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slushi-chan · 2 months

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“I’ll show you insubordination you son of a bitch!” While running at a guy is reason enough to watch Predator 2 tbh

#predator 2 #not a good movie but the dialogue is great #and Bill Paxton is in it so even more worth it

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skunkes · 19 days

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winston duke

#talkys #just saw the fall guy nobody's looking at that damn [ryan gosling]#it was a whatever movey...it was fun but notttt...like....idk #the direction and pacing and dialogue was so off. rly only got good Ish at the end #i guess a better way to word it was the Establishing Plot part of the movie was kinda not great #honestly also jst makes me want to watch the [ken] movie again but i wont lest i turn into some sort of hysterical beast #at least i got to stare at 2 handsome men

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starbuck · 6 months

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if anyone was wondering, i’m currently reading published RPF about F. Scott Fitzgerald for *checks notes* my job, so that’s how my life is going.

#i’m not getting PAID to do it unfortunately #but i am getting an absolutely insane emotional experience #and i’m only three chapters in so i’m sure there’s plenty more excitement to come!#the author CANNOT write dialogue for shit… he cannot emulate how real people speak and puts exposition dumps IN the dialogue #and his descriptions are clunky and could have used some more polishing #he’s not great at showing instead of telling #or like. he IS - but he’ll show and then IMMEDIATELY tell #which is just SO disrespectful to the audience imo #and/or the sign of a lack of confidence in the writer #so bad either way #and literally the reason i was annoyed about that one movie earlier #so like. 🤷🤷#at least the movie had better dialogue #but i think that’s mainly because [redacted] just says whatever the fuck he wants #i know this because i do programs the same way - i can spot a fellow vibes-based speaker easily #it’s good but also MASSIVELY distracting because it reminds me of myself so i get self-conscious 😂😂

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michael-pemulis · 1 year

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even if you don’t play DnD definitely go see honor among thieves; it’s super fun and well-done and accessible to people who’ve never played. if you want a slightly enhanced experience, do what I did an go with folks who do play, and ask them some of their favorite settings, character types, creatures, or tropes on the way over so you can be delighted when you recognize something.

#I was so thrilled to know about the underdark #and owlbears and mimics #really enhanced my delight #dndhat #dadhat #idk how long it’s been since I went to the movies #years probably #but it was so much fun #i was really impressed by how enjoyable the movie was for me #not knowing any of the tropes or lore or such #very accessible. they talk in interviews about using structures viewers will be familiar with to ease them into the setting #and they do a good job of not getting bogged down in terminology and just showing what things are/do #at the same time there are tons of settings and creatures and items that the friends I went with could recognize and enjoy #most weren’t plot related but they obviously added to the atmosphere #fight scenes were great #dialogue was funny #and there were a few times where you could even intuit mechanics despite it not being part of the movie #j next to me in the theater: persuasion check #or the dm making a complicated puzzle or obstacle course only for the party to immediately break it or go around #rip thank you for your service

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nomaishuttle · 9 months

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watched secret world of arrietty potentially my new favorite ghibli movie... not potentially i think it legit is

#i watched fourr movies today 2 ive seen b4 and 2 new ones... arrietty was one of da new ones #the other new one was orlando pretty good i liked how likee. artsy it was... it was very cool basically i liked it and i rly loved the #costuming #i do wish it had subtitles on site i use tho bc i had a hard time understanding.. not da movies fault bc i have a hard time comprehending #dialogue in a Lot of older movies.. but i liked it :]]#but anyways yes. one thing abt me i was obsesseddd with borrowers as a kid it was part of my fairy obsession. i was sososososooso hopelessl #delighted by the concept of tiny people who live secretly and their houses and furniture are all fashioned out of #everyday human objects it made me fucking craaazy #me and my siblings favorite activity used to be building fairy houses... we even had one playground we loved specifically #bc it had a bunch of trees with little hollowed out areas under the roots which made the best fairy houses...#we had umm. for a while this is fun my mom had this likee. sheet she made that was like.. a grading sheet for playgrounds #so everytime we went to a playground wed check the little boxes for each thing on the list it had... like we had Curly slide swingset seesa #etc... and then wed also write in anything that wasnt on the sheet that we loved #and we wrote in Great for fairy houses for a lot of them.... it was rly rly rly fun i honestly think that might be part of where my love of #spreadsheets came from.. one thing abtme i looooove to categorize things by a set metric. so yes #basically :DDD I LOVE FAIRIES I LOVE BORROWERS!!! i rly rly rly wanna get into building those little miniature houses. dollhouses whyd i sa #minihouses LOL. i was thinking of likee studson studios type thang i forget what theyre called #ik they make little kits for it so id start with that but eventually id love 2 start just making my own...#i also used to watch those like. miniature cooking videos. they were my cocomelon i would literally watch them boil a droplet of water and #Lose my fucking mind KJASBDKUBSJ #or when they put the little miniature cake in their little miniature oven... i specifically am remembering the pancakes #I NEED 2 FIND THOSE AGAIN. I MISS THEM!!!!!

