#the movie itself is bad

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

Y’ALL THE MARKETING TEAM DID PIXAR’S ELEMENTAL SO DIRTY

#knox rambles #Elemental #ITS SO GOOD??????? #ITS GOT SOME FIRE (pun intended) LINES #AND THE TRAILER IS LITERALLY NOTHING LIKE THE MOVIE Y'ALL DONT' UNDERSTAND #I'M FLIPPING TABLES #I SWEAR DISNEY IS JUST TRYING TO OFF PIXAR RN WITH HOW BAD THEIR MARKETING HAS BEEN LATELY #actually i notice marketing in general has just dropped in quality lately but what'eve's #my bro wanted to take me to see it so badly and i couldn't understand why until i watched it like #trust me dudes it's GORGEOUS #AND its got amazing story #like #UGH I'M FISTFIGHTING THE TRAILER #IT LEADS YOU TO BELIEVE THE MOVIE IS ABOUT SOMETHING TOTALLY DIFFERENT #LIKE ITS SO BAD #THE MOVIE ITSELF IS TOP TIER QUALITY #I would say i'm overhyping but then i remember some of the lines and the way the characters and relationship are written and just #no i'm really not overhyping it's actually really good #there's so much mroe going on in that movie than just romance my dude

[r0b0t1me]

hey remember this thing i doodled a while ago. yeah what if i made an animatic with that idea

#my art #rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #rottmnt movie #its an actual krang instead of a dog thing #because in my mind this is way longer #and this is some random one mikey tore out of a mech #after making it beat the shit out of itself with his chains #anyway um ill actually probably never finish this but #i sure can dream #bad future

[aimasup]

sure i COULD ramble about how ai is one of the multiple things that check all the marks of humanity's seven deadly sins but would that be extreme

^^^ possibly insufficiently educated

#the pride the hubris of believing you can do better than innovation and nature by playing god and not in the fun way #the lust it's being used for in so many awful cases #the sloth the way its encouraging everyone to check original sources less before believing anything. Also to not take time to develop skill #the greed its being used for profit without consideration for ethics or fair labour #gluttony. we always have to be faster. shinier. better. no matter if it ends up being less convenient or wonky #the wrath it sows in between people creating more differences to be frustrated over. more hatred #the envy how it takes and takes. always trying to be as clever as the best humans. as beautiful as a real forest or sunset. #do you think the ai wants itself #if this were a scifi movie would we be the bad guys #but this is not a movie and the ai cannot love us. so we cannot love it. and there's that #my post #personal stuff #thinking aloud just silly yapping n jazz 没啥事做就这样咯~ #(￣▽￣)~* #when i was in primary school our textbooks for chinese had short stories and articles to learn about #there was a fictional scifi oneshot about a family in the future going to the zoo #the scifi zoo trip was going great until the zoo's systems went offline for a moment #and it was revealed that all the animals roaming in their enclosures were holograms #the real ones went extinct ages ago #when the computers came back online the holograms returned and there they were #honestly at first I thought it was a bit exaggerating #but I still think about it once in a while

[oreolesbian]

the absolute lack of media literacy from people who haven’t even seen oppenheimer is making my head spin but whatever

#like - every three seconds it’s someone talking about how it’s us military prop or it doesn’t cover the atrocities well etc etc #when a) it is so definitely NOT us propoganda- it is so clearly critiquing the us military and oppenheimer himself #and b) it doesn’t cover every small detail of the impacts of the bomb bc that’s not what the film is about #it is a screenplay adapted from a biography on oppenheimer #it is about him - a biopic - and how he got to the point of making atomic weapons and ends on a note of undeniable horror #it is a movie that constantly bombards you with anxiety bc you have the burden of knowing the future #it is not in any way forgiving anything - it acknowledges the fucked up nature of the situation #hell it’s mostly a courtroom drama that shows how fucked up mccarthyism was #i’m a big history buff - so this plays a lot into it #but y’all have GOT to just stop seeinf things on a surface level and engage with media w/ a deeper mindset of just ‘thing bad’ #anyway - sorry it bothers me a lot #there are genuine criticims that can be leveled at both nolan and this film and i have seen them #im not sitting here calling the end all be all of cinema - but it’s a well made movie w/ something interesting to say and evaluate #not wanting to see it is one thing - by all means - but wringing it through the mud w/ absolutely no knowledge of the actual content of - #the film itself is actively annoying #media literacy #oppenheimer #mini rant

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

they say that if a murderer kills a murderer, the amount of murderers in the world remains the same. this is not applicable to Assassins Georg, who kills twenty murderers each day-

