#but the movies arent the problem

[quitetheketch-moved]

I think my biggest problem with the unironic use of film bro is its evolution into a critique of the films and not the bros themselves and their misunderstanding of the pieces and idolization of the violent men being critiqued in said films.

#like i jokingly say my toxic trait is being a film bro all the time because #i love the movies that get labled as film bro movies #but the movies arent the problem #(thats not to say there arent problems with the movies but their wild misinterpretation by ignorant people isnt one of those things) #(looking at you pulp fiction) #and the term has been used for lbr anti intellectualism which i hate bringing up because its just swinging a bat at a hornet's nest #but like Mulholland drive isnt a flm bro movies guys #(its a trans girl movie) #subtitled foreign films arent film bro movies #art films arent film bro movies!!! #also isnt it hilarious that all the actually misunderstood movies are all made by gay people and women #funny how that happens #funny how the los jibbities and women understand how to critique white male violence in such a unique way that shitty dudes #are always like holy shit thats literally me!!! #anyway #i'm gonna stop before i catch attention and get some bonkers bad faith anon asdlkfj;askdjf

[sufferingink]

IM SORRY?????? ASLAN PUT A BUNCH OF BABIES IN CHARGE OF A KINDGOM?????

GET BACK HERE FURRY JESUS AND TELL ME HOW YOU JUSTIFY AN EIGHT YEAR OLD TO BE QUEEN

Edmund lives the rest of his life defining himself on a mistake he made when he was a BABY

THEYRE NOT EVEN PRETEENS YET???!!!

#this is about the books but the movie arent much better #chronicles of narnia #edmund pevensie #lucy pevensie #peter pevensie #susan pevensie #ive decided there was no problem with susan #she just went 'tgat was a bit fucked up actually' #and the lion wouldnt let her back #the lion the witch and the wardrobe #wtffffff

[skeletalheartattack]

what rank is lego skeleton?

count how many bones these three skeletons have and you'll guess the number correctly. except you have to multiply that number with a different number. solve for fucking X. we're bringing math questions back to tumblr babey

#ask #anon #this is where my decline starts. i am going to lose follower for this one #nonono but seriously #i fucking love these guys. theyre the fucking BEST #i never had any myself though.... maybe thats the root of all my problems... and the square root- 💥 (me ficking exploding) #i had like. a pirates of the carribean set that had the stupid weird legos. that arent the same brand i dont think. or maybe they are. #note i never watched that movie. i saw a skeleton on the box of a set and wanted it instantly #but these guys are 10/10. 100/100. perfect beings. #thank you for the ask 🤗 #you have two seconds to solve the question though or else i pull the lever. 👋 (: bye bye

[tea-rexxy]

Conservatives: Barbie is for WOMEN. Boys should NOT play with barbie dolls it makes them GAY and WEAK.

Conservative Men: WHY WASNT THIS BARBIE MOVIE MADE FOR ME???? This barbie movie shouldn't be about WOMEN why does this movie have a bunch of women?

#this movie is made for women but as long as you arent a sexist piece of shit i feel like it isnt a problem #as a non woman i enjoyed this movie very much #conservatives are stupid baby boys #barbie #barbie 2023 #barbie movie

[manda-kat]

The Sing movies are good. I'm tired of pretending they're cringe.

#like obviously they arent some super serious artistic films #but they never set out to be #they are exactly what they planned to be #they do it very well #animation? great #designs? great #song choice and usage? ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC #juggling multiple main characters? not a problem! #they do a better job in Sing to introduce and develop a full team of main characters than most team-based superhero movies #there. I said it

[freebooter4ever]

Reading this in a minute of downtime at work and this one bit cracked me up:

Like YES if pretending that you have the same respect for LGBQT people as you do for your grandmothers is what gets people to stop using slurs then pls by all means. Hahahaha.

#Im not entirely sure this would have worked on the kids i went to high school with #Like they would definitely never swear in front of their grandmas #But they also never considered gay people human like their grandmas #Isnt that the problem though? Slurs only work when the person who uses it still considers the minority group the Other #Pride night is supposed to change that and make it inclusive #Listening to that doc on russel today while working #But also remembering that movie about that First Nations fictional hockey player #Isnt a new problem and the difficulty is hat it took so much sacrifice to change not by changing it from the outside #But minority players with skill so INSANELY good that it cant be ignored #Had to get their foot in the door first #So really if we want to fix hockey we need to start at the youth level #And THAT i think is why pride nights are important to show the youth that their heroes arent homophobic assholes

[asky22]

Rocket means so much to me.

