#like the best movie ever quite likely?

[bellamysgriffin]

get to know me meme >> Favorite Movies [30/?] But I'm a Cheerleader

I’m not perverted! I get good grades! I go to church! I’m a cheerleader! I’m not like all of you!

[vees-wax]

The Name’s Lewis. Henry Lewis.

Otherwise known as the time Henry Lewis (played by Harry Kershaw) and Harry Kershaw (played by Henry Lewis) were spies with a mission to kill Henry Lewis’ (played by Harry Kershaw) ex-wife - the daughter of Henry Shields (played by Nancy Zamit).

Except Harry Kershaw (played by Henry Lewis) double crossed Henry Lewis (played by Harry Kershaw) and used body swap technology to know look like Henry Lewis.

So there’s Harry Kershaw (previously played by Henry Lewis, now post body swap played by Harry Kershaw because he’s been changed to look like Henry Lewis - which means he looks like real life Harry Kershaw) and Henry Lewis (previously played by Harry Kershaw, now played by Henry Lewis because his ex wife used the technology to make him look like Harry Kershaw - real life Henry Lewis) and we’re nearly getting somewhere.

And then Harry Kershaw (played by Harry Kershaw but looking like Henry Lewis) is actually a triple agent and shoots and re-kidnaps Henry Lewis (played by Henry Lewis because he still looks like Harry Kershaw).

They bodyswap back into their original bodies so we have Henry Lewis (played by Harry Kershaw once again) and Harry Kershaw (played by Henry Lewis) - and you think that’s the end of it, there are thirty seconds left in the show.

Harry Kershaw (played by Henry Lewis, then Harry Kershaw, then Henry Lewis again) rips off his own skin to reveal that after all this time, he was actually - Jonathan Sayer.

[mcheung]

the more i think about it the more mixed feelings i have about wicked

[jennidewdroplet]

recently rewatched disneys Tangled and . my god

ever since i saw the movie as a kid its always been my favourite, but i havent seen it since then and i wanted to see if it was as great as i had remembered

and let me tell you it is SO MUCH GREATER THAN I REMEMBER

literally what??? its hilarious, dramatic, sad, happy, AMAZING animation, great plot, probably the most romantic love story Disney has ever produced (not even exaggerating)

like their love story is adorable. rapunzel and eugene helped each other grow but it was never forced, and it was never the classic "true love at first sight" that disney does. like dont get me wrong, thats great too, but their romance develops slowly but surely, and the whole "You were my new dream"???? oh my god???? IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWED BY A JOKE AFTER HES JUST BEEN STABBED "did i ever tell you... i have a thing for brunettes-" I LOVE HIM

and aint that just THE confession

EVER

just EVER thats it no comparison

thats when their "life long" romance started, not "at first sight" but at their own pace. and like ofc you, the viewer, KNOW that they end up together BUT THEY DONT. THEY DONT KNOW THAT. to them this wasnt known or forced, it came naturally and oh so beautifully.

back to what i started talking about, the way they grew together.

it wasnt like rapunzel wanted him to change or vice verca, she was totally ready to accept him the way he was. but it was HIM. HE decided to become better, for HER. which is even better cause the man not only died for the girl, he full on accepted his fate and was at peace knowing he DID become better for her, even if in the most tragic way possible.

i say im fine and then write an essay on this movie istg its too good

[lungthief]

really funny that sebastian stan went from being in like the worst movies in the entire world (and black swan) to being a lead in a huge tv miniseries and a couple of really interesting and well received movies but not to ever enough to distance himself from being known as That Guy Who Played Captain Americas Gay Lover

[batri-jopa]

In heteronormative narrations a single-female-friend character is most often depicted as a threat for the couple/marriage. Threat for the girl that is. Like: beware, this bitch is single! so "obviously" her main goal is to steal your guy because, you know, she's a desperate selfish erotically-starving bitch...

Well, I can't speak for other single ladies but in the most couples I know - if I were to brake the relationship I'd rather run away with the girl🤷

[glitterfartsprinkle]

hi sorta personal bullying rant.

just remembered how 2 days ago i was laying in the bleachers like a hotdog and awoke to someone i wont name but i will say are the worst saying "move your fatasss" and. Throwing? A toddler tantrum? Like stomping and shit when there were so many other places to sit? ma'm me are in the gym auditorium i am but a spec of a person in this place. i dont even know if this is a vent. but its some stupid shit that happened

[nomaishuttle]

sometimes u put yr playlist on shuffle a song comes up and you have to put another song in the queue immediately as soon as it comes on bc it makes you think of that song

[maester-of-spreadsheets]

Local movie theater is rereleasing a bunch of the Oscar nominated movies and I’m staring at the list like … I want to see so many of these movies!

… but I also kinda just want to see anatomy of a fall again 🫣

[raksh-writes]

The way Agatha All Along made me want to rewatch Days of Future Past so I did and had a good healthy cry about it too. Gosh, this movie is so good, I love it so much 😭 2014 really was The year of comic book marvel movies, huh?

