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in a matrix mood but i'm trying to challenge myself so i'm watching some cis man try to analyze resurrections.. when you knock on this dude's head, I swear to you, it echoes
"resurrections is lazy because it repeats the exact plot points of the original" wow sherlock it's almost like that is the explicit intention of the film.. BUGS SAYS THAT OUT LOUD WHY IS THIS YOUR CORE CRITIQUE
#LANA WACHOWSKI IS NOT SUBTLE#YOU JUST HAVE ZERO LITERACY SKILLS#can't even say media literacy because that's not subtext#it's just text#there are many things to critique about resurrections#though i will question your motivations for specific criticism#'the action is bad'#yes and the first film's action reliance and extremely subtexual storytelling is exactly why it was so quickly co-opted by fascist fuckers#the action in resurrections IS bad and i think that actually works for it#this is not a film ABOUT action#it's a film about love and faith#so yes#it WILL challenge your ideas of what a matrix movie should be#IF you think that a matrix movie is about the action and 'what if we live in a simulation'#jaetag
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people seriously pretending EEAAO is overrated suddenly bc it swept awards? it swept awards largely because it is very very very good. I cried like someone who's just had a religious revelation BOTH times I watched it bc it touched something raw and real and beautiful but it was also just very, very funny. everyone's performance kills and the concept is creative and interesting and doesn't distract from the emotional core. you guys are just contrarian.
#red said#also there are posts and tweets like THIS IS JUST FOR MCU FANS#like please go on demonstrating how you've adopted 'mcu fan' as a shorthand for 'person who likes films i don't'#or 'person who likes films that are popular'#because the defining features of mcu films are that they're high budget irony poisoned derivative works#targeted at a broad audience so aiming to be accessible and inoffensive#and it really seems. like 'accessible' is the part of that you object to#bc EEAAO is a highly original A24 indie film with a 14.5m budget which is NOTHING#it's made mostly with practical effects and sets#and most importantly it's beautifully painfully earnest. it's never trying to shy away or go Hey Look How Silly This Is 😏#everything is driven by its earnest desire to talk about specific themes#i think the people comparing it negatively to mcu films are stuck on the fact that it's about a multiverse and it's got jokes#and colourful action scenes#but they miss that the referential jokes (like racacoonie) and setpieces aren't the point of the film
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Columbo and the Knight (1984)
put me in the universe where Columbo ran through the 1980s and had a crossover episode with Knight Rider. I think they deserved it, and I am not just saying that because they're my two favorite Old Shows. @telebeast wrote a little fanfic blurb about it and I HAD to visualize it into a comic (which is also the longest comic I have finished thus far at five pages...), so writing credit goes to them.
Autism W!
#columbo#knight rider#art#michael knight#kitt#comic#highlight reel#crossover#telebeast#there are two small easter eggs here. can you find them. they were somehow not Entirely lost when i resized these for the public#this is what i mean when i say I Draw And It's Everyone Else's Problem. look at my INCREDIBLY niche crossover comic boy#if the knight rider fandom has like 12 people in it. how many of y'all have seen columbo#this comic is for like 4 people and me and phoenix are already two of them#niche is my specialty lets be real. weird niche obscure shit and ships nobody's paid attention to yet#not to suggest this is ship art. columbo has his wife and michael has his car lmfao#stylizing real people is EXTREMELY hard btw sorry for when they get off model. its partly a 'better imperfect than never finished' situatio#cant tell you how much i redrew some of these panels. weeps#this took me 2 weeks but i think i thumbnailed it all in may and the ideas been rollin around in my head since march#is anybody good at editing. please edit michael and columbo into an image together like its a screenshot. NOT generated. edited.#it would be so cool#ive drawn columbo a lot but i haven't drawn a lot of michaels. i was learning things about his outfit AS I WAS DOING THE DAMN#COLORS ON THIS. all the lines done. it was too late to change anything. i did all the lines and colored page by page#i realized my mistakes on like page 3. 1 and 2 were already done. it was Too Late.#imagine it though. them working a case together. switching between the more serious tone of columbo vs the goofier#action antics of michael and kitt. columbo being so impressed by Modern Technology. there's more i could say but phoenix may write#more of this crossover and i don't want to spoil it :'3#there's opportunity here though i swear. there's gold to be dug.#i like how kitt gets shading but columbo's junker peugeot doesn't. kitt looked wrong without any. columbo's car is matte and dirty#i also applied effects to this to make it look a little film-grainy and VHS like. some CRT TV vibes#the only question left is. did they put knight rider into columbo; or columbo into knight rider 🤔
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Monkey Man is a movie about--and I mean this in the most literal way possible--how the kindness and wisdom of trans people can alter the trajectory of not only your life but also society
#monkey man#movies#you think i'm fucking with you--it's just an action movie about revenge i hear you say--but without getting into details this is real#my film school would've haaaaaated this movie not because of the politics but because it's the opposite kind of movie they teach you to mak
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@pscentral event 09: comfort → comfort movie: pride (2014) dir. matthew warchus
And why should gay people like me support the miners? Because miners dig for coal, which produces power, which allows gay people like you to dance to Bananarama till 3 o'clock in the morning.