#the way i was sobbing during the movie #im a rocket defender #if you arent um we have a problem cos howwww #this movie reiterates why found family is the superior trope #mcu #marvel #james gunn #guardians of the galaxy

[agentgreenbean]

one of my main life goals is to not become one of those adults that dismisses every problem that kids/teenagers have as silly or ridiculous. even if i can see that the problems won't matter in the long run, i have to keep the ability to see that it's real for them in the current moment

#green speaks #like its the bare fucking minimum but. its weirdly not very common for people to see kids and teens are Real Human Beings #like even if the problem *is* small and insignificant in the grand scheme of things. its real to *them* in the Right Now #also this might be a Zoomer Take but like. teenagers especially are expected to act like adults #without the rights or respect or basic control over their lives that adults have #like jfc no wonder teenagers are rebellious and miserable. theyre expected to have a job and do school and do chores #all on a schedule determined by Someone Else that like. they cant change. and usually its more than just the schedule #a lot of my friends (mostly 16-18) arent allowed to dye their hair. or go see a movie without permission. or even dress in a way they like #but theyre expected to have a job? and do schoolwork (which is a whole other can of worms)?? and chores and responsibilities?? #all while never being resentful or upset even though like. hey actually maybe if your kid can have A Job they can also #have control over other aspects of their own life #like jesus. if you expect your kid to be responsible enough to do Activities and Tasks for like 12+ hours straight per day #then maybe also they can get the haircut they want. or go hang out at the park once in a while

[always-a-joyful-note]

Thinking some fandom thoughts and then about ORV's portrayal of an author-character-reader relationship with the story and realising how....lacking at times the whole death of the author perspective on media can be.

(Turned out to be long and rambly so I put it under a cut. If you like death of the author, probably not for your worldview? Also, beware major ORV spoilers if you care about that)

Like, perhaps I'm misinterpreting something here, but in ORV, we had these three characters plus an entire system that gave us a look into the relationship between author/reader/character. And focusing on the Han Sooyoung, Kim Dokja, and Yoo Joonghyuk dynamic, I realise that none of them really died. Pushing asides Joonghyuk and Dokja for the moment (as I am talking about death of the author), we have Han Sooyoung whose consciousness faded after finishing Ways of Survival.

However, I don't know if we can really call that death of the author, really. Because Sooyoung's whole purpose in writing ORV, her authorial intention, was to save Kim Dokja's life...which she DID. And even after the story left her hands, her intentions were imprinted into the story itself. Yes, Dokja realised that the system was lenient to him because of (spoiler alert) his status as the OD. But at the same time, I think that Han Sooyoung's authorial intent to keep Dokja alive with WoS can also be taken as a factor in the system's leniency towards our reader.

And just jumping from that back to my original point, while death of the author IS fun and can be awesome for reinterpreting stories that the author may have intended as problematic (to our modern standards, at least), to separate the actual story itself from its creator seems just....a tad disrespectful to the author.

Or maybe disrespectful isn't the right word. Like, say, even if said author is objectively the worst of humans, there remains the fact that the story in essence has part of them embedded into it. It doesn't make sense, at least to me, to only give "morally okay" writers the allowance of people who put a part of themselves in their works. Any writer, even those who are writing for money imo, can't help but put part of their own selves into their story...and to separate the story from the author just because we hate the author or hate their beliefs seems a bit counter-productive. You can't just say, after all, that this author's vulnerability in their writing is okay because it's Correct but this other guy's vulnerability should be ignored because it's chalk full of Problematic Content.

But again, that's not to justify authors you dislike or the deeply wrong messages implied in their works. Especially those that could easily be shooed away by employing death of the author. But I think I'd consider fanfic or analyses that ignore authorial intent and their message to be something...new entirely? (Best way I can say it is something something death of an author employed to help the reader create their own narrative inspired by someone else's story rather than it being used to ignore author intent and claim our interpretation is what canon actually meant).

I think there's a saying in music as well as writing that you could play the same exact score or write the same story, it's just that things will come out different depending on the player or writer. (That's not a perfect comparison because the player/musician who WROTE the score could be considered a reader/author relationship...the point is more that the same thing will look different in the hands of different people. And that just as the reader will interpret something in their own way when reading/re-reading (another ORV reference), the author also has placed in their own interpretation and intent in that own work...which should at worst be respected because they DID make that content (and then we proceed to brutally revise it to make something we like better xD) or at best be taken as "word of god" for lack of a better term)

Not sure if any of this makes sense, and I definitely don't have any factual evidence to back up this opinion, but it was just something I was thinking of.

