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tardis--dreams · 1 year ago

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Anyway i went to the hangeul museum today and i experienced an emotion

#yeah no i cried #maybe because it was the first time i went somewhere else than the supermarket around the corner #maybe because i actually liked it and felt like i was breaking out of my little depression chamber for a bit #maybe because that film was emotional #we will never know #I'll go back there 39 times while I'm here though #good museum #void screams

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creature-once-removed · 1 year ago

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I've been reading and watching some reviews of Oppenheimer and am shocked at the way some people don't seem to be able to connect to characters who are a little bit closed off and inwardly complicated.

This is a film you need to bring your own empathy to. It isn't actively provoked and drawn out of you.

Which, given that it deals with the construction of the Atomic Bomb, I think is something that should be self explanatory. If you go into making this thinking "Oh I will make people feel so bad about the bombs" you're already headed in the wrong direction. It's not the question whether or not it's bad. The question is whether or not you realize it's bad when no one tells you outright how to think about it.

This movie is incredible for doing this.

#oppenheimer spoilers #oppenheimer #also it is very much not impartial or distant or anything like that #there's razor sharp opinions in the details; the script is fucking amazing #they just don't jump in your face with it; you gotta notice for yourself #I see in this movie a tiredness of needing to discuss baselines of human decency #'if you cannot recognize for yourself that constructing a bomb like this is horrible then I have no patience to discuss it with you'#is a sentiment I felt very hard throughout the whole thing #people paying attention to it will notice the affirming details #and it's a delight how simple it is in terms of many other things #it's amazing how good Nolan becomes when he's not trying to make another gimmick movie for once #I had so much fun in the theater and it was horrible #how can you have fun knowing what it all means #incredible experience. pretty upsetting. I cried on the way home #can recommend it for people who are a little bit tired of flashy emotional symphonies in movies #and for people who like to start analyzing and reflecting while the film is still running #and honestly for people who like pretty movies #because honestly this movie was very very beautiful in the best oldschool simplistic way #(maybe slightly tasteless side note: Cillian Murphy would make an amazing Frankenstein)#(pathetic wet rat of a man (tragic and unhinged variety))

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void-tiger · 3 months ago

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Trying to keep a lid on it but. Yeah. Literally don’t know what’s it like to NOT be platonically neglected IRL my whole damn life, only that I know this One Person doesn’t deserve to be at the epicenter of it anymore than I deserved to have been at the epicenter of theirs a year ago now.

…why am I like this. Why are we like this.

#tiger’s roar #…but like. good god. someone being Actually Genuinely KIND and insisting they DO like my company and want my friendship #(and is arguably mutually attracted and THOSE feelings of mine and what I’m picking up from them just won’t DISPELL already)#just. really stirs the muck. gets at that emotional constipation in my brain’s grease trap #then having TWICE now having Activities Suggested and THIS Time in FRONT of people then like…never following through?#all but thinking aloud with planning to witnesses things that sound less like hanging out and more like a date #and then just…not doing it?#when the Reality is Apparently Too Busy?#us fighting earlier this year over quality time essentially #when all I want is to have like. maybe an hour or two once a week or once a month #to enjoy someone else’s company. get a fucking REPRIEVE from my life #that’s…that’s it? nothing grand. just have the time found where it can be without causing strain?#I’m actually NOT a romantic even when I have romantic feelings? they just make me yearn for basic contact all the more #I’ll always be ‘too platonic’ within a romantic relationship so no it’s never going to be an ‘expectation’#MAYBE the one with unrealistic expectations is the guy who watches romance films and struggles with AllorNothing thinking perhaps?#and…yeah. trying to not feel resentful of their time spent this summer with existing friends when apparently not working 20+ hrs a week #in addition to their own research and god knows what else #…because it feels like there’s no space for me. and probably never will be. and I have never been ‘cool’ a day in my life #sure I own it as an adult. especially a 30s adult.#but having people recognize me as kind and supportive and easy to talk to 1:1 (my group aqauaintance/casual friendships SUCK)#but. basically never getting to keep any of them as friends? quickly ditched? treated like a used bandaid?#it…gets to me alright? like I only exist as Catch/Treat/Release but for people #which sure. the friend I’m angry at HAS been frustrated about me deserving better. looks at me like I’m christmas.#and I’m now fairly close friends with their beloved sibling. and despite things having THE Worst Start Ever their family seems to trust me #…but…it’s just…think I deserve better? think I’m worthy of your esteem and respect? think I’m kind and approachable?#want me to feel safe and relaxed enough to be myself? then just…do better.#ask when I’m available to kill a few hours then…follow through on that. that’s it.#not all the time. and my ‘expectation’ is to always be either neglected or used and feeling jaded about it #just…a repreive. for both of us. that’s it.

