#we need to do something

[darlingofdots]

once again three cheers for Will Laurence parenting superior-officering Emily Roland under truly the wildest of circumstances for like 7 years and doing such a fantastic job of it. He was basically her primary caregiver from age 9 to 16 and no matter how she might gripe, he took his job so seriously and you can tell she appreciates it! She runs away from her official posting during the Invasion to come serve under him again because he treated her with respect and gave her responsibilities suited to her skills, and also he has modelled a set of principles that she clearly understands and agrees with even when she thinks he's going about it wrong. And she is so fully On His Side anyway, she's so righteously outraged on his behalf when people disrespect him, and like. that man is not her father but he is her dad. That night when she was 9 years old and afraid for her mother and Excidium and he was so gentle with her is so emblematic of his attitude to his "young gentlemen" in my opinion; he is firm and professional at all times but he pays attention, he knows his people's backgrounds and families and he is so invested in giving them the best possible chance at success, and it's clear to me that people respond to that! including the terrible teenagers he accidentally got roped into raising

[andrew3garfield]

WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING (2021)

[fuckyeahfightlock]

Yesterday's scary movie was one I haven't heard much about, maybe because it was made in the Year Time Forgot (MMXX)???, which surprises me because in my opinion, it's almost flawless.

Directed by Sean King O'Grady and written by Max Booth III based on his novella of the same title, We Need to Do Something stars Sierra, Vinessa, Lisette, John, and Pat, and takes place in a bathroom. A very large, very fancy, old-Hollywood Mission-style mansion type bathroom with levels and double sinks and beautiful tile and glass bricks where the windows should be, but it's still a bathroom. A family takes shelter from a tornado, only to discover once the storm has passed that they are trapped. And what's outside is decidedly not just a fallen tree.

Mel is a teenaged. . .what do they call those girls with the hot pink blush right under their eyes? E-girls?. . .pink-haired alterna-girl trapped in the bathroom with her alcoholic dad and just-asked-for-a-divorce mom, and her cute little brother (his name is Bobby, which is one flaw of this movie--kids are not named Suzy Sally Jimmy Johnny Tommy Bobby in the 2020s. The laziest of writing and one of my pet peeves). She loses her phone and she misses her goth girlfriend. But that damn huge tree from the back yard is blocking the door.

The bathroom door. The bathroom door that opens out.

Have you ever? In your life? Me neither, and while I grudgingly allowed it because the rest of the movie was compelling, I was annoyed. It's a very basic element of the story. And it opens out.

Annnnywaaaaay.

Mom minimizes (I don't read reassuring children that they are safe as minimizing, but the writer clearly does), Dad starts drinking mouthwash, Mel blames herself for things going wrong--and won't stop picking at a scab on her wrist from self-harming, which is gross and borders on gratuitous--and Bobby is hungry and scared. As things go wrong, then wrong-er (snakes, dogs that aren't dogs, voices, gunshots, knocking/thumping/dust shook loose from the ceiling, etc, etc), we see in flashbacks how Mel's witchy girlfriend Amy persuaded her to help Amy cast a spell to silence a boy who was harassing her, then another spell--to exorcise "the dead thing" she thinks is inside her (TL;DR, Amy is not a fun goth girl like me; she is a mentally troubled goth girl). Amateur spells too often go wrong.

This movie has scares, gore, a surprising amount of heart (I shed actual tears at one character's death, and I don't think that's happened many times with horror movies), a looming sense of dread, and all of this is done in a single location, with four actors, and no visuals on a monster/beast/demon/whatever that is nonetheless very scary. I really enjoyed it and wonder why I don't hear more people including this on Top Ten or Twenty or Twenty-Five lists; it's a gem.

(barely any gifs on tumblr? REALLY nobody is watching this movie! It's on Hulu, btw)

[endren]

i miss you

twinning :(

[utoshi-san]

Прошло 5 дней января, а я уже посмотрела свой очередной десятифильмовый челлендж ахахах. Хиккан мод он!