#This Post Is About John Wick. #hes so funny... #im watching the movies finally and theyre comedies lets be honest #adding him to my blorbos list... #i love how he's Genuinely so fucking badass #and keanu plays wick like a pathetic wet cat #like you've got this guy that has everyone scared shitless. he's baba yaga. he's death itself #hard cut to Death Itself and he looks like he's on the verge of tears #he looks like someone killed his do- #killed his- #well. You Know. #he's hyper competent and so cool and he's also just so pathetic somehow? #the ultimate meow meow... #dead wife... dead dog... dead friend... everyone out to get him #everyone so mean to him 💅 #absolutely unprompted #sorry. im watching movies again #(valley girl voice) yah so eyeve just reeely been into moovays latelay <3 #yall ever seen a movie? theyre So Good. movies my beloved #until theres a bad move. then its agony like never before felt #but there are so many good ones... #and i feel the need to Let The World Know every time i watch one! i will proceed to do so!

[blinkpen]

just another cross post

also a random completely tonal whiplash topic wise of 'well now that i'm thinking about where the phrase Pay It Forward comes from-

#sporadic warbling #discussion of hollywood being bad wrt racism casting predators and erasure #i barely remember the movie itself only the positive impact it had on me and how i want to be as a person #so i dont know if i'd rec watching it? #but the gyst is: make it your mission to do surprisingly big favors for three strangers but ask that instead of ever repaying -you- #when they are able/to the best of their ability they also do big favors for 3 total strangers and ask -them- to Pay It Forward as well #and this kind of ripple effect could spread and do so much good and cause miracles to happen to people just out of the blue #even thousands of miles away from the first person to do this in any given chain #u can see how a concept such would inform the largest most influential alter being an almost naively tenderhearted hippie type

[valentronic]

“The real game will begin momentarily… Stay tuned :)”

Costas Mandylor as The Warden in Death Count(2022)

#gifset #robo gifs #< that’s a new one! never thought i’d be posting gifs on here but i couldn’t find any of this character #so i made my own :] #the warden #death count #there’s no way there’s an actual tag for this movie so i’ll tag the actor i guess ?? #costas mandylor #this movie was. strange and not very good but i REALLY enjoyed this character #he’s such a freak i loved how sadistic and yet kind of childish he was like the way he’d smile giddily as he tortured people #as for the movie as a whole it felt very very confused about what point it was even trying to make #liked the concept of a killer game show host having an audience control the fates of the contestants #but the plot itself kind of bogged it down and it was too heavy handed about social media being bad while not making an actual point about i #didn’t mean to turn this into a film review oops

[uncanny-tranny]

There truly isn't a universal answer to what a man and woman "is" and that's where the whole "well, tell me what a man is if you say you are one" spiel falls apart for me. In trying to answer it, you fail to see that gender is not something to be understood empirically - it isnt something you can analyze like you might a hard scientific phenomenon, but gender something that is a tool. Gender is (one) of the languages we use to communicate to others, so like language, there is nuance.

My version of manhood* is one which differs from another man's. We use similar language to describe our malehood, perhaps, but much like language, we will have different dialects which we use. If I were to try to answer what a man "is," I will be informed by my own manhood* and the manhood my culture deems desirable. This is inherently exclusionary because it relies on myself and my culture to be the only "right" ones. I refuse to play this social game because it relies on this exclusionary mindset. Gender is what we humans make of it, and there simply cannot be an "answer" to the question as to what men and women "are." It varies culture to culture, by religion, by race, by a history of colonialism, even, and all of this is ignored, downplayed, and erased, essentially, when one acts like there is a universally-applicable answer to what a gender "is".

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #this feels like gender 101 but it seems like some people are stuck trying to rationalize what 'is' and 'is not' a gender... #...which is pretty devastating to trans *and* cis people. eventually somebody is barred from simply being a man/woman/person... #...for instance drawing the line of 'womanhood' at 'is feminine' excludes butch and gnc trans and cis people intersex people... #...because the definition of feminine has to be exstablished and people *usually* have a definition in mind for what 'is' feminine... #...trans people are correct in saying what their gender is in *part* because there IS no correct answer to being a man/woman/person/ect... #...if there is to be no correct answer how then can you be wrong in saying what your gender is? #this is why trans inclusion is so threatening because there is recognition that people should be allowed to just *be*... #...and to *be* without constraints without expectations without conforming without conventionality or assimilation #so yes i am a man*. but i will not answer what makes me one. the premise itself is faulty #and you don't have to answer what makes you a man or woman or person or whatever else to anybody too #(and anyway when people ask that question it's always soooo fruedian. it's always been a source of discomfort) #(like in movies with a ~scary transsexual~ where a psychiatrist will come on screen/stage to explain transsexuality. very odd indeed) #(99% of the time in my experience all this is done in worse-than-bad faith and as a 'gatcha') #(as though a cis person would give a 'legit' answer to what makes them a man/woman. a legit answer doesn't exist really) #oh and this is also why xenogender and 'genderweirdos'/'genderfreaks' are completely understandable *and* valid :) #i say genderweirdos and genderfreaks with complete love and sincerity but i have seen people reclaim those narratives for themselves #ig i'm a genderfreak. i'm a gender weirdo. what the genderhell am i doing here? (radiohead if creep was more trans) #if anybody reads all these tags you deserve a medal

