#the movie is a sham

[in-tua-deep]

So I followed you years ago for the first season of tua. It has been years and now tua has come to an end. I just watched the final season. Did you or will you watch it? I might not be able to recommend it. Which is such a shame. The first season was amazing and will be forever one of my favorite shows.

I have a terrible confession to make…

I’ve only fully watched season one of the umbrella academy. I started season 2 and haven’t finished it yet 😭

[ynwa4eva]

I wish i had more spider-man movies i could watch 😞

[of-fear-and-love]

Mini flying robot from 鐵甲無敵瑪利亞 / I Love Maria (1988)

[basketcase1982]

Wait, I only know like, vaguely of the Warrens and their existence. They were traumatizing families?

hellooo sorry this has been sitting in my askbox for months BUT without scrounging for articles i can really only say that I think diagnosing troubled children with demon possession and performing exorcisms on them (and that inspiring the use of "demon possession" as an insanity defense, as in the "devil made me do it" case) is unbelievably dangerous and harmful religious bogus. this did cause a rift in the Glatzel family between the siblings that still believe in the possession vs those that saw through the manipulation and don't appreciate the intense media attention it garnered, especially when their brother was clearly struggling with meltdowns and delusions and instead of getting help, their parents called the Warrens. i also think it's disgusting to use the real & then-recent murder of 4 children as the focal point of a haunted house story, ie the amityville horror. they're well known at this point to exaggerate and falsify everything they write to make it more sensational for money, while using the real names of the people they write about. the families are generally on board but i don't blame them half as much as i blame the lifelong career grifters

[abandoned-as-mustard]

Are we gonna talk about the irony of a song about a character who's often pushed to the side and not given any real identity beyond being an accessory to barbie.... losing to a song about barbie

[onceandfutureclotpoll]

Title: For Worse or For Better

Author: anna_zee

Rating: Teen and up Audiences

Summary: Merthur The Proposal au.

[fibula-rasa]

Good faces from Wheels on Meals / 快餐車 (1984)

Director: Sammo Hung

Cinematographers: Yiu-Tsou Cheung,  Francisco Riba,  Arthur Wong

[wickershells]

few folks more enlightened on this earth than the little girls whose favourite common fairytale was little red riding hood

[sweet-beezus]

It's the year of the spider, didn'tcha know

[thenineofus]

I'm gonna say something controversial. But I don't care for videos where youtubers make fun of zero budget bottom of the barrel bad movies.

Yeah, this movie is bad, a toddler can see that. You're not clever.

[salamanders-please]

Genuine question: where is it $20 to rent a movie? The most i have ever seen is $4-5?

The only time i could imagine rentals being close to that expensive is if it also has a simultaneous theater release.

Anyway libraries often have surprisingly wide selections of movies that you can borrow for free. Also r/piracy is a great resource if you feel comfortable going that route.

$20 to rent a movie online for 48 hours i need yall to get so real right now bc that is insane. “that’s the average cost” which is a problem!! if im paying $20 i better get the film on dvd to have and watch forever

[ynwa4eva]

Wait i need to rewatch that awful micheal bay armageddon movie....

[ulkaralakbarova]

Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can’t bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Xavier Rousseau: Romain Duris Martine: Audrey Tautou Isabelle: Cécile de France Wendy: Kelly Reilly Ju: Sandrine Holt Isabelle, la babysitter: Flore Bonaventura les philosophes allemands: Jochen Hägele le père de Xavier: Benoît Jacquot la mère de Xavier: Martine Demaret Nancy: Li Jun Li l’éditeur: Dominique Besnehard M. Boubaker: Zinedine Soualem John: Peter Hermann l’avocat new-yorkais de Xavier: Jason Kravits L’infirmière: Vanessa Guide Antoine Garceau: Kyan Khojandi le photographe (caméo): Cédric Klapisch Le deuxième mari Latino: Alex Kruz Le mari latino: Luis Vega Tom Rousseau: Pablo Mugnier-Jacob Mia Rousseau: Margaux Mansart Lucas: Amin Djakliou Jade: Clara Abbasi Ray: Sharrieff Pugh L’agent bureau immigration: Peter McRobbie L’avocat de Wendy: Byron Jennings La première collégienne: Alison Arboux La deuxième collégienne: Loreleï Aubry La femme sensuelle: Natalia Segura L’associé de l’éditeur: Xavier Alcan L’assistante de l’éditeur: Maud Wyler L’infirmière de la maternité: Catrina Ganey Le patron coursier: Adrian Martinez Miguel: Jose Soto Ming Li: Shuya Chang Ben: Howah Hung Le chauffeur de taxi chinois: Phil Nee La vieille dame: Anna Berger Le premier rocker: Larry Fessenden Le deuxième rocker: Joe Stefko Le chauffeur en colère: Yinka Adeboyeku Le chauffeur de taxi indien: Kenneth Maharaj L’assistant-photographe: Antoine Garceau Le piéton secouriste: Damon Michael Gordon Un passant: Michael Che Carlos Fernandez: Dominic Colón Kayla: Ryiah Rene Suazo La femme yiddish: Yelena Shmulenson L’homme yiddish: Allen Lewis Rickman Le père en colère: Dylan Chalfy Le deuxième avocat: Victor Colicchio Le barman: J.D. Williams La femme latino: Jenny L. Saldaña Le réceptionniste: Wang Yinuo Une skater: Celia Au Un gay qui se marie: Brian Cheeks Un invité au mariage au City Hall: Alexander Jameson Hasidic Daughter: Mia Sinclair Jenness Le premier fuyard: Ilan Krigsfeld Un messager à vélo: Stephen Lin Sammie: Niyi Oni La fille hassidique: Anna Rapp Le fils hassidique: Tyler Rapp Le témoin du marié: Will Tomi Film Crew: Producer: Cédric Klapisch Location Manager: Damon Michael Gordon Director of Photography: Natasha Braier Editor: Anne-Sophie Bion Producer: Bruno Levy Music: Loïc Dury Music: Christophe Minck Production Design: Roshelle Berliner Production Design: Marie Cheminal Art Direction: Valérie Rozanes Art Direction: Matteo De Cosmo Costume Design: Lee Harper Hairstylist: Christopher Fulton Key Makeup Artist: Rachel Geary Hair Department Head: Mandy Lyons Key Makeup Artist: Frédéric Marin Wigmaker: Anne Moralis Special Effects Makeup Artist: Pierre Olivier Persin Key Hair Stylist: April Schuller Hairstylist: Adenike Wright Executive Producer: Raphaël Benoliel Executive Producer: Carol Cuddy Co-Producer: Gaëtan David Co-Producer: Buzz Koenig Co-Producer: André Logie Producer: Arlette Zylberberg Casting: Ann Goulder Casting: Gayle Keller Casting: Jeanne Millet Set Decoration: David Schlesinger Foley Editor: Jérémy Babinet ADR Recordist: Ric Schnupp Foley Artist: Philippe Penot Sound Mixer: Nicolas Mazet Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Cyril Holtz ADR Mixer: Mark DeSimone Sound: Cyril Moisson Movie Reviews: Andres Gomez: This third part of the series started with “The Spanish Apartment” and “Russian Dolls” continues following the life of Xavier and his complications. The cast is the well known and very good from previous parts with the good additions of the children, which perform really well. This part, although shows again the chaotic life of Xavier, feels, somehow more coherent and luminous, as if the pieces would be finally fitting. Maybe the best way of summarizing the series and the conclusion is with the conversation that Xavier and Martine have by the end of the film in which Martine tell Xavier...

[gujaratinews]

Today, marks Vicky Kaushal's 36th birthday. Let's go back to the Chhaava actor's special day when he shared how his parents responded when he told them he wanted to marry Katrina Kaif.

[usuallydyinginside]

"No One Mourns the Wicked" is about Glinda, not Elphaba

Okay, but hear me out. Wicked songs are so good at saying one thing and meaning something entirely different once you have more context. For instance, "I'm Not That Girl" is Elphaba singing about Glinda initially, then in Act 2 flips to Glinda singing about Elphaba. Because it turns out, Elphaba IS that girl and Glinda is not. When we meet the Wizard, he sings about how he always wanted to be a father. When you get to Act 2, you get the sad little reprise in the background music as he realizes that WHOOPS, he was one and he destroyed his only kid. "Defying Gravity" starts with "I hope you're happy" in the sarcastic sense and ends with them both using the same phrase to genuinely wish one another well.

