#man director

[bixels]

I watched Starship Troopers tonight.

#personal #dumb #my art #immediately after finishing i was pumped to watch some analysis vids on it #cuz i heard a lot of the drama about the original author being a pro military fascist and the director going “fuck that” and making a satir #scrolling through youtube search results was not promising. lots of male film buffs i would Not trust even on a first glance. #“The Critical Drinker” (pfp of a bearded man drinking alcohol) lol. #and then I saw cinemawins did a video on it and was like oh nice i haven't seen his stuff in a while but he's a pretty leftist creator #scrolled through the comments #second panel face #this sucks i'm outta here. #just leagues and leagues and leagues of anime pfps and right leaning people dogpiling on him for “not understanding what fascism is” #idk it's pretty alien and weird to me watching this movie and going “wow yeah that was pretty obvious huh” like literally the from opening #to the teacher preaching militance and only giving voting rights to “those who serve their nation first and earn it” #and then seeing droves of people online going #WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? It's not anti-fascist and even if it was it's #the director's fault for desecrating heinlein's incredible sci-fi epic vision. ermm media literacy is dead.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i lose 80% of respect for a movie the moment a female protagonist wakes up in bed with artfully tousled hair and a full face of unsmudged makeup what is that mcfuckery

#don't care how good the movie was up until that point #the director clearly has no meaningful grip on human reality #maybe i'll finish the movie but from this moment on i am watching a grown man playing with dolls in a sandbox #which is actually a bit insulting to kids as metaphors go #bc i've MET kids who have way more empathy for their dolls than this man apparently does to his female characters #who the FLIP gave this man a 50 million dollar budget. he has never met a woman

[a-dumb-sarcastic-bisexual]

More random Nimona headcanons

Bal is one of those people who isn’t allergic to anything except one random medication that no one uses 

Ambrosius calls him a lucky bastard every time it’s brought up because he’s allergic to everything 

His allergy list is at least three pages long and he doesn’t remember a single thing on that list 

Whenever they go out to eat Bal has to remind him “No you can’t eat that it has olives” “Not that either love it’s got lemon” and so on 

Most of his allergic reactions are pretty tame so he’ll eat it anyway

And it gives Bal and Nimona so much fucking anxiety 

One time Bal walked in on Nimona chasing Ambrosius around the kitchen yelling “Spit out the carrots Nemesis you don’t even like them that much!!” 

Whenever he eats alone he refers to it as a game of Russian roulette 

Bal refers to it as the reason he has high blood pressure

Because Bal and Ambrosius grew up in the limelight (for very different reasons) there are a million pictures of them through the years 

And they use those videos to bully the hell out of each other 

Bal can quote the video from the beginning of the movie not because it was an important moment in his childhood 

But because Ambrosius will quote it at the most random times throughout the day

Bal will do something small like kill a bug or chase out an animal that Nimona brought in

And he’ll hear Ambrosius mumble “I’m here to slay monsters and protect our kingdom”

He was a little worried Nimona would react badly to this habit but he started joining in 

One time he killed a spider and Ambrosius asks “Are you slaying monsters moonbeam?” Nimona yells from the other room “I’m so proud of him he’s truly protecting our kingdom” 

There are a million photos of baby Ambrosius on the internet 

And Bal made a PowerPoint presentation ranking their cuteness factor out of 10 (100 was the lowest score he got and it was a picture of him with the ugliest bowl cut you’ve ever seen)

And made Ambrosius sit through it 

That was the most loved and mortified he had felt in a long time

Nimona uses low-quality pictures of them as reaction photos 

There have been times when Nimona asks “Can we eat out tonight” and Bal tells her no and she sends him this 

He’ll text back “Is that my fucking wanted poster?!” 

She asked Ambrosius if there was any ice cream left and he said no he expected her to call him and complain he didn’t expect this 

He calls her yelling “When the fuck did that happen?!” 

And she hangs up immediately to let Bal deal with it

#nimona 2023 #Nimona movie #nimona headcanon #nimona #ballister boldheart #ambrosius goldenloin #ballister x ambrosius #goldenheart #im dedicated to destroying Ambrosius cool guy image #that man is a dork #a feral fucking loser #and I’m in love with him #when they were tricking the director Bal records it all #you can here him rewinding the video #which means he has a video of Nimona disguised as Ambrosius getting stabbed #and you think she wouldn’t use that as a meme? #you’re joking #someone take this movie away from me #they've invaded every part of my life #I cant even listen to music #I was listening to Hozier's new album and thought wow this is like Bal and Ambrosius #I just know Ambrosius was the sick kid growing up #I could write so much angst about that #I might do that next

[coulson-is-an-avenger]

the main thing I’ve gathered from the Pacific Rim director’s commentary is that, even though a lot more of PacRim was done with CGI than I had realized, it still holds up almost 10 years later because of how intentional Guillermo Del Toro was with building in details, flaws, weathering and environmental factors, and, primarily, love and respect into every single model.

