#movie giants

[taiwantalk]

Something is happening on a very massive scale to the media industry in america and worldwide.

I don’t know what it is, I cannot say there’s forensic evidence but the pattern is noticeable.

Something is not right. Just not quite organic.

Public tv networks or giant film companies are being bought cheap and they should not have been this cheap even with all the streaming and social media bs.

I don’t know what I’m sensing but this is not some natural evolution.

Long time ago, I can understand Sony/Columbia and I can understand nbc universal and ge. But what’s happening now is so far out of ordinary that nobody can even keep up with anything.

I fear that by the time we figured it all out, it would be like Taiwan and England.

Americans are too naive and aloof about what media industry is, and is more than just billions worth.

Let me put it this way, if you invented movies and tv and cable and content industry and the whole advertisement business model and reached worldwide and ….

[lastoneout]

Pacific Rim is the best movie ever made for the same reason Sif is the best boss in Dark Souls. It's not bcs of quality or craftmanship or whatever it's bcs when I hear "giant robots fighting giant monsters with the power of love" and "huge wolf with a big fucking sword" I am overcome with the urge to scream "HELL FUCKING YEAH" at the top of my lungs before headbutting a wall so hard I leave a dent in the plaster.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Attack from Space (1965)

[lockerlungs]

Godzilla Minus One was so good man

Id kiss it on the mouth if I could but movies don't have mouths

[ladydeath-vanserra]

maybe an unpopular opinion but I miss flat animation art in movies. Hunchback, Prince of Egypt, Land Before Time, The Iron Giant, Treasure Planet. maybe it's just bec I'm a 90s kid but there's just Something About It

[imagine-darksiders]

Swamp monster Monty sketches because otherwise I'd be doing nothing but drawing Mike Schmidtt.

[weirdlookindog]

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)

[lukecastellanshandholder]

I think that the one thing that I will always absolutely loathe the movies for (other than single handedly screwing up the whole plot of the story) is for making up that bullshit rule about Zeus declaring that no god can have any kind of contact with their children. That’s completely not true but now a huge chunk of people in the fandom believe that rule as canon( because most like to pick and chose what is canon and what is not, and sell head canons as being canon to the books ).

The only rules that are stated in the books relating to demigods and their parents is that 1). Gods cannot blatantly and outwardly help their demigod children during a basic quest (such as help them fight monsters or help them travel somewhere for the quest). 2). That as of the time right after WW2 the big 3 gods are not to sire any demigod children as part of their oath that they made on the River Styx (which Zeus and Poseidon definitely didn’t break ). Gods are still able to spend time with their demigod children and mortal lovers on times out side of quests. However, it’s seen as taboo mainly because the other gods use them having to much to do, and too many demigod children as an excuse to just not do anything for them. Not send them a birthday card, not a visit, and not even being claimed in most cases.

That’s giving the gods too much slack! People like to say "well, they’re gods. They’re trying their best." No they’re not! And this is what Luke’s character blatantly points out!

Hermes not even bothering to visit every once and a while? Hermes not trying to help in even any little way with Luke and May's situation? It’s a main reason why Luke becomes so angry at the gods and even thinks about saying yes to Kronos’ proposal.

And who is the example of what could’ve happened if Hermes would’ve done literally anything? Anything at all? Percy.

Percy didn’t like the gods and Poseidon very much in the beginning ( he doesn’t really like them much now but, you know) but Poseidon at least helps Percy in little ways that can fly under the radar of Zeus and the others. The Pearls to help Percy escape from the underworld? Tyson? Poseidon even crashes Percy’s birthday party ffs! Sure Poseidon isn’t there every time Percy scrapes his knee or fights a monster, but he still shows Percy that he somewhat cares about him.

All Hermes does is tell others how much he cares for Luke and "really truly loves him", but does nothing to prove to Luke that he truly cares. But it’s not just Hermes who does this, almost all of the gods do this! Why? Because they know that they can just say "oh, well I was busy and I tried my best" and others will just believe them and carry on. Or worse, they’ll take what the gods say to heart and demonize anyone who would try to oppose the gods so that it’s seen as a bad thing to hold the Gods accountable for the way they act.

And this is a clear example of the overarching theme that the gods are actually just an oppressive establishment that won’t ever really change unless it’s destroyed or overthrown.

In this essay I will…

[lemonavocado]

"oh i love frankenstein! my favorite quote from the novel is i have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine-" grabs you by the throat and chokes you violently

[pizzazz-party]

Victors.

Based off an illustration by Joseph Michael Linsner, this is a redraw @sroloc--elbisivni commissioned for their friend @kithnkin!

[flexingtyger99]

Godzilla biting a train

[prokopetz]

It feels like there's been this very particular subset of the Pacific Rim fandom who were into it specifically for how its central conceit blurs the line between intimacy and codependency, but felt constrained by the fundamental optimism of the source material – like no matter how fucked up they made it, there was something basic and structural embedded in it that meant it could never be fucked up enough.

And then Armored Core VI came along.

[heartorbit]

the star you've longed for

[atomic-chronoscaph]

The King and the Mockingbird (1980)

[devonsawas]

NOW AND THEN | 1995 ↳ Directed by Leslie Linka Glatter