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septembersghost · 2 years ago

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what addictive stardust does baz put in his movies

#i've been racking my brain trying to remember the last time i was this captivated by a (new ie: recent) movie at all #ttb doesn't quite count since the stage version was already well-known to me so loving it was a given #and i...can't think of one (a non-franchise one and even then we're talking like. rots in 2005...)#don't get me wrong i love and enjoy movies i just don't tend to obsess over them anymore #i can come up with plenty that i DO love from recent years! but they didn't *change my brain chemistry*#i can't strongly come up with one that did that specifically since moulin rouge and that was 21 years ago 😭😭😭 or maybe chicago? rent!#(note: the maximalist musical theme is in fact key to my wiring)#and like despite some fondness for the movies phantom and sweeney did not do it since the shows are much more beloved and important to me #anyway uh. baz bestie i need to ask you what you put in your celluloid for science #there is something wrong with me lmao #i think it's the combo of not only the film but the further exploration of elvis himself and so much music and other work directly from him #so it's the double hyperfixation hit of a film to be enrapt by AND an artist to attach to which both are like #nostalgic/formative feeling experiences #idk i'm overcome with emotions #jess.mess #sorry for throwing likely tbd text posts into the void here on the disaster zone tonight #chelsea i love saying i'm going to delete posts and then keeping them up because of your replies <3

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zaddyazula · 1 year ago

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something i think some people don’t understand is that everyone has different things that happen to them in their life!!! just because something isn’t emotional to you doesn’t mean you should try and tell people who did find it emotional it’s not!!!! people have lived beyond who you know in person!!!!!

#i saw a barbie post and it reminded me of this #like this is so fucking simple and some people do not get it #i bawled my eyes out at the end of the barbie movie because it took me back when i was younger and i really connected with it #but my friends (who i went to see it with) didn’t cry at it or find it emotional and have since tried to convince me it wasn’t sad #you don’t know why i cried at it!! you don’t get it!#and when i try to tell them “you don’t get it because we’ve had different lives” they say there’s nothing to get because it’s not sad #they don’t get it because they haven’t had my particular experience - the same way i haven’t had theirs #i don’t know how difficult it is to not discredit someone’s emotions but it can’t be that hard #the barbie movie is really important and special to me as someone who struggles with identity #my friends don’t know this so i can’t blame them for that but the point still stands #the age old thing you are taught when you are literally a young child is that you don’t know what people are going through so be respectful #but they and other people don’t seem to understand that despite being well older than a young child #you have no idea why i find it sad. let me find it sad and move on with your life.#particularly two of them seem to try and cement this point that the film and the billie eilish song (which i literally cannot listen to)#aren’t sad #it really does irritate me because any possibility i get to say something’s sadness can be entirely subjective in some cases i am dismissed #these people are girls. they played with barbies. and still i can bet every one of us associates different things to when they played with #barbies. they do not get that.#i can’t really describe my relationship with the barbie movie properly and maybe it’s just me having a fit about it but it is so so persona #to me.#sorry for the rant.#barbie movie #barbie 2023 #zad talks

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goldlightsaber · 1 year ago

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i think the scream franchise is an interesting case study in how movies have gone from giving characters some backstory but mostly focusing on plot development to very character-driven stories where an emotional arc is seen as pivotal to a movie

#scream #wes craven #sydney prescott #in the first two sydney has all this trauma but it's not the focus #whereas in scream 5 and 6. and even 4 #you see much more focus on the main characters' emotions and their reckoning with something #i'm not sure what that says? is it reflective of a selfish societal shift?#or is it just more engaging storytelling?#maybe it's just reflective of a more self-aware society? is that a neutral thing? or a bad thing?#i found myself more invigorated and pleased by scream 5/6 #but maybe that's because of the upgrades on plot twists and realism #however the OG cast in the first film #while opaque #remain the most magnetic to me...there is something appealing about filling in the blanks of their characters #but i do enjoy the sisters in the rebooted franchise quite a lot too #so idk #text

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ghostliest-ghosty-ghost-bastard · 1 year ago

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I think watching films deeper than the puddle on the side of the road growing up made me gay.

