#im watching queer movies

[variousqueerthings]

something that strikes me about joyland vs many other films centering trans women, is that biba’s story is one that interweaves with various cisgender women -- while it does have scenes showing her community, which is notably a place she is happy and safe and able to let her guard down, her actual story stands in comparison to other cis women, who likewise are comparable to each other. she’s not the “othered” woman to their “normative” woman, she’s a woman, whose perspective is relevant to a story largely about women

the part where her being transgender is important (and it is important!), is that she has taken the necessary steps in life to be freely herself, and this has come at great cost, but it’s also working. she knows the pain that comes with that and we see a lot of it in the movie itself, but she’s definitely also got the joy that comes from a certain kind of freedom (the freedom of creating a new reality after everything is gone)

so in that sense, the main contrast of her as “trans woman” to their “non-trans woman,” is that it’s given her the opportunity for joy precisely because the margins -- once everything has perceivably been lost -- is where that joy is to be created, whereas the other women whose stories we see are clinging to what scraps they have. they aren’t happy, not because they’re women, but because the little bits that they do have in the society in which they function, are things they’re too afraid to lose to stand up for what they want 

nucchi at first appears to be happy as a housewife, desperate to produce a son, but she gets stripped away, bit by bit, merely as someone who can tolerate the role she has. she studied to be an interior designer, I believe it was, and it makes perfect sense, once she shares that piece of information with mumtaz. she comes into focus -- and then she’s the one who suggests that she and mumtaz leave the house together (gasp) to go to the amusement park, for their One Good Day

and mumtaz you simply see deteriorate, until she’s on the verge of doing the one thing that might help -- running away -- and then cannot go through with it. I think at least one of the reasons is that she’s wondering if maybe she can do this after all, if maybe once she tells haider that she’s pregnant something will open up, but instead the future closes in and in and in. she doesn’t manage to grab that one sliver of freedom she had (and it would have come with so much pain), and the ending starts careening at the viewer from that point onwards

the second-to-last scene, where you see haider and mumtaz talk prior to their wedding is just... oof. ouch. mumtaz :( me, sitting in this movie screaming at the screen to just get her the damned air-conditioners she wanted, at least! one thing!

and then lastly the neighbouring woman, who at first presents herself as all about that propriety, and who you then realise is at the end of what this journey is going to be. no longer useful, only a ghost, not even allowed to leave the house, and there’s no way she’ll do anything but accept this, even as she feels, deep down, there’s some way to have joy, and she even briefly offers a small fight for it, before she accepts her fate anew

in the face of all of this, biba’s is the story with the most hope, presenting out and proud transness as a gift rather than a burden that must be borne because nothing else is possible, as it often is. biba is not in a society where she’s safe, or accepted, or respected -- hell, she’s clearly the least privileged person we follow in this film -- but she is free

#joyland #im watching joyland #im watching movies #im watching queer movies #haider... you really fucked up.... #queer stuff #queer cinema #queer movies #trans cinema #feminist cinema #parts of this film also reminded me of mustang which fuckn made me bawl

[moog-enthusiast]

not quite kissing

#bill x ted #bill and ted #bill and ted’s excellent adventure #i’m so sorry to my cool friend who watched this movie with me only for me to draw gay ass fanart #fuckinf queers #hate those gay people #slash jokes im gay #alex winter #keanu reeves

[cowboy-robooty]

watched brokeback mountain yesterday.... mid as fuck. i think it wouldve played out a lot better if the main characters were yuri and jimmy from yarichin bitch club. do u see my vision?

#brokeback mountain #yarichin bitch club #yarichin b club #toru fujisaki #yuri ayato #ybc #ybc jimmy #yuritoru #idk their fuckin ship name #im a gay male im allowed to say brokeback mountain actually fucking sucks #i get what its doing yknow time period repression tragedy wrong time wrong place BUT GODDD I JUST DONT CARE #I DONT CARE IT SUCKS AND CHEATING TURNS ME OFF SO BAD #its like good in a technical skill way okay its a well made movie but my enjoyment was a solid 2/10 i could only watch it wif my friends #main way this could be improved is if the main characters were jimmy and yuri #if yuri and jimmy were doing this shit.... lets just say they wouldnt be hatecrimed to death for being gay #theyd be begged to leave town purely bc theyre both batshit insane and jimmy would accidentally kill 17 people via homemade cookie poisoning #draws #**obama voice** just to be queer. i traced over screenshots for this shitpost. that is all

[cowboycannibalism]

do you think that Lawrence begged to get Adam out of the bathroom? do you think it was too late? did John consider it, letting Lawrence have Adam? Did he think it would keep the doctor from leaving the apprentices? Did Amanda ever tell Lawrence that she couldn't let him starve and suffer? That she was the last person to see Adam alive? That she saw the spark of hope flare and vanish when he realized it wasn't Larry coming for him?

do you think Adam died thinking Lawrence lied to him?

