#filmento

[yen-sids-tournament]

Sequel Movies Grand Finale: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest v The Lion King II: Simba's Pride

[goodjohnjr]

Traveling To The Moon Where The Elites Live?

File:Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway Logistics Services.jpg This dream was probably partly inspired by a YouTube video that I watched yesterday about the movie Elysium called Elysium — When A Movie Has The Wrong Story | Anatomy Of A Failure by the YouTube channel Filmento: Elysium — When A Movie Has The Wrong Story | Anatomy Of A Failure Part of this dream took place during the day in the city…

[geekgemsspooksandtoons]

So, I didn’t expect him to make a video on the sequel or something.

I’ll check this out sometime. But cool he made a video on it. Considering his video on TMNT 2014 is one of my favorite videos of his.

[bruisedconscience-reblogs]

filmento put paralyzer over a part of his tsmbm video essay and i think that’s a whole new gender for me

[gaiussaidno]

idk man, just take what you want to see from series at this point and ignore the rest

[wackus-bonkus-maximus]

How does one get back to writing after a long hiatus? My gaming addiction is finally wearing off and I wanna write but mental block is at it again.

oh my lol well the gaming addiction is very very real! luckily there are several things that work really well for me:

reading fic: new fic or re-reading old fic never stops me from ✨getting ideas✨even reading some of my favorite books or picking up new ones will serve as good inspiration. the best written stories always do, i find

brainstorming with friends: i'm lucky to be on some really cool discord servers where i can chat with ppl who love ml like me <33 (love you littlebugs) but i also just chatter to my irl writer friends about my non-fanfic wips and then the ideas start bouncing and then my brain goes brrrr

drafting: just sit down and DO it bro!! get a little anonymous animal to sit in the corner of your google doc and babysit you if you must (ily littlebugs)! trust me it works. at least for me, having somebody there and watch me type shit up helps to at least get the words down. then i go back and edit and that really lights a fire under my keyboard lol

writing youtube: go down this rabbit hole! i swear it helps so much! start with the closer look, lessons from the screenplay, studiobinder, filmento, and even film courage. maybe it's just me but every time i start binging the screenwriting/novel writing side of youtube i just get so many ideas and the gears start turning and i start thinking "what if in my story" and yeah. do it!!! i promise it's so helpful!

anyways gl anon <3 and happy writing <3

[noritaro]

you gotta love grown men who’ve made a career out of critizinf movies they don’t like but will watch anyways cause it’s all just a business to them

lol yeah, movie reviewers like Critical Drinker and Filmento never even have anything interesting to say about films anyways

they don't strike me as people who even care about cinema at all

[wearevillaneve]

"...the Beginning is where you Sell people..."

"...the Middle is where you Impress people..."

"...and the End is what you Leave People With."

--- Filmento/YouTube

[goodjohnjr]

Inception — How To Burn A Movie In The Audience's Brain | Film Perfection

Inception — How To Burn A Movie In The Audience’s Brain | Film Perfection What Is It? The YouTube video Inception — How To Burn A Movie In The Audience’s Brain | Film Perfection by the YouTube channel Filmento: Inception — How To Burn A Movie In The Audience’s Brain | Film Perfection Here is the description for this video: The first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of…

[geekgemsspooksandtoons]

I finally just watched this.

Okay, I’m gonna spoil a bit from his video. Whether he’s serious or just being humorous. The idea that Filmento is pissed at these Sonic movies because he’s jealous of the fans getting these. XD I can’t blame him. 

But again, Filmento brilliantly explains why film works compared to Uncharted. I am so glad he made this video. 

Also...he must REALLY hate that Assassin’s Creed film...can’t blame him. And man...he mentioned Bioshock...I’m rambling on. I’m glad he made this video because I feel like future video game movie adaptations need to take notes from why these films worked. And I will admit this REALLY crazy comparison. When thinking about these two Sonic films. I kind of think it’s like the situation with Aliens and Alien.

That sounds weird, I know. But I meant is many people consider Aliens to be a great sequel and a natural continuation of the first film. While I prefer the first Alien. But I totally get it...that’s how I see it with Sonic. But I prefer Sonic 2. Yet still love that first one.

I still want this dude to make another Bioshock video.

[ramadoodles]

I feel like you'd have an informed and dynamic perspective of this so I'd like to know your take on "gaze" in media and film. For example, there's a lot of discourse circulating about "white" gaze and "colonial" gaze and questions about "lesbian" and "gay" gazes in terms of how art and people are seen/treated from their perspective.

But what do these gazes really look like in terms of how characters are portrayed or how certain topics are narrated through image and film?