TL:dR? Death of the author is FUN and actually pretty cool but I think the things coming out of it are new(ish) things/works entirely, and og author's beliefs/intentions are important to consider for that text they wrote in of itself.

#honestly this thought came from scrolling through the narnia tag and feeling slight despair over movies vs book #and also a bit of a surprise at how MANY people still believe in the problem of susan....like i thought we were past that? #and how many people dont seem to get or like that cs lewis' christianity deeply inspired it #or how much historical and cultural context we might need to understand some of the choices #like the pevensies whole isekai regressions #another example i can think of is lotr....and another is funny enough the bible #but those arent things i know well enough #but yeah....orv and narnia conspiring together for this nonsense of mine #again disclaimer this really isnt meant to attack anyone or say im right...its just another opinion to be lost in the sea of internet #but yeah....i did kinda get carried away xD...my poor rambles never get any good transitions #fandom spamdom #note's nonsense #things about writing #orv spoilers #another disclaimer i wrote this after having been awake for like....almost 19 hours coherence be gone #but yeeting it into the void nevertheless #i also think there was a post circulating once that talked about death of the author not being actually used in academic circles #excuse me rambling in the tags

[mantisgodsdomain]

The greatest curse of Us, without a doubt, is the... us-centrism of the fact that we are Us and no one else. Our view on the world is limited and we are frequently subject to the logical fallacy of The Curse Of Knowledge and we're even more frequently beset upon by the fact that some people, like, are Genuinely Averse to depictions of things they've Dealt With themselves.

Like, what do you mean you're talking about this thing as a reason that this media sucks? What do you mean you actively avoid media that depicts things you went through? Do you not gain that feeling of connection from watching people go through something similar to what you did? Do you lack the feelings that are so easy to conjure up in a strong way from seeing a character dealing with the Same Damn Shit? Do you not look at art to feel things?

#this is a very long winded way to say that we got a media recommendation from a callout post again #we speak #“this media contains depictions of medical abuse and nonconsensual surgery and it puts heavy emphasis on these things” #“it highlights this transplanted thing and the difference from his body constantly” #and we're nodding along like “oh yeah sounds awesome” #and then they hit us with “i don't know why they thought this was appropriate for a family friendly franchise" #“other than the sheer ignorance of the developers about disabled peoples' medical experiences” #like HUH??? WHAT??? do you think that people only include fucked up shit that also happens to real people out of ignorance??? #like. even ignoring the obvious “people can create depictions of real and fucked up stuff and that is in no way inherently bad” thing #have you never seen half of the family friendly things in the past decade? did you not read books as a kid? have you never revisited like #any kind of childhood books or games or movies or anything??? #theres fucked up shit in kids media all the time! we'll go so far as to say that there should be MORE fucked up shit in kids media #because you need! to actually learn shit exists and figure out how to deal with it! and the earlier you can figure it out the better! #and even ignoring that like. its an AUTONOMY ISSUE. which is the one thing that kids will probably be able to connect to best! #because the single problem that kids and disabled fucks like us have in common the most is lack of autonomy! #a kid will be able to understand and connect with this issue because they have spent their lives surrounded by people #who sign them up to have things done with their bodies without first asking permission from them #who will have things done for them because they're kids and in their eyes cannot be trusted to make decisions of their own #even ignoring that disabled kids exist too and will be able to understand like. most of them will be able to recognize that kinds thing #theyre kids. they arent stupid. they can see this and relate to it as having problems Like Them but slightly more exaggerated #and maybe we're a bit opinionated about this but like #we're disabled! every word on this screen only makes us want to check this out because hey! sounds like the kind of shit we'd like! #we are VISCERALLY FAMILIAR with the kind of shit that people go through because guess what! we've been in the pits too! #we can appreciate the content warning for what its worth but the tone and the way youre saying it is just #look. we're sorry you didn't like it. different strokes for different folks and et cetera. what can help one person can harm another. #acting like medical abuse is a subject that should never be depicted in media for anyone but Mature Adults(tm) or whatever is just #bad #not to have opinions on childrens media but LACK of disabled people and such in media very much fucked us up more than them existing #let the kids have their medical abuse narrative and maybe itll give them a point to connect or get through something of their own #because let us tell you. having points to compare to? having even a fictionalized depiction to relate to?