I think watching films that I wasn't sure would end happily or that didn't end in the status quo of happy made me think too much about emotions and humans and feelings and finding my own happiness or resolution from what I'd been given or just feeling the loss of something and shit opened up something in me, like the closet

#im kinda tslking about shit like The Iron Giant or Ghibli films or Fantastic Mr. Fox #watching obscure vhs tape films too with my nana probably messed around up there #i just think spoon feeding kids only disney shit can spoil the apple crate. those fuckers are developing make them think #i think broaching emotions like that for the first time because of a film was healthy and gave me experience so i could work with it when it #actually happened to me instead of a character on the screen #or idk indie/small films always have the best twinks so maybe it was that that transed me or made me like men/woman/all lol idk #ghostlywailingintothevoid #idk

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princekirijo · 1 year ago

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I saw the Barbie movie today and tbh I have mixed feelings about it. It was really funny in parts I won't lie and I liked the humor but there was something so... I don't know. I think the message was nice enough but the film felt shallow?? Idk

#yes i know i went to see barbie #but honestly the trailers intrigued me i wont lie #i think the whole thing felt very shallow #like it was pro women but in a very shallow way if that makes sense? im sure someone could put it better than me #the acting and music was great and it was really funny 😭 the fucking ken music number had me laughing so hard 😭#but i think it felt a little too boy vs girl #if that makes sense #and i hate that kind of thing #i think my complex relationship with gender probably plays into it #maybe i just didnt get it #it was a decent film though but not one id rush to see again if you get me #the scene at the end (the emotional one for those who have seen the film) THAT was powerful #that had nothing to do with the feminism thing that was more like what it means to be human #and that got me i was much more invested #edit:#maybe boy vs girl isnt what im thinking of because tbh it showed how patriarchy fails both men and women #but it still felt shallow if you get me #i just can't vocalize how

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starkidlabs · 2 years ago

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The new Guardians of Galaxy movie was surprisingly good and heartfelt. I mean it’s probably the first marvel movie that has actually made me feel something since Infinity War so that’s a plus.

#maybe I just get too emotional over animals #maybe I cried a little - but like James Gunn is so good at making me feel about characters - unlike almost every other mcu director #also I know everyone hates marvel now but I still watch marvel stuff because my brain can’t take films I have to think deeply about

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myrfing · 2 years ago

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you ever give someones video essay you sort of disagree with a shot and then You still disagree with them. Thats crazy

#she said Us was a movie about middle class fears of the envy of the working class. which yes. but no. but that like.#it cant be about the working class because of its depiction of them as growling horror villains #which. also removing the aspect of. the tenderness and understanding in the film between the protagonist and the supposed antagonist #and the narrative weirdness that makes you question who is who and who was there first being a thing #to feed into the argument that contempt is the sublimation of envy and Explains a lot about society.com #anyway this is just one part of the video and other bits actively spun the is this ME question i kept afloat while watching it #but is it the truth that envy drives moralistic thinking just because it sounds more self aware and enlightened 6_9 #after all even before religion and before masters and slaves people did have a sense of good or bad #based more around pain pleasure and functionality right #and can envy explain the contempt of people who dont want what they contempt.#i think its easy for some people in some positions to say like oh well they’re just envious and lying to themselves to feel better about it #and it’s hard for these same people to imagine i guess the depth of a contempt without desire. they must not truly hate me #they only want what I have and bemoan their lack of it.#but does everyone want the same thing. i.e. if you are disgusted by extravagance consumption opulence whatever is it always just envy #if you believe wealth and excess power robs everyone within it of something you actually desire #or is that just envious self-delusion. who knows #in this way of thinking some things are never possible or mutable because once the tables are turned and the envious desire is fulfilled #then people only will ever become corrupt because the substance of it always mattered less than emotional gratification #which maybe has been the pattern but is that it is that just ze human condition forever #?_?. i get the video wants to focus so it discards a lot of these things but i just dont think they can be extricable #also she said flaunting wealth is an american phenomenon LMAO. I was chinese once #also that black swan was about the sublimation of envy into artistic perfection (yes) but also not about the humanity it robs #in the proccess.

