#terrible for cgi

[serahsquire]

HDG can't go mainstream. Not because it's too gay and trans to be retrofitted for cishet audiences, but because the Affini would be an actual nightmare to recreate visually

[warren-keplers-funk-band]

every time i want to be absolutely ruined, i just think about the fact that, despite being only five seasons, in-universe bbc's merlin spanned over a period of ten years.

ten years during which merlin dressed and undressed arthur every day. took care of his armour. stood and fastened the clasps when arthur was going out to battle. what imaginably could be more quietly intimate than that?

ten years during which merlin withstood being underestimated, withstood all that he had done for arthur being unacknowledged, just so he could stay by his side.

ten years during which the most powerful magical being in albion chose to stay by arthur's side as his manservant, and his friend. destiny be damned.

that utter devotion, loyalty to each other? arthur's reciprocated loyalty to and love for merlin despite the fact that, in his mind, he was just a human servant who hadn't saved his life nearly half as much as in reality?

I'M DEAD. BOWLED OVER. IN RUINS.

[hattersarts]

that was a bad movie but giving lilith mummy issues and then projecting them onto tannis was actually a very high iq move and it keeps making me laugh when i remember it

[luthienne]

no because you’re telling me that matt witnessed his best friend—his true north—be killed as a direct result of his past vigilantism and then one (time jump) year later he is just walking around like the sun hasn’t been extinguished from his sky

[unrealisticallyyours]

obligatory TW rewatch scott appreciation post bc he's so interesting and fun as a character

i genuinely adore how the writers gave scott such a loving personality? like his first instinct when he meets allison is to give her a pen because he heard that she needed one. he tags along with stiles ep 1 because stiles wanted to see the body (why would an asthmatic with school in the morning want to go traipsing out into the wilderness to see a dead body??). throughout the series he takes in strays (lol) even if they've ACTIVELY TRIED TO KILL HIM in the past. and the part that i love the most is how the writers gave him room to be a bad person, too. they gave him moments where he was a bad friend, a bad boyfriend. but they didn't make those moments ones that outshone his real personality. they were treated like moments he grew from and made him into an even kinder person.

scott doesn't get the love he deserves imo he's such a well written character and someone i strive to emulate

[joannerowling]

I really wonder who are these people who genuinely think the Harry Potter movies were *perfect* or close to perfect adaptations. Nostalgia will really make you say anything i guess? Seriously all i remember from the Potter films starting with the 4th one was disappointment, anger, confusion, and more disappointment. Don't get me wrong they're not *bad* but nothing about them really warrants this level of reverence.

[magpie-trove]

Our beloved Cinderella 2015 was in part striking because it possessed moral substance, and I think Snow White 2025 is a counterpart in that! If Cinderella 2015 is about staying good, Snow White 2025 is about *growing* good.

I need very little to convince any one of this, as the very first song is a song called Good Things Grow. What’s interesting is the moral framework it sets up: the flourishing of the land is directly connected to the flourishing of the people’s moral character, which is in turn connected to Snow White’s ability to be a leader by being good and helping both her people and her land grow in goodness. This is not a prosperity gospel set up where if you are good enough you get everything you want, though. It’s human flourishing because everyone being fair and kind means when you are hungry the baker is someone who will give you bread because you are hungry and he’s learned to be kind. The king and queen emphasize to young Snow White that she is destined to lead the land and because of that she must look at herself and decide what she will become for them. She must be brave and true and fair and kind, because such a leader will lead people to be brave and true and fair and kind, and that will mean a society where people will help each other and share the good of the land, and sharing the good will, they insist, ultimately only increase it.

Throughout the narrative the days of Snow White’s parents’ rule is harkened back to as a time of abundance, but that abundance is not just connected to material goods. The “prince” character, Jonathan, remembers it as a time where people were better, not just because they had good things, but because her parents weren’t afraid of anything—they always did the good thing—and the good thing made other people able to do the good thing, and a society where everyone is striving to do the good thing is going to be a good one. But again, this is not a prosperity gospel. The good thing isn’t something that will last forever.

Snow White’s parents die. Her mother falls to illness. Her father is duped by the Queen. The Queen then offers what she insists everyone needs—something more stable, something secure, something like diamonds compared to a flower. This is something that can’t die because it is something that possesses itself and fights to keep what good things it has instead of giving them away. Notably, for the Queen, it is about good *things*, not good people. Not goodness ultimately. And more notably, it leaves everything cold and hard and dead. The kingdom doesn’t flourish. It decays. There is scarcity, and it’s because no one will remedy it by sharing what they have.

