#but the cinematography is top tier

[sonnburn]

The Universal Reaction to Big Dragon:

[brixuth]

"See Venice and die," is what they say? Or is it Rome?"

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

[evilvvithin]

ALIEN RESURRECTION 1997 | dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet

[kvtnisseverdeen]

Now I know the whole world is an arena. And we need the Hunger Games. Every year. To remind us all who we truly are.

THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES (2023)

[torawro]

i like ‘em a little insane, covered in blood and severely mentally unstable <3

[thethera-rossa]

[mintsandapples]

nat : none of those emergency hides for her. no, something custom. we measure, you get to work, i walk her through the screamsticks - god help her - then she sleeps so she can face oblivion with some pep! and we do an all-nighter. 

[ryansjane]

midnight motel ep.4 + favorite shots

[hanitje]

CINEMA

[taciturnpoet]

taking a brief intermission from my fixation on dps to inform y’all that i just finished the first kdrama i’ve watched in years and it consumed my soul and altered my brain chemistry it was so good and i’m going to think about nothing but it for a few days lol

regularly scheduled programming will resume shortly

[starkaroo]

was finally able to watch suzume in theatres and... what a movie. daijin made me really sad, he was just guiding them to the doors and not opening them (still unsure about that part) and he just wanted to be accepted and loved by suzume, since she apparently “saved” her. made me think that maybe he (and sadaijin too) was made a keystone against his will, just like souta, and this is like a very ridiculous theory but perhaps the keystones develop more advanced abilities to stop the worms and protect the doors over time, souta's grandfather mentioned that he will be a keystone for decades and souta was already able to somewhat stop the worms without any keystone experience (?). it's just that. sadaijin probably was more responsible and accepting about his situation. but daijin's reaction and his willingness to still help suzume even if he was gonna turn into a keystone again, just to gain her love/appreciation. i wanna cry. i absolutely hate it when animals are shown in such situations it makes me extremely sad argh

[hirakiyois]

no but how did starhunter glow up so severely from gen y 2 to big dragon

[bylightofdawn]

So I don't know if I will emotionally, mentally or physically make i through episode 8 of Beyond Evil.

This episode has been a fucking EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER that has inflicted emotional damage on me.

Thoughts and spoiler cuts beneath the cut.

Oh my god everything with Kang Jin-muk makes my fucking skin crawl. The close up of him eating the noodles and the dutch angle just made it like 10,000 x more upsetting.

His smug smarmy and the taunting way he keeps trying to upset everyone and Dong-sik in particular. Just…OH MY GOD. Someone kill this man. He needs to die.

They fucking BROKE ME at the crematorium scene. Everything with that. Dong-sik needs a hug desperately. Someone give this man a hug and tell him it's going to be okay. Him torturing himself and imagining how he failed Kang Min-jeoeng in her final moments. The fucking shot of him standing on top of the place she was slowly suffocating to death right underneath him. The cinematography of that entire shot? Just mwah chef-kiss.

That is actual nightmare fuel personified there.

And then little Mr Sunshine Oh Ji-hoon just having a mental breakdown because he’s blaming himself for being there and not knowing she was in danger. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.

The emotional damage of this episode.

And then they go and give us unhinged Dong-sik just grinning like an absolute feral madman when he taunts Kang Jin-muk into strangling him? So help me if fanficcers aren’t writing some absolutely FILTHY Dong-sik getting off to breathplay smut I WILL BE SO DISAPPOINTED IN YOU.

I also love that Han Ju-won just fucking shut down because he oops caught feelings and can’t handle the fact he was willing to murder a man for daring to touch his little Meow Meow. This man is so emotionally constipated he can’t even.

My mans really needed to take an emotional sabbatical because he caught the fee-fees.

And then this fucking show has the AUDACITY to hand us the fertile AU of rent-boy Ju-won and Donk-sik being his client with Dong-sik AS ALWAYS flirting like crazy with him and asking him what kind of flower boy he would be.