He helped animate every single creature and robot by hand on his tablet, he praised the animators for every single shot and talks about how brilliant they are, how hard they worked on every detail, he treats all of them like human beings, like geniuses, just as integral to the film as himself and the actors. The animators themselves talk about how intentional and detailed his ideas were, how helpful and insightful he was when he spoke to them about changes, when he came to them with new ideas.

There’s also a hell of a lot of practical effects woven in, which add to the believability, but the CGI holds up first and foremost because he saw it as an art form to be cultivated and loved just as fiercely as everything else, not a ‘wow’ effect to be slapped in for budget cuts.

#i have so much respect for this man #this is the first director's commentary i've ever watched hslkdfjhf and man. man #Guillermo Del Toro #Pacific Rim #cgi #he gets it he understands things #taika waititi and guillermo del toro :handshake: the only directors ever #also he just said he hopes people still think abt the moments in this movie ten years later and im ;-; THATS WHAT IM DOING RN BRO!!!! #mossy speaks

[flum3n]

the universal experience of beginning 'pride and prejudice' (2005) with the opinion that matthew macfadyen as mr darcy is perfectly tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt you and ending it bewitched, body and soul.

#we get both the mr darcy love at first sight of keira knightley as elizabeth bennet #and the slow burn of elizabeth's feelings for matthew macfadyen #this is from watching several gorls react to it on youtube #and my own feelings of eh he's not bad looking to THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A MORE PERFECT MAN- #pride and prejudice #pride and prejudice 2005 #jane austen #mr darcy #fitzwilliam darcy #joe wright #you're a clever director #matthew macfadyen #classics #classic literature #english literature #austen shitpost #not poetry

[fasole-dulce]

#sebastian stan #new directors new films 2024 #a different man #gorgeous boy

[crows-home]

hang on one more Nimona thing i realized. I'm so used to movies where the protagonist is inherently talented with no reason and is able to overpower the antagonists. Like, they're always unexplainably powerful and "oh wow, this person is stronger than these other people that have been training for years."

So, on my first watch, I thought that's what it was for Ballister. He fought a bunch of his fellow knights, overpowered them, disarmed the prodigy, Goldenloin.

THEN i rewatched, paid more attention, and holy shit. He's been like this since the beginning.

And then i started to notice the little things that subtly supported this.

He makes his own arm, that must take intellectual skill. He grabs a can that was about the fall off the shelf and make noise, without even looking at it.

And during the fight scene at the institute!! At first, I was like ok, typical protagonist fight scene where they overpower tons of other people. Because Plot.

But no!! the more i think about it, it's reasonable. It's established early on that Ballister is competent, he's skilled. He's very aware of things going on around him. He's able to knock out knights that around coming up behind him without looking, swiftly disable opponents.

Rewatching it always makes me go back and see these characters in a new light. So my view on Ballister went from "ah, mess of a man that's put in a tough situation. Able to do these crazy things because they're necessary to the plot." to "Oh he's competent!! That's the point!! He's still a mess but :0"

#nimona #nimona spoilers #aksdbkhasbf was this obvious? probably. #BUT I MUST. REITERATE. I DIDNT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT NIMONA GOING IN. I ALSO MAY BE STUPID. A BIT. #i treated this like any other kids' movie that i could maybe watch with my family. just kinda vibing. #not included is his recording the director's confession. WHERE was he in order to get that angle. #i know it was probably so that the viewers expected it less but. man

[non-un-topo]

hot guard summer

#tog #the old guard #andromache of scythia #nile freeman #nicolo di genova #yusuf al kaysani #kaysanova #that's right!!! i might have kicked my art block!! hopefully!! let's not jinx it!! #siggy draws #alternatively titled: WHERE IS THE TRAILER #happy almost-summer! #director's commentary as always: #it's probably too small to see but the vespa has a little engraved name 'Destino' on it #not sure how i feel about joe's look but the poor guy is so hidden behind his husband's shoulders anyway #joe does have a poofy ponytail but it's hard to see #they're probably all chilling in italy between missions and that weird safehouse we have yet to see #nile is absolutely reaching for a gun tucked into the back of her shorts btw. not sure what the girls are looking at #andy is wearing nile's pants and nile is wearing nicky's 90s jacket (which is totally not my actual real life jacket) #you know that man would wear it ok #if the lighting seems a little loud or sloppy it's because i am inexperienced dsfgfds. also my first time attempting bi lighting sort of #i am sad that the lighting erased nicky's sunburned nose dfgfds. just know that it was very pink before #shoutout to my lovely friends who helped me figure out lighting/shadow stuff -- apple and wingodex and captainshakespeare #*damn it accidentally added an e on the end there #thank you for helping me navigate the digital art world beloveds <3 #this took my entire day and all of ABBA Gold at least 10 times

[pretty--in--purple]

let's be real, being guillermo's friend/partner irl would suck ass. he's a manipulative serial killing embezzler who is having an emotional affair, plus he's constantly busy with his kid/creature that crawled out of the chest cavity of his dead friend + his undead three stooges.

