#movi

[filmloversociety]

Heathers, dir. by Michael Lehmann, was released 34 years ago

#heathers #film #films #movies #winona ryder #michael lehmann #frames #sceenshots #stills #movi

[movie--posters]

#james taylor #warren oates #laurie bird #dennis wilson #movie poster #two lane blacktop #70s #1970s #70s film #film #films #poster #movie posters #movi #movies

[bigbunn13s]

ouhh i remember when my girlfriend asked me to design a plushie of my sona and i went. oh haha yeah because of the worms in my brain

only for it to become increasingly obvious they were getting an actual plush made while i sat there (oblivious)

#art tag #Movi

[biparcayalnizlik]

#the double life of veronique #irene jacob #philippe volter #cinema #movie quotes #movi #movies #krzysztof kieslowski #filmlerden replikler #couple #love #photography #france #french movie #french

[wetgeliscasualinterval]

‘Vampyr’ (1932) by Carl Theodor Dreyer

#vampyr #vampire #carl theodor dreyer #carl th. dreyer #film #cinema #movi #movie stills #film frames #horror #horror film

[tigermousse]

Gone with the Wind (1939) dir. Victor Fleming

#gone with the wind #quote #scarlett o'hara #vivien leigh #movi #army #personal #Tiger Mousse

[filmap]

Wildlike Frank Hall Green. 2014

Inn 1711 Glacier Ave, Juneau, AK 99801, USA See in map

See in imdb

#frank hall green #wildlike #juneau #alaska #united states #ella purnell #hotels and motels #inn #bruce greenwood #movi #cinema #film #location #google maps #street view #2014

[movies-for-you]

MOVIE : SAW X

WATCH MOVIE FOR FREE: https://tinyurl.com/saw-x-ws

#movie poster #saw x #saw movies #horror movie #movi #movie gifs #Youtube

[angelx1992]

#movi #tv series #meme #addams family #wednesday #netflix #catherine zeta jones #selena gomez #gomez #mashup

[mkemals]

Suna no onna - Woman in the Dunes - Kumların Kadını 1964

#movi #cinema

[goldrushs-blog]

#joker #batman #batman and joker #mona lisa #leonardo da vinci #photpgraphy #photo #movi #movies #like for like #twitter #harley queen #barbie

[itsyveinthesky]

#important #it's so true that so many war movies that claim to be anti-war #are really anything but despite the horrors they claim to show #which is why all quiet on the western front was such a breath of fresh air #and I never want to see it again #i hope it gets all the awards #movi

[movie--posters]

#star wars #mark hamil #harrison ford #carrie fisher #peter cushing #movie poster #movie posters #star wars movies #movie review #poster #film #scifi #films #posters #movie #movi #movies and tv #movies #show #space #luke skywalker #George Lucas #gary kurtzz #john williams #Darth Vader #leia organa #han solo #action #shows #tv

[estelscinema]

Why I am very cautious about The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

I have been a fan of Tolkien's work since I was a little girl. I have been completely captured by his work, and his work has helped me through a lot. I love the Jackson films, even with their flaws. With that said, I am very worried about the Rings of Power series by Amazon. I will go ahead and state that I am not a book purist. I understand that in adaptations, not everything will perfectly adapt to screen, and stuff will be added and changed to make the story work visually. I understand certain aspects of the novels will be cut due to runtime and budget. I am open to adaptations and fanfictions; however, I do have conditions. You must respect the source material. The story you create must follow the themes, the worldbuilding, the characters, the aesthetics, and the lore that the author wrote. I am incredibly lenient about the story, but you must follow what is stated above. From what Amazon has released thus far, Rings of Power does not match any of these criteria and is only Tolkien in name. I do not want to see the Professors' work turn into mindless entertainment and a cash cow, like Marvel, Star Wars, and so many other IPs. All the fandom is asking is to respect his work, and Amazon seems to be doing the opposite.

