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sorry but please... post your akio plastic covered couch tweet here... the world needs to know...
Warning: pics of gross shit happening on the couches
I'll do you one better and include the STORY! So, I, Vanna (note: Yasha mostly does the Tumblr and I mostly do the Twitter,) was smoking enough weed to knock out a large horse or put a very tiny dent in my constant back and shoulder pain, as one does when when they're a middle-aged Registered Nurse in the year 2023. (I'm 39 but it's an old 39, lmao.)
Scrolling through Twitter, I stumble on a fanart of Suletta from Witch of Mercury sitting goofily on a white couch. Now I haven't seen this show yet, but the white couch....looked familiar, and I know the show is very much a descendent of Utena in terms of creative teams. For those that don't know, the series is written by Ichirō Ōkouchi, who also wrote the two Revolutionary Girl Utena novelizations...which if you didn't know about before, you know about now, and can read translated on our site here! (Warning: Touga and Miki uh, in the novels...)
Anyways, so I hop onto my own website and start downloading the images that will constitute receipts, before realizing 1. these images are all on multiple computers feet away from me, 2. the couch isn't an identical match, 3. that'd have been weird anyway, and most importantly, 4:
AKIO'S COUCHES DON'T LOOK RIGHT. OBSERVE:
The edges of the armrests have sloppier upholstery than the blanket I have covering my computer desk. I took the time to tuck seams at least. What is this??
Now it could absolutely be leather, I thought. It would absolutely track. But leather upholstery doesn't look like this. It doesn't wrinkle quite this way. It would have cleaner seams.
No. No that's too shiny for leather. So here I am, presented with this strangeness I'd never really considered in how Akio's couch is drawn, and having spent the last few months learning about my Italian-American family history, my chemically altered ass came to the only reasonable conclusion:
Akio Ohtori has plastic coverings on his white couches, like he's a depression era American in poverty.
Fuck yeah, I though, A HIT TWEET, there, at the end of all Tweeting things. (Yeah I'm working on that, stay tuned, lmao. I of all people know when to bail on stupid men with stupid power.) Because I am me, I framed it as semi serious by pulling a context to explain it out of my ass:
I was joking.
But the replies? They were not. And then I thought about it some more. And I've kept thinking about it. Do I seriously think Ikuhara and Co literally are intentionally drawing a plastic covered couch? Doesn't that feel, Vanna, like a bit of a stretch, even for Utena meta?
Listen to that CRONCH when Akio sits down in episode 31, before Anthy is seen by Nanami. Look, the buttons on the back rest don't quite fit, but the rest? Yeah it kinda does. I was high, but not wrong!?
Akio *does* surround himself with a bizarre hodgepodge of Americana as an aesthetic. The arm garters. The piping and cut of his cowboy-ass shirt. His American car. His mullet. His miniature fucking golf. Why not the plastic covered couch? It's a trope of American poverty that would absolutely have fallen neatly into the diet of American pop culture that influenced Ikuhara. (He makes references to E.T. and The Godfather and Suspiria and all kinds of things in his other work, Utena itself is a little less obvious with individual references but inherits HUGE amounts of vibes from the same content--Ikuhara and Co watched Lost Highway in theaters during the production of the Akio Arc and I will not be convinced otherwise.)
So yeah. That's the story, and that's the theory. Do I seriously believe it was deliberate? Maybe. Probably. Possibly. But it fits so well it's headcanon for me, and in the Utena fandom, pretty much all canon is kind of headcanon so enjoy this one.
What an asshole.
#utena#revolutionary girl utena#utena meta#akio ohtori#akio's couches#do I really need to point out the functional utility of plastic covered couches for this particular character though
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Prompt: “Friday the 13th” (discord drabble from STWG)
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“Holy shit…”
Steve turns around to see Eddie crouched to the VHS collection next to the television. He walks over to see what could’ve caused Eddie’s reaction.
Eddie turns around with complete surprise on his face. “You have this many horror movies?!”
Steve shrugs with a lopsided smile, “Well, it’s not a lot-”
“Not a lot?” Eddie’s jaw drops before he whips his gaze back to the collection, pulling the VHSs out almost hazardously. “You have a bunch of classics here!”
“I mean, I dunno if I could call them classics…” Steve’s defense goes unnoticed as Eddie began to read their titles aloud.
“Suspiria.. The Amityville Horror.. The Exorcist.. Eraserhead.. even Friday the 13th?!” Eddie held them up to his face, his eyes comedically widening. “You had these right under my nose and never thought to bring it up?”
“How would I even bring it up in a conversation?” Steve laughed.
“You work at a video rental store.”
“So?”
Eddie groaned, “Nevermind. Can we watch these?”