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imaginary-wanderer · 11 months

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Nimona was great, great animation, good story and even better message(s) of course. But I really have a problem with the overacting. It's like what DreamWorks, Pixar, Disney, etc, are doing: it's too much. The characters are overacting every single expression, every single gesture, every single line. It's tiring to watch. It's also a personal opinion, I know a lot of people like this kind of acting in animation, and that's alright, I'm not the animation authority. It's just feels like animated = overacting to show it's not real people.

It's a shame because the voice acting is good (great cast), the animation is good, and combined, it's absolutely good enough to show emotions, even with a bit of emphasis. The writing is enough to make us feel the angst, the fear, the sadness... And the soundtrack is also bringing all this together nicely. They did a good job! So I don't know why the US animation industry insists on making all the characters act like clowns, like mimes. They're already telling a story, there's no need for all those faces, those big gestures... and it's still can have this funny but also serious tone without having to overact every single expression and movement.

#not tagging it because i feel that this doesn't go along the general vibe around this movie #and honestly i really liked the movie #but the overacting in US animation needs to calm down a bit #also...i'm not sure the pro trans message is that obvious for random people #nimona is seen as different because she can have many shapes and she's not what people want to see #most will see that as 'accept people for their differences' which is great #but that's not a pro trans message #that's a 'don't be an asshole and accept differences' message #i expected something a lot more specific even as a dialogue if they didn't want to 'show it'#but i guess that's almost as good #anyway it's a good movie

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last-flight-of-fancy · 2 years

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Actually yknow now that I’m thinking about Belle, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen in media another situation where a character goes in for a kiss, realizes the other person is uncomfortable without that character overtly reacting or saying anything, and then backs off to go for a hug instead.

Honestly there’s a lot to love about Belle, but the way it reframes things, both in universe and out, are some of my favorites about it. I feel like those who felt as though the ‘romantic buildup’ led them on and were dissatisfied when it instead became platonic… kind of missed the point. It was never meant to be romantic, and it used those cues to make you question your assumptions- and moreover make you notice that something was off. honestly I think the movie and it’s themes work far better without it. It’s a really elegant demonstration of realizing the importance of someone without automatically assuming romance, that not being romantic does not mean lesser, and that, well, things aren’t always what they seem. Really what better tale to draw inspiration from for that kind of story?

As for my own experience watching it, honestly I can’t really quantify why I got the feeling early on that the whole romance thing wasn’t very romantic. I had nigglings of doubt as early as the beast crashing the concert (yes, actually. No, I really cannot tell you why. I didn’t think much of it at the time, assuming it would smooth out later) but by the time the dance rolled around all I could think was ‘this is either a horribly executed romance or it’s not supposed to be one at all’.

So of course when we got the twist I was delighted, because I’d been right. The pieces all slotted together in a wonderful harmony befitting a movie where music is such a central device.

I’m just gonna go ahead and blame kingdom hearts for this. It’s taught me too well to listen to my gut when it comes to the tone of a scene lol.

Belle took all these romantic tropes, the very direct homages to beauty and the beast, the roses and dances and imagery, and so smoothly shifted them from romantic potential to platonic ideal that I’m legitimately impressed. What’s more is that not for a second did that shift to platonic ever feel like a downgrade. The characters feelings did not lessen, only given new context and understanding both by the audience and the characters themselves, nor were they treated differently by the narrative. I don’t know if people understand how rare that is.

#belle movie #belle movie spoilers #i have a great many feelings about that almost kiss though #and there is ZERO awkwardness or hard feelings about the other not wanting to be kissed #even if said other was going to just let her do it rather than stop her #I DUNNO ITS REAL GOOD #and without a single line of dialogue through it all #stop talking to yourself flight

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alienheartattack · 11 months

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I want to be excited for the Barbie movie but Greta Gerwig’s version of Little Women was literally unwatchable

#i swear to god if she does dialogue the same way as LW i will commit suicide in the theater #that movie was suffocating and the dialogue was barely understandable #not to mention the bizarrely quick cuts and unnecessary non-linear storytelling #i never got around to seeing lady bird but people seemed to like that #and i enjoyed frances ha but apparently she just wrote that one #i don't feel great about rooting for what i assume is a feature-length commercial but i do love campy pink things #i just want to have good things because so many things are Bad

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kuruna · 2 years

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keep watching duncanville even tho its so so so so so so so mid

#hope talks #bobs burgers is getting a little shaky in its older seasons as all long running shows are oft to do but the movie was good #the great north i have some Ciritisms of (feels very much like it was made to appease white gays in progressive / wealthy cities despite tak #ing place in an alaskan small town ) but is overall consistent in quality #duncanville relies too heavily on 'did you get the reference' or 'WHOA did that just happen???' jokes #in addition to the many many many very weird and unfunny incest 'jokes'#is easy 2 see why its been cancelled already #SORRY I watch shows about a family called something like the Bingles #something the great north does that annoys me a little is that every time a plot device is introduced someone has 2 ask a question and then #that question gets explained. there has 2 be a more organic way of going about that. literally every episode there's at least one #'What is [X]?' 'Oh [X] is this weird thing we like to do' piece of dialogue #sorry this is the worst cartoon opinions post ive ever made

