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iovesia · 3 days

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JOSIEE what are your top 5 best / worst keanu movies?

i have literally seen his entire filmography at this point .. and objectively.. he doesn't have a lot of great movies. but i still love them 😞 so i'll just rate based on how i liked them.

top 5 favorites :D

hardball (2005) !!!

absolutely underrated— my all-time favorite keanu reeves movie. this is peak dilfism keanu right here. and i love the 'found family' trope which i think this counts for. he's kinda morally grey / or an anti-hero here, but he's so sweet to the kids and i fuckin' loveee diane lane <3

speed (1994)

i fuckin' love this movie. 90s himbo keanu + loml sandra bullock. my favorite action flick from him, i've seen it at least 10+ times at this point. i also love movies that take place in one day or setting (bottle movies i think idk).

a walk in the clouds (1995)

MY GODDDD this is one of my favorite romances of all time. he's my puppy eyed babygirl in this movie. he needs to be in more romances!! paul sutton's so sweet and charming in this movie, i was actually kicking my feet.

constantine (2005) / john wick (2014)

i mean.. c'mon who's surprised? i love these movies.

river's edge (1986)

one of his most underrated films. it gave me very 'possibly in michigan' vibes which is my favorite short film. babyface keanu + angsty teenager is my cup of tea.

top 5 least-favorite :ᗡ

my own private idaho (1991)

... i'm so sorry y'all. i just did not like this movie 😞 i couldn't finish it, it was boring. the whole time i just wanted to put mike out his misery and beat scott with a bag of oranges.

knock knock (2015)

i hated the cheating husband trope. i hated the weird trope of "older man who can't resist barely legal girls". i hated the weird.. pedophilia trope. i hate this movie. throw it in a dumpster, light it on fire, then bleach my eyes. this movie literally was a testament to how much i love keanu because he really had my ass wasting 2 hours watching an eli roth movie.

matrix reloaded + revolutions (2003).

i have to be so honest with y'all— i literally hate the matrix movies. or at least movies 2 and 3. the world building just hurts my head, and no matter how many times i watch it— i just don't understand the lore. neo is the loml tho, don't get me wrong :3

dangerous liasions (1988)

i could hardly call this a keanu movie, because he's in it for all of 5 minutes LMAO. but i just generally didn't like the movie with or without keanu. boring.

siberia (2018)

this movie was so balls oh my god. literally if you had john wick, and removed every likeable quality about him. so in the end you just get a cheating loser— who sucks at his job too!!!! boo!! lucas hill they will never make me like you!!!!

#love letters.#keanu reeves stop playing cheaters challenge #pls #i beg #but i wanted to give his more underrated movies some luv :3 #*⠀keanu reeves.

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trans-cuchulainn · 1 year

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okay i've finished rewatching pride now i will stop having feelings all over your dash

#this film is just. god. it means so much to me #it's such a well-made film but also it came out when i was 18 and like. idk.#i saw it 3 times the first year it came out #the third of them at a screening with one of the original members of LGSM doing a talk afterwards #i saw it at a time when i was just moving out of my conservative hometown and discovering queer community for myself #so it's like. formative. you know???#this is My Queer Movie #i have now seen some other Iconic Queer Movies thanks to undergrad queer film nights and stuff #things like But I'm A Cheerleader etc #but this one. this is mine.#i think because it's a queer movie about friendship and solidarity #it's about community rather than about romance even though it's about being queer #and for me as an aspec person that speaks to me in a way that romance-focused stories don't #so it resonates on a deeper level #to use a quaker phrase: it speaks to my condition #i wish i had more energy and could be more active in organising though #it's really hard to protest and be political when you're disabled and barely coping with life as it is #i can't go on a march because i won't be able to walk for four days afterwards due to pain yunno. so i feel useless a lot #ah well. i know there are things i can do they're just not glamorous #i do need to write to my MP some time soon about. everything.#personal

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ct-multifandom · 11 months

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I don’t usually make posts like this, but I’ve been seeing a lot of anti-intellectual junk lately, and I really think we need to put the word “pretentious” up on a shelf until people learn what it actually means.

