#movies 2024

[astonishinglysane]

Movies I’ve Watched - 2024

328/?: Manchester by the Sea (2016) - watched 11/17/24

What a devastating movie. It is a portrait of the permanent changes grief can make in someone’s life. The script is smart in how it slowly reveals Lee’s backstory, and it also has the confidence not to overexplain anything. It’s all there, and it all hurts.

Manchester by the Sea (2016)

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it changed my life

[thejdblog]

Shadow in Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (2024)

[hotstreak2k3]

From this…

“This isn’t over, Prime.” - D-16 (now rechristened as Megatron)

… to this!

“It’s over Prime.” - Megatron (From Generation1 era)

[happy-mokka]

My two favorite movies of the year...

What a spectrum...

...and what does this tell about my mental state, I wonder?

🤔😊

[mandacantu]

10 Reasons Why I Actually Loved The Crow Remake

FKA Twigs - I'm not going to sit here and pretend I am not a huge twigs fan, because I love anything she touches and especially her music. This was her first time as a leading lady and I thought she did a good job. I do think there were some points where her line reading could have been a little more fast paced in some spots, but overall, I think she was captivating, eloquent and emotional. And wow, so many stunning visuals that we got of her from this movie!

2. We didn't have to see depictions of brutal and violent deaths of women in this film. I didn't want to spend too many of my thoughts on comparisons to the original The Crow, but one thing I noticed was that I didn't have to endure the violent and sexually abusive death of Shelly or any other woman in this movie. I do like the original movie but never cared for the way they went all in on Shelly's death. In this remake, we still see Shelly die but we don't have to endure gratuitous SA scenes whilst losing the leading lady. I appreciated that and was able to relax more, honestly.

3. The villain had actual motivation for killing and being a villain. There was some decent backstory and character development for the villain and that is something that I always appreciate. Some of my favorite pieces of media (like Spirited Away and Knives Out) do well to at least give the villain a story or a reason for being bad. I think it adds depth to the story and for me, helps immerse me into the plot more.

4. It felt like a comic book come to life. From the color grading and palette to the way scenes were cut and moved from one to the next, it felt like I was flipping through a comic book. There were moments that were very whimsical in depictions of love and then very gritty scenes. The contrast in some of those scenes felt similar to flipping a page in a comic.

5. It was very romantic and spent a lot of time focusing on their love story. I thought their love was believable and felt like that whirlwind kind of love where you just want to party and kiss all night. It gave me a reason to care about both of the characters and it gave Shelly a place in the spotlight where she becomes so much more than just a symbol of loss for character development. Focusing on their love and giving us some romance was a timeless decision and puts their love story up there with Romeo and Juliet or Christian and Sateen.

6. Soundtrack was amazing! If you are into some new wave, some goth tunes and some dance tracks, this is the playlist for you. Beyond just the soundtrack, it was truly a different experience to see it synced up to parts of the movie as intended. The intro was amazing, I thought it was like a James Bond meets Underworld mixed with some NIN music video sprinkled in there. The folks who worked on the score deserve a standing ovation. There were moments where I was tearing up because of how well the music paired with the scene. Most memorable and moving was Joy Division's Disorder when they bust out of rehab together and a perfectly placed Boadicea by Enya. There were so many other good ones too, I'm seriously considering seeing it again just for the mini music videos you get from the film.

7. It was aesthetically pleasing. And I'm not just talking about the eye candy that was Bill Skarsgård, though lets give him his flowers for being a true Mr. Fanservice! The actual visuals were beautiful. I loved the cinematography and color choices. It was truly a feast for the eyes. Just take a look at this beautiful gif set by pizgif!

8. I could easily see a story about grief and the longing for justice for loved ones. I thought it was a good story and as I watched it, I thought to myself that the person who wrote the original comic must have gone through an immense loss. It wasn't until I looked it up that it seems to be confirmed that The Crow was inspired by such loss. The moodiness of the movie itself added to the weight of the tragic storyline. In that, I liked that it takes a while for Eric to become The Crow. Losing someone you love transforms you and in this sense, the movie is all about that transformation and pain and longing.

9. I liked the ending. I don't want to say too much to spoil it, but I enjoyed the different ending and I was definitely teary eyed and sniffling as I left the theater.

