#movies watched in 2021

[krokodile]

again, it’ll be fun to see how much of this shit i actually remember.  i mean on the rare occasions i look back at these posts from ten years ago (or however long i’ve been doing these but it’s been close to that) i literally don’t remember half of the movies i’ve seen, so...you know i don’t even remember why i started doing this.

till death - can i confess something?  i hated gerald’s game.  this, though, this i liked.  it’s silly but the right kind of silly for megan fox to shine in.

respect - i mean biopics generally aren’t my thing but holy shit this was well-acted and well-sung, i’ll give it that.

escape room: tournament of champions - one of the main characters was a Black trans woman, and NOTHING about her character was “about” being a Black trans woman.  Do you know how fucking unusual that is???  The movie completely sucked but I don’t even care, 10/10 just for that.

slaxx - did NOT expect the social commentary or for it to be actually kind of well-done?  this isn’t just “it’s a silly premise anyway so no one cares if it’s shit.”  everything about it was deliberate.  i have to admit, i admire that.

friday the 13th parts 2 and 5 - watch parties with friends.  i remember nothing but making dumb comments and laughing at everyone else.  good times.

mrs. doubtfire - you know somehow i’d never seen this?  it hasn’t aged amazingly well, but i really don’t think it’s that terrible, either.  i mean it’s also not particularly funny, but i suppose that’s all subjective.

stage fright - a rewatch for a watch party, honestly i get such a kick out of this one.  “what do you know?  you’re just an alto” is probably my favorite burn of all time.  

[fluffypotatey]

okay so:

the year is 2021. the month is june. the new season of hermitcraft, season 8, has just started, and everything is great! the hermits are all messing around, having fun, building insane things within the first week of the server being active, and generally having a good time. everyone's collected themselves into little factions, pranking each other, and it's all the fun, lighthearted, mostly-vanilla content hermitcraft is known for.

and then the split between minecraft versions 1.18 and 1.19 is announced. the delay of new terrain, and especially of new mobs like the warden, considerably disrupt several of the hermits' plans. but it's fine, they'll figure something out, they're professionals, and it mostly goes unnoticed.

about two weeks later, on november 9th, grian turns to mumbo jumbo in one of his episodes, and asks the famous question that would seal hermitcraft season 8's fate:

"mumbo, is the moon... big?"

suddenly, the fans panic. they search back through videos and streams, and realize that the moon had been abnormally large and stuck in a full-moon phase since october 30th. the Moon Big event has begun.

this is where the roleplay really starts. once the moon's size has been brought up, the hermits start a weird combination of scrambling to figure out why the moon's growing, and how to stop it- but also of ignoring it, hoping it won't be a problem, hoping someone else will deal with it. the moon keeps getting bigger, more hermits start realizing it's going on, and a creeping sense of dread starts to grow. but it's fine. it's fine, right? they do little plotlines like this all the time. they'll figure something out, the moon will go back to normal, and we'll laugh about it when this is all over. it's fine.

and then, blocks start flying away. just floating up out of the ground, and falling right back down! like for a moment, a square meter chunk of dirt has decided it's a ballerina and leaped out of the ground! but it's fine, right? the blocks are coming back. no lasting harm is done. they're going to fix it all... right?

the moon gets bigger. it's growing every day- local hermit weirdguy joe hills measures it every stream. the blocks start flying higher. gravity starts getting... weird, with players getting the slow falling effect at random, and being lifted off of the earth themselves. the players form cults and rituals and whatnot to try and appease the moon, convince it to leave them alone, making plans to escape. nothing works. things keep getting worse, and the moon keeps getting bigger. but it'll be fine. these storylines never leave lasting harm, or at least they never have before. they'll be fine.

and then the blocks stop coming back, just floating into the sky forever. the players have the slow falling effect more than they don't now. the moon is now so big it's visible even during the day, and fills the entire sky at night. they start planning their escapes in earnest, and say their goodbyes. some hermits jump into a void hole in the overworld (it was the centerpiece of their village). some flee to the End, some to the nether, some just fly with elytras and hope they can get far enough away in time. one brave hermit, tango, flies himself to the moon in a futile attempt to blow the whole thing up before it can crash.

but in the end, the moon crashes into the server, and everything they'd built was destroyed. and the whole time, there'd been nothing any of them could've done. season eight was over, a full six months before anyone had expected it to end, and season nine wouldn't start until about three months later. and im still not okay about it.

(here's a cool animatic of the moon's crash! honestly i dont think you need too much hermitcraft knowledge to get the gist)

(also the moon crash happened on the day before my birthday lmao.)

