#10/31 movie

[cvasquez]

10/31 Part 3 (2022)

[marshmallowgoop]

no thoughts just Heiji Hattori (HD)

[fandom]

Movies

Week Ending October 31st, 2022

Wendell And Wild +6

Lord of the Rings +1

Top Gun: Maverick +3

Hellraiser

Scream +4

Candyman

Halloween Ends -6

Twilight +5

Black Widow +6

The Hobbit -2

Don't Worry Darling

Coraline

Justice League +1

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

The School for Good and Evil -11

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Hocus Pocus

Encanto -6

Girl, Interrupted -2

My Neighbor Totoro

The number in italics indicates how many spots a title moved up or down from the previous week. Bolded titles weren’t on the list last week.

[ladyvandaele]

22 was my favourite year. That was when Strange Magic came out and I was finally living in my own house in the country. My brother had his own place too he had a great gf who was so beautiful and hot she took me to see 50 Shades of Gray and we loved it she was so sweet and such a good friend. Then my brother broke up with her (wtf) and now he only dates bitches who hate me. I miss Erin 😭

[twistedtummies2]

Gathering of the Greatest Gumshoes - Number 10

Welcome to A Gathering of the Greatest Gumshoes! During this month-long event, I’ll be counting my Top 31 Favorite Fictional Detectives, from movies, television, literature, video games, and more!

Today, the countdown enters the Top 10!

SLEUTH-OF-THE-DAY’S QUOTE: “The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.”

Number 10 is…Dick Tracy.

Created for a series of newspaper adventure strips by Chester Gould, Dick Tracy has been considered the forerunner to a lot of popular superheroes. However, the actual character isn’t really a superhero so much as a classic detective character. In the comics, Tracy starts off as a member of the Navy, who falls in love with a beautiful woman named Tess Trueheart, and becomes close with her father, Emil. Things take a sour turn when the notorious gangster called Big Boy kidnaps Tess and has Emil murdered. Outraged at the loss, Dick vows revenge, and joins a plainclothes police force. He thus takes down the mobsters, and ultimately saves Tess. Thus begins Dick Tracy's long and dauntless crusade to stamp out crime with uncompromising fortitude: over time, Dick Tracy rises in the ranks. He eventually becomes the head of the homicide squad, before opening his own private detective agency (briefly), and then eventually returning to the force. The comics have sort of been made off-and-on over the years, both in papers and in comic book format, and are still around even to this day.

Tracy himself is essentially an avatar for law and order, as a concept. He is almost obsessively “straight”: he scoffs at bribes, and shows no mercy to most criminals when on the case. And considering he’s facing dangerous thieves, bootleggers, enemy spies, and more murderers than you can shake a skull at, I don’t think you can blame him for being a bit hard-edged. Tracy’s viewpoint of the world is very simple: “all criminals are rats, and should be treated as such.” While at times this is a fatal flaw in his character, normally you can’t really fault Tracy, because the villains he takes down ARE rats. When he’s not on the case, however, Dick is a much warmer sort of person: he’s a devoted (if often distracted) family man, has many good friends he trusts and cares for, and even shows what I can only describe as a jolly side to his character, as upbeat as he is firm and strong. Indeed, despite his own philosophy, Tracy has - on the rarest of occasions - helped some villains reform and redeem themselves, and some of them have become not only allies but close friends. It's probably best to say that Tracy CAN recognize when there's good in a person...but he also recognizes that most of the people he deals with are either too far gone, or there just isn't time to worry about that when lives are at stake.

On that note…if there’s one place where you can definitely see the influence on superhero fiction with Tracy, it’s his villains. The bad guys from Dick Tracy were among the first “supervillains,” as we recognize them today: grotesque and eccentric antagonists with various unique gimmicks, as well as bizarre costumes and/or physical features that make them as eye-catching as they are blood-curdling. The villains of Dick Tracy are a big part of what made and still makes the series popular: from the ever-pestering Flattop Family, to femme fatale Breathless Mahoney, to the soft-spoken but thoroughly psychopathic Mumbles, and so on and so forth. Honestly, a lot of these villains are best experienced through the comics themselves, since while a lot of other media portrayals do Dick Tracy himself decent justice, the iconic villains usually either lack the right amount of grotesque appearance, or the depths of personality and modes of operation that their original sources have.

