OKAY
IMMA SAY THIS ONCE AND ONLY ONCE
SO LISTEN UP
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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
STOP
MAKING
CINDERELLA ADAPTATIONS
I DONT CARE HOW REVOLUTIONARY IT IS
I DONT CARE ABOUT THE TWIST YOU ADD TO THE STORY
WE HAVE ENOUGH OF THESE
I DONT CARE IF THIS IS THE DABIHAWKS CINDERELLA FANFICTION ON THE BIG SCREEN
I DONT CARE IF JOHN MULANEY PLAYS THANOS IN THIS MOVIE
I DONT CARE WHAT YOU PUT IN THERE
THERE IS NO NEED FOR ANOTHER ONE OF THESE AND IM MAD THAT THEY MADE ONE
DISNEY COULD HAVE MADE A LIVE ACTION LILO AND STITCH, TANGLED 2, DESCENDANTS MUSICAL:THE MUSICAL:THE SERIES, LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOO
WE APPARENTLY NEEDED ANOTHER ONE OF THESE MOVIES
I think my page is starting to turn into a rage blog so Imma do my best to calm down, BUT THIS IS VERY ANNOYING AND PLEASE STOP
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byebyelemonpie's july 2023 recommendations
My july top 5 movies:
Nimona (2023, dir: Troy Quane, Nick Bruno) [First time watch]
Nimona is a shapeshifter who wants to be an evil sidekick. This premise is already brilliant, but this movie adds to it a lot of love, acceptance and so many feelings that made me cry a lot, and it suddenly became one of my favourite movies of the year. Add to this wonderful animation and really funny sequences: genuinely a perfect movie.
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Rye Lane (2023, dir: Raine Allen-Miller) [First time watch]
This was cute and fun! A very nice indie British romcom that is mostly set over the course of one day. Almost like Before Sunrise, but with more messy situations and, maybe, lies?
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Fire Island (2022, dir: Andrew Ahn) [First time watch]
Five guys spend a week at a gay retreat on an island: will they find love? I still cannot get over how this movie is a queer version of Pride and Prejudice. I loved how clever it was at translating the story in a more modern (and more gay?) setting and I loved how well the characters were developed.
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Barbie (2023, dir: Greta Gerwig) [First time watch]
My goodness, this was just a fun movie! The photography and direction were perfect in composing this story about the dolls most people grew up with. It was fun and lighthearted (the songs sung by the Kens were hilarious), but it was also a thoughtful piece of media talking about feminism and inequality, and the fact that not everybody knows what their place in the world is, but just being there is (K)enough. Just lovely.
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Another Cinderella Story (2008, dir: Damon Santostefano) [Rewatch after twelve years]
This was a blast from the past! Sometimes I still hum to myself Tell Me Something I Don't Know, but rewatching the movie it came from was an experience. Recently I had also rewatched the Hilary Duff Cinderella Story, but I found the Selena Gomez one a bit more fun: maybe the dances and the songs made it feel less long? I'm not sure.
Favourite series in july:
Good Omens - season 2 (UK/USA, 2023) [First time watch]
Aziraphale and Crowley need to take care of an Archangel with amnesia, make two women fall in love, and reminisce of their history together while not talking about any of that at all.
Binge-watching this show is always tragic, because sure! I want to see my favourite supernatural entities do things and interact and fall for each other a little, but once I arrive at the last episode wide-eyed and speechless (actually in my notebook I wrote "Shaking Crying Screaming", but who's counting), what am I supposed to do to wait for the fated conclusion except re-re-re-re-rewatch the whole thing again?
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Little Women (South Korea, 2022) [First time watch]
This is the story of three sisters who are poor and try to live in a rich world. What could happen if they found each other involved with rich people and join a long string of suicides, murders, money laundering, and political scandals? The three will have to investigate in the name of justice and to protect their family from the privilege and power that people who are richer than them have.
It was very hard to watch the first episodes of this series: they were so heavy that I couldn't get through more than one of them without a headache, so watching this whole thing took me months, but I was fond of the characters and the cinematography being stunning were great incentive not to drop the series at all.
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3 Will Be Free (Thailand, 2019) [First time watch]
Three people find themselves inside a mob family affair and they try to escape, while getting to know and growing fond of each other.
I loved the characters!! The three main character were very easy to like, from an audience perspective, but I found myself rooting for Mae most of all: she was the best character of the show, in my opinion.
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Abbott Elementary - season 2 (USA, 2022/23) [First time watch]
As usual, this sitcom brings me laughter and happiness, and makes me think fondly of my time as a kindergarten teacher (which ended last May). The situations these characters find themselves in as usual are blown out of proportion and their response to them is always hilarious, but the fact that they could happen is very realistic and fighting for the right to a free education for all is very important. I hope that after the Writers and Actors' Strike this show will continue, because it is lovely, and one of the few US sitcoms from recent years that I enjoyed watching.
[byebyelemonpie's 2023 recs]
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