It doesn’t describe someone who likes artsy-fartsy deep meaning media. People who are pretentious are fake. They’re posers trying to be sophisticated and unique, not like other girls. They pretend to only like stuff they think will make them sound cool when they talk about it. They want to act like they know something you don’t, and they want attention for it.

By definition, if you genuinely enjoy something, you can’t be pretentious. If it resonates with you, and you analyze it, and you don’t care what people think, that’s the polar opposite, actually. If you love obscure experimental prog music, if you watch underground high concept indie films through English teacher eyes, if you spend hours in a modern art museum reading each piece as a vessel for storytelling, if your backpack’s full of poetry books that inspire you, if you play underrated games that were someone’s passion project, if you have an interest in studying the classics or the masters, you are not pretentious.

Of course, some people just don’t like some stuff, and that’s fine, but that’s not what this is about. Don’t let anti-intellectuals shame you for enjoying things just because your interests are inaccessible to them, because they refuse to be brave and put effort into critical thinking. You’re not stuck up for refusing to overlook the craft of artists.

#anti intellectualism #media #movies #books #music #critical thinking #my friend who primarily listens to one very popular band once said that people who listen to obscure music are annoying and pretentious #which rubbed me the wrong way because 1 she knows that I listen to obscure music and 2 it’s such a cowardly consumerist take. anyone can #make music and hey a lot of the people who do make GOOD music. and this goes for all *obscure* media #this post was mostly inspired by people talking about Barbie and those anti pick me girls like the pick nobody girls who insist thinking is #for boys and having fun with an empty brain is for girls. Greta gerwig is an artist. I haven’t seen the movie yet but I know it has a deeper #message than haha cute pink! I’ve seen the summaries about the true meaning. the pinkness and popularity doesn’t negate the narritive.#though in the notes I saw a lot of tumblristas comunistas shitting on the film for being one big ad that people *fell for* which tbh is #tbh almost as anti-intellectual. don’t get me wrong they milked this film to sell hella shit but I don’t believe kids who play with dolls #are the target audience as these people claim. Barbie is a culturally iconic symbol almost archetypical of societal expectations for women #you say barbie people think unblinking perfect plastic pink girly. reminds me of the poem The Last Mojave Indian Barbie. yeah yeah you all #hate brands but this one carries undeniable significance and makes for a powerful literary device. it’s been used many times before #sorry for writing a tag essay about a film I haven’t even seen but I’m tired of internet people focusing so much on proving others wrong #that they end up oversimplifying everything just as much as the other person. god I saw people doing this to Nimona saying transphobes were #looking too deep into her character and they’re reactionary clowns for making that jump. like for once the transphobes are right. she is #trans. it’s a queer story. and irl the first people who notice queerness are the bigots who can tell you’re different. sick owns telling #them the story’s not that deep is harmful and it’s like they’re ignoring the real message on purpose. okay enough rambling hehe! thanks #barbie #nimona

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maddy-ferguson · 6 months

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#me

#this is what the average person on tumblr is missing. what i meant when i said the average person on tumblr should see misogynistic men talk #on the internet regularly they would benefit from that #not incels or andrew tate guys. normal guys #in november #and like i say: brf slt #i remember in 2016 when i was just getting into feminism as like a thing of the present the big thing on french twitter was for guys to say #meuf = pute: girl = whore. they would just say this. 24/7. not even a creative way to be misogynistic. but i was like oh!#then when girls would talk about getting harassed they would be like you made this up you're too ugly a film directed by quentin #tarantino etc. i think one of the most frustrating things they do is say no boy has ever sexually harassed a girl in middle school because #all they thought about at that age (that age being. from 11 to 15) was football and video games like OH MY GOD we were literally there #i mean no there's worse a lot worse but it's one of the most annoying ones like how are you all coming together to collectively #gaslight us #i could give more examples but it's not that interesting just these people HATE US!!!!!!#it's never just one or two guys or even ten or even twenty it's SO MANY PEOPLE just united by their hatred of women...heartwarming #in a way #but whatever i know people are awful on the internet or whatever but these people exist irl i'm pretty sure. im just not blissfully unaware #i'm sure that's nice. it's probably a bliss even. frustrating for normal people who have to interact with that though #or maybe not for normal people misogyny is a very widespread thing idk if you know this...frustrating for me!#like why does seeing frankly misogynistic tweets kinda not bother me as much as seeing posts that act like misogyny isn't a thing. at least #they're honest!!!!!#like it does feel very bad. but i'm used to it. kind of

