#it's like grave of the fireflies

[ellcrys]

A tad bit late with this post, but another year, another go! I took out rewatches this time. I... did not watch that many movies this year lol. Comparatively, at least. :P

Some comments:

The Whale - I mean kudos to the entire cast they gave some fantastic performances, but man. I was not about the main character's attitude and the overall dreary atmosphere.

Marcel the Shell - idk man it just wasn't my jam I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Strong year for animation it seems as the only two that made my "loved" tier were Puss in Boots and Spider-Verse

Highly highly recommend Plan 75 and Past Lives. Both are beautiful, beautiful stories about humanity and connection and god the way they make me FEEL. Just absolutely gut-wrenching in the best way possible.

Meanwhile Shortcomings was just a hilarious time. It was so gratifying to see Asian American rep where all of them are messy and terrible (human ppl trying their best and actively being the worst) lmao.

*: watched in theaters

Loved

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish* (2022) | Jan 26

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse* (2023) | Jun 18

Really Liked

Plan 75* (2022) | May 13

Past Lives* (2023) | Jun 10

Shortcomings* (2023) | Aug 13

Liked

Hotel Transylvania (2012) | Feb 11

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon* (2000) | Mar 5

Boston Strangler (2023) | Mar 18

A Thousand and One* (2023) | Apr 2

Barbie* (2023) - Jul 24

The Marvels* (2023) | Dec 5

The Boy and the Heron* (2023) | Dec 14

Meh

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On* (2022) | Feb 25

Night at the Museum (2006) | Apr 21

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015) | Jul 14

Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) | Jul 16

Disliked

The Whale* (2022) | Jan 29

The Cabin in the Woods (2012) | Oct 27

[bug-thief]

sometimes you just gotta sit in your room and watch ghibli movies as you feel your heart overflowing with love for the little but overwhelmingly beautiful things this life can give us

[ninoochat]

What’s the saddest fucking movie you know?

[supercalime]

does tommy mean that he stopped working as a normal firefighter 5 years ago? as in, he left the 118 briefly before buck joined (7 years ago) but was still a firefighter at another station for 2 years. and then became a pilot at harbor, meaning that he's been a pilot for 5 years? but isn't his current station the 217, so harbor, which he transferred to back then (see the cake hen and chim got him)? am i just dumb or does this not make any sense orz

Im probably the worst person for you to ask my dear anon, cause I actually haven’t seen every single episode of the show (I know fake fan), but I think the writers truly don’t care that much about timelines like we do, haha

You’re not dumb, to me it seems like an oversight on their part so it resulted in a very obvious continuity error

[kyoosoup]

rip to my coworker who didn't know anything about grave of the fireflies before watching it, and went into it thinking it was just another cute ghibli movie, only to be left scarred because she watched it right before going into work

I haven't seen it yet but I've been made well aware that it's super sad and heavy

[juniperhillpatient]

I love siblings that kill people for demonic sacrifices & desecrate the corpses while on a dangerous road trip on the run from the authorities….. especially when the brother is really angry & serious & the sister is a silly goofball….

(realized a hilariously specific recurring theme in my favorite fictional dynamics & felt the need to draw two of my fave duos together yes I know I’m not an artist but I like to have fun so sh)

[fragmentedblade]

Boothill's presentation being entirely on the twitter post makes me think he will be irrelevant in the story in the long(ish) run, and that the game itself won't dwell on him almost at all

[vimbry]

normally I'm in agreement that the dylts results can be disappointing, esp when they're consistently dismissive of edm, hip hop, and rap, but seeing people in the tags act like they're so cool for voting that they like #412 is pretty funny ngl. it's meant to be upsetting, why are you acting superior to other people finding it so.

[akeedia]

watching grave of the fireflies with the quote “this was always going to happen. she's been dead since the beginning.” on my head during the whole duration because we as audience knew what was going to happen and yet i still cried when it happened

[james-stark-the-writer]

Watching Grave of the Fireflies and like it's a really sad story so far, i'm like 18 minutes in and really invested, but also the art design makes like every character looks so fucking old like the child looks like she's fucking 30 years old and like i get that that's an artistic choice to show how the war is affecting these people or whatever but also my brain is like not processing their actual ages so it's kind of annoying

[sakuraswordly]

Note: Some of the story’s scenes, such as collecting fireflies for his sister, and taking her to the beach, are based on Nosaka’s own experiences. However, later in his biography, Nosaka states that the story is a “lie” and that he was not as kind to his sister as Seita was to her. 

[taegularities]

just watched grave of the fireflies for the first time and im traumatised

[kingofthegophers]

these are so messy and unintelligible BUT

modern AU where aether and paimon are siblings looking for their missing sister lumine together

[redysetdare]

firefly from gen 1 and 2 - sort of. Firefly was a female pegasus in gen 1 and then in gen 2 there was a male earth pony named Prince Firefly. so i guess firefly is trans now.

[curly-fried]

I think 90s anime soundtracks took a lot of inspo from French new wave

[dykesbites]

i had no idea oppenheimer was about the fucking bomb literally all i knew was the cillian guy was in it. what the fuck