#im watching saw before bed #which is not a good idea because now im very sad #i love a doomed narrative #i love a tragic queer vibe #BUT i miss adam #he would be so proud of cunty lawrence in the later movies #saw 2004 #saw franchise #chainshipping #lawrence gordon #adam stanheight #the jig is up.game over #<- thats my saw tag btw

[hellishgayliath]

How perfect timing is it for spiderverse to happen during pride

#rottmnt #rottmnt todd #rottmnt oc #my ocs #my art #cannot wait to see it tomorrow while im out for pride #im excitedddddddd #pico has never watched movies before #but he's excited too :D #i never thought on todd's sexuality before but he strikes as an old queer #even having the original pride colours #never thought on pico either but i decided to go with pan+genderqueer #pico opossum

[gingerjolover]

have i ever seen bottoms? no.

am i religiously stalking the hazel callahan x reader tag? absolutely.

#i know i NEED to watch it #i’m simply not a movie gal #hate me all you want #but the actress is mwah chefs kiss #hazel callahan #hazel callahan x reader #bottoms (2023) #i love being queer #im so gay <3 #not munagenius #gingy talks too much

[horror-aesthete]

Suitable Flesh, 2023 , dir. Joe Lynch

#aaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA #holy shit holy shit holy shit #horror aesthetic #horror movies #queer fear #honestly? its surprising that barbara crampton is the first reacurring actor in the stuart gordon verse to get a canonically gay scene but #also she deserves it and im so happy for her #me watching this scene and the one where barbara crampton lights a joint: i got butterflies in my tummy. and theyre flyin real low today #suitable flesh

[mechanicalsquid]

just watched Nimona and can I just say it's *chef's kiss*. the clear queerness of Ballister and Ambrosious from the very beginning, no hiding it or hinting that it exists, and how they navigate their relationship throughout the course of the narrative. struggling to trust one another and questioning what they mean to each other while being pitted against each other by the system. the trans/nonbinary interpretation of Nimona (whether intentional or not) and how (like trans/nonbinary/queer people) she just wants to live her life but everyone else can only see her as a monster, society twisting and shaping history to benefit everyone else and convincing everyone that She is the one to fear. and also the way that her rage is shown! her rage and anger are real and justified, and it almost becomes a vicious cycle where people are scared of her because of her destruction, but she causes havoc because she's angry that people are afraid of her no matter how hard she tries to be good, so then she plays into that role and decides that if people view her as a monster and that's all they see her as, she might as well be the scariest monster out there and give them a reason to be scared. and breaking that cycle is sooo hard but sometimes all you need is one other person to look at you and believe that you're a good person. and the art and animation are phenomenal! so many little details, like the way her eyes catch the light and you can see fire reflected in them. the whole thing is just so good

#nimona #spoilers #loved this movie sooo much im going to have to watch it a couple more times #we love an inherently queer film that touches on so many different intricacies #queer #transgender #nonbinary #sqyd speaks

[mbat]

wait tell me why im only just realizing the line 'if you shoot the cannon in the city, innocent people will die' 'but so will the monster' is like transvestigating and generally when queerphobes are so paranoid theyll point fingers at nonqueer people just the same as queer people, harming everyone in the process

#nimona #my post #everything in this movie is so queer help #im not even watching it rn just a reaction to it

[rpglesbian]

I can't believe I haven't seen a single post about the homages to But I'm a Cheerleader in Bottoms. Besides the camp, phallic imagery, and pink/blue color coding the diner Josie and Isabel meet at is literally called But I'm a Diner

#am I old?? #is the movie so dated gays under 25 don't know about it? #if you're queer go watch but im a cheerleader right now #bottoms movie #but I'm a Cheerleader

[variousqueerthings]

still thinking about great freedom (große freiheit) and its way of looking at intimacy and domesticity and violence and surveillance and voyeurism and crime and madness and masculinity and agency and freedom -- the way it does the looking itself is so !!!!! camera!!!!!!!! light and dark!!!!!!!!!!! faces!!!!!!! 

 it’s still quite rare to see a film these days that is so conscious of its references to queer cinema, rather than trying to build too much on heteronormative film-making structures, it feels like a love-letter to people who created queer films, as much as a story about queer history 

the way it defines freedom through the story and characters and through the camera -- the film-reel that was filmed by the lead that is possibly lost forever, but we see it, we know it was real, even if in the world itself it may no longer exist (or was possibly never even developed), versus the voyeuristic watching of men cottaging so they can be arrested, the way the men watch each other, versus the way guards watch them

the different ways people make choices in extremely limiting, violent places (prison, anti-queer society), never leave your apartment for fear of getting arrested, go on dates in prison by way of punishment from the guards, protect each other and end up in solitary, falsely admit to rape so that another man can be released, go back to prison to help your friend with his addiction, etc.