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shima-draws · 1 year

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Rewatching HTTYD 2 and RTTE made me realize how badly they fucked everyone over in HTTYD 3. Like. Did they just look at all their character development and go “Yeah, we can flush this down the drain”, or

#Shima speaks #It's so bad. It's SO bad #I mean arguably the characterization in HTTYD 2 needs work as well but like.#We got the MAJORITY of the character development in the TV series so it's fair they can't really express all of that in the films #But like. Even the difference between 2 and 3. They reduced all the dragon riders to be comedic relief #And it makes me SO sad #Especially Snotlout and Fishlegs #And don't even get me STARTED on how they totally bungled Valka's character #Lies down #Thinking about HTTYD 3 makes me so angry. God dammit.#They had ONE JOB #Putting aside all of my regular complaints about 3 there's still SO much more that's wrong with it #Grinding my teeth banging on the walls pulling my hair out etc #HTTYD #Sorry lmao just. Watching the first two films and the series really puts things into perspective of how bad the third film is #I cannot. I cannae #How To Train Your Dragon

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araneitela · 2 months

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Me staring at test results: It makes so much sense for her, but if I don't specify or elaborate, then we end up with the fanon take. Ugh, how do I easily explain that if you look at the word 'sex' through a much more old-fashioned lens instead of the modern one, that you'll get a vastly different picture of it?

/takes angycat.png typing to my tags

#[ ooc. ] don't try to make it logical or edit your soul according to the fashion. rather; follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.#[ post-it. ] in a way; you are poetry material. you are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out.#[ i'm so tired. i need to write a post on this or something. and somehow add it to my pinned. in some way. ]#[ 'sex' and 'seduction' are /not/ wrong in my opinion. HOWEVER-- they are /very wrong/ if we go by modern labels and perception. ]#[ god the horror of writing a muse that is so interlaced in a modern world; setting and culture but seems to /ooze/ something archaic. ]#[ this level of refinement isn't of our times in my opinion. these things that she loves aren't commonly loved nowadays. ]#[ there's so much about her that is old-fashioned to me and it's so in my face. and yet fanon doesn't see it. ]#[ i can't believe i'm an old millennial who's screaming boomer or older things. ]#[ but like can we acknowledge that sex in today's age isn't the same as it used to be? not /always/ but more generally so. ]#[ can we acknowledge that /seduction/ didn't always mean what people see it to mean now? ]#[ can we acknowledge that the FEMME FETALE TROPE HAS CHANGED /LEAGUES/ since the 2000s? ]#[ which is my biggest beef actually. and maybe all of my frustration plays into this most. it's that the femme fatale now is sexualized. ]#[ while that is /not/ what the femme fatale used to be. kafka plays into the old school femme fatale so well. film noir days. ]#[ i had this same struggle on yelan where they make VERY OBVIOUS draws to it by her music in her trailer. god; the jazz. ]#[ but kafka suffers from this so very much as well to a point where i don't dare to call her a femme fatale because then it's fanon. ]#[ the fanon i hate so much. ]#[ but just uuuughhhh. UGHHH. it's so much to explain. ]

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imabiscuitinthousandworlds · 1 year

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One of the many, many reasons I love Blade Runner is that it doesn't have this Big Epic Final Fight you've come to expect from literally any action film ever.

