#IMDB reviews

[phoenixisnthere]

I think the person who wrote this review on IMDb for Apartment 1303 3D would like Tumblr

#the movie was pretty bad lmao #funny #funny posts #imdb #IMDb reviews #reviews #movie review #horror review #my post

[cuddyclothes]

RENEW AS A CREW!

There's been lots of great advice - sign petitions, etc. One thing: leaving great reviews on IMDB for each episode, plus reviews on rottentomatoes.com.

ALSO leave reviews on Google! Most of the reviews are over a year old! Believe it or not, these also count into the algorithms!

THANKS to all of the wonderful fans putting their shoulders to the wheel to save our show!

Ed loves you

#ofmd #renew as a crew #renew our flag means death #give reviews #imdb #rottentomatoes #google

[animusrox]

#Movie Reviews #rotten tomatoes #imdb #memes #meme #kane52630

[linguist-in-a-blanket]

Lemony, multiple times: This is a tragedy. There is no happy ending. Also no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. This lovely person is going to die. That one too. If you think there is hope, there isn't. This is a dark, dark show.

Imdb reviewers:

#a series of unfortunate events #asoue #one-star imdb reviews are hilarious

[gangviolets]

#violet aesthetic #imdb review #violet #my edit #not my picture #dethboi

[silver-horse]

I read some of the reviews for Dragon Age Absolution on IMDB and it’s so funny that people seriously give reviews which just say “everyone is gay 2/10.”

Dude, what did you even expect? This is Dragon Age, there are always gay characters, it’s one of the gayest series you can find.

Look at this review, hilarious:

Clearly written by someone who knows nothing about the series. They incorrectly refer to the characters with D&D class descriptions and they call the qunari mage “some kind of giant goat lady”. LOL It’s actually quite funny to read, but... if someone starts watching a tv show that is part of a larger series and then they get angry because it depicts the usual themes and topics of that series, well they have only themselves to blame. Hate gay characters? Maybe be aware if a 13 year old series has gay storylines and don’t act like the most recent entry has an “agenda”. Ridiculous. Homophobes always assume there is an “agenda” so they don’t even bother to check whether or not gay characters are actually new to the series they are watching.

#Dragon Age #absolution #dragon age absolution #it's always mind blowing to listen to or read the words of these homophobes #they always think there is some sort of agenda whooooo!! be scared of the agenda #and here is a situation where anyone who is familiar with the series would know how stupid this reviewer sounds #and yet people will still upvote this review and agree with it #and they reaffirm each other in their ignorance because they don't talk to a single person who has played the games #my post #my posts #my thoughts #da mine #Miriam #Hira #Sapphira #Qwydion #Roland #Lacklon #imdb #text post #textposts

[benoits-neckerchieves]

Feel free to explain why in the comments or reblog with ur favourite scenes or whatever

#really interested to see what ppl will say #choices roughly based on letterboxd and rotten tomatoes #daniel craig #james bond #007 #benoit blanc #knives out #glass onion #the girl with the dragon tattoo #logan lucky #layer cake #cowboys and aliens #road to perdition #the golden compass #letterboxd #rotten tomatoes #imdb #movie review #movie poll #movie ratings

[allgremlinart]

and yah Zuko fights back during the Agni Kai in this one but idk. they kinda pull it off.

#its giving fanfic but its not giving BAD fanfic. <- my official IMDB review #natla spoilers #I've watched all but the last 2 eps cus I wanna watch those when Im not sleep deprived #but I DID sneak a peak at Amber Midthunder as Yue because I had to and. 🥹 POOKIE....

[one-lonely-potato]

I swear if I see one more ignorant person calling The Sandman 'woke' and use it as an excuse to criticise it just because they have to stomp on other people's happiness I'm gonna lose it.

THE COMICS WERE EXACTLY LIKE THIS AND THEY WERE PUBLISHED IN 1989!!

Oh no, do more than 2 characters being black and more than 1 character being gay and them actually having character arcs scare you? Poor you.

Like wtf at least try to gather some information before your bigoted impulses get the best of you

#lets rally sandman fans #against those reviewers on imdb that gave the show 1 star and justified it like this #yes i see you #the sandman #sandman #morpheus #the endless #endless #dc comics #vertigo #neil gaiman #lgbtq #dream #the dreaming

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

In tags this shows up as "#cw Rudy", "#cw amongus" etc.

#not a movie poll #mod sus #i personally was going to use cw but figured maybe people can tell me what they use the most #warnings will be contacting the major warnings based on imdb reviews

[its-a-geeks-world]

what a surprise, the lowest rated episodes on imdb.com are the ones with trans/non binary characters... *sigh*

Friendly reminder that this blog is pro lgbtq+ and bigotry and hatred are not tolerated or respected.