On that note, most people recognize Tracy for his portrayal in the 1990 film, appropriately titled “Dick Tracy.” This version starred Warren Beatty as the detective, with supporting roles played by Al Pacino, Mandy Patinkin, and even Madonna, of all people! While I do enjoy that film, and Beatty’s somewhat darker take on Tracy, I think my favorite portrayer of the character is a much older actor: Ralph Byrd. He played Tracy first in a series of four old movie serials, which, despite changing a lot of the lore around the character, still captured the spirit of the comics and Tracy himself. Byrd would later reprise the role in more source-accurate interpretations, first in two of four films by RKO (including one where he faces off against Boris Karloff, in the role of “Gruesome”), and then later in a largely-lost 1950s television series, which adapted various storylines from the comics into TV format. While the actual quality of all these outings fluctuated, to say the least, Byrd, himself, was the definitive screen Tracy: he looked, sounded, and felt the part better than anyone else.

Other actors have played Tracy over the years, of course, from radio to films and even to TV. Some noteworthy names worth looking at include Bing Crosby, Morgan Conway, and Everett Sloane. However, the comics are really the only way to enjoy Tracy and his villains to their fullest potential. They’re somewhat hard to track down at times, but if you can find a few good storylines, they’re well worth checking out.

Tomorrow, the countdown continues with Number 9!

CLUE: “How do you think this all works? By being big and being bad.”

[memoriafilmica]

Oslo, 31. august.

(2011) Joachim Trier.

[sasa-chan]

Day 10

The Sadness (Ku bei)

Year Released: 2021

Run Time: 1hr 39m

Director: Rob Jabbaz

Rating: TV-MA

Genres: Horror

Incantation (Zhou)

Year Released: 2022

Run Time: 1hr 50m

Director: Kevin Ko

Rating: TV-MA

Genres: Horror, Mystery

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Halloweentown

Year Released: 1998

Run Time: 1hr 24m

Director: Duwayne Dunham

Rating: TV-G

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Family

[buscandoelparaiso]

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[chaneajoyyy]

Let’s see what Laurie gon be put through

[hells-wells]

Now this is all in good fun, was watching 10 things I hate about you and this popped into my head 😂🤷‍♀️ hope you get a chuckle

[cupcakereviews]

Review: The Ring (2002)

What can I say about this movie other than it was absolutely awful. I take back absolutely everything I said about the Japanese original after seeing this movie.

The American Ring follows a lot of the same story as the Japanese version. Four teenagers die from watching the tape and a reporter, our main character, decides to investigate. The difference is that the Japanese version does this so much better. The Japanese movie knows how to do suspense a lot better, a perfect example is at the very start of the movie with the two girls discussing the tape when the phone rings. Just the way the camera cuts and the way everything is framed and shot makes the American version not scary or even tense in any way at all.

I mentioned that the Japanese version wasn't really scary, moreso a suspenseful mystery. The only real spooky part was at the end when you actually see Sadako. This movie is similar in that way, the problem is that they ruin the suspense, and they ruin the one actual scary part when we see Sadako, now named Samara.

In the Japanese version all we ever saw of Sadako was her eye, that's it. That's all we ever needed to see for her to be scary. The American version decided they needed to make her look like a monster and that completely ruins what made her scary.

That's not to say all of it was bad, there was at least one spooky scene that I thought worked better than the Japanese move and that's the scene where the mom finds Katie, Tomoko in the original, in the closet. I thought it was weird that she was found in her room in the original since we see her die in the kitchen, but this version shows her die in her room so it makes sense she is found in her closet. Plus, I thought the way they made her look in this version was a lot creepier than in the Japanese version.