There's just Deckart and Roy - all others are dead, or not here - and it's just them and one was supposed to kill the other and has become the hunted.

Our main hero protagonist is at the end, he's beaten down, he's at the brink of death, he can barely still walk and is just fleeing as far as he can, as long as he can, and he won't be able to go on much longer and there's really only so far he can run before he's inevitably caught. There's no last minute saviour, no sudden burst of strength, no last attempt to fight. He's terrified. He's running, limping, for just a few seconds more.

And the antagonist - the one who was supposed to be killed, the one who was supposed to be sub-human and is living his life as a slave, in fear - he's going mad. He barely ever had anything, and he lost the few others he had - the only ones who understood when the world was against them. He has only minutes to live, minutes that not even his creator - his god, almost - could drag out, a human god who died by his bare hands. There's nothing left to lose and nothing left to do, but there's the person who hunted him down like a machine or an animal that's one rogue, the one supposed to kill him, entirely at his mercy.

And then they're on that roof, and I don't know what Roy might think, but I know Deckart was done with his life. I know he was convinced he'd die right here - that both of them would die on this roof in the rain.

And when Roy pulls him up? There has to be an explanation. Surely he'll kill him now. What else could he possibly want?

But Roy isn't out for revenge anymore. For as little as he's lived, he's seen so incredibly much. And he knows there isn't anything to be done. He'll die, he'll be forgotten, just another rogue replicant - like moments in time, like tears in rain.

"Time to die." No sadness, no anger, nothing. There's nothing more to it, not anymore. It's a fact.

It's when he's free for the first time.

He's no longer living in fear. He died on his own terms. He's as free as he could ever be, in the only way that was ever even a possibility. And as he dies, as he no longer lives as a slave, that white dove flies away through the rain - a symbol of freedom, finally let go.

And Deckart is left alone on that roof, bleeding, his hand broken, exhausted, still not quite away from the brink of death he's been limping along for the last, what, minutes? (How long was it? Can't have been long. But it sure felt endless.)

There's no winner. No one has been defeated, either. There's just one who died, as he was always meant to, and one who lived, but his world might be in shambles.

What is life worth when you're just waiting for death? Is it freedom when you can never settle down? Could there ever be a different ending?

Also I'm going absolutely insane over the white dove which is a symbol for freedom btw like DAMN!!!!!!! IMPLICATIONS!!! AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

#i mean im basically going insane over the entire film #but especially that climax??? HOOOOOLY---#a biscuit's rambles #blade runner #blade runner 1982 #there is just SO MUCH in this film #and im only super obsessed with the last part at this point bc it stuck with me and otherwise i was following the plot along #just wait until i rewatch the film and start analyzing EVERY SINGLE THING IN THERE #this has REALLY made me realize how much i love film analysis actually #like yesssssss make me think about messages and symbols and metaphors and the creators' intentions #also the time at which it was made like i once read an article about how horror reflects societal fears #and now im applying that to all films that leave an impact on me #like what does it say about the era in which both blade runner and truman show were made? (human goes against god who is actually also huma #but also very much god)#LIKE!!! i mean it was a time of loooots of changes! really big changes! the world was going fucking nuts!#WHAT DOES ART SAY ABOUT THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE PEOPLE WHO MADE IT WHAT DO FILMS TELL US HOW IS SYMBOLISM USED #I AM GOING INSANE OVER THIS OK #I AM NOT FINE #I NEED TO REMEMBER HOW TO PUT THE FUCKIGN CHAIRS FOR A CONCERT NOT THIS NOT NOW AHHHHH #okay im normal again #(<- lie fy is still thinking about this and frothing at the mouth)

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ichthyorelationships · 5 months