#Imdb sucks btw #When it comes to rating and reviews #quantum leap reboot #quantum leap #Ql #raymond lee #tv #caitlin bassett #Shakina #transgender #non binary #Trans #lgtbq characters #lgbt representation #lgbtq #lgbtq+ #mason alexander park

[catd2014]

I was casually listening to the latest episode of Kermode and Mayo’s Take this morning, minding my own business, when they played a clip of the new Olivia Colman film, and whose voice did I hear? Tim’s voice!! He really needs to do a better job of plugging his own work

#I went straight off to IMDb and he’s not listed in the cast #so I was like ⁉️⁉️ #because it was defo his voice #and then I found the review on the kermode and mayo YouTube channel #and there he is looking dapper #dude really needs to start plugging the stuff he’s in #I mean it is a nice surprise when you’re watching or listening to something #and he just appears #but still #tim key #olivia colman

[lestatthebrat]

About the Racists, Homophobes, and Purists Reviewing amc’s “Interview with the Vampire”

To put it bluntly: the people giving this show bad reviews are racists and homophobes. This is a damn good show that breathes new life into an old story, and the fan reviews claiming that this adaptation is “horrible” and a “disgrace” to Anne Rice’s work are simply bigots who cannot stand to see two men kissing on screen and/or who are ridiculously offended that Black actors are playing Louis and Claudia. 

Don’t believe me? Look at what fan reviewer joshua g had to say on Rotten Tomatoes: “Of course they would take a classic that does not need change, and turn it into a homosexual love story.” Obviously, his 0.5-star rating (the lowest rating possible on Rotten Tomatoes) was not motivated by the quality of the show but by his own homophobia. P W is another fan reviewer who gave the show a whopping 0.5 stars, because he has a problem with People of Color playing some of the leading characters. He says: “At some point, the intentional casting of minorities in reboots is going to end. History will look unfavorably at the practice.” Fan reviewer Rich G says it even more bluntly: “I dislike this show for one very specific reason. The race swapping of Louis and Claudie” (the misspelling of Claudia’s name is his mistake, not mine). Meanwhile, a fan reviewer on IMDb, GeorgeWHAMMYBush, gave the show a 1/10 (the lowest possible rating on IMDb) and this review: “They made the whole thing a dismally shot propaganda piece and it's painful to sit through… The plot gets obliterated completely in this and it's barely about vampirism at all and is now about race and sexual orientation. The whole thing is a waste of time. They then go after religion because while it was touched on as offensive to vampires in the books here it is clearly the target of the hacks who made this abomination. This could be studied in school as a part of a series on why American media failed when it had every chance to succeed. Whoever made this should be banned from the media industry entirely. Do not bother watching this. It will just aggravate you.” Most of the very low reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and IMBb are reminiscent of these examples, and it’s cringingly obvious these people just hate the show because they are racist and homophobic.  

It amuses me that some of these bigots are attempting to use their alleged “love” for the source material as a mask for their racism and homophobia. Like “HOW DARE THEY CHANGE ANNE RICE’S BOOK AND MAKE LOUIS A BLACK MAN INSTEAD OF A SLAVE OWNER!?” or “HOW DARE THEY MAKE LOUIS GAY JUST TO SEEM WOKE!?” But if these so called “avid fans” actually read any of Anne Rice’s books, they must have stopped after book one, because if they got even to book 2 they would have known that Louis and Lestat have ALWAYS been an LGBT couple. If you read book 1, “Interview with the Vampire,” and missed the pretty-hard-to-miss subtext, go re-read it. To recap: Louis talks about how Lestat “had me mesmerized, enchanted” (direct quote); Louis explicitly compares Lestat turning him into a vampire to sex; he and Lestat live together for over sixty year; and they adopt a child together. By book 2, “The Vampire Lestat,” Lestat has male lovers both before and after becoming a vampire, and he confirms that he and Louis were lovers. He and Louis also have a heartfelt reunion in the 80s, and they kiss multiple times on the mouth. (I know, too gay for people who didn’t get past the Neil Jordan film.) By the time we reach the final book in of series, “Blood Communion,” Louis and Lestat are again living together, and in the final chapter of the book, they dance together at a ball, embrace, kiss multiple times on the lips, and profess their undying love for one another. Sorry, homophobes, but these vampires ain’t never been straight, and you’d know that if you actually read the books.  