Overall, I thought almost everything about this movie was worse. The characters were unlikable, the tension was worse, and the design for Sadako was bad. Everything about this was just a complete mess and honestly just not good. I know a lot of people say the Japanese version is better and I can see why now.

[moviesandmania]

10/31 PART III Horror anthology - reviews and free on Tubi, Vudu and YouTube

10/31 Part III is a 2023 horror anthology film in which host Malvolia the Queen of Screams presents a batch of twisted creepy tales of mummies, madmen, fun-sized demons and more. The movie is obviously a sequel to both 10/31 (207) and 10/31 Part II (2019). Also known as 10/31 Part 3. Directed by Michael Ballif, Jed Brian, Zane Hershberger, Jonathan Patrick Hughes, Jacob Perrett, Brad Twigg, and…

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

Wish (2023) dir. Fawn Veerasunthorn, Chris Buck

hey do you think the overworked creatives about to go on strike are trying to tell us something

article sources under the cut

Mattson, Kelcie. "How Disney Almost Killed 'Nimona.'" Collider, January 2 2024.

Earl, William. "Shelving Batgirl Was the Right Decision, Says New DC Studios Head Peter Safran: 'It Would Have Hurt DC.'" Variety, January 31 2023

Couch, Aaron. "Warner Bros. Reverses Course on 'Coyote vs. Acme' After Filmmakers Rebel." The Hollywood Reporter, November 13 2023.

Ridgely, Charlie. "Scoob! Sequel Director Revealed Film Was 'Very Close' to Completion Before HBO Max Cancellation." comicbook.com, August 2 2022.

Clark, Travis. "Staffers at the animation studio Blue Sky say it's 'heartbreaking' that Disney canceled its final movie, 'Nimona.'" Business Insider, February 18, 2021.

Harrison, Mark. "Why was the Batgirl movie cancelled?" Yahoo! Entertainment, January 31 2024.

Amidi, Amid. "Warner Bros. Shelves Fully-Completed 'Coyote Vs. Acme' For Tax Write-Off." Cartoon Brew, November 9 2023.

Lee, Alex. "Why Netflix keeps cancelling your favourite shows after two seasons." Wired UK, September 28 2020.

Tyrrell, Gary. "We All Knew It Was Coming." fleen.com, February 10 2021.

"Warner Bros. Reverses Course on ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ After Filmmakers Rebel." see: 3.

Bergeson, Samantha. "Warner Bros. Will Let 'Coyote Vs. Acme' Filmmakers Shop Movie to Other Distributors." IndieWire, November 13 2023.

Strapagiel, Lauren. "Disney's First Feature Animated Movie With Queer Leads May Never Be Released." BuzzfeedNews, February 24 2021.

"We All Knew It Was Coming." see: 9

@/scottderrickson. "I think it’s absolute bullshit that a studio can and does shelve the creative work of hundreds of people for a fucking tax break." Twitter, 10 Nov. 2023, 4:52 p.m..

[hussyknee]

i'm so confused rn, can you explain the goncharov thing?? i get off tumblr for five minutes

(Edits closed as of 28 Nov.)

Lmaoooo

Nah I getchu. So this post has been circulating for like two years:

Link to post.

But yesterday, it had inspired someone to do this:

Link to post.

Next thing I knew there were fake Letterboxed reviews.

Goncharov moodboards. Really good ones.

Link to post.

Meta analysis. So many fake meta essays. Disturbingly good ones. And of course the memes. (Edit: HAVE I SAID THIS SHIT IS DISTURBING)

As you can see, the myth just started to grow, characters and ships and tropes being added one after the other, almost bizzarely without contradiction, until there was enough of shape to the whole thing for people to start posting fanfic about it on AO3. "No beta we die like ice-pick Joe" is already a tag.

Link to post.

It was hilarious in the beginning, but the way it's developed within less than a day, kind of like it's being willed into existence, is freaking me out a bit. We're toying with powers beyond our comprehension. 😂😂😂

Link to post.

Of course, there could be an ulterior motive as well.

Link to post (tags mine).

