#surprisingly good film

[the-wolfbats]

"What do you know about this world?"

#disneyedit #film in 2022 #Strange World #movies #it's really a beautiful movie and I did get used to the blobby people #Dennis Quaid is a surprisingly good voice actor #as are Jaboukie and Gabrielle Union #I love Lucy but uh no not this #her character's design tho #👀👀👀

[redladydeath]

Do you think when Alastor brings Vox to the hotel he gives him a job like Husk and Niffty, or is he so far gone that he's useless and Alastor just makes babysitting him every else's problem?

Yeah, he'd have a job– whether he's consistently good at it is another matter. He can be their handyman. It's honestly a lot of fun for him; Val and Velvette never let him handle electronics anymore and trying to fix things is like a fun, engaging puzzle for him. Someone lowkey needs to sit with him and periodically remind him what he's trying to do as he works, but still.

Half the time the things he's trying to repair end up irreparably fried, but Charlie is nothing if not endlessly patient. She makes SUCH a big deal out of even the little victories– it really brings out Vox's craving for praise– so he tries his best to stay focused and not break things for her sake.

#vox helps alastor film the commercial from episode one and the camerawork is even shittier than it was in canon #the editing's surprisingly good though #it's weird what vox will remember and forget how to do on any given day #randomly accessed memories (RAM) #redlady speaks #hazbin hotel #vox #charlie

[hardoncaulfield]

the master and commander movie is good actually?!? only problem is that Russell Crowe is too Manly and Heroic to pull off Jack's outrageous dad jokes -- other than that its like ?? a good adaptation? did not expect

#soliloquy #russell crowe is a surprisingly good jack other than not being jolly enough #paul bettany is a good stephen but film stephen is like 2/4ths of the whole -- which is fair bc you can't bring over a character #as thoroughly in a 2hr film as you can in a whole series of books -- or even 1 tbh #sooooo glad they found a way to include the autosurgery scene though #so interesting to see where subsequent boat media is taking from this film #the way the sea battles are filmed in particular -- clearly influencing black sails #maybe even potc too #aubreyad

[shapelytimber]

I’m still watching way too much Hammer movies with @quijicroix​- so anyway we made another uquiz !

which one of Baron Frankenstein's boyfriends are you ? (link)

Frankenstein is the cuntiest man alive, so sexist he's gay, his main appeal is how divorceable he is <3 And yes I know they're his ""assistants""... but it's way more fun to read them as queer

Hope you’ll enjoy :)

#those were surprisingly good ! #except the third one omg- 'the evil of Frankenstein' was boring sorry :/ #Peter Cushing #frankenstein #hammer films #hammer horror #hammer frankenstein #horror film #the curse of frankenstein #the revenge of frankenstein #the evil of frankenstein #frankenstein created woman #frankenstein must be destroyed #frankenstein and the monster from hell #queer #uquiz #personality quiz #shitpost #not art

[mikimeiko]

Zombieland: Double Tap | Directer by Ruben Fleischer (2019)

#zombieland #zombieland double tap #surprisingly good #like i was prepared for it to be an uninspired ok film and IT WASN'T #for once a ten years after sequel was actually a good idea #movies #films i watched in 2022 #i made this #i just want a tag for the things i personally put out into the world

[zippocreed501]

Isn't she beautiful?

Christine (1983)

#christine #surprisingly goreless but good horror film #horror #plymouth fury

[whitelighter2013]

If the movie, In a Violent Nature, blew chunks, what movie would you recommend people watch instead? Horror movie wise.

hiii im not a horror expert or anything but i have a couple recs :)

i loveddd braindead (1992) for awesome nasty gory grossness and its fun and exciting and silly. definitely recommend watching with friends if you can

thanksgiving (2023) has a really stupid plot but it's a good slasher and successfully grossed me out a couple times so extra points for that

christmas evil (1980) (starring fiona apple's dad, of all people) surprised me with how much i liked it, it's not super gory if i remember right but it's definitely entertaining

barbarian (2022) if you haven't seen it it's best to go in blind but its so good and really funny at times but it's also genuinely unsettling

house of wax (2004) is also really fun even though it has terrible reviews there are some really cool effects (though i watched it a couple years ago and dont remember it too well)

#i know one of my comments about in a violent nature was about the ableism and house of wax also has a pretty ableist origin story iirc #and while it's definitely not something i'm excusing i have lower standards for political correctess and awareness for older movies #even though 20 years ago was not that long there are definitely different standards. i think especially in art #and especially in independent film that's getting surprisingly good reviews. #asks

[somewhere-and-once]

#hammer dracula #dracula #van helsing #vancula #hammer films #christopher lee #peter cushing #I'm in a surprisingly good mood today

[tamaharu]

What isekai are you reading if you don’t mind me asking?

okay... but youre not allowed to make fun of me... its called "50 tea recipes from the duchess." korean woman gets fired, gets isekai'd into the body of a duchess who is timid to the point of patheticness and everybody fuckin hates her. is like uggghh well i dont care if im hated as long as i have my special interest: TEA. and with her autistic girl swag (label pending) she makes both the society and her cold intimidating husband love her. 70% of it is her infodumping about tea to the delight of everyone around her.

