#the movie was terrible

[rottenroyalebooks]

If they remove the humor aspect of the show (like they did with the movie that shall not be named), I will punch a wall, cry, throw up, and SCREAM at Netflix.

Btw there's still one first look we haven't gotten

Where is my King?

[hellspawnmotel]

intimacy between an evil spiteful building-sized supercomputer and the lone scientist left behind after everyone else ditched and forgot about her (in which computer wants to kill scientist really bad but her programming wont let her so she just attempts to make her as miserable as possible instead, which also doesn't work because scientist is a freak)

[skull-pun]

God is dead and we killed him

[userscully]

This is a game about winning the points that matter. CHALLENGERS (2024, dir. Luca Guadagnino)

[mistyheartrbs]

just watched i saw the tv glow and one thing i haven't seen anyone bring up yet is that in the final seconds of the movie, right when it cuts to the credits screen, you hear the sound of rain. which is what maddy says it was like when they woke up in the pink opaque as tara. implying that owen/isabel, too, is on the precipice of making it out. is this perhaps a more optimistic interpretation of the ending than intended? probably, but i feel like it's worth mentioning

[audreys-hepburn]

Anne Hathaway as Allison Lang HAVOC 2005 — dir. Barbara Kopple

[chrispineofficial]

happy “et tu brute” to all who celebrate

[dogmaz]

[Skullduggery - 1983]

[collieii]

someone probably said this already but in spiderverse i think it's interesting how when pavitr was first introduced everyone thought something bad was gonna happen to him bc of how confident and optimistic he was. and then in the actual movie we see that something bad was supposed to happen to him (police chief dying!) but it doesn't! miles stops it! and miguel berates miles for this, says it's going to cause the universe to collapse or whatever.

there's this idea that tragedy is inherent to spidermans growth, and while it's true that some spiderpeople learn important lessons through loss, no one stops to ask, is it really necessary? yeah, maybe the chief was supposed to die. but why does spiderman have to be formed through tragedy? why do we (as heroes) have to let people die? pavitr didn't lose anyone, and he's still a good spiderman! maybe, if he doesn't suffer, he'll end up better off for it!

so while miguel is arguing for all this big picture stuff about saving the multiverse he's lost sight of what it really means to be a spiderman, he's not looking out for the real individual people. yeah it's just one person who would die, but that one person means something to someone. shrugging and saying "stuff just sucks sometimes, we can't do anything about it" is the opposite of what superheroes do. pretty obviously, miles arc is also a reflection of the struggles people face in real life, working within unequal systems, where it's easy to shrug and say "that's just the way it is" and not ask "but why does it need be this way? can't we do something about it?"

miguel is arguing that you can't have your cake and eat it too. presumably, miles and co. are going to find a way to get around that and change things for the better (and maybe that's why miles has that line about two cakes in the advisors office!)

[idkaguyorsomething]

five nights at freddy's is a film that creates a tense, suspenseful atmosphere of horror by having its protagonists go up against supernatural threats such as trying to navigate the job market, being forced to deal with shitty cops, and a man who willingly makes himself think of nebraska over and over again every night

[lavender-gayz]

'glinda, is it true you were her FRIEND?' loving the thought of there being staunch believers in glinda's straightness in oz who over-identify with her relationship with fiyero and feel they have to defend her from accusations of lesbian behaviour. is it an open secret that madame morrible made everyone at shiz sign NDAs? does some eagle-eyed citizen swear they saw elphaba caressing glinda's face at the top of the palace and produce a blurry sketch as proof? is glinda overheard softly singing 'i'm not her girl' to herself one day, thereby sparking hushed but lively discussions in small gaylinda circles?

[hotcinnamonsunset]

'we need to get up to my room. right now.'

[mari-thesapphic-lady]

quality is terrible but LOOK HOW BEAUTIFUL SHE IS!!

[panic-flavored]

And his heart grew three sizes that day

[knifearo]

this year my challenge for everyone is to unlearn the association between love and morality. love is not something that is inherently morally good, and the absence of love is not something that is inherently bad. sex without love isn't morally bankrupt, it's just an action. people without love aren't less kind or less good, they're just people. when we can get past this false (and often unnoticed) dichotomy of good love/evil lovelessness then i think we are going to be able to take leaps and bounds in sex positivity, aro advocacy, certain discussions of mental health...

[mistyheartrbs]

the first real dialogue we hear from the pink opaque is isabel's narration in the intro - "tara is my imaginary best friend. and i'm hers." which seems like the setup for...frankly a cooler show, you instantly think, oh, are they from different dimensions? different worlds?

and then you learn that they live in the same town, just on opposite sides of the county. it's implied that they don't meet up in person after the pilot for safety reasons (mr. melancholy could get them both if they were in the same place - as he does in the s5 finale) but it's so close. it's such a self-imposed kind of thing. why does nobody else in isabel's life believe that tara exists, and vice versa? is it a girlfriend in canada kind of deal? do they have no mutual friends, do they never run into the same monsters? where is double lunch?

but that's the rub of it, isn't it? the suburbs are forever. and also the "imaginary best friend" thing is the twist of the movie. this person, this world, can't possibly exist. there can't be someone who understands you that well. "i've traveled a long way to see you," tara/maddy says. the other side of the tv screen is so close. it's so far. this life is right there if you want to grasp it but it's also unimaginable. god.