#kickass film

[princeresnikov]

VANITY FAIR HOLY SHIT THANK U

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YOUR MAJESTY. HELL IS EMPTY. ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE

[asteroidz]

Evil Dead Rise (2023) and Evil Dead (2013)

[henrysglock]

Hey. Hey. Isn't it fucked up that TFS Brenner is represented by art of the Mindflayer.

Not just a drawing, either...a painting.

A red painting, even.

Like damn boys...look at the blocking on that one.

[groenendaze]

in light of re: Dog Training (tm) posts heres some shitty dog training while i work on heel work head position & positions in motion and a perfect example of how most training sessions aren’t picture perfect where the dog & handler do everything right all the time

[branmer]

ridiculous to me that when 1917 came out we had all these idiots on tumblr criticising it for glorifying war without even watching it just because it was set during wwi and then meanwhile star wars and marvel and other sff franchises glorify war and violence all the time and everyone is like 'yay amazing!!!!! more explosions please!!!'

[corpusdiem-seizethedead]

Davey: We’re never going to get this strike to work!

Jack: We can if certain people would help!

Spot: I’m sorry, are you addressing me? Because your authority is not recognized in… Fort Kickass.

[breserker]

so for the books (and my own benefit) i need to watch a lot of golden age of mexican cinema films, of that which i'm the most familiar with Pedro Infante's stuff. it's been slow going because none of this shit is very accessible and at this point in my life I understand Japanese wayyyy the hell better than whatever Spanish I left behind but it'll have to do when there are films that have no subtitles, english, spanish, or otherwise (weeps)

anyway one film i grew up with was La Tercera Palabra (1955) which is not dissimilar to My Fair Lady in some regards. unfortunately while this film was uploaded to youtube about 2 years ago and has nearly a million views, the most recent printing of the film is a 2003 DVD and the criterion collection has like. 1, soon 2 films from this era of Mexican history (for a total of 12 Mexican films at least one if not two of which are del toro's which, don't get me wrong dude. favorite living director. BUT, you feel me. when their French and Japanese and Italian lists sprawl for 90, 100, 200 entries and then there's this wholeeee classical era of a neighboring country's films not--ok rant for a different time)

point being, i THOUGHT the dvd i grew up with, that 2003 printing, had subtitles, if not in english then in spanish. probably not in english. i put in a request at my library like "hey can you find this film with english subs for me please bc it's not just me but my roommate wants to watch it after i hyped it up and the criterion collection--okay RANT FOR ANOTHER TIME". this occurred at 2am. 2 hours later i realize in despair no that 2003 dvd doesn't have eng subs, no release of the film has eng subs anywhere and i'm suddenly struck with the horror that i've only ever seen the film in pure spanish when i thought i had a guideline. so i send another despairing letter to the library like "please disregard that. i'm not drunk but i'm in despair."

well they got it for me anyway, same DVD from my childhood. i tottered home with it yesterday and popped it in and watched it and reader there were no spanish subs either. PURE 1955 audio quality spanish. how did i watch this as a kid.

it was extremely painful to watch as an adult. film is a visual medium so i did understand a lot of story beats, like, you know, i know they're falling in love in this scene. i have no idea why though. some jokes i got. but they were also easy to get. i understood the gist of the plot because i had seen it before (and no thanks to wikipedia, look at this awful stub of an english page. it lists only Sara Garcia as starring, but she's not EITHER of the two main roles, one of which is Marga Lopez (the protagonist) the other of which is Pedro Fucking Infante. yes i have plans to dress up that page at some point because christ this is bad)

either way it's still a fantastic film imo. you can watch it here if you like. the benefit to my viewing is that it's almost 1:1 how Vel watches the film on his tia's massive VHS collection of pedro infante movies, complete with "i get the film and some of the spanish but i can't quote anything nor truly understand the artistry of the dialogue".

[littlemeangreen]

I'm really hoping that Deadpool 3 is gonna be a musical film seeing as both Ryan and Hugh have featured in past musical films and the idea of Wade and Logan singing and dancing the whole time

[geekwiththegoggles]

Lemme tell you how COOL it is to just like. Have an international film festival in your back yard. Like my sister lives 20 minutes from the beach town this film festival takes place in and we've gone three years in a row. We've seen some INCREDIBLE stuff that just keeps getting better and better. Like. C'mon. What's better than watching creepy independent short movies for two hours in a historic church -turned-maritime museum? Oh yeah, having your favourite ice cream place like, two blocks away.