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thedreadvampy · 1 year ago

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I mean sure, I can understand this perspective, but I'm not sure whether most people feel less shaken to be thrust into conversations about "self-unaliving" than conversations about "suicide"

and I for one as a survivor would much rather unexpectedly encounter somebody talking about "rape" than somebody talking about how funny it is to have sex with somebody when they don't want to, a normal thing that doesn't need to be named because it's So Normal.

which is to say. this is a post about words. the words are not the distressing thing about the discussion. the distressing thing is the distressing thing about the discussion. sugarcoating, dodging or renaming the distressing thing doesn't make it less distressing but it DOES often make it harder to have a frank discussion about it or address it in serious terms.

[pinch of salt: solid probability from their blog that this person is a Literal 14 Year Old and the perspective from 30 and 14 are very different. I do stand by all the points I'm making but I think this conversation lands a lot different for people at different life stages - there is something to be said for the general issue that the internet has flattened social groups to the degree that I as a 30 year old can make a post to my audience of largely adult millennials that immediately enters the same conversational space as people half my age and still in school. that seems. ungreat. as the primary way we engage in conversation. but I don't have solutions to offer.]

you gotta be able to say "die"

you gotta be able to say "suicide"

you gotta be able to talk about "sex"

they're uncomfortable topics, YEAH for SURE

because LIFE is uncomfortable. Death and suicide and sex and pain are straight up going to happen. not having words for the way it discomforts you doesn't make it more comfortable, it just makes you less able to reach out about it.

even more vital, you gotta be able to say words like "rape", "abuse", "queer" or "racist". cause we fought fucking hard to name those experiences. to identify "rape" as distinct from "sex" and "racism" as distinct from "acceptable behaviour" and "queer" as distinct from "invert"

like the function of communication is not to minimise immediate discomfort. we gotta be able to talk about stuff that's hard or sucks or causes difficult conversations.

#red said #i also wholeheartedly disagree with the rest of your post #all entertainment is political. all of it. because politics is the models we use to describe how we interact as a community #and art is inherently communal. so it's inherently political.#that doesn't mean all entertainment has to be a Pure Political Statement. some stuff is just dumb because dumb shit is fun.#but like it's not. detached from the world. and a lack of political intent doesn't mean it's utterly unchallenging.#ok for example. have you ever. enjoyed watching a cheesy 80s zombie movie and it is gory and stupid and great #but then there's a scene where maybe there's a really fucked-up implication about what we as an audience are meant to think #or a rape scene played for light laughs. or whatever your line is.#and they meant it to be fun. you watched it for fun. but you're not having fucking fun any more. there's a bad taste in your mouth.#contrast. sometimes i am reading a nonfiction article for work or something. it is miserable and grim it is about homelessness and dv #but the writer has put it together so well and made their point so clearly you're like YES! YES! THAT'S IT!!!!#and even beyond that like. i am a disabled multiple rape and abuse survivor. i have been through a non zero amount of The Shit.#and a lot of the stuff i find most entertaining and relaxing is stuff that acknowledges that as a Thing Which Happens #like I'm a nerd man. i like video essays about misogyny and fascism and reactionary homophobia.#i like films that make me cry bc they touch an emotional raw spot. i like tiktoks where people joke about their experiences of abuse #i like SFF stories about trauma and survival and sad robots #and yeah you know sometimes i want to watch a comedy panel show or a tiktok of bottles rolling down stairs #but effective entertainment is a conversation! comedy and chill vibes rest on like. deciding what to riff on #and who your anticipated audience is. and nah actually that's not apolitical and also #identifying common human experiences like death or trauma or marginalisation as inherently Political and therefore Unfun #misses the point that like. the question isn't what you acknowledge but how you acknowledge it.#as a rape survivor. for example. i don't necessarily want to open tiktok to a lecture on rape culture.#but i might well stick about for a standup routine about being a survivor of rape #and i will absolutely bounce from a vid where nobody mentions rape bc they think what they're talking about is fine when it's. rapey af.#anyway. this is a sidebar cause even if i agreed about entertainment v politics my main point would still stand #but i very much don't agree and i think you need to maybe look at how you approach entertainment media as neutral #but also i feel very strongly about this and not to harp on the like aS A sUrViVoR thing but #AS A SURVIVOR my fucking LIFE includes ''dark topics'' like suicide and rape. and i don't appreciate how often that's treated as #an unfair imposition to speak about or acknowledge. 'dark shit' is inescapably a major part of my life/self AND I'm funny + entertaining

