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I watched Wonka today and it was exactly what I expected (not necessarily a bad thing)

Hey yall, sorry for not uploading, I was way too lazy to make posts because I had nothing funny to say about the *two* movies I watched recently, one of them being The menu and the other one being Foam Bath, other than haha Will Ferrell was one of the director's of The menu and watch Foam Bath if youre planning on doing drugs in the future.

So as I said, I watched Wonka today, out of nothing better to do because in reality, I didn't plan on watching this movie because I didn't care about it. But I'm doing shitty in the past weeks and I went to the cinema out of impulse. So I watched it and I have some thoughts so I wont say anything as a filler, enjoy.

I'll start with the positives:

The visuals were absolutely stunning, not one scene of this movie looked off or out of place, it had a very 2016 vibe to it, I dont know how to explain it but a lot of movies with this kind of atmosphere came out in the 2010s, which for me, is a positive thing. I enjoyed looking at the sets and scenes, I think the set and the costumes were absolutely perfect. It had a really heartwarming vibe to it that was kind of expected from the director of Paddington, and I think its a "KIDS MOVIE" like its a KIDS kids movie, I think a lot of little humans under the age of 8-9 would like this movie, its pretty, eye candy (or eye chocolate if you may) for the peasants.

Rowan Atkinson was hilarious, I dont care that he was in the movie for less than 10 minutes, he made the movie so much better with his pure existence.

The music was okay, the osts were pretty fitting for the scenes but I would say theyre very forgettable. I dont remember one line from ANY of the songs and I'm gonna be honest, every time Timothy bursted into a song made me cringe, a bit harder every single time. This could come from the fact that I dont like musicals, but hey, I dont like action movies either and one of my favorite movies is Bullet train, so this isnt necessarily an excuse.

The story was okay, it was very childlike and it honestly kept me engaged so it reached its goal, the ending straight up made me shed a tear or two, its overall heartwarming and I liked it.

The characters are good, they all have their own story and motivation, theyre not exactly three dimensional but I cant write this up as a flaw for a movie like this. Still gotta mention it.

Now I know, we have to address the elephant in the room. Or giraffe, iykyk.

Timotheé Chalamet as Willy Wonka was a very weak casting choice in my opinion. At one hand, I'm very happy that Timotheé had the chance to expand his career with different characters that are not the standard bottom in every european gay corn, I'm glad they gave him a role that is more whimsical and more quirky, I think it looks good on him. HOWEVER. Wonka was too big of a challenge and it was SO out of character, SO not Wonka like that at the BEGINNING of the movie, I had to imagine that this mf is Wonka's son or nephew or whatever that isnt Wonka himself. I would say that this was the weakest movie of Timotheé and the weakest Wonka period. Whats even worse that its a known fact that they went for the vibe of Gene Wilder's Wonka, that was the craziest of them all, but its not close to Depp's Wonka either. Let's start with the fact that a lot of Wonka's charm came from the mystery that was around him. Nobody knew where did he come from, what is his motivation, why is he this coocoo bananas, it was like an old man, popping onto the face of the Earth. Wonka actually gives us a backstory, that is about him and his mom, and that his mom was a cook and that he wanted to make a shop for her aaAAA I DONT CAREEEEE

For me, no Wonka backstory will be good, *because* he's supposed to be mysterious. Also the fact that this movie basically disproved the "oompa loompas being slaves" theory/semi canon, because in this movie, its ♡mutual business♡, I mean I get it, imagine Timotheé Chalamet as a slave owner.

So in conclusion, I didn't hate this movie, I would actually say I liked it. It was funny, whimsical and heartwarming, its not deep at all and its a light watch for kids.

But please for my sake, if you guys cant sit on your ass and just enjoy nostalgia because you need to make another and another prequel/sequel, at least cast Jeremy Allen White as Wonka next time.