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lonely-dog-song · 1 year

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person narrating the Casablanca tape: but what is it about this film that has kept us coming back for 50 years? Is it the wartime patriotism? Is it the mysterious desert locale? Or is

me: it's

narrator: it the classic fate of the star-crossed lovers?

me: it's conrad veidt

#lonely dog speaks #i watched it because i found out he was in it... and was like ''oh that's a classic right?? we should watch it!''#uhhhhh and it was good!!!! 👍#the VHS sound quality wasn't great and no subtitles means i missed so much dialogue and context #which meant i was actually very confused most of the time........ 👎 it's not the fault of the movie though...#but i would watch it again (with subtitles) (and probably enjoy it more)#IT'S WEIRD.. i wanted to like it.. but i was just kind of lost and not comprehending the movie.....#but when i think about the plot and characters and dialogue (that i caught LOL) it had the makings of a good movie #oh my gosh there were like 3 actors i recognized by name but not by appearance in this movie #so the beginning of the movie was mostly me thinking ''is this that one guy? is this that one guy? is this that one guy?''#and it was very distracting lolllll so on a rewatch at least i wouldn't be doing that. as much.

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softgrungeprophet · 1 year

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skimming some asm (650-651, 658 etc) as reference for a suit

and god

there's a reason dan slott is one of my least favorite marvel writers lmfao

650-651 were okay.

658 is not even okay. It just sucks. And it's a great precursor example of the exact same shit that plagued his Fantastic Four run. Just, completely unfunny, uncaring, and shallow. Reading this, how can I be surprised he whiffed Johnny so badly in vol. 6? The night and day difference between these, and his Spider-Man/Human Torch comic, is baffling to behold. ASM 658 is dogshit by comparison lmao (and most of Johnny's treatment in Slott's F4 run is just as bad.)

#like the big time suit may be sexy and honestly though i mostly skimmed it the general plot was okay. not the worst.#but 658 so far is just PEAK example of why i find his writing so insufferable and tepid 90% of the time #when he gets he can get it pretty well but when he doesn't get it (which is most of the time) it's just a slog to read #his jokes aren't funny. he uses humor to cushion misogyny. his characterization is inconsistent. his dialogue is annoying.#nadia reads comics #and a great example why his petulant ''but you liked this other thing i did so you can't criticize anything i do'' shtick is so annoying #because when he misses he misses HARD and he misses most of the time #a few polished nuggets doesn't make a pile of shit into a hoard of gold you know ????#my other least favorite writer is john byrne for—honestly? some similar reasons though not entirely #zeb wells is on thin ice. i think he's a bad writer but like. in a b-movie kind of way???#like is his work good? no. do i even enjoy reading most of it? not really...? but i can glean more enjoyment out of like #new ways to live than i can out of spider-man worldwide you know???#can't judge his current stuff though i haven't been keeping up and i don't plan to start now #let me be clear though: new ways to live is not good XD #but it was fun #dan slott's stuff is often both not good and not fun

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rowanoftheunknown · 2 years

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Just saw Thor 4: More Thor. And like yeah yeah okay from like the dictionary definition of a movie with queer content there was not a lot of queer content. This was no brokeback mountain. But is this movie extremely, extremely queer? Yes.

#also it was just good?#like idk Chris and Natalie had insanely good chemistry #weirdly I think Korg was the weakest performance but everyone else was AMAZING #but yeah it had a lot of heart and I really don't like a lot of marvel movies so it was great that I didn't have to know anything prior #would suggest Tessa Thompson could kill me with her many weapons and I would thank her #korg was fucking annoying but. it's a movie for children. so.#like it's a kids movie and I think people need to remember that when they watch marvel #its not an excuse for them to be bad but it is an excuse for some of the dialogue #anyways I loved it #thor love and thunder

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platypusplayhere · 2 years

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besties, just saw Everything Everywhere All At Once, cuz it finally came out in theaters in france and oh boi, im a new person

#eeaao #i might see it a second time just cuz #it's so dense and good and great and #i don't have the words rn #platypustalks #everything everywhere all at once #the youre so bad and you have so much potential #the you're my mom and you hurt me yet i keep searching for you cuz i feel like u'd understand #the i chose go be optimistic and this is how i fight #the i make my own rules #the rocks dialogues #the overwhelming greatness of this movie #imma go watch it again but alone so i can cry my eyes out on my own

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hylass · 2 years

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Dwd is a solid b- of a film if you keep in mind that olivia wildes version of feminism is a woman getting fingered

#i liked most of it! loves of my life chris pine and flo pugh were acting their ASSES off!!#my review: harry was very outacted script was a little corny and it was marketed Terribly #but the rest of the cast Rules and it was super visually interesting!#dialogue was meh and the end got corny #but a solid good but Not Great movie #personall

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