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it's about a tough subject (SA warning) but it's a beautifully shot story that is perfect for anyone who enjoyed the substance

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I found Sean Baker's favorite font on PhotoPea. This is a powerful and dangerous tool, and I promise to use it responsibly.

Anyway, I made this design and put it on redbubble if anyone is interested

Go see a movie and support Indie Lifers

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I just watched it in theaters instead of Novocaine or Black Bag or In The Lost Lands or Mickey 17 (again) because 2D animation is awesome and I want to support it however I can. I went in totally blind to the plot, and I didn't even care whether I was gonna like it or not, but it's so fun. It's not just a kid movie, there's plenty of references and puns and a few entendres for adults. Farmer Jim was hilarious.

If you want any chance of seeing more classic cartoon animation, please go see this fun and funny movie.

and if you want to support original stories not part of massive IPs that everyone says they're tired of, make it a double feature and go see Mickey 17 while you're at it. Warner Bros. released both of these, and they're both experimental and risky. If they succeed, we're likely to see WB invest in more content like it. If they fail, they'll go back to superheroes and wizards and whatever else they keep regurgitating.

it'd be really cool if everyone put their money where their mouths are and went and saw the new fully 2d animated looney tunes movie that's in theaters RIGHT NOW instead of continuing to scream about the snow white and lilo and stitch remakes

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can't wait to see the Great Train Shoe Robbery movie

A story to boost the morale of a broken country.

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Congrats to Sean Baker and Mikey Madison for 5 Oscar wins including Best Picture!

The Oscars are this weekend!

(Here's last year's version of this poll, if you're interested!)

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I don't need Anora to win, I just want Emilia Perez to lose

The Oscars are this weekend!

(Here's last year's version of this poll, if you're interested!)

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Hey I did a Walter Mitty and replied to this in my head but not irl.

Personally, my most "therapeutic" movie experiences come when I'm watching a movie in a theater, because it demands my full attention and the experience is so much more immersive. I can't just pause it and do something else or look at my phone during a scene that might make me uncomfortable.

Of course, all art is subjective, so you might not (and probably won't) get the exact same experience that I had, but I hope you still enjoy these.

I watched more movies in the theater in 2024 than I have my entire life, I'm pretty sure, so most of these are probably gonna be 2024 movies lol.

If you haven't seen The Wild Robot, I'm pretty sure it's streaming on Peacock now, and I can't recommend it enough. There's a scene that breaks me to my core every time I've watched it, and I think it always will. There's so much I could say about this movie, but the heart of it is a story about found family, and especially about motherhood. So, no matter what your relationship with your mother, I'd bet this makes you feel something. The song at the end makes me cry every time, too.

Following up with another Lupita Nyong'o movie from last year is A Quiet Place: Day One. I was not expecting to start bawling like a baby in the middle of this movie, but I think most people who lived through covid-19 and everything else that 2020 brought can really relate to what this movie has to say about finding the beauty in the simple things and enjoying life even when the world is falling apart around us. Omg I'm literally tearing up just writing about it. It is an action horror movie so it's kinda intense, but I'd highly recommend it even if you haven't seen the other Quiet Place movies. This one is just so powerful.

Another one that had me bawling my eyes out when I watched it was IF, the imaginary friend movie from John Krasinski. Now I was going through a few "grown-up" problems when I watched it, but aren't we all, like all the time? There's a pureness and beauty to IF, and the emotions that built throughout the movie broke through in the final scene, and I was blubbering in the front row. If you've ever wanted to grow up, or not wanted to grow up, or be a kid again, I think this will hit you where it hurts. In the best way.

These kinda go without saying, but the Inside Out movies will make you emotional, because their whole thing is emotion. The first one definitely still gets my tears flowing more than the second, but 2 got me thinking about more complicated emotions. Which makes sense, since that's kinda the whole plot of the movie lol. Walking out of Inside Out 2 literally felt like walking out of a therapy session.

