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[autisticstudys]

You know, I've been thinking about the writer/actor strike in Hollywood, and like, I love it. I really do. They absolutely deserve better pay models and protection from AI. But do you know what would just be the cherry on top for me?

Hearing CGI artists are starting a union to demand better pay. That would just be *chefs kiss* to me.

[serahsquire]

HDG can't go mainstream. Not because it's too gay and trans to be retrofitted for cishet audiences, but because the Affini would be an actual nightmare to recreate visually

[deathsmallcaps]

Captain America: Brave New World (CABNW) analysis

This movie is all about themes of rehabilitation, hope, and not allowing your past to define your future.

Sam is redefining the mantle of the shield, and reclaiming his independence. Since reaching adulthood, he has worked as part of the military, or in a major team, and always besides super powered people (not that he was the only regular human in the Avengers, but you know). And now Sam gets to herald a new age of modern values of rehabilitation.

Steve was also a man of hope, but he (as a white man) fought the Other: fascists and aliens. AKA, unredeemables (in the short term) and nonhumans. He was from WWII; while the full truth of the matter is that the USA did not join the war out of altruism and a wish to save oppressed peoples, I personally feel glad that the USA was able to help out in those matters. I feel our part in the war was justified when it came to stopping multiple genocides. Many people also feel this way, and hold WWII up as this bastion of ‘justified’ wars. Many feel it’s okay that Americans went to Germany and Japan and started killing people, because they were doing it first.

Same thing with alien invasion storylines. I love Steve, but the only person he is MCU-canonically pursuing rehabilitation for is Bucky. He has different values as both a survivor of WWII, a witness to the explosive growth of fascism in the early 1900s, and a white man. Sure, Steve grew up disabled and Irish(-American) in the early 1900s, but he was also a blue eyed blond haired American man who shows no trace of an Irish identity on screen. Steve is a hopeful, principled and angry man.

Meanwhile, Sam grew up being othered as a Black child and then man, joined a war that was never justifiable (never confirmed what war he was in but no war the USA has perpetuated in the 2000s, if not even earlier, has been justifiable), and then continually had to be an examplar wherever he went. Except for possibly War Machine (I’m not sure where he fits in), Sam was the ONLY Avenger of Color. Ever. (And the only one from a more rural area)

And yet Sam always chooses hope and kindness. He has it rough - as the only Avenger of Color, he had to always choose others needs over his own. He and Isaiah Bradley (another person restored by Sam’s rehabilitative justice <3) discuss the weight of that. Bradley points out time and time again that Sam doesn’t owe the world his kindness, his willingness to be a hero, his health and well-being. After all, Bradley got fucked over for doing the right thing, a Steve-type thing, in a Black body. But Sam decides to push on anyway.

I’m not saying Sam isn’t angry. He deserves to feel angry, he has as much right to the emotion as any other human being. But every single goddamn time he can, he chooses to be kind. He chooses to believe that people can find worth again. And that takes a strength of will that is frankly insane. PLUS he does it without a consistently optimized body.

And he chooses to be kind to Ross, of all people. Ross, who is clearly trying to be a changed man in the events of the film - but still a man who imprisons innocents and whose first instinct is to pick fights with nations who own nuclear weapons.

But Sam still reaches out to him. Still helps Ross meet Betty while Ross is in prison. Is the better man, every goddamn time.

Hell, they even represent what changes Sam could herald for the fate of the United States, and even the world, visually. In Ross’s panic as the Red Hulk, he destroys the White House*, a symbol built by slave labor. And under Sam’s tenure as Captain America, it will be rebuilt - along with what a hopefully better United States of America.

I love Sam Wilson, and I am SO excited to see his future as Captain America.

*and possibly also the Washington Memorial? I know he goes by but the detail slipped my mind. It also was built with slave labor. Some might quibble and try to claim that the obelisk was built by skilled stonemasons, but many many many enslaved people were extremely skilled laborers. So there is a huge chance that the stonemasons were enslaved. And even if they used completely white/free Black stonemasons, the quarried stone was mined by enslaved people. So yes, it was built by slave labor.

(Also I think it’s cool that Sam’s getting his own villains like Serpent and Leila Taylor made an appearance? She was basically his only canon love interest EVER**, and she hasn’t appeared since the 1970s. I think it’s still possible that he might be given a male LI or they just never pursue that angle of the character, but at least she and Sam have a relationship built on at least some respect and personal chemistry. Unlike Steven and Sharon.

