#the pacifier

[dianna-knst]

My fan artwork from the announcement of the Red Hood:Outlaws Webtoon! ✍

[russolaw]

anthony when he sees Johnny walking out of Daniel's room not wearing a shirt: why are your boobs so big?

Johnny: ... theyre not boobs

Anthony: do you have to wear a bra?

[bifuriouswaterbender]

I don't know what to call this category of movie, but I'm putting out a call for that category of movie where it was some buff, hyper-masculine man being put into a family situation and grows because of it. Think The Pacifier and The Game Plan. Any others to add to the list or suggestions of what to call it?

[flashiefloo]

DP x DC Prompt 6

So not exactly a copy, but essentially the plot of The Pacifier (the Vin Diesel movie from 2005).

Where the Fenton/Phantom fam (Danny, Dani (or Ellie if you prefer that), Jazz, Sam, Tucker) taking the Plummers' place and someone from DC (more the heroes) taking Shane's place.

Who from DC isn't important, tho it'd probably be funnier if it was someone not inherently good with kids (initially).

[dailybrittanysnowpics]

Brittany Snow | The Pacifier

[katy-133]

A Subgenre

For research purposes (for Serious Media Academia and the Pursuit Of Knowledge, I assure you), I looked at every film I know of that falls into the "action man who is played by an irl wrestler/martial artist/bodybuilder is forced into a domestic setting where he must take care of a kid/several kids" subgenre. And then organised them by release date.

Here are my findings:

List order:

My Spy (2020)

Playing with Fire (2019)

The Tooth Fairy (Jan 15 2010)

The Spy Next Door (Jan 22 2010)

The Game Plan (2007)

The Pacifier (2005)

Twin Sitters (1994)

Mr. Nanny (1993)

Kindergarden Cop (1990)

Actors who starred in these films include:

Dave Bautista (wrestler)

John Cena (wrestler)

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson (wrestler)

Jackie Chan (martial artist)

Vin Diesel (bouncer, martial artist)

"The Barbarian Brothers" Peter and David Paul (bodybuilders)

Hulk Hogan (wrestler)

Arnold "Arnie" Schwarzenegger (bodybuilder)

Here are my conclusions:

The subgenre started in 1990 with the success of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Kindergarden Cop.

This subgenre is still relevant (as recent as 2020).

This subgenre peaked so hard at one point, that in 2010, there were two films of this genre that released within a week of each other.

Something something, The Way of The Househusband anime is somehow connected to this subgenre.

The Rock is fond of this subgenre (was in multiple films).

The creation of this subgenre is all Arnie's fault, lmao.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

[nellarw95]

Happy Birthday Lauren 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

March 16,1967

Buon Compleanno 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

16 Marzo 1967

[ennaih]

Every Film I Watch In 2023:

216. The Pacifier (2005) -- a rewatch

[roseunspindle]

2005 Movies (That I've Seen)

[the-pacifier]

It's my 1 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

[w-wquotes]

[dinersaturn]

Never in my life did I think I would see a Yugioh product in a Disney movie but okay

[patheticblorbloscholar]

Within my fanfic tags it will say I did all my research by watching Vin Diesel in The Pacifier because that's how I research.

[dfilms]

The voice of Hercules (1997), Tate Donovan, was later in a small live action role in Disney’s The Pacifier (2005).

[axelwolf8109]

Nothing will ever be half as funny as the first time Vin does the "Peter Panda" dance in The Pacifier

[katy-133]

Emesis Blue Cinematic Parallel: The M (1931) Tape

Okay, so I'm late to the party talking about this, since it's been like 10 months since Emesis Blue was released, but I have seen zero people mention this when talking about the various cinematic parallels the film uses, and I think this is a very funny one.

I'm not even sure if this was an intentional parallel on the part of the screenwriter, or just a coincidence, but Emesis Blue included a reference to MacGruber (it was the, "How did you know he wouldn't shoot you in the head?" "I didn't," exchange between Spy and Soldier), so Emesis Blue is not above referencing comedies.

Okay, so early on in Emesis Blue, Scout sees a bunch of tapes knocked over in Medic's office. As he's tidying them up, he notices one tape is labelled "M (1931)."

The implication is that it's M for Medic, and it's footage of Medic from 1931. Scout's medical report (the one Soldier finds) says that he's 23 years old and Emesis Blue is set in 1968. Scout is curious about what Medic was up to before he (Scout) was born, between the wars.

Scout steals the tape.

In a later scene, we see Scout at home, watching a black and white film. This film is 1931's M, directed by Fritz Lang (very good director I can recommend; he also directed Ministry of Fear, a film about a man who gets caught up in a bunch of espionage stuff because he won the wrong cake at a raffle--I enjoyed it enough to re-watch it multiple times). The film is in German, which makes sense, as Medic's first language is German.

While we don't get to see Scout's initial reaction to watching what's in the tape (as we cut to the scene in media res), I imagine it was a mixture of disappointment in himself, upon realising the tape is just a movie and that he betrayed Medic's trust for basically nothing.

Kinda ironic, as his trust in Medic will be tested again and again later in the film.

So, this plot beat reminded me of something. And when it occurred to me what it was, I smiled. Because it's a rather unexpected callback when you remember that Emesis Blue has referenced films that can be described as highly respected, iconic, and (very important here) dark. Films like The Shining, Jacob's Ladder, Se7en, and Dr Strangelove.

The film I'm thinking about is…

2005's The Pacifier.

For those unfamiliar with this film's work, The Pacifier is about a military man who, after failing to protect a scientist, is forced to look after and protect the scientist's 5 children in the suburbs while his boss tries to recover the computer program the scientist was working on. The film's premise is part of the tradition of the "main character (who is usually played by a famous irl wrestler/bodybuilder/martial artist) is an action man who is unexpectedly forced to survive in a domestic setting" subgenre since 1990's Kindergarden Cop.

In this film, the main character (Shane Wolfe played by Vin Diesel), while cleaning the house, comes across a disk labelled "GHOST." This looks significant, because Ghost is the name of the computer program the scientist was working on that everybody is after.

Shane Wolfe, after fighting tooth and nail to protect the disk in an action sequence, pops it into a disk player… and Whoopie Goldberg appears on the screen.

The disk was not the much sought-after computer program. It was the 1990 romance film Ghost, starring Whoopi Goldberg.

Cut to Shane and the kids looking very very disappointed.

(Gif source)

Scout: "Jeez. You got a whole video store in there."

Both The Pacifier and Emesis Blue have a major plot beat where a main character finds a labelled piece of storage media, mistake it as important documents, take it, and then realise it's just a movie. And that is very funny to me. I love it. Cinematic masterpieces. Chef's kiss

Again, this may be entirely unintentional on the part of Fortress Films. Still very funny though.

People who make "Every film reference in Emesis Blue" metas, get on this.