#ESPECIALLY in hollywood...

[bialvindraper]

in the nicest way.. are people aware that you can still criticise satire? are they aware that sometimes "ironic" bits fall flat due to varying factors???

[mwagneto]

i genuinely dont care if the creation of all media comes to a screeching halt btw i will very gladly live with no new movies no new tv shows no new anything for years if that's what it takes for the people who create them to be treated like human beings. i hope every other facet of the entertainment industry goes on strike too and i hope all the ones that havent unionised yet will. i want media creation to become completely impossible and i want the people who could make it possible again to hold out until they get every single thing they want. btw

[urghblergh]

Some fancy guys. ✨

[sailforvalinor]

My hot take of the evening is that a Knights of the Old Republic movie cannot be made properly in this day and age until something changes because not a single Hollywood director is going to go into that adaptation understanding that Bastila’s arrogance is a flaw, not an exclusive right of being a “girlboss”

[finalgirlminamurray]

the substance... sunset boulevard musical revival... death becomes her musical premiering... we've really been getting a lot of interest in horror/thriller media about women's fears of aging and the effect it has on their careers in the entertainment industry. which is interesting. anyway substance stage musical when

[sonknuxadow]

hey guys look what i found in my drafts. from a few days ago .

[drrav3nb]

KATHERINE HEPBURN as Jane Hudson ROSSANO BRAZZI as Renato de Rossi SUMMERTIME (dir. David Lean)

[cozylittleartblog]

if star wars was pitched for the first time in today's entertainment industry it would be turned down. and so would any other thing that's currently a "big IP". where do idiot executives think the IPs come from to begin with???

[1thesewordsaremyown1]

I love how they had the random chick ask Buck if someone punched him in the face so they could address the birthmark straight away and not have people question it. (I do remember when it first aired, in those few scenes you see of Buck before this scene I was thinking wait, is that a bruise, have I missed something? So, smart thinking writers!)

[klysanderelias]

Maybe the thing I hate the most about Critical Role's influence on ttrpg culture is the 'How Do You Want To Do This' shit - I hate it so much.

And like, y'know, there's a conversation to be had about the way it centers grotesque, over the top violence, and how it often produces wildly dissonant moments where a character suddenly goes wildly outside the bounds of who they are simply for a 'cool moment' or where it dramatically changes the tone of a fight and thus how I feel about it (and that's not even mentioning the way that players will do shit like that randomly - I will never not be upset about the way that Dim/ension 20 had the whole 'goblin up the asshole' thing)

And there's also something to be said for like, it's just a fun thing matt mercer wanted to do to let his players feel cool and give them the mic for a second to cut a promo, and it's definitely not the only thing that the show is about, but like...

It's like the GBBO Handshake, y'know? It's something that's Iconic, and gets this sort of following because it feels momentous or special, and suddenly all anyone cares about is getting it. Like, it is annoying to me how people will fall over themselves to get a handshake from paul hollywood but literally no one cared about impressing Mary Berry to the same extent. She didn't have a Thing and so her feedback was always rated lower than Paul's because the Handshake Mattered.

And I don't think it's Matt Mercer's fault the way I think it's Paul Hollywood's fault, exactly, but it is one of those things that I do have to assign blame to him as the originator of a thing that I hate.

Specifically because.

It creates this culture where the biggest moment you can get, the thing everyone wants, is to get the messy kill. It creates this culture where getting to describe an over the top Doom finisher is an ideal, and where it feels like it's the one moment where every GM is willing to share the spotlight a little.

And that sucks. For a lot of reasons, but primarily because it decenters like, any other agency the player can exert.

It sucks so bad when the only time you get creative agency as a player is to say how much you kill a thing. Throw out as many ideas as you want in the rest of the game, and get ignored or shot down, but this one guy? This rando bandit? This is your moment, brother.

And again, I don't think this is necessarily how Critical Role is run, but it's definitely how it's played, and how it models behavior for players, which is why it's so upsetting. I love listening to ACTUAL actual plays, where things are discussed openly at the table, because it gives people a model for how to handle things. Critical Role, all that stuff is discussed off-stream, all the backstory stuff is worked out ahead of time and all the major story beats are pre-planned, even if just in vague terms, and I think that's fine! IF you're doing a stage show, and not an actual play. Yes, players should discuss ahead of time whether they're interested in having their characters pursue a romance, and yes, if a GM is going to introduce a major plot arc based around a PC there should be discussion about it ahead of time, but obfuscating all of that just means that people listening don't understand how to DO it.

