#everyone has seen those movies

[raphaelesbian]

Thinking about the bilingualism of the turtles and just realized like

The mutant mayhem turtles must have ZERO knowledge of Japanese chjzjddh. Like Splinter does have an accent (though Jackie Chan is from Hong Kong according to Google, not Japan), but he's a normal New York rat. Not Hamato Yoshi transformed into a rat, like 2012/2018, and not a pet rat that belonged to Hamato Yoshi, like 2003. Zero connection to Japan at all

I'm just imagining them all in a big crossover. 2012 gives me the vibes of being the MOST connected to Splinter's culture, so they're all bilingual (to differing degrees), they know a lot about Japanese culture and mythology and all that jazz.

2003 I think has some knowledge of the language and culture. Splinter lived in Japan with Tang Shen, and then Yoshi took him to America. If he was smart enough as a rat to pick up ninjutsu, I think he is smart enough to know the language and the bits and pieces of the culture he would witness, being... a rat.

ROTTMNT, I do not see them speaking the language or knowing much of anything about the culture, lol. They probably know some, being around Splinter, but I don't get the impression Splinter often spoke Japanese, and he didn't really train them like the other Splinters. I think they would still pick up some habits from their dad, like we see them bow to him a few times, and I bet he's made them family recipes at least a FEW times. The kids would pick up on a few words I'm sure, either from Splinter or from Lou Jitsu movies lmao, but culturally I think they know very very little. The 2012 boys would be horrified to hear them butcher the language, but on the other hand I bet they know more Spanish than 2012.

And then Mutant Mayhem... Literally not a single word. Even the Rise turtles are surprised how little they know. Except MAYBE Donnie lmao, being a huge weeb, but if he's anything like the weebs I know the knowledge of the language is... incredibly limited. Plus he's a kpoppie, so he may know more Korean than Japanese.

The absolute culture shock if you threw them all in a room together

[eighthwholove]

You can never go wrong with Withnail and I, so enjoy these as your Monday...present..

(Bonus Eight n Charley, it wouldn't be right without them.)

[rexscanonwife]

Me rn I forgor that mutuals will randomly see my likes now and if any of u follow on my main blog and see that shit NO YOU DON'T

[sweetlullabyebye]

I have... pondered, about Bullet Train, and came to the conclusion that the next movie (if next movie there is, otherwise that's what fanfic is for)

-should still be in a transport. Metro, bus, tram, elevator, telecabine (the thing for ski), cruise, i don't care, just gotta be on a transport that makes a few stops.

-should have the fruit twins. Otherwise I'm not watching and I know a lot of people are not watching. We need Tangerine and Lemon and that's a fact. They can even get other names if they want (not against the flower names, not against peanut butter and jelly, go ahead guys)

-should have a dog. Yes, a dog. I have decided that whatever transportation there is, there'll be a dog somewhere. We got a snake this time, give us the dog next. In fact, get John Wick next. Crossover of the century. Give us a dog. Please.

-should include random resurrections just for the heck of it.

-should have random items as weapons. I'm talking toasters, lamps, skis, milk crates, phone chargers, tourist guides, knitting needles. The chopsticks and water bottle in the movie were awesome, I need more of it.

-should have more grandmas. I think every action movie should have a grandma. She doesn't even need to do anything, really.

-should have all the characters, especially Tangerine, get messier and more bloody as it goes. Am not talking full gore, am talking sexy blood. And messy. Tangerine with curls has my heart and soul.

-should have Lemon finally telling us what train he is, and describe to us all the trains. I NEED to know what train I am and he is the only person I trust to tell me.

-should have the fruit twins doing common siblings activities and shenanigans -being competitive, finding ridiculous nicknames, having a "YES" "NO" "YES" "NO" argument, falling asleep on each other's shoulder, taking ridiculous pictures of the other, all that-

-that's my list of demands, if they are not done i shall cry myself to sleep and write fanfictions. Have an amazing day ^-^.

[marklikely]

winning all sides of the Pretentious Movie discourse by having my favorite movie be a 3 hour long foreign film with heavily political themes thats also a blockbuster superhero action movie

[prettysweetprettysweet]

re: them cutting the sound for the vp scene bc it was too realistic, its funny that that's the route they took, but just in general, like across the board for gay sex scenes I feel like the scenes are always really really quiet and unanimated, like they're doing something nearly sensation-less i.e. brushing their teeth or chopping vegetables

being quiet and/or inward-facing with your pleasure during sex is just as valid as the opposite of course, but in media i feel like most gay sex scenes are quiet and unanimated primarily bc the people in charge are trying to tread lightly (and sometimes they need to tread lightly due to industry and cultural obstacles). i can't really think of a sex scene that I've personally seen where I'm like 'that looks and sounds and feels like how I have sex.' except for the handjob scene in kp :) that is pretty much exactly how bar bathroom hookups feel and look like (not including the aggressive jealousy family politics and mafia drama (i think))

