#misery film

[could-they-be-a-pro-wrestler]

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[couldtheyescortelliewilliams]

[coldarena]

by land, sea, and sky

[cloudtinn]

Misery (1990), dir. Rob Reiner.

[fletchingbrilliant]

End Credits in Film

The credits that roll at the end of a film are crucial for more than one reason

Obviously, there is the acknowledgment of every hand and mind that went into the project, but

There's also the allowance to wind down, to take in what you've just watched; even if you've seen it a hundred times, it's part of watching the film

And of course the score/soundtrack. The music chosen for the end credits is very intentional, even in many movies made today

It doesn't matter that some movies have more disposable end credit tracks

The point is that there is value in the end credit for even more reasons than I listed here

I bring all of this up because I've encountered - what is for me - a new issue with streaming movies. Not only do they include ad break style fade-to-blacks even when you're not stuck with ads during your viewing (I always keep the remote handy to mute the ads when they come up and don't even glance at the screen because fuck ads), but now I find that some services play the end credits at breakneck speed, also cutting off the music prematurely. So not only can I not use the music and energy to wind down and absorb my experience, but I can't read and appreciate (and easily look into more should I want to know more of their work whatever their task) the many people who made the film.

A lot of people say the art of film is dying. I couldn't disagree more. I lived through the sludge that the 90s and -shudder- the 00s gave us, and so much of what I'm actually watching today is fucking incredible. The ability for smaller creators - and creators from almost any country - to put out next-level work available at my fingertips is unprecedented on every conceivable level. It's the services that largely make these films available that are doing their damnedest to make these experiences as expedited and protracted as possible.

Remove our awareness of what's going on around us and we are that much more malleable, that much more suggestible to blind purchasing, binge watching, and other obnoxious tactics that gain billionaires more money, and leave us as the scapegoats, the ones to blame for our "shorter attention spans" and our "fickle" manner of consuming media.

[downfalldestiny]

A film that so perfectly captures the day to day loneliness, despair, and misery in life 🖤 !.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

[reel-truth]

Misery (1990)

one of my favourites!

[life-in-toontown]

Lin, I’m a huge fan, but please, pretty please, listen to me:

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No.

[snorlaxthegreat]

"Put me out of my misery, young man"

[burningvelvet]

severely depressed and continuously thinking about & re-watching jane eyre (2006) & withnail and i (1987) which at first glance may seem like very different pieces of media but which are very similar in that both stories are about: being impoverished, plain, miserable, mentally &/or physically ill, lonely, hating your family, having weird relationships you can't explain to anyone let alone yourself, walking in the rain crying & reciting hamlet to yourself in front of a dog (this is withnail but it's also exactly the kind of thing rochester would do with pilot), using humor & fantasy as a coping mechanism, going to a random village in the middle of nowhere & then leaving it, nearly dying from the cold & poverty, & having to leave to start a better life even if it really hurts

[general-sleepy]

Finallly getting around to watching Hostel: Part III, because I'm curious and needed something low effort to watch. I promise I'm fighting my instinct to like it, because I loathe Hostel, and I've heard that Hostel fans don't like this one.

[poomphuripan]

New stills from Q17 of Up Poompat (Ming) and Poom Phuripan (Joe) in iQIYI and YYDS’s My Stand-In (2024), dir. Pepzi Banchorn Vorasataree & Khom Kongkiat Khomsiri

[salembehindbars]

Stephen King “foul-talking little” WHAT?!?! Umm

Stephen King 🤝 The Use of Slurs in his book