And what it means is that the big moment where players get to hold the reins for even a second, on-screen, is the kill.

And all the other stuff? Well, y'know, you don't need to ask the players for input. Just be a good DM, like Matt. Just tell a great story and they'll all sit in raptured silence and be so excited to follow the tracks to the next plot point, and the only time you need to check to see if they want to DO anything is when they roll a crit.

And it's just like, there are basically no 'how do you want to do this' moments in the HUNDREDS of episodes of Friends at the Table, and all of the memorable moments are players taking agency and pitching ideas. Like, there are big kills in Friends at the Table that fucking HIT, and none of them are because they're Doom Finishers. Hadrian in the Hieron holiday special fucking HITS because it's a meaningful, powerful character choice. Mother Glory in the other Hieron holiday special HITS because it's such a tragic, hateful thing to have happen. Hella killing [redacted] isn't cool or exciting, it sucks, and it plays directly into her 'I would rather destroy something than try to understand it' morality, so it fucking HITS.

And like, I could go for hours, and I couldn't tell you ANY of the 'how do you want to do this' moments from the 50-60 episodes of critical role that I watched, because they all suck. They're all just spectacle, just getting keys jingled in your face for a few seconds, and it's so frustrating that it feels like that's the only thing people have taken away from Matt Mercer's GMing (I have a lot of OTHER critiques about his GMing, so I'm not saying that learning from him in other ways is better, but I'm also a hater).

But y'know, they clip well for tiktok or whatever.

It's just one more goddamn thing I hold against 5e culture, but it's also so quintessentially AMERICAN - of COURSE we're going to want to spotlight a grotesque kill, have you watched ANY of our tv shows. Of course the only time that a player's input is needed is so they can narrate their finisher - that's EASY and it's FUN because we have no concept of the humanity of the people we kill. It's fun to climb up a monster's asshole because no one has to consider whether that COUNTS against a nonperson.

And it's just like, y'know, I feel like there's this glorification of violence as long as you can feel justified, and it's easy for us to feel justified, so you end up with people making zombie movies just so that they can sell fantasies of shooting your neighbor in his face for mowing the lawn too often, or you ignore any morality because someone hurting you in the past DEFINITELY justifies waterboarding them with isopropyl.

And like, I don't want to be too high-and-mighty because I do think there's a place for over-the-top violence, and for retributive violence, in storytelling, but I just don't think it should be as a highlight reel, and it shouldn't be a candy-coated reward for rolling good.

It matters, it's noticeable, how you as the GM frame the camera. It's obvious what you care about depending on what details you ask for. And y'know, it's obvious what you're not interested in when you don't ask.

And again, it should not be the only time you ask a player to describe something.

[pop-punklouis]

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[vintageerieteacup]

Peter Lorre as Mr. Moto.

1937-1939

[vaguehotels]

hot take of the day. if barbie is Woman and ken is Man then alan is a Secret Third Thing. this claim is supported by the entire movie existing and also because i said so

[userautumn]

I don't think actors should be forced / manipulated / cajoled / pushed into stories they don't want to do nor do I think they should have to give an explanation as to why they don't want to do it. I have a lot to say on this subject

[jack-ackles]

i swear to god i'll riot if i don't see nicola coughlan at every award and red carpet events like met gala, cannes, oscars, emmys, golden globes and every after party... MY GIRL DESERVES THAT!!

[redibinch]

Captain Laserhawk Actor au

Dolph orginally went into modeling as a kid and ended up being lead in his first acting job

Rayman was previously on a huge show several years ago, tries not to look annoyed when constantly gets brought up in interviews

Bullfrog is also a stunt coordinator

Rayman and Bullfrog are cgi (voiced by human versions of themselves respectively) and other Hybrids are prosthetic costumes.

Sarah actually really hated all the fake blood, and grimaced having to hold Dolph. He chased her down for a hug.

Dolph, Sarah and Jade frequently kick and throw the pre-production placeholder puppets

Stunt choreographer/coordinator Bullfrog was encouraging Dolph to straddle and man-handle Alex more during the rooftop scene but that was cut :/

Rayman and Dolph dated prior to being cast, after months of rumors and headlines of a nasty rivalry, they announced they're engagement a year after the show aired

Interviewers ask other cast members about Rayman and the cast give up and slowly devolve into PR nightmare trolling

Dolph and Bullfrog were seen going home together after the wrap party

Rayman and Bullfrog went to the premiere dressed up as their respective characters as a surprise.

Dolph: It's like they came to life, this is terrifying.