Годнота - 💗, хороши для разового просмотра - 😌 нейтральные - 🙄, не стоящие внимания - 👎🏻 полное днище - 💩

"Игра в лифте"/"Elevator game" 😌

"Призрачная станция"/"The ghost station"

"Иван Васильевич меняет всё" 🙄

"По щучьему веленью" 😌

"Штормовое предупреждение"/"We need to do something" 👎🏻

"Кровь и кости"/"Blood and bones" 🙄

"Школьный день мертвецов"/"Shisha no gakuensai" 👎🏻

"Дети кукурузы"/"Children of the corn" (2020) 👎🏻

"Флинстоуны"/"The Flintstones" 😌

"Флинстоуны в Рок-Вегасе"/"The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas" 🙄

[thoughtsoutofpaper]

No Escape In Death

Cover your body

and they’ll sexualize your arms and legs

Cover your limbs

and they’ll sexualize your wrists and ankles

Cover your joints

and they’ll sexualize your hands and feet

Cover your hands and feet

and they’ll sexualize your hair

Cover your hair

and they’ll sexualize your face

Cover your face

and they’ll sexualize your voice

Stop speaking

and they’ll sexualize your scent

Kill yourscent

and they’ll sexualize your dead body

-ME

[echthr0s]

[letterboxd log 2024 | 58/?] ⪀ We Need To Do Something, 2021; dir. Sean King O'Grady

[lunarlights-world]

Guys, if there are injustices in your life and world, you need to stand up and stop them. The injustices will only keep spreading until we DO something. I just found an account on a social media app that has three good friends of mine disrespected and it has made me so angry. Guys, don’t do things like that. Don’t spears false information that will hurt someone’s feelings. If you’re not careful there WILL be someone to confront you and karma WILL come to bite you in the butt. And if one of the people seeing this was the one who did this to my friends, you are in a HEAP OF TROUBLE. For everyone else, stand up for what you believe in or the world will stay dark, ugly, and cruel

[queenofpapayas]

Honestly the fact that the generation telling us to go outside is actively killing and harming us because they don’t want us there is fucking stupid

[webbywatcheshorror]

Webby Reviews Horror: We Need to Do Something (2021)

We Need to Do Something is a movie about a family trapped in their bathroom during a violent and possible unnatural storm. The premise really set my expectations high, but left me pretty disappointed, to be quite honest.

Don't let the little blurb at the bottom of the above poster fool you- if you're expecting anything like the Saw franchise, you're going to be let down. (That said, Jigsaw would definitely put the dad character in a trap and I'd pay to see it.)

Review under the cut, and as always, SPOILERS ahead!

It starts off with some promise. A storm is coming, gather your family into the safest room in the house until it's passed. I've done it plenty of times in my life and I daresay I'll do it again- so I have what you might call some experience. Which, clearly, this family lacks, as they bring absolutely NOTHING by way of supplies. Not snacks, not blankets and pillows, not spare chargers, NOTHING. Aside from Dad's thermos with what appears to be an alcoholic beverage of some sort and a few board/card games.

The bathroom itself is nice and big, which makes me wonder about the rest of the house, but we never actually get to see it. With the exception of a few flashback scenes, the entire movie takes place in the bathroom. (I'm officially calling it- Bathroom Horror is now its own sub-genre. I'm going to make a list.)

My one complaint about the bathroom is but a simple one- why in the name of CAD does the only door open OUTWARDS? Go ahead, look at all the bathroom doors in your house for me. Hell, ANY of the doors in your house. They all open inward, do they not? This simple issue is what causes the rest of the movie to unfold the way it does, so it's not like it was an oversight or anything. It's just baffling to me.

Now onto the characters. I couldn't really feel much attachment to any of them, but I did feel sorry for the kids. Dad's an alcoholic asshole, Mom's a passive aggressive adulterer, and they spend most of the movie bitching at each other at the slightest provocation. The kids are better, they're just fairly typical kids. Sister's a teenager who snarks at her kid Brother (age not stated that I recall, but he's younger than 11 I'd say? I genuinely cannot estimate people's ages.) who pokes fun right back at her. Fairly decently written siblings.