#ask me no questions and ill tell you no lies #started reading it on tapas bc i was bored and it was free. embarrassingly got invested. #more uhh romance isekai? rather than like an action based one. its cute enough. not really groundbreaking but i like the FL. #we did manage to achieve a conversation between the protag and her body swapped soul so that was fun. #generally i dont support ppl who go on abt art that they only engage w for mindless fun or whatever bc theyre usually talking abt fuckin. #idk marvel movies or the latest army propaganda films or whatever. and generally the media they talk abt verges to harmful. #but i am an avid supporter of reading dumb shit you know is silly. all art has value including stupid stuff. #other dumb stuff ive read: at least two ~sexier~ manga/manhwa. former had surprisingly decent world building. #latter had an INCREDIBLY TOXIC cast of characters. it was absolutely fascinating. #those are the more embarrassing ones and the ones i WONT be dropping titles for. #others include furry shoujo isekai; aromantic shoujo; mousou telepathy (ive mentioned that before) #gag comedy where a dude gets ~magicked~ into a girls body but the joke is hes so lazy that he doesnt give a shit (mood) #stupid bl manga with a hot fat character who is very much the main object of desire #a lot of it is manga/manhwa bc its easier to get into something kinda dumb if its bolstered by having nice visuals rather than like a book #or whatever where you have to slog through it with your imagination alone. even when reading 'dumb' art i try to engage it properly bc i #very sincerely believe that every story has some form of meaning if youre just willing to engage with it #(<- plot of orv btw for an ACTUALLY good story) #like i said the sexi manga has surprisingly good worldbuilding. the toxic story the sexu manhwa was telling was earnestly fascinating. #idk! sorry i know you were just looking for the name but while i do consider it just kinda silly its broader impact has a deep effect on me #this is why i love orv❤️ please read orv. while i already had these fond feelings prior to reading orv it really cemented it for me. #oh and i read romance novels sometimes. i like stuff thats cute and silly! idk. youve been on my blog you can see my icon this isnt news.

[tigresslanzhu]

Communicating With Mizuki

Buster: Come on, guys, THINK! Where do we find a spinning wheel for our Sleeping Beauty show?

Mizuki: Souda! [I know, or that’s it, or I have an idea]

Buster: Meezki, how can you possibly think of Starry at a time like this?

Ash: [rolling her eyes] You SO need to study that little yellow book again!

#sing 2021 #sing 2016 #sing buster moon #sing Mizuki #sing ash #Ash has learned Japanese as many of her fans are surprisingly overseas #The Q-Tees have had an influence on her #and it’s a good thing with Artica and Mizuki in the Troupe #Buster pronounces Mizuki’s name as Meezki #don’t try and convince me otherwise! #that’s it I’m so getting him the babble app Artica announced #after she found out about the you are smelly like toenails incident from the first film

[asmallcafethatslove]

Melb trip hehe :-)

#lune’s kouign amann was sooooooo delicious & I’ve been dreaming about her ever since!!! waited in like for like 10 mins though which was 👍🏻 #bc I hate queuing and I avoid it at all costs #the state library was a literal dream!!! it’s so so soooo beautiful and I could just stare at it all day #the la la land reminded me of the movie :’) #Lulu’s ckt was soooooo sooooo delicious and hearty but so heaty at the same time #my friend asked us to try the jam donuts and I’m not a big fan of jam but I liked it and t’was delicious #ACMI was also fun!!! and mork chocolate was heaven 😌 #wished I could explore more and went outside of the city but I wanted to explore the city first since it was quite spaced out and all over #but it also means that I have a reason to come back :D #tram system made me realize how much I appreciate how simple our tram system are here lol #but weather was surprisingly really good too despite the numerous complaints abt how it’s unpredictable! #my friends and I were also saying how we were glad that we didn’t study here? as much as there are stuff to do but everything is so pricey #and I feel like we’d have a diff mindset #p #photo on bottom left taken on film!!!!!’

[blistering-typhoons]

Vincent is Tim Burton's only good stop-motion film I think.

