#movies tv etc

[larmaro]

Histoire d'O, 1975

[giantkillerjack]

Me: hm, I want something to put on the TV as background noise... Huh. Looks like YouTube is recommending something called The Last Unicorn. That's perfect, it's probably some old shitty animation that has aged poorly! I can watch it ironically!

Me, 2 hours later as the credits roll: *crying, cheering, buying the book, composing the songs*

Me, 2 weeks later: So I have compiled all of the quotes from the book that I think could make good tattoos, and also, HOW HAVE I NEVER LEARNED ABOUT HOW THE LAST UNICORN FUCKING SLAPS??? This gay-ass little fairytale fed my soul! Watered my crops! Transed my gender! Can't believe I heard of this story from youtube recommendations, of all places!!

[why-the-heck-not]

tulips !! they’re underrated

[marklikely]

the movie did such a good job at putting me in isabel/owens shoes honestly because i was looking at tara/maddys monologue scene through a lens of just not letting go of nostalgia so i was like 'oh my god do not get in that hole in the ground. this is crazy' but then two minutes later with hindsight i Understood and was like 'NO YOU SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN IN THE HOLE IN THE GROUND GO BACK'

[aroaceleovaldez]

my current theory is that PJO TV is gonna go the exact same route as the movies:

Movie/Season 1 - The writing is meh and is criticized alongside the heavy deviations from the original series. Some people are staunch believers that it is too harshly criticized for being a derivative series, and they're probably right to some degree. As a stand-alone media it's somewhat confusing without original context and generally received as Medium-At-Best, but not the worst thing ever.

Movie/Season 2 - The writers respond to criticism by making changes recommended by feedback to the first [season/movie]. These changes to be closer to the books are generally regarded favorably. The second [movie/season] is regarded with little fanfare. They solve too much way too early on and essentially kill any chance for them to continue the series, but set up a continuation anyways by introducing Thalia. They announce plans for the third [movie/season] and everyone is confused.

Movie/Season 3 - Is announced but never comes to fruition and everyone is kind of relieved by that. Also I personally hope Disney+ will be dead by this point. Maybe Netflix will pick it up to go with the TKC movies. I dunno.

[ghostsghoulsandhatboxes]

guys. im. theres more concept art from that old canceled HM cartoon (found by @poketheplatypus ty man)

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"...before we were informed that theme park rides were too valuable an IP to be wasted on animation."

raiding disney hq right now WHAT DO U MEAN WASTED ON ANIMATION THIS WOULDVE BEEN THE COOLEST THING EVER i am going to SCREAM

[t00thpasteface]

shebbz i just want to say that you are single-handedly convincing me to watch mash... i know nothing about the show but ur chipping away at my brain like a misfolded protein

just make sure you watch it without laugh tracks

[deeneedsaname]

One of the most beautiful things about this episode was B-15 and Mobius and everyone looking at all the branched timelines disintegrating, because they were devastated. It wasn’t that long ago that they were horrified at the idea of one large branch, and now, everyone’s gotten to a point that they’re heartbroken over losing that chaos. They used to fight every day to keep that straight, singular line clean: then it got jumbled and messy…and now, it’s going back to how it was. It’s the cinematic ‘what you thought you wanted all along isn’t really what you needed’ and MAN is that my thing

[werewolf-transgenderism]

we can't have original series without them getting canned every five seconds and studios are unwilling to pick up films and series that aren't beating existing IP to death for the ten thousandth time but sure. let's make a glorified advertisement for a cereal brand

[trobeds]

they push their beds together in minecraft

[beauxjangles]

ghost goes to hollywood...

[sinnohqueen]

i hate that Gamer Bros (tm) are already complaining about this possible video game strike as if nobody has a backlog that would take several lifetimes to complete. if not having shiny new video games for an unknown amount of time means that hopefully people in the industry will actually get what they should have been given a long time ago, i will gladly (finally) knock some games off my list as completed in the meantime

or just like. get another hobby. idk what to tell these people anymore

[ranticore]

may i ask what your academic background is? did you or do you study biology/anthropology/related subjects? i'm really curious as to how you got to such a degree of specificity in the anatomy and culture side of your world-building!! it's really inspiring!