So I am going to break this down into different aspects of the series. I will start by talking about the showrunners of this series, Patrick McKay and John D. Payne. What might be a surprise to you is that the two showrunners of this series have no experience with any Hollywood production, even though they have been in the industry for over 15 years. They are not ghostwriters in Hollywood; they literally have no experience and were recommended for the series by J.J. Abrams. To me, this seems like they are going to be used as puppets for executives swaying creative decisions. This is a widespread practice today with big-budget Hollywood movies. Small indie directors are brought in to direct a big-budget film, but they have no creative control over the story nor the overall direction of the film; they are puppets to the executives. I feel it will be the same with these two gentlemen because they have very contradicting views of how the executives of this series view Tolkien, based on interviews. On the positive side, from what everyone has stated, they do know their Tolkien lore. However, my big question is can they show it? Because thus far, they have only talked about how much of Tolkien they know but have not demonstrated it. If you are going to talk the talk, you need to walk the walk.

Another concern I have with this series is how poor the marketing campaign has been. Amazon, with billions of dollars at its disposal, is showing a very mediocre campaign for this series when they have marketed some series perfectly. So there are two routes this could go, either Amazon has hired the worst marketing team for this series, or the material is as bad as the marketing. I am guessing the latter because Amazon has a history of doing a terrible job of covering up bad material. What also adds to the layers of this series is that we are less than 2 months out, and there has not been a full trailer released yet, only teasers. No plot has been revealed, only pretty cinematography and some first-age flashbacks. For new television series, generally, 2 months is when the first main trailer is released with plot details. Amazon not doing this tells me they are not confident with the story. Furthermore, what has to be the cherry on top of the disaster is the marketing campaign, which was the Superfans disaster. If you are unaware, Amazon hired these fake Tolkien fans and did a staged reaction video, where they all called it the "best thing ever." The backlash was so bad that they deleted the video. In reaction to this disaster, Amazon brought Tolkien fans to a small screening in England, where they received an all-paid vacation, tours of Oxford, Tolkien lectures, free swag, and a Q&A with the showrunners. Like the previous Superfans, everysingle person who went to this came back saying the same thing, down to the wording. Out of the over 20 people invited to this, all of them praised the series, with some even calling it "the greatest tv series of all time," after watching only 20 curated minutes from the series. Not a single criticism was made. Many in the fandom called bull because Amazon has done this before with the Wheel of Time, and we all saw how much of a disaster that series was. So by the looks of it, Amazon is buying positive reviews for their series because they know it will be a disaster.

Now let's talk about the actual show rather than what Amazon is doing with Tolkien. As previously stated, not much of the story is known, and only those familiar with the lore know what the series will be about. However, what is known is that it's going to be a very compressed version of Second Age, with some First Age flashbacks, with a lot of fanfiction. The writers compressing the timeline is very understandable. However, by the looks of it, they are cramming the entire second age into a single lifespan. I believe this is wrong because they will sacrifice some of the most prominent themes within the Second Age. The writers should have let a significant event in the Second Age be its own season and slowly built up the themes, the lore, and the conflicts of the Second Age. What further concerns me are the First Age flashbacks. Don't get me wrong, I would love to see a proper adaptation of the Silmarillion. However, I feel that these flashbacks will be used as fan service to cover up shakey storytelling. My last most significant concern with the story is the fanfiction that is going to be within this series. What has been presented thus far feels like they have copied stories from Tolkien they don't have rights to and put their own spin on it. They do this by changing the names and the story slightly, then throwing it into their fanfiction. For example, they are telling a forbidden love story between an Elf and a human in this series. This directly responds to the fact that they don't have the rights to the three elf-human romances in Tolkien's work. So what will probably happen is they will take elements from all three and put them into their story. You think they would have learned from the Hobbit Trilogy why this is a bad idea. Furthermore, they are throwing Hobbits into this series, not because they will add to the story, but because of nostalgia.