I spent most of the movie waiting for things to get weird, to get creepy, but almost the entire time is spent watching them slowly just unravel- which could have been fine and dandy except I was promised something MORE. And it would have been fine if we were given any indication of how much time has passed, because otherwise they start losing their shit about ten minutes into the storm.

The storm brings down a tree directly through the roof of whatever room the bathroom is attached to and blocks the door, which, again, opens outward for some reason. The 'windows' are far too small to be of any use, and Dad claims the walls are *checks notes* SIX FEET THICK. Now, I never actually used my drafting training to actually make anything, but I'm pretty damn sure nobody builds houses with walls that are six feet thick.

There are so many hilarious moments, but I get the sense that they weren't intended to be funny. But how else am I meant to respond to things like the World's Most Aggressive Rattlesnake and the demon not!dog? Or when, in some kind of fit of madness, Dad starts whipping Mom with the dead rattlesnake after having bitten its head off? ('Like Ozzy,' he says, because 'snakes are just bats that can't fly!')

Most of the dialogue is weirdly phrased or just unrealistic in general, as well as their decision-making. Not once do they search for anything to try to unscrew the door hinges. Towards the final scenes, Mom is able to bust through a part of the wall that leads... Elsewhere? But they didn't bother with doing that anytime beforehand, only after two of them are dead and demons kill the only other people they hear from.

But by far the most unrealistic part is when, in complete seriousness, Daughter confesses that she and her goth gf might have summoned the demon storm with a spell they found on the internet and then didn't even do right. And her parents BELIEVE HER lmao. Like, right away, even. No 'oh sweetie that's ridiculous' or anything.

Some parts felt too rushed through, and some felt too drawn out, and some I wished were handled differently. There was a lot that could have been done with this story, and it really did have some good beats, but overall it felt awkward and kind of boring. And the worst part is the ending- it finally got interesting! Mom comes back from checking what was going on outside (absolutely COVERED in blood by the by) and outright refuses to say what she saw, then there's Sounds coming from the hole she crawled through, they scream, and it ends. We never even got to see the Demon whose tongue they (for some reason???) decided to eat.

I really did want to like the movie, I did, but you can't promise me a supernatural storm and then make me sit through a whole lot of pointless, baffling family drama when there's demons and shit out there. I give this one four outta ten ghosts. It just didn't work for me, but it had me laughing whether or not it meant to. Both times I watched it, I could not help but laugh when the kids are excitedly letting the 'dog' that's just out of their view lick their hands and asking 'oh who's a good boy?' only to be horrified when it answers, gleefully, 'I'm a good boy!' as it licks them.

[baguette-jpg]

Whoops- my fingers slipped and it created a petition, what a coincidence haha- 😵‍💫

sweat in seeing that bald spot growing every day

[mightymorphinnegro]

Such a Simple question.

[cansomeonetoldmewhoiam]

Too many people died.

Too many had been murdered.

Too many killed themselves.

Too many have been forgotten.

Too many lie in grave without their true name.

His name was Zander.

Her name was Leelah.

Her name was Eylül.

Statistics say how many people died, but we need to remember that under the number, there are names.

There are stories that will never be told.

There are beautiful lives that could be lived, destroyed.

Remember their names, remember their stories, fight, and celebrate pride for the ones who aren't here.

We remember you.

We will fight for you.

Your death won't be meaningless, Leelah, Zander, Eylül, and the other who die too early.

We will fix the statistics, we will fix the number.

We'll fight for you.

[procastinatingofc]

Now that adrien is his chamber i present to you this doodle

[bookcoversonly]

Title: We Need to Do Something | Author: Max Booth III | Publisher: Perpetual Motion Machine (2020)

[toffoliravioli]

devs you’re up, you have to do something now