#this is why I can never watch this movie

[king-crawler]

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RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET (2018) dir. Rich Moore & Phil Johnston

[xxplastic-cubexx]

something about first impressions idk

bonus:

[lily-onher-grave]

I’m fucking dying about the Elphaba’s promise scene holy fuck. You could’ve posted this shit on fanfiction dot net back in the day and it would’ve fit right in

“You could’ve picked me” holds so much weight I almost feel like they had to cut it just so it doesn’t seem like Glinda slides backwards in character growth at the train station scene. But I love it so much because yes she’s jealous of Elphie and Fiyero yes she’s hurt she was left behind (foreshadowinggggg) but also this is her vocally and intentionally picking Elphaba right back. It feels as significant as Glinda telling Elphie it was the milkflowers’ fault, not hers. And it’s so freaking delicious because we as an audience know that it’s also not 100% true. Glinda means it here, and she wants Elphaba to choose her, and she would choose Elphaba, but soon that choice will come with too many consequences for both of them, and they won’t be able to choose each other anymore, no matter what promised they made or how much they want to

AND Elphaba promising not to leave Glinda behind again?? Excuse me???? “I won’t leave you behind” then proceeds to bring her to the emerald city, to the wizard’s palace, on a daring but doomed hot air balloon escape, etc etc. Elphaba promised not to leave her behind and then she kept her at her side until Glinda stepped away

And all this of course makes Glinda’s part in defying gravity so much richer, because she’s silently begging Elphaba to choose her, to listen to her, to stay and make this work from the inside. But she doesn’t. And when Elphaba keeps her promise, asks her to come so she doesn’t leave her behind again, Glinda can’t go

(And don’t EVEN talk to me about all the times Elphaba starts breaking that promise in act 2)

Also I feel like the ��maybe magic is hard for you because you’ve always had it easy, you’ve never needed it” conversation is either supposed to come in play again in act 2 or it’s just foreshadowing to the passing of the grimmerie but either way I have feelings about it. I kinda wonder if the first half of this scene was supposed to be a lot meaner/pettier, but Cynthia and Ariana kept playing it soft and earnest instead. Either way I’m thinking about post-musical Glinda finally getting her magic to click because elphaba’s gone and the nation is looking to her and nothing is easy anymore, so she needs it more than ever

[eightspringdays]

if you have the feeling this arc may feel incomplete or something is off, take into consideration fujimoto is doing it on purpose

From this 2021 interview with Da Vinci magazine. Fujimoto doesn't spoon-feed you the content, he never has and I think the charm resides in that he never will

[megamindsecretlair]

Watching Rebel Ridge chuz ik Big Daddy can heal me through this screen 🤪🤭

But on a real note, it's so interesting how after the first setback, he's already on C - Contingency. He's already one point ahead by queuing up something in case his next step, Alternate, falls through.

Like 😭 the level of this man's preparation is unmatched. Respeck his name 🤭

And its so funny too. Chuz he's not overly book smart by any means. Like he's obviously educated but I get the feel he's more self taught through books that interest him. He don't know shit about law , (who does fr 🫠) , BUT he's not afraid to ask and seek out answers. And this is only 15 mins into the gd movie.

Terry built different, im sorry 😭😭😭

[atomicsuperrobot]

I am cringe, but I am free.

Here's to a better new year, hopefully. The prospects are pretty bleak, but we stay silly.

[deadwooddross]

PLEASE tell us your Opinions

oh noooo, aagh ooogh twist my aaarm Now excuse me while i ramble on about Wicked, ahem, Okay so really my musical opinions arent even bad mostly, it's very cute and catchy and popu-UUlar, and is kind of like....a nice little fan fiction compared to. the book. the two are Very different My main thoughts are: 1. Fiyero. Poor sweet Fiyero. Who keeps selecting these mayonnaise men when one of the first things ever described about him is the fact he has dark skin. Like...hello....he's from the desert/savanna region with nomads and elephants.... 2. Fiyero again, why GOD are we doing the same ancient "ohhh a boy between the giiirls, he like her not meee" schtick when it should actually be Glinda and Fiyero playing tug of war with Elphaba, if anything. They're both in love with her, this is textual, there is precedent for this. She's also very very focused on other things and keeps trying to wriggle out of affections tender touch even though she wants it so bad, you see. the big scaredy baby. 3.I actually like that the madam Morrible thing is a Little more...subtle. In the book its VERY in your face, but I like baby elphie being keen to injustice while also having a more vulnerable side that can be personally manipulated. All the more reason for her to be even more bitter and defensive about it Later 4.Nessarose...now this one i understand may have some caveats for the stage, but I don't really like that they put Nessa in a wheelchair. Spoilers if you haven't read it, but in the book she was born with no arms. Which I think is a unique choice, though I do have some criticisms on how it was handled in the book too. I'm curious if the new one about Elphie's childhood will go into it, but the thing about being born armless is that humans are VERY adaptable, and if anything fancy slippers would be something of a hindrance for someone who relies a lot on their feet. Nessa being sort of herded into functioning a certain way that forces her to be extremely reliant on everyone around her though...that'd still be interesting. Slippers of a well-meaning sort that only further lock her into a very specific expectation of existence, oh my 5. Accepting the the musical for what it is, my god it loses a lot of the fact that elphaba is a radical anti-fascist struggling against the wizard gestapo, and that's not even slightly an exaggeration dfhjdfhj. So in summary! I dont mind that it's a happier retelling, but I think it cuts out a little too much of what I like about the book to fully appreciate it. AND it makes Fiyero annoying to me, which is a shame because I like him in the book

