#I love this movie and how good the actors did in it

[snazzyboxbrain]

This is a big text post, and I apologize :)

Recently, I saw the Barbie movie, I had thoughts and feelings about it afterward that I had to share. So once I was with friends who had seen the movie, we talked about it. I talked about how I loved the messaging that I saw in the movie. My friend talked about how amazing the representation of Barbies mental health/disorders was. It was great! My friends boyfriend didn't say much until another friend showed up and mentioned how he thought Ken (Ryan Gosling specifically) was fantastic. They said they wanted to buy the Kenough sweaters, they kept telling each other that they were kenough, and then they played every song that Ken sung.

I could kinda tell my friend had more to say about the movie, and I certainly did. More than anything, I wanted to tell them to shut up about Ken. The movie wasn't about him. It was about Barbie and how women are treated by the world. Yet here are the men only talking about the men in the film and not letting the afab people talk about anything else.

Ken being told that he isn't defined by being Barbies boyfriend or how well he does beach, and that he is kenough was wonderful. But Barbie had the same character arc, going from thinking she's only stereotypical Barbie to choosing to become human because possibility is beautiful and it makes her feel is all that matters. Barbie learned it then told Ken because it was a hard journey and she wanted to help him, yet so many people are only paying attention to Kens realization.

Looking back, I focused on Ken too, before I had even seen the movie. This is stolen straight from Google:

"He admits he found his daughters' Ken doll “face down in the mud outside one day, next to a squished lemon” which was all the convincing Gosling need. “It was like, This guy's story does need to be told, you know?”"

I loved this it just really stuck with me for some reason, but I don't like it now. Ken's face down in the mud because his story doesn't need to be told. He doesn't represent what all the little girls playing with Barbie are looking for, which is to be able to do what they want and have that be kenough. The Kens were there to mirror how men treat everyone else in the real world. This movie was for the Barbies of the world, a "guy's story" doesn't belong in it. It's okay for the movie to be made for one group, especially when the majority of movies are made for the other.

It's very disheartening see when I've heard people call the movie, "women empowering", "the most feminist movie ever" and so much more. Ironic that a movie ment to show how women get overshadowed by men is having its plot overshadowed by the men that acted in it.

[sysig]

Ellen McLain’s commentary from my trivia playthrough

[akkivee]

living a good kuukou life ngl lmao

[analog-transid]

Went on a voice acting rant last night while watching Poppy Playtime with psys I'm going mildly insane

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

Anyone else feel like they’ve been walking around in a lucid dream since they were born?

[the-force-awakens]

Y'know, sometimes I forget that Miguel O'hara is an Oscar boy. I'll just be sitting there watching atsv and being like, "His voice sounds So similar," before common sense kicks in, and I remember he's voiced by Oscar Isaac.

Not quite the same but like - when itsv first came out on digital and I watched it for the first time, I think I knew there were after credits scenes so I watched them, and I remember sitting there listening to Miguel and Lyla banter and thinking to myself (laughingly) "hey wait a minute, this guy sounds kind of like Poe"

and then that kind of sank in after a couple more seconds of hearing him talk, at which point I went "........wait"

[slashermary]

i’ve been reading a few different reviews for nope and just like….ok so if you weren’t deeply compelled and horrified by the steven yeun plotline and the idea of commodifying and twisting our deepest yet most public traumas into consumable products as a way to both survive and get swallowed up by the violence of attention then we’re not the same!

[psilactis]

I just watched the first Furiosa trailer and.... I didn't like it

[falsenote]

in the context of other poliziotteschi flicks thinking back on la polizia ringrazia just makes my head spin like there you have the "good" policeman realizes the system is corrupt archetype and all the other routine components to it but this movie just takes that and gives depth to them and makes every character's motivations very ambigous and layered. it really feels like reading an essay, you have to really pay attention to understand what is being said which is something i used to not like that much but i've been enjoying lately so it was a hit for me like so much that i was very taken aback by all this. it's just hysterical to me that this very genre movie could have this complexity like pack it up francesco rosi.......

