#so it's very capslock shouty

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top 5 movies you can always rewatch and why?

Ooh excellent question, thank you!!

In no particular order, and not very coherent because my brain is mush this week :)

Aliens - pretty much a perfect film :) Ultraviolence, fantastic action and creature work, THE BEST character writing and cast chemistry, insanely quotable (it IS the only way to be sure) and just the sheer freaking joy of watching Ripley work through her trauma by said ultraviolence. And adopting a small feral child. And a bona fide Battle Couple Trope, with Hicks being absolute hearteyes for her taking charge and saving everyone. (Yes it has to be the Special Edition, and nope, we don’t talk about the sequels mangling the entire narrative arc dammit.)

Terminator - Baby newbie director James Cameron turning a really freaky fever dream into a swoony doomed quotable time travel romance! With ultraviolence :) And the character work that goes into making Sarah feel like a real person, complete with a pet iguana called Pugsley. The post-apocalyptic horror, the police station scene and the factory finale??? And don’t even get me started on Michael Biehn because I might start crying again... (no we don’t talk about the sequels for this one either, idek).

Fury Road - I mean??? Does this even need an explanation? Cinematic perfection - the casting, the direction, the characters, the sound mixing, the EDITING. The social commentary. SO MUCH EXCELLENT ULTRAVIOLENCE. Max and his reluctant heroics. Furiosa!!! The WIVES. THE VULVALINI.  I may or may not have seen this in the cinema fourteen times the year it came out. THE SHEER DAMN CATHARSIS OF IT ALL. Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy playing characters with such an excellent battle couple trope THAT THEIR STUNT DOUBLES FELL IN LOVE AND GOT MARRIED IRL.  

Dredd -  My ultraviolent happy place :) It’s just a sleek, gorgeously simple, cathartic narrative with the most beautiful camerawork capturing horrible things, and some fabulous characters. That’s all you need. Karl Urban and Olivia Thirlby giving it their absolute all. LENA HEADY. I don’t even have words for how brilliant she is; the amount of quiet pathos this very loud violent film lends its characters between all the many, many bullets flying all over the place. And best of all... no damn sequels :)

Amelie -  My what’s app profile picture may quite possibly be me sitting in the cafe in Montmartre surrounded by Amelie paraphernalia, grinning like a very happy idiot?? It takes quirky to whole new levels of twee, it’s visually inventive and so funny and warm and sweet and snarky, and I think I may have hyperventilated when I saw the director do a q&a in person?? And the MUSIC and the COLOURS and Audrey Tatou and Matthieu Kassovitz?? That goddamn ghost train scene wrecks me every time. I may possibly be very fussy about which set of English subtitles they use for this one, because I have the original DVD ones memorised, and the literal translation ones on TV make no sense in context. I love this film so much. Times ARE hard for dreamers, it’s true.

Thank you for the ask!! I’m sorry this is completely incoherent lol!!

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/I'm talking... again:/

Sometimes it really amazes and stresses me out that my boy sees right through me. I mean, he can literally recognize exactly how I'm feeling through the text of a message (I don't use dots or capslock for a rude or shouty tone, I always try to be calm). And every time my mood changes, he tells me directly, he says he's noticed it. It's not that I like it or anything, more like it helps me get to know myself, but it just so happens to make me want to run away from the answer, and whenever that situation happens he kind of stops me, and helps me get to the end of the conversation/thinking, even if it's uncomfortable.

It's all great really, but sometimes, things get out of hand:

For example, when I want to tell him about my love for the otp (I talk about Sota and Heraclio a lot because they are very important to me, I just admire them and I really like their dynamics, and so on), Daniel tells me that I talk about them so well because their type of relationship is the type that I like, and in addition "I project that type of relationship onto US," or rather "I feel US in them."

Wake up, dude, that's not true at all. Yes, I like their type of relationship a lot, BUT I DON'T PROJECT THEM IN US, I DON'T SEE HIM IN HIM. WE AND THEY ARE DIFFERENT BEINGS, DAMN IT. I DON'T FEEL US IN THEM, CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THAT OR NOT??? THEY ARE SOMETHING SOULFUL TO ME, IT'S MY SOUL PERFECTION THAT I IDOLIZE AND PROTECT. OUR RELATIONSHIP IS NOTHING LIKE THEIRS AT ALL, GET IT THROUGH YOUR HEAD.

It's frustrating to be with this man, honestly... That's why I don't tell him anything more about the otp cartoons, as much as I'd like to. Every time this kind of episode will come up, and I don't like it.