[sonknuxadow]

its so crazy how many people there are who are obsessed with movie eggman and think hes so cool and hot and make endless piles of fanart and fanfic about him and agent stone but dont care about anything else in the sonic movies. or the sonic franchise in general. not even other versions of eggman . hello . why are you here

[damiemontclair]

*sigh* once more having to explain to people that I didn't watch disney or ghibli as a kid, that we had restricted amounts of tv times and usually watched recorded movies with my dad and thus I grew up on the german dub of bud spencer and terence hill movies until we were old enough for the saturday evening crime show (ncis, also, german dub, dinner had to be finished by 20:15) which then became a weekly ritual for like. 2 or 3 years.

[anti-dazai-blog]

Got the most baffling ask from [redacted] about an hour ago saying that I should “stop judging Dazai for past actions” and I’m still thinking about it.

What. what does that mean.

[bleachersgirl]

@whitealbum and @greatcomets tagged me to post my top 9 first watches of 2023!! i really did NOT watch many movies this year but of the ones that i did these are probably my favorites ❤️

i’m not sure who to tag because i’ve seen so many people do this idk if anyone hasn’t been tagged yet

[groovytimes]

I’m going to watch The Parent Trap for the very first time now.

[softly-and-suddenly]

We need to start bullying people who organize their bookshelves by color actually

[3lizab3t]

nobody who i watch that talks about cartoons ever talks about the cartoons i really liked as a kid

im just going to assume that its because they have bad taste and not that i was dumb and liked garbage

[domorebemore]

ok people are getting pissed off that they're changing splash mountain saying it's because of wokeness or whatever but it literally is like. no one has seen that fucking movie. no one. it's really bizarre to begin with that it kept its theming this long considering disney has spent the past several decades attempting to stop people from watching it/remember it existed LOL

[marklikely]

a while ago you said you hated the movie the eternals so I was wondering what you didn’t like about it? just bc I’m vindictive about marvel lol

god they just literally didnt do even a single thing right.

the acting was really bad from just about everyone (except maybe kumail nanjiani who was the only person who decided he would try to play an actual character), like everyone was just phoning it in. im going to chalk it up to bad directing because people also seemed like they had no idea what they were supposed to be doing on set, plus some of these people are decorated actors that have proven they were good at their job in other movies.

it could also be because the writing was just a mess on every level. like, how good could the acting be when no characters were given any solid motivations or personality traits (any motivations or traits that they DID bother to put in the movie were either told with 0 evidence, or just changed whenever it suited a plot twist to try and create some tepid and meaningless conflict within the team). the lore was tedious and nonsensical, there were no stakes because absolutely nothing felt earned or consequential at all, the overall goal of the plot changed like 8 different times as well as constantly being interrupted by flashbacks with no rhyme or reason as to when we would see a flashback or what we would flash back to, which led to a pacing nightmare.

and the tone was too dour and serious to be able to ignore any of this for the camp or fun either!! because there was absolutely no fun!!!!! it's like they wanted to make a Prestige Drama out of a movie that's 75% exposition dumps and half-assed sci fi lore and 0% actual character moments that make dramas work.

ok im typing too much so let's just rapid fire the rest: the color pallet was atrocious, just concrete and mud. the costumes looked like absolute garbage, cheaply made and extremely bland even just on a design level (i'm talking specifically about the hero uniforms here. the civilian clothes for every character were also boring and pointless, though). the effects were literally laughably bad, the object designs (like for the spaceship and other alien stuff, i'm not sure what to call this category) were ridiculous and never fully came together into something interesting or otherworldly. the score was trash and the needledrops were distracting. the diversity was shallow and insulting, you can't just constantly brag about diversity when you couldn't be bothered write those diverse characters to be actual, yknow, characters.

anyway if you want a well-made superhero movie about ancient heroes who have a deep love for humanity, that has diverse characters who are actually fleshed out and treated like characters instead of an Inclusivity Checklist, that has serious moments with emotional impact but is also capable of being fun, that has clear intra-team conflicts and morally grey characters that you can actually understand, that doesn't look like total garbage, then literally just watch The Old Guard. just watch The Old Guard im literally begging you. if you liked eternals just watch The Old Guard and see what it looks like when a movie actually does what eternals pretends it's doing.

[sonknuxadow]

none of you have good fancasts for shadow. exploding you all with my mind