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pintsofguinnesmakeyoustrong · 1 year

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absolutely fucking reeling from puss in boots the last wish. my grown ass friends made me see it and it absolutely fucked. it was mad max fury road for kids. it was a horror movie about the fear of death. it was a western about an ageing outlaw trying to regain his youth with the help of his ex fiance and homeless harvey guillen. it was about found family. it was about needing people and asking for help. it had the best depiction of a panic attack i've ever seen in a mainstream film. the villain looked exactly like boris johnson. there was a wicker man reference. it had a kill count higher than most slasher films. it set up shrek 5. they even said fuck.

#puss in boots #puss in boots the last wish #pibtlw #pib the last wish #pib #puss in boots: the last wish #antonio banderas #harvey guillen #salma hayek #florence pugh #olivia colman #ray winstone #samson kayo #boris Johnson #shrek #shrek cinematic universe #movie review

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ki11tr4p · 6 months

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Like c’mon what were they expecting?

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pricelesscinemas · 7 months

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cisikim · 4 months

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“i’ll be so lucky to have you” is such a beautiful line. himi knowingly returns to a world that is destined to consume her in the fires she holds dear, all because they’re also the very doors that’ll bring mahito into existence.

and that’s the enduring essence of miyazaki’s works: life, through all its suffering and misery, is still worth living. through the people we love and the memories we cherish, we search for and find our reasons to live.

#the boy and the heron #how do you live #hayao miyazaki #ghibli films #studio ghibli #mahito #miyazaki films #animation #anime #movies #movie review #i say this but university is making it real hard to find reasons to live ong

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k-wame · 4 months

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violently spat out my oatmeal

#saltburn #barry keoghan #jacob elordi #emerald fennell #oliver quick #felix catton #queer #movie review #film review #lgbt #film #movie #queer media #letterboxd

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alventodelmiocuore · 1 month

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I've seen a lot of people critiquing Lisa and the Creature because their murders are unjustified and petty therefore THEY'RE TERRIBLE CHARACTERS

1) It's a slasher comedy. You're supposed to suspend your disbelief... they're the villains, the story is just told from their perspective

2)"How could the audience ever root for these people?" Lisa is a traumatized girl who had to deal with an axe murderer killing her mother. The real horror of that event isn't even the trauma she experienced. It's how she was treated afterwards that's mind-boggling. Nobody bothered to help her out and she was systemtically punished for not fitting in- which is the reality of many mentally unstable/disabled/traumatized people.

Lisa's struggle is very relatable, she just acts the ultimate fantasy out: she actively kills/is complicit in the murder of those who failed her (and, very symbolically, she often kills them with an axe, the weapon used to kill her mother)

She emotionally relies on the only person who actually cared for her and took time to understand her: the creature.

Are her actions justified? Of course not. None of those people deserved death. It's a revenge fantasy movie. The real victim is Taffy, who inherits Lisa's trauma and grief after her own mother gets murdered. Lisa perpetuates this horrible cycle of abuse, BECAUSE NO ONE CARED TO HELP HER. The world's apathy is the ultimate villain.

I still root and empathize with Lisa because I get it. Bro, I've been abused. When your trauma gets brushed off as an inconvenience by the people who are supposed to cherish you and protect you, you start to understand Lisa's actions.

But as always, the reading comprehension on this site is piss poor. (I DONT PISS ON THE POOR!!!)

Also big W for the diy bottom surgery and death is temporary love is forever. ♡

#lisa frankenstein #cole sprouse #kathryn newton #movies #movie review

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trueblumarinegf · 7 months

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#sofia coppola #girlblogging #it girl #fashion #film #movie review

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lovemggubler · 4 days

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no context MGG

this movie was so craaaazy! and hilarious like wth is happening! but it was good ofc. and mgg was so hot in this film. 😉

let me know your thoughts about this film! :)

#matthew gray gubler #mgg #mgg pics #68 kill #movies #movie review #chip taylor

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saturdaynightspecialpresentation · 4 months

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Poor Things

First of all, Emma Stone’s performance is as good as everybody is saying. Stone takes a very difficult role that easily could have gone very, very wrong and makes it look like the most effortless thing in the world.

I have been looking at the reviews, good and bad, and I think that the minority of people who didn’t vibe with this movie had slightly skewed expectations.

Poor Things starts out at Tetsuo The Iron Man levels of fucked up, but by the end it has dropped to Edward Scissor hands levels of fucked up. This is probably plenty of weirdness for the average movie-goer, but true connoisseurs of mondo cinema should calibrate their expectations.

Second, apparently this is being talked up as a sort of feminist coming of age fable chronicling an everywoman’s sexual awakening and liberation, and it really isn’t that, and I think if you are hoping for that you’ll come away disappointed.

Better, I think, to look at it as an autistic coming of age fable and power fantasy, which I think it does a tremendous job at.