[earanie]

saw oppenheimer with the bestie this afternoon. honestly I was hoping to get out of the 3 hour movie emotionally destroyed, but ehh that didn't happen. good movie but not great imo and not up to the "masterpiece" hype

[thepanicinneedlepark1971]

I know it’s literally my URL but I just watched The Panic in Needle Park for the first time and it fucked me UP. I’m literally speechless right now. I have never seen a movie portray such realistic tenderness next to such misery in my entire life.

[emily-ella-nightshade89]

Must a cameo be part of a bigger picture? Is not enough to just enjoy a surprise for fun?

[pennyserenade]

i love cary grant movies bc it’s like he’d rather die than be serious. the war films he did are the farthest thing from a man’s war film i’ve ever seen. one of them is literally called ‘i was a male war bride’ and the other? ‘operation petticoat.’ he really said ‘if you’re looking for escapism, look no further.’  

[cinderellakinnie]

my thoufhts towards les mis 2012 are : if youre going to be having them sing on set, you should have hired more stage musical theatre actors

[chaoticartistan]

fnaf movie was really fucking good 9/10

[harrysfolklore]

tom blyth being obsessed with his girlfriend: a compilation

this was inspired by @astranva’s famous blurbs, love you and miss you novs <3

MASTERLIST | MY PATREON

It seemed like the entire world was crushing on the same man: Tom Blyth

Unfortunately for those who watched The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and came out of the theater in love with the man who played Coriolanus Snow, he was happily taken and loved to talk about his girlfriend any chance he got, which lead to fans making several compilations about the times he was a simp over his girl.

The most popular video was a 10 minute and 33 seconds compilation, which had around 445k views.

It started with Tom's interview with Good Morning America to talk about Billy the Kid, the interviewer asking about how he prepared for the role.

"It was during the pandemic, like any actor during that time I was just hoping that the world came back to normal so I could start making a cent," everyone in the set laughed at this, "I was living with my girlfriend YN in a barn house and we were like chopping wood every morning and visiting my friend's ranch. So when I got the part I kinda felt like I was ready for it."

"Your girlfriend, you say," one of the interviewers said making Tom smile right away, "Did she help you prepare for the role too?

"Of course she did, she's my biggest supporter ever."

The video moved to show some behind the scenes of Songbirds and Snakes footage, Tom dressed in his peacekeeper costume and dancing around while Rachel recorded him.

"See this moves?" he got closer to the camera, "I used them to charm my girlfriend."

"And I doubt they worked." Rachel laughed behind the camera.

"She loves me so I'm pretty sure they did."

The next thing shown was Tom sitting next to Hunter as they did an interview for Rolling Stone, the crew just asked about their thoughts on Olivia Rodrigo's single for the movie.

"I love Olivia Rodrigo," Hunter cheerfully said, throwing her arms up to the air, "The new album is so good."

"I'm a big fan as well," Tom joined in, "My girlfriend YN, she's obsessed with her, plays her songs all the time."

"Just so everyone knows, YN is like the coolest person ever," Hunter said, making Tom smile, "She brought us snacks on set so many times, such an angel."

"She's the best."

The following footage was Tom and Rachel's rapid-fire questions with Vogue.

"Can you guess where this is from?" Rachel asked holding up a card that showed a zoomed in picture of a suit.

"That's my Prada suit from the London premiere," Tom asked confidently, Rachel confirming that he was correct, "My girlfriend YN loved that suit, that's why It's one of my favorites."

"Oh I miss YN."

"So do I, so do I."

Next clip was Tom's interview Stephen Colbert, who just asked him if he was a fan of the books growing up.

"I was such a huge fan, I grew up watching the films. My mom and sister used to go to opening weekends to see the movies," the audience cheered at that, "Actually, for my third date with my girlfriend I took her to see the last movie, so getting to play a young president Snow is a real honor."

The video quickly moved to show the lat clip, one of Tom's interviews at the London premiere of the movie.

"Are you here on your own? No date?" The interviewer said once Tom finished answering the previous question.

"I'm here with my girlfriend, actually," his face beamed as he spoke, "She's probably somewhere taking selfies with Hunter, those two are like best friends."

"Is she close to your cast mates?" the interviewer asked again.

"Definitely, they try to steal her from me and I can't blame them, she's the best."