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ilikestuff69 · 1 month

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A rant about the Academy’s treatment of Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese’s first movie came out in 1967. That was 57 years ago. In those 57 years, Marty has made 26 feature films. Of those 26 films, 18 of them have at least one Oscar nomination. Those 18 films, in total, share 101 Oscar nominations. Of those 101 nominations, 20 of them are wins. And of those 20 Oscar wins, Martin Scorsese only has one Oscar.

Martin Scorsese only has one Oscar.

Martin has been nominated for Best Director 10 times, Adapted Screenplay 2 times and Best Picture 4 times.

His one win is Best Director for The Departed in 2006. That was 18 years ago. Between then and now Martin Scorsese has made Shutter Island, Hugo, The Wolf of Wall Street, Silence, The Irishman, and Killers of the Flower Moon.

The last Martin Scorsese movie to win an Oscar was Hugo in 2011. That was 13 years ago.

A Martin Scorsese movie has not won a single Oscar for 13 years. (Yes, he only made four films in those 13 years, but when those 4 movies are Wolf of Wall Street, Silence, The Irishman and Killers of the Flower Moon, I think the point still stand.)

Martin Scorsese is considered to be one of the best directors ever and yet him and his movies are constantly getting snubbed by the Oscars and that’s genuinely crazy.

#martin scorsese #oscars #oscars 2024 #killers of the flower moon #the academy awards #hugo #silence #the irishman #wolf of wall street #shutter island #the departed

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ilikestuff69 · 1 month

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Bradley Cooper watching Oppenheimer win Best Picture is his villain origin story.

Either this man is gonna write, direct and star in the craziest movie we’ve ever seen, or tomorrow we’re gonna find out that Cillian Murphy and/or Christopher Nolan have gone missing.

Could go either way if you ask me.

#bradley cooper #oscars #oscars 2024 #maestro #oppenheimer #cillian murphy #christopher nolan

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ilikestuff69 · 1 month

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Emma Stone winning over Lily Gladstone feels similar to Anthony Hopkins winning over Chadwick Boseman.

Like did the winner deserve it? Absolutely. Those performances were phenomenal. But the person who didn’t win FELT like person who should’ve won, if that makes sense?

#emma stone #poor things #lily gladstone #killers of the flower moon #anthony hopkins #the father #chadwick boseman #ma rainey #oscars #oscar’s 2024

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ilikestuff69 · 2 months

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‘The Shawshank Redemption’ (1994)

Directed by Frank Darabont

#the shawshank redemption #frank darabont #andy dufresne #red #tim robbins #morgan freeman #bob gunton #clancy brown #william sadler #gil bellows #james whitmore

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ilikestuff69 · 2 months

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‘Pitch Perfect’ (2012)

Directed by Jason Moore

#pitch perfect #beca mitchell #chloe beale #fat amy #aubrey posen #anna kendrick #skylar astin #ben platt #brittany snow #anna camp #rebel wilson #alexis knapp #adam devine #utkarsh ambudkar #elizabeth banks #john michael higgins

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ilikestuff69 · 2 months

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Kinda Spoilers for Dune Part 2. You’ve been warned.

House Atreides is ridiculous, because what do you mean everyone from that family just looks like this?

Pretty is not even the right word for these four. They looks ethereal.

#to be a member of house Atreides you most have a very prominent jawline apparently #dune part 2 #dune part two #dune #dune spoilers #dune part two spoilers #paul atreides #duke leto atreides #lady jessica #alia atreides #oscar isaac #rebecca ferguson #timothée chalamet #anya taylor joy

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ilikestuff69 · 2 months

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A parallel I love in Dune: Part 2 (so… spoilers. duh.)

(I did not realize this on my own, it was Nikhil Clayton’s tiktok that pointed this out so go check out his video)

When we’re introduced to Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen he’s fighting what the Harkonnens believe are the last three members of House Atreides. Two of the three men are bigger and more imposing while the other one is skinnier and looks weaker by comparison. But the two bigger ones are actually drugged and easily bested by Feyd-Rautha, while the skinnier one isn’t and is actually able to have a fair duel with Feyd-Rautha. The duel goes on until both fighters are fighting over one knife and eventually Feyd-Rautha is able to beat the skinnier fighter and supposedly destroy all of House Atreides.

Then later in the movie, Paul finds out that he is part Harkonnen due to Lady Jessica being The Baron’s daughter. Later when Paul is asked what he’s gonna do to stop the Harkonnens, Paul responds with something along the lines of “We’re Harkonnens, that’s how we’ll win. By being Harkonnens.” (again, I am paraphrasing that).