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ideas: i didn't really think of him being underwater but they deserve to have drama by crying there too so i just think you could say something about the composition being denser than water or w/e. proteins

i'm always like good thing he didn't try to exit asap via swimming in ciao alberto But What If He Did lol. just swim Somewhere else along the coast, maybe panic about [money??] & whether somehow this ruins school for luca, whether he can get in touch w/o it being On Sight b/w him & all marcovaldos, consider just kind of trying out other places, traveling after all...fascinating considering the other povs on the issue like: now there's the paguros to sympathize w/a kid vanishing, luca however in a somewhat more novel position there, giulia's throwback to alberto being a bit perplexing lmao, kind of thinking the best massimo could do is have a prewritten letter for luca to give to alberto If Possible, conveying something like i know you didn't set my livelihood on fire on purpose but even if you did i'd want you to stay. and luca in a position to do all of "maybe give the island fun facts so someone can check if he's there" & "wait & hope alberto can/does get in touch" & "have a lot of feelings"....not even the context of what this drawing is about necessarily, just tacking it on here anyways. ahead of time i went "heh now i Know they're gonna have it get little Real here b/c it's really about alberto wanting the security of feeling he can 'earn' a sustained relationship" then the short cleared & i was lying completely dead on the pavement

#luca 2021 #pixar luca #alberto scorfano #love when like ''yeah ofc you Could guess approx what would happen; b/c of The Themes & things following them''#but then like of course it still manages to Surprise. feels apt when like ppl doing some savvy media analysis can Guess along w/the film #like oh we're gonna fight here we might have our secret revealed here yep. then get caught off guard by alberto but 110% surprised by luca #even as ofc it all makes sense & is cohesive w/those Themes that have been unfolding; not just breaking w/the material to Surprise us #but still unpredictable. the whole movie being so vignettey (god bless. i live) allowing for a lot of that too like just Stuff Can Happen #someone can guess alberto's dad is not in the picture really but you could think oh he's been killed by humans. No lol...#or massimo lost an arm to sea monsters. but no. oh my god & this is how i realize i didn't draw alberto's arm scar hang on lol #okay there it is. here we go gays (me turning in for some rest at 8:15 am)#oh i read this picture book in the internet archive abt like A Parent Expressing Unconditional Love via conversation w/a child. hang on #''even if i did something awful'' by barbara shook hazen; i did think of it here. let me obtain a quote for effect...#[but what if i did something really truly awful?] [like what?] [like playing ball in the living room after you told me not to & breaking #the vase daddy gave you for your birthday even if i didn't mean to & it was an accident? would you still love me then?]#[i love you so much i'd love you if you Did mean to & it wasn't an accident. / but i might also be mad & yell things like 'i've told you a #thousand times!' & 'this is the last straw!' & 'i've had it with your disobeying!' & send you to your room with no dessert... / ...& cry a #little & pick up the pieces.] [i'll help.] [but i still love you no matter what; no matter how mad; no matter how awful. & i always will.]#so long as it's commitment to Actual support which; massimo already On That even before realizing like oh bereft And you're of the sea.....

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munamania · 6 months

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ok im a really chill and normal person and i get over things and am well adjusted but take a walk with me here. just give me my time to complain when im not in the absolute fucking trenches. and yes i believe i suffered more than those in trench warfare. it was literally a lesbian situationship with a bistraight girl come on. just. magenta choppy shag with the roots coming in. camo cargo pants black t shirt with red lettering and striped long sleeve (sign someone likes music. confirmed). lip ring big black stud earrings and nails. red docs. i think lesbians should be allowed to kill one dyke baiter in their lifetime idc

