#I was thinking about this movie

[judahlux]

𝓨𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓝𝓪𝓶𝓮

Movie AU

The whisper of the wind is cold.

The bell calls and the ocean sings.

They sing a song, they try to tell him something but he doesn't listen. He can't.

When the water covers him, the silence and warmth are familiar. He has been here before. The blue sky is visible from the surface.

Then someone calls his name.

Daniel.

Daniel.

Daniel.

Find me!

"Where are you?" Daniel shouts. His throat hurts. He feels like he's drowning.

Silence again.

"Where are you?" Daniel cries. He needs to see him. One last time.

"I'm right here."

Daniel sees someone's silhouette distorted, like someone who is underwater and ripples dance over him.

"What's your name?" asks Daniel. His voice is on the verge of cracking. He knows who this guy is but- he can't see him.

The current starts to get stronger. He feels the water trying to reach his lungs. Daniel runs towards the figure as if it were his last hope.

The ripples stop and then he can see him.

Hair as golden as the sun, face soft but frightening. Eyes as blue as the sea. Bright as the sky.

Daniel reaches down to his wrist, a red band tied around it. The boy lifts it up and shows it to him as he looks at it tenderly. He smiles at Daniel. A lotus flower peeks out from the center of the band.

It's the hachimaki Mr. Miyagi gave him.

Daniel puts his hand on the cold glass. The boy does the same.

Daniel sticks his forehead and whispers "Who are you?"

The current comes closer. The glass shatters and the boy disappears.

Daniel feels the water filling his lungs.

He wakes up in the sand stinging his skin. His eyes bathed in tears and his heart pounding. At his age, anyone would think it was a heart attack. But he knows better.

Find me. I’ll save you. I promise!

He didn't tell him his name.

Daniel raises his hand. There's something strange about it. A squiggle in black.

Johnny

#I was thinking about this movie #it's beautiful #lawrusso #johnny lawrence #daniel larusso #cobra kai #ralph macchio #william zabka #kimi no na wa #your name #Kimi no nawa au #lawrusso au #my edit #moodboard #aesthetics #anime movie

[orcboxer]

those first couple weeks after escaping a time loop have gotta be disorienting as all fuck. all those little cues that used to tell you what's about to happen are now triggers that cause you to brace for something that isn't coming. you have to relearn the permanence of death -- hell, you have reacquaint yourself with the entire concept of finality altogether. everything keeps changing but it never changes back and you keep having to remind yourself that this is normal. "it won't reset anymore," you echo to yourself, over and over and over, like a broken record, like you're still trapped in a loop, like someone who escaped the time loop but was doomed to bring it into the future with them

#orcspeak #edit: this is not about fanfic nor is it about a specific fanfic nor is it about a specific show or movie or book #this post is about the time loop trope itself which occurs in many different stories spanning many different art forms #i don't read or write fanfic and I'm not looking for fanfic recs and whatever character you think this is about there's #an 80 percent chance i don't recognize their name

[secondbeatsongs]

for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal

before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"

and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"

#the truman show #sbs rambles #I keep thinking about how children on popular youtube channels should probably have laws to protect them #social workers assigned to them maybe #I dunno #they did not sign up to have their lives sold for profit #but here we are #tho #I guess none of us signed up for it #and our data is harvested more than ever #god #high-tech capitalism sucks turns out #OH WAIT because tumblr is bad at getting context sometimes #let me specify: #I am not saying that the movie The Truman Show is bad or that it normalizes this #like all good sci-fi (because it is kind of sci-fi) it's there to warn us of what the future could hold #and it did that in a very good way - it's a beautiful movie #I could see someone with a bad faith take assuming I meant that it was part of the problem #it absolutely wasn't. it didn't normalize this; we did #youtube did and social media #it's us that's the problem #or more specifically: big corporations and a lack of regulation #that's the origin of most modern problems

[thetrashiestbaby]

thinking about Nimona’s face in this scene because she already knows how this plays out, she’s lived this already and while Bal has the hope that she once had in his eyes, she KNOWS what happening before the sword is even raised. She’s NOT SURPRISED she’s NOT SHOCKED she’s only DISAPPOINTED that Ambrosius can turn on the man he loves because she’s already played this out with Gloreth

#I CANT #I need to be euthanized #I cannot stop thinking about them #nimona #nimona and ballister #nimona analysis #nimona spoilers #nimona movie #nimona ambrosius #nimona netflix #nimona 2023 #nimona ballister #balister blackheart #balister boldheart #ballister x ambrosius #gloreth

[autumn-may]

Mostly spoiler free summary of my viewing experience

#The boy and the heron #how do you live #studio ghibli #ghibli #in all honesty that movie was legitimately so fantastic and im like changed as a person #Story wise as well! It hits really hard if you know a bit about miyazaki and his legacy. Its a very personal movie i think #And you can feel it in every aspect #The eng dub voice actors were really good as well and the animation was beautiful as always #Also really loved the tone!!! The story really relied a bit on the use of negative space in both sound and pacing and i enjoyed that alot #in conclusion go read a article about miyazaki and his son and then go watch the movie it’s probably going to be one of my favorites #image id in alt

