then I saw it had a trailer. Hmmm. Okay let's watch the trailer..

OH MY FUCKING GOD WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME IT WAS THAT MOVIE THE STORY ABOUT PAUL POTTS I FREAKING REMEMBER NOW SEEING THE TRAILER IN THE THEATRE WHAT THE FLYING FUCK HOW DID I NEVER KNOW THIS CONNECTION MY BRAIN IS JUST I'M

So I mean I'm gonna see if I can find a way to see it free and like... just... oh my god

OH MY GOD LIFE IS CRAZY