#theatrical screening

[markashtonlund]

Memory Trust

In Mind We Trust, the sequel to Justice Is Mind, primarily takes place in Washington, D.C. It has been some time since I read In Mind We Trust, the sequel to Justice Is Mind. As Justice Is Mind was the first feature film I wrote, produced and directed, I couldn’t help but be proud of the accomplishment. But even more interesting today than when I wrote it, is how much I enjoy the story…

[fiepige]

Compilation of EVERY single time they changed Hobie's filter in the digital version:

Left: Theatrical release Right: Digital release

You might have to click on some of them to get a better look at Hobie, sadly I don't have a video editor that allows me to make better edits than these :')

[bakedbakermom]

@agent-troi you made me do this

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[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

Chibnall's Master is just a mess of motivations, and it's no surprise that many struggle with this take on the character, but it's frustrating when some get mad about this, insisting that the character isn't badly written, people "just don't understand them" and then rattle off a load of headcanons to explain them that are exclusively things fans made up to fill in the gaps in Chibnall's characterisation.

[craykaycee]

Okey-- last thing for tonight--

I brok heem

[sirithesilly]

Oh sweet the trailer dropped!

…does anyone else hear a mix of ominous bells and sirens?

[moonfall666]

was no one going to tell me theres an Australian animated feature film currently doing its festival run called Lesbian Space Princess ??!?!?!?!? Australian animation is taking so many Ws lately

[pynkhues]

I think for me Wicked I liked a lot but have no desire to see twice? You know? I think that you tocuh on something that having watched the stage play my thought is 'this isnt better than the stage play' but also i think that Wicked lacks a certain flow? Actually as I write it, aside from my feelings that Wicked lacked a certain creativity from the director, i also think that the movie does suffer from being cut in parts. For me personally the pull of a musical is partly in the musical journey and i think wicked actually loses a lot from being split in two and maybe that plays a part in how young it feels.

The word 'raw' for better man is legit because yeah it's pretty unflinching, i have grown-up with take that and robbie but never understood really the depths of misery robbie carried with him his entire career and that quote about how as a monkey you feel protective and cautious is really accurate and imo esp. effective at getting across how frightening it had to have been to be haunted a majority of his career by these versions of himself that would be staring back at him from the audience, angry and thirsty violence. Like i think it wouldnt have had the same impact if it had been human faces looking back.

Yeah sighs super pleased with how this movie turned out, so satisfying.

And yes the come undone sequence was so powerful, with beautiful use of colour, it was beautiful and gave me a sharp pain in my stomach lmao. Also towards the end when Robbie is floating on the lake and his dad gets into the water, i loved that shot so much, the tree in the middle and the distance between them fully captured and a sense of the enormity that is this relationship between two people idk aas so good

(x)

I definitely think splitting Wicked in two probably hurt it on a story level, anon. Other people have pointed this out, but it feels especially silly to have Glinda open the film with the fact that she's going to tell the whole story only to be like 'sike part 2 2025'. I still enjoyed it, but I'd say it didn't live up to the hype or to the stage musical to me.

Totally agree again about Better Man though - I think one of the things that especially shocked me was just how young he was in Take That - like to be exposed to that level of fame and drugs and be playing clubs at 15 feels just - - so many levels of wrong, and the monkey component really worked there too in making him look out of place. Loved the scene with his Dad and the lake too! I really hope people go and see it. It looks like it's still two weeks off a broad release in the US, so I'm guessing they're hoping word of mouth builds for it in the next fortnight.

[ihavemanyhusbands]

Something that is very interesting to me is how different countries handle on screen kissing. In telenovelas they full on seem like they’re trying to eat each other’s faces off, like it’s almost pornographic…. But i once watched a chinese drama where they just locked lips but absolutely did not move a muscle otherwise, and their eyes were open the whole time.

[mokeonn]

After doing a little bit of research (comparing the two different dvd boxes and playing with settings), it seems like the reason the better (extended) version of Muppet Christmas Carol isn't widely available compared to the lesser (theatrical cut) version is because it seems that the song cut is only available in full screen. There doesn't seem to be a wide-screen version of the extended cut available. So that's likely why the easiest to watch version is the theatrical cut, because Wide screen has become the default format.

And that's also likely why I didn't know there WAS a theatrical cut until after we lost and replaced the disk. The DVD we had was so old it only had full screen as an option, and the full screen version is the extended version of the movie.