Thats it, see ya, happy holidays

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What makes us human: Someone who will love you in all your damaged glory

Do you ever wonder what makes you the way you are? What makes you you? Why are you different from other people? Are you different from other people? Dont we all live the same life deepdown? The same, miserable pattern that makes us not wanting to live it at all sometimes, isnt it the same for you as it is for me? How can we stop it?

The thing is, we cant. We cant stop it, you cant and I cant either. You’ll be sitting on a train. You’ll be lying awake in bed. You’ll be watching a movie; You’ll be laughing. And then, all of a sudden, you’ll be struck by the paralyzig truth: Its not what we do that makes us who we are. Its what we dont do that defines us.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is Someone who will love you in all your damaged glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg.

Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s name might be similar for a handful of people, because he is the creator and executive producer of the Netflix hit show, Bojack Horseman and he also wrote this book I would like to talk about today. I���m a HUGE fan of Bojack Horseman, there wasnt a single day when I didnt think of this show and I finished it about a year ago, its probably the greatest thing that happened to me, so I was pretty excited when I heard that the creator of it wrote a book and I bought it online as soon as I got my grabby sticky hands on the money. I can tell you, Someone who will love you in all your damaged glory is probably one of the best books I have ever read and it gave me reassuring that yes, Raphael is amazing at writing stories about humans and how they work, how they feel, which isnt suprising how he managed to make a series about human problems and life with an alcoholic horse as a main character.

The book itself is a collection of short stories about love and relationships. There are shorter ones that are about a page or two pages long, but there are chapters that are longer and more elaborated. For example, there was the chapter A Most Blessed And Auspicious Occasion (which I believe our first longer one) about a couple who are about to get married and theyre preparing for their wedding. However, the girlfriend’s family is stressing them out because they dont know how many goats they need to sacrifice for their wedding, and the boyfriend suggests to not sacrifice goats at all and its just super chaotic and super stressful to them and of course, the wedding eds up being super chaotic as well, but it doesnt matter because the couple is happy together.

Another one of these longer ones is We men of science, which is about a scientist Yoni, who discovers an alternative universe at the other side of a door in his office, where he himself exists and his wife herself exists, but theyre his literal opposite. The anti-Yoni is more confident, more positive and his anti-wife isnt pregnant and her personality i also different. Eventually, Yoni befriends the two. He regularly meets them and spends time with them, and eventually the Carl, one of Yoni’s coworker dies and right after that, him and his anti-wife starts having sex and it completely messes everything up, obviously.

This book is filled with many many stories like this, stories that are riddiculous and at the same time thought provoking and I loved it. SO MUCH.

If I could describe this book with one word, I’d say “intimacy”. These stories are very intimate and sometimes hard to read, because some of the quotes perfectly describes what one or another might feel. I personally felt connected to multiple quotes of the book, and it perfectly shows the characters as weak, and vulnerable. Because we are. We are weak and vulnerable, and that makes us human. And Raphael knows and shows that perfectly. Let me show some of my favorite ones:

" “I dont think you really love me; I think you’re just terrified or being alone” and you, gesticulating wildly with the spatula, spat back without thinking, “I am alone; you have no idea how alone I am” as if that were some kind of comeback” – The serial monogamist’s guide to important New York City landmarks

“You had every intention of being depressed forever, but as it turns out, there’s work to be done, meals to eat, movies to see, errands to run. You meant to be in ruins permanently, your misery a monument, a gash across the cold hard earth, but honestly, who has the time for that? Instead, you survived-apparently, you both did- and things are shockingly okay.” -Lunch with the person who dumped you

“-I love you. -I love you too.” -Lies we told each other

“I think you’re afraid of putting yourself out there because you’re afraid of getting hurt, because you are -and I believe this is the clinical term- a fucking coward.” – Up-and-comers

Please read this book, its literally so good

Thats it, see ya.