….

holy shit

[almondcroissantsandink]

one year hence

[roseworth]

i love this one. btw. if you even care.

[neatokeanosocks]

i have finally seen Every Single Godzilla movie ever made. ask me anything

[adaricruz]

from arrakis 🌖

[tigerbears]

[ifwebefriends]

Zukka but it’s Dune

ID in ALT

[santaricotta]

↶*ೃ✧˚. ❃ ↷ Here comes Giulia ヽ(・∀・) ↶*ೃ✧˚. ❃ ↷

[krokodile]

Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always - an absolutely perfect little indie gem.  The lead is SHOCKINGLY great, possibly the best performance I saw last year, and Talia Ryder is just as great.  The writing is great, the performances are natural, it looks really good...not a thing I can possibly complain about.  ROUGH watch, though.  Now more than ever.

Voyagers - Kinda dumb, but entertaining enough.

The Good Liar - a little silly if you think about it too hard, but watching these two perfect actors play their little cat and mouse games?  Now THAT is entertainment.

A Quite Place Part 2 - really didn’t like it.  It’s like it looked at everything that made the first one special and went “okay but what if we did the complete opposite this time?”  The flashback scenes were pretty interesting, but beyond that I had a bad time with it.  

Peter Rabbit 2 - I have no real feelings about this one.  I’m 39 years old, this isn’t made for me.  It’s inoffensive as far as cartoons of the 2020s have gone.  

The Conjuring: the Devil Made Me Do It (or however you would capitalize that) - holy shit that was boring.  I love Vera Farmiga so much - and I’ve liked quite a few movies from this franchise - but this was a nap for me.

Song of the Sea - Gorgeous.  Breathtaking.  Stunning.  Deep.  I cried so much.  THIS is the kind of entertainment children deserve.  

The Night House - I am IN LOVE WITH REBECCA HALL’S PERFORMANCE IN THIS.  I mean, I love her in everything she’s ever done; she’s incapable of being less than great.  But I loved the choices she made for this character.  She’s fearless.  The movie itself is fine.

Candyman - I wish fewer people had been working on the screenplay; I felt like the writing wasn’t terribly strong and I think that could be why.  I loved the Kara Walker-inspired art throughout, and I really liked what they did with the story and how they tied in the original.  But the movie itself didn’t hold my attention too well.  The ideas were great.  It looked great.  But the actual movie I was watching?  Just didn’t grab me.  

[starberry-cupcake]

Beauty and the Beast (1991) // Belle (竜とそばかすの姫) (2021)

I was doing some content for my virtual workshop (because we start with the Villeneuve and Beaumont Beauty and the Beast versions tomorrow) and I thought the parallels from these two were super interesting to look at clearly and that maybe someone in here would appreciate them too.

[mossy-fae]

prince charming

[megmoon1111]

"My Lady... Are you real, or are you a spirit?" "What is the difference? I just need my head."

The Green Knight (2021)

[stinkyhyena9000]

Buster Moon Stimboard !!

For my Sing friends still out there, here's some food for y'all

🤍 💙 🤍 | 💙 🐨 💙 | 🤍 💙 🤍

Totally non-abrupt segway to a sentimental message:..

I just wanted to thank all of you for hosting such a lovely and wholesome fandom. I love we're a small community, but y'all have always made me feel so extremely loved, and I'm glad have had y'all be my first and sofar only fandom experience.

Please never stop making art and writing stories!

[floralcavern]

“So what’s your superpower?”

“I can dox people.”

[clown-paws]

> old art posting #10 -

> they make me so happy and so sad what da hell. fuckin. go watch luca if u haven't pls.

> ID below and in alt text -

[Image Description: A digital painting of Luca Paguro and Alberto Scorfano from the movie Luca. They are cuddling in the middle of the wooden boards of Giulia's open tree house, tree branches and leaves surrounding them. Luca has pale skin and short, curly brown hair. He is wearing an off-white collared shirt with teal checkered lines, and the bottom of his Blue shorts are visible. Alberto has tanned skin and brown, curly hair styled in a pompadour. He is wearing a yellow tank top and brown, cuffed shorts. They are both shoeless. Luca is sitting sideways between Alberto's thighs with his head of his chest. He has his arms around Alberto's back and neck, legs tucked under Alberto's thigh. Alberto holds him close, arms around his back and shoulder and legs hugging his torso. They are crying. Luca's face is scrunched up, tears turning his cheeks scaley and a pale green. His tears get onto Alberto's arm and turn his skin a scaley purple. Alberto's cheeks have turned the same purple as his arm, and he looks down at luca in sadness. In the background, behind the trees, is the orange sky of the sunset, with a single cloud. End ID.]