Aside from the raving racists and homophobes, there are some fan reviewers who seem to genuinely love Rice’s “Vampire Chronicles” but have a problem with the amc series diverging from the source material. Again, the “race swapping” is commonly mentioned, so I wonder how many of these people are also motivated by prejudice, but they have other problems too, such as changes in the time period, the ages of the character’s, the dialog (come on, what tv show preserves all of the dialogue from the books?), and even tiny unimportant details like the vampires “spilling blood” when they kill people. I understand when you passionately love a book series (and I myself passionately love “The Vampire Chronicles”), you imagine the story and characters a certain way, but what these people need to realize is that it is not unusual, uncommon, unfair, or disrespectful for tv reboots or movies to make changes from the books. “Interview with the Vampire” was already made into a very successful and well-known movie in 1994, and most remakes/reboots that do NOT try anything new but simply repeat what has already been done fail miserably. “Psycho,” “Nightmare of Elm Street,” “Carrie”... these are all movies that took a classic and remade it more or less the same as the original, and all of these films were brushed off and forgotten because they offered nothing new and exciting, nothing updated and relevant, nothing thought-provoking that would allow the audience to think of things in a different way or see things in a new light. In simply repeating the original with different actors, they failed to live up to the original. The same thing has happened when books have been made into movies and then later into tv series: look at “The Shining.” Most people don’t even know the inferior miniseries exists, even though it is more accurate to the book and Stephen King wrote it himself. On the contrary, some of the most successful remakes, the kind of remakes that make people say, “This is better than the original!”—which, by the way, the majority of critics and fans ARE saying about amc’s “Interview with the Vampire”—are remembered and beloved because they do not just rehash the same old material but because they put a spin on old characters and content; they make changes and updates; they offer the audience something new, exciting, current, and relevant, something more and something deeper. Some examples: “The Fly,” “The Thing,” “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.” This is what amc is doing with “Interview with the Vampire.” 

So, if you earnestly love the original books, that’s wonderful, but you have the books, and you can read them as many times as you want. You also have the Neil Jordan film which you can re-watch to your liking. Now, the amc series is remaking/rebooting this series, and it is not a crime for production teams to take creative liberties, and I honestly do not see this as a disrespect to Anne Rice’s work either. She SOLD the rights of her work for this television series, which means the production team can make whatever changes they want. That’s how it goes for any author whose book is being made into a movie: they sign the contract, they get paid (and Anne Rice most likely got paid millions of dollars for this series) and they don’t have any say over what changes are made to the production. Even most script writers who spend months or years creating characters and writing a story, if they are lucky enough to sell their script to a production company, they lose creative control over that story. That’s just the way it works. It’s nothing new. It’s nothing shocking. And it’s not a “disgrace.” This has been going on literally always since movies and television shows have been made based on books. Have you ever seen the “original” 1931 “Frankenstein” movie? Ever compare it to Mary Shelley’s book? So like I was saying, movies/tv shows departing from the source material is nothing new and nothing to be “furious” or “disgusted” about. 

Now, if you love the show, please go leave a review on IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes, because it’s being review-bombed by racists and homophobes and purists who want to see it tank! But we won’t let that happen because they dumbass bitches and love wins! ♥️ 

#amc's interview with the vampire #AMC+ #AMC #amc plus #interview with the vampire #Lestat De Lioncourt #lestat #Louis de Pointe du Lac #lestat x louis #loustat #homophobia #racisim #rotten tomatoes #imdb #reviews #critic reviews #the vampire chronicles #claudia

[ineffably-splendid]

"No inkling of a love story before this episode" (ep. 2.06)

I'm sorry, but did we watch the same tv show? I genuinely don't understand people who watched series 1 and where like "yeah, this is a totally conservative, good christian show. There's nothing queer at all in any of this."

All the insanity of the whole plot/premise is totally acceptable, but omg how DARE they love each other.

#THEY ARE JUST REALLY CLOSE FRIENDS #I also look at all my friends the way Az and Crow look at each other sure #how dare two supernatural entities who had only each other for 6000 years fall in love #they are just the bestest of friends #NO ROMANCE AT ALL #certified buddy Comedy #who could have seen this blasphemy coming #because the rest of Good Omens is SO HOLY BLESSED HEAVENS #jules rants #heresy #good omens #good omens 2 #good omens spoilers #imdb #stupid reviews #reviews #ineffable husbands #aziracrow

[mysharona1987]

Tell me you hated Morbius without outright saying you hated Morbius.

#Imdb #morbius #film reviews #reviews #marvel

[xtrablak674]

Singing my life with his words...

I am not sure what I expected, but I didn't expect that.

Trailers, I think they serve a purpose, in my personal opinion they can skew expectations, generate false anticipation and quite frankly spoil the story. I stopped watching them a few years ago. I mostly pick my films based on familiarity, or subject material and sometimes, well a lot of times seeing stills or gif sets of the film on Tumblr.