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Halloween special: Cobweb, a.k.a why the hell did I waste two hours of my life watching this garbage

Happy Halloween everyone and welcome back! Today I would like to talk about a movie I watched back in september which is called Cobweb. I'm not gonna blame you if you havent heard of this movie, since its marketing was almost nonexistent, also it came out two days before Barbie and Oppenheimer, but Cobweb is a horror movie, starring Antony Starr and Lizzy Caplan, and let me tell you, I did not enjoy it a lot.

I'm gonna be brutally honeest, I had no idea what this movie was about when I went to watch it with my boyfriend, I just saw that there is a new horror movie that came out and I was in the mood for going to the cinema, so we just went with it. And let me tell you something, I did not like it AT ALL. Its actually criminal how much I disliked it.

The story is about a family and the movie starts as every haunted house horror you've ever seen, kid hears noises and the parents are like "You are imagining things son, go back to bed already", so it was nothing special, not to mention that the movie plays on the Halloween theme a lot, which is pretty important though, because at some point in the movie, the parents tell the kid a story that years ago, a girl in their neighbourhood was murdered, and thats why they dont let him out trick or treating.

This takes a good 1/3 of the movie, until we get to know that the voice in the kid's (Peter) walls can talk and interact with him. This becomes important as soon as in school, when the kids have to make a Halloween themed drawing, while everyone is drawing bats and witches and skeletons, Peter draws himself in his bedroom and a talk bubble to the wall that says HELP ME. This obviously worries Miss Divine, his substitute teacher (who was probably the only valuable character but WE GET THERE-) and tries to contact the parents about it. She goes to their house and the mom opens the door and thats when the parents start to act out of character, since they were very calm and collected at the start of the movie, and she says that everything is okay with Peter, he just has a an overacting imagination and takes the drawing. Later we find out Peter is bullied in school and it escalates very quickly into Peter getting suspended because he pushed his bully down the stairs and break his lack very brutally (which is honestly a slay from me but you know).

Because of the suspension and the drawing, his parents take him out of school and become homeschooled and we find out, the father, Mark, also found out about the drawing (which the mom tried to actively avoid) and thats when the movie started to get some enjoyment out of me, because Mark just straight up puts Peter into the basement and tells him he's grounded. This is the point when I thought this movie is about abuse, which made me think "You know what? I'm gonna give this movie that chance, this looks amazing". Miss Divine meets the parents in their house (while Peter is still in the basement) and its just so surreal seeing Peter trying to be as loud as possible when he heard Miss Divine's voice, trying to kick the door and scream but the washing mashine fades his voice and she doesnt have a clue whats going on. At some point they let him out anyways and we find out, the voice in his walls is actually his sister and shes actually a ghost and they killed her since Peter found her skull at the pumpkin patch in the backyard? but at the same time she's physically in the walls? and shes also the girl who was killed at Halloween, so the parents not letting him go trick or treating didnt even make sense? Okay lets move on. She manipulates him into killing his parents with rat poison and until that moment, I enjoyed the movie and then it just got ruined, but there was still some story left so I couldnt be just a little bit unsatisfied. Peter's bully and some of his friends came to Peter's house to get revenge, thats when Peter find the key at his mom's belt, to let his sister out and that time, the mother was alive and said DO NOT LET HER OUT but it was too late. When Peter lets her out, probably the worst CGI monster in 2023 comes out and starts to act hostile towards Peter and at some point his bullies too. After a very brutal chase and slaughter scene, Miss Divine goes to save the day and honestly the last ten minutes of this movie is so unnecessarily messy yet so pointless that I dont even want to write it down, so I'm just gonna put the monster's CGI face here because I almost audibly cringed when I saw it:

At the end, the sister gives a monolouge before Peter and Miss Divine could escape, that she will always be there with him, wherever he is, because theyre family and this is how the movie ends. Let me tell you, I never would've thought I'd get so angry at such an underwhelming movie ending, but here I am.