“Right now?”
“Yeah! I actually have never seen Friday the 13th so let’s start with that one!” Eddie brought the tapes down so his eager grin was visible.
Steve blinked at him, pointedly looking over to the living room clock and the very dark windows outside. “First of all, it’s past eight-thirty, Eds. Second of all, you never seen that movie? At all?”
Eddie’s eyes turned pleading, “Please don’t make me answer that, Stevie.”
Steve huffed, knowing he’d already lost this battle. “Fine, but if you get nightmares of a masked man slashing you with a machete after this, that’s on you.”
#I can’t believe I’m posting this today instead of yesterday..#in my defence I wrote this last night and immediately fell asleep#steddie#klaus writes
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answer the following questions and tag nine people you'd like to get to know better
tagged by @deankarolina. Thank you!
favorite colour: Green
currently reading: Murata Sayaka's Konbini ningen, alongside its English translation, the unfortunately-titled Convenience Store Woman (the second word in the Japanese title means "human," not "woman"). I'm enjoying it a lot so far; either Murata or her main character or both are some of the more autistic people I've encountered in literature for a while, and the translation itself is pretty good despite the unfortunate English paratext. Thanks to @carys-the-ninth for recommending this one.
last song: My housemate is playing a piece by the composer Aaron Copland right now.
last series: I'm watching Legend of the Galactic Heroes with some friends and we're having a lot of fun! For anyone reading this who's seen it before, we're currently in the Battle of the Corridor arc. Also I'm rewatching The Sopranos with @stracciatellino (he hasn't seen it before).
last movie: The Eras Tour movie if that counts. If it doesn't, it's been a few weeks but I think it might have been a Suspiria (1977) dir. Dario Argento rewatch.
sweet/savory/spicy: Savory, with spicy a close second.
currently working on: A whole bunch of personal projects of various kinds, plus I really need to get off my ass and email my family's financial advisor about something (yes, yes, I know, literal champagne socialist and everything that's wrong with the left etc. etc.).
Tagging @please-dont-pet-the-okapi @maryblackwood @tar-miriel @rebeccadumaurier @abigail-pent @invisiblemelonmoose @magicoleanders @staghunters @soldier-poet-king
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October/Halloween Movie List Inspo by Theme!!!!
I probably forgot or omitted a ton of stuff so please don't get mad lol. Most of the older ones are available on YouTube or Tubi, the majority are in English, and most of the lists are in chronological order. I also avoided most sequels for simplicity's sake. I've seen most but not all of these so no content warnings are listed, so be sure to check accordingly.
🎃💀🎃💀🎃💀🎃💀
The Silent Era:
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
The Phantom Carriage (1921)
Nosferatu (1922)
Häxan (1922)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Faust (1926)
Vampyr (1932) (Almost silent)
The Universal Monsters Starter Pack
Dracula (1931)
Frankenstein (1931)
The Mummy (1932)
The Invisible Man (1933)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
The Wolf Man (1941)
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Best of Hitchcock Horror
Rope (1948)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Rear Window (1954)
Vertigo (1958)
Psycho (1960)
The Birds (1963)
Classic Slashers
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Halloween (1978)
Friday the 13th (1980)
The Evil Dead (1981)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Child's Play (1988)
Candyman (1992)
Scream (1996)
The "Science Fiction/Double Feature" Collection from the Rocky Horror intro:
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Flash Gordon (various serials 1936-1940)
The Invisible Man (1933)
King Kong (1933)
It Came From Outer Space (1953)
Doctor X (1932)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Tarantula! (1955)
The Day of the Triffids (1962)
Night of the Demon (1957)
When Worlds Collide (1951)
Cult Classic and B-movie MegaMarathon
Them! (1954)
The Blob (1958)
Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
The Wicker Man (1973)
The Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Eraserhead (1977)
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978)
The Thing (1981)
The Evil Dead (1981)
Clue (1985)
Elvira (1988)
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Birdemic (2008)
Jennifer's Body (2009)
The "I Miss the Old Tim Burton" Watch List
Vincent (1982)
Beetlejuice (1988)
Batman (1989)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Sleepy Hollow (1993)
Mars Attacks (1996)
The Corpse Bride (2005)
Sweeney Todd (2007)
Dark Shadows (2012)
Macabre Musicals
The Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Corpse Bride (2005)
Sweeney Todd (2007)
Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)
The Lure (2015)
The 90s Nostalgia Mixtape
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
The Witches (1990)
The Addams Family (1991)
Death Becomes Her (1992)
Hocus Pocus (1993)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Casper (1995)
The Craft (1996)
Scream (1996)
Halloweentown (1998)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
