#this film. raised me

[danystargaryens]

GET TO KNOW ME ♡ [2/25] Films:  ☆ St. Trinians (2007) [Dir. by Oliver Parker]

I’ve been watching you, you little madam with your girlish wiles and your saucy ways, and now it seems your criminal cunning, you know what you are, dont you? Smart. Smarter then you think, and smart is cool, and very, very sexy.

[poguelandia]

SCOOBY DOO 2002 | dir. by Raja Gosnell

[drrav3nb]

GET TO KNOW ME MEME: favourite lost/lesser known ships [5/10] - Ellen Ripley & Dwanye Hicks (Aliens)

Hicks I'm not going to end up like those others. You'll take care of it won't you? If it comes to that...I'll do us both. Listen, let's just make sure it doesn't come to that. Alright? Alright.

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

I think it's a rumour started by a parody joke account, but the way we all heard a variation of "F1 driver Franco Colapinto hits it off with Norwegian Princess" and immediately went:

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price as Prosecutor Vidal

Song of Bernadette (1943) dir. Henry King

[starleska]

me before watching Drop Dead Fred: aw this is gonna be a really silly dumb kinda movie and it'll cheer me up :3c me after watching Drop Dead Fred:

[pineapplefulfillseveryneed]

Sparkstember day 22: The Seduction Of Ingmar Bergman✨

[lilianhuas]

Film Queer 2024 actors Daniel Craig with Drew Starkey at The National Board of Review Annual Awards Gala January 7th 2025

[anghraine]

Today's unhinged "good God I hate how much extreme generosity I'm expected to extend to the Peter Jackson films by people who make wildly bad faith arguments about things I like" rant:

I am very deeply tired of people insisting with zero evidence that of course the LOTR films are imperfect, but the difficulties of adapting LOTR are such that it wasn't possible for them to be better than they were—in, apparently, any respect. They just couldn't be done better, at all, because it was so hard to make something watchable at all.

This is always just like ... really? Really?? Just what prevented them from making better decisions about anything? What exactly made casting every actor of color as barely differentiated villainous hordes in the twenty-first century so necessary and unavoidable? The glamorization and vast expansions of battle scenes and insertion of "heroic" war crimes was the highest film as a medium could aspire to in the early 2000s because of what insuperable force?

What made it impossible to give Arwen a coherent character arc? The films could not have been made without the underlying assumption that most of the cast are NPCs who will only do the right thing, when they will, if prodded or manipulated or influenced by main characters? In what way is this an inevitability of adaptation or film that simply couldn't have been conceptualized differently, much less better?

There is zero explanation or justification for why any of this stuff (or the myriad other flaws) had to be that way and couldn't have been done better in any way at any point. It's just stated that the films that exist must be the best films that could have existed because they're the ones that do exist and are popular. QED.

That doesn't make any sense, though, and it doesn't convince anyone who doesn't already agree. The idea that they could not have been better in any way (including their worst quality, which again, is the extremely racist casting), that some force was preventing not only the actual filmmakers but any filmmakers that could possibly exist from doing anything better just seems patently absurd.

You can like them and respect what they did achieve without demanding that everyone buy into a baseless and irrational argument that their pop culture success means nothing about them could possibly have been done any better. Look, I was in my mid to late teens at the time. I remember the early 2000s quite well. It wasn't now, but we are not talking about an age so divorced from our own that any of these things were somehow fundamental to the media landscape.

There are ways in which the LOTR films were very good that were essential to their popularity then and now. This does not require anyone to accept that it was literally impossible for them to be better than they are or that some defense is required against every criticism of them ever.

I am not, incidentally, talking about removing Bombadil, an entirely understandable and defensible decision that the film defenders in my notes somehow always feel the need to bring up. I know that changes had to be made, that adaptation is not a word for word transcription, that it would always be a difficult text to adapt, that structurally minor elements had to go, that they are cinematically beautiful films that a lot of work and love went into. I know this. EVERYONE knows this, because for the last 20 years it's been impossible to criticize anything about them without being reminded. Their accomplishments, and their existence, do not mean that any choice made by the filmmakers must definitionally have been the right call and could not possibly have been better in any way.

[feyd-meowtha]

I didn't bring my lost boys jumper to Japan cus it was too bulky 😞

The tragic consequence of this is that I can no longer perform the hilarious feat of having someone compliment me on my lost boys jumper only to lift it up and display my lost boys t-shirt followed by lifting up my trouser leg and showing them my lost boys tattoo. At which point they realise that I have a bleach blonde mullet.

Sad.

[spelllingandthemysteryschool]

every time i watch a movie in which women suffer i literally feel like someone’s gathered all my veins in their fists and is slowly yanking them out of my body. like why do i do this to myself

[all-rock-and-roll-is-homosexual]

📸: Pat Pope

Scanned from 35mm slide by me

if you like my scans and want to help out you can do so here

[lopez-richter-fangirl]

I honestly don’t think I’ve ever seen a negative funds raised on the tracker before. We’ve got to fucking get it together

This graph is NOT the most accurate because it’s still early and can’t adjust that well for the boosts we tend to get in livestreams so I don’t want it to scare anyone but… they’re currently NOT projected to be likely to hit the goal

I see people talking about being excited for these events, and I have too because I want to be hopeful and I do still believe we can do it, but it will ONLY happen if they reach the goal. Otherwise, they get no money, likely lose money they’ve already had to put into preparing for this season, and suffer a huge setback that means we’re not likely to see anything of this scale from them any time soon if ever

[adhd-merlin]

thinking about b&b galahad again. gal being raised by a religious fanatic. gal being so troubled by kay calling him a fanatic when they asked for vegan soap in the office toilets. gal dwelling on it afterwards (a fanatic? me?) do you see a connection because I do

[vimbry-moved]

how I feel when I wonder if a film score takes cues from a classical composer and I scroll through the comments to see people saying the same thing

[newtonsheffield]

Impeccable running soundtrack tbh

Phil Collins was out there writing for this movie with flames coming off his drumsticks tbh