[marklikely]

someone said 'movies have gotten really lazy about the visual part of the medium and are basically just audio dramas' and i would extremely disagree because the audio also fucking sucks.

#sound ppl talk all the time about not being respected on set and the lack of proper mic-ing #and like every other day theres a new thread abt how its impossible to watch anything w/o CC cause dialogue is mixed so badly #id argue that visuals are still. considered the most important thing in films its not 'laziness' or not caring about visuals in specific #the problem is that big studios are allaround uhhh cheap. and overworking their laborers. #and trying to maximize profits on Event Movies rather than focusing on the actual craft of making something good. #so literally every aspect of filmmaking is being tossed to the side except for whatever they need to do to make money. #(which increasingly seems to be marketing gimmicks and buying big name stars. thats the only thing they arent lazy about) #avpost

[delku]

there is a line, i think. i complain a lot (or if i don't, well, pretend i do? because it feels like i do) about quirkless hero/vigilante deku and the meta surrounding it, but you can't make him... like... worship ofa* either. that's weird. you're using him as a soapbox if you write like that. it's especially weird to make him attribute everything in heroics to quirks and quirks only when all might is quirkless and is currently beating afo's ass, making your take (through deku's tongue) demonstrably false. deku has nothing but respect for all might, even in his current state, and making him too focused on ofa as the only solution to him accessing heroics is. weird. not to bring movie 3 into a discussion again but there's some relevant dialogue from the flect fight:

"[The Quirk doomsday theory is] not true! Whether someone has a Quirk or is Quirkless doesn't mean they're sick or anything! We're all alive! We're all human!"

he's not exactly caught up on the idea that being quirkless is inherently worse than having a quirk. we know he suffered for it, and we can speculate he's not comfortable talking about his experience with it (kouta at camp (72), referring to himself in the third person. primarily, he was keeping the secret, but he looks surprised at himself for even bringing it up). but he doesn't hate it. that would be giving up a part of himself, and he holds those cards carefully close. his upbringing informs his beliefs. if anything, it should be quite precious to him, especially knowing the other quirkless characters and how he views them.

obviously ofa was deku's ticket into heroics, and pretending he could've gotten there by any other means (considering the points of access afforded to a quirkless middle schooler who has no connections) is foolish. but he clearly does not believe the quirk makes the hero, or he would've lost any respect he had for all might the moment he said "now, it's your turn."

*by "worship ofa", i'm not referring to him considering the power as something special. he textually did this and got called out by multiple people for it, most notably gran torino. in this context, it's more like exaggerated reverence for the power as deku's salvation; something that rescued him from the terrible dredgery of quirklessness and opened up endless doors of opportunity for him. whether or not the power actually did this is irrelevant; the point is that deku doesn't think of it that way. he's much more captivated by ofa as a blessing generously provided by all might that allowed him to (specifically) train to become a hero. he doesn't seem to mind very much that he was quirkless unless the idea of his worthiness as a successor is questioned.

#obviously that movie quote is being stripped of context and is really supposed to be fighting for quirks within it #but like... do you really think he doesnt believe the lives of quirkless people are worthless. that he was worthless because of that. #when bkg suibaited him he was more concerned with bkg getting in trouble than like. the idea of actually offing himself. #presumably because he wasnt really considering it. we arent given any outright reason to believe he ever does. #panels of him looking like a sopping wet kitten are not a reason. he had other problems #such as all might telling him what he did not want to hear. #wow i fucked up the wording on one of these tags. pretend it doesnt have the double negative i really blew it

[thisgodwontforgiveyou]

the cultural concept of the Predatory Lesbian Trope ruined everything like nobody even knows what those words mean now but im just thinking of millions of amanoids shot to death in the writers room in the 2010s before they could even say one word

#the problem with it is as a concept is that if you are not deliberately making hate speech it is totally irrelevant and alwys has been #the idea of a woman very overwhelmingly trying to fuck you is only scary if you are a homophobe #and kind of the easiest most like candy from a baby shit ever if youre actually trying to write for normal people #and was in fact the reason it was a trope in the first place because people thought that shit was awesome #like if you arent making a fucking amelie type movie or some like agonizingly cringe inducing webcomic you were never in any danger #but everyone was like welllllll i guess its evl when a woman wants to fuck sooooooo :( #sad ant bindling away

[wp100]

trying to get into the habit of catching up on shows. or at least watching shows. i miss watching shows.

