#zach pines

[bluefrostyy]

Slices of life chapter 60!

Zach and Zoe turn 13 and Kari and her brother have a well needed talk

cowritten by awesome @quantumseahorse

[krillford]

A particularly embarrassing snippet in my red journal about an old crush back in highschool

why does it fit 😶😶

[psychicpinenut]

listening to the crossroads of destiny episode of the braving the elements podcast and dante is really out there fighting for zutara with his whole chest, thank you for your service captain 🫡

[t4toro]

Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto at WonderCon 2009

[eviltwinks]

cinematic parallels

[softfuzzyships]

Me n prince lulu go on a trip together when we're younger and have to not hold hands or hug or be friends cause his mom n dad are always looking over our shoulders. Also nunnally and rolo are there. Bonus points for sharing a bed and being forced not to snuggle

[simptasia]

rationally i don’t want another aos star trek movie. like the time for it has passed and also if it stays the way it is, then that version of chekov is okay forever

at this point the only reason i’d want a new aos movie is because zachary quinto is in his daddy era now

[adamwatchesmovies]

A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

A Wrinkle in Time proves the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Ava Duvernay is a talented director. Looking at this film, it's clear she had enthusiasm for this project and put more than a little bit of herself in it. This is the first movie with a budget of $100+ million to be directed by a Black woman (shocking that it took us so long) and it contains a wholesome message of female empowerment, self-acceptance and love. If only it could also be good.

Four years ago, revolutionary physicist Dr. Alex Murry (Chris Pine) vanished, leaving behind his wife Kate (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), son Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe) and daughter Meg (Storm Reid). When three extra-dimensional beings come to Meg and explain that her father is held captive by a spreading force of darkness called “The It” (voiced by David Oyelowo), she, her brother and friend Calvin (Levi Miller) travel to a faraway realm to save him.

Though I've never read the original work by Madeleines L’Engle, I have taken some time to research the story, I've seen this film twice and have reviewed the 2003 TV adaptation of the novel (also by Disney). I can make an educated guess as to why this film doesn’t work and why it isn’t a good adaptation of the novel. So much of this story depends on inner monologue and on us understanding the characters. Meg is a teenager profoundly disturbed by the disappearance of her father. She feels ugly, stupid and alone. She lashes out at the world as a way to mask her pain. Why does her angst make her worth all the attention of the three space Mrs.? It doesn’t.

What’s been eliminated is her little brother’s genius-level intellect and his developping telekinetic abilities. In the novel, the Mrs. want him. Unfortunately, he’s too young to fight. They compromise by bringing a trio of children with them on their adventure, believing that Meg can help Charles Wallace. They understand the It - a composite of two characters from the novel. The force of darkness represents/is responsible for all of the world's greed, selfishness, anger, etc. At the plot's core is the relationship between Meg and her brother. How can she love him and help the boy overcome the evil of the IT if she doesn’t even love herself? All of this is not in this film. Instead, Charles Wallace is an annoying smart-ass whom you have no attachment to whatsoever. Although you understand why Meg is upset, you don’t latch onto her like you should. Right away, you don’t care. The cringe-inducing dialogue given to the performers - most of which are not very good - does not help.

This movie desperately wants to fill you with sensations of wonder but it neglects the story’s foundation. Unless you go in knowing what A Wrinkle in Time is all really about, you won’t understand any of it. Mindy Kaling plays Mrs. Who, one of the astral women who speaks entirely by quoting other people… unless she doesn’t. Apparently, she’s evolved past the point of being able to form her own thoughts? That makes no sense. As does the behaviour of Meg’s father pre-disappearance. Despite his wife’s protests, he tried to convince his peers that he could use his mind to teleport halfway across the galaxy. They laughed. You do too, even when you know he's right. The Mrs. can’t fight the IT by themselves so they recruit a trio of kids to help them? It's a real head-scratcher, particularly considering Calvin contributes nothing to the plot.

At least you can see all the money on-screen. The costumes, makeup and the strange worlds Meg and her friends travel to look great. Sometimes it feels a little bit weird for weirdness’ sake (I don’t know why they insisted on having Oprah Winfrey’s Mrs. Which appear as a 30-foot woman, for example) and other scenes of action and peril make it obvious screenplay writers Jennifer Lee and Jeff Stockwell were too in love with the source material to cut out scenes that ultimately mean nothing. Reese Witherspoon’s Mrs. Whatsit transforms into a flying leaf creature and gives the children a ride but you’d trade that scene for some genuine emotions or some much-needed exposition in a heartbeat.

The writing is plainly awful. Dialogue is stilted and the exposition we get goes down as smoothly as a spoonful of rusty nails. And then, it’s over. It doesn’t happen often that a 109-minute movie feels too short but the conclusion is so abrupt and so easy it undermines everything that came earlier.

