#short clips from trailers aren't enough!!!

[sam-reid]

Drew Sarich as Graf von Krolock 🩸 TANZ DER VAMPIRE

[mieczyhale]

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"none of the actors in 'bottoms' look young enough to be high school students" okay and???

the casts for most things set in high school don't look like they're young enough to be there. its a whole Thing. and this is a satire movie that does take tropes from past high school comedies, so it would make sense that the teens don't all look like teens.

i made the mistake of watching someones trailer reaction and they had done it on a stream so the whole chat was shown in the corner and GOD people were Big Mad about literally everything about this movie.

based off the trailer.

which shows almost nothing in context, btw

and even if there WAS more context you aren't going to actually process whats in the fucking trailer if you're stopping literally every 2 seconds to make judgements based on what you've seen because there's "woke" words and lots of girls and the girls get to kick ass and the male character is stupid andandand-

people were literally saying they weren't going to watch it bc its "girl fight club"

like... no. it really isnt.

that is a piece of the plot but it isnt even really accurate?? its a horny and bloody lesbian romcom satire. calm the fuck down and stop getting up your own ass over *checks notes* blue hair and pronouns

((there was a blue haired character shown briefly and the 'gender nonconformity' of girls with short hair & one wears oversized shirts))

men can't just have fun huh?? gotta take everything in the world seriously like god forbid something not be about them

ANYWAY

i am loving the reactions to the actual movie that people have posted (that i've seen so far) the joy and positivity has been fun. this one guy opened his reaction with the 'lets go lesbians' clip and i KNEW i was in for a great time

[dismembered-narrator]

these are so obviously inspired by the new resident evil games and remakes, the first screenshot is literally a scene in re2make, the second one and the way they moved the radio scene indoors feels very re7 to me. but the first one also makes me wonder if they're going to add scenes that weren't there in the original (also silent hill brain is thinking about how the second screenshot 100% unintentionally looks like james is shot in the head, like that one dead body you find in the apartment building)

this is definitely A Choice. i'm not a fan of making the subtle imagery more blatant, the fleshy amalgam monsters worked because they invoked illness in more ways than just "they look like they're in a straightjacket"

the combat also feels very visceral, to the point where it's uncomfortable to see james hitting the more humanoid, feminine monsters like the nurses, which is actually a good detail to include considering the game's themes. combat in the original is probably the worst part of the game so i'm not too fussed about changing it lol

the weird dialogue and cadences don't really work with modern voice acting, and it's kind of impossible to recapture the strangeness of the original. it would piss a lot of people off but i kind of wish they had updated the dialogue to feel more natural. it could also be that this scene in the trailer is out of context, since they didn't include the lead-in to the conversation

the faces are still a little weird to me, but less weird than they were in the first trailer. they seem to be putting a lot of emphasis on micro-expressions, which is interesting. the characters in the original are kind of impenetrable, partly because you can't read their expressions very well, so i wonder if they'll end up removing some of the intrigue and ambiguity behind the characters with modern technology

in the hospital section, i like how maria seems to wander around on her own path, it gives her a bit more personality and i'm sure it keeps you from accidentally hitting her a million times like in the original. i'm curious what her pathing looks like when walking around the town

it's hard to show in screenshots but the nurse's head shakes and glitches out, which feels very "modern horror game about mental illness." second screenshot also shows more stereotypical mental illness imagery. there's also a cheap jumpscare with one of the crawly guys later on, which doesn't bode well, considering the original has no jumpscares (other than that time you can knock on a bathroom stall and something screams at you)

i liked the scene where james scares laura. it would be interesting to see more from the lens of male violence - in the original game, we have pyramid head, but james himself is presented as neutral, even kind and sympathetic in his interactions with angela. at this point so many people know the twist that it would be interesting to see more foreshadowing for it, leaning into the roles each character plays in society and their relationship to violence. but i don't think i trust bloober team to do that tactfully

i wasn't fast enough for a non-blurry screenshot but this just looks goofy lol

it was interesting that they showed a lot of laura's scenes, which people aren't all that emotionally attached to. there was nothing from pyramid head or angela (although i saw a short clip of her on twitter, and people were complaining about her face, but i think it looks fine. she actually looks younger than the original, which i like), none of the iconic scenes in the game, which is a little concerning. i think they mentioned expanding on existing storylines, which is also concerning. there's definitely potential to do something interesting with this remake and i'm cautiously optimistic, but the most likely outcome is that it's just mediocre, doesn't really understand what made the original so good, and tries and fails to nostalgia-bait people. but only time will tell

watching the silent hill 2 trailer during an online class lol

[itsclydebitches]

Any interest in high guardian spice? I've only seen a few clips, but it's frustrating. I like how it's clearly going for diversity, but the actual show looks very boring and bland from what bits I saw. Maybe I'm just spoiled by Adventure Time and Steven Universe. I suppose its more geared towards kids to? I think. A characters explains what being trans is so that leads me to think this is more kid focused, so fair.

I didn't know anything about this prior to your ask, anon, but I checked out the trailer, as well as a single clip. Based on those I can't say I have much interest in watching more. I'm enthusiastically applauding whatever diversity they've included (nothing was made explicit from the trailer I watched, but you've mentioned trans rep and I saw someone else mention a lesbian couple?), but beyond that plus, I wouldn't even say it's a matter of being spoiled by excellent shows like Steven Universe. This just feels mediocre to me. Specifically, a mediocre aimed at a pretty young audience. There are some aspects that feel like it's explicitly geared towards children, such as the trailer's glittery messages about trusting friendship, accompanied by a peppy pop song:

There's also a focus on drama over logical action, at least based on the clip I saw. I watched something from episode eight where the characters just stand for an awkwardly long moment as their friend shoots the baddie.

They also stood watching that vial fall, and then they stand there for an even longer moment under a spell that I assume they can just... walk out from underneath? It looks like the spell bounces off the shield they create, expanding to cover the whole festival or whatever is going on, so I'm like, "If you just walked two feet in either direction you'd all have been fine, yeah?"

It's the sort of writing that will make a kid squeal in delight: "Omg the vial is broken! She's shooting her! Everyone turned to stone!!" whereas older viewers are more likely to wonder why the characters aren't doing more, especially in what seems to be an action show. Again, idk all the context that might change how we read this particular scene (like how that one girl clearly lost her power orb thing and, I assume, couldn't attack until she got it back), but it just feels... generically done. Which is only disappointing if your audience is expecting more than that. I'd be thrilled to see a diverse magic show somewhere like Cartoon Network, telling the kind of story kids will easily get invested in. But putting this on Crunchyroll feels like it's aiming for an audience that's going to expect a lot more — from the action, the writing, and how "anime" it feels.

I'm admittedly assuming a lot based on one ask and two short clips, but overall this is something I'd recommend to a young kid in my life, not a peer who's a big consumer of anime. That's not a bad thing certainly, but I can definitely see why Crunchyroll's main audience might be disappointed. There are cartoons written with enough depth that people of all ages can love it (Steven Universe, Avatar, Gravity Falls, The Clone Wars, etc.), but it doesn't feel like HGS has that going on.