#i have a lot of pokemon to catch up on #i'll catch up onto the last episode ash is on and that'll be it i guess #i guess i can rewatch indigo league. im in the mood for that #or digimon. maybe. idk #problem is i wanna watch it on console so im in bed lol #i will have to download some shows and watch it through a usb or somethinf #cos a lot of shows arent on youtube. at least not officially uploaded #at least i cacn watch 80s cartoons #not sure about muppets. but it looks like fraggle rock is on youtube. not officially tho #i do wanna watch that someday #but i already have a lot on my plate atm gshddgh #also i havent watched a movie in months

[magnusedom]

a lot of mcu movies are propaganda and i know that blah blah blah but picking on them is low hanging fruit because everyone sees that but i see the artsy hoes rating artsy movies 4/5 stars on letterboxd when the movie is like "latin america is hell and ugly and yellow. americans are heroes. we owe the fbi everything" just because it had pretty pictures... BUT no depth or substance. at this point i just want y'all to have the same energy with these movies and ask yourselves why y'all see countries like mexico as full of criminals and narcos and shit

#and i want gringos to never make movies about latin america and its issues when y'all will never ever understand #no matter how big of an 'investigation' the writers and directors make #especially when that investigation is interviewing cia and fbi bitches #americans and gringos in general are real paranoid when it comes to our countries huh as if y'all arent a big problem for us #i want to stop seeing y'all praise directors for stepping foot in our cities as if there aren't real ppl living here lol #'going to ciudad juárez is true guts' bro shut the fuck up!!!!!!!!!!!! #airam talks

[royalreef]

(( I’ve definitely written it out before, but:

Miranda’s actually one of those people who doesn’t get scared by horror!

Of course, she will hem and haw and refuse to engage with it, play up how scared she is of horror, but that’s not really formed out of any real experience with the subject. She’s never seen any horror movies before, but she knows they’re supposed to scare her, so she assumes they will be scary to her. It’s not that she’s intentionally trying to mislead people, there’s just a disconnect between the reality and what Miranda assumes.

Of course, the second you actually manage to sit her down for something horror-related, and past the moment of her worrying about how scary it will be, she just... never reacts in fear to it. Mostly this is in part due to having lived through equally as bad, if not sometimes worse, situations herself — but there’s a fair part of it that occurs just because she’s a merfolk. They have a very different set of cultural fears than your typical western horror movie, and quite a lot that’s scary to us is just life to them. They aren’t going to be scared of a shark, even if it has started to hunt them, because that’s just day-to-day life with them. It happens. It’s not great, but they don’t spend a lot of time worrying about it, and a lot of the hype is entirely missed. Open spaces aren’t so scary when you live in the ocean and it goes on forever in every direction, nor is the dark when you’re made to live in absolute darkness. Trying to play off the fear of spiders and arthropods is going to go nowhere, when most merfolk associate chitinous bodies and the way they move with either food or cleaning.

There are some plots that do bother Miranda, particularly topics around body-snatching, but that seldom goes all the way into fear. If anything, it’s more of a persistent discomfort, rather than genuine fear.

So if you do get Miranda to participate in horror, she’s probably not going to react to it! Either that, or constantly sit there asking when the scary parts are going to begin, right at the climax of the movie. You might even get her staring at the special effects and talking about how, when you do that to a person, it doesn’t work/look like that. Or, you could even get Miranda getting excited about the kills, usually in more tortureporn-esque genres.

#Most secret royal advisor || OOC #Given by Divine Right || Headcanons #(( tbh merfolk in general would respond more to ''horror in broad daylight'' type stuff #(( mostly because theyre almost all bothered by the Extremely Bright Light that comes with being on land #(( whereas even shallow water helps dim it for them #(( fuckin. hurts their eyes. #(( tongue horror would also really get other merfolk (but not miranda) #(( also you COULD. in theory. really get them with isolation type stuff. #(( but the problem is that merfolk experience such a particular depth and have such a particular relationship to isolation #(( that our movies wouldnt cut it for them. they feel edged. promised some Good Horror but it never delivers. #(( and even though cold on land and snow/freezing is lethal to them. most merfolk arent familiar with it enough to have a fear with it. #(( because. theyre fine if they just stay underwater! #(( which even the arctics mostly just hang out underwater! the only time they would come onto land is the summer months.