#i unironically love this movie so much

[measlyfurball13]

I've been trying to muse why Tom Wachowski from the Sonic Movie works as a good character whereas all the other Generic White Dudes from similar live action/animated mixed movies failed. I'm talking movies like The Smurfs and Alvin and the Chipmunks, because let's face it, the Sonic Movie falls neatly into that genre.

TL;DR of my insane ramblings: Tom punches Eggman in the face, and that means everything to me.

Maybe it's because Tom isn't written as an asshole? Like, yeah, he definitely has his five minutes of "I don't know who you are, weird talking animal, why would I want to help you?" -but that's just it. It's five minutes. For the rest of the runtime, Tom spends his time getting to know and like Sonic. It feels like a lot of the other Generic White Dudes seem to barely tolerate their cartoon companions, despite the movie claiming that they've learned some grand "lesson" from their inclusion in his life. Tom has no third-act breakup, no Liar Revealed, no contrived misunderstandings or sudden betrayals of Sonic- he acts like how a decent person would. Somehow this is revolutionary. (Oh, and he actually loves his wife. Somehow this is also revolutionary.)

Maybe it's also because Tom slides naturally into the wacky cartoon hijinks instead of desperately trying to stay out of them. Films like Smurfs and Hop and Alvin and the Chipmunks constantly have the cartoon characters "ruining" the Generic White Dude's normal life with their presence. Tom's life and plans are ruined by Sonic, sure, but this is because Dr. Robotnik becomes his antagonist, too. Tom sees his house getting totally ruined by the cartoon villain who's hunting the cartoon animal and, instead of blaming the cartoon animal for it, he gets mad at the right person- the villain! Instead of lamenting "why are these talking animals happening to me?", he takes stock of the actual situation and goes "woah, this asshole wants to hurt this kid, that's not okay" and then proceeds to do something about it. He's got stakes in the outcome of the cartoon hijinks, which makes his presence in them feel like a natural inclusion rather than a random coincidence.

You get the sense that Sonic matters to Tom. The events going on in plot affect Tom. For Christ's sake, he gets a full character arc over the course of the runtime! Tom is a fully integrated part of the Sonic movie, core to it's DNA- you couldn't replace him without changing everything.

Because no other Generic White Dude besides Tom Wachowski would punch Eggman in the face.

[cowboy-robooty]

one of the biggest mistakes of my life was not watching jojo rabbit in theatres swear to god... one of my top 5 movies

[kakusu-shipping]

Pre-relationship 4-6 for the Mario Bros.! (Or your favorite of those questions if you only want one haha)

Yes!!! More Mario Bros ramble!!! Blessed!! Thankyou!!

4. Who felt romantic feelings first?

Hard to say, sense they've always been like this. There's not a specific moment either of them could go back to and say when they fell in love, they've always loved eachother, you know?

Though Luigi was the first to recognize these feelings as romantic, and different than how he loved, say, their mom and dad, and that that was something important. Mario didn't think it mattered what kind of love they had, their mama had taught them Love is Love, so what does it matter, right?

This happened when they were like 7.

5. Did either of them try to resist their feelings?

Maybe not quiet resist, but Mario did consider it for a while.

Around middle school-ish age, 12 or 13, their mom sat the brothers down to explain the difference between Familial and Romantic love, and why that difference was important, kind of assuming they didn't really know the difference in their emotions yet.

The whole thing made Mario feel awful. He'd made his mother worry, his father angry, and worst of all he, the older brother, put Luigi on the line for his own selfish reasoning.

The only reason he didn't fully withdrawal from Luigi and stew in an early sea of self deprecation was Luigi rubbing it in Mario's face that he was right, that the love he has for Mario and the love he has for the rest of their family is different. He did an "I Told You So" dance and everything. He was right and Mario was wrong ha ha ha ha ha!

So yeah. Mario considered resisting his feelings for all of about 20 minutes before Luigi snapped him out of it, and reminded him why that would simply never work. Not for them.

6. If you had told one of them that the other would be their soulmate, what would they think?

Mario doesn't believe in soulmates, he's a simple guy and not all that romantic in the grand scheme sense. Luigi on the other hand is all about Cosmic Connection and the "Over and Over again, life after life, I will find you, and I fall in love with you again and again" kind of cheesy nonsense. He'd be over the moon about it.

[disabledrodimus]

tonight i watched the 90s live action mario movie with my friends expecting to laugh at how bad it was- everyone who has ever told me that movie was bad owes me $5000 right fucking now

[geminmyeyes]

-resurfaces after 1000 years- hey guys

(not a virus link I promise)

[holdoncallfailed]

you know what's a great comedy with queer representation and pop culture references? superbad (jonah hill and michael cera were in gay love)

[tickles-tea]

Credit to @ssnicker-doodless for the template!!

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Last night I was spontaneously inspired to fill one of these out so here it is~

[woolydemon]

one of my fav things abt shaggy from Scooby Doo is that he is a skilled ventriloquist. He's really good at throwing his voice to make other things sound like they're talking, and also he has a talking dog that's unrelated to that

[borom1r]

i always forget how much i love shaun of the dead until i watch shaun of the dead (2004, dir. Edgar Wright) again and its like oh yea, that's right, this movie fucking rules

[the-halfling-prince]

when I remember how much I love the Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium score and add like half of it to my instrumental playlist: (I was gonna find a picture to put here but I'm too tired pretend there's a picture of someone dancing idk leave me alone)

[stinkrascal]

this entire straud generation is just gonna be caspian being like Im so fucking ugly and stupid. Everyone hates me. and everyone else being like Theyre so cool. I want him so bad. its kinda like this scene in meet the robinsons

this one. this is caspian

[priestfrommidnightmass]

i just made the most Rad edit of all time of lost angels (1989) but i don’t know if i can post it i’m afraid adam horovitz will send me death threats if i do

[ilonacho]

what if i became a minion blog again💛

[bugieeeee]

9, 17, 32, & 49 for the ask game :D

9. Whats sounds or scents calm you down

Putting my headphones on to listen to one of my plalist calms me down so much wich one depends on why I'm upset but that's like my #1 go to am obsessed with rain both the noise and smell and I really enjoy any scent that feels fresh

17. What's the last thing you ordered online

I bought a bottle of Tattoo ink..... and before that I bought some CD's for my sister and mom next I think I'm getting rocks

32. If you could dye your hair any color, regardless of how you think it would look, what color would you choose?

Green bc it's my favorite color it just realistically wouldn't look good I also want to do like a red and black but that's more realistic

49. What's your favorite thing to do when its raining

Go outside to just be in it then come back in and draw with music playing

[kylejsugarman]

the reverent way people on this website talk about "megamind" is exactly how i feel about the cloudy with a chance of meatballs franchise

[starlightnavis]

listen about my last post I was having a conversation with my partner about which of our Anime Malewives™ would go to see the movie and minato was one of them