#social issues movies

[votermood]

सिनेमा, समाज और राजनीति का एक अनकहा गठबंधन राजनीतिक लाभ को छुपाकर राष्ट्रीय हित को दर्शाने वाली कहानी क्या समाज के लिए इतनी ज़रूरी है? राज्य कुछ फ़िल्मों को कर से छूट क्यों देते हैं?

परदे पर चलने वाली कहानियों को समाज हित में टैक्स-फ्री करने के पीछे विवादित कहानियाँ पर एक तर्क।

[mabbbish]

wonderful day to remember ninjago has a canon highschool au

[hishighnesstheprincess]

Guys I'm gonna be so fucking fr with you if this turns out to be real I'm fully giving up on these movies

[99monochrome]

Hoody shit William afton??

[catherine-sketches]

Thinking about Charles Xavier, who is simultaneously aware of everyone but at the same time not because if he was himself to the fullest people find him upsetting and rude and nosy

Thinking about his unshakable sense of morality, right and wrong and justice that he formed at the age of 9 and has kept ever since, with modifications along the years but those core values remain

Thinking about how the overstimulation of a thousand voices in his head drove him to self medicate to the point of nearly addiction

Thinking about how he has difficulty reading people when his power is not in use, ending up saying the worst things without meaning to upset no one

Thinking about how everyone should be “mutant and proud” except Charles over there that is too passing to be a mutant but too weird to be a human and simultaneously his mutation, the way his brain is fucking wired, is too inconvenient for everyone around him mutant and human alike to accept

Charles Xavier they would never make me hate you. You and your autism telepathy

[sentiniel]

hbomb's blast of james somerton really makes me think back to other older youtubers who have been doing their good work, performing critical research and analyses into niche fields who then had their work plagiarized from their videos and henceforth wanted to stop making content.

yeah and also they got pushback from the internet saying the degree of plagiarism they'd experienced is a made up problem.

this is a sideways post.

[softness-and-shattering]

Just need some background noise + mild curiosity = the second james cameron avatar movie.

Im 8 minutes in and 7 of those were voicover narration exposition dump about how he happy he is. He has locs, I dont remember if he did in the first movie.

"It took me a while to pick up the language but after a while it may as well have been english" 1. Offensive 2. Not written or checked by anyone even slightly bilingual. Thinking qnd even dreaming in a language does not make it "basucally the same as" ones mother tongue. Its a whole different language!

Anyway that was just the badly shoehorned in excuse to have the movie being in english and is immediatelly followed up by his Navi kids yelling at each other like human kids do. Cmon put some effort into your worldbuilding of this culture! The best insult you have is "penis face" and "but i dont wannna share"??? This is pathetic.

And the the sky people come back and bomb the place huge fire and we see jake and neytiri on a hill above the flame, no kids, nothing anout how they survived the inferno, jake is stony faced and neytiri is weeping and mildly upset. Not "i just lost my home.and children and vast swathes of forest where I live" upset, just like, the event I was looking forward to got cancelled upset.

And then A YEAR TIME JUMP.

Lazy prologue is lazy as fuccccckkkk.

[toddtakefive]

btw todd’s reluctance to join the dps because he doesn’t want to read (which is then accommodated for) and is scared to put himself out there (which is also worked through) being read as todd not wanting to go AT ALL, and thus neil making the proper accommodations (“todd anderson, who prefers not to read, will keep the minutes of the meetings”) and encouraging him to step out of the box that stifles him being seen as ‘forceful’ or like he can’t take no for an answer makes me insane with rage

[paigegonerogue]

Y’know what bugs me? When supermodels get cast as the Everyman in movies meant to critique beauty standards.

I see so many comments that are like “that’s the point, it’s never good enough” and I understand what you’re saying, but also like??? By casting supermodels aren’t you literally reinforcing the beauty standards you’re meant to critique??? By only showing Hollywood skinny ladies on screen aren’t you literally doing exactly what you’re satirizing??? By presenting only the prettiest people aren’t you still making the kids watching your movie feel bad about themselves??? Aren’t you still causing body issues and eating disorders and reinforcing beauty standards???

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

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[indianmovielinks]

JALLIKATTU (2019)

An escaped buffalo triggers a frenzy of ecstatic violence in a remote village. Directed by Lijo Jose Pellissery, who is known as the Master of Chaos.

Stream free & legal here

[greggorylee]

this is me btw. if you even care

[cinemaobscura]

The New Year That Never Came | Anul Nou Care N-a Fost (2024) dir. Bogdan Mureșanu

[batemanofficial]

hello upper middle class northern usamerican tumblr user. i want to play a game. you will notice that you are in a super america convenience store in rural kentucky - you have three minutes to purchase a snack and drink of your choice and make normal small talk with the cashier. however, if you use the word "cryptid" or generally make reference to appalachia and its inhabitants as "wild", uncivilized, or lacking restraint around alcoholic beverages during your time here, i will personally tie you to the chassis of a four wheeler and tip it into the river. live or die. make your choice

[oldtvandcomics]

Happy Queer Media Monday!

Today: Badhai Do (2022) (Title translates to “Give the Good News”)

(The two main characters hiding in a closet, from a promotional poster.)

Badhaai Do is an Indian comedy movie about a gay police officer and a lesbian sports teacher, who get married in hopes of getting their families to stop nagging them about being single. Hijinks ensue, as they both pursue their own romantic relationships on the side, try to keep up the semblance of a good couple, and need to find an explanation about why after a year, they still don’t have any children.

It is a funny movie, that is clearly made with the aim to humanize queer people and champion equal rights, which it is really good at. It also has a very realistic feeling to it. I have no doubt that many queer people have lived, and are still living, this exact same life. It is especially nice that, all in all, it is a happy story. We as a community do tend to have a slight tendency to assume that the only way of being happy is to be 100% out, which is why we really need more stories like this or The Blue Caftan (2022), where gay people in more traditional societies live perfectly happy and fulfilled lives.

Badhaai Do is available on Netflix.

Queer Media Monday is an action I started to talk about some important and/or interesting parts of our queer heritage, that people, especially young people who are only just beginning to discover the wealth of stories out there, should be aware of. Please feel free to join in on the fun and make your own posts about things you personally find important!

[licorice-and-rum]

I can't get over the thought that In Time (2011) should be called "Socialism for Dummies"

What a movie lol

Other possible names include:

Socialism 101

Socialism for children

Socialism to you, who can't understand anything if it's not drawn for you

That one film where Cillian Murphy is so hot in leather I almost forget he's a cop

That one film pro-socialism Hollywood actually let someone produce

That one film where Olivia Wilde is somehow Justin Timberlake's mom (which makes no sense but I'm here for it)