#but it is the coolest movie ever

[inchwormy]

someone should have stopped me from making characters who are filmmakers because now i spend at least an hour or two a day devising the plots, production histories, and critical and commercial reception of increasingly bizarre films in a bizarre cinema landscape whose complexity has grown far out of my control. help

[chloesimaginationthings]

Vanny is finally winning against her FNAF demons

[heartsofhounds]

Lil change of pace today- Here’s some Spiderpunk studies I did a couple months back! So so so fun to paint

[lonelyzarquon]

Demons (1985) dir. Lamberto Bava

[deadpoets]

LARISA OLEYNIK as BIANCA STRATFORD 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) dir. Gil Junger

[grxceful-ly]

peter bringing mayday with him to do spider stuff because yeah, he had things to live for before--but now he has a child and he is going to raise this child and be there for her and maybe if she’s there, strapped to his chest, he’ll be more careful. he’ll consider his life almost as precious as hers. maybe bringing mayday to work is a precaution. 

[maxwell-grant]

(SPIDERVERSE SPOILERS)

Something I always really liked about the first movie was the way Kingpin’s design, besides being a Sienkewicz homage and all, complimented the handling of Fisk as a character and the threat he poses, and it’s more than just him being big and terrifying especially by contrast with Miles. Spiderverse Kingpin is a hate volcano tearing open the city and universe in the hopes that doing so is gonna get him his family back, get the only thing that can fill the void inside him that they left when they died, and nothing else matters. Kingpin takes up so much space everytime he’s on screen that every second of screentime he shares with another character is overpowering by default, and the wholly black suit makes it so that everytime Fisk shows up, the movie’s colors and style and everything it has, it all gets punctured to leave room only for him, to the point that in the final battle with Miles, Fisk might as well be part of the background multiverse debris overtaking and suffocating everything.

Doc Ock and Prowler get to have the fun, of sorts, they get to have colors and styles and cool fights, the movie has no shortage of vibrant and lively and colorful characters, but Fisk himself is a walking casket and little else, basic and banal even compared to other versions of the character. He is the Sydney Greenstreet gangster of old blown up to astronomical proportions befitting a danger to the entire entire multiverse, not so much an enemy for Miles specifically as he is one to Spider-Man the concept, The Ultimate Gangster as someone who couldn’t deal with grief responsibly and has to make it everyone else’s problem (that also being kind of an apt description for Miguel O’Hara, who both triples down on the “all-encompassing grief as poison that harms not just you but those around you” part and is also a much more sympathetic character trying his damndest to do the right thing).

It’s only for a few seconds in his flashback that we see what he looks like with colors, and textures, and a little bit of warmth on his face in the life he had, before his family died running away from him, trying to escape The Black Hole Monster that he is. Figuratively, Fisk is not so much a person, as he is a a person-shaped hole in things, losing what little claim he has to personhood right when his family, and all the families he could ever have, leave him again and so he has nothing left but to take away other people’s families.

And I emphasize that figuratively, because it turns out they decided to turn that into a literally, for the villain in the sequel.

The first movie’s villain was a lifeless thug threatening to undo everything and everyone as collateral damage to try and fill the all-consuming void in his soul. The sequel had exactly that, except we got to see The Spot work to get there in real time and on purpose. And so instead of a generalized enemy to Spider-Man, the hero Miles is trying to be, we get the enemy to Miles Morales, the person he is.

The Spot, funnyman nerd sidekick to the previous villain’s number two, just a gag character without even a name to him that we didn’t even know was there, was pushed every step of the way by the frustration of being perceived and put down as a wannabe never-will-be, driven to uncover the multiverse and make himself noticed and respected by his peers, (like a certain someone who was going to define his entire career prospects around the possibility of getting to meet his spidery friends again, and then they did that to him)

turning out to be a anomaly that was never supposed to be and is hunted as such, their spite nipping at their heels to push them forward, twisting themselves to be free from the expectations and scorn of potential-peers-turned-enemies.

And so at the end, obviously Miles must face the worst version of himself, before he can face the worst version of himself, and it has to be right after he finally understands what he’s up against, his own nemesis, and it has to be right after he declares, after embracing himself as a fugitive and someone-that-shouldnt-be-but-will-anyway,

“I beat them all“

[bugmangaka]

The kids watch Twilight for the first time

(click for better quality!)

[beatx-mavie-archangelx]

hopefully this post flops like literally all of my other posts and doesn't land on the wrong side of the fandom (aka those who've only watched the movies)

but people claiming that the movies are better because they "actually make sad things sad" while the book "waters everything down", really worry me like. are we talking about the same book. no because. i pinky promise you that we didn't need tauriel nor legolas and that the characters could've kept their book characterization just fine. really i promise. the book was already sad. "kíli and fíli and thorin's deaths were a mere throwaway line!" my love dearest do you really need a whole ass gruesome dramatic detailed description to empathize or just understand what happened. just because they don't straight up tell you "those two kids went on an apparently cool and heroic mission with their uncle who they loved very much and fucking died through atrocious suffering to claim an alleged home they've never known and will never know" it doesn't mean that isn't what happened. it doesn't make it any less sad.

[ash-and-starlight]

Hello! I've noticed when you draw Mai that you draw her a lot with two marks on her cheeks/ just below her eyes. I love this little character design detail, but I was wondering if there was anything cultural or historical that you based it off of? I've tried searching for it myself but the most I've found was traditional Korean bridal make up and some references to Mongolian make up. (Mostly queen amidala over and over again)

Hi!! short answer, not really i just think it’s cool. Longer answer there are a few instances where i saw these similar dots painted on the cheeks. other than the ones you mentioned i think the closest it gets in the “traditional” make up is during the Wei Jin northern and southern dynasties in china but i didn’t find that many sources for it, i saw it more often in modern hanfu looks, but anyway its cool she deserves it

[that-glitter-chick]

Finally get to show my mother the Bumblebee movie and we’re having total 80s aesthetic serotonin overload🥰

The movie is set in 87, I was two that year and my Ma was twenty-eight. Our lives were good back then, our family was still whole, now nearly everyone is gone.💔❤️‍🩹

The opening scene is a love letter to G1 fans, freaking gorgeous and practically a roll call of characters. Ma and I were pointing at the scene shouting names.

“I saw Ironhide!”

“That was Thundercracker!”

Side note, totally jealous of Charlie. Omg that character lives my dream of being Bee’s human partner🥰🐝 Happy thought, I can cosplay her easily.

[p-jacksons]

Bowser in the Super Mario Movie

[sketching-shark]

never apologize for yuebei xingjun posting!!

Hell yeah anon! This world needs more large and powerful monkey yaoguai women <3

[lilshitwayne]

the fucking slander out there about 2 Fast 2 Furious. that movie goes hard af

[diana-daphne]

Guess who finally saw Lisa Frankenstein!!!

[boasamishipper]

best friends 🥺🥺🥺🥺