#everyone should watch Nimona

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NIMONA ‼️‼️

[gnomeniche]

nate d. stevenson fucking loves childhood friend drama and you know what. so do i

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Nimona ✨❤️

[rewrite-canon]

not margot robbie or greta gerwig but ken?????? not olivia rodrigo but ken??? gtfo

[pianostoolbug]

they took his fucking hair..............

[vinsbicoart]

I just finished watching Nimona and it's such a nice film, I loved it😭💖💖 I love pathetic men and crazy girls and I adore both of them, so good. This film is a victory for the lgtb+ community and for me specifically, let's go gays.

But in all seriousness (copy pasting what I wrote on Twitter): it was great, a really nice and straight to the point story, great characters with great chemistry between them, and a really cool aesthetic. Watch it if you can, I'm in love with it. I may try to draw them both later, even if it's just a little doodle.

[festeringmaggot]

so uhhh i just finished watching nimona and...

yeah that certainly was one of the best movies ive ever fucking watched

[mysticalninjaearthquake]

Does the one guy's sword canonically look like it has a spiderman on the end in Nimona or is it just in the fanart that you rbed?

I don't think it's supposed to be spiderman, more likely it's supposed to look like Gloreth's Monster WHICH YOU WOULD KNOW IF YOU WATCHED THE MOVIE

Edit: everyone go check out the art by @drawkivi it's wonderful <3

[alxotl]

Nimona was an amazing film. Infinity/ten

[nowisthewinter]

And to think the animated movie version of Nimona was almost this close to being shelved if Netflix had not picked it up.

Yes, it’s good. It’s very good. I’ll let other people talk about the plot points, the characters and the pretty nifty soundtrack. (Santogold? Yes, please.) 

I am here to talk about the animation.

Watching this movie made me realize what I don’t like about Pixar movies lately. Yes, Pixar’s the king of realism. And, yes, Nimona is way more design simple compared to Pixar. But the one thing Nimona has over Pixar is how the characters move. 

Pixar characters don’t really move. Yes, they walk. Yes, they gesture. Yes, they will do things.

But they don’t “act.”

For example, there are many parts of Nimona where you could turn off the sound and still follow the story like it was a silent movie of old. The characters’ body language and facial language tell a story on their own. They fill up a whole screen with their mannerisms. This is Buster Keaton. This is Charlie Chaplin. This is Harold Llyod. 

You don’t really get that with Pixar. And while that was fine years ago because everyone was striving for realism and Pixar was showing everyone how to animate hair, now, it’s.....boring. 

Realism isn’t the end goal anymore. It’s a one trick pony that really should be out to pasture. Now people want to see what else you can do with animation. Spider-man: Across the Spider-verse showed that there are a wide range of styles you can pull from. Even taking ideas from Impressionism, Modern pop art (Check out Jean-Michel Bisquiat) and commercial art (See Bollywood film posters for example). Nimona is now showing how much acting range you can get from their animation. I’ve already watched it twice. Once for the story. The other just to watch the characters “act.” I’ll probably watch it a few more times because that animation, THAT ANIMATION!

I want more of that. Take notes, Pixar. 

[abstract-moth]

One detail I really like in Nimona is that everyone is a terrible detective

Ballister is in the spotlight the most bc he’s actively trying to prove his innocence. Except he’s real bad at it. Like the first time we see him after the whole Queen killing fiasco, his notes on the wall show that he already suspects the Squire knows something.

But then he does literally nothing about it.

Instead he strolls into the Institute with an iron-clad “trust me bro I’m innocent” argument that leads to extremely predictable consequences.

After Nimona gets him out of that mess, he actually talks to the Squire and miraculously get proof of his innocence! And then he promptly decides to not make a backup copy of the recording... or secure a witness statement... or even ensure the safety of his single witness (some knight he is). Instead Ballister simply walks straight back into the Institute again with a new “trust me bro, I’m innocent just look at this thing in my pocket first” and predictably looses all his evidence.