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gibbearish · 3 months ago

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anyways. have yall seen the deliverance. and if yes have you read the wikipedia article. because like. that woman 100% was literally just straight up abusing her kids and used the church to get out of it. the movie doesnt even try to hide it that hard. "based on a true story" except of course for all of the important bits of context like how the cps agent was not in fact a nonbeliever in the supernatural before switching to her side and never did so and that the kid could only walk up the wall with his grandma's help and that none of the prior tenants had similar experiences (@ trey whered you go) and the POLICE CHIEF BELIEVED IN DEMONS BEFORE MEETING HER !! and that every SINGLE thing that happened in real life can be (and fucking IS) explained by child abuse. half the time the movie is just like "ok yeah sure maybe she was abusing her kids, but only because demons made her do it". and then drop little hints that she was in jail before for Something (doesn't say what but i can guess) and that her drinking problems are well established and that her oldest son was stockpiling money to get away from her long before they moved to that house. also i could be misreading the timeline but seems like her supernatural experiences only started after her own abusive mother moved back in with her which can SO easily trigger old wounds to come back to the surface so like OF COURSE youre gonna start seeing shit, disturbances can be a ptsd symptom !!!!

tldr; fuck latoya ammons so hard, if this is the made-presentable-for-tv version then like. i want to say i cant imagine what the real life version was like, but i very much can. and for that, fuck her. immensely. i hope her children are actively writing a rebuttal and/or reaching out to lawyers to sue her ass as we speak.

#origibberish #'ammons claimed she was choked by an unknown force' hmm wild maybe uhhhh it was one of her children fighting back though? consider that?#'ammons claimed she saw a shadowy figure that left bootprints' ok and in the movie her self insert uses a big fucking boot as a weapon #and if i was an abusive mom trying to hide my actions (like her self insert OPENLY DOES. THE WHOLE MOVIE)#i would also claim that big fucking boot prints appearing in my house were ghosts rather than admit they were my boots.#and can i also just say: MASSIVE fuck you to wikipedia for the format of that article. the background and skeptical analysis sections #absolutely 1000% should not be separate here‚ that is insanely irresponsible at best and outright validating delusions in support of #child abuse at worst #i get that christians would be pissed if you said 'no‚ she didnt abuse her kids because of demons‚ she literally just abused them and here'#all the evidence front and center'#but like. so?#sucks to suck. dont abuse your kids then #i am so fucking tired of freedom of religion being taken to mean that anything done in the name of religion is automatically #true and right and good and playing pretend that any of that shit makes sense. you did not abuse your kids because of demons.#you just abused your kids‚ and then forced them to lie and agree with you about it. you show you doing exactly that MULTIPLE times in the #film. outright. you don't even try to hide it‚ just make a movie saying 'no but it was fine though'#excusing her actions for all the world to see‚ including her children.#as someone raised in a similar family and church environment: FUCK latoya ammons #at least now the rest of the world gets to see how the excusing of abuse within the church works.#i guess.#also its like. not even a good movie #like. the 'tell don't show' vibes are off the fuckin charts. and the ending is. well. its. uh. well. hm. how do i put this #so bad its incredibly funny #which i know is a wild emotional switch but. good god yall #i swear they blew their entire budget on the makeup and even then just copied waters of mars #also fag does get said at some point which. for me is one of those 'this isnt funny for the reasons you think its funny but it #unfortunately is still quite funny'#purely because in my house fag is a term of endearment #but yeah. tldr‚ bad movie bad mom 👍

