#i watched the sequel too

[otterandterrier]

confronting my childhood fears (rewatching jeepers creepers)

[r0semultiverse]

The code at the end of the credits in the FNAF movie spells "COME FIND ME" btw for those without captions.

[fellthemarvelous]

I love Anakin Skywalker's disaster grandson. Ben Solo inherited Anakin's flair for the dark and dramatic.

[storge]

SHIMIZU HIROYA as Hanma Shuji Tokyo Revengers 2: Bloody Halloween - Destiny (2023)

[crossthread]

Okay I swear to God I hope the directors of avatar (the alien movie) sees this post somehow but the whole reason the way of water flopped so badly is cause it was written over 10 years ago. So I like avatar. I thought it was a cool concept and good characters and overall a solid action movie. But the characterisation is just a dacade old man. It's really outdated. It instantly turned me off when Jake was seen to be a 'hardass' to his kids, and having them call him Sir, and have Neytiri taking kind of a secondary role as the 'peacekeeper' parent who goes 'but your dad loves you, he just wants you safe' bullshit trope that's just really not what this generation is looking for rn.

Emotionally mature parents is what's on topic rn. Dad's that step up and know what they're doing and don't have the 2000s 'military hardass emotionally distant' bullcrap. Just look at all the other movies and shows with family themes that did really fucking well. The Last of Us. Ultraman: Rising. Nimona. Even Maleficent, which I think is one of the earliest movies of this trope that's well known. They did well for a reason. You can't make Jake Sully a bad father and think the current audience will dig it. All of his kids, one way or another felt the pressure of living up to their dad's expectations, and im sure, whether he really loves them. And I assure you for all intents and purposes it felt like Neteyam died thinking he wasnt enough. You can't have those 'your dad loves you but he just doesn't know how to show it' bullshit anymore and expect the audience to like or even relate to that character cause a lot of us don't take that shit anymore from our own parents. A lot of millennials are actively trying to be present and good parents to their kids. So yeah. The way Jake Sully, and to a certain extent, Neytiri were characterised is probably one of the biggest reasons this entire movie flopped. It could have been great. But it isn't. And I kind of hate it actually.

My point is: if there's gonna be a third movie, the best bet to make sure it doesn't follow the way of waters footsteps is to overhaul a lot of the characterisation and plot. See what the audience wants rn, and what they audience relates to. It was clear the writing to that movie was old as balls and gen z or gen alpha don't take that shit man. Give us good parents

Edit: okay as someone pointed it out it wasn't actually a 'flop' flop because they grossed by over a billion or smth in the box office I think but to be fair half this post has been sitting in my drafts for like 2 years and I wrote this soon after I watched it back then, and a LOT of people werent that happy with it. But yall know what I mean. I waited for this movie for 10 years and all I felt was this low simmering disappointment because it could have been so good, but it wasn't.

[pinazee]

It sounds like theres some interest in rerunning/rebooting one of the old starkid shows!

So out of curiosity,

[ganondoodle]

(idk if anyone wants to keep hearing my opinions on totk book stuff but-)

apparently it says that rauru DID have kids, multiple even, which yeah... is kinda necessary for zelda to even be connected to them so much so that sonia can SENSE a blood connection (which, even with all the excuses with magic, is just a little too far for me to suspend my disbelief bc its over, OVER, ten thousand years worth of generations that seperate her from them that one lil touch of the hand can sense that (feels more like an attempt to make you care about them or .. see them as zeldas "better" parents just bc they exchange a few nice words, i never got the feeling they were 'better' parents and its also kinda disrespectful to her actual parents, like sure rhoam wasnt the best but i wouldnt call rauru better just bc he was polite)- i could see maybe the light power of hylia or sth but since its the coolest dude that ever lived rauru now that had it which still doesnt make sense and makes me unreasonably annoyed and she can sense BOTH of their powers in her? nah) the fact theres NOTHING about them in the game itself is just so ... no way they planned any of this

i dont think theres anything they can do or say that wont make be believe they either

are making it up alla 'fix it in post' mentality trying to hastily explain stuff the game never bothers to do to try and appease fans or let it appear as if they thought about it at all

something went really REALLY wrong during development, which kinda seems likely given how the game turned out (im sorry i cannot let go, its not just the writing, the game design too and how little was changed in the map while being so damn expensive, i dont know how people dont feel scammed q_q)

given that they (allegedly) spent the last entire year of development on polish (where??? where????? huh??? like it would make it more understandable (EXCEPT for the price) if there was alot of trouble, which was also bc it got delayed and ... turned out like this, but they dont want to say it, especially given their reputation, with that quote i have heard way too many times 'a delayed game blah blah') i just??