[scarletfasinera]

I hate when people are like "I already didn't like xyz so it's not difficult for me to boycott it unlike those loser customers that actually Liked the thing which I could never understand bc I was never a customer uwu" bc like. That literally isn't boycotting lmao. That is just Never Being A Customer In The First Place, which means nothing actually.

Boycotts are primarily about applying pressure (or completely making it impossible to operate) via financial/commercial/economic impact. AKA it's about money and capital.

If you already weren't spending money on a product/franchise/company, then you were already never part of their sales data, and you just doing nothing & making absolutely no change to your daily life and just continuing to not be part of their sales data as normal, has literally no material impact. You were already never a factor. The people who WERE customers & WERE part of the sales data & ARE withdrawing their money from those sales figures actually ARE making a material impact.

"Supporting" something isn't about vibes or thoughts or feelings or you telling your best friend how much you like a thing, "support" in a meaningful sense is specifically material. It is financial. Refusing to continue supporting something means taking the money you were previously spending on it & putting it elsewhere. If you were never spending money, you were never supporting it, and therefore it doesn't make any difference if you continue to not support it. Boycotting is something CUSTOMERS and CONSUMERS do.

SO STOP FUCKING BRAGGING ABOUT IT & STOP MAKING FUN OF PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY ARE BOYCOTTING FOR "EVER LIKING XYZ TO BEGIN WITH" & STOP SPREADING THIS FALSE IDEA OF HOW BOYCOTTING WORKS LMAO sorry for capslocking I remembered I was annoyed

I just hate this low-morale mean-spirited bullshit some people do in the notifs on boycotting info posts where they arbitrarily moralize about something they just don't understand so they can pat themselves on the back for doing literally literally nothing AND inadvertently spreading misinfo in the process. Be quiet. Go do something that matters. There are plenty of posts going around, including from Palestinians themselves, with lists of references for how to help Palestine & other similar causes for people currently in crisis, please please do something For Real instead of boasting online about your fandom superiority complex as if it means anything.

[sonseulsoleil]

Been thinking a lot about how, when it comes to theatre, different casts can create a completely different experience of the same show. The first time I saw Wicked the actress playing G(a)linda was extremely flat. The character came across as vapid, self-absorbed, and annoying, with little added depth. I know now from seeing the show a few times that G(a)linda is all of those things, but she isn't just those things. She is nuanced and flawed and can be played with an incredible amount of depth.

But that first portrayal the character will always influence my interpretation. I'm never gonna be a G(a)linda stan. I can see and understand the richness her character can have, but first impressions are forever. My reading of the character is always gonna be a little skewed and biased against her.

On the flipside, the actor who played Fiyero was the most dynamic performer on that stage (Elphaba was a close second) and portrayed the character with so much care and did so much in his delivery and choices to give the character all the depth he could possibly have. I have since seen Fiyeros who are far more boring, like the G(a)linda I first saw. But my initial impression and interpretation of the character (and his relationship with Elphaba) remains.

"Did we even watch/read the same thing?" is a common rhetorical question when coming across an interpretation you disagree with, but I think it can be extremely true with theatre. Depending on the production, the cast, even the night, you can see a completely different show, and I think folks discoursing about Wicked characters and ships would do well to remember that.

[brucie-baby]

While the dynamics of Bruce being the hopelessly smitten party in a unrequited love situation is interesting, I personally prefer it when it's the other way around except Bruce actually does love them but he's repressed his feelings so hard that he's kinda forced himself to forget about them and unless something forces them awake, they're cooked.

soo understandable

something i find so intriguing about bruce is that yes, he's a master at forcing his feelings down but as soon as he accepts them, he tends to go all in. straight into the deep end. he doesn't know how to not be so fucking intense.

so i think this situation would be kinda wild kinda fun in the sense that like. you have the whole initial angst of clark ((using him because he was in the original post)) truly believing that bruce does not, can not, will not love him back, and he's so sure of this because bruce is so sure of this. bruce shows no sign of loving him back because of just how deep down he's repressed it all. and generally clark is like "he's still my best friend and i'd love him even if he hated me," but also it still fucking sucks that the love is unrequited, right??

and then something happens and for the sake of this we'll say it's something like,, clark gets severely hurt in the field and someone kind of confronts bruce with his feelings and he finally has this moment of "okay shit yeah this is real" and that's when the repression goes away. that's the moment he accepts it.

