#movies i've seen

[thatfraudcassandra]

Day 16: A film that sparks nostalgia

I recently went into a romcom binge and rewatched these nostalgic gems. Mid-2000s romcoms are top-tier, change my mind!

[absurdly-useful]

The hackers do manage to do some...uh...other stuff before handing over the crypto device. You won't notice anything about that unless you're paying attention to the news that's being read as background audio in one of the last few scenes of the movie.

And the news reader in that scene, Ernie Tetrault, was a TV news anchor on one of the TV stations local to me when I was a kid.

(And it definitely is a great movie. I also have a copy, but mine is on VHS, which is not as cool as Foone's LaserDisc copy.)

Sneakers (1992, Phil Alden Robinson)

[flamelscross]

Flickle #790

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📆 Daily Streak: 43 (Best 55) 🏆 Win Streak: 1 (Best 19)

To be fair. To be fair. How many years has it been since I've seen this movie?

[nyaslashthreat]

shout out to when i told my dad about goncharov and he figured out it was fake because i told him "1973 martin scorsese film with robert de niro" and he said that wasn't possible because the godfather came out in 1972 and the godfather part II came out in 1974 and they wouldn't have had time to make a movie in between. a perfectly good jest, foiled by this man's weird and vast knowledge set

[pinktinselmonstrosity]

an underrated psych bit imo

[flawlessflesh]

thistle's too short for this scheme to work...

[wickedisback]

Listen,

Ariana really said with her full chest “let there be no innuendo or outueno. My Galinda is in love with Elphaba.”

[miss-galaxy-turtle]

I feel like if you were to ask Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo to do a Gelphie version of As Long As You're Mine, not only would they be up for it, but Ariana would be setting up the studio before you finish the sentence

[batfamfucker]

What About The Kens?

I'm already seeing guys complain about the Barbie movie end, how they wanted Kens to be equal in Barbieland but were only given a small part on the Cabinet.

That's the point.

You're meant to feel bad for the Kens. Believe me, women aren't partying over the 'Returns to Matriarch' ending. Some will be, but the ones who also clocked the meaning behind it won't. Most women will also feel bad for Kens. Because it's an exact parallel to how women are treated in reality.

Men, you're meant to be upset. You're meant to question it. Because you're meant to feel it, and feel what that is like, so you can finally understand women. You're upset at seeing it in a movie, now imagine living it in reality. That's being a woman.

Kens were shit on so you could feel what it was like for women this entire time. Kens were being used as a placement so you could see yourself in a woman's shoes. A world dominated by the opposite sex. When Ken leaves, and sees male presidents (All men) for the first time, men being doctors and lawyers, etc, realising he is more than just a prop for Barbie, that was on purpose. Because that is the feeling that Barbie gave to women. It's why you cheer for him at first before he goes a little overboard.

It's exactly why the real world was an exaggerated Partriarchy and Barbieland an exaggerated Matriarchy. Neither wins. Neither is equal. None of them change for the better. It's why you should want women in the real world to be respected, and Kens in Barbieland to be respected.

The thing is, women also didn't win. Not in the real world. In Barbieland, yes, but not anywhere else. The real world didn't change. But you didn't notice, did you? That Gloria (The mother that helped Barbie) also didn't get a position on the Mattel board? It was still all men? Her idea was ignored until it made a profit, and the men will likely get the credit? She'll still just be the receptionist? The women representing the real world didn't get anymore opportunities, neither did the men in Barbieland.

I was hoping that Gloria would be offered a position on the board, and that the Barbie Cabinet would introduce another entire Cabinet to represent the Kens, but neither happened. They're complete mirrors.

But which one did you actually notice? Which did you actually care about? Now tell me again the ending was unfair. Because it was. For both parties. That's the point.

The difference is, Barbieland is fictional. You will walk out of the theatre with the reassurance that at least it's not real. Women won't. Women can't. Companies not giving women equal opportunities or voices isn't fictional, and that was just one example. There are no women presidents (USA at least) for us to go look at in the real world. We don't have somewhere to go to realise it could be different for us like Ken did. Barbie and make believe is all we had when we were kids, or even now.

You're supposed to be mad, just not at the movie.

[tuttle-did-it]

You know, it's genuinely sad to me that aging favourite character actors no longer have any fun murder-mystery tv shows to guest-star as murders on.

[thatfraudcassandra]

Day 9: Your favorite foreign language film

Asian films supremacy!

[crualex-de-vil]

Silent Hill sketchies

[flamelscross]

Flickle #780

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📆 Daily Streak: 33 (Best 55) 🏆 Win Streak: 1 (Best 19)

God DAMMIT of all the ones to get this quickly. Why. Why.

[whorefindel]

forever mad that legolas in pj's trilogies was watered down to basic stereotypical mysterious stoic slightly confused brooding blonde elf instead of the whimsical quippy silly guy we see in the books who jokes about grabbing the sun from the sky to warm his mortal friends and screams when he sees a balrog :/

[absurdly-useful]

This looks like it was swiped either from or for the bridge of the Nostromo in Alien.

Bridge of the Roger Burlingame, by Paul Adams for Starhunt

[obsessedoverwater]

Sometimes the doomed old man toxic yoai gets so bad you just have to start writing about fucking revenge guac to get over the pain.