#pride 2014#pride#lgsm#faye marsay#paddy considine#dominic west#filmedit#lgbtcinema#perioddramaedit#perioddramacentral#by comfort movie I mean I absolutely BAWL every time#userbbelcher#if I ever need a pick me up the soundtrack is non-stop bangers honestly bread and roses and bronski beat in the same mix chefs kiss#a story about the uk struggling with lgbt hatred and increasing industrial action. still resonates#pride movie#pride film#userrobin#usercim#omgari#usersawah
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i do think peak comedy is a steve who is absolutely aware of the effect he has on people, but has never felt that way towards anyone else-- the closest he got was with nancy and robin, because he loved them both in different ways, and sometimes he felt like he was going to go insane if he didn't talk to them or touch them right now, but it was never like he had seen other people act about him. robin and nancy made him a better person. they didn't drive him to ridiculous levels of violence and obsession. maybe people in hawkins were just fucking weird.
and then he meets eddie, falls in love with eddie, and he's like... yeah, okay. alright. no, i get it. if anything happened to this guy i would steal the nuclear launch codes.
#steddie#jgkfldgj separate fic idea where everyone is talking about their best murder ideas as like a joke#nancy has a gun she's been thinking about longingly eddie's is dramatic argyle's is disturbingly competent etc#and steve is just like how many of the government officials that we know do you think i would have to fuck to get access to the nukes#idk steve is the epitome of go big or go home To Me#like he's always the one put in situations and then he commits to the bit a thousand percent and is way more extra about it than everybody#he hit billy with a fucking car . do u get that#nancy was like im gonna shoot at him like a normal person in an action film#and steve was like oh the vehicle im currently in? before airbags were invented? im gonna send it full speed into that guy#as you fucking do#the only one in the upside down mostly naked and shoeless btw#like ???? do u think this is die hard u bitch bc that hasnt come out yet#what was i talking about its 2 am
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French TV journalist having a hard time trying to get woman in the street to comment on Macron's latest speech yesterday
Protesters organised casserolades (aka banging on pots and pans) in front of city halls across the country at 8pm, when Macron was speaking, to symbolically drown out his voice. Later that evening, Macron was filmed singing a song with some 'random people' in a street in Paris, trying to show he can go out and meet people and have fun because protesters don't exist. The people he was singing with (members of a choir, some of whom are 'alt-right-leaning') were using a folk song app created by far-right activists that was criticised a few months ago for hosting a Spanish fascist anthem & Third Reich military marches.
The government's response was that the President "couldn't know the background of the people he met that night." Maybe if he wants to avoid being associated with the far-right (that's a big if, I know), Macron should keep in mind that with the kinds of strategies and positioning his government has adopted lately, people in the street who welcome him with open arms and are proud to be filmed with him have a higher than average likelihood of supporting fascism.