And that’s exactly what Paul does. When it comes to the Harkonnens, there are three faces that come to mind in the movie, the Baron, Rabban, and Feyd-Rautha and look-wise, the Baron and Rabban are much bigger and more imposing, so you’d think they’d be a bigger challenge, but no, Paul and Gurney are able to defeat those two very easily. Leaving only Feyd-Rautha, the skinnier one of the three, to have an actual fair duel with Paul, where it eventually comes down them fighting for the control of one knife until Paul eventually gets the upper hand and defeats Feyd-Rautha.

So when we see Feyd-Rautha in the arena, he is literally showing us how he and his family will be taken down and when Paul says they defeat House Harkonnen by being Harkonnens, he’s saying he will do the exact same thing we saw Feyd-Rautha do to defeat House Atreides.

I just think that that’s all really neat.

Thanks for reading!

#dune part two #dune #dune part 2 #paul atreides #feyd rautha harkonnen #feyd rautha #paul #lady jessica #baron harkonnen #glossu rabban #house harkonnen #house atreides #timothée chalamet #austin butler #rebecca ferguson #stellan skarsgard #dave bautista #dune spoilers

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ilikestuff69 · 2 months

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Dune Part 2 Spoilers(?)

Ok, but why does Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen have a weirdly high amount of sexual tension with every single character he interacts with tho?

Also Austin Butler’s face is wild. Because in the movie he is hairless. No hair, no eyebrows, nothing. He’s either shot in black and white or he is deathly pale when in color. When he talks, he sounds like he’s dying from lung cancer and still smoking two packs a day. He looks like he’s ready to murder or fuck (or both) anyone he’s talking to at any given moment.

And yet he still looks good. It’s ridiculous.

#dune #dune part two #feyd rautha #feyd rautha harkonnen #paul atreides #chani kynes #baron harkonnen #glossu rabban #beast rabban #margot fenring #austin butler

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ilikestuff69 · 2 months

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Mini Fantasy High Rant

I think it’s kinda ridiculous that Porter doesn’t think Gorgug is a good barbarian or at least capable of being a barbarian and an artificer when Gorgug has literally helped save the world three times before Junior Year. Like, what the fuck were you doing during those times, Porter? Also, some people say Porter hasn’t seen any proof that Gorgug was doing good, but 1.) Still being alive after stopping three world ending events has to show something and 2.) Wasn’t Riz filming a lot of their final fight with Kalina in the Nightmare Forrest? You’re telling me there isn’t ANY footage of Gorgug killing it out there?

Also, if Porter wants proof that Gorgug is good at being a barbarian or being a barbarian/artificer, why not ask the 5 people who’ve been with him in every battle for the last 3 years? Or Ragh or Sandra Lynn? People have seen Gorgug absolutely destroy during battles as a Barbarian and how helpful it is with him being an artificer. It just doesn’t feel like he doesn’t care because Gorgug isn’t like a normal barbarian and he acts like that’s a bad thing.

Also also, Porter, if Gorgug isn’t good at being a barbarian and we’re in his junior year, that kinda reflects more on you as a teacher than him as a student.

And even if you think Porter is handling the situation with Gorgug correctly, his behavior towards Fig is weird and should be called out as such.

End of rant, thanks for reading!

#fantasy high #porter cliffbreaker #gorgug thistlespring #fantasy high junior year #brennan lee mulligan #zac oyama #fig faeth #emily axford

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ilikestuff69 · 2 months

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Live Action ATLA Rant

(Spoilers obviously)

tw: mentions of abuse

(If there is a better way to word that trigger warning or if I missed anything please let me know)

This rant is gonna be about the Agni Kai against Zuko in Ozai in the live action adaptation of Avatar: the Last Airbender.

Now first off I want to say I’m well aware that adaptations will change things and I am all for that as long as the change makes the story better. Like I love the changes made to Bill and Frank and Henry and Sam in the Last of Us adaptation. But I will complain if the changes made weaken the story being told. And that’s what happened with Ozai and Zuko’s Agni Kai. So here are my reasons as to why I don’t like the changes made. (Also if you like the changes made, that’s totally fine, this is just for me to rant about something bugging me).