Anyways, this is all just an educated guess. I didn't google the actual reason I just presume this based on what the boxes say, personal experience, and the fact that on the DVD that allows you to choose, full screen is the extended cut and wide screen is the theatrical cut.

[demonlorddante]

Mononoke movie trilogy already announced… okay where can I watch the first one then 😭😭😭 pleaseeeeeeeee

[bibiana112]

Also I was thinking again about the idea of making video essays but I sorta realized I could actually really enjoy being onscreen but only if I was in like. Full drag

[jingyismom]

happy 10th birthday pacific rim you will always be everything to me

💛💙💛💙💛💙💛💙

[sanstropfremir]

TOHO SPIRITED AWAY?? PLS GIVE ME THE DEETS

oh it was soooooooooo good i'm so happy i got a chance to see it!!! gorgeous design all around, there was no standout elements bc everything fit so well together. all the spirits + magical elements were done with traditional (japanese and western) style puppetry, so everything was articulated and manipulated by an operator, which had this really wonderful almost youth theatre vibe. a lot of times with shows that involve puppets, they'll try to make the puppets as advanced as possible to not make them 'childish' (see: war horse), but for something that's based heavily in folklore and IS a children's story, to me the only logical sense is to emphasize that particular angle. the puppets were also incredible, very well made and sooo accurate to the movie??? like impressively accurate. my faves were probably kamaji and haku? kamaji's six extra arms were each operated by a separate person who had one hand operating the elbow and one hand as the actual hand, so all eight hands were able to do everything, which mean there was some REALLY incredible choreography of just. all the stuff that he was doing, but also when he got up and walked it was soooooooo cool. and haku!!! he had two puppets actually, one 'full size' that was a big long foam articulated body that took i think four puppeteers, and there was a tiny haku that they used for the flying scenes that was basically just a little head and a ....idk what the actual technical term is but it was basically just a wind sock as the body on a big long pole so the puppeteer could essentially move him like you would a big ribbon! the scene were he first transforms and flies off was sooo pretty, the actor haku did a lil setup to a GORGEOUS spinning jump and when he landed he ducked down behind some of the chorus members and as he disappeared the tiny ribbon haku shot up from the same spot and started looping around.......... actual magic. also wow the actor playing haku was so pretty. and very tall. which i did not notice until the very end. i would not be suprised if he had ballet training bc tall and he had the ballet dancer chin/head posture. also the actor playing lin (also doublecast as chihiro's mom) was crazy hot. just so unbelievably hot. anyways. speaking of casting: noface as a popping dancer. UNREAL and incredible galaxy brained choice. he had a solo while they did a set change and WOW. spooky and gorgeous and also weirdly welcoming? really excellent job of embodying a sympathetic physicality that made it understandable why chihiro would let him in to the bath house in the first place. also for the curtain call he put the mask on the back of his head and literally did the bows backwards. insane. my ONLY complaint is that i didn't love noface's giant form, but that's mostly because years and years ago i saw a (different) puppet show with a grim reaper character that was very similar to giant noface (the telescoping neck + large body) and i literally thought at the time 'if you were going to do puppet noface that is exactly how you should do it', so 1) expectations 2) i'm pretty sure that version was done using quite a sophisticated extending mechanism, which would be antithetical to the rest of the puppets in the show, and 3) this giant noface was VERY big (probably at least 10-15 feet across? he was at least eight puppeteers with the original actor as the mask) so the logistics would not have worked. regardless. it is a very small complaint that literally no one else would have had unless they had seen the same show that i did in like. 2015. costumes were all unreal, the set was phenomenal; it actually took me WELL over an hour to figure out that the set literally stayed the same the entire time, it was just being rotated (it was on a turntable) and redressed + had a couple balconies flown in. also live orchestra?? in the set??????? i didnt even know they were THERE they had them behind a scrim on an upper level platform in the back and they pulled it up for curtain call and there was like. 15 ppl sitting back there????

ok but if i had to pick ONE thing that was my favourite, it would be that ALL the living things were played by someone alive. i know that sounds obvious, especialy for like. the dancing vases and the frog and the soot sprites, but even the PLANTS were puppets in their own way. like the hydrangea bushes that chihiro hides in at the beginning and the flower field that she and haku run through were done with chorus members wearing these beautiful flower head/chest/arm pieces. even the stone guardians at the tunnel at the beginning of the play were actors. it really underscored the magic of everything to have all the life be actually alive.

[itspileofgoodthings]

okay but I might have to watch this Adam Driver dinosaur movie

[waterfall-ambience]

oughhh the fontaine characters :>