#not including sequels and movies

[goldstarrgrl]

nicholas galitzine’s filmography is truly one of the funniest things i’ve ever seen because it literally goes

1. heartbreaking gay coming of age film

2. cinderella jukebox musical

3. military propaganda

4. gay romcom

5. lesbian fight club film

[oomles]

This headline is so funny to me like... imagine any producer of anything ever outright saying to the press "I don't think the sequel we're making is as good at the first, sorry :("

[marypsue]

Because I am literally never not thinking about weird meta, blurring lines between reality and narrative, and the whole concept of actors becoming their characters, I am now entertaining thoughts of a Shadow of the Vampire-style story wherein a late-2010s-style all-female The Lost Boys remake gets derailed when the lead actress suddenly starts not showing up to shooting because she's sleeping all day...

[meraki-yao]

I saw this thing in a lovely fic and it got me thinking something silly

Do you guys think Taylor can lift up Nick? Or vice versa?

Carrying your partner or bridal carry is a trope I personally find really sweet, and I've seen it in a couple of fics and even wrote it into my own WIP (and it's mostly Alex lifting Henry)

But like, realistically in movie verse, can the boys do that? I know Taylor has muscles (and boy does he have muscles) but they're kind of similar build

Idk just a small little thing that won't leave my head

[amelia-mariee]

I know a lot happened in volume 3, but we're kind of ignoring Quill coming back to earth. He's living on earth for the first time in almost 40 years. You know how much he missed? At some point he probably visited or saw a picture of NYC and was like "hey I don't see the twin towers" and Jason Quill had to sit down his 40 year old grandson and teach him about 9/11.

[myst1xx]

appreciation post for live action frankie’s wardrobe

[niyana-the-ambiguous-mobian]

So, did anyone else know about this cancelled TV series about Brother Bear that Disney was developing around the time of the first film’s release or was I supposed to find that out on a random read through on the Wikipedia page?

I mean the sequel was still in development at the time, but it looked like it wasn’t going to be too connected to it, kinda like what they did with the Timon and Pumbaa cartoon in the 90’s. But it was canned due to the film not doing well and the network putting their sights on more Tween related content for Disney Channel at the time.

Apparently the main focus was going to be that Kenai and Koda, but mostly Kenai, were going to adopt random, orphaned animals into their newly formed family, including a strange elephant/platypus hybrid named Doohickey. Don’t know where the hell he would come from but alright.

According to one of the writers, The show was basically about Kenai trying his best to control a situation that’s always getting out of control, which sounds pretty in character for him XD.

It’s too bad we couldn’t see what this could be like, it’s sounds like a typical Saturday morning cartoon that I would love to see as a kid.

[ifwewere-stories]

For those who don't know, the candle scene is a reference/homage to the amazing, first oscar nominated mexican film 'Macario' (dir. Roberto Gavaldón, 1960), previously seen on the TV when Nana is changing channels.

[nicohischier]

man. should i watch star wars.

[thisbrilliantsky]

brought to you by madeline's song while she's in solitary confinement in the illegal lace factory being stuck in my head at 5am

[kakusu-shipping]

As 2025 gets ever closer, how about a quick 2024 F/O Round Up!

Honestly, only like 5 of the characters this year are Full Romantics, 2 are Queerplatonics, and the rest are Crushes I felt very strongly about even if they didn't make the main list this year, which is fine just. Very different from last years round up.

[muddlemore]

cruella is arguably one of the scariest disney villains which they really toned down in the 90s series. but dalmatian street took that shit and cranked it back up to THE MAX

[rubiatinctorum]

At the same time, I think

Adaptations being unfaithful to the source material, especially long after it was first relevant, isn't inherently some great violence done to the text nor a perversion of some pure and noble goal of the original

Sometimes an adaptation of an older work will work with themes that are more contemporarily significant to its current audience, and that's not necessarily a bad thing

It can be very disappointing to ardent fans of the original work who expect to see what they love on the screen/stage/whatever in the adaptation, not only because they now might be privy to what is a completely different story, but also, because this was kind of totally the work's one shot at getting a brand new TV show/movie/stageplay/whatever any time soon, and so this is what experts call a "turbo bummer :("

Some works don't need to be derivative, but wouldn't be made in a certain media landscape if they weren't, so it's better for the story to be told and vaguely connected to a previous IP than to not be allowed to be told in the medium at all.

Ultimately the mark of whether a work of adaptation is good or not rests with its quality as its own story, and if it fucks, well sorry people who dislike it bc it's not the original, but it fucks ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Holy shit, two cakes

All of this does not mean I would not be mad if some adaptation team used MY writing to build their own new story on top of in my lifetime because I already did it perfect the first time thank you very much ;)

[darkcozyforest]

Comfort Movies Tag

List 10 comfort films and tag 10 people!