The "God Forbid Women Do Anything" MegaMarathon
Carrie (1976)
Suspiria (1977)
Heathers (1989)
The Witches (1990)
The Craft (1996)
Ringu (1998)
Ginger Snaps (2000)
Teeth (2007)
Jennifer's Body (2009)
Black Swan (2010)
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
The Lure (2015)
The VVitch (2015)
Raw (2016)
Midsommar (2019)
Us (2019)
Last Night in Soho (2021)
X (2022)
Scary Found Footage
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Rec (2007)
Paranormal Activity (2007)
Cloverfield (2008)
Lake Mungo (2008)
Unfriended (2014)
As Above, So Below (2014)
Creep (2014)
Host (2020)
Dracula Through the Ages
Nosferatu (1922)
Dracula (1931)
Horror of Dracula (1958)
Dracula (1979)
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
The Monster Squad (1987)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Van Helsing (2004)
Dracula Untold (2014)
The Film Bro Starter Pack (Spooky Edition)
The Exorcist (1973)
Alien (1979)
The Shining (1980)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
American Psycho (2000)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Get Out (2017)
Eye Candy
Suspiria (1977)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Coraline (2009)
Crimson Peak (2015)
The Love Witch (2016)
The Neon Demon (2016)
Mandy (2018)
Last Night in Soho (2021)
The Munsters (2022)
Movies My Mom Doesn't Realize Are Gay
Rope (1948)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 (1985)
The Lost Boys (1987)
Hellraiser (1987)
Interview with the Vampire (1994)
The Craft (1996)
Black Swan (2010)
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in a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways (Cold Fire, s2 e10)
Around the time I watched “Cold Fire,” I read an excerpt from poet Maggie Smith’s memoir, which chronicled how, as a writer and primary caregiver to her kids, she found professional success incompatible with the survival of her marriage. “Please don’t,” she tells a friend who wants to send Smith's husband a picture of the line at her book signing. “It’ll just make everything worse.”
The piece made me so sad, the same sadness I feel every time I’m reminded that our culture is terrified of powerful women. We see this in our popular culture, with its recurring tropes of ungovernable female villains, and perhaps more insidiously, female heroes whose own power is their greatest threat. Men and boys are tasked to defeat external obstacles, but women are always struggling against ourselves.
“Cold Fire” simultaneously evokes and dodges these themes of dangerous female power in a way that feels very squishy and contradictory. Kes gains access to “dark” Ocampan powers and has to overcome them, but the episode makes the empathetic choice to portray her journey as universal rather than as evidence of a personal failing. “Do not fear your negative thoughts,” Tuvok, Zen master, tells her in the final scene. “They are part of you. They are part of every living being, even Vulcans.” Even Neelix is on board with her self-discovery, earning a stamp in his underutilized “good boyfriend” passport for being genuinely excited about her personal growth.
As the episode opens, Tuvok is leading Kes through a frankly creepy telepathy session (aren’t there mindreading ethics?), when Voyager stumbles on a Caretaker-like array populated by Ocampa. Kes gets to play diplomat to the colony, a fun expansion of her skillset.
Suspiria, the female Caretaker, reinforces the “lawful male / chaotic female” vibe of the episode - while the Caretaker we’re familiar with played divine patriarch to Kes’s people, Suspiria has settled the Ocampa in her own array and gifted them with psionic powers. The whereabouts of the second Caretaker has been one of the chief ongoing mysteries of the show, but Suspiria is frankly very boring - a vengeful, irrational goddess who takes form as a little girl. (Star Trek seems to have a penchant for “tiny blond girls as otherworldly aliens.”) The episode closes with her return being teased, but of course we never see her again.
Under the tutelage of Tanis, who serves as emissary of Suspiria’s tower of Babel, Kes nearly kills Tuvok with her developing psychic powers. Soon after, she nukes the contents of the airponics bay and, doing so, discovers the joy of wielding death and destruction. This is where the episode veers into silliness for me. Jennifer Lien is a great actor, but I can’t buy her performance, because the script doesn't feel, to me, rooted in character.
Parables about power often make this mistake: “it’s intoxicating!” “It’s like a drug!” But people chase power (and intoxication) for extremely personal reasons. Kes is a character driven by intellectual curiosity, and while she’s totally capable of leaving her friends behind for a sufficiently compelling adventure, I can’t see her being tempted to align herself with an amoral weirdo like Tanis. If people are going to write stories about dangerous women, they should at least take a moment to ask why a woman might want to be dangerous.
Happily, Kes doesn’t have to give up her powers; she uses them to save the day and resolves to find balance under Tuvok’s guidance. But I’m not sure this show ever finds the plot when it comes to Kes’s abilities and what they mean to her. At the end of the day, it’s just kinda an incoherent mess.
