#this film was actually quite good

[elainiisms]

it's almost like... if you play a movie in 10 cinemas worldwide, it doesn't do as well as it could 🤯🤯

[nostalgia-tblr]

I watched Avengers: Age of Ultron (apart from I skipped some overly long action sequences) and I am not sure so can someone tell me whether or not Tony Stark was the baddy in that film? Because about halfway through I was sure he was but then it was maybe just an evil robot after all and I am confused because either this film was surprisingly subversive or it was about robots hitting each other.

[mariocki]

The Nesting (Massacre Mansion, 1981)

"It may come as a surprise to you that a physicist could even contemplate the existence of paranormal phenomena."

"But you admit to the possibility."

"I admit the possibility of the unknown. I admit that science is only beginning to understand its own discoveries. But I do not believe in evil spirits or painted phantoms in windows."

[miodiodavinci]

every day that goes by i relate more and more to that post that's like "is the video essay analysis or is it summary → it's a good essay sir → open the video → it's summary"

[art--harridan]

[Image description: A digital drawing based on the film One Cut of the Dead. It's a close-up of the arms of Ko and Chinatsu as the former approaches her, arms in a raised zombie pose. She clenches an axe which she pushes towards him. Both of them have blood splattered on them. Director Higurashi stands behind the two, hands clutching a camera which is recording, its red tally light standing out. His face is blurred into pixels but it's still clear he's smiling wide. The sketches are not coloured, the background peaking through. They have a dark brown lineart while the background is a sickly yellow that reddens around the edges. In the same red as the tally light, the words "one cut of the dead" are written down the right side of the piece, stacked on one another. The font is irregular and bleeds down. On the other side, there's an larger tally light which also bleeds.]

Inktober - Day 30 (Rush)

Film - One Cut of the Dead (Shinichiro Ueda, 2017)

[gaytobymeres]

Wheee I got back the first roll of film that I shot on my Leica! Shot it entirely in my house/garden because uni was very busy and I didn’t have time to go out and shoot it but I wanted to make sure both the camera and lens work which I’m pleased to report they do. Still getting used to using it but I’m having a great time with it

[shipaholic]

OH MY GOD, I was not prepared for David and Michael to both list What's Up Doc as their favourite romantic comedy 😍💕😭😭

(spoilers in video for GO2)

[ennaih]

Every Film I Watch In 2023:

278. Edge Of Doom (1950)

[hypodermicfroggy]

I wished for a Bioshock movie for Y E A R S

but now that we're finally getting one I don't want it

I do not have faith this is going to be a good adaption, I'm sorry, maybe 10 years ago this could have been a great passion project (especially if Gore Verbinski had been involved like originally planned) but I just know it's going to be an over-actioned, improperly funded (since it's a Netflix production they're absolutely going to either dump too much or not enough money in it then write it off as a failure if it doesn't 'perform' well enough), CGI-laden slop fest that doesn't even acknowledge or properly handle half the themes present in the series.

[bloodymarymorstan]

I just watched Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and I felt like it really solidified one of the reasons why Endgame just did not work in my opinion which was that none of the characters whose stories were ending in that movie actually got a proper send-off that was focused on them. This is because, in Endgame, everything was taking place in the midst of a much larger story where a major goal was still to set up future storylines and ultimately to try to give partial or equal focus to a really unreasonable number of characters. I always hate on Steve’s ending in particular and while I do definitely think it was a majorly poor choice for his character in general it was also just really rushed and didn’t make sense given the pretty minimal amount of time that was allocated to his character in that movie, whereas if Steve had gotten to go out on a final Captain America movie I’m sure it would have been much more likely for him to get an ending that actually aligned with his arc as a whole and within that film. Plus, characters that are so well established deserve to get a real conclusion that is focused on them! And it worked so well in GOTG3 to actually have that but I couldn’t believe it when I realized that this is the first time in the MCU that a series has gotten to end in that way. I feel like it really goes to show how much this type of franchise storytelling wrecks character arcs more often than not because the priority is always the bigger picture rather than the individual story, and I’m happy Guardians got to end in this way but the other characters should have gotten that too :(

[amorisastrum]

I have spent. YEARS. YEARS I TELL YOU.

looking for a collection of childhood films I would watch.

Based on Aladdin.

Everytime someone mentioned Aladdin (one of my favourite Disney films) I would mention this and everyone would look at me like I was crazy

AND I FINALLY FOUND IT.

JASMINES ENCHANTED TALES. GOD HOW I LOVED YOU AS A CHILD JASMINES ENCHANTED TALES.

I would watch it at my grandma's almost constantly. I was watching really niche films (as well as your traditional Disney films) at my grandma's and it's nice to finally find one that I thought I made up! I also watched the swan princess, but I know I didn't make that up because one of the songs was trending on tik tok a while ago. And thumbelina, but I know I didn't make that up because it's trending now. It's nice to remember something good about my childhood. And now I've found my childhood comfort films!!! I loved my grandma's house. I'm so happy.

[mariocki]

Alfred Burke puts on his best policing face as Parisian detective Inspector Maron, in Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!: The Billion Franc Mystery (1.6, ABPC, 1957)

[zialinart]

i'm considering doing the "tattoo myself everyday for a year" challenge and like film it and open a tik tok account for that but sooo much work and i'm too old for this shit

[pynkhues]

Hi, I I saw your most recent post about your thoughts on actors performance. I so agree with your thoughts about Miss Stewart, what you said about Anne Hathaway I feel the same way about her. I can always tell she’s playing a character she’s not an actress that disappears which is OK but it’s something I always notice.Timothée Chalamet does as well. It’s so fun watching actors and the different life that they bring to the characters. I so enjoy hearing all your thoughts about actors and movies.

(x)

Hi! And thank you for your lovely words, anon! I watch a lot of movies so I often end up with opinions about a lot of actors, haha. I do like Anne Hathaway, like I said, but she's definitely an Actor You See Acting - I tend to put Cate Blanchett in the same category because I don't think she ever disappears into a role either.

And gosh, yeah, Timothee Chalamet is definitely an actor who I think you can See Acting. I've mentioned it on here before, but I actually think of that crop of young male actors, Tom Holland's the more talented of the two and can be a little more chameleon-like in his roles (I say as one of 4 people who loved The Devil All the Time, haha), but I don't think he has the same feel for projects or, frankly, as good an agent.

[ravenkings]

my favorite beauty and the beast screen adaptations, in order:

Panna a netvor (dir. Juraj Herz, Czechoslovakia 1978)

La Belle et la Bête (dir. Jean Cocteau, France 1946)

Beauty and the Beast (Disney, animated) (dir. Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, USA 1991)

La Belle et la Bête (dir. Christophe Gans, France, Germany 2014)

Beauty and the Beast (Disney, live action) (dir. Bill Condon, 2017)

[kraniumet]

every single tony scott movie is queer coded. i don't think every action 80s movie is, and i actually don't think rambo is that gay. commando is pretty gay, that is not a new take. as far as queer coded villains go, mark l. lester, who directed it, has spoken openly on it. the lethal weapons movies were written by shane black, who some people (me, for the first time right now) have described as "only ever making homoerotic christmas movies". beverly hills cop 2 was directed by tony scott. the issue isn't top gun having a normie amount of male gaze mistakenable for gay longing, it's people not drawing gay erotic beverly hills cop fanart. so we agree on that.