Oh, man. Well, first of all I'm quite honored that I seem to come across as cultured enough to have a coherent take on this. I hadn't heard of the lesbian and gay gazes before, but I'll certainly take a stab at understanding it. (For everyone else- this is a long rambling post with no images, sorry about the scrolltime)

So to start with, let's take this to first principles- how can we define gaze?

I'd say that when a piece of media assumes a gaze, it decides that a person carrying that gaze is holding the camera. So the camera is imbued with the biases of that person. e.g. If an artist took a video of a sunflower, he might focus on the interplay of light among the petals. A biologist, on the other hand, would zoom into the center and identify the spiral of tiny florets.

If we expand this concept to male gaze- that can be explained as the camera being held by a man, and it being imbued with male biases. It’s not strictly related to female objectification- it's a way to explain a limited male view, where the rest of the characters exist mainly to serve him, his interests, and his storyline.

So when the male gaze focuses on women, it shows women as passive, vapid, or oversexualized. They function secondarily to the primary male characters and/or focus their attention on pleasing these men or competing with other women to get male affection.

Male gaze also overvalues male tasks and devalues traditionally female tasks.

And hence, female gaze would assume that a woman is holding the camera, and thus show what she is focusing on- often it does that by focusing on a male body (aka George of the Jungle) or it focuses on the feelings of the female protagonist around a complex event, rather than the actual event itself. Someone else has written an amazing article about this concept here.

Now if we were to define gay gaze, as a separate from general male gaze- I suppose there would be much more objectification of men. The only really good reference I have for this is a reddit comment (by a gay man!) about the "gay pandering" of a famous actor, and how his scenes were shot with a gay lens compared to his costar, whose scenes were shot with a straight female perspective. Essentially Gay Gaze Actor was shot from left to right, and shots of him were cut from the thigh up to emphasize his curves and musculature, in comparison to the costar who got more vertical shots highlighting his height. (If you've seen SOTY, go check it out and see if you notice any of this!) It's super interesting but the whole thing sadly got deleted, so I can't link it here.

I still have to search about lesbian gaze, sorry! I ran out of time but I'll update here tomorrow.

There is nothing negative about the male gaze, if taken on its own. If you're a person, you're imbued with biases; ergo there's a gaze for every classification of person. The reason why the male gaze stands out so much is because it's all-pervasive, to a level where the male gaze has influenced the gazes that we have. As a result, and perhaps I'm going out on a limb here, but even when a piece of media is female-produced, it sometimes has a lot of male-gazey nudity which is shown to be empowering for these women, as they can reclaim their own bodies. The fact that their bodies need reclaiming is, I would argue, the impact that the male gaze still has on feminist media.

In case you want to learn more film theory, I'd advise turning to youtubers like Filmento, Closer Look and Cinema Therapy, since they're where I had gotten most of my previous knowledge from.

[richardsondavis]

I'm still bothered by the Drinker recommending Arcane. A little peeved but checking out his recs, it has some great stuff. Dredd and Event Horizon he gives his recommendation and approval.

Don't know why I should take his word for it cause I did try his other recs and they weren't doing it for me so yeah.

Guess I shouldn't really put my trust in people like him.

But I also ask? Why do I like Gigguk's recommendations and not The Critical Drinker's?

Well, for starters, Gigguk is anime and I like anime so I get where he's coming from. The Drinker doesn't really have much for me aside from the anti-woke ranting every now and then.

Gigguk breaks it down when he recommends something with a tad of memes thrown in the mix and it makes for an enjoyable viewing experience.

The Critical Drinker just makes some quips and, to be honest, a tad obnoxious use of some memes and sound effects, especially "The Message" in his vids. That isn't really something I particularly enjoy.

And when I do say this out loud, it would be considered as trolling or something and that really isn't what I'm trying to do.

And then they would say vile stuff to me and I have seen some shit and read some crap that would even destroy people like me and I really fear that.

Gigguk steers clear of controversy as much as he can and he does poke jabs at woke culture like cancel culture and Twitter ranters but that's about it and that's how much I can stomach.

The Critical Drinker comes off as too strong and when I can't stomach it, I'll be considered a wimp and that's not fun. Even fucking 4chan is not that toxic, the movie and tv boards I mean.

Politically Incorrect and R9k and random is a given sure but you expect that from there. I just want the Drinker to present why the movie is shit instead of calling it woke and using surface level literary stuff that's probably not up to snuff with a Tumblr post.

Dumbsville, an equally anti-woke dude is leagues better than The Drinker in reviewing. He likes Arcane, okay, but I want to fucking reject Arcane because of that now cause I feel like he tainted it with his "approval".