2.5/5 dark impulses.
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Ommgg I would love to read motogp body horror! These boys are always injured
Many nebulous thoughts on this and I'm not a writer ya know I just love to dream up scenarios.
Imo one that feels interesting to me is a type of theft of skill. If it was possible to carry out procedures that let you steal a particular aspect of someone's riding style. Say you're a championship contender, you have everything but maybe you're weak when it comes to breaking, or wet weather riding, or you don't have the necessary chops to save a high side. There is money and prestige riding on your success, people need you to win for their own reasons. What if they found an upcoming rider from the feeder series that possessed just that last thing needed to win. A small medical procedure (ofcourse MotoGP doctors need to be a part of this they are the flag bearers of medical malpractice) could help make the switch. Sometimes younger riders agree to it, based on assurances of long term contracts with certain teams, but the procedure can happen without consent too. Doctors stealing the skill of a naturally gifted young rider and passing it on to someone who's a bit desperate for a win. Imagine the horror of waking up from under the knife and realising you cannot ride like you did. Watching all these years dedicated to a dangerous sport because that was the one thing you were undoubtedly good at go down the drain.
And of course the challenge of incorporating a powerful essence of someone else's body and mind. I'd like that the person receiving the gift has to also carry a physical marker of it, like a bodily aberration. The smaller procedures only leave indelible scars, but the more intense ones leave gortesque disfigurations. New appendages and growths and changes to the body. Over time, maybe the body starts resisting the intruder. Or the intruding skill starts fighting against the body or tainting the functioning of the body. Body horror around the eventual decline of the very gift you conducted a horrifying procedure to gain.
This was partly inspired by Suspiria and it's very half baked world building but I'll think up more.
Another thing I was thinking was how the sports forces riders into invasive procedures, and sometimes they elect these procedures because the need to win is so severe. The interplay of willing consent vs being forced into it is also an interesting study.
Also please check out Carnivorous Circuits by @whatwepostintheshadows which is literally one of my favourite AUs ever. Mushroom is an actual genius and I love her mind.
Thank you so much for sending this ask anon, I loved thinking about this. I'm writing this on my birthday (which is also new year's day lol) while shopping with my mum and aunt. Have a nice year ahead xx
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Tagged by @rainingmbappe
Rules: post 10 of your favorite comfort movies and then tag 10 people.
1. Fast & Furious Franchise: you read that right
2. Suspiria: A giallo classic!
3. The Raid: Indonesian action movies do not get the flowers they deserve!
4. Child's Play: Chucky is my favorite horror villain of all time!
5. High Tension: A French extremity favorite. It is very gory if you decide to watch it so please heed all warnings.
6. A Man From Nowhere: My introduction to Korean films. Won Bin came, he served, he dropped off the face of the Earth!
7. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (OG): No one else is seeing her. She is the blueprint!
8. Get Out: An actual cultural shift occured when this dropped!
9. I Saw the Devil: My introduction to Korean horror/thriller movies, and it was unforgettable.
10. Scary Movie: Parody movies were only good when the Wayans were still writing them! It's the truth!
Tagging @doinggreat @swaggypsyduck @mountinez @cryingforcrocodiles @mebiselfandi @vertonghen
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hello becca thebhorror who i trust implicitly do u have horror recommendations for someone who will not watch any movies for a year and then binge horror for a week luv u xoxox
hello glassamphibians <3 I love talking about movies :) please see below for my full (and long) recommendation list
Okay so my favorite movie of all time is Suspiria (1977) it’s about ballet and witches and I recommend that. There’s also a 2018 version which is good (but nowhere as near as good as the original)
My next recommendation is malignant (2021). Fun horror mystery from the genius James Wan.
Next is Saint Maud (2019). It was literally one of my most anticipated movies ever and I never see anyone talk about it but shit is incredible.
Then is May (2002). If you like Carrie then you’ll LOVE May. I love weird girls <3
And ALSO Perfect Blue (1997). It’s a animated Japanese horror film and it’s SO damn good like wow.
And of course I gotta mention the classics that have a special place in my heart: Rosemary’s Baby, Jaws, House (1977), Carrie (1977) (wow 1977 is the year ever of movies- it was also the year gerard way was born), Dementia 13, Reanimator, and Maniac (1980- but also the new one with Elijah Wood)
I have like WAY more I can recommend. I tried to pick ones that I thought would be pretty universally liked. If you like a specific genre of horror movies you like I can recommend more (or if there’s stuff you can’t stand OR can’t watch bc it’s too much (idk your opinion on gore) I can also tailor the suggestions to that). Let me know if you watch any (or if you want more suggestions) <3
EDIT: izzy told me to recommend Spree which yes awesome movie
#I love movies <3#I love to be a film bro#thanks glass#sorry for the novel I couldn’t stop listing ones once I looked at my letterboxd
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Hello fellow horror movie lover! 🖤🩸
what are your favourite horror movies?
