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Those eyes

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We've all moved on from this too quickly

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NICO PARKER as ASTRID HOFFERSON HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (2025) dir. Dean DeBlois

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Happy boy

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Raw. Till I’m screaming. Next question.

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The only celebrity I ever want to meet

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not sure if y'all heard anything about this, but nickelodeon just cancelled this stop-motion animation show called the tiny chef. the show literally just won an emmy, but nickelodeon seemingly canceled it for no reason, as far as i'm aware. even if you can't donate, the creators are hoping to create enough online buzz that Nickelodeon will reverse the decision, so if you like bullying a multi million dollar corporation consider checking the site out!

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Dae-ho fans thinking they were gonna get an exploration of ptsd flashbacks only for Dae-ho to have a complete personality transplant and admit he lied about being in the marines

Hyun-ju fans thinking they were gonna get a bunch more badass scenes with her only for her to get killed off in episode 2 by the worst character ever

Jun-ho fans thinking he was actually going to be allowed to shine and impact the plot in a tangible way this time only for the writers to pull yet another "you could take him out of the show and the plot wouldn't really change"

Hwang brothers fans thinking they were going to get the reunion they were all waiting for only for Jun-ho to shout a few words at In-ho from a considerable distance away and then nothing more

Inhun / 457 fans anticipating the big reveal of who In-ho really is to Gi-hun only for it to last two minutes, with Gi-hun never finding out In-ho's true identity as Jun-ho's brother, no exploration into why In-ho became the front man, etc

Gi-hun fans thinking he would survive because surely after all he's been through he'll be allowed to live only for... yeah

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Lee Jung Jae you deserve all the love and appreciation in the world

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Go see 28 Years Later if you have a good relationship with your mom, a bad relationship with your dad, think zombies are cool, or want to see a lot of dirty penis in 1s intervals (including a 10" beast on Samson)

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I've seen a lot of criticism towards the birth scene in 28 years and I find it odd because obviously that scene meant something and no one wanted to actually think about it further than "that was weird"

like for one it shows Isla's character perfectly, she is, for one, a mother and she knows what it's like to deal with pregnancy so her first thought was empathy towards the infected woman, the scene quite brilliantly shows her fearlessness and caring nature in one by having her reach out to her, and shows her quick thinking despite her illness often getting in the way with her almost instinctively knowing what to do to help the infected woman, to me it's on par with the scene of Isla waking up in the night to stop the infected from hurting Spike

on the other side of it you have the infected, the scene shows that, at the end of the day, the infected are actually still people, they're just sick, we see the infected woman in pain, she's alone and vulnerable and struggling, and we see her accept help, and when she gives birth baby Isla is healthy and free of infection, showing that inside the infected are just like everyone else

during the first half of the movie the infected are likened to animals, they are called "it" by Jamie, who also regales the town with highly embellished stories of Spike's kills, they are shot through bushes and with night vision as if they're the subjects of an animal planet documentary, but once Spike goes out on his own we see them in a new light, and this scene in particular is one of the times where the movie highlights the fact that they are still human

if you wanted to go a step further you could even relate the birth scene to the greater themes of the film as a whole, the pregnant infected is isolated from the rest of her group when she needs them most, much like how the UK is isolated from the rest of the world when they need it most, Erik, a character from the outside world, is the only one in the group who doesn't want to help

obviously if you applied real world logic to the scene and the baby it wouldn't make sense but that's not the point of it, you're meant to suspend your disbelief and look past the logistics of it to find the deeper meaning behind it, that's what storytelling is all about

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Spike goes to the mainland twice, but he only “becomes a man” once. With his father he sees killing and death as heavily bravado based, the enemy so dehumanized it’s an adrenaline inducing boy’s day. He misses most of his arrow shots and hides in an attic.

With his mother he learns there is love and memory in death, accepts that they all must die, and sees that sometimes you must kill to survive. They sleep in an open air church and his arrows strike hard and true.

With his father he leaves and returns as the child in need of protection and with his mother he returns protecting a baby and taking on the role of adult.