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justsayilovedyou · 6 months ago

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Thinking about third person perspective in TTPD

#not thinking anything coherent because i’m too high for that #mostly thinking about: the albatross (especially with the bait and switch - she’s the albatross to i’m the albatross)#the manuscript; the bolter; how did it end #also thinking about which songs DON’T use third person despite using a storytelling style that could suit it #like peter and the prophecy and maybe cassandra #i think the difference is that some of the third person songs are more about public/external perception of taylor #the manuscript being about atwtmv short film; the bolter and how did it end being about her relationships and how other people might see #or talk about them #whilst the prophecy and cassandra and i look in people’s windows are more personal #they’re about TS’s actual emotions. maybe. i don’t want to assume #taylor swift #ttpd

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starbuck · 1 year ago

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reading and watching “classic” books and films is such an interesting experience because, before you get into them, when you only know them by name and maybe the vaguest plot outline, they’re intimidating and stuffy and up on a pedestal, but then you finally take the leap and check them out and realize that almost every story that’s achieved such a legendary level of popularity did so because something in its emotional core reached out and grabbed a lot of people by the throat and you are NOT immune.

#not that anyone but me probably needs to hear this but…#it’s OKAY to have Big Feelings about popular things #they’re popular for a reason - it makes sense to have a big reaction #but yeah - i should really know by now but i’m STILL floored every time i read or watch a classic and it Gets Me #like. this story has been Getting people for decades or centuries or MILLENNIA and yet STILL i’m surprised #‘i didn’t think the story would Get me’ says man about story that’s Gotten everyone who’s ever heard it

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alioshakaramazov · 1 year ago

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oppenheimer gave me the same vibe as when you have one or two great scenes in your head that you want to write but now you have to come up with the rest of the story and an actual plot. i also feel like this could have been great tv, i think it would have benefitted the pacing and helped with the scope/magnitude of things it wanted to cover successfully. anyway this is a picture of me after sitting dilligently for 3h past my old man bedtime

#maybe it's because i haven't watched a nolan film in ages but i wasn't expecting to be so disappointed #i liked some parts of it #but not enough #and oh my god somebody tell this man it's possible to create tension and emotional response #without taking the public hostage with the loud loud soundtrack #anyway the acting was great

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married-to-google-translater · 5 months ago

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How TWST DORM leaders react to "their" disney movie.

Azul sure would sing "Poor Unfortunate souls" if he thought he was alone. The Tweels would never let him forget it. Would take notes on Ursula's manipulation tactics. Would definitely try to use something like that for clients later. His favorite scene is definitely "poor unfortunate souls".

Leona wouldn't watch any movies with you after this. You wouldn't agree to that. Leona's favorite scene in the entire movie would be Mufasa's death. You would watch that scene really really REALLY many times. Would relate to scar a lot. Leona might fall asleep in the middle of the movie but wake up again at the end.

Malleus would really identify with the character of Maleficent. Malleus would understand the character and her reasons perfectly. You're not sure if you're sorry or worried about Malleus. He wouldn't appreciate how the movie portrays fae's. You can hear a little thunder outside. Malleus' favorite part would be when the prince wakes Rose from her sleep... Only because it would give him an idea of what he would like to do with you.

Idia would just enjoy the movie. He would definitely watch it with Ortho. Idia did not have a different opinion about the film. He would appreciate the humor in it though.

Vil would strongly question the cult status of "Snow White" as the first animated movie. Snow White looks too much like Neige in Vil's opinion. You should take breaks during the movie so that the Vil Neige quota is not filled. Vil's favorite part would be when Snow White eats an apple.

Kalim just enjoy the movie in peace. He would really cheer for Jasmin and Aladdin's relationship. Maybe he might sing along with "friend like me". It would be interesting to see how Kalim would react to certain scenes. His emotions would be clearly visible all the time. Kalim's favorite part would be the end of the movie. He likes happy endings.

Riddle would be a little disappointed that they wouldn't have included all the queen's rules in the movie. If they were, the movie should be muuuuuuuuuuch longer. Riddle would also point out when they didn't get the details right. Otherwise, he would enjoy the movie. His favorite scene would definitely be the cricket scene.

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