Hello, hello! 💜💜💜
Well, my all time fav is 2018 "Suspiria"! 💜 It's so incredibly beautiful and sensual and captivating... Also, Tilda Swinton my beloved! 💜
I also really like "Midsommar" for how artistic and fucked up it is. 💜 And Florence Pugh's performance is perfect there! 💜
2013 "Oculus" is among my favs too. 💜 I think it's a bit underrated tbh. The editing and the whole two timelines thing (the plot happens simultaneously in the past and in the present time, the scenes are alternating and connecting) is done masterfully! 💜 Also, evil mirrors? Unreliable narrator? Yes, please! 💜
2021 "Death Knot". Sweetest fuck, "Death Knot". This movie is so intense! And so good! 💜 Seriously, more people should watch it.
2004 "Shutter" is a classic, when it comes to Asian horrors and it definitely deserves the title. Same for j-horror 2002 "Dark Water" (although this one is more sad, than scary... But the finale is really intense!). 💜
2021 "Titane". Seeing it in a cinema was unforgettable experience. This movie is a roller-coaster from the beginning till the very end and I enjoyed it a lot. Also, pregnancy? In my body horror? Yes, yes, yeeeeeeees!!! 💜💜💜
I like "Saw" series in general, especially the first two. Jigsaw is one charismatic motherfucker and I adore him, Tobin Bell served cunt there. Also, Amanda is my baby. 🥺 Same for Adam. 🥺
Also... Call me a basic bitch, but I'm really fond of 2012 "The Woman in Black". Is it cliched to hell and back? Yeah. But it's pretty and the vibe is impeccable + Daniel Radcliffe shows that he's actually a really good actor. A very solid watch. 💜
Thank you for the question! 💜 Heh, I could ramble about horror a lot, I love this genre! 💜💜💜
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What are your favourite movies
i have gone at length on how favourites are fake already, we don't need to go over that again, right? i don't need to go dig up that post from years ago, y'all get the basic idea?
anyway i've been doing a weekly movie thing with my fiancée for the past couple months and i quite appreciated it as an opportunity to see movies than I otherwise wouldn't have. the last movie we watched was Suspiria, the 1977 one not the 2018 one, which was good but reminded me i am not that into the horror genre cause i get unnerved easily. some other notable ones were THX 1138 and Argentina, 1985 and probably some other movies that don't end in four-digit numbers.
none of this answers your question but as established your question doesn't have a real answer so please enjoy this other vaguely related answer instead
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PLEASE WATCH SUSPIRIA, the highlight of dario argento's stuff / the giallo genre is just We Have A Scary Red Light When The Guy In Black Gloves Does Murders (and incredible cinematography)
I ONE HUNDRED PERCENT PLAN TO. just maybe not anytime soon. i got really really close during my ten-day-long movie marathon (about half of which was just watching phantom of the paradise on repeat) but i backed out right when i was about to do it because it was night and it sounded like it could be an actual make-you-feel-nervous-and-afeared movie and i am so scared of everything so i lost my window of opportunity but someday i am going to watch suspiria
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9 People You’d Like to Know More
About a million years later... thank you for tagging me @troubled-mind! ＼(٥⁀▽⁀ )／
Last song: 湘南族 -cannibal coast- by Aural Vampire オーラルヴァンパイア
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I organized an old hard drive the other day and pulled out some music from my college days that I have been re-listening to.
Currently reading:
I have about 15 pages left of « 今会いにゆきます» by Ichikawa Takuji (Be with you, or je reviendrais avec la pluie in French). An easy read but I’m not sure the translation is really doing it any favor…
« Days of Magic, Nights of War » by Clive Barker, book 2 of The Books of Abarat. It’s a re-read of a beloved series so I am having a lot of fun !
And I am still, slowly (okay, very slowly) but surely working my way through « Du côté de chez Swann » by Proust.
Currently watching:
I am in a terrible slump since the end of June, so right now all I’m managing is Laws of Attraction, and because I found my stash of tokusatsu, I am finally (and ridiculously slowly) starting Kamen Rider OOO.
Next in line on my watch list:
I have about a million things I started that I need to catch up, but at the top of the list are: Love Tractor, Destined, and probably La Pluie and Be My Favorite. I also really want to warch Tokyo in April. Oh and Yellowjackets! And movie wise, I will probably check "Marry my dead body" very soon (I am not immune to dash propaganda and ghosts), Utsukushii Kare Eternal, and I want to sit down and finally watch the Suspiria from 2018.