1. Zuko fights back in the Agni Kai. Now this is gonna probably be the most of the rant so let’s break it down.

- Zuko wouldn’t have been banished: in the original Zuko was banished because he literally refused to fight in the Agni Kai and it was seen as dishonorable and an insult to the Fire Nation. But having him fight back is him engaging and honoring the Fire Nation tradition. Yeah, he lost, but he wouldn’t be banished for that. When Zuko and Zhao have their fight and Zuko wins, Zhao isn’t exiled, Zuko wins and gets to put Zhao in his place. Losing is not dishonorable and Ozai shouldn’t have been able to banish him for that. But that’s very nitpicky, I’ll be honest about that, so let’s move to the next point.

- It takes away from Zuko’s character arc. Zuko isn’t a violent person. He was raised by his mother to be kind. He stood out in his family because of this. So when the Agni Kai comes, he refuses to fight his father and is marked and banished for doing so and the only way to earn his honor back is to find the Avatar, which is a seemingly impossible task to do. Being banished and abandoned by his family (besides Iroh) leads Zuko down a dark and violent path searching for the Avatar for years because he’s been to led to believe that violence is the only way his family will forgive and accept him. Then, in season two, Zuko and Iroh are branded traitors for helping the Northern Water Tribe which causes Zuko’s search for the Avatar to stop. While in hiding, Zuko sees firsthand all the damage the Fire Nation has done to the other nations. Also him and Iroh are able to set up a pretty normal life for themselves and Zuko actually seems happy. But then, when Azula promises that Ozai will be proud if Zuko helped her kill the avatar, Zuko relapses back into his violent tendencies and helps Azula, betraying Iroh in the process. When it appears that Aang had been killed, Zuko is welcomed home and crowned the prince of the Fire Nation once again. So he’s happy now, right? He got everything he wanted, right? No he’s not happy because he realizes that this isn’t actually what he wants. In fact Zuko hates himself. He hates himself for allowing and contributing to all the violence the Fire Nation is committing against the other Nations. He hates himself for betraying his uncle, the only person in his family who actually wanted to help him. He hates himself for doing all these awful things just to earn the approval of his father, a man who saw Zuko as an embarrassment for just being who he was. He hates himself for forgetting what his mother taught him and becoming more like Azula and Ozai. That’s why, when Zuko turns on Ozai, he tells him that the Fire Nation needs to enter an era of peace and kindness to make up for the era of violence they’ve been in for years, but they can never do that as long as Ozai is the Fire Lord and that’s why Zuko joins the Avatar and help him take down Ozai. Zuko wasn’t violent growing up. He wasn’t like Azula or Ozai. He stood out because he was kind. Ozai saw that as a weakness and when Zuko begged to not fight him, Ozai saw Zuko as an embarrassment who needed to be punished causing Zuko to go down the path he goes down in the series.Having Zuko choose to fight Ozai in the Agni Kai feels like it negates so much of that.

- Zuko almost wins. In the live action adaptation, when Zuko fights against Ozai, they imply that Zuko is strong enough to beat Ozai. I’m sorry, what? Compared to Ozai, Iroh and Azula, Zuko is arguably the weakest firebender in the family. He learns sword fighting so he didn’t have to only rely on his firebending. How is Zuko able to almost beat Ozai in a one-on-one? It also just looks bad from a writing standpoint. In the first season, you are showing that the main villain could easily lose to his son? Ozai should seem unbeatable. When Aang fights Ozai in the finale, Aang almost loses to Ozai until Aang accesses the Avatar State. Ozai shouldn’t be almost losing fights to children who don’t have god-level powers.

- There was a better way to have a fight if they wanted to have a fight. If the creators really wanted to show more of a fight between Ozai and Zuko, they should’ve had Zuko stay on the defensive for the whole fight. Have Ozai be relentless against Zuko as Zuko is just barely able to avoid or block the attacks, while trying to get his father to stop. Not only doesn’t it make Ozai look more ruthless, but it makes you feel more for Zuko as this child tries desperately to stop his father from hurting him only to inevitably fail. And you can still have Ozai express disappointment in Zuko for not even trying to fight back, seeing it as Zuko disrespecting their tradition. But idk, I’m not a writer.

2. They make Ozai look sad when he burns Zuko’s face. I’m sorry, but why are we trying to make Ozai look sympathetic? He’s an abuser. He’s actively choosing to burn his child. He’s not doing it because he’s forced to or anything. It was his decision. Sometimes villains don’t have to be complex to be good. Ozai is an evil man who abuses his children constantly. He doesn’t get to look remorseful as he’s doing it.