#and now we're gonna get into some quiet parts and youre just gonna let me have this #i. am so sick. first of all it was kinda funny how people ik ended up sorta surrounding her. felt good. but like we've shared a space #together since everything. i can like be in her presence it's seriously fine. that said. i do sometimes miss her #i say this after going through the really hating her guts period bc of her evil evil evil ways. and feeling like she's lame as hell bc she #s. but i mean it's me talking i have my problems too. i Hate the way we always so naturally act in sync. and i hate that we've both picked #each others' brains for hours so it's like. i knew you once and now we can't even look each other in the eye and that just really sucks #and i feel like. not that i strictly believe in these things. but we were sort of twin flames. i largely suffered for like. basically #falling in love w her. and i know i didn't leave as much of a mark. but i still hope it sucked a little for her #and i'll admit i think it'd be some sort of miracle if we could ever talk civilly. unfortunately we work in two ways #literally behaving in Ways and borderline fucking or not speaking. so. here we are #and i already humiliatingly tried to extend an olive branch this summer so im not gonna be fucking stupid. yk #but GOD how annoying. i did talk to situationship today and we were relatively normal so at least that's not deathly awkward #it's still. definitely um. stiff. but not terrible #i need to get to the club. pretend theres a cig emoji im on desktop rn #sorry for this.#film girl saga

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vampiremansionpoolboy-moved · 1 year

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going insane over the fact that happiness and care and concern and love is underneath every interaction between newt and hermann in pacific rim

#HEAR ME OUT. they’re introduced and newt and being a groupie and behind him hermann is all huffing and rolling his eyes and shaking his #head but he’s Not Angry. no. he jumps to defend newt albeit in a somewhat mocking and sarcastic way BUT THE THOUGHT IS THERE. and then when #hermann is rambling on about numbers being the handwriting of god newt is in the background smiling and laughing and making silly #hand motions and yes the hand motion was a bit mocking BUT THATS THEIR WHOLW THINF. anyways i’m not done. when newt drifts with the kaiju #and pentecost is there talking to him and hermann and newt r yelling back in forth u can hear the unease and shakiness in their voices and #especially the frustration in hermanns. he’s frustrated abt newt risking his life and is worried abt that which translates out in anger.#and yeah maybe he’s salty abt being proven wrong too lmao. BUT CONTINUING ON. stacker could have just told newt to go to hannibal chau and #he would have done it. but instead they watch the film of him on HERMANNS computer as HERMANN controls the computer to look at the film. if #thé film was shown it was for a reason. newt doesn’t seem like the type to need reassurance abt chau before he goes. he was willing to die #for his trash drift. and stacker gave him the card and info so there’s no need to do anything else. the video is most likely there for the #viewers but it needs a reason to be there in the show. hence my reasoning that HERMANN asked to see it out of concern for newt who would be #doinf this alone. hermann demanded to see some proof to reassure himself. stacker having the card on him makes sense. him having that bulky #tape doesn’t. meaning hermann pressured him into leaving getting the tape and coming back to show him. anyways one more bit. so the drift.#hermann is clearly scared out of his mind and thinking abt the impending triple event. yet he still drifts with newt he does it to protect #him to take part of the neural load. and it takes a toll on hermann it makes a big enough mess of his brain that he ends with him bleeding #and shaking and sweating and coughing and throwing up. and he knew it would take a toll. he knew it would be a lot he’s seen the jaegers.#he’s seen what happens. he knows it will be rough. he knows it’ll be much worse for him who wasn’t drifted then for newt who has. yet he #still does it to help newt and to show his care and trust and concern and love and THEYRE DRIFT COMPATIBLE U DONT UNDERSTANDABLE HOW #EMOTIONAL I AM OVER THIS FUCKING OVER THEM #anyways one last thing. the way that they full body slapping each other on the back bear hugged when the throat collapsed (they were behind #herc and tendo so it was a little hard to see. i missed it the first time) in pure adrenaline happiness before we see the quiet tender hug #when they know everything is over for good (for now at least) when it’s time to celebrate when it time to think abt their drift and their #bond and their relationship and their LOVE. i’m so ok abt them rn actually #toad.txt #i wish i wrote this in a keep reading bit and not the tags now. anyways #pacific rim #pacific rim spoilers #newton geiszler #hermann gottlieb #newmann

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ncutii-gatwa · 7 months

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i love hat films very much. they really mean the world to me and im so glad im alive at the same time as them