Very minor spoilers under the cut; really, this is more an essay about what I thought the film was about than a review, my review would be that it's somehow simultaneously a feel-good crowd-pleaser AND a movie where an adult woman with the brain of a toddler stabs the eyes out of a corpse with a scalpel and then plays with its penis (I wasn't kidding with the Tetsuo comparison)

Honestly now that I've actually written that out I have maybe underestimated how impressive it is that Yorgos Lanthimos made a movie where that happens on screen but somehow basically everybody loves the movie.

In terms of sex, we do watch Bella discover sex, but she very quickly comes to a conclusion about her relationship with it which never once changes throughout the rest of the movie:

She likes it, she likes it more with an attractive partner, she is utterly lacking in any kind of sexual jealousy, and she doesn't attach too much more to it than that.

This is an odd comparison, but Bella treats sex the way Joey did on Friends. A man acting this way is a sitcom cliche, but a woman acting the same way…

This is a film that is really, really not interested in the real-world consequences of this kind of sex; in fact, given that a pregnancy is the inciting incident of the film, it came off a little weird to me that the possibility of a pregnancy or STD was never really addressed (unless there was a line or two that I missed while I was in the bathroom).

For the most part, though, I was able to get past it by just thinking of it as a heightened world. The sets and settings are extremely artificial, and ultimately I figured, “Hey, if I can buy this kind of thing as harmless and fun in a sitcom, I can buy it in this other kind of heightened reality.

I will say, I don't think Bella is meant to be an every-woman, and that there's textual support for this in the film itself.

All of the women Bella deals with in some way question her approach to sex, making it clear, sometimes through explicit dialog, other times more reading between the lines, that her approach to sex is not for them.

If there’s any particularly feminist message in the film, it’s that when confronted with Bella’s bizarre approach to the world, none of the women get angry at her, and most of the men she meets do.

But Bella’s relationships with other women aren’t really the meat of the film, that’s more about her relationship with men, and particularly the way that they feel, deep in their bones, that they should have control over any woman that they have sex with.

Duncan Wedderburn, when he first discovers Bella and convinces her to go away with him, thinks he is tricking and seducing a beautiful naif who he can use and then discard when he tires of her. Their relationship disintegrates as it becomes clear that Bella hasn’t been tricked at all; she wanted exactly what he was able to give, a chance to sow her wild oats by having some no strings attached sex with an attractive, likable person in an exciting foreign city.

This makes Wedderburn increasingly unhappy and unhinged (He says at one point that he has become what he hates, a “grasping succubus”) much to Bella’s growing consternation. She has no idea why he can’t simply be happy having sex with her and otherwise letting her do what she wants, and he is so committed to a certain vision of gender roles that he can’t even begin to explain it, he can only lash out in frustration.

And that I think is the meatier part of the film; Bella doesn’t so much flout social expectations as she is simply totally unaware that they exist.

Honestly I think the character isn’t so much coded as autistic as she just is autistic. Bella is a woman who is basically totally unaware of social expectations and constantly taken aback to discover that they exist.

More than that, she has to figure out a way to work around the fact that many of the people who become most enraged by her are also so totally lacking in self-reflection, and view their social situation as so normal, so self-evidently obvious that they cannot explain to her why it is she has made them angry. They suddenly fly into rages that clearly perplex Bella and which they themselves don’t even bother to explain, because they regard their own ideas as self-evident.

Bella is an idealized autistic hero; personally as outlandish as she is I don’t really think the film expects us to take the side of anybody else, and I think there are some fairly subtle and accurate bits of autistic behavior on her part.

She responds to life as a kind of social experiment, attempting to parse out a set of logical rules and, especially in the latter parts of the movie, she often justifies her actions with a perfectly sensible internal logic that the emotional men in her life can’t parse out. Late in the film, when she and Wedderburn are destitute, she prostitutes herself for 30 francs, and with implacable logic, explains the two reasons that Wedderburn ought to be quite happy she has done so: First, her john was much worse at sex than Wedderburn, which ought to satisfy his ego, and second, they now have 30 francs and the potential to earn more.

Wedderburn does not appreciate her logical approach.

Another thing that strikes me as very true is that Bella has a very odd theory of mind for other people. There’s a scene where, traumatized by the unspeakable poverty and suffering she sees in Alexandria, she puts all of Wedderburn’s money in a box and rushes out to give it to the poor. Unfortunately the ship is leaving, but two port attendants tell her that they will be staying on the island, and would be happy to deliver a package. She tells them that she has a big box filled with money and they should give it to the island’s poor, and they agree to do so. Now, the film never tells us one way or another whether they keep their word; but Bella herself retains an iron certainty that they did exactly what she asked them to. Now, we know Bella understands what lying and deceit are, because we’ve seen her trick people before, like when she chloroforms McCandles to run away with Wedderburn. But it never once occurs to her that these sailors might do something similar. Call it paradoxical, but that kind of thinking is common in autistic people.