Edit: guys, please tag these posts "unreality" so people with disassociation issues can filter them out (not this one, this is an explainer). <3

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Edit 2: Aparently the boots in the original post are actually referring to a movie called Gomorrah that came out in 2008, directed by Mateo Garrone, based on the Scampia Feud. And other people had also been making posts about the fake movie for a while before the poster took off.

found by @thepotch

Edit 3: Explainer: why did those boots have this movie on them anyway?

Edit 4: Alt text added to all images courtesy of @valentineish ❤️

Edit 5: Turns out tumblr has done this kind of thing before. Nine years in this hell place and I had to have "Squiddles" and penis smp explained in the replies.

Edit 6: This post collects the Lore so far.

Edit 7: Lynda Carter (real one)/ earns more/ Tumblr cred.

Edit 8: Holy shit y'all we have the theme music. With sheet music. And it's on Spotify!

Edit 9: THERE IS A TRAILER WITH THE THEME MUSIC

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I made this post 18 hours after the movie poster went up. Closed edits 27 hours after first posting. So all of the above happened within 45 hours of the movie poster going up.

Edit 10: Google document live-compiling all the lore so far (Day 3)

Edit 11: Masterpost of Goncharov soundtracks (Day 3)

Edit 12: Entertainment news articles covering the Gonch-posting (real) (Contd from yday)

Edit 13: The music from the masterpost all compiled into a 31-minute original score with video edits on YouTube (edit: unfortunately taken down)

Edit 14: Staff's Goncharov art showcase for Tumblr Tuesday

As of closing on Day 3 there are 371 works in the AO3 tag.

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Updating with Day 3 shenanigans I missed yesterday:

Edit 15: Goncharov TV Tropes page

Edit 16: Ethics of Gonchposting

Important PSA 1 (how to reduce harm to Tumblr's neurodivergents)

Important PSA 2 (reality affirmation, anti-bullying)

Important PSA 3 (why you should stop trying to vandalise legit information sites)

Edit 17: Character lore from beezlebub whose poster they originated from

Edit 18: What we know about/ Director Matteo JWHJ0715 (#unreality)

Edit 19: Link to post with screenshotted and described NYT article (scroll down) and this golden exerpt from BuzzFeed: 💀

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End of Day 4 there are now 485 works in the Goncharov tag on AO3

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Didn't get to update this on Day 5, so these are the Day 5 doings:

More trailers!

Trailer 1 (My favourite)

Trailer 2

Trailer 3

Trailer 4

I also just found out about the Goncharov Game Jam.

It appears this opened a day after after the meme took off.

Goncharov was first entered into Wikipedia between Day 4 and 5 (attempts to vandalise it with fake info don't count, incidentally – please knock that shit off) under List of Internet Phenomena. This was then expanded into its own Wikipedia page at the end of Day 5 because, according to the talk history: "the topic now meets the notability threshold for its own artice due to significant coverage in The New York Times and other sources cited." We're on Wikipedia, people!

And then we made The Guardian half a day later. So while the meme is definitely dying down to embers by now, it still stays winning.

YouTube channels with episodes on the meme:

InformOverlord (4:30)

Lessons in Meme Culture (2:43)

End of Day of 5 there were 511 works on AO3, and End of Day 6 (today) there are 556.

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🚨BREAKING 🚨 from Martin Scorsese's daughter's TikTok (real actual)

tw: unreality:

We did it you guys!

Clarification: Francesca Scorcese asked her Dad about the meme and Martin played along. Please reblog this PSA to help Tumblr people with psychosis. Thanks.

Final edit: Day 8. Media reactions to Scorcese's TikTok (everyone from Forbes to Vulture). That one Tumblr user who said they'd do a screenplay if their post got notes has promised to shoot a single scene, but please don't be dicks just because you reblogged it; leave them alone until they get around to it themselves. As of end of Day 8 there are 609 works in the AO3 tag. I love all you lunatics. Peace! ❤️

[gbhbl]

Horror Movie Review: 10/31 Part 3 (2022)

10/31 Part 3 sticks to the formula set out by the previous two entries, being a collection of horror shorts all based around the spooky season.