Hell yeah support the arts and local businesses or whatever.

[cult-rangoons]

currently yearning for saint motel’s one night only live with orchestra full album performance of the original motion picture soundtrack. i became a fan 3 years too late. there is no recording of it online except for the cover of snake charmer that they posted on their insta. the yearning is strong

[crayonurchin]

Cosplay is something that looks super fun if I had the times and skills and sensory compatibility to do it. I'd love to cosplay dnd characters, show characters, film characters

But right now?

I rather desperately want to cosplay Chetney Pock o' Pea

Nay

I want to perform as Chetney Pock o' Pea

[ghostinacardboardbox-oldblog]

Okay but why is no one talking about that part in Goncharov right before Katya strangles Ice Pick Joe when he asks “Are you happy?” And she looks him in the eyes and says “No, but I will be.” AND THEN SHE FUCKING KILLS HIM?? That drives me insane.

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[queerly-autistic]

One of my favourite things about S2 was that we got to see so much in terms of Ed's relationships with women, and it just made me love him even more (if that's humanly possible). We didn't see him interact with many women at all in S1 (I think it was only the posh ladies at the fancy party which was...yeah, not a good experience), so S2 actually giving us a glimpse into his friendships with all these (very different) kickass women was so, so special.

I love that, as messy and fucked up as they all are, and even with the 'well we're pirates, we're not normal and we will fuck with each other' threat that hangs over everything, Ed's relationship with Mary and Anne is still so affectionate, and they both thrown their arms around him the moment they see him. Even though Ed is incredibly tactile, I don't think we've actually ever seen him be hugged like this, and it's just so lovely to watch him be embraced and clearly feel very safe being embraced by these women (and I can't with the way he clings to them, as well). I also love that this is a wlw/mlm friendship; yeah it falls apart later and turns into delicious gay-on-gay violence (and I wouldn't alter a note of it), but I love seeing this sort of affection between queer women and queer men, there's not nearly enough of it.

Don't even get me started on the BFF handshake he has with Anne - I want all the history there, give me six spin-off films about their adventures please.

And then we finally get a glimpse of his relationship with Jackie, which is similarly just lovely, but in a different way? You get the sense that they could sit there for hours, talking shit about the world, all whilst casually ripping the shit out of each other (but affectionately). You also know full well these two have talked extensively about men and know pretty much everything about each other's sex lives - we didn't see it, but I'm absolutely certain that Ed went into full gushing details about sleeping with Stede, just like Jackie did when she talked about The Swede fucking like a jackhammer (historical accuracy ftw).

And, again, whilst they're still pirates, and it's messy, the entire thing feels incredibly...safe, particularly from Ed's perspective? He feels more comfortable around Jackie than he is around most other characters (apart from Stede), just like he was with Anne and Mary.

And then, just to hammer the point home even further that Ed has, generally, fantastic relationships with women, and connects with them, and feels relaxed and safe with them, you have Ed and Zheng becoming instant BFFs literally minutes after meeting each other. Ed goes 'ooh, very cool woman kicking ass and killing people, she shall be my best friend, immediately', and Zheng is automatically incredibly relaxed and open with him, too (suggesting she feels as safe and comfortable with him as he does with her).

All I want in life is to see Ed and Zheng get silly-drunk with each other (and this is why we urgently need a S3).

And none of Ed's relationships with these women are a fetishistic 'I love women because they're fabulous' thing, or an overly patronising paternalistic 'I love the women and I must protect them' thing - all the relationships he has with women are very equal, very comfortable, fully believable, just fantastic friendships to watch play out. I feel like, given everything we see on screen, Ed generally feels a lot more comfortable and safe and open with the women he knows than the men he knows (Stede is the only other person he is this physically affectionate and comfortable with). Which is probably very understandable? Yes, the women he's friends with are all violent pirates too (that's part of the joy of it - none of them are lovely demure morally pure women, they're all violent pirates), but Ed has a lot of experience with specifically overtly abusive men - right back to watching his dad abuse his mum. And that's a distinction that matters: the show treats the violence of normal piracy and the violence of abuse very, very differently. Ed is not used to being treated softly or affectionately by men, as we saw in his shocked reaction to Stede holding his hand. I don't think it's any wonder that he gravitates more towards friendships with women (or that the men he feels the most open and safe with, such as Stede, Fang, even Frenchie, are very pointedly the opposite of the abusive men he has experience with). I just love love love that being friends with women is such a core part of Ed's character, and that we got to see all of these fantastic relationships in the show.