[hightaled]

what is it about sims that makes it damagingly addictive

[lesbianlenas]

my friend & i watched this absolutely atrocious movie and the thing is that we LOVE watching bad movies so like when it is the level of bad where it is no longer camp and we just find it terrible that is saying smth. but she was looking at the letterboxd reviews after and there were soooo many men saying how it was an amazing movie and they loved it and it was like. yeah i’m not surprised YOU did. the movie was a critique of the fast food industry and capitalism but that was buried under an insane amount of racism and lesbophobia it was CRAZY. a huge part of the movie was abt this girl left the main guy while in college to “become” a lesbian and had a “butch” gf (she was not butch) who turned out to also be faking being a lesbian and i s2g they used every single lesbian slur you can think of and also had an entire sequence where the two of them have a musical number abt how they are star crossed lovers and she’s unsatisfied w lesbian sex and just thinks of him while a bunch of lesbians and her and her gf are topless and like touching each other. also a crazy amount of racial slurs and racial stereotypes particularly towards native americans and the whole plot was basically based on racism towards native americans. and when it wasn’t being racist and lesbophobic and misogynistic it was filled w brain dead gross out humor. and this was made by someone who went to yale w george w bush. but like of course men love this shit they love to laugh at politically incorrect jokes and have a superiority complex abt how they are soooo immune to being offended unlike everyone else when in reality men scream and cry if anyone says anything that even remotely bruises their egos. i think the man who made this movie should be executed and in fact should have been executed immediately upon release of the movie. or preferably before it was released. u cannot imagine. only guiding light is that everyone died at the end.

[iamthedukeofurl]

Scott Pilgrim is, I think, the best example I can think of for establishing a setting's Nonsense Limit. The setting's Nonsense Limit isn't quite "How high-fantasy is this". It's mostly a question of presentation, to what degree does the audience feel that they know the rules the world operates by, such that they are primed to accept a random new element being introduced. A setting with a Nonsense Limit of 0 is, like, an everyday story. Something larger than life, but theoretically taking place in our world, like your standard spy thriller action movie has a limit of 1. Some sort of hidden world urban fantasy with wizards and stuff operating in secret has a nonsense limit around 3 or 4. A Superhero setting, presenting an alternate version of our world, is a 5 or 6. High fantasy comes in around a 7 or so, "Oh yeah, Wizards exist and they can do crazy stuff" is pretty commonly accepted. Scott Pilgrim comes in at a 10. If you read the Scott Pilgrim book, it starts off looking like a purely mundane slice of life. The first hint at the fantastical is Ramona appearing repeatedly in Scott's Dreams, and then later showing up in real life. When we finally get an explanation, it's this:

Apparently Subspace Highways are a thing? And they go through people's heads? And Ramona treats this like it's obscure, but not secret knowledge. Ramona doesn't think she's doing anything weird here. At this point, it's not clear if Scott is accepting Ramona's explanation or not, things kind of move on as mundane as ever until their Date, when Ramona takes Scott through subspace, and he doesn't act like his world was just blown open or anything, although I guess that could have been a metaphor. there's a couple other moments, but everything with Ramona could be a metaphor, or Scott not recognizing what's going on. Maybe Ramona is uniquely fantastical in this otherwise normal world. And then, this happens

Suddenly, a fantastical element (A shitty local indie band finishing their set with a song that knocks out most of the audience) is introduced unrelated to Ramona, and undeniably literal. We see the crowd knocked out by Crash and The Boys. but the story doesn't linger on the implications of that, the whole point of that sequence is to raise the Nonsense Level, such that you accept it when This happens

Matthew Patel comes flying down onto the stage, Scott, who until this point is presented as a terrible person and a loser, but otherwise is extremely ordinary, proceeds to flawlessly block and counter him before doing a 64-hit air juggle combo. Scott's friends treat this like Scott is showing off a mildly interesting party trick, like being really good at darts. The establish that Scott is the "Best Fighter in the Province", not only are street-fighter battles a thing, Scott is Very Good at it, but they're so unimportant that being the best fighter in the province doesn't make Scott NOT a loser. So when Matthew Patel shows off his magic powers and then explodes into a pile of coins, we've established "Oh, this is how silly the setting gets". It's not about establishing the RULES of the setting so much as it is about establishing a lack of rules. Scott's skill at street-fighter battles doesn't translate to any sort of social prestige. Ramona can access Subspace Highways and she uses it to do a basic delivery job. It doesn't make sense and it's clear that it's not supposed to. So later on, when Todd Ingram starts throwing around telekinesis, and the explanation we're given is "He's a Vegan" , you're already so primed by the mixture of weirdness and mundanity that rather than trying to incorporate this new knowledge into any sort of coherent setting ruleset, you just go "Ah, yeah, Vegans".