now here's the thing. clark didn't know about bruce's feelings because bruce had pretty much forced himself to forget them. bruce does not have this issue with clark. he knows exactly how clark feels (world's greatest detective, obviously). so he does it. he dives straight in. pulls out all the stops.

and that's where the additional angst kicks in. because like. bruce has shown absolutely no sign of being interested in clark in any way. literally none. and now clark gets hurt and suddenly bruce is asking him on dates and saying he's in love with him and what the fuck?? clearly bruce is just confused because of the whole near-death thing. he doesn't actually love clark. clark would've known (he can hear the man's heartbeat, his breathing, can see every microscopic detail of the expressions he wears when talking to clark, and nobody can fake that, not even bruce). and now clark's all extra hurt on the inside because holy shit bruce finally loves him back and it's not even real??

obviously there's a happy ending somewhere in there of clark realising that okay shit yeah this is real. however in my head this is also a comedy so most of it is just bruce trying so desperately to convince clark that he genuinely does love him that he binges as many romcoms as possible and starts copying them. his kids start feeding him fake romcom moments or being like "this worked for a friend of mine" just to make him do the most ridiculous shit possible.

[ganondoodle]

(idk if anyone wants to keep hearing my opinions on totk book stuff but-)

apparently it says that rauru DID have kids, multiple even, which yeah... is kinda necessary for zelda to even be connected to them so much so that sonia can SENSE a blood connection (which, even with all the excuses with magic, is just a little too far for me to suspend my disbelief bc its over, OVER, ten thousand years worth of generations that seperate her from them that one lil touch of the hand can sense that (feels more like an attempt to make you care about them or .. see them as zeldas "better" parents just bc they exchange a few nice words, i never got the feeling they were 'better' parents and its also kinda disrespectful to her actual parents, like sure rhoam wasnt the best but i wouldnt call rauru better just bc he was polite)- i could see maybe the light power of hylia or sth but since its the coolest dude that ever lived rauru now that had it which still doesnt make sense and makes me unreasonably annoyed and she can sense BOTH of their powers in her? nah) the fact theres NOTHING about them in the game itself is just so ... no way they planned any of this

i dont think theres anything they can do or say that wont make be believe they either

are making it up alla 'fix it in post' mentality trying to hastily explain stuff the game never bothers to do to try and appease fans or let it appear as if they thought about it at all

something went really REALLY wrong during development, which kinda seems likely given how the game turned out (im sorry i cannot let go, its not just the writing, the game design too and how little was changed in the map while being so damn expensive, i dont know how people dont feel scammed q_q)

given that they (allegedly) spent the last entire year of development on polish (where??? where????? huh??? like it would make it more understandable (EXCEPT for the price) if there was alot of trouble, which was also bc it got delayed and ... turned out like this, but they dont want to say it, especially given their reputation, with that quote i have heard way too many times 'a delayed game blah blah') i just??

are they just gonna go and do it like they did with kashiwa (kass)? "they uuuh where flying around the whole time ony cool sonau tech maschines, you just dont see or hear from them ooooorrr they were uuuuh out of the country at the time" (sending invitations to other continents to join their glorious kingdom ;) )

(bet they are also gonna say they did all the stuff like ... moving the shrines around (lol?) and lifting the islands up into the sky- which is still weird bc ... didnt they also say they were living in the sky before coming to the surface?? so where?? did they park all their islands on the surface and the mystery kids had the keys so they had to repark them back into the sky after they returned off camera?? xD also why are the islands so different as an environment if they where from the surface? like even the STONE up there is different- and if they were first in the sky then on the surface and the nback in the sky .. why is there not a single yellow tree or grass in the past- you cant really argue that it changed bc they were up there so long bc .. nothing else changed, the suddendly and totally always there sonau buildings are largely in prime condition, only some slightly moldy, and what we see of the glorious past looks barely any different from the present, aside from like ... some standard trees shuffled, no castle yet and that glowy uwu filter DESPITE that stupidly long time frame between it)

[loverboybrightsideghost]

one of my favorite clark headcanons that i have (that is completely unsupported by canon) is that he's transgender by kryptonian standards. martha and jon kent raised him as a boy and as he grew up he never had any reason to doubt it at all, he was like yeah i'm a boy, makes sense. and then he gets to the fortress of solitude for the first time and it turns out how Gender works on krypton was just Different enough that clark doesn't really fit the kryptonian standards of whatever he was supposed to be. bonus points because this makes him feel like even more of an outsider as a kryptonian, even if he's the last one left.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

was watching apocalypse with my brother and once the cerebro scene popped up he was like 'charles has a helmet like erik, only instead of keeping people out, he tries to reach out and connect with others' like guys i need to bash him with a rock

[itspileofgoodthings]

one time my mom was talking about something, I don’t remember what, and she said “have you ever known the poverty of having nothing to say?” and when I say nothing has ever punctured my heart quite like that statement

[townslore]

watching the miraculous movie has done irreversible damage to my brain. hands you miraculous shuake au.

[timetravelwitch]

the POTENTIAL this duo had

platonic or not, they would have loved each other