#LISTEN bad movies are fun

[chloesimaginationthings]

Abby could befriend any animatronic from FNAF..

[butcherb1rd]

when you watch a really bad movie with your family and as the credits roll you have to quietly admit that you liked it

[jicklet]

Elemental (2023)

[nillial]

sometimes i have a niche question about taz so i look it up but unfortunately find no answer . not because there is no answer but because the only answer is on taz reddit which i actually created a magical wizard spell to protect me from so if my cursor goes within 5 inches of clicking onto a thread a flashbang goes off and shields my eyes lest i see the terrible takes that lurk there

[meraki-yao]

@rwrbmovie & @rwrbsource's rwrb week: Day 2 | Song

You Matter to Me By Sara Bareilles From Waitress the Musical

[in-fair-verona-we-set-our-scene]

Movie adaptation: well it's just so hard to fit the entire story into a short 2 hours and the limitations of live action actors and CGI we really had no choice but to fuck it up–

The musical adaptation, pantomiming half the set: skill issue

[windandwater]

I watched the movie Ponyo and I have some stuff to say about it

1: I loved it, of course I did, the 3rd or 4th frame of the movie is this, I was doomed immediately:

2:

3: I have finally seen myself represented in fiction

and it's this evil (ish) underwater sorcerer who wants to end the revolting age of man and bring about the age of the ocean

(but like, not yet. soon though.)

same, dude. I'd vote for you.

look at him. just look at him. he's everything I want to be.

literally how dare you. everything out of his mouth is the most epic shit I've ever heard.

this is my future and I dare any of you to tell me otherwise

[carcarrot]

this time last year i was probably sitting in the kitchen while my dad started making an early dinner of chicken bolognese trying not to get too nervous about the concert i'd be going to in a few hours

[pop-punklouis]

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[sleepless-in-starbucks]

ok y'all. the fnaf movie? was actually pretty fucking sick

[cozymochi]

never watch the original z sagas (especially namek) then turn on and watch every movie from the super era, worst mistake of my life

[thetorturedlovergirl]

who would have thought that an assignment a teacher left us for tomorrow that sounded horrendous would end up being something so amazing like damn I will probably get so many mistakes in this essay but the documentary I had to see was really interesting !!!

[wishingprince]

I got another hobby.

[loverboybrightsideghost]

i love being able to laugh at horror movies

[gatorinator]

SO I just watched the miraculous movie and I would like to say two things:

1) I really enjoyed the movie

2) it’s a very bad movie

Spoilers

The movie, as a miraculous fan, was fun to watch. But it’s not because it was a good movie. In fact, I think fundamentally this movie failed both as a movie, and as a movie musical.

Bad movie

The animation was absolutely gorgeous. But the writing was bad, and even looking past that (I haaaate how the beginning of the movie was like the beginning of every single kids/tween movie ever) the pacing of the movie was abhorrent. Lots of the jokes didn’t land, the moments they tried to set up cut away scenes didn’t have enough set up or flow (the back and forth of adrien telling plagg how much ladybug prolly liked him vs Marinett saying how dumb chat was, the back and forth of Alaya and Nino talking to marinett and Adrian) and felt weird and disjointed, and any time it felt like a scene was finally starting to flow, the movie would cut away to something else.

I’m just trying to imagine being a new viewer of the movie who hasn’t seen the show, and it feels like a nightmare. Gabriel is set up but somehow both too much and not enough. The final battle doesn’t last long enough. There’s a lot to complain about (don’t get me started on the fart jokes I can’t. I was in HELL).

Bad musical

The most egregious of crimes was the fact that this was a movie musical. I am sad that my friend told me it was a musical right before we started watching it because that would have been hilarious, but still. When marinett started singing I got jumpscared because I completely forgot.

Sarah Z has talked about how in musicals, when characters emotions are too overwhelming to say, they sing. When their emotions are too overwhelming to sing, they dance. Fundamentally, if you are going to have characters burst into song, that song should be led my emotions. Most of these songs felt led by a “ah this is a musical we need to have them sing a song.” That’s why the music always surprised me. The emotional buildup wasn’t there.

Yes, marinetts voice (am I spelling her name right? Oh well) sounded wildly different, but I’d be able to forgive that if the songs felt driven and not just inserted.

The other problem is: most of the songs are bad musical songs.

The greatest showman has the same problem. The songs are so bland and generic, all these “I want” songs where the character never clearly defines what they want, or sad songs about loss that don’t have any substance to them. The movie tells marinett over and over again to chase her dreams—but what are her dreams?? The opening number shows her sketchbook come to life—but she doesn’t sing about wanting to be a designer, or help others, or be able to fit in with her classmates and not endanger her life every time she leaves the house bc of how clumsy she is.

The songs sound like generic songs that would play nicely over the radio, and that means they fundamentally fail as a musical song because musical songs should drive the plot forward or deepen our understanding of the character, and most of these songs do neither.

Don’t get me wrong

I had so much fun watching this movie. I squealed at adrien and marinetts (I am so spelling her name wrong this is embarrassing but I cannot be bothered to change it I’m so tired) interactions, i wheezed over whatever the heck Gabriel was doing, I awwed over the lovesquare moments. I also LOST MY MIND at some absolutely wild moments (looking at you, careless whisper. Also at long-haired Gabriel). But the movie was so . . . vague about having any sort of message aside from “be yourself, be true, don’t be afraid, follow your heart, be a hero, saving lives is good, also love is awesome.” All true things, but how does this apply specifically to marinett? Love is powerful, but it isn’t going to save me from getting crushed by a runaway Ferris wheel, ladybug. Also, why are you singing this has nothing to do with the moment.

TLDR

It was beautiful, fun, cheesy, and bad. 10/10.

[flewtothewinds]

finished under paris. holy hell that was bad