The next major issue with this series is going to be its characters. I know that there are going to be a lot of non-canon characters in this series, so I am going to focus on the canon characters because, thus far, they don't resemble their book counterparts. The first character up is Elrond, who is described as a politically ambiguous politician and architect in the series. However, to those familiar with his book characters, he is none of this. He is a politician, but not ambiguous; he was focused on peace and alliance-making. Furthermore, he is not an architect but a scholar. What I find to be interesting is that the show does not describe him as a military leader because he is one. Another red flag is how the series tells the relationship between Tar-Miriel and Ar-Pharazon. In the series, they are described as close to one another. However, that is very far from the truth. The pair are cousins on opposite sides of the Numenorian political spectrum. Tar-Miriel is part of the "Faithful," and Ar-Pharazon is part of the "Black Numenorians." The show's description of them so wrong is that Ar-Pharazon eventually usurps Tar-Miriel and forces her to be his bride. So the show describing them as "close" is very wrong. Now the biggest red flag for characters is Galadriel. What appeared to have happened is that they have taken a very feminine, wise, and powerful sorceress and turned her into the damaging trope of the strong female character. Galadriel uses her wisdom and magic to fight off the forces of evil, not a sword. As a woman, they are defeminizing her and making her " a hothead ... filled with piss and vinegar" (now my words, the producer's words for describing Galadriel in the Second Age) is one of the most sexist things they can do. Even more concerning is that based on the trailers, it looks like Galadriel will be correct, and everysingle man is wrong, which insults me. Don't even get me started with writers gender-bending Anarion.

So far, the worldbuilding/aesthetics within the Rings of Power series has been a very mixed bag. I know I am very attached to the aesthetics Peter Jackson and Company brought to life in his respected adaptations. He set a bar for fantasy adaptions that no one else has been able to reach, with only Game of Thrones hitting that bar. So far, from what I have seen, the production design is starting to look like Middle Earth. Furthermore, I am confident that the music for this series will be fantastic, with Bear McCreary and Howard Shore scoring the show. However, for the rest of the series, it does not scream Middle Earth. The costume design looks incredibly cheap for a multimillion-dollar show. The costumes look like they came from the tailor and don't look lived in. I like the overall aesthetics they are going for, but it's missing the mark by looking like generic fantasy. Furthermore, some costumes don't look like they are correctly fitted to their actors. The character design also has been a very mixed bag. Getting used to the short-hair elves is going to be very difficult. To me, the elves lose their angelic nature by doing this. Furthermore, they are not even given the female dwarves' beards, which is a must for a Tolkien adaptation. Now let's talk gently about the most sensitive topic of this series, which is its race-bending of characters and people. Here are my two cents on the matter. Changing the race of established characters and people in the name of checking boxes is incredibly wrong and racist. When a series does this, they tell me a couple of things. They are telling me they don't think stories with the representation they want can succeed. They are also telling me they only brought this person in for money because they want viewership from a specific demographic. Lastly, the actors are sadly going to be used to deflect criticism by calling the fandom toxic, racist, etc., for not liking the changes, which the creators are already doing. What has to be the irony of the creators changing this is that if they had stuck to the lore, they would have had the representation they were looking for. Instead, they resorted to Tokenism.

So here are my final predictions for this series. I have a feeling that this series is going to be incredibly mediocre. It will be another product in the line of corporate-made entertainment. I am confident that this series will have great scenes and sequences in it, and it will be spectacular to watch. I am convinced that this series also has a lot of horrible scenes and sequences within it. Finally, the remainder will just be mediocre, corporate content. However, my biggest concern is what this will do to the Tolkien fandom. As we have seen over the past couple of years, so many fandoms and IPs have been destroyed by talentless corporations. Star Wars, Star Trek, Halo, Resident Evil, The Witcher, Marvel, and DC Comics, have almost entirely been destroyed by these corporations who alienate the fanbase from the material. They call the fandom toxic, racist, sexist, homophobic, etc., if the fandom does not like what the corporation puts out. The fandom is shattered, and the IP is left creatively empty. The IP has nowhere to go because the fans have left. The only people left cheering for these series is a loud but small vocal minority on Twitter. This is why the majority of the Tolkien fandom is against this series. They don't want Tolkien's work torn apart by a greedy corporation. They don't want to see the fandom shattered due to modern politics. All that the Tolkien fandom is asking for is to respect the material, and that's it.

Sincerely,

A Tolkien fan since she was 3 years old.

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[petitegoose]

#funny #weed #movi #theaters #smoke

[septemberkisses]

the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

#was rereading the hunger games series when this thought hit me like a truck #it beautiful #its haunting #its heartbreaking #its melancholic #quotes #dark academia #books and reading #books & libraries #books #young adult #ya books #young adult books #movies #coming of age #the hunger games #the divergent series #the maze runner #the fault in our stars #musings #midnight musings #thoughts #mine