3. The Agni Kai was so much smaller in the adaptation. In the original, the Agni Kai took place in front of hundreds of people and this is important to Zuko’s character because not only was he punished and exiled for how he acted in the fight, but he was also humiliated as all those people watched as his father punished him for wanting to not fight his father. Making it such a small event just makes it feel less impactful than it could’ve been.

4. Having Iroh speak out against the Agni Kai takes away from his character. (This is also kinda nitpicky but that hasn’t stopped us before so why should it now?). In the original, Iroh not speaking out or trying to stop the Agni Kai is something that he deeply regrets. He watched as his nephew was humiliated in front of hundreds of people and didn’t do anything to help him. That’s why Iroh is with Zuko for a majority of the show. He knows Zuko. He knows who Zuko was before the Agni Kai and why he’s been acting the way he is while looking for the avatar. He felt like he let Zuko down and wants to help Zuko get what he needs. It’s why Iroh never chooses leaves Zuko side and having Iroh try to stop Ozai just lessens that a little bit for me.

To wrap it all up, i think the changes made to the Zuko and Ozai Agni Kai in the live action adaptation of ATLA aren’t good changes and weaken a lot the characters involved in the scene. But that’s just my opinion.

(Sorry if some of this was wrong or didn’t make sense, I’m writing this at midnight and just kinda going off memory for some of the details).

((Also, If you actually read all this, you’re awesome btw. Have a nice day!))

#avatar #avatar the last airbender #atla #zuko #prince zuko #fire lord zuko #atla zuko #ozai #fire lord ozai #atla ozai #uncle iroh #iroh #atla iroh #princess azula #atla azula #azula

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ilikestuff69 · 2 months

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I truly don’t understand the discourse around Sally Jackson in the Percy Jackson show.

Like yes, I know in the book that Sally is basically the perfect mother who’s never raised her voice at Percy, but let’s think about this for second.

Sally is a single mother who probably had Percy in her early 20s. Percy has ADHD, dyslexia, and is a child of one of the most powerful gods in the world. He’s been kicked out of multiple schools to the point where they’re recommending homeschooling, which probably isn’t a feasible option for her because she has to work so her and Percy aren’t in a worst position than they’re already in. Meanwhile, as Percy’s getting older, the world is getting more and more dangerous for him and Sally’s probably scared for his life on a day to day basis.

Of course she’s not perfect. No one would be. She still loves her son and Percy loves her. That’s evident with Percy literally going to hell just to get her back. The fact that the 1-2 scenes of her being frustrated with Percy is enough for people to say she’s not a good mom is ridiculous. Especially when there is 12 years of her being a mom that we didn’t see. If Sally isn’t a good parent because she’s been frustrated with her kid before, then literally no one has ever been a good parent.

I can’t think of a good way to end this, so I’ll just reiterate; Sally Jackson should not have to be perfect to be a good mother and to think otherwise is kinda unrealistic and really judgmental. Especially when we’re coming to that conclusion based on two moments in a twelve year timespan.

But, I mean, that’s just what I think. Please tell me if I’m wrong about anything.

#percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #sally jackson #pjo tv show #pjo series #pjo

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ilikestuff69 · 3 months

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FANTASY HIGH RANT

It’s crazy how much of an opinion I did not have about Porter Cliffbreaker until this season. Like genuinely? Did not give a fuck about him. Couldn’t care less. Honestly thought Fig was crazy for being so suspicious about him.

But now? Four Episodes in?

Fuck. This. Man.

This dude sucks. He’s such a bad teacher and the way he treats Gorgug makes me want to fight him so bad. Like, how the fuck are you gonna be personally hurt that a student wants to take another class, even though he still wants to be in your class?

Also, Porter saying he doesn’t see Gorgug as a good barbarian even though Gorgug is one of the best in battle amongst the Bad Kids (I don’t know the stats about that or anything but the dude’s just a tank in battles from what I remember).

A part of me is hoping Porter’s actually evil and Gorgug is able to take him down but at the very least I hope someone (hopefully Gorgug) confronts him about how awful he’s treating Gorgug because right now? Dude sucks.

Also his blatant favoritism towards Fig is kinda weird, right?

#fantasy high #gorgug thistlespring #porter cliffbreaker #figeroth faeth #fig faeth #brennan lee mulligan #fantasy high junior year #dimension 20 #zac oyama #emily axford

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ilikestuff69 · 3 months

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Actors I think would be good in a Knives Out movie (Part 4 of 4)

Lauren Ridloff