violence and kindness going hand in hand (punished for covering the concentration camp tattoo with “stolen” homemade tattoo gear, punished for holding a crying, grieving man, punished for protecting another gay man from violence, not being allowed to hear the goodbye letter from the man you love +  not developing the film reel of the two of you (but the film allowing us to see and hear both), allowing yourself to be judged a rapist to protect another man, committing a “crime” so that you can go back in and help your friend, etcetc)

the times the lead gets pushed into the complete silent blackness of solitary, versus his voluntarily being led into the underground cruising area beneath a gay bar and then the way he leaves that place, literally leaves “great freedom” in order to consciously get arrested again, because of the life he built and the person to whom he has responsibilities

and, yes, to be so simplistic, but “be gay do crimes,” that ending was gorgeous

#große freiheit #great freedom #i didnt realise it was an austrian production but did suspect because of accents #queer cinema #queer movies #poetic Cinemá #im watching queer movies #im watching movies

[somethingsomethingcomic]

beware my wine rants

#hi im back and experimenting #ive had the gnarliest art block for the past like month and a half sorry! i made this to try to break out of it #for more context this happened on the night we got drunk and watched spiderman 2 (2004) and i looked up the soundtrack afterwards #and fell down a rabbithole bc switchfoot is on it #my dad used to listen to contemporary christian radio (probably still does) so i heard a lot of the more popular Christian hits of the 2000s #also christian stations will play what the fuck ever sometimes if a song can be read in even a little bit of a christian way #idk how christian the fray is (ig they did make 'you found me' but.) but ive heard 'how to save a life' on christian stations #and theres plenty of like. really lowkey christian bands. like switchfoot! and relient k! #most ppl alive in the 00s have probably heard 'dare you to move' just in nature. and christian stations loved that one #newsboys is on that spectrum somewhere i think. they did 'belly of the whale' for the Jonah a veggietales movie #and the dvd bonus features include the music video for that plus the video for 'a million pieces' which doesnt feel overtly christian to me #anyway! i hope everyone likes this vertical format! and the coloring. im still trying to adjust my style for that part #when csp says 'brightness' it does not nean 'color value' which is an issue for my new method #but yknow its a learning curve #furry #queer artist #smth smth #queer comics #trans artist

[lesbianwithchainsaws]

Headcanoning random horror movie characters that are basically nothing characters only there to die as queer is something that can be so important actually

#started watching a slasher movie and like im fairly certain these people are going to die and it really doesnt matter id theyre queer or not #but they are #they are to me #horror #horror movies

[walrus150915]

The only reason I prefer the movie just a tad over the graphic novel is bc both gay leads are Asian if I'm being honest... As an Asian mlm I'm just biased😭

#Like I LOVEEEE the graphic novel #it's great in its moral greyness and ambiguity #but sometimes you really just wanna watch a silly fun and hopeful adventure #which tells you #hey #its okay to exist #if youre trans youre valid #and dont let anyone make you doubt that #plus be fr where else have you seen a story where the male lead is an asian queer man who has an asian love interest of other nationality #im an asian bi trans guy and nimona is my comfort movie #nimona

[lalaloobzy]

I will never stop being fascinated by movies and plays that came out pre- Hays code

#im so fr have yall ever seen a movie from the 20s?? #im always shocked how ahead of their time they are #i mean. the queerness the anti-establishmentness the feminism the boldness #at least comapred to movies from like. the 50s #today i watched metropolis (1927) and IT WAS SO DELIGHTFULLY ANTI RICH PEOPLE #IM OBSESSED CUZ F THE RICH #not to mention it was BEAUTIFULLY expressionistic #hays code #hollywood #old movies #classic movies #1920s #metropolis #metropolis 1927 #im realizing now that metropolis may have nothing to do with the hays code since its a german film #but oh well i still stand by this post #pre hays code movies my beloved #blue collar #anti bourgeoisie #anti establishment #urban utopia #1920s movies #movies stuff

[vanilla-voyeur]

I'm absolutely obsessed with all the one star Nimona reviews that say it was a great movie except for one single scene that ruined it by shoving their politics down our throats

#Nimona #My brother in Christ the trans allegory is so heavy handed you can tell from the first 5 seconds of the trailer #Multiple different people saw 2 men saying I love you to each other repeatedly and didnt realize they were gay until they literally kissed #They probably wouldve felt better if Ballister and Nimona kissed at the end #I mean she is secretly a 1000 year old dragon #Honorable mention to the 2 star review that said it didnt give enough time to the queer characters #Fam I dont know what movies youre watching but clearly Im missing out #Anyone wanna meet me after work and shove their lgbt politics down my throat? 😏