#why is film important

[chirpsythismorning]

Ya'll catch the final rose ceremony at the end of s4?!

[beatx-mavie-archangelx]

there should've been at least a full view of Fíli's body in the funeral scene

"Fíli you didn't deserve any of this" we all say in unison

[jawz]

i saw the tv glow is legitimately one of the stupidest, most tryhard movies i've ever seen in my entire life. absolute dogshit. and everyone is pretending it's the most lifechanging thing they've ever seen LOL give me a break! the gall to claim this is inspired by fucking DAVID LYNCH??? i can't

[liauditore]

new suicide squad anime got me thinking about the genderbend batman au i made when i was 16 again.

extra (nsfw??? body horror + shirtless doodle lol) art under the cut + drabble.

A mysterious actress appears in Gotham!

Production for the long-anticipated remake of the 1930s classic horror film, "The Clay", is saved in part thanks to the audition of one woman with no credits to her name, just a face and demeanor identical of the late leading actress of the original film.

However, the cast and crew have bigger worries than their limited budget and endless demands from their producers -- everyone involved seems to be disappearing one by one!

While the average gothammite worries that the cult classic's "cursed" reputation might be a little more than an urban legend, The Batman refuses to entertain such unfounded silliness and aims to get to the bottom of this crime against cinema!

presenting BATMAN '63 - THE RISE OF CLAYFACE coming not actually ever lmao

(her hair is brown now because I like the idea of her appearance never being fully consistent lol. shapeshifters gotta do their thing)

[ennaih]

Every Film I Watch In 2023:

259. Doctor Sleep (2019)

[synchodai]

There's a lot that bothered me about the sept scene, but the line that stood out to me most was Rhaenyra saying, "The trespass was not mine."

The trespass was hers, and to say otherwise is to say that she is not Daemon's keeper and queen.

This is feudalism and Rhaenyra is a feudal ruler. If she wants to be queen, she will have to take responsibility for things she didn't personally do but happened under her watch. People swear fealty not just for giggles but because it affords them the protection of acting under some bigwig with a big stick's name. She is responsible for people sworn to her, who fight in her name. If a vassal steps out of line, her not punishing them is her allowing that to happen.

And it's not like they identified the culprit as some guy with tenuous affiliations to Rhaenyra either. Daemon Targaryen was explicitly named. And a talking down to isn't a punishment! Daemon should at least be temporarily stripped of his command or titles. Anything.

Aemond should also have been punished (him and Vhagar being grounded should have been depicted as a punishment imo), but Alicent is less culpable than Rhaenyra in this case. Aemond's liege is Aegon, not Alicent—and thus it made sense in the books that the blacks targeted Aegon's children when they felt Aemond was not justly punished.

Nobles cannot just kill children, have everyone know, and then go to the local brothel next Monday. Kinslaying is the biggest taboo there is. A king's pardon needs to be written and publicly declared — and even then, who the king pardons affects his reputation. Rhaenyra not punishing Daemon will of course make people think Rhaenyra is weak and Daemon the true power behind the crown. Aegon pardoning his brother is also controversial but less so given you can spin it into the "Luke took his eye" defense.

Again, Westeros is a place with laws, but it still mostly operates on Code of Hammurabi logic. Rapists get gelded, thieves get their hands cut off, etc. Nobles can weasel their way out of these punishments through royal pardons or paying ransom but it is their liege lord/lady's responsibility to dispense justice and keep order. It is the very first thing Ned Stark does and teaches to Jon Snow, both in the show and the books.

[endlessnightarts]

Man I haven't even checked the tag yet but I'm just gonna leave this one here for the people that are dead set on the idea that Lestat would never physically hurt Louis. First book, not even a hundred pages in, they fight like they want to kill each other.

And for vampires, who are supernaturally strong and can heal from most things? Yeah, that's fucking brutal played on screen rather than a few lines of text.

Lestat seems a lot nastier in the show at this point because we're all kind of remembering it through like 14 books of author woobification but honestly I would believe book 1 Lestat was that cruel, and even if he wasn't they've already made huge changes to Louis and Claudia so sure let's see where it goes.

[poems-of-a-lover]

will never be over this honestly

[hotwaterandmilk]

I'm still not well so this isn't going to be articulate, but I wanted to say something anyway.