Snow White is now faced with the dilemma of growing into what she should be in an atmosphere of moral decay and corruption. It’s a difficult struggle, and actually her primary one throughout the film. She has an ideal, she has strong guiding principles, but she has to find the strength of character to make them real in a world that presupposes that they are unrealistic. In fact, the Queen has created a kingdom convinced it needs an army to be safe because they have forgotten what it was like simply to look out for each other. They believe in a world where one simply has to look out for oneself, even at the expense of others, because no one else will.

Jonathan epitomizes this most clearly. His is what he believes is a practical philosophy: you look out for yourself so you don’t end up dead. You morally compromise in order to survive. He has a whole song where he makes fun of Snow White’s “Princess problems”—which comes from ideals he says the rest of the people can’t afford to have if they are going to survive. Living by ideals only means, he says, you won’t live long. They are unsuited to the reality of the world, which is that things aren’t fair. Snow White counters this by suggesting that if no one acts fairly, then of course things won’t be fair. Someone has to take the risk of being fair and merciful and kind first, to show others the way.

This philosophical clash comes to a head in a conversation between Jonathan’s band of thieves and the dwarves. Jonathan needs help, and the dwarves don’t want to help them because it will only bring trouble, and the thieves don’t trust them to help anyways. Snow White has to step in and she berates them both, saying this selfishness based on mistrust is exactly how the Queen wins. By getting them to act in kindness despite the risk, to hope for kindness just enough to actually be able to receive it, she sets in motion the goodness that will save her and the kingdom in the end.

Because Snow White will still need saving. Jonathan is not entirely wrong to fear doing the right thing will get him killed. He says Snow White’s idealism and trust in people will only mean she winds up dead, and she does! It is an unpractical philosophy in material terms. And yet it is the only one worth believing, and the only thing that in the end, saves her when death does arrive. Her idealism has a cost, but it also is the way to mitigate the cost. Her goodness to others means others will be good to her—it comes back around and she both pays the cost and is saved from it. Love exists to save her because she planted it and helped it grow!

And that means she can help it grow in herself enough to lead. Not being alone gives her strength to make the hard choices, to become someone who not just believes in courage and fairness and kindness but can bring them into the world and share them with others by embodying them herself. And what’s so unique about the climax here is that the Queen isn’t defeated through ordinary power. She loses because in the end her practical stability built on practical mistrust and fear, which is really just self obsession, turns out not to be so strong and stable after all. She crumbles in the face of Snow White, who instead of looking out for herself, looks at other people. She remembers their names. She calls them back to the goodness inherent in their potential, and so back into themselves, who they really are meant to be! And the remembering of real goodness starts to create a desire for it, and the desire leads them to act in such a way it can become a reality. The kingdom flourishes again when the people flourish as people, not as a reward but as an outcome, because love means looking out for each other, and while it doesn’t mean no hardships will come, it does mean that when the hardships arrive, even if the hardship be death itself, they will be survivable. On the surface it seems unrealistic—but in actuality, the film says, kindness, fairness, love, are the only truly practical way to live.

[kacievvbbbb]

My most maybe controversial take on the live action situation is that if at this point you are still actively watching and going “hey guys this wasn’t that bad” at these live action movies you are not a real animation fans you are a fan of the OG movies despite them being animated. It’s just a blatant lack of acknowledging how the fact that these movies where animated shaped them

Because at this point it’s literally impossible to ignore the actual harm these “live action” movies are doing to animation.

[catzgam3rz]

Omg the Minecraft movie trailer is soooo impressive (with how it immediately sucks all joy, inspiration and wonder from my heart and soul)

[reanimatedguts]

nobody asked for a remake of Re-Animator!! NOBODY!!!! we don’t want it!! it’s a perfect film!!!! i will literally bite everyone in charge of this remake and give them all rabies i s2g

[sidetable-drawer]

Every time I watch the old Garfield specials it just makes me sad we don't get fun little TV specials based off of comic strips anymore.

Do you know how much I would LOVE an animated Zits TV special with Danny Cooksey voicing Jeremy?

[adobe-outdesign]

[burningdreambanana]

Scenes in MC that made me laugh when they were not supposed to

[fictional-worlds-are-exquisite]

i'm going to get a bad grade in appreciating films

[paranormal-taters]

I'm so pissed off. I engaged in a little piracy of the Caribbean and watched Mufasa out of curiosity and didn't hate it.

[lynxfrost13]

just saw the new httyd live action trailer... it's motivating me to draw httyd stuff for the first time in like. a decade