Then a third time, he and Nimona get sneaky and record the Director’s actual confession, uploading it for everyone to see. But they only take a small soundbite, which backfires on them later when the Director makes the very logical “we have proof Boldheart is working with a literal shapeshifter, so maybe it was a shapeshifter that said that.” Ballister and Nimona didn’t even show that the Director was in possession of Ballister’s sword or that she tried to stab Ambrosius.

And Ballister (and by extension Nimona) aren’t the only terrible detectives. It’s implied that nobody did a proper investigation after the Queen’s death or else the Squire’s testimony would have been uncovered.

Plus Ambrosius‘ suggestion that ‘hey maybe we should watch the clip for ten seconds longer to see if there’s anything else we missed” seems like a novel idea instead of standard practice. And upon discovering Ballister’s real sword, Ambrosius also makes no attempt to secure evidence of it’s existence within the Institute (which could prove Ballister’s innocence) and instead gives it away. 

Taken at direct face value, this makes the characters seem incompetent and unintelligent. But the genius is that it makes perfect sense within the larger narrative of the story why the knights are not taught investigative or problem solving skills.

They live in a society where “monsters” exist.

If monsters were allowed to have a voice, to prove to others that perhaps they are actually innocent, it would fundamentally shatter the perception that the accused were evil monsters to begin with. And this, in turn, would bring the entire system crumbling down.

Their society is one where anyone can be labeled a monster and there is no room for questions or analysis.

Truth does not matter.

Facts do not matter.

There is simply blind obedience to those already in power.

And this leads to innocent people being hurt. 

[rebelnori]

Just watched Nimona. What a voidpunk movie. Literally any dehumanized group could see it as an allegory for them. My first thought was it being a trans allegory with how much Nimona disregards others calling her a girl. But it's more than that too. Is it a trans allegory? Absolutely. But it's an allegory for all other dehumanized groups too. This quote comes to mind: "Once everyone sees you as a villain, that’s what you are. They only see you one way, no matter how hard you try."

But here's the best part: the moral of the story wasn't "oh, eventually people will learn to accept you as kinda normal too". No. It wasn't "weird people can change too! You can be normal too!" No. It was "society wasn't built for you and that's a problem. Be yourself because 'normal' is what's wrong with society. And people should see you and love you for who you are whether or not you fit society's expectations for 'humans'". (But what we call humans, the movie called "heroes".) Seriously you can't get more voidpunk than that. I could go on about this, but just go watch the movie.

"They grow up believing that they can be a hero if they drive a sword into the heart of anything different. And I’m the monster?"

"We are villains. Embrace it."

"What if you held it in? If you didn’t shape-shift?" ... "I wouldn’t die die. I just sure wouldn’t be living."

[cultofsappho]

Ive come to the realization that the reason theres a small but loud group of people who are showing nothing but hate for the rwrb movie is because they have completely unrealistic expectations. People are forgetting that this is a cheesy romantic comedy, thats supposed to look and feel like a cheesy romantic comedy. This isnt going to be moonlight or gods own country or some other critically acclaimed, oscar nomintaed queer film that makes straight people go "hmm maybe they do deserve rights and respect🤷‍♀️"

Its gonna be a cheesy adult romantic comedy, thats gonna be a bit camp and over the top and thats exactly why its so good. I dont want to think about every gay movie I watch. I want to watch it and see two queer people fall in love and thats it. Thats how deep it goes. Maybe a sprinkling of politcal commentary in between.

There is this issue thats become bigger and bigger every passing year, that people expect every bit of queer representation to be the best thing ever. There can not ever be anything cringey or different or silly, and if it is then they send endless hate towards it, and in an industry that already hates to show queer people on screen, its this viscious cycle of someone finally being greenlit to make queer media, the media gets endless hate for not being perfect, the studio cancels the queer media before giving it a chance because theyve just 'proven that it wont make money', suddenly everyone is saying 'why do they keep canceling queer media😢', cycle repeats.