I am so fucking glad, Gigguk convinced me to watch it first before that esteemed gentleman whom I have been referring to as The Critical Drinker had the chance to taint it for me. And have you seen his review, dude doesn't know the difference between an MMORPG and an FPS. Gigguk's review of Arcane is superior for the sole reason that he gets the culture and the memes.

I found the Drinker back in the day cause of my anti-woke attitude and I still have an anti-woke attitude, just that I've mellowed out. I will admit though that his video on what is woke is one of the best videos on the topic to date and for that reason I will salute him but aside from that, I'm not a fan of him.

Although his podcast interviews are not too bad, he seems chill when he's not unhinged.

So if you guys like the type of content where it's Sargon of Akkad but for movies, TV, Pop culture and Western culture war with a side of snarkiness that's too much for my sensible sensibilities, then The Drinker is for you. I recommend starting with his Why Modern Movies Suck series. A good start.

Then Gigguk for the animes. And I have a lot to say about some anitubers but that's for another post here.

If you're confused as to where I stand with the Drinker, I'm in the middle of the fence that leans into the dislike team more. Like my feet is on the dislike team's side of the fence but I also hear the like and revere side and I understand some of what they're saying but not really getting into it, y'know? If it weren't for The Drinker making that one video defining woke, which I have been looking for years and where he was not a tad bit unhinged, I would've hated the guy and my past self for even liking his videos and his talking points.

I guess I just need someone to break down the woke movies of the modern day in a not so strong way. Dumbsville and Filmento come to mind. And they're a much more interesting watch than The Drinker is for the modern me.

I just can't help but think as to what the anti-woke internet would say about my opinion. Would they cancel me?

Would they label me a troll?

Would they see me as a threat that deserves termination?

Will they bully me?

Will they harass me?

Will they kick me out of their groups and circles?

So many questions that all hinges on what other people would think of me. They say to try to listen to your side but I tried that before and tries their recommendations and that just didn't do it for me. I have bad taste according to someone online but my brother also says that to me and I think I'm okay.

I just have to consume more media before I get the urge to move to more thought-provoking media.

I want to keep talking here but I should stop now. Let me check. Okay, checked. Not long enough.

So about my anti-woke past, I started my internet journey on Pinterest and then Tumblr and then Facebook before I was introduced to 4chan and Reddit.

I was seeing these posts on Pinterest about gay stuff and trans pride and all that without knowing what it all was but I do remember my reaction to it, it was confusion and a bit of not too fond of what it was.

I still had a very favorable view of Pinterest as a whole of course. Then I went to Tumblr where the porn was still all the rage back then. Loved the things I discovered there. Didn't really had the capacity of higher thought to make posts like this back then. I was just existing and that's okay.

So I was not aware of what anti-woke was or what Gamergate was or why it was happening but I know that there are some things I dislike in Pinterest that I wanted to say something about and Reddit and 4chan came to me. Introduced to me by a friend, these two were my go to back in 2018 to 2019. I was also starting to develop an anti-woke sentiment based on the things I see. I already had a dislike of strong stuff so things that sound like The Critical Drinker I steered clear off.

I discovered KotakuInAction (Gamergate), TumblrinAction (Anti-Tumblr but quite nuanced) and SocialJusticeinAction (unhinged but less interesting brother) and I enjoyed and lapped up all the things they said. How gays are ruining media (one can argue that it is true, new characters are more favorable than rewrites and I have a lot to say about rewrites) and how the ESG focused companies are bowing down to the woke mob (which I pretty much agree, I have the idea that if the people crying doesn't know what the thing they're trying to change is then they're not worth jack and is best to be ignored or provide a polite reply that says no).

I started with the news article reviewing sites like Mr. Obvious or No Bullshit. Obvious was better and he had this humor I liked. He was just repetitive and that really wasn't doing it for me then I started looking into anti-woke media analysis cause I always saw woke media analysis like that one Meduse and Athena are feminists and such (Yas, beotch slay!!!!; sorry I had to).

So I found the Drinker through that. He was still under a million subs and stuff but he scratched an itch.

Then the pandemic happened and the lockdowns, I got to thinking about things and I realized that being anti-woke isn't all that. How? I tried their recommendations and I wasn't really feeling them.

I tried the ones they dislike or the ones I know they will dislike and I got to enjoy those.

I still remember reading my first true LGBT webtoon called Acception and it still is my standard for LGBT media.

I had some things to go through during those years and I guess the strong opined individual is something I'm not very fond of developed greatly during that time.

I know I'm weak and I want to understand how to get better. I've been trying ever since.

I know that I went kinda off topic but hmmmm.

That's all from me for now. Go away now.