In the wake of Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies (amongst other titles) being purged from streaming I've seen countless posts saying "This is terrible, we need to stop this practice -- they might purge a good show next!" and yeah, for sure a lot of titles being impacted by streaming purges/lack of physical media/a decline in archiving right now aren't going to be remembered for changing the world.

However, I think it is vital that we fight to preserve these titles for their own sake not just because "What if next time it's something we actually like?!" There is value is preserving things widely regarded as "bad" not just because I have firm beliefs about the absurdity of taste, but because who gives a shit if something is deemed "good?" Actual human people put their time and energy into realising these artistic visions. Even if the results are arguably not "good" or "popular", should the efforts of these artists be lost to the sands of time? No, no they fucking shouldn't.

I share a lot of art on this blog from titles very few people consider culturally important or valuabe. However, I don't look at the things I collect & share like that. Even some of the most objectively absurd titles I own are still pieces of art that were developed, published, and consumed by humans in the real world. Whether they've turned out to be broadly memorable or not is irrelevant because they existed and that in itself makes them worthy of preservation so that others can choose to familiarise themselves with them long after the original creative team is gone.

So yes, we should all be trying to preserve the media that's important to us and not let corporations try to stamp out every trace of a financial (though not necessarily artistic) misstep. However, it shouldn't take the threat of something we, personally, like being taken away to stir us into giving a shit.

Even the demise of less admired works should concern us and make us start to burn copies of Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies because it might not mean anything to you or I right now, but to some kid in 20 years it could be a seminal experience that leads them to follow their dreams. Or it could become a cult classic that people reflect on at watch parties years in the future. Or it could continue to be a footnote in the history of television that nobody really cares about.

Ultimately I don't think it matters what level of value we arbitrarily assign to media now or in the future, we should be trying to preserve as much of it as possible so that generations from now people can enjoy the option of engaging with these titles should they so wish.

[thetimelordbatgirl]

We've now gone from people harassing Halle Bailey because she played Ariel and people decided all mermaids have to be white for some reason, to people harassing Avantika Vandanapu over a FANCAST of her as Rapunzel in a potential live action Tangled that hasn't even been confirmed! People seriously cannot fucking imagine anyone but white actors playing any role at this point, even trying to cite Rapunzel's fairy tale setting as an excuse (aka similar to Little Mermaid racists), because apparently Indian people can't exist in countries like Germany according to these people.

[thetwilightroadtonightfall]

watched Elemental today <- is asian

[chirpsythismorning]

I rest easy knowing that the planted milkvan roof pap photos will be referenced on the straight-baiting Wikipedia page soon enough.

[movietonight]

While there are things to criticise mash for and those conversations are important to have some of what I read can be explained very easily by reminding yourself

It was a TV show

On a budget

From years ago

From America

Written by a variety of human writers

Who used characters and plots to tell stories

Within a certain number of minutes

[whisperofthewaves]

I did not expect detective columbo to be this entertaining

[sojourner-between-worlds]

Well. That was a Thing that Happened for sure.

[mundifinis]

i will never understand why so many queer people insist on how "love simon is for the straights" and it's like yeah there were some problems with how simon's outing was handled by his friends but i don't think some people understood the impact that film had? i remember seeing the trailer, in theaters, on new years eve 2017. i had realized almost a year earlier, at the age of 12, i was queer. seeing that trailer, being a scared 13 year old girl who had only came out to her lesbian best friend at that point, and seeing a mainstream popular film about a closeted queer teenager that was geared towards me and other teenagers about coming out and being queer and being ourselves-- that meant everything to me.

and when i read the book a week after i saw the movie, it was my first ever queer book i ever read and love, simon was the first queer movie i ever saw. to see a mainstream movie that dealt with being queer and coming out and seeing myself in film for the first time? it meant the world.

so no, love, simon is not for the straights and it's inherent. the writer of the book, becky albertali, is a queer woman. the director, greg berlanti, is a gay man. the love interest, blue, was played by a queer actor, keiynan lonsdale. and there are probably so many other queer voices who made that film so saying "for the straights" is just diminishing every single queer voice on that film and frankly, just an ignorant statement: a film that is unabashedly queer will never be for the straights.