10/31 Part 3 sticks to the formula set out by the previous two entries, being a collection of horror shorts all based around the spooky season. Once again, Malvolia (Jennifer Nangle) is our host and once again, the anthology has no wrap-around story, but does bring back the horror parody trailers that first appeared in Part 2. Often the best bits of the 10/31 series, here we get trailers for the…

[twistedtummies2]

The Devils I Know - Number 10

Welcome to “The Devils I Know!” For this spooky time of year, from now till Halloween, I’ll be counting down My Top 31 Depictions of the Devil, from movies, television, video games, and more! Today we’ve reached the Top 10, and this Devil is a uniquely animated evil. Number 10 is…The Mysterious Stranger, from The Adventures of Mark Twain.

“The Adventures of Mark Twain” is a rather bizarre movie from 1985. It was the product of Will Vinton, the master of “Claymation” stop-motion animation, and has become a cult classic for its surreal tone and aesthetic style. The movie essentially tells the story of Mark Twain’s life through the eyes of his characters, as Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and Becky Thatcher go on a series of unusual and colorful adventures all based on different stories from Twain’s life and works. Arguably the single strangest scene in the film (and that’s saying a lot), and undeniably the scariest and most infamous part of the film, is the encounter with this character, inspired by the unfinished Twain novel by the same name: The Mysterious Stranger.

About halfway through the movie, Twain brings the children to a strange, dark void to meet the titular character. The Mysterious Stranger is a bizarre, ghostly figure, and right from the word go, we get the distinct feeling he’s…off. He introduces himself first as an angel, but when the children ask the angel’s name, he replies with a growl: “Satan.” That’s probably enough to send most people fleeing, but the Stranger behaves so kindly after that point, the children are happy to follow him into his own little world. The Stranger lives on a small island in the void, where he makes clay figures and buildings and all sorts of other things out of the earth around him, then brings them to life. At first, it all seems sweet and fun and charming…but things change when the living dolls begin to fight with each other, behaving with greed and arrogance. Satan sees this as annoying, and promptly squashes two of the figures flat beneath his hand, then summons an earthquake and storm, smiting the rest of them in its wake, before rendering the entire little world to dust. With all life erased, he proclaims: “I can do no wrong, for I do not know what it is.” That’s scary enough, but things get worse when the children protest all this in fear, at which point Satan says, in a soothing tone: “Never mind them. People are of no value. We can make more sometime…if we need them.” It's the cold, callous, deeply unsettling way Satan does all this that makes the character so eerie and unnerving. He never expresses intense anger, in fact often sounding rather pleasant and even gentle…but the horror of his actions speak for themselves. This is reflected in the character’s design, as his mask-like face, which becomes increasingly more demonic the angrier he becomes, and turns into a skull near the end of the sequence. Now, apparently, Twain’s unfinished novel was actually about the SON of Satan, who went by the same name (Satan Jr., if you will), but even there, it’s implied he’s less a hellspawn and more just a continuation of the same, if that makes sense. He’s referred to as “Number 44,” indicating he’s the 44th Satan in line, and the fact he identifies himself as an angel, and behaves in the way he does, makes it possible he may just be the 44th incarnation of the same being. Of course, to anyone who doesn’t know about the incomplete book, all we see is the Devil in general. However you look at it, it’s the ambiguous and creepy nature of this character, who does such terrible things yet seems so gentle and even playful, that makes him such a deeply troubling character. The scene with the Mysterious Stranger is honestly more famous than the movie it’s from, and has been hailed as one of the most disturbing and yet expertly handled pieces of animation ever made. This is a very different kind of Devil…but that’s exactly what makes this particularly nightmarish, haunting scene so breathtaking and intriguing.

Tomorrow, the countdown continues with Number 9! HINT: He’s a particularly mysterious malefactor. (Pauses) Yeah, that hint is terrible, I know, just cut me some slack. :P