In no particular order:

Crazy Rich Asians

Avatar 1 and 2

Down Periscope

Practical Magic

Stardust

The Da Vinci Code/Angel’s and Demons

Pirates of the Caribbean Saga

Twister/Twisters

Van Helsing

Hook

Honorable mention: Atlantis

Tagging: @talontarget @hyperfixatingmenever @prettyboynightwing @aryn-the-bearheart @littlemouserat @bookmothic-dyke @cloudselkie @silence-of-the-universe @zizzlekwum @bitchqueen1114

[oveliagirlhaditright]

Kingdom Hearts 4 Challenge Day 6: A World to Revisit

Atlantica

(So, I swear all of my posts really aren't meant to be about Kairi. Like, I was going to make this cool manip where it looked like Sora was saving Melody from drowning, but my Sony Vegas refused to open for some reason? So I just decided to post these similar images of Melody and Kairi instead. That being said... while I don't need Kairi to be the one to go to a The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea world if we ever got one--I'd be more than okay with it being Sora--that would be cool. I'd love to see mermaid Kairi, since Kairi is named for the sea. And Kairi's name can even mean "melody." And she has a lot in common with Ariel. I even suspect she was somewhat based on Ariel, but anyway.)

The reason I would want Atlantica is honestly just because I would want a pretty underwater world again with the Unreal Engine graphics. And that can be a world that we've never been to before, like, Atlantis: The Lost Empire. But if we don't get a new one, then I would want an old one like Atlantica here. Plus... even though I don't think this movie is the greatest. At all. I feel like it's okay... and depending on how they handle it, the KH writers could potentially make it better, with what they add to it. Also, I feel like if we go to Atlantica one more time--with better swimming controls, and in an attempt that isn't a musical--we could finally redeem the world. And that would be great to see.

And now, for whatever reason, I'm going to list some other worlds I'd be more than okay with returning (even though I think we were only supposed to list one. Shh.)

Wonderland: But only if the world is expanded and it's a "sequel," via it being based on Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.

Deep Jungle: I know this will surely never happen, since I know Disney has lost the rights to Tarzan. But on the off-chance they ever got the rights back somehow, I definitely wouldn't mind seeing this world back again, perhaps adapting some of the stories from the TV show, like the stuff with Princess La.

Agrabah: I definitely want to go here one more time and to have the "Aladdin and the King of Thieves" story depicted. (I probably would even prefer this even over Atlantica, actually, even though I want that pretty underwater level). This was one of the better Disney sequels, after all. And Sora most definitely deserves to be there for Aladdin and Jasmine's wedding.

Neverland: I wouldn't be opposed to the second Peter Pan movie being adapted.

The Land of Dragons: I'd be all for us having Mulan II, actually.

The Beast's Castle: I've always wanted "Beauty and the Beast and the Enchanted Christmas." I want to fight Forte. LOL. While I doubt it will happen, for obvious reasons, I feel like they could find a way to do it: like Belle writes Sora and the gang a part of her and the Beast's story that they don't know about (the Enchanted Christmas story) and sends it to them as a gift (maybe even for Christmas?), and once Sora opens it, he somehow gets pulled into said story.

Pirates of the Caribbean: I wouldn't mind a "Dead Men Tell No Tales" world.

The Lion King II: Simba's Pride would be awesome.

I would also kill for Cinderella III: A Twist in Time.

While part of me is loath to mention this one... I feel like no one was completely satisfied with the La Cité des Cloches world in Dream Drop Distance (because of lack of NPCs and that kind of thing). And there is a "The Hunchback of Notre Dame II" that Disney made. Absolutely no one likes this movie, and for good reason. But I don't know... I would be willing to tolerate it, just to see this world in the quality it deserves. And maybe Square Enix could somehow make it better... actually, surely not. But like I said: I could tolerate this just to run around Notre Dame in pretty Unreal Engine graphics.

I know that originally with DDD, the plan was Sora to go to all of the original Fantasia locations and for Riku to go to the ones in Fantasia 2000. But then they realized there were enough locations in the first movie for them both to go to, and they didn't need to crank out the sequel after all (or something like that). So I certainly wouldn't mind getting Fantasia 2000 now, in KHIV.

Tangled I'd love to go here again, if we get to see some of the cool plots from the TV show, that I've watched on YouTube. LOL

Arendelle We all know we'll be going here. It isn't even a question. I just hope that this time, Disney gives Square Enix much more freedom (let Elsa and Anna be party members, please). Since Frozen II is kind of hit and miss. Square Enix could really make something cool with it--like they could have with Frozen in KHIII--if they're allowed some creativity.

Wreck-It Ralph Because no one, and I mean no one, wanted us to first experience this world in KHUX, tbh.

Radiant Garden I just really want to finish some of the plot threads there that are still hanging.

Destiny Islands I just really want to be able to go back here and play, dangit! And maybe finally get to explore the main island!

Shibuya Just let us meet Neku, Shiki, Beat, Joshua, and Rhyme in their Shibuya (even if it's an in the credits thing), if Quadratum isn't theirs and we're not going to meet them (or the Wicked Twisters) in the game, otherwise.

[mariocki]

L'ultimo cacciatore (The Last Hunter, 1980)

"You actually enjoy it."

"Listen, sweetheart, I've been out here too long. I don't know what's good or bad anymore, don't know who my friends or my enemies are. But I don't enjoy it. I don't want to argue about it anymore. Don't want to think about it anymore or understand it anymore. Sometimes, I think I don't want to live anymore."