#genre hier darmanin qui dit qu'il faut sanctionner les gens au RSA et aujourd'hui le maire pour qui fraudeur = maghrébin...#also the far-right ppl who made that song lyric app got 40K€ of public funding from the ministry of culture#our government is 'questioning' public funding for the human rights league but not this#so yeah this is just 1 thing out of the avalanche of bullshit the government keeps unleashing these days#i could have made a post about the minister of the interior; a known rapist; saying#that french people are angry about the reform but ''they swallowed it''#that was yesterday; this week is going well so far#cool thing that happened last week is that the film director who won the césar des lycéens award#made a speech in the presence of the minister of education in which he said#''it must be hard to be minister of education for a president whose words and actions reflect the opposite#of the values school is supposed to teach the youth: contempt rather than respect; dictating rather than dialoguing'' (etc)#also last week when macron went to notre-dame and of course forbade protests in the area#so protesters hopped on a boat and protested on the seine next to notre-dame#frpol
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okay im kinda stupid but I don't think selfshipping with Judge Claude fucking Frollo from Hunchback of Notre Dame, is a good idea
#did we forget about the scene where he compared romanis to ants and explained his motivation of exterminating them to phoebus or?#idk when the character is directly inspired by irl religious zealots that persecuted romani people and other ethnic groups#i would not go for it. like at all#its not even a mild part of his character. that is a VERY big part of his conflict and goals#his point as a character is to be a criticism of the catholic church and religious extremism#all of his actions in the film reflects this real ideology that effects real people#“i have bad taste <3”....he attempted gen0cide in the film. yeah that is bad taste#(talking about the film. i heard the book includes more dark subject matter but im referring to the movie here)#worth the block. sorry it just bothered me#[just me yapping]
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Guys. Guys. Please. Not every adaptation has to be live action, not every adaption can be live-action, because making it so can rob the original IP of its very essence. If making everything look realistic diminishes it to the point where you literally have to animate it anyway to make it recognisable, then why even try to make it live action in the first place? What is so bad about animation that we have to make things live action because it’s otherwise “just for kids”? Why are we ignoring a perfectly good medium only to force a different medium to do what the former was designed to do only much worse?
Some things can only be done by animation, in the same way that some things can only be done by books or musicals or games. That’s what makes adapting things so difficult, and it’s what makes choosing the medium you want to write in so important.
#yes this is about the minecraft movie#and also the live-action Lion King#because that example is particularly bad like ITS LITERALLY ALL CGI ANYWAY???#why does this even exist? so adults feel less insecure watching their favourite childhood movie at the cost of it looking worse?#I mean if you absolutely have to adapt everything in existence at least choose the medium that would suit it best#this was apparently bothering me a lot more than I thought#animation#live action#film#films#movie#movies#story mediums#film adaptations#adaptation#the lion king#minecraft
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Some of the people complaining about some of the hair dye jobs in the One Piece live action are doing so in such an exasperating way I want to scream. The story takes place in a world that canonically has merpeople, furries, giants, sea monsters, sky islands with clouds you can walk on, snails that function as phones or cameras and special fruits that give you whacky powers... AND YOU'RE DRAWING THE LINE AT SEEING SOME ROOTS AND AT NEON ORANGE HAIR NOT COMING ACROSS AS NATURAL?
#and dont get me started on the people complaining about luffy wearing trainers instead of flipflops??#it's because they didnt want iñaki to break an arm and a leg on day 1 of filming my dudes grow up#you are free to dislike how some turned out but there's actual people refusing to engage with the LA because of that and ???#one piece#one piece live action#opla#laop#live action one piece#one piece netflix#nym's posts
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it’s like baby gorl there’s no way I, the author who wrote the fic you’re commenting on and who is the intended audience for this comment, am gonna agree with you 😿🙏 some things can just stay on your chest 🙏
#there’s a threshold I think of what I accept in comments about characters#and their actions or about who is in the wrong or what should happen#because I do like reading people’s opinions#and sometimes when someone is like I didn’t like obi-wan in this fic#I’m like makes sense! maybe you weren’t supposed to or maybe the argument they had was supposed to not be clear cut on who is right#because arguments in real life don’t always have a clear cut winner or morally superior person lmao#I’m ok with that I’m ok with comments saying boo this character is annoying#because sometimes they just are (eg the amount of people who just don’t like obiwan in pbatmb like?? yeah of course he’s not gonna be nice#but I digress lol#anyway but there’s a threshold of when comments about not liking a character go too far and you’re just like.#saying mean things about the writing itself and that’s not something lm gonna allow to be normalized#no matter the intention behind it#you do not type a comment like this knowing it wil be send to an author#who will get an email notification about a comment#click on it and go oooo long comment :D and then go oh.#you don’t do that it’s rude it’s being a jerk#I’ve been here for like 3 almost 4 years I feel ancient in this fandom sometimes#and I’ve gotten so much feedback on my work through that time and so many nice comments and community#but mean comments can really hurt especially new writers#and they can make people who maybe would write fic for a fandom decide to not#like this isn’t even that mean I can almost see the writer just wanting to say how they feel#but sometimes you do not have to 🙏#also I just think this understanding of the characterizations in the fic and probably their understanding of the characters in the films#is a wee bit trash but that’s for me to say in the long tags of my own blog post and not for me to comment on their fics for the fandom#(they don’t have any but I did check because 3am kit felt nosy)
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In my brain there lies an AU of the total drama show in universe being censored and cut for time and TV ratings and that a decade later "Total Drama extended edition" comes out and its just like 20% more chaotic and gay then it already was
#reblog with what the total drama extended edition would have#i offer duncan and trent behaving extremely bisexual and getting into almost fights about it#also includes all uncensored cursing and the idiots in Action escaping into the city sometimes cuz like they literally filmed in a film lot#the teams shouldve snuck out to go to the club#total drama#tdi#td au#duntrent#tda#total drama action
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Character Parallels: Diving off of an absurd height immediately after introduction.