[overstayedtime]

saltburn details that make my brain explode bc theyre so beautifully done

felix & venetia having matching star tattoos

the vampire scene hinting at venetias death

the catton players display with the stones ontop at the end

venetia telling the doppelganger story and seeing a felix doppelganger in the window (hints at felix’s death)

these r some of the details i really love that emerald put into the film & i feel like they add a lot

#barry keoghan #emerald fennell #felix catton #jacob elordi #oliver quick #cattonquick #saltburn #venetia catton #alison oliver #rosamund pike #richard e. grant #saltburn movie #saltburn details #i cannot stop thinking about it #i love saltburn #one chance jacob please

[vivicendium]

i think something that elevates the hunger games franchise is not just the quality of writing but the integrity of it. tbosas isn’t just a cash-grab by suzanne collins in the age of sequels and reboots (though i won’t pretend that didn’t play a part), it’s a character study of the main antagonist with a different structure than the main trilogy. and importantly, it doesn’t just re-hash the same old themes and beats the main trilogy had, it expands on not just the world of the hunger games but the themes as well, it actually has something new to say about the trilogy’s themes about class, capitalism, power, and control, in a way that couldn’t be explored with the main story because the protagonist of that story simply did not have access to the world that’s being explored in tbosas.

i understand the people who call for books/movies to be made about haymitch, finnick, johanna, different years of the games — we love those characters and want to see more of them! i’d kill for a novella on finnick’s days mentoring tributes, or katniss’s parents falling in love. but at the end of the day we probably wouldn’t be very satisfied with those stories being fleshed out if they had absolutely nothing new to say about the world, they’d be enjoyable, but not as interesting and engaging as tbosas has been.

#the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #thg #tbosas #lucy gray baird #coriolanus snow #finnick odair #johanna mason #haymitch abernathy #thg series #thg meta #hunger games prequel #been thinking about this since i read tbosas tbh #rachel zegler #tom blyth #josh andres rivera #movie industry

[watchingwisteria]

listen there really was just something about how in the book, snow’s 3-page descent from hesitant lover boy to deluded psychopath happens entirely in his mind. lucy gray gives him no indication whatsoever that she suspects him, that she’s going to leave or betray him. he’s just sitting quietly in the cabin waiting for her to return when that seed of calculated suspicion, which he has needed to survive the capitol, takes a hold of him and chokes the life out of any goodness left inside him. it really drives home your terror as a reader that “oh my god did he kill her? did she escape? what happened to her? why would he even think that?” in a way that when the movie had to adjust for visualization it lost some of that holy shit this guy has lost it emphasis.

#seeing some discourse and im not saying lucy grey didnt know #im saying she never dropped the kind of hints that she knew like she did in the movie #or if she did snow isnt worried about them until he very suddenly is consumed by them #snow is not concerned about whether or not she believed him. of course she did! hes snow! #but then shes gone…. for a while…… #and its the sudden immediate drastic unravelling that comes across so clearly in the book #that i knew wouldn’t translate to screen yet still cant help but miss #the hunger games #coriolanus snow #tbosas #lucy gray baird #not a crime or anything just a note that i cannot stop thinking about #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #this is all from memory of reading it quite a while ago. so maybe 3 pages is an exaggeration #but i remember it happening VERY quickly and without much external cause #like we as the reader have no indication as to whether shes nearby or not. #snow has no idea either. he just SUSPECTS. and his suspicion breeds the hatred that has been bubbling inside him all this time #he hates how she undoes him. he hates that he WOULD run away with her if shed let him keep his secrets #and he HATES more than anything that she makes him WANT to tell his secrets #he wants to be vulnerable and reveal the ugly nasty parts about himself and still be loved #but he does not let himself and it is everyone’s downfall #he chooses cruelty bc it is easy and familiar and makes him feel more powerful than the vulnerable give and take that real love requires

[chloesimaginationthings]

This will be the first scene of FNAF 2 movie…

#myart #chloesimagination #comic #mike schmidt #fnaf vanessa #vanessa afton #vanessa shelly #william afton #fnaf #fnaf movie #fnaf 2 #fnaf 2 movie #fnaf fanart #five nights at freddy's #seeing fnaf 2 movie has been fully confirmed #I’ve been thinking about scenes in the next film again #and I just wonder how that first mike and Vanessa scene will go… #like I would not blame Mike for a second of he did something like this #he has bills to pay and an Abby to feed! #Williams last fuck you truly was dying without paying Mike #like I know he exploded but still #hope you get well soon Vanessa 🩵🩵 now open your purse

[egophiliac]

IT WAS ERIC AFTER ALL!!!! I'm so glad we got to meet him (before Vil snaps him away with those Infinity Gauntlets) (can't wait to see what happens when we get the matching Infinity Tiara to go with them, there will be no survivors)

(sorry to be so slow/rough lately, just got a lot of stuff on the ol' brain at the moment! alas, if only I could spend all my time drawing incredibly stupid characters I mean I do but)

