#and they are movies that certainly exist

[rockingthegraveyard]

I hate their look in these movies.

Those are basically just the same white girl. You couldn't "stretch" your style just a little bit???? Can't bother to actually draw a proper nose or shape their eyes??? ppppbbpppbpbpbpppbbbpbpbpbp

[hanzajesthanza]

dressed elegantly. this will never leave my head. the implications of this.

because geralt and his company, they saddled up, left beauclair, travelled through mountains and frozen blizzards and downpours and muddy sod for two to three months. you need to pack outfits for that. you need to plan your gear.

what was the rest of the company wearing? what did they pack for this long journey? they packed practically, dressed warmly for the frozen journey of january, february, march. geralt wore a wolf-skin cloak, a scarf, a shawl… milva wore a fox-fur kalpak, angoulême wore a hat with a pompom and a sheepskin coat. cahir’s dress isn’t mentioned, but he must have been dressed similarly, because he rubs his hands briskly together and were he not dressed warmly he otherwise would have frozen to death. regis’ dress isn’t mentioned, but it is mentioned that he’s immune to the freezing temperature. so, i mean, it doesn’t matter what he���s wearing in this scene, maybe a regular outfit.

but at stygga. dressed elegantly.

so you’re telling me that. regis packed his things in preparation for their flight from beauclair, went to his quarters after geralt explained to him the satisfactory reasons they were leaving, and went,

“alright, time to prepare for this long and dangerous journey that will conclude in a great clash between our forces and the kidnappers of ciri. the end of our quest. the final journey. and a dangerous road awaits us, with snow still blocking the passes, frost and white all around. a grand fight and conflict awaits us. what gear should i prepare, what should i wear for this expedition, what kinds of clothing should i pack.”

and then he went:

“you know, i want to look fucking good ✨ when we get there 💅🏻🦇”

imagine the final preparation before they approach castle stygga. geralt sees the castle hewn out of the cliffside, effortlessly noticing every detail from far away, seeing like an eagle with his mutated eyes. and like an eagle, compelled to swoop down and snatch vilgefortz like a fish. ordering the company forward, declaring they’ve made it. this is the moment they have all been waiting for. everyone has been waiting such a long time for this. they prepared everything.

they wait until midnight. angoulême eagerly unsheathes and whets her long sabre, swings her axe around with predatory glee. cahir fits the plate armor and winged officer’s helmet he scavenged from a small nilfgaardian dispatch that they ran into extorting caravista for tax. milva tightens the same worn, polished leather bracer that she’s always had on her left arm, and mutters as she fixes her spiralled arrow fletchings over boiling water. geralt, with nothing left to do, paces and breathes, wondering where the hell regis has gone.

just then, regis walks out from behind an outcropping of rock, eyes glinting with cat-like light, in his “elegant” outfit, absolutely slaying that shit, and all his friends look at him absently like. “what the hell are you wearing. where the fuck did you get that. you packed that? you planned your outfit for the final battle, you planned this outfit in advance three months ago?” to which he counters, “well, three months isn’t very long at all,” and they’re like, “this is the preparation you made? we thought you left to do some secret vampire rituals or whatever. or to reckon with yourself for the severe violence we’re about to inflict.” and he’s like “no, i just wanted to make sure i was dressed nicely for the occasion”

[endiness]

the thing that gets me with the idea that the prince shouldn't save snow white and that she should save herself instead is that the prince saves snow white from, basically, being in a coma. like, that's the only thing he saves her from. so the argument is literally "how dare this coma patient not wake herself up and a man do it." which, granted, i don't think anyone making that argument realizes that's what they're actually complaining about. but i also think they don't realize that because i don't think anyone making that argument has actually seen or read anything about snow white in their entire lives and are just against the idea of a man saving a woman on principle alone because that's so unfeminist or something, i guess. and, y’know, nevermind the actual context of the situation. or how the thing that’s actually not feminist at all is reducing a woman’s entire character and story to somehow just being about a man because he happens to save her literally at the very end of her story, and from a situation that is literally impossible for her to save herself from in the first place because, y’know, the problem is that she’s in a coma.

[spenglerposting]

Yeah okay but why doesn’t Beyond Re-Animators have any references to 9/11?? That movie literally took place 2 years after 2001. What was Herbert's thoughts? If only the director had thought of this very important question and hadn't focused on other...unsavory aspects of the "plot"!

[coldgoldlazarus]

I've got a lot of mixed feelings on the Avatar: The Last Airbender reboot, but I think probably my biggest source of internal debate now is my parents; specifically pop and stepmom. Been wanting to show them ATLA for years now; stepmom has seen some of it but not all and not in proper order, and Pop I don't think has seen any of it outside of maybe a couple clips.

The big issue is kinda, running up against that cultural "Animation is for kids and thus not worth my time; and furthermore animation that is aimed at kids especially, clearly can't have anything of substance in it and is extra not worth my time." issue with them. Even if not said directly, that is very much the vibe I've picked up on whenever I've tried suggesting it, there's always been something else that takes precedence.