Characterwise, no character was willing to put more than maximum two dimensions onto the bigscreen, but I have to give a shotout to Lizzy Caplan and especially Antony Starr. Every single minute they were on screen would've been perfect if the movie had enough runtime to explore them as well, their acting talent was aced here and its such a shame they had to be killed, they didnt have enough screentime AT ALL. Cleopatra Coleman was also great as Miss Divine, she was the only likeable character in this movie and the only one we can root for, Woody Norman was also okay as Peter, even though he wasnt an interesting protagonist at all, but hey, homie has an acting job at 14 and I dont at 18 so I better shut up. Ellen Dublin as the girl in the walls, well, I dont want to say it was hideous, because its not the actress's fault, its the fact that her character was the weakest out of all, it wasnt scary in the slightest.

This movie''s biggest flaw is the fact that nothing made sense. First of all, if the sister was the girl who was killed at halloween, why didnt the parents let Peter out trick or treating? Why did they keep her in the walls if they knew she was hostile and dangerous? Why did she manipulate and punish Peter for it, even though he didnt do anything against her? Why did the parents say the voices in the walls arent real if they knew their daughter is in there and did they even think about how their extremely hostile and supernatural daughter could eventually try and go after the son? and honestly even more questions.

But honestly, my biggest question is, what this movie tried to tell? It feels like the movie isnt sure what to be about because there is about three storylines and none of them works together. I was extremely dissapointed about this movie, I think a movie about childhood trauma and abuse would've worked so much better and the timing was also the worst.

Thank you for reading this, if you agree/disagree, write it down in the comment section and until next time, see ya, happy Halloween

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So I watched the fnaf movie yall this was crazy

Hello everyone, I'm literally on my way home from the movie theater while I'm writing this post (might be a couple of days to publish it because I have no attention spam) because I watched the Five night's at Freddy's movie and yall, this was wild.

Before I get into it, I wanna complain that the guys in the front seat talked nonstop, like, all the time while we watched this movie so I wanna tell everyone, if youre the kind of person who does this crap, please stop, its very annoying.

I never once had the chance to feel like I literally cant talk about a movie, not because of the spoilers but because I literally cannot find the words to describe what I just saw, not because it was shocking or anything but because there is almost nothing to talk about. But what kind of "movie critic" would I be if I didn't at least try?

I think the main reason why I cant say anything is because I can barely comprehend the fact that this is a real movie that I watched in theaters, I think it will take about 3-5 business days for me to finally settle this information down.

This is the part where I start talking about the movie and it will probably have spoilers, so read it at your own risk.

Even before watching the movie I realised that it will be a real challenge to figure the lore out, since okay, we got Mike as a main character, I thought then it supposedly Michael Afton right? But his sister was called Abby and not Elizabeth and I knew Mike is interacting with William Afton (and I knew its William because it was Matthew Lillard in the trailer and everyone knew Matthew Lillard will play William Afton, the internet went crazy for over a week), but somehow he doesnt suspects its his dad? Also Vanessa is in this movie? And I had even more questions and let me tell you, none of them was answered by the movie.

The movie starts with our main character Mike (played by Josh Hutcherson), who works as a security guard in a mall, but beats the shit out of a random man because he thought he's kidnapping a kid but the kid was actually his son, then he gets fired, so a guy, supposedly his boss called Steve Raglar (played by Matthew Lillard) offers him a security guard job at an abandoned restaurant called Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, but Mike rejects it, saying he cant do night, then we find out why. He has sleep problems because he dreams about the same thing over and over again, which is the memory when he witnessed his little brother, Garret being kidnapped. This memory haunts him and he's also the legal guard of his little sister, Abby. Abby is a weird kid, she has invisible friends that only she can see and she's also very antisocial in school, which worries both the teachers and Mike's & Abby's aunt that want to take full custody over Abby because she doesnt think Mike is a suitable guard for her (neither does Mike thinks he's suitable for this but yk, he doesnt want Abby to live there because they both hate their aunt). After this, Mike changes his mind about the security guard job and calls Steve. So the job starts and boy o boy, what the fuck is going on in this movie-

First of all, I was very excited when I saw that Matpat got a cameo as a waiter, I audibly gasped when I saw him on the movie screen, what makes this even funnier is that I literally told my boyfriend who sat next to me that Matpat would probably get a seizure from this movie's storyline (also something that I havent paid attention to in the theater is that his name tag says "Ness", someone on youtube pointed that out and this makes the cameo 100x more ironic, if you know, you know), I think he deserved it 100% and I was pretty sad Markiplier at the end didn't make it into the cameo because of Iron Lung.