#how are they alive#pocahontasedit#pocahontas (1995)#pocahontas#john smith#disneyedit#pocajohn parallels#pocajohn#pocahontas x john smith#yeah ill tag it like that why not#queso*edit#queso*gif#this is such a cool way to establish these two characters tho#like first you get a bit about their reputation from others before properly meeting them#and then the very first action you see them take in the film is diving headfirst off of a ridiculous height into a body of water#and yet the context and motivations for each dive is COMPLETELY different#john smith will throw himself off a boat without hesitation to save someone else#pocahontas will throw herself off a ledge just for her own amusement#they're both so fucking insane i'm glad they found eachother#EDIT: i just also realized they are also diving in opposite directions on the screen oh my god they are SO—#flashing#flashing lights
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listening to jacob talking about the show/the books is like listening to angels singing, this man has never had a bad opinion in his life, I'm obsessed with him
#akasha did nothing wrong??#gabrielle is his favourite????#daniel is his baby??????#all of them are bad and you don't have to justify anyone's actions for you to love the show/characters??????#PREACH KING#like obviously you don't have to agree with everything any actor says about their show/film#but it feels so nice to be able to say HE GETS IT#interview with the vampire#iwtv#amc iwtv#jacob anderson
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I WANT PRACTICAL EFFECTS IN MOVIES AGAIN. I WANT LEGIT SETS AND REAL LANDSCAPES AND ACTUAL LOCATIONS. GIVE ME CGI MIXED WITH PRACTICAL. GIVE ME FULLY FUNCTIONING COSTUMES AND PROPS. LET ACTORS BE ABLE TO SINK INTO THEIR WORK WITHOUT BEING SURROUNDED BY GREEN SCREENS. GIVE ME LIGHTING AND PERSPECTIVE TRICKS. LET THE CAST AND CREW HAVE FUN ON SET AND PUT PASSION INTO THEIR WORK. LET FILMS TELL ACTUAL STORIES AGAIN AND NOT BE A CASH-GRAB THAT PEOPLE WILL FORGET IN TWO MONTHS.
I WANT IT BACK
#this rant came on because i read that they built the arena for the live-action HTTYD#and that a lot of sets were practical#i also watched Ever After recently and everything in that film was practical. the sets and costumes and locations#EVERYTHING#thinking about the production for Lord of the Rings#and for the Chronicles of Narnia#Star trek and star wars#like#i miss this era of film and i want it back so bad#why can't we bring it back?? it was so much richer and easier to get invested in the worlds#personal rant#film
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Ужастики смотрят
Яньцин не понимает, куда он жмал
Долго думала, выкладывать или нет, ибо жестко ошиблась при рисовании этой работы, из за чего все пошло по�� откос. Но ладно, пусть будет.
Полтора часа рисовала скетч на еще одну работу и в итоге удалила его, ибо вообще не вышло. Надо потренироваться, научите рисовать...
#art#digital art#honkai star rail#misha honkai star rail#misha hsr#yanmisha#yanqing honkai star rail#hsr#hsr fanart#mishaqing#misha fanart#yanqing hsr#yanqing fanart#Yanqing is one of those people who will constantly tell you where someone acted illogically and stupidly#Misha is one of those who watch without commentary#but with Yanqing he feels freer and likes to talk about some moments of the film#Yanqing loves horror films action films and disaster films#Misha is a lover of historical films science fiction films and fairy tales#Anything that doesn't show harm to people#Misha also likes the emphasis on psychology and revealing the diversity of human personalities#They agreed with Yanqing on their love of detective stories comedies and musicals#Interestingly in these tags you can write an essay “How did I spend my summer?”
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