are they just gonna go and do it like they did with kashiwa (kass)? "they uuuh where flying around the whole time ony cool sonau tech maschines, you just dont see or hear from them ooooorrr they were uuuuh out of the country at the time" (sending invitations to other continents to join their glorious kingdom ;) )

(bet they are also gonna say they did all the stuff like ... moving the shrines around (lol?) and lifting the islands up into the sky- which is still weird bc ... didnt they also say they were living in the sky before coming to the surface?? so where?? did they park all their islands on the surface and the mystery kids had the keys so they had to repark them back into the sky after they returned off camera?? xD also why are the islands so different as an environment if they where from the surface? like even the STONE up there is different- and if they were first in the sky then on the surface and the nback in the sky .. why is there not a single yellow tree or grass in the past- you cant really argue that it changed bc they were up there so long bc .. nothing else changed, the suddendly and totally always there sonau buildings are largely in prime condition, only some slightly moldy, and what we see of the glorious past looks barely any different from the present, aside from like ... some standard trees shuffled, no castle yet and that glowy uwu filter DESPITE that stupidly long time frame between it)

[palilious]

I fell in love again All things go, All things go

[hinasho]

As someone that had never heard about The Crow in any capacity before this year, I saw the new movie yesterday and it was pretty good!

It was a nice amount of edginess that was endearing and genuine. There’s a difference between being edgy for shock value and ego stroking (Jared Leto’s Joker) vs edginess that’s produced from the story the creatives want to tell and are just passionate about. This movie definitely fit the latter rather than the former.

Bill “Scream King” Skarsgård is obviously a great actor and FKA Twigs did really good for only her 2nd leading role!

The two had good chemistry, and it felt realistic that he did falter in “your love must always remain pure” before diving all in and sacrificing his soul. It is hard to remain 100% pure all of the time, humans are fickle souls are not, so him choosing a deal that is set in stone from the get go was a natural and damning next step.

I also wonder if they’ve left the door open for a sequel given Shelly remembers everything, the guy from that purgatory world (who Google says was Kronos) is in the human world, and Eric said he wasn’t satisfied because he wants to be with her. A sequel could be cool.

Something that caught my attention was how Bill portrayed Eric. Going into the movie, I thought he was going to be an arrogant smartass or asshole. But he wasn’t. Normal!Eric tries to follow rules (most times), he was shy in the beginning stages of his and Shelly’s relationship, and death horribly freaked him out both before he died and when he becomes the “pre-Crow” phase (??? If I understood right, he didn’t actually become The Crow until the third act, and that what he was beforehand was like a middle ground?)

Like, Eric was just a decent guy who wanted very badly to be happy, and found that happiness with Shelly. Which makes it tragic when he discards the final remnants of his humanity and starts killing left & right and let’s vengeance consume him. The development of him initially freaking out whenever he got hurt vs him getting brutalized later on, still feeling every wound, but just no longer caring because he’s doomed anyway was *chefs kiss*

Overall I enjoyed it. Sadly I think it’s getting review bombed by fans of the 1994 adaptation. I hope that somehow its able to garner enough support to have a sequel, and despite how the ‘94 fans seem to be acting, Bill’s Crow has made me curious on the original movie so I’ll probably be watching that soon too 🐦‍⬛

[aspionagee]

The way you know I'm a nerd is because I'm constantly gripped by the urge to drop all my WIPs and do a world building heavy Wizengamot political drama??? Writing Severitus has my heart but every now and then it really creeps up on me

[taskmasterhistorian]

One second of Greg and Alex at the beginning of every episode of Taskmaster (Series 1-16)

[broadway-and-books-love]

Johnny and Ponyboy were each other’s first loves and definitely knew it in that church, in this essay I will

[tinderbox210]

For science and fic research purposes 😏

[philhoffman]

@bonojour I don’t know why I didn’t think of this sooner, but I just remembered RSL was in Long Day’s Journey Into Night with Phil in 2003 and thought of you!! One of my favorite plays ever and this production had incredible reviews, what I wouldn’t give to see it 🥹💕

[mintjeru]

pov you are an anime fan in july 2024

[jimmyspades]

"The concept of a last stand sounds so heroically romantic, doesn’t it, Donald? But there’s a good reason why we didn’t see what happened to Butch and Sundance. Being riddled by bullets and left to rot under a scorching Bolivian sky does not a sequel make. And if you’ve surmised nothing about me by now, know this—I’m gonna be around for the sequel." THE BLACKLIST 1.09 "Anslo Garrick (No. 16)"