This one is definitely more niche, but if you've ever struggled with your gender, or sexuality, or even just feeling like an outsider, like you don't belong, "I Saw The TV Glow" might just rip your heart out. It definitely seems to be one of those "you get it or you don't" movies, but if you feel like letting nostalgia tear up your entire perception of reality, I'd recommend it. I don't think I actually cried the first time I watched it, but I think that's because it took me to a place beyond tears. There's no easy way to explain I Saw The TV Glow, so I'd say give it a try if it piques your interest.

We Live In Time also made me feel a lot of things. It's a sad story, but the way it's told makes it very bittersweet, with more sweet than bitter. It's a beautiful love story and Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield are absolutely wonderful.

These last two are pretty uber-specific, but I feel like I need to mention them. The first is the Monk movie, Mr. Monk's Last Case. If you've watched Monk at all, you need to watch the movie. Me and my sister absolutely lost it at the end, it's just so beautiful we couldn't hold back our tears.

Last one is "No One Will Save You" on Hulu. I really wish I could see this in theaters, I need the biggest screen possible. If you watch this, watch it by yourself, with all the lights off, with headphones if you can. It's an alien invasion horror movie, but it focuses on one character, and she never speaks, because she has no one to talk to. The movie is so intimate, you're just holding your breath right along with the main character. No One Will Save You is one of my favorite movies for a lot of reasons, a lot of them I'm not even sure of myself. Sometimes I feel like no one else will get quite as much out of it as me, but if you want to follow a tragic character through an exciting but also extremely thoughtful ordeal, give it a try.

*For the last 2 options, you dont have to count anything that happened when you were a little kid

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Here's a great short article about I Saw The TV Glow

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The Monster Club (1981)

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I cry more watching movies than I do in real life. I could recommend some great movies to cry to if anyone is interested, they're like therapy sessions but cinematic

*For the last 2 options, you dont have to count anything that happened when you were a little kid

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The Best of Skye Riley

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reblogging again because I just realized a lot of the "twin movies" from last year are next to each other.

The First Omen/Immaculate

Smile 2/Trap

Lisa Frankenstein/Your Monster

Nosferatu/Abigail (i guess, they're both vampire movies)

Also I finally watched MadS and Oddity today, they're both great. Reviews to follow

2024 + HORROR

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Here's some Godzilla wallpapers from Toho's YouTube channel.

Here's the link if you want to download them yourself

please reblog if you download to spread the Godzilla love ❤️

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I literally just watched it for the first time last week. I love Ben Stiller's directing, and Jim Carey is so unhinged it's awesome.

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I watched it for my intro to film class. If you like Kurosawa and Van Gogh, you'll probably like this. It's a vibe for sure

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arguably one of the best years for horror ever

2024 + HORROR

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This might just be me, but it feels like the general vibe I've been getting regarding "Emilia Perez".

I don't know a single person that cares about that movie, much less watched it. Most of the discourse I've seen about it is about how it seems really crazy that it was nominated for that many Oscars, with many people saying that it's not even close to being a good enough movie to warrant those nominations.

I haven't watched it and don't plan to. I've seen one clip of a song from it and I didn't care for it. But I've got a theory about why it's been nominated and will most likely win, and I don't like my own theory.

Considering how strongly the trans community identifies with films like "I Saw The TV Glow," seeing little to no enthusiasm of a similar kind directed toward "Emilia Perez" gives me the vibe of a production that is more tokenistic and disingenuous.

My theory is that someone (Netflix, the producers of the film, whoever) is going through a lot of trouble to make a bad trans story steal the spotlight from other genuinely good movies. A lot of amazing movies with amazing filmmakers came out last year, but the general consensus among the film lovers' community seems to be that this isn't one of them. It seems to me that someone is going to great lengths to construct a "diversity win" for the "woke agenda" when the woke agenda doesn't really seem to give a shit.

When people are already calling out how this awards race feels rigged the day the noms are announced, you know something's up.

And the non-binary actor saying that this film was produced by the villain of their own trans story tells me everything I need to know.

Jack Haven (@ briiiiiiiiiig on Instagram is so real for this after the Oscar noms)