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A Knight’s Tale (2001)

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mine is so accurate im screaminggg

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Take me to the desert

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THE MUMMY (1999) + letterboxd reviews part two ↳ part one | insp.

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"The Terminator" (1984)

Now that it's 2024, this film is 40 years old (!!!). I thought I'd finally sit down and give it a proper viewing (instead of the bits and pieces I've caught of it over the years) and it holds up very well.

Assorted thoughts:

-It's way more of a Horror movie than I'd expected. I knew Sarah Connor as a kid in her T2 Badass form (and from "Sarah Connor Chronicles"). It's neat to see her begin her journey as a Final Girl

-The deliberate pacing was also unexpected - but rewarding. Cameron does a great job building tension and weaving the deepening understanding of what's going on into that. Starting off a police detective plot only to have the detectives die like punks within minutes of coming up against the Terminator? Great subversion of genre tropes that were popular at the time and very effective in raising the stakes.

-THE ROMANCE. oh. delightful. it unfolds in such a way that you see an entirely new side of Reese - first, learning his first name is Kyle and then his deeper truth, who he is as a person that feels rather than a soldier who exists to kill machines.

-huge kudos to the actor playing kyle as he exposes his vulnerability - "i love you. i always have." and you can see the shifts between the hardened soldier he's had to be and what he's kept of his softness and how much she means to that side of him. the chemistry works v well.

-him being a virgin sort of -- consecrated by fate to love her? carrying her photograph with him. (the photograph where he noticed and felt connected to her 'sadness' - not realizing that, in the moment it will be taken, she is sad over his loss). choosing to go back. makes her side of the 'fated to have a kid together' thing less uneven?? kyle is fate's bitch even more than she is. i thought i'd be bothered by how she's destined to be the mom of an important man. but the way kyle is handled makes it work for me. he carries the tragedy deep in his heart and dies gladly for her and their child, not even knowing the truth about john. gorgeous!

i can see why people point to the sex scene here as an example of one that is beautifully in character and specific and INCREDIBLY PLOT RELEVANT lol like, it's absurd that people say sex shouldn't be in movies because it's "not relevant to the plot" but this is the single most plot relevant sex scene ever loll

i really liked:

-repeated shots of their hands gripping tightly -the way kyle is just drinking her in, in awe of her and this moment -linda hamilton's earthy/sincere performance of female desire and sarah working toward orgasm -the final time their hands grip each other tightly - and then the slow release of their fingers and the way the editor chose to have their hands letting go be a fade to black…. poignant, given what's going to happen 😭

"in the few hours that we had together, we loved a lifetime's worth" - love that quote and everything coming together in the end, as you see how the photograph was taken. lovely tragic romance!

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*Ground-to-cloud lightning discharges arcing upward from the Agua volcano in Guatemala 

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We’re Harkonnens. So this is how we’ll survive. By being Harkonnens.

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buffy is so funny because she's the most repressed, uptight, tightly wound girl in the whole world. but she genuinely believes she's a completely chill individual. i love her

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They would’ve loved him. Even in the end, he never stopped being Eddie, despite everything.

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Leverage OT3 + Text Post

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Methos gifset * Comes A Horseman

No, it’s not enough! I killed. But I didn’t just kill fifty, I didn’t kill a hundred. I killed a thousand. I killed ten thousand. And I was good at it.

For lannamichaels - and anyone else who, like me, loves this scene to death.

(I learned a huge amount about gifmaking putting these together. Lesson one: I have an enormous amount to learn. But while there’s a few things I’d like to fix if I remake them one day, I’m quite proud of my efforts.)

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The Scooby-Doo Project (1999)

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer + foreshadowing

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the martian in a nutshell

NASA: we regret to inform you that astronaut mark watney has died on mars

watney: QUIT TELLING EVERYONE I'M DEAD

NASA: sometimes we can still hear his voice