Starting soon:
I am most excited for I See You Linger in the Air and Kiseki: Dear to Me right now! Also The Whisperer but we have to wait a little longer for that one.
Current obsessions:
Oh boy.
Hm I am pretty into Laws of Attraction as of now, not gonna lie. Yes, yes especially Thee/Tanthai (in a constant state of "what would be the angstiest backstory for them?" I'm afraid). But also Maya and Rose??? (/▽＼*)｡o○♡ PLEASE.
I have been on a huge Baroque kick for the last ~5 days so I have been listening to a lot of that during my work days.
Tagging: as always, i you feel so inclined, i'll tag @scienceoftheidiot @sauvechouris @benkaaoi @dengswei @fandomfairyuniverse @bengiyo @howdydowdy @petrichoraline if you see it and want to do it, consider yourself tagged! (And tag me so i can check =3)
#as always the probability of me actually following the proposed watchlist is very seen#but it's aspirationnal let's say lol#thanks again for the tag! ♡♡#tag games
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When you said you also watched an early screening of mp, does that mean you also saw dwd? If so, impressions? If not, sorry about the ask!!!
I honestly can’t WAIT for this dwd shit to be over and start with mp promo. I’m soooooo looking forward to that!!!!
No need to apologize, anon ❤️
Just finished a big dinner so I’ll do my best to express myself coherently. 😂
Yes, I also watched DWD. It was at an early screening LAST YEAR. I can’t stress that enough. I haven’t watched it recently and I don’t intend to watch it again. I don’t even have a desire to watch it illegally but if people absolutely want to view it? Save your money and find a link here @igotthecinemapop
Be gay, do crime, etc & so forth.
Anyway, I signed multiple NDAs which is pretty standard for the type of event I attended where it was shown. The film is out now so I can share my thoughts freely but please know I’ve been DYING this whole time and really wish I could’ve shared more much sooner. I’m really boring and not a rule breaker though so here we are a year later. 😅
Moving on…You can probably guess I’m not a fan of the movie. And here I’m going to do my absolute best to remove my bias from the situation and explain why speaking strictly as someone that loves and studies film:
The writing is incredibly weak. Multiple plot holes with scenes that go absolutely no where and are never explained. The one that drives me the most crazy is an unnecessary plane crash. Listen, you can have confusing or disorienting scenes so you as the audience member start to take Alice’s side and root for her. She’s confused, you’re confused (we’re all confused, bro) so subconsciously you’re invested in her story and want her to get out of there. But there’s no satisfying payoff to these scenes. It was a jumble of weirdness edited together, it seems, to make you go “huh?” and nothing more.
Cringy, flat dialogue delivered by two-dimensional characters. Kiki Layne and Gemma Chan deserved better. It hasn’t escaped by attention all this time that these two women are woc but were pushed to the background (both in the movie and during promo) in favor of the director getting more screen time. Harry and Chris Pine also deserved better.
Speaking of Harry. Oh, Harry. Jack Chamber’s motivation to incapacitate his girlfriend because she works too many hours and doesn’t have time for him? The “twist” is explained in a rush at the end of the film so when this was revealed, I was already annoyed and disappointed. But this? All that build up to the lamest “ta-da” I’ve seen in a while.
It borrows too blatantly from other more notable films, including GET OUT, THE STEPFORD WIVES, SUSPIRIA, ROSEMARY’S BABY, INCEPTION…I can go on but you get it. And by borrowed, I mean the exact storylines, character designs (Violet has a pixie cut and is a wide-eyed newcomer to the town, too reminiscent of Mia Farrow as Rosemary), actual scene structures. I’m thinking particularly of the ballet studio scenes that had Suspiria written all over it. But Olivia’s “reimagining” did absolutely nothing new except just copy, copy, copy. These weren’t homages, it was just lazy plagiarism. Please watch any of the above, and I can absolutely recommend more, to see how a story like this can actually be executed well.
Was it pretty to look at? Yes. When I got out, I immediately thought “okay, well that’s a nomination for Cinematography and Costumes for sure.” Now, given how everything how panned out? Idk anymore. It may still get technical recognitions, possibly for music too. But I don’t see any acting nominations. If Flo or Chris Pine get nominated, I can’t imagine they’ll campaign too hard for it. And really I don’t blame them.