"Thank Goodness" is set up as a cheerful engagement song where Glinda genuinely means "thank goodness for how great my life is" and ends in a place where she's insisting that she IS happy even as she realizes her engagement is a sham, her best friend is gone, and she's left with the Wizard and Madame M, who she doesn't even like.

You get the picture.

Basically, the whole musical is about subverting what you expect, starting with the base premise of "what if the Wicked Witch was the hero of the story" and digging in from there.

Honestly, I'd never paid much attention to the first song. It's a good opener, sets things up well, but it has some big competition with later songs. However, in the movie the staging and camera choices made me really notice it for the first time. Because you know what? Someone DID pay attention to that song, and you can really really tell.

For those who need a refresher, the lyrics to the chorus Glinda sings are: And Goodness knows The Wicked's lives are lonely Goodness knows The Wicked die alone It just shows when you're Wicked You're left only On your own I was always so busy noticing Glinda's grief over thinking Elphaba was genuinely dead that I failed to notice Glinda's grief over her OWN fate. The movie did such a good job with this because every time we get to the pink lines about being alone, Glinda IS alone. She is standing apart from the crowd who adores her. Standing above them. Standing at the center of a bunch of people yet still, isolated.

Because in the end, we know that Elphaba DIDN'T die alone. We know she wasn't on her own. We know her life WASN'T lonely ultimately. She had her flying monkey and animal friends. She had Fiyero.

And who does Glinda have?

Everyone, but realistically, no one. She is an ideal, not a person to most of Oz, just as much as Elphaba has become the token scapegoat. Where Elphaba is the "Wicked Witch," Glinda is "Glinda the Good Witch" - she is literally supposed to be the embodiment of goodness.

And what does Glinda have at the end of this whole thing (as of this song at least)? A disastrous end to her engagement, the death of her best friend, a sorceress who has hated her, demeaned her, and dismissed her from the start, and a con man who is also just a symbol more than a person.

I think it really hit me when Glinda throws the fire on the giant effigy of Elphaba. Ariana's acting was SO good there, because I'd expected us to see that private moment of horror or regret. What I didn't expect was the sort of determined and almost angry glare at the effigy.

But it makes sense. At this point, Glinda has realized that she lost everything and everyone she actually cared about.

As she so aptly puts it in "Thank Goodness"...

Though it is, I admit The tiniest bit Unlike I anticipated. But I couldn't be happier, Simply couldn't be happier, Well, not "simply" 'Cause getting your dreams It's strange, but it seems A little, well, complicated.

There's a kind of a sort of cost. There's a couple of things get lost. There are bridges you cross You didn't know you crossed Until you've crossed!

And if that joy, that thrill Doesn't thrill like you think it will Still-- With this perfect finale, The cheers and the ballyhoo! Who wouldn't be happier? So I couldn't be happier, Because happy is what happens When all your dreams come true.

Well, isn't it?

Happy is what happens when you're dreams come true.

It's not Elphaba's fault that Glinda has ended up this way. Glinda chose it every step of the way. Yet, if Glinda had never met Elphaba, (if she'd never known her, you could say), she might have stayed shallow and vain. She might never have been challenged to look deeper and realize how empty it all felt.

So as Glinda sings "No One Mourns the Wicked," she realizes that even if the Munchkins are singing about the "Wicked Witch," she's not.

She's singing about herself.

The one who traded her morals, friendship, and love for a taste of the admiration and power over those who don't really know her. The one who was so worried about being likable that she herself doesn't like who she's become.

Even after she makes things better for Oz and herself by sending the wizard away and getting rid of Madame M, it just leaves Glinda by herself as the leader and source of goodness in Oz. It leaves her on a pedestal she can never step off of.

It leaves her lonely.

Entirely alone.