Im so over it. Let gay people be slightly cringy or cheesy or campy. Let queer media exist without putting it on this huge pedestal. Just enjoy things! And if you dont, dont watch it! Move on, find something better to do.

Yes!!! Thank you so much anon for putting this feeling into words much better than I could have!

"I dont want to think about every gay movie I watch."

Thank you.

I want light-hearted rom coms about queer adults just being queer adults and havig fun. I want comedy adventures where the characters just happen to be gay. I want more horror where at the end the final girl kisses a girl and can't belive they lived but not because they're gay. (suprisingly several of these exist and I love it)

I don't always want to think about the plight and horrors of being queer today with every queer movie I watch.

Sometimes, yes of course, I want to be seen on that level.

(Nimona, which came this weekend is a perfect example of a queer movie where I felt very very seen but also had a good time and was an incredibly silly fantasy adventure movie. But, still had the queer expereince intertwined.)

I'm looking forward to a movie that will be 90% rom com, and 10% realism/heavyness. re: being outed is a real thing that happens to people. famous people.

Alex and Henry go through some heavy shit. There's seriously traumatizing stuff at the end of the book. They're both dealing with mental illnesses, complex families, and rock-or-a-hard-place situations. I want all of that honored.

And, at the same time, I'm expecting a straight-to-streaming, mid-budget, movie that had to pass through a LOT of straight hands and board meetings to get to us.

Not to say we should love and accept every queer movie that comes out automatically, they have been done wrong in the past. (example: I skipped call me by your name bc the age gap still makes me too uncomfortable to watch)

But we have to give queer movies a chance to fit the genre they were made for, the tone they are made to be, and give queer creators a chance to show they are us annd they know us. The director is Bi. He's spent so much time going on about how much he related to Alex that he needed to make this movie. It's his first directing role, and I'm giving him a chance.

[cyle-stuff]

Why You Should Watch:

Also to be clear this is coming from someone who has not read the webtoon/graphic novel, So I can’t say if this is faithful to the novel or not

Also don’t worry there’s no spoilers here!

Anyway literally just finished the film, here’s why you should watch it:

Lovely Animation! It does that newish 2D and 3D blend!

Queer Representation! Ballister and Ambrosius, gay. And Nimona is pretty trans/and I would say genderfluid coded! 

Lovely Story! While I did find it was a bit fast paced in certain points, in general the story was overall good I would say!

The Dynamic Between Nimona and Ballister. That’s it. Love those two! You like found family? Your gonna love them!

Pretty Funny as Well! Nimona very much has my sense of humour, while may not work for everyone I think majority of people will like it!

That’s five points, your still reading?

Got you interested?

Well go watch it now!

It’s now available on Netflix!

[kaycatkit]

^ Nimona Spoilers ^

me, outside: yeah no that was a really great movie! You should watch it, it made me cry. 😊

me, inside: SHE WAS ALONE FOR A THOUSAND YEARS. SHE PROBABLY NEVER HAD A HUG AND HE HUGGED HER. SHE WAS GOING TO K HERSELF AND SHE SCREAMED BC DEEP DOWN NO ONE WANTS TO DIE LIKE THAT, SHE JUST WANTED THE PAIN TO STOP. IT WAS RAW EMOTION THAT SHOOK ME TO MY FUCKING CORE. AND HE STOPPED HER. SHE JUST WANTED THE PAIN TO STOP. SHE’S JUST A KID AND EVERYONE HATED HER BC SHE WAS HERSELF. SHE DIDN’T HAVE TO JUSTIFY HER EXISTENCE TO ANYONE. SHE JUST EXISTED AS NIMONA.

[estranged-deer]

NIMONA RAAAAAHHH

this movie was so good and everyone should watch it