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the bad guys 2 slapped. ultimately asks the question “would you rather be feared or be loved?” would you rather surround yourself with people who are like family and will pull you from the brink of your millionth moral crisis? or people who bow under your iron rule, deferring to you as boss, and who are nowhere in sight at the eleventh hour?

genuinely very good action. there’s some tom cruise shit in here. 100% recommend.

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sometimes i see some cool art of Blorbo but before i reblog it i peek in the notes and discover. it is not, in fact, art of Blorbo. it is art of Squub. i have no idea who Squub is.

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learning how to draw underwater scenes, unfortunately kyle was the first victim

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#MISSIONIMPOSSIBLE: THE FINAL COUNTDOWN

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all i do is be a single grown adult trying to support animation in the midst of families having movie night

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realized today that the first time we see any part of the werewolf transformation is when scott flashes his eyes to calm down the dog allison brings to the clinic in the pilot. first time scott even partially transforms is to help someone. pls. scallison animal clinic scene you will always be famous to me <3

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star wars fans really just make anything up

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silly thought for a bumper sticker i had

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theyre like wacky roommates to me

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Time to go.

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happy pride from kevin smith

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if you hate jazz you will die and go to hell

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if you hate jazz you will die and go to hell

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if you hate jazz you will die and go to hell

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if you hate jazz you will die and go to hell

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Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard (1950) is probably the most movie-besotted movie of all time. Start with the premise. Gloria Swanson, a silent-film star whose career was derailed by the talkies, is Norma Desmond, a silent-film star whose career was ended by the talkies. Her butler-chauffeur, Max, turns out to be a once-acclaimed silent-film director and Norma’s ex-husband. He’s creepily–and brilliantly–played by Erich von Stroheim, a once-acclaimed silent-film director who’d been reduced to playing character parts, mostly Nazis in World War II-pictures.

The most meta scene comes shortly after screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) takes up residence in Norma’s decrepit mansion, where he serves as a combination amanuensis/boy toy. He tells us that Norma throws regular movie nights, just for the two of them; Max is projectionist. The repertoire, of course, is her own films. We see a bit from one of them, a scene where the young Norma’s face is illuminated by candles.

The clip is from Queen Kelly, a 1929 film that, more than any other single factor, derailed the careers of Swanson (the star) and von Stroheim, the director. At least he was the director until producer Joseph Kennedy (Swanson’s lover and JFK’s father) fired him because the scenes he’d produced were too explicit and dark. Because von Stroheim retained the rights for what he’d shot, the film had never seen in the United States–until Sunset Boulevard. [x]