And now that I’ve brought up acting, I’ll say this about Harry. There are moments, I felt, he overacted because the scene called for him to have big emotions. He’s still a novice to this but he was leagues better in MP so I’m eager to see what he does next, outside of Eternals, because he has tons of promise to get better and better. I think he does well in quieter moments and has a good sense of comedic timing. His face is so expressive, you can see real emotion there when it’s needed. But sometimes, just sometimes, you could see him reaching or trying to pull the emotion forward too forcefully. And it took me out of a couple scenes while watching him DWD. I think he did much better in MP because Tom as a character can be stiffer and more reserved. But don’t get me wrong, his scenes with Emma and David were lovely. I think he felt a real comfort there that allowed him to let go completely.
I don’t think I’ve said anything new here but those were my thoughts from a year ago and I’m sad to see that so many reviews since Venice echoed those same thoughts exactly all this time later. Nothing seemed to get fixed and it’s a shame. I’ve already shared my thoughts on the marketing so no need to reiterate that again.
My last thought is I’m just disappointed for everyone involved that sought out to make a genuinely interesting and entertaining movie without any bullshit. They were let down by the studio and the director in a truly gross fashion.
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Sitting down to watch Dario Argento's Il Fantasma dell'Opéra (1998) starring Julian Sands for the first time.
Also in case anyone who sees this didn't know, Julian, our beloved rat man, is currently missing. He (an experienced mountaineer) went missing during a hike on Mount Baldy in California two weeks ago, so please let's pray for him and his family.
Anyway, PSA's aside, let's get into what i know is going to be an incredibly bizarre trip.
I watched Inferno right before this. Dario Argento loves rats, huh?
This Opera house is gorgeous.
Oh good she covered her tits
Whoa, intense. Right off the bat.
I feel like this Phantom, more than any other, really earns his Parisisn Sewer Man status
The blood in this is much better than in Suspiria. I was worried it would be oil paint again
Oh Raoul's only a Baron here. Dario downgraded him.
Dubbing still sucks though. Nice to know some things never change
Love how no matter what incarnation, Carlotta always has some obsequious weirdo following her around
This gore is amazing. That thumb? 🤌🏻
Oh he is suphhhhherbly creepy I love it
Feral Grunge Phantom is feral
"Oh you like my smell? Well do you want my scarf? Go ahead take it. Yeah, you can masturbate with that if you want"
This is insane, but I love it
This is where my sister tapped out
Asia Argento is really Christine Daaé's Edgy Thot era
Oh this is our Raoul? Ew. Gross. Give me rat man, please
Oof. Friend. Zoned.
Something tells me things are not gonna end well for these nosy Opera house employees
I'M NOT A PHANTOM, I'M A RAT. Iconic.
Oh he's so homicidal. Impaling!
Baby girl (not Christine) you are going to be murdered just deal with it.
Okay I enjoy gratuitous murder, but this whole sequence is totally superfluous
Love the ballet girls running into Christine's dressing room a la the first chapter of the book with the girls running to Sorelli.
Actually Asia Argento is kind of exactly how I imagined La Sorelli.... she's just got that kind of face. You know, whore face. Hence Du Barry.
Oh this rooftop is very pretty. And very fake looking.
I can't even describe to you what I just saw.
Okay her lip-synching is prrretty terrible
Raoul's brother looks like Mephistopheles
This bathhouse scene... choices were made
Well I'll say this, I think this is the only version I've seen that really captures Raoul's emotional instability
Rat man gets points for his woodchipper policy on child predators.
Dario really decided to run with the whole rat catcher thing... again, choices were made
Not into the fact that Ratrik doesn't row her across the lake himself. That's vakuable eye-fucking real estate wasted
What's that noise? Oh nothing, just the Phantom of the Opera pounding his organ
Yes! Finally! A version of this damn story where they actually get to fuck!
Those are silk sheets. Even Rat Phantom has drip
AND he's telling her his back story himself! This would be more poignant if he had the deformity, but I'll let it slide
Oh my gosh, I know this still ends tragically, but actually seeing a Phantom get to hold Christine naked in bed, in afterglow is so incredibly healing to me.
Also all of these boudoir shots are incredibly pretty
Oh, is the maid the costume designer from Opera? I thought I recognized her.
Love how all of the costumes in Carlotta's dressing room are obviously too small for her
Okay Dario, you needed to dial this back just a little
I would like a gif of shirtless Julian sands sledgehammering that support pillar
This is of course one of the biggest versions for inflating the casualties in the chandelier crash
Oh I like that they actually had Gounod conducting! That's a book pull!
See, now I'm very annoyed that I have to take back some of the points he earned killing that child predator for this very rapey behavior. Pick a lane, Dario!
I could edit this into a decent version
"She's the Phantom's whore!" You betcha
Girl, will you make up your mind?