Personally I’m more of a fan of Samsteve or even SamJoaquin than SamBucky, but that’s just mostly because while he’s grown on me in the last few years, I’m not really a Bucky fan. Samsteve probably won’t happen because of the stupid time travel thing (though who’s to say they didn’t at least have a fling? Plz?) but SamJoaquin could happen! I wasn’t sold on Joaquin right away - his sunny personality was tripping my betrayal alarms in my movie expectations brain - but I am glad to be wrong. I’m excited to see him as Falcon again once he heals up!

**There was a werewolf princess lady? But she literally never came back. Which disappoints me because I thought she was funny (I read her issue) and really unique. She was human but had a device to specifically control werewolves? And they do exist in the MCU, thanks to Werewolf by Night…

I LOVED the dogfight scene. Great body work on Anthony Mackie’s part, interesting background, awesome moves (cutting through a plane with a wing? Punching and pulling a pilot out of their plane and letting the rest of it just fall?? Sam and Joaquin together???) and fucking BOMBSURFING

[mothstiel]

i love you biblically accurate true form castiel

[kacievvbbbb]

My most maybe controversial take on the live action situation is that if at this point you are still actively watching and going “hey guys this wasn’t that bad” at these live action movies you are not a real animation fans you are a fan of the OG movies despite them being animated. It’s just a blatant lack of acknowledging how the fact that these movies where animated shaped them

Because at this point it’s literally impossible to ignore the actual harm these “live action” movies are doing to animation.

[nattikay]

as an avid Avatar fan, lifelong lover of animation, and someone who's done mocap cleanup professionally.....HE'S CORRECT HE'S CORRECT HE IS SO CORRECT

[sonknuxadow]

it just hit me that the movie is coming out next month imgonna throw upppppppp

[friedfriedchicken]

We're getting a CHRISTMAS form for the holidays

Kamen Rider fandom hold my hands we're in for another Christmas tragedy

[antennatoheaven]

my thoughts on The Murderbot Show:

idk man

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[marzipanandminutiae]

[taps mic] I like live-action fantasy/sci fi better than animation because it's much cooler to see things like that happening in "the real world." please do not send snipers after me for this

[spookykestrel]

Somebody needs to teach the Hollywood execs that just because something is good doesn't mean we have to do it again ,,,,,you're actually allowed to come up with new ideas maybe

[tearlessrain]

honestly as much as I love them, I don't want to see cgi entirely thrown aside for practical effects. I want to see what cgi could achieve when the artists who work on it are treated like humans and paid appropriately for the enormous amount of work they're doing (no matter how studios try to undersell it by mostly talking about the simulation aspects of the process, which actually make up a tiny percentage of the work involved and also are a whole time consuming, work-intensive process in and of themselves).

[dianaof-themyscira]

First no Pleakley in drag and now this smh

[kacievvbbbb]

A little thing I appreciate about these live action remakes and adaptations is that little by little we are starting to see WHY things are animated and how they can’t be replicated in live action no matter how advanced the cgi is it will always feel hollow in comparison. Like it’s not just cheap entertainment for babies animation affects a story to it’s very bones the art style is telling a story in itself one that you can actually never hope to recreate in live action you just have to tell a different story, you have too.

And honestly I don’t think the lesson will stick until they really do some damage to a well beloved recent animated Property like Into the Spiderverse or arcane or something.

But god stop asking me to have Grace for these cgi monstrosities they did not need to exist

[wundrousarts]

For folks that ever want a whimsical Nevermoor-esque family-friendly movie, watch Mr Magorium’s Wonder Emporium. It’s a movie from my childhood that I swear must have some sort of influence on the series. The premise is basically if the Deucalion was a toy store that had a Grand Sulk when the owner announces that he’s dying. There’s also a slight connection between music and imagination and creativity!

[amateurwordbender]

ok it took me a minute to get used to the serious, almost brooding tone of the pjo show, but man i'm so glad they took that direction??

the dialogue gets a little cheesy sometimes and a few moments don't land, but that's such a small price to pay for the show actually taking itself seriously and leaning into sincerity and drama, because that's exactly how it felt reading the books as a kid. yes, percy's sassy (cue flashbacks) and quippy and there's a lot of humor in the books, but what i latched onto was the depth of character and the tragedy and the grandness of it all

i love that percy's really, truly troubled and angry, i love that you can feel luke's burning resentment for the gods, i love that the monsters feel terrifying and it's not just ~quirky~ that the greek myths are real, the myths feel ancient and the gods are dangerous. also, that outro with art harking back to the original book covers gave me literal chills you guys. i'm so excited for what's in store aaaa