[im-getting-help]

i rewatched an extremely goofy movie yesterday (cause i was with a friend and we started talking about the Max/Bradley ship...)

i just now got all the 70's memorabilia references, god 💀 OF COURSE I DIDN'T KNOW WHO WERE THE BEE GEES AT 12 YEARS OLD OKAY?! but that movie started my love for disco and i did even realized until now

[geneviveleocardius]

crying over movies

and pregnant with simon riley’s baby

the sound of your sobs cuts through the quiet of the house, sharp and raw. simon drops the knife he’s been using to chop vegetables, his heart lurching in his chest. it’s not unusual for you to cry these days—pregnancy hormones have been working overtime—but this… this is different. this is gut-wrenching, the kind of crying that makes his pulse race with worry.

he rushes into the living room, where he left you curled up on the couch watching after sun. the sight that greets him stops him in his tracks. you’re a mess, your face red and blotchy, tears streaming down your cheeks, big eyes wide and glassy as you clutch a pillow like it’s the only thing tethering you to reality.

“love?” his voice is low, calm despite the panic clawing at his chest. he crouches in front of you, his hands reaching out to cradle your face. “what’s wrong? is it the baby? are you in pain?”

you shake your head frantically, your sobs hitching as you try to speak. “n-no, it’s not—” a deep breath, and then another sob escapes. “it’s not the baby. it’s—oh my god, simon, it’s just—”

he watches you, his brows furrowed, utterly baffled. “just what?”

“the movie!” you wail, throwing your arms up dramatically. “it was so sad, simon! and—and then i started thinking about us and the baby and—and—oh my god, you’re never gonna be a single parent, okay? i’m never leaving you!”

his eyes widen at the declaration, and he blinks, stunned. “what tha—?”

“and you have to promise me, simon,” you cut him off, your voice shaky but insistent. “if something’s ever bothering you, you’re gonna tell me, right? we’re a team, and i love you so damn much, okay? you can’t ever leave me, because i’d just—” a hiccup. “i’d die without you!”

he stares at you, his lips parted slightly, trying to process the flood of emotions pouring out of you. he’s used to your mood swings by now—the tears over burnt toast, the laughter that turned into crying because of a stupid dog video—but this? this is a whole new level.

you’re still sobbing, your breaths coming in hiccupping gasps, and his heart aches in a way he doesn’t quite understand. “love, you’re gonna hyperventilate,” he mutters, sitting beside you and pulling you into his arms. you melt into him instantly, your hands clutching at his shirt as you bury your face against his chest.

“i mean it, simon,” you mumble, your voice muffled by his shirt. “i’ll never leave you. you’re stuck with me forever.”

he lets out a low chuckle, the sound rumbling through his chest. “bloody hell, i should hope so. wouldn’t have married you otherwise, yeah?”

“and the baby,” you continue, ignoring his attempt to lighten the mood. “we’re gonna be the best parents, and—and if you ever think i’m not doing enough, you have to tell me, okay? i’ll do better. i swear.”

“sweetheart,” he says softly, leaning back so he can tilt your face up to look at him. your tear-streaked cheeks and swollen eyes might look like a disaster to anyone else, but to him, you’re still the most beautiful thing he’s ever seen. “you’re more than enough. you’re everything. and you’re not going anywhere, yeah? we’re fine. we’re better than fine.”

your lower lip trembles, and more tears spill over. “i just—i love you so damn much, simon. you can’t ever leave me. promise me.”

he exhales, a soft huff of disbelief, before pressing a kiss to your forehead. “you’re unbelievable, you know that?” he mutters against your skin. “but alright. i promise. i’m not going anywhere, and neither are you. happy?”

you nod, sniffling, and wrap your arms tighter around him. “so happy.”

he holds you close, his large hands rubbing slow circles on your back as your sobs gradually quiet into soft hiccups. he’s still not entirely sure how you got from a movie to this existential meltdown, but one thing’s for sure: he wouldn’t trade this chaotic, hormonal, beautiful mess for anything.

[the-girl-from-another-time]

To preface this I do see and appreciate the homoeroticism of Glinda and Elphaba’s relationship, but that being said, I’m noticing a phenomenon of people who’ve seen the movie but not the full show saying “Glinda and Elphie are obviously gay, and also Fiyero is lame and unnecessary.” For one thing, those opinions on Fiyero will likely change after Part 2 comes out because he is both important and awesome, but also? I really do love Glinda and her bond with Elphaba, but quite frankly I don’t think she deserves Elphie. Glinda’s biggest flaw is her cowardice (and even that isn’t fair, because she’s in a tough situation and her survival mode is to work within the system as best she can), and Act 2 proves she simply won’t take the same risks that Fiyero will for Elphie until it’s too late. Fiyero is brave and devoted to Elphie in ways Glinda isn’t (even when she wants to be). Glinda isn’t the one who sacrifices everything she’s ever known and nearly gets tortured to death to protect Elphaba. Not to mention that Elphaba’s fighting spirit and willingness to speak up are matched in Fiyero. AND the way the theme of finding not just worth but beauty in “unattractive” people comes full circle with Elphie and Fiyero. Just. End me now. They make me INSANE. It isn’t until after Elphaba’s apparent death that Glinda’s bravery really shines. The end of the show is basically Glinda acknowledging she should’ve done better and promising she WILL do better, she will be Glinda “The Good,” all thanks to what she’s learned from Elphaba. It’s kind of the point that Glinda wasn’t perfect for Elphie (and that’s okay, because their relationship was beautiful and profound anyway). I’m so excited to see movie fans experience this ride once Part 2 comes out.