Kinda feel bad for Raoul here, he's gotta be terribly confused
This is kind of dumb, he should have just gotten into the boat with them
Supremely glad he got to kill the rat-catcher
I do love the music in this movie though. Really beautiful. Oh. Ennio Morricone. That explains it.
Ok all in all conceptually I prefer this version to, say the Charles Dance one.
But Dario just had to put his toe over the line just a few too many times, didn't he? We could have done without the boob-threat scene with Carlotta and the bizarre steam-punk rat-catching machine, and the rapey-ness obviously and I'd have called it good. As it is... we'll call it passable.
Watch it for the boudoir scene and the superbly handled gore if for nothing else.
#phantom of the opera 1998#phantom of the opera#julian sands#asia argento#the phantom of the opera#il fantasma dell'opera
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Every VN you've recommended has been an absolute banger, so I was wondering if there are any movies you rate highly?
alright so my taste is movies is a little different (read: even more basic) but I hope it goes some ways! this is just a quick battery of recommendations and not my "full list" anyway
here's a few I usually insist on showing people if they haven't seen it:
John Carpenter's The Thing
Ghost in the Shell
Sword of the Stranger
Oldboy
Possessor
Paprika
Zatoichi Monogatari
Faust (1926) (you're gonna have to trust me on this one)
Black Christmas
Redline
Your Name
Hereditary
Funny Games
Freddy Got Fingered
Kara no Kyoukai series
Stalker (Tarkovsky)
The Sacrifice (also Tarkovsky)
Perfect Blue
Battle Royale
But I'm a Cheerleader
Call Me by Your Name
The Wailing
Alice in Wonderland (Kievnauchfilm)
Kiki's Delivery Service
It Follows
Gummo
A Silent Voice
Lake Mungo
LotR trilogy (a given, but I figure I may as well put it here)
Suspiria (1977)
please don't consider this a watch order because trying to use it that way might kill you
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Been Like This by Doja Cat & Wait a minute! by Willow are my current breakup jams. also I would recommend Rob Zombie's horror movies, please send me recommendations (on any streaming service rly) 💖
never listed to doja cat before, i like this. also can definitely see the willow song being a good breakup jam. sorry ur going thru a break rn <3
ive had house of 1000 corpses on my to-watch list for ages im gonna watch it in october . ironically i have seen the devils rejects tho and i loved it
tubitv.com is a free streaming service that is exclusively horror can find a lot of fucking gems on there
my horror recs, which encompass classic, supernatural, scifi, and psychological horror: carrie, hellraiser (all the movies but for different reasons. the first is just pure perfection of the horror genre), near dark, they live, possession, alien, poltergeist, the thing (1982), halloween, the texas chainsaw massacre original, night of the demons, the wicker man (1973), videodrome, the exorcist, the fly, silent hill, ringu, uzumaki, the grudge, ginger snaps 1 and 2 (i like the cheese sorry), under the shadow, 28 days later, the neon demon, come and see, black swan, let the right one in (original), the menu, mother!, X, pearl, mulholland drive, a girl walks home alone at night, 1922, the vvitch, twin peaks fire walk with me, rosemarys baby (personally this movie required multiple watches for me bc like a lot of it goes over my head), fear x, both versions of suspiria (the original if you can handle the fucking... very jarring 70s music/soundtrack, bc the movie's wholeatmosphere results in some really effective crazy, gruesome, or mind-warping/bat-shit moments; and the new version if you just want a damn good horror movie that builds and releases suspense/tension beautifully without feeling like its taking forever, and has a better ending than the OG imo), the craft (I GUESS), the heathers (I ALSO GUESS), hereditary, midsommar, teeth, the nightingale (2017), i guess american psycho counts i never thought about that
shoutout to shadow of the vampire (2000) for somhow being able to walk the line between comedy and genuine horror *perfectly*, highly recommend it
interview w the vampire is the only gothic horror movie i could recommend, aside from bram stokers dracula. i emphasis GOTHIC horror bc theyre not horror movies theyre gothic horror genre movies. also do not watch crimson peak that movie is trash ihaate it
while i love the costume/set/prop design of the saw franchise i hate them as movies tbh. i dont like torture-p*rn horror like saw and hostel, theyre not the horror i go for. for similar reasons i dont rec the evil dead bc of the vine-r*pe scene despite it being a classic franchise
i feel like such a horror poser fan for never having seen john carpenter's the fog or village of the damned or in the mouth of madness or prince of darkness, but im gonna watch these this october as well (which will be nice because ive seen every other horror movie too many times)
#also nicolas winding refn needs to do more psychological horror movies where is he#the neon demon was ummmmmmmmmmmm................. revolutionary imo.#movies#music#horror
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