#random emma thoughts #hat films #jingle jam 2023 #i hold so much love for them my god #my life is better with them in it #and i only found them a few years ago but they mean so much to me #the yogs mean the world too but hat films just hold a place in my heart #they are my boys and i love every single of them #can always go to one of their videos to make me happy

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emblazons · 1 year

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Okay but t b h this writer’s strike scares me more than the possibility of byler not being endgame and that’s the truth. I have zero doubts of the direction of the show…but getting there messily because Netflix outsources scripts to non-union writers to get it made (or even moves forward with incomplete scripts) terrifies me.

Like. Anyone who lived through 2007 TV knows my fears lmao. I can’t imagine being given everything I want but have the way we get there be shit (even a little) because some scrooge-like media executives decided Matt, Ross, Kate Trefry, Paul Dichter, and Caitlin Schneiderhan don’t deserve paychecks and protections. I’d start actual riots.

#it’s been nine months since August so I’m sure they’ve gotten most of it done and #I KNOW they’ve already written scripts and are nearly into filming already but GOD #I mean the duffers would probably just delay given the fact that Netflix gives them so much freedom (thank god)#BUT STILL #ITS A HORRIFYING THOUGHT #much more terrifying than them not doing byler lmao #I’ve invested my heart into this WHOLE show.#them not sticking the landing over people not paying them…I’d never be over it lmao #stranger writers #stranger things #the me tag #do the write thing

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tamaharu · 8 months

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okay thats interesting! in the SF try-outs during the song "legally blonde" she sings about how she cant be legally blonde, while in the official version AND THE DEMO she sings about letting her be legally blonde. which means that at some point they changed the lyrics around, and then changed them back! laurence o'keefe.... nell benjamin.... what occurs in your twisted minds

#covers mouth sorry so sorry guys #im a huge fan of beacon of positivity + good boy (elle puts a leash on emmett confirmed) + love and war (not in the demo but part of SF)#+ i liked some of the lyrics in the demo version of so much better (it called back to beacon of positivity!!! (i am insane)) such as:#I dream of your name next to my own but mine's looking fine up there alone #but i greatly prefer all the official songs we got. well. maybe good boy over ireland wouldve been fun (i think ireland is boring)#but itd play into the 'all men are dogs hurr hurr' joke that im glad they avoided. anyways. what was i saying.#right i havent listened to every version of everything yet (for example theres a SF version of chip on my shoulder i need to watch)#(and just the SF vers in general. shes hidden from me... why was emmett there before the remix... let me see their conversation)#but from what i have heard they made a lot of changes that were sorely needed. in take it like a man demo shes so much meaner??#it made me sad. it wasnt a duet + they wrung out the romantic tension (no subtext by calvin klein... sigh) + shes meaner!!!!#in the bway vers hes baffled but enjoys going along w it + she genuinely likes him even when hes wearing his regular clothes #but in the demo vers she keeps calling him stuff like ugly duckling and talking about how the geek is gone :( but she likes that geek..#the lines 'how much do you think i earn??' and 'kindly shut up :)' are funny but speak to a dynamic between the two that makes me sad...#follow me for more beautiful opinions on a fifteen year old musical #(heaves. do you know weird it is to see comments from 15yrs ago when this was actually showing. my brother is fifteen.)#god im so sorry i should be put down like a dog #lgb bootleggers are intense. i swear they got a bootleg every night or smth bc we got her shoe flying off + SF + kyle as understudy etc #go watch a so much better compilation sometime how did they take so many bootlegs?? how did you find them??#and its awesome cause these were filmed on 2007/2008 tech which means they have 15 pixels maximum #SORRRRYYYYYYYYYY

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that-was-anticlimactic · 3 months

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hottake but r.enee r.app actually wasn't that good in the new m.ean girls movie musical - y'all are just attracted to her