HOWEVER

being his cousin would slap so fuckin hard man. every few weeks: "cousin memo's here and he's brought the five most attractive people you've ever met, an autistic child, and 50 grand cash." he barely comes to any family events but when he does you get to share gay judgemental looks w/ him. he keeps making you garlic bread and he bought you nunchucks. his trunk has a corpse in it.

#he would be a perfect cousin man #i do NOT want a direct relationship w this man #what i want is for him to be that weird fringe relative who everyone looks at funny but who his younger relatives are vaguely obsessed with #his skills w colin have to come from SOMEWHERE #guillermo de la cruz #also the five attractive people are: #nandor the relentless #nadja of antipaxos #laszlo cravensworth #marwa wwdits #the djinn wwdits #and the autistic child is obvs #colin robinson #wwdits #wwdits fx #wwdits spoilers #this has officially broken containment bc like 20 people thought this was abt the director #sky (the blogger) originals

[princessstevemunson]

Famous actor Steve Harrington known wife guy. Spends decades of interviews talking about his wife Robin and all their misadventures—a lot of those stories also include their friend and next door neighbor, Corroded Coffin frontman, Eddie Munson. Then with the advent of social media a lot more people are posting about him being seen with Eddie, and are convinced that Steve and Eddie are cheating. This makes Steve have to out himself and explain that he and Robin are in a lavender marriage. (Not that it wasn’t an open secret in Hollywood especially with how close Robin and international pop sensation Chrissy Cunningham are)

#even after gay marriage is legal they still don’t get divorced #Eddie knew what he was getting into #hell he was Robin’s best man #I could develop this but who knows #aus I come up with at work #lavender married Stobin #steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #buckingham if you squint #robin buckley #famous au #can’t decide if Robin is an indie film director or something else

[blkinfilm]

BlacKkKlansman (2018)

Instagram: blkinfilm

#black beauty #black culture #black women #black girl aesthetic #black cinema #blacklove #black man #spike lee #spikeleejoint #john david washington #laura harrier #2018 #blackkklansman #black films #black directors #black panther #black power

[hellspawnmotel]

🕰️

#rest well toriyama-sensei #i hope wherever you are now it has more cigarettes and dirty mags and model cars than one man could ever smoke or read or build #chrono trigger #art tag #i know he was only the art director on ct but its my strongest personal connection with him #so much of my design sense can be traced back to it and other jrpgs #and i wouldnt have gotten into old jrpgs if i hadnt played it as a teen #thank you for everything youve done for mankind! #(btw click this the quality got nerfed for the crime of being horizontal)

[dages-big-naturals]

modern au where Yue Qingyuan is the perfectly competent CEO of a multinational conglomerate who also spends 20% of his workday tenderly stroking door handles that marketing director Shen Jiu happened to touch

#everyone pretending yqy isn’t absentmindedly tracing sj’s name on his copy of the meeting agenda #doesn’t this mean director yue has too much free ti- NO. HE MAKES TIME. #my obsession with how yqy is a very normal man who’s also irrepressibly unhinged in this one aspect #svsss #qijiu #yue qingyuan

[sctumsempra]

idc what your opinions are on the morality and meat of his character snape has the best aesthetics out of anyone in the entire franchise

#severus snape #pro snape #snape #sure maybe it’s because he on paper looks and acts like me as much as a 30 something year old man* can but like. his vibes are gorgeous #the directors of the movies might’ve pissed alan rickman off but visually they cooked #me shaking: the gothic tones… the bat/disgruntled raven/end-of-shift barista aura… the grunge… the unsettling ‘should be a cryptid’ vibes…

[milimeters-morales]

Miles’s concept art is so fun to me because you know he’s a skinny dude and it really shows in some of the art but other times he’s wearing a sweater, two jackets on top, baggy pants that are somehow too short, and a jacket tied around his waist, a hat, and holding another jacket in his hand or something as if he’s trying to make himself bigger than he actually is. post cancelled i got emotional realizing that’s exactly what he’s doing because there’s some parts of him that aren’t actually confident yet.

#and like didn’t the director or an artist literally say this. i swear i saw it on a milesgmorale/s post #miles morales #spiderman #spider man #m&m posts

[inferno-mp3]

#FILM!!!! #i succumbed and man am i glad i did #nimona #nimona movie #ballister boldheart #ballister blackheart #nimona director #nimona meme