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #tapis rouge #i know these are not my best but by god i needed to draw ~daddo venue~ #he is a treat! can't wait for him to yell at us for screwing up a shoot or whatever the last-minute disaster will be #i am SO HAPPY it turned out to be about movies after all! ...i mean sort of anyway #i'll take what i can get (and i do enjoy twst trying to be all cute about snow whAHEM i mean beautiful queen) (i see you there twst) #(also to be fair it actually wasn't poisoned in historial-revisionism-twstland so i think we can trust this apple. a+ acting eric) #anyway we are still. very solidly in the 'stand around and talk about the wallpaper for three hours' part of the event. #but HEY we got to meet eric! i was not really expecting it to be him so i am VERY pleased #also god help me i did think the shopping montage as portrayed by a rhythmic where they literally SKIP down the street was hilarious #there's a lot of Choices that were made in this event and that was a good one

[izloveshorses]

greta gerwig really said. when this girl gets a little sad and confused by the weird and complicated and uncomfortable parts of being human and growing up, she meets god and sits at her kitchen table, drinks her tea, holds her hands. and she asks god if she’s allowed to be happy. and god tells her she doesn’t need her permission. she tells her she’s going to be okay.

#barbie #barbie 2023 #barbie spoilers #movies #greta gerwig #i just. #greta.................. may i study you #sorry i think i'm having a delayed reaction asdlhjfk #like i got a little misty in the theater but today i'm crying in my bed alshdjhf #too real!! too real. #no i cannot stop thinking about this

[lesbiradshaw]

he’s like if a boy was a princess

#he IS a princess idc #the curly straw in his drink is so 😞☹️🫶 #prince of my heart love of my life apple pie of my eye etc #the gleaming center of the universe #cant stop thinking about him sorry #as soon as this movie comes out in HD im gonna be so unbearable i fear #saltburn #saltburn spoilers #felix catton #jacob elordi

[antigerrymanderingspiderman]

there are no mirrors in barbie land, not in the beginning or in scenes when we see the car mirrors, which means the barbies don’t really know what they look like. barbie responds to a compliment with “thank you, i feel beautiful” and whenever else she’s talking about her appearance, it’s just about how she feels.

we can see her change in appearance, but her view of how she looks is through the way she feels she looks

#barbie #barbie movie #mirrors #beauty #beauty is subjective #i think part of this is because of how barbie toys are but part of it could be about how are view of ourselves is clouded by how we feel

[blahlahblash]

so basically, umm... Movie Sonic feeling the feels for Movie Shadow, just a tiny bit. And Knuckles unknowingly crushing on Rouge, but not just a tiny bit. Ykyk

#Does this even make any sense? #I can't stop thinking about STH 3 #also #The KNUCKLES SHOW?? YYESPLEASD #sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #rouge the bat #sonic movie 3 #movie sonic #movie knuckles #movie shadow #Sonadow #knuxouge #comics

[alabasterpickles]

Silly quick lil comic about Junior having a nightmare and dad being an excellent sport because I thought the idea would be cute

#I’m literally obsessed with them you don’t understand #I adore them #he’s a good dad #my art #fanart #art #sketch #character design #drawing #animation #illustration #drawings #Super Mario Bros #Mario movie #bowser #bowser junior #bowser jr #comics #I literally think about them constantly and in my mind this is a hundred percent canon #I love me a man who’s intimidating on the outside and soft inside

[inkskinned]

i think one of the reasons glass onion is so fun is that it just... loves the audience back.

so many popular movies and shows these days thrive on a sort of bitter engagement with their fans - where the fans are dismissed as being stupid, annoying, and needlessly angry. we are constantly positioned as being less intelligent as the writers.

so much of "spoiler-free" movie-making relies on writers getting away with one twist in their work, regardless of if that twist was earned. the work doesn't actually have any rewatch value or interesting writing - because they think "good writing" is about "pulling one over" on the audience. they don't focus on making interesting characters or storylines or good endings - they focus on fooling you. glass onion, meanwhile, has faith that the audience has figured the ending out, and that we'll watch anyway, because we love the characters.

so many adaptions of older works... kind of seem to hate the original work. they're done without passion. they're done almost as if checking off a box. so many of them openly mock the audience for enjoying the original, almost directly telling us that we are fools for ever having loved something.

but glass onion. loves the audience. it knows that many of the people watching are mystery-lovers. it is an homage that feels love towards the original works it references. it knows we also love those works; and instead of trying to disparage those works, it allows us to celebrate them.

one of my favorite things about it - and maybe why i found it so satisfying - is that this movie isn't trying to tell you it's the smartest, bestest, most-clever detective story. instead, it asks itself what is satisfying and exciting for the audience? and actually gives us that payoff. it's bright, colorful, and fucking fun.

just... more of this please. i'm very bored of nihilism and grittiness and "shock value" writing. put the love back in. let us love unironically. have your work say i love you too. thank you for sharing this story.

#is this bc i keep thinking about bbc sherlock and how we were all done dirty? #yeah :/ #does this make sense? #i know there are other examples of movies like this that love the audience but i just #was inspired by this particular example #since it COULD have been a 'gritty version of a thing u love'