10. It was goth as fuck. I think goth can be a multitude of styles and honestly shouldn't be something that has a gatekeeper. This was emo-boy-goth, it was e-boy-tiktok-hottie-goth, it was goth in a different flavor. I think folks are quick to see this new Eric not dressed like a new-wave-leather-daddy-goth as decidedly not dark enough. To quote a favorite musician, he was "goth as fuck, even when [he's] not in black, gothic is the pain you feel and not the clothes that's on your back."

Closing thoughts: A lot of the negative criticism is coming from men or diehard fans of the 1994 movie, so I am not surprised. This rendition felt like the same story, just done differently and with more emphasis on the love story than the revenge plot. There is nothing wrong with that and nothing wrong with a gothic romance heavy action flick.

This was intended to be a different version of The Crow and that isn't a bad thing. I personally think that if they had done the styling to be an exact replica of Brandon Lee's rendition then the movie would still get tons of hate, if not more. It was a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation for sure. I'm glad they took a risk and deviated from the '94 version.

We have been doing remakes since the creation of art. It has always been common to hear that the new movie coming out is actually a retelling of this classic tale or continuation of that scary story. Remakes are not a new concept and some of them do well to tell the same story in a different way. We are in the day and age where there isn't really an original idea anymore, anyway. In a world full of countless retellings of Batman/Joker and Spiderman movies, why not remake The Crow? I say fire it up!

I think they do a good job to pave the way for others to retell this love story in the same vein as The Joker and Harley Quinn. Hell, I would say to keep going, next let's see a remake where The Crow is about two badass lesbians. (I might have gotten too peppered up watching the movie, it was hot.)

P.S. I loved that there were little things like Eric wearing Shelly's jacket later in the movie. I feel like a lot of critics saw him wearing this jacket and were quick to bash the costume design too, but this is the kind of attention to detail that made their love believable to me. And I thought he looked cute as hell in it.

Okay, the end.

[confession-star]

LONGLEGS · 2023

𝘭𝘦𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘳 · 𝘮𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘳𝘰𝘦

[stevebuscemieyes]

Late Night With The Devil

March 22 2024

Dir. Cameron Cairnes, Colin Cairnes

[kimberlyshaws]

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

2024 movies I’ve seen, crudely summarized:

The Substance —> The Barbie movie but with the charm of The Fly

Twisters —> Hallmark Channel movie but with the budget of a Marvel movie

Trap —> M. Night Shyamalan directed a music video for his daughter, then slapped together a story to try to pass it off as a movie

Transformers One —> Transformers: First Class

Deadpool & Wolverine —> Ryan Reynolds fanboys over the Marvel universe for two hours

Longlegs —> Silence of the Lambs, but instead of Hannibal Lecter, it’s Nicolas Cage being normal

MaXXXine —> evil La La Land

Speak No Evil —> Andrew Tate as a horror movie villain

Inside Out 2 —> “damn, that’s me onscreen fr fr” the movie

Megalopolis —> The Room 2

Civil War —> “we’re making some kind of a political statement” the movie

A Quiet Place: Day One —> a drama about a terminally ill movie living her life to the fullest in her last days…oh, and there’s aliens I guess

Bad Boys: Ride or Die —> cops going through mid-life crisis: the movie

Monkey Man —> The Raid 3

In a Violent Nature —> Jason Voorhees nature documentary ASMR

Cuckoo —> the trailer sold the movie —> something scary is supposed to be happening, I guess

Road House —> UFC commercial

Night Swim —> “goofy ahh monster ruins the entire atmosphere” the movie

Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver —> boring Warhammer 40K crossover fanfic with Seven Samurai and Star Wars

Alien: Romulus —> It’s totally a different Alien story, bro. Very original and new. —> it’s just the first Alien but slightly changed —> should’ve seen this coming because the director did the same thing with Evil Dead

[tornadohyperfixation]

They did my boy dirty

⬇️Like what is this? Why?⬇️

Why you do Eric dirty like that?

[trendfilmsetter]

Character posters for the upcoming musical adaptation MEAN GIRLS.

Releasing in theaters January 12th, 2024

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Bang a Gong

[thejdblog]

It's glorious

[hotstreak2k3]

A new ‘SONIC 3’ standee has been spotted in theaters.

Who else is excited for Sonic the Hedgehog 3?

[swolfeh]

Movies summed up by Spongebob 2024 edition

Love Lies Bleeding

Late Night with the Devil

Road House (2024)