HOW DARE YOU. I also love the entire restaurant scene and Han Ju-won trying to be the edgelord that he is who hates icky things like feelings and friendships. Whilst he is TURNING HIMSELF INSIDE OUT EMOTIONALLY for a dead hooker he used as bait just because he doesn’t want her to lay in a ice box for months on end unloved and unclaimed.

And our king Dong-sik just calling him out on his bullshit as always.

Also? I hate to tell you this boo but YOU are the clingy one in that relationship. You and your mancrush obsessing over Dong-sik which was so strong you moved to a whole new city just to try and ‘catch’ him. Uh huh. You keep telling yourself that, boyo.

And Jeong-je and his awful mother. Please tell me this poor damaged manchild is not still living at home because that sadly would explain a lot about his Peter Pan syndrome and why an adult man is wearing a hideous hair cut like his. Pfffffft He is a poster child for arrested development. And is so emotionally fragile but my mans has a lot of rage in him and I'll be interested to see where his story heads.

But then it has to end with them finding Jae-i’s mother and just…fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck all over again.

I am exhausted after every episode of this show. And cannot binge it all at once because it makes me feel too many things

[aryas-faces]

Man, I really mourn the show that hotd could have been. Everything about it is top tier; the acting, the score, the cinematography, the costumes and set design

Except for how biased the writing is

Aegon is a frequent at child fighting pits. He is a rapist. This spits in the face of the Aegon in the books, the person who doesn't want the throne but took it to protect his family. I will admit, his characterization is MUCH better in season 2, and Tom understands Aegon on a level no one does. But it's too late for some people who have never read the books because of how atrocious his characterization was in season 1

Meanwhile, Rhaenyra does no wrong. All of her dubious deeds in the book get given to others. We are never going to see Female Maegor

"The book is also team black!" I don't know anyone can read her mass executions, torture of Tyland, making her own council turn against her, the smallfolk rebel against her, and then having flee King's Landing while Aegon rallies Dragonstone to his side, survives attacks against him, bringing his body to the point of no return for his people, and won the war

"His own council had to poison him!" That's not what the book implies. The book strongly implies he commit suicide

And his council was also trying to save him

All this to say, hotd isn't bad. It's actually very good, but the bias to the blacks is ruining its potential

[that-little-bisexual-mess]

I haven't posted here in a long time, but i feel the need to now, to quickly talk about The Fall of the House of Usher.

My bisexual heart was all over the place, the actors performances were top tier (wasn't really surprising to be honest, with a cast like that). Great cinematography as well (again, not that surprising). Great dialogues and story !

I particularly loved Madeline, Roderick, Lenore and Camille. Also, loved Mark Hamill as Arthur Pym. Especially loved Madeline, she's a queen, to be honest. And i ALWAYS love to see T'Nia Miller, Henry Thomas, Samantha Sloyan, Rahul Kohli and Katie Parker on screen. They were AMAZING. Carl Lumbly as Auguste Dupin, Sauriyan Sapkota as Prospero Usher, Zach Gilford as young Roderick and Willa Fitzgerald as young Madeline were also great!

But the biggest highlight was, of course, Carla Gugino as Verna. OH MY LORD. THE PERFORMANCE ! And also, gay panic everytime she was on screen, i mean WOW (yet again, it always happens with Carla Gugino, so not really surprising either). I want Verna to haunt me, to make a deal with me, idk, she can do anything to me, i'll be happy.

In conclusion, great show, loved it and Carla Gugino is a queen !

[yakdee]

I've seen a lot of great discourse surrounding the cinematography in RWRB, but I would like to draw your attention to the top tier sound editing during that turkey phone call scene between Alex and Henry.

If you're able to listen closely, you can hear the sound of Henry's voice change from the staticky, muted tone that you usually hear over the phone into his normal voice as he appears on Alex's bed. Then once he turns away from Alex and they're getting ready to end the call, his voice goes back to that distant, staticky tone again.

It's such a small detail but it makes huge impact (at least imo).