#'oh but what about'- *buzzer noise* girl that's henry selick #i like burton's live action films waaaayyyy more than his stop motion #there actually feels something creative there- not the recent ones naturally #but things like Big Fish and Batman and the like #his stop motion ventures are very juvenile? which is a very strange thing to say about a horror stop motion #and i don't mean crude #just generic perhaps- surprisingly so #whereas i can sing henry selick's praises all day lmao #anyways vincent is one of if not his very firsts #and it's actually really good go watch it

[ubourgeois]

Split (2016) dir. M. Night Shyamalan

#Split #M Night Shyamalan #baffled by how this is one of the few Consensus Good Shyamalan films when it's seriously one of his weaker efforts #also surprisingly trashy for him! why are all these teen girls in such states of undress? you can blame Blumhouse but like

[mariocki]

Jacqueline Pearce may or may not have information to sell, as potential informant Miss Brown in Man in a Suitcase: Sweet Sue (1.7, ITC, 1967)

#fave spotting #jacqueline pearce #servalan #man in a suitcase #blakes 7 #blake's 7 #classic tv #itc #1967 #sweet sue #<3 #had absolutely zero memory of Jac being in this ep #i remembered her OTHER ep very well indeed (it's a series highlight) #she filmed this much smaller support role first (this was just the third ep in production) but apparently bonded with Richard Bradford #both had some experience of the Actors Studio in the US‚ and their friendship was probably instrumental in her being cast as the main guest #for the later Somebody Loses Somebody... Wins? (the final episode of the first production block) #she's very good here in a minor part as a woman who was badly beaten but then dropped charges against her attacker after a private #settlement; McGill pushes her hard to get to the truth and she perfectly sells the bitterness and resignation of someone who's come to know #life as a series of squalid financial exchanges. notably McGill seems discomfited by their interaction when she finally leaves #it is a surprisingly small role considering Jac had already made The Reptile and Plague of the Zombies for Hammer #and so might have understandably have expected a more significant role (as in her second appearance) #but naturally she approaches it with typical professionalism and talent

[kimmkitsuragi]

i just watched that gay british royal family movie and it was so funny like sometimes movies are so bad they become fun. you know?

#ive been watching no-brain movies recently to have something to make fun of #but surprisingly mean girls was actually good and fun (yes i actually hadnt watched that before. yeah) #i will watch legally blonde soon #the only teenage bullshit movie i had actually watched was clueless and heathers which is an actual parody of the genre lol #now im like. yes i may be a filmbro soul but i want to watch a bunch of stupid films now. thanks #will probably get bored soon but welp #🗒

[mycological-mariner]

I’m so mad I just watched the first episode of Hornblower. Only now! After finishing my dissertation! When my dissertation topic was literally the portrayal of epilepsy in film and television

#I’m FUMING #the guy who got cut loose? I think he’s dead (better fucking not be btw but he’s got exposure and dehydration to deal with + a head injury) #that’s a seizure! those were seizures! #and it’s implied he gets them fairly regularly???? #I know what a seizure looks and sounds like THAT was a seizure #I’m so mad. the show NEVER came up when I was looking for seizures on screen (in fiction) #I’m so mad because A- that could have added SO SO much to my paper! epilepsy/seizures in a historical WAR drama?!?? #and it’s NOT the main focus???? #and B- I missed the valid opportunity to watch the show lol #also C - it was a surprisingly GOOD portrayal! like holy fuck?? #I have had to sift through DECADES of film and TV representations of epilepsy/seizures #and most of it is. it’s really bad. they get so much wrong or just straight up dehumanise the character #I’ve seen a lot and there’s soooo many details that are just WRONG. #and yeah were both seizures scenes in Hornblower perfect? nah but they were clearly better than other ones #for example YOU DONT HIT SOMEONE ON THE HEAD WITH A TILLER HANDLE WHEN HES SEIZING #so if he didn’t die from THAT then it’s definitely starvation/exposure #holy shit actually thinking about it that character has got to wake up in a horror story #last thing he’ll remember is being on the launch boat with the crew and the NEXT is waking up in THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN ALONE #that’s scary #I’ve had so many seizures and tha. #that’s scary. even if you’re not loved from where it began it’s TERRIFYING #there was so much there I could have talked about!!!! FUCK #in other news I just started the Hornblower tv show #god I’m so stressed out lol he better not die #(he will I’m sorry but I’ve seen enough epilepsy on tv to KNOW he dies. bury your epileptics lmao) #fucking. hell! #wanna know WHY I watched it AFTER I submitted the diss?? I was saving it as a treat to celebrate submitting the diss with #I was purposely NOT watching the show because I wanted to finish my paper first lmao #FUUUCK #anyways