And now that a live-action Netflix version is on the way, they're suddenly all over it. "This is gonna be so cool it'll be like the thing you've been wanting us to watch but in live action!" (And ergo implicitly more mature and worth our time.) And setting aside any concerns over how faithful or not an adaptation it may be, (though the trailer released today has mostly alleviated those worries) if we assume it'll be essentially a shot-for-shot remake for the most part, I've still got kinda mixed feelings relating just to the reception.

Because part of me is like, fine, whatever, as long as it works, right? If this shift in style makes it more palatable to people like my parents and the actual story remains intact, it is still a Very Good Story that I want them to be able to experience, and so if this is what it takes for that to happen then so be it.

On the other hand, it is still unfortunate that this may be what it takes, and part of me is just kinda dreading the inevitable "Oh this is so cool, I really love how they've taken the original storyline and added in all this thematic depth!" and having to try to explain to a brick wall that that depth was always there in the original.

[cinnamon-phrog]

One thing I can take away from Saving Bikini Bottom is that Sqiudward ATE

[mariocki]

Alfred Burke puts on his best policing face as Parisian detective Inspector Maron, in Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!: The Billion Franc Mystery (1.6, ABPC, 1957)

[arcueidbrunestud]

It's kind of weird telling people about times my memories didn't align with reality bc I always say like "ok so I dreamed that x didn't exist/happened/whatever" but like. I'm only rationalizing that I must've dreamt that and thought it was real. I actually have no idea how these memories ever got in my brain at all lmao

[sonknuxadow]

im so tired of literally everything being a reboot or a remake or revival or sequel or whatever nowadays. i dont always hate that sort of thing i can name some adaptations and reboots and stuff that i like but so many of these things arent even GOOD adaptations and the companies making them either wont make anything else or wont bother to promote any of their original shows or movies and to top it all off so many original and unique things get cancelled while the endless pool of disney live action remakes and shitty adaptations continues to grow. i cannot do this anymore velma was the final straw it looks so bad

[yaraaflor]

this sudden 'anti-film bro' tiktok backlash is so puzzling to me because i do actually have extensive experience with annoying film bros, i live in nyc and went to a university that has one of the top-rated film schools in the world, i have met my fair share of douchebag scorsese wannabes who think their shitty screenplay is a work of genius and feel the need to mansplain the plot of taxi driver to me. and on a more personal level, i grew up in a house with 2 parents who went to film school before it was even considered a path to a career, and have a brother who recently graduated with a degree in film, so i have sat through more long-winded discussions about four-hour long intellectual soviet era sci fi movies than most people will in their entire life. and i can promise you that while these 'film bros' do EXIST, they are not actually all that interested in discussing the layers of filmmaking by kurosawa or bong joon-ho, they are much more into rewatching tarantino's filmography for the hundredth time, and the films they DO mock are definitely 100% not mcu blockbusters, but basically any film made by women or queer people, ranging from mean girls to nomadland

[indie-queer-movie-tournament]

Boys Don’t Cry

tw deadnaming in the synopsis below:

Female born, Teena Brandon adopts his male identity of Brandon Teena and attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska.

Letterboxd:

I guess the first things I need to do are note the usual crimes. The film deadnames Brandon Teena, misgenders him, and while it ultimately falls heavily on Brandon's side in a lot of ways, it still fails to equip uneducated viewers with a way to respectfully address and respond to the subject matter. If you think that isn't this film's purpose, my response is merely to point out that its purpose is very obviously to show the horror of the violence against trans people. If it can't do so without enacting microagressions against us in the process, it shouldn't have been made at all. This film casts a cis woman as a trans man, which has the same erasing, hurtful undertones that casting a cis man as a trans woman does, though obviously with different nuances. If this film shows anything, though, it is that the transphobic belief that trans men aren't men is what gets them killed in many circumstances. The film also goes out of its way to show Brandon's dressing in a way that emphasizes his anatomy and suggests that he is somehow artificial.

[lecliss]

Why tye fuck am I crying over ninja clash in the land of snow???? I fucking love this movie so much. It's sooooo fucking good. It's definitely my favorite and it was only the first ever Naruto movie. Can you believe they peaked at the first fucking one??? Why is it so good??? Fuck man aaaaaa

[francis-ford-kofola]

Happy Superman IV: The Quest for Peace Sunday to all the Superman IV: The Quest for Peace girlies, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace boys and all the other Superman IV: The Quest for Peace beings! ❤

[silent-partner-412]

the people in the center of the venn diagram that is my interests (popular/pop adjacent music and anime video games) are so few and far between lol i would have such a hard time gaining a following if i were to try and make content on like youtube or something

[h-i-raeth]

I think the only way to make an Inkheart adaptation that fucks would be to make it like an 80s fantasy movie

[baddingtonbitch]

it takes me forever to finish artsy mindfuck movies because i get so bored but it takes me even longer to finish teen comedies and romcoms because i end up writing bloated incoherent manifestos on what they say about the human condition and the nature of the universe