#not syaing she can't sing bc she can but i hate how much she changed r.egina #and i hate just. pretty much everything about this movie other than the guy playing d.amien. he was good.#what's with the weird shots during w.orld burn???#wHY CHANGE SO MUCH GOD #just film the actual broadway musical #also like idk why everyone says r.enee is the best r.egina like. i mean i respect y'all's opinions she does have a beautiful voice but #everypne's out here acting liek r.enee is THE r.egina and there was no one before or after her #sorry i just need to know that SOMEONE agrees with me pls the whole movie was one awful disaster #i need someone to validate me pls i'm begging no one ever agrees with me on my movie musical critiques even tho i am a HUGE theatre fan😭#anyways #corey talks:)#idk i may delete this later it just. it BAFFLES me.#just watched the r.evenge party scene and hated every second of it #they changed SO MUCH and FOR WHAT #and they skipped ahead a LOT #and r.enee wasn't even that good in it??? all she did was like try to pose sexily or whatever and THAT ISN'T R.EGINA #not even going to get started on c.ady or g.retchen or the weird... idk whatever the beginning of that was #okay i'm done now again sorry

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mariocki · 2 months

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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

"Jane, did you ever stop to think that... if anything happened to me, I mean anything bad, there wouldn't be any money for you? I wouldn't be here to sign the checks. You wouldn't even have pocket money. Did you ever think of that?"

"Yeah, I've thought about that."

#what ever happened to baby jane?#american cinema #robert aldrich #1962 #joan crawford #bette davis #lukas heller #henry farrell #victor buono #wesley addy #bert freed #maidie norman #anna lee #marjorie bennett #anne barton #dave willock #robert cornthwaite #barbara merrill #julie allred #gina gillespie #frank de vol #revisiting after a long long time. watching this as a teen (too many moons ago) it was Joan that bewitched me; i was deeply taken by her‚#fell a little in love even. coming back to it now and I'm baffled how i slept on Bette's performance‚ arguably the showier and more #rewarding (from an actors pov). she's ott and grotesque but there's real depth to the role too‚ she delivers with nuance and there's levels #to the character‚ tragedy too (the completely unexpected way she says the line 'You mean all this time we could have been friends?' is #beautiful). also Buono?? I'd honestly kind of forgotten that there was anyone else in this film but Bette and Joan but my god‚ in his first #major film role‚ he's amazing! and funny! easy to forget just how funny this film is‚ in amongst the horror and the sadness and the waste #of it all. beautiful little film‚ i know it has its followers and is appreciated as a high camp classic‚ but it's honestly so much more #than just that too. Aldrich (truly one of The great genre directors) does wonders with sharp‚ unforgiving black and white photography #(beautifully contrasted with the soft warmer footage of younger J and B from their hollywood heyday). masterfully constructed too

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otaku553 · 1 year

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God I have so many thoughts about suzume,,

#I thought it was maybe like an 8/10 coming out of the theatre #bumped to a 9/10 on like analysis of themes and stuff and just generally appreciating the fact that they didn’t focus much on the romance #but oh my god??? my Japanese teacher gave some context on the themes and it just hits so much harder now #some post I saw said that this film is so intrinsically Japanese in the idea of living on a hostile land and yeah I truly did not realize it #my teacher showed us the image from the tohoku tsunami with the huge boat on top of the building #and the parallel frame from the movie’s afterlife area and god #it’s such a powerful and sad image to look at with how surreal it is and I would not have noticed it unless it was pointed out to me and I w #I wish I did have this context going into the movie because that would’ve made it hit so much harder #the way they emphasize ‘ittekimasu’ when leaving home and how this directly translates to ‘going and coming #with the intrinsic sort of meaning that they will return and yet the land is dangerous and hostile and sometimes doesn’t let you return!!!!#and the way the chant to close the doors ends with ‘I return them to you’ as a nod to these people who left and wished to return and never #could return in the end because of the danger and natural disaster….#and this on top of the sort of idea of how kindness and human compassion is what carries one through trauma and grief #god it’s such a good movie

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