All of this to say is the movie shows us the stark difference between the toxic masculinity of his culture telling him that manhood is killing for fun, and the masculinity he learns from the doctor about honoring death and accepting that the only thing we have power over is love and memory.

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I think its really funny how people got mad at the story of 28 years later and are calling it disappointing, probably because it didn't have much to do with war and killing zombies and was overall a much more contained story about a kid and his dying mother, which is funny considering the first movie in the series was a fairly contained story about a group of survivors trying to find peace in the apocalypse, 28 days is known for its eerie, quiet shots of Jim walking around a completely empty London and the apocalypse "ends" from natural causes by the end of the film, it's only in 28 weeks where themes of war really come in and there's a reason why it's the least popular of the series, it's filled with explosions and huge action set pieces yet the most memorable part of the story is the family drama in the beginning of the movie

It's also funny to me because 28 years itself seems to be saying "why are we trivializing death and celebrating war? why are we teaching young boys to behave violently?" the heavily stylized, flashy zombie killing scenes go away once Spike steps out on his own, the movie emphasizes the teachings of Spike's dad and the town as being wrong so he chooses to go against them, it's only once he goes off on his own that he learns the reality of death, I think the themes of war and violence are gonna make a return in the next two movies as the underlying theme of this trilogy as a whole but for this movie it was important for Spike to learn this lesson about death in a way that wasn't flashy or loud

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Spoilers for 28 years later

Something I really was not expecting from 28 years later was the commentary on zombies and how we have come to perceive them (culturally speaking) as completely deshumanized bodies that we can kill gleefully.

28 years later is constantly reminding you that its zombies are infected people, not mythical creatures completly removed from us. That doesn't make them less dangerous, or killing them in self defense (or even mercy-killing them) wrong. But it does give a sinister spin on the "zombies killer" warrior figure that a lot of zombie media come to present as a given.

The movie does that through two main narative devices. Humanizing the infected and deconstructing the ideology behind the zombies killer figure.

It humanizes the infected notably by:

Introducing the Alphas. They are an extra threats sure, but they are also capable of reasons.

The entire plot with the pregnant infected woman.

The fact the everyone in Great-Britain is treated the same by the outisde world, infected or not.

Isla's disease. Isla is sick from a mystery illness that impairs her mental capacities. Isla is not infected, but she is often confused and sometimes even physically lashes out in way that are violent (when she wakes up and break everything on her nightstand, in the same scene she also turns against Jamie). I don't think it is a coincidence that Isla is the only character in the entire movie that kills an infected with her bare hands, and then has trouble remembering it. It is also not a coincidence that she is the first one showing compassion on screen to an infected.

The fact that Dr Kelson treats infected and non-infected in the exact same way in death and does not immediately turns to killing the infected to defend himself from them.

It deconstructs the figure of the zombie killer by:

Having Jamie being a troubling figure and an even more troubling father figure. He insists on taking his son on his first killing trip three years before it is common to do so (something the movie points out explicitly twice). He says he likes the smell of rotting carcasses. He lies to make his son appear more heroic (I am not saying that Spike was cowardly or anything, but still Jamie does embelish how this first hunt went).

The community that sanctions this kind of attitude is very much coded as conservative in an uncomfortable way. It is for example, routinely visually compared with English history (through the display of medieval battles and images of the boers war). However everytime it is compared to the medieval era (the mythical chivalric) the images shown are very clearly extracted from movies and artistic depictions rather than rigourous reconstruction. The only real images shown are from most recent colonial wars in which England commited war crimes.

It is nice to see a zombie film not taking the zombies as acceptable killable meatsack as a given.

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me after work

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Jimmy Crystal in 28 Years Later

The Jimmy Crystal character is very clearly based off the real life disgusting, piece of shit Jimmy Savile

Before making jokes/thirsting about this character, please educate yourself on the subject because this was a really fucked up thing to put into the ending of this movie

There are victims of his alive today who will be reading the things you are writing about this character BASED ON JIMMY SAVILE