There’s also the scene where the self-professed cynic Harry Astley shows her the suffering in Alexandria; he admits, when he sees how terribly it has affected her, that he didn’t tell her simply because he thought it was the truth of the world, but that her attitude made him angry, and he wanted to hurt her. A very common part of the autistic coming of age is the slow realization that not everything people tell you is part of a dispassionate, scientific search for the truth.

There’s also a scene in a whorehouse in which Bella argues that it would make more sense to have the women decide who is to sleep with the johns, so that then the john could be more confident that the girl was attracted to him, which he must doubt if he chooses. You can tell I’m autistic because I immediately had the thought, “Well, but the johns would probably be worried that nobody would choose them.”

One of Bella’s fellow working girls instead tells her, “Some of them like the fact that we don’t have a choice”.

#poor things #movie review #autism #cw violence #I'm actually not sure what kind of content warning I should put for the corpse stabbing

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scenicvisions · 4 months

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Felix in Saltburn (2023)

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jelyfisg · 6 months

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ive said it on tiktok and snap and ill say it here

FNAF MOVIE? AMAZING!!

SPOILER WARNING

why are we hating on it

“cringe we are fnaf scene” it was stupid and funny i dont see how it takes away from the quality of the movie at all?

“why are the animatronics nice” bc theyre kids? “oh but in lore theyre mean” in lore theyre mean bc of Afton JUST LIKE IN THE MOVIE

“its not lore accurate” to me it doesnt stray so far from the lore to where it makes it bad, the characters were there, a similar story was there, thats all that matters

“but they never ended the court case storyline” we saw the same movie right? theyre 100% going to make a sequel, with how it ended they have to, questions are left unanswered on purpose to give room for a second movie

“not enough gore” so silly bc when has there been actual gore in any fnaf game? never! the movie had WAY more blood and shit than the games

“erm springlock scene wasnt good” yes it was bc wdym? it was so perfect, just like in the game, the animatronics turned on him and he was springlocked and left to ‘die’ he even said “i always come back” WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT

“the cupcake was stupid” okay, yeah, kinda, definitely, BUT i dont think the cupcake was so stupid it took away from the movie

my autistic hyperfixated ass could go on about this for hours.

#fnaf movie #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #freddy fazbear #movie review

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not-a-newt · 5 months

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I just started scavenger reign after seeing some lovely screenshots on here a few days ago and it reawakened this incredibly unique feeling of otherworldly wonder that I haven't felt since the first time I watched Nausicaä

If you have any kind of attatchment to one, then I would highly recommend the other; if you're unfamiliar with them both, then I would recommend watching either, because they're both sublime <33

#nausicaä of the valley of the wind #nausicaa #scavengers reign #movie review #show review

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pricelesscinemas · 9 months

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#letterboxd #movie #movie review #movie reviews #movies #movie recommendation #movie recommendations #review #reviews #barbie #greta gerwig #margot robbie #ryan gosling #toy story #toy story 2 #barbie the movie #billie eilish

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incorrectsmashbrosquotes · 1 year

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Just saw D&D: Honor Among Thieves, some thoughts

- Yes, perfect, this is exactly what I wanted from my D&D movie, complete ridiculousness taken 100% seriously. Perfect. No notes.

- Watching Chris Pine be a charming little cringe-fail bard is amazing.

- WHAT SANE MAN WOULD LEAVE A WOMAN LIKE HOLGA?! SHE’S LITERALLY PERFECT! THAT SOUNDS LIKE A YOU PROBLEM BUCKO! SHE’S LITERALLY FLAWLESS!

- Head: Sofina evil. Heart: Hrrgh, hot evil lady step on me.

- Xenk Yendar is the purest force of good in the world and must be protected at all costs. Not that he needs it, but I’m sure he would graciously accept the sentiment.

- Simon hit his insecurities right in the face. Now I just need me a way to do that too.

- A beautiful and charming found-family dynamic that made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

- STOP BULLYING THE FAT DRAGON! HE’S TRYING HIS BEST!

- No Tarasque. Goddammit.

- Ultimately, 8/10, needs more Drow and Tarasques.

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pintsofguinnesmakeyoustrong · 8 months

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a handful of my favourite letterboxd reviews

bonus: the iconic, the legendary, the sensational ~

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hsboo03 · 1 month

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Yesterday I saw Robot Dreams, it was a beautiful experience, it simply portrays something as beautiful as first love, loss, grief, overcoming and the ability to love again without losing the memories of the one we once loved, simply beautiful. With you a little drawing of the real couple. Rascal is the standard. 🍓🏵️🌺🌷

My thoughts are with you ☀️

Holding hands with your heart to see you ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

Only blue talk and love 💫

Remember, how we knew love was here to stay 🪼🌸🌷🌺

#robot dreams #robot dreams movie #oscars #movie #September #earth wind and fire #i love them #movie review #gay boys #sara varon #ibispaintdrawing #Spotify

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