I gotta admit, I fell into the flaw that I thought the story will be a part of the main things that happen in the game and thats why some aspects of the movie left me very very confused. For example, we found out Vanessa is the daughter of William Afton. The fans speculated that there might be some sort of relation between them after Security Breach came out, but I dont remember if anyone thought he's her father, only maybe her grandfather or something. Just so you know, in this movie, Mike and William are not related (or at least doesnt look like they are) and my boyfriend had the idea that this movie might be about Mike Schmidt, which is a very og character in the fnaf games/community, who in this story, isnt Michael Afton, this could explain why his sister is called Abby and not Elizabeth either.

Speaking of Abby, she also left me a bit confused. We found out that her imagined and invisible friends are actually the ghost children that haunt the robots and she can communicate with them through her drawings. I was left a bit dissapointed that they didn't explain how this works exactly, especially because I personally liked the aspect that the robots arent malicious and that theyre still just traumatized children who were manipulated.

Of course, nobody was suprised by the fact that William who said he was Steve, was the villain and oh boy, Matthew Lillard KILLED it as William Afton. As someone, who's childhood wasnt just FNAF but also Scooby Doo, this man is literally the face of many many childhoods, including mine. He didn't get enough screentime AT ALL, even though I dont really mind, because its nice that Afton wasnt the main focus of the story, but Matthew was so good, so talented that I wanted more and more.

Josh Hutcherson as Mike was also awesome in this role, he's relatable, he's flawed yet a very sympathetic character and you cant help but root for him.

These two were the stars of this movie, however Piper Rubio as Abby was also pleasant in my opinion, I thought her character was sweet and lovable and I hated how the guys on the front row were mocking everything she said. Elizabeth Lail as Vanessa was also.. okay? I didn't like Vanessa's presence in the movie at all, because it was very confusing, but she was pretty okay in the role. The ghost children werent that good in my opinion, the acting was very small and Garret's actor had only one face through the entire movie, he didn't have any dialouge either.

Speaking of dialouge, I didn't like it at all. It felt like someone trying to grasp and mimic how people talk to each other, some dialouges were almost ridiculous and NO, if you havent watched the movie but still read my blog post, no, the phrase "Together we're fnaf" does not appear in the movie sadly.

In conclusion, did I dislike this movie? No. Not at all.

In fact, I enjoyed this movie very much. I was a bit of than a casual fan of this game franchise since 2016 and it was a great experience to dress up with my boyfriend and watch the Five night's at Freddy's movie, because we were and are both fans of this game. The bad habit everyone fell into is that we were fixated on the "lore accuracy" and missed the fact that this is more than probably a spinoff, using lore from the books instead of the games.

It was really nice to see this movie and I dont think anyone who wasnt a fan of this game growing up will watch and/or appreciate this movie because its like Barbie but for weird kids and I think its flop among critics is just the Mario movie all over again, where the fans are praising the movie and its story to the roof but the critics just sat into a cactus or something.

Anyways, I'm curious what you guys think of the movie, let me know if you had any opinions and until next time, see ya.

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What this blog is gonna be about

Hello people! My name is Gloria, I'm 18 years old and I really love watching movies and read books. The reason why this blog exists is to share my thoughts on movies and books I recently watched/read, giving an opinion and make pretty blog posts. Nothing too serious here. Let me know if anyone is interested in a further post about myself.