The more you scrutinize A Wrinkle in Time, the worse it looks. This is a bad fantasy dish someone tried to save by drowning it in special effects sauce. Its heart is in the right place but when audiences are paying for this movie with their time and money, all that ambition doesn’t mean anything. (January 3, 2020)

[offbookkeeping]

12. Electric Daisy Jamboree with Matt Besser

Plot summary:

A man is looking for his daughter in an EDM festival called Electric Daisy Jamboree. He finds himself near the stage of an artist called Slenskedd (spelled slensk🍆d). He asks where his daughter is but Slenskedd just plays a song about looking for his daughter. He leaves and finds The Bucket Area, where you go to put a bucket on your head. He then goes to the porta potties where a bunch of role players have taken over and have started a war over who's duke. The man stuffs all three nerds into a porta potty. His daughter Eliza shows up and says that he doesn't understand her or EDJ. Her friend Samantha interrupts them and asks if they're coming to The Pine Tree experience and Eliza's father asks why Eliza's still friends with her because he's currently doing molly and ecstasy. They go to The Pine Tree Experience, where you live action roleplay as a pine tree and do the totally normal pine tree activity of hiding treasure in the woods. They leave The Pine Tree Experience and are followed by the very wizard-like man running the booth and Eliza and her father have a conversation about how Eliza doesn't want to be like him and how sad that is and they're very rudely interrupted by a nerd who wants to talk about Ents and Tombombadil and just Lord of the Rings in general but especially Ents (the talking trees). The nerd becomes massive because of Nerd Rage and the group runs into the pine tree experience to get away from Nerd Rage. They end up at The Icefall Experience, which is like Narnia but for fathers and daughters who have communication issues, as is explained by a centaur. Eliza and her father have a heart to heart conversation occasionally interrupted by the centaur frolicking. They go back to the concert and narrowly avoid being murdered by the nerd thanks to Slenskedd using his music to shrink the nerd to normal size. He returns to normal size but doesn't stop shrinking and shrivels up and dies. Slenskedd goes mad with power and becomes a giant but is stopped by Eliza and her father and their epic guitar playing. Samantha's dad shows up and they go to the Icefall Experience to frolic for a while.

Best quotes:

• "If you can understand what he said, write us and tell us what he said! I'll give you a hint, it's racist!"

• "I AM MUSIC I AM THE FUTURE OF MUSIC I WILL SHRINK HUMANITY TO BE VERY SMALL"

Best songs:

n/a

Thoughts Overall:

Matt Besser sounds like a Bobs Burgers character and I don't know how to properly explain that. This episode is both a wholesome tale of fatherhood and parenting, and also hallucinogenic drugs and pine tree experiences. And buckets. Also Matt Besser briefly talks about listening to Kimya Dawson with his daughter which is very cute. I never thought I'd hear Zach and Jess trying to sing a cappella EDM. It's truly a fever dream and I love how sweet it is while also being ridiculously weird. This is one of the many episodes where Zach kind of just frolics for the entire thing. I really enjoyed most of it but god hearing people try to make all the noises in EDM with just their voices is... really uncomfortable.

[krillford]

Objectively yes

True love, or something (It's not true love at all!)

[krillford]

Portal Era nuisance

Alternatively:

[thalialunacy]

(back to rec index)

baby, we'll be fine by traveller

Cosmic Love by canistakahari

Don't know how to do this by weepingnaiad

For a Postman's Fee by thalialunacy

Found Your Writing On My Wall by thalialunacy

Frat Boy series by thalialunacy

Homesick by withthepilot

I Laid My Weapons Down (With My Pistol Fully Loaded) by thalialunacy

In Focus by blcwriter

a love that won't sit still by tourdefierce

Open Windows, Open Doors, Welcome Home by blcwriter

Parallel Motion (Or: Fate, Crunchy Cheetos, and a Bunch of Other Things Chris Pine Didn't Believe In) by thalialunacy

The Shapes a Bright Container can Contain by blcwriter

So Much Love, And Also So Much Information by therumjournals

There is No Wrong Way by thalialunacy

They Weren't Sun-Kissed by blcwriter

Things Unsaid by blcwriter

Those Who Wait by blcwriter

Where the Heart Is by seriaan

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[t4toro]

told friend about chris pine going back and forth from italy to glasgow then back to italy

and they make a PINTO JOKE PLEASE HELP 💀

[sleepsentry-reblogblog]

God.

@nerdyhjarta That ask is perfect ;u;

[kraniumet]

it’s a shame the reboot movies were created at the apex of the hellvortex 2012 jjbrams feminist backlash because if they weren’t i might actually have been able to enjoy them. as a tfatf the a-team movie hawaii 5o etc liker

[sasa-chan]

Day 30:

A Wrinkle in Time (2018)