Hey I am a visual artist, pulling out stills of a film that feature its visual aesthetics is like crack to me, I just can't get enough! Recently I added more queer films to my diet, and albeit tonights Friday Night Movie's theme wasn't solely left to the gays, All of Us Strangers had been stalking me for weeks all over the Tumblr-verse, so I gave in and added it to the list along with The Marvels and The Color Purple, two other '23 films that kept @'ing me.

Part of my process in choosing my films is traditionally picking a theme or genre and trying to watch films from different decades just to mix it up a bit. These films were all from last year, so they only other thing I could use to distinguish them was their release dates, this placed All of Us, in the middle, right after Marvel's latest block-bluster. #YesThatWasShade

Having peeped that this was categorized as romance and fantasy, I was curious what made it fantasy. Once again IMDB had mis-labeled a film, this wasn't fantastical but a psychological thriller! #LeSigh Maybe I was way too close to the subject material and Andrew Scott clearly being my contemporary wasn't helping the matter at all.

Some of the details were different, albeit after my moms death I was raised as a single-child. I came from a one-parent home, not two. We didn't live in a house but an apartment. We were clearly not middle-class but living below the poverty level. Even with all of these differences I felt exposed in a way that wasn't remotely comfortable. How had this whyte man found out about my story and was now telling it on a stage for all the world to see? #😳

Metastatic breast cancer was the cause of death listed on her death certificate, not a car accident. I wasn't left alone in her bed while she left me for a Christmas party, but I discovered her dead in her bed, the couch in the living room four days before my eleventh birthday. Nine years later I buried my father, who was found by his parents rotting in his Harlem apartment, a reverse to the film where the dad went first followed by the mom.

Like the film they were joined in a way by both dying at approximately forty-four years of age. I rued the moment I would be the same age because like my parents, I thought I'd never live past it, but just like Adam I ultimately ended up being older than my parents than when they died. If I met them now, I guess I would be the one dispensing words of wisdom.

Unlike Adam I wasn't lonely, I have lived alone for nearly thirty years, and have had moments of loneliness, but like so many things that a multiple-orphan and an individual with intersectional identities, I had developed coping methods that were born when I was separated from my siblings at eleven and for the first time had to suffer the world on my own, navigate bullying and nasty taunts from other children. I had learned to have a rich internal emotional life, being my own best friend, and creating adventures in the simplest of things. I had become my own best company.

But like Adam I longed for connection, I longed for resolution around my dead parents. But unlike Adam I am not dead. That's my big reveal/spoiler these many paragraphs in to this essay/journal entry. I think everyone we encountered in that film was dead. #HolySixSenseBatman Delving into how I understood this is immaterial to how it still felt. His parents wanted him to move-on, which could be misconstrued as moving on with his life, but could also have been acknowledging that he was indeed dead and accepting it. The nuance of interpretations of what exactly is going on in the film is masterful, and the director never quite gives us a definitive answer.

Adam felt he wasn't particularly successful with anything in his life, still feeling the scars of his childhood bullying, taunting and the trauma of losing his parents at such a young age. I have mirrored this feeling about my own life, with the only difference that I have been more successful than my parents because I made it to the upper-middle class. #yea But like Adam I have always felt I am just passing-the-time, existing and muddling through.

Curiously the last real relationship I had was nearly twenty years ago, and also interesting was the fact that like Adam, Karl was my junior and like Harry was damaged in many ways, clearly not visible to the world around him, because even my best friend at the time thought he was the boy next door, literally mirroring the movie by his perceptions.

Isn't this why we watch films? Don't we see ourselves in the characters on the screens and sometimes wish we were them or living the lives they were living? Or sometimes what we see on screen is too close to reality and art imitates life in a ghastly manor. But then that means the director/writer has done his job right? Making you feel the pains, indecisions and joy of fictional characters is what a good film is about. But is it exciting to see yourself realized in a way that you wish wasn't you?

All of Us Strangers is a psychological thriller, clearly with aspects of drama and romance. As the reviews say it is haunting and heartbreaking. It is also something else that I am tired of in queer cinema, albeit as realistic as it is, specifically to my own journey, it once again paints queer-life as sad, aloof and unfulfilled.

Having dealt with dysthymia my entire adult life I guess this is in some ways true, but as I explored in a previous entry, I really want our queer movies to be more aspirational. I am not saying Red White & Royal Blue syrupy, but some middle place where we can be not-partnered, not have kids and not be dying or dead and be content with our lives. Is this asking too much?

[Photo Courtesy of All of Us Strangers via IMDB]

#all of us strangers #andrew scott #paul mescal #andrew haigh #queer film #queer fiction #gay lives #journal entry #essay #psychological thriller #romance #imdb #death of parents #orphan #bullying #parenting #haunting #ghost stories #lonelihood #not a review #not a review a reflection #spoilers #telling our stories #mental health #family #emotional trauma