marine & freshwater ecology with also some years in veterinary (though i never worked in the field beyond mandatory internships, knew it wasn't for me). always loved anatomy & physiology, when i was in my veterinary course i did an elective on human anatomy for radiography and it was sooo cool. i mostly work with invertebrates now :)

as for anthropology?? i know jack shit really aside from what i've picked up through osmosis over the years and a single semester of elective forensic anthropology & primatology, which nearly exclusively focused on arranging skeletons into anatomical order in a lab and learning about human evolution before Homo sapiens. culture i just have fun with, it's the thing that has the most potential to build a fascinating setting imo, moreso than very complex or unique alien body plans or knowing what exact gases comprise an atmosphere (obligatory ymmv statement)

i've used Siren as a sort of testbed for any random idea for a culture i've ever had and thrown them all in together because it's a whole planet, so it has the diversity of a whole planet. It's why I prefer to group people based on where they're from rather than what body plan they have. The rest follows; say I have fifty different pelagic villages across the whole world, that means fifty different cultures with their own specific beliefs, building styles, communication styles, attitudes towards relationships, etc, and yes fifty different languages, but all of these are informed by the specific pressures of living underwater. a phocid from a spiral pelagic village might think the cultural practices of a phocid from an eastern pelagic village are alien and strange (and in fact they do; some of the eastern villages have active monarchies which would be all but inconceivable to anyone from the west in this time period), but a spiral phocid and a spiral shortwing would have a lot in common.

[bisexualalienss]

hate hate that tv shows are basically like 8 hour movies now. where’s the filler where’s the character driven plot where’s the season long arcs

[randomfoggytiger]

This RomCom Hater Was Blown Away by What Happens Later

Trailer wasn't my cup of tea; but hooray for David Duchovny and Meg Ryan.

Saw the horrific reviews: in-depth, agreeing with each other. Saw the good reviews: short, didn't do much to advocate for themselves.

Read @amplifyme's praise. Intrigued. Trust her taste. Hunted the movie down.

Adored it.

Despite the constant back-and-forth carrying the scenes forward, this movie is quiet, beautifully so. In spite of nonstop scene changes, conversations, roadblocks, steps forward (and backward and forward), and-- of course-- loud intercom tunes, it doesn't distract from the heart: two mature people easily reconnecting but slowly reopening with each other. The plot holds up and follows all the way through. Excellent acting (of course.) Drama perfectly balanced by characters who act like people rather than written lines on a page. The chaotic "to be continued" resolution amazingly pulled off. The dreaded romcom three-quarter act expertly aced. What Happens Later weaves in reconciliation and grief and healing more than the potentially awkward jitters and "whoopsies!" of seeing an old flame in a (poorly written) reunion; more importantly, it shows that the love between these two people was never gone, only that it had been buried in their denial and mutual inability to put all their cards on the table. Now they do, because now they can.

Speaking of which, this film did not merit the excoriation it got. And that's saying a lot; because, truthfully, I am extremely picky about storylines and characterization and execution of those elements. This was an easy positive; and it baffles me why others rated it so badly. Willa is not annoying and she and Bill do not lack chemistry and the man over the intercom is only mildly a "character" and is not directly addressed by either until more than halfway through act (and even then Intercom Voice doesn't interfere so much as guide the characters with literal signs for them to follow if they choose.) And, no, there isn't a reason to walk out of the theatre right after the 45 min. mark, no matter how many reviews say otherwise (and I'm not going to say they were bots, buuuuuuuuuuuuut they all wrote the same thing, kind of verbatim. Meanwhile, I waited with bated breath as 5 minutes turned into 10, 20, 30, 40, 45... 46, 47, 48; and was simultaneously pleased when nothing "happened" and angered at the injustice of those reviews.) What Happens Later doesn't follow current film trends but it isn't out of style; furthermore, it doesn't feel experimental (though it is)-- flowing along seamlessly from one shot to the next without drawing attention to itself. And it doesn't try to make a statement, prove a point, or be anything other than a top-rate romcom. So, all that's left is... wrong timing? Hollywood disillusionment? Or were the crowds, like me, drawn in by the trailer, expecting a different movie; and walked out when they didn't appreciate what they were seeing?

At any rate, this is up there. Way up there. Highly recommend it to anyone.

[all-or-nothing-baby]

when people say "why do they have to make all the characters on my tv queer these days?" what they are really saying is, "why do they have to make characters on my tv queer these days?