[u5an5]

Am I the only one that every time I get myself into new fandom I just sigh, knowing fully well that I just got next 20+ x reader, y/n, x Oc!whateverthefuck or just any form of self insert tags to blacklist?

#as aegosexual its specific kind of hell #“i dont have problem with smut (for me other forms of fics too but its just preferences) as long as IM not part of it” is #quite literally a definition. im physically incapable of reading those without having imagining that instead of y/n there #is ANY character that appears in lore its based on and feel the urge to put it into google docs and “correct” it just so im actually able t #enjoy it. not that selfinsert is anything fundamentally bad. i just treat it sort of like kink that i don't understand #i dont want to understand and DEFINITELY don't want to see it #tldr: i need to blacklist way more fnaf movie related tags than i ever wanted to #and finding them all is harder than you think #last time i had to add TEN SEPARATE TAGS #for ONE person #aegosexual #ace struggles #banning y/n from appearing in post itself doesn't work that well cause day/night exists #acespec #I JUST WROTE 'aego'... in tags and got THREE SEPARATE PROPOSITIONS of self insert #WHY

[james-stark-the-writer]

started watching A Murder At The End of the World and i'm only like 4 minutes in rn but oh my fucking god, they already did the impossible, they made synthesizing a literal audience not only not annoying but actually intriguing and effective. holy shit.

#james talks #james watches stuff #a murder at the end of the world #if you're new here or have never consumed any media: synthesizing a literal audience is one of the most annoying things anything can do #it is at best distracting and at worst condescending and grating bc it assumes and assigns audience reactions and interpretations #and it also REEKS of a lack of faith in the material itself to be able to speak for itself #most of the time it's done for no real purpose and the few times it has a narrative purpose it's done awfully #even a movie i ADORE like SCREAM (1996) was not immune to this. #the one single flaw in that movie to me is Kenny repeating the 'behind you' joke. not only is it not funny the second time but it's— #synthesizing the audience by making the characters an audience to the same movie as us and telling us how we should be reacting. #another movie that tries to do this and fails miserably is like Halloween: Resurrection which tries to make some commentary— #on media as exploitative entertainment and the audience as willing participants and equally culpable in the continuation of trauma but the— #execution of it is absolutely horrible and that's even beyond how bad the rest of the movie is. #every time the characters are watching the same media or there's an actual audience in the media it's literally never gone well— #at least as far as i have experienced. but this is the first time a literal audience in anything has actually worked bc it's like— #right in the opening and it's the audience actually getting invested in the story so THAT audience responding the same way actually WORKS #actually borderline genius tbh

[thepixarau]

Marketing did Elemental so fucking dirty im begging y’all to watch it it’s genuinely so good pls don’t let these terrible ads fool you

#elemental #pixar elemental #pixar #I fucking hate disney for purposefully failing to promote these new movies #and then blaming the bad box office numbers on the quality of the movie itself

[itspileofgoodthings]

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#the thing is. and it doesn’t matter #but like. Ken’s love for Barbie was played as a joke but it also wasn’t #and I just think that his charisma and love should have been allowed to center her more and sort of …. I don’t know #sweep her up on the wave of his charm as she headed out of Barbieland into the real world #it didn’t even HAVE to make it full on romance #because I think the sort of splitting up of Barbie and Ken as this joined identity was good and necessary #and she had this journey to becoming human she had to take first #and tbh I think it would have worked if they had ended the movie as friends #with only the hint of something more #but the simple truth is that the most consistently human thing in the movie as far as SHE was concerned #was that he really loved her! and being loved that way. Is part of being human and even part of becoming human #it’s to feel that warmth and understand it #the Gloria thing didn’t really carry enough emotional weight for me. nor did the vague girlbossery. The creator was shoehorned in #or even the touching (in itself) montage of mothers and daughters at the end #but the realest relationship Barbie had the closest thing she had to it was being loved by Ken #and if they both became human? and she stepped into that space with that warmth of love supporting her #and making her step into this wider world? that would have been something #and the thing is yes yes. He’s basically the Michael Scott of Ken’s. He’s doing the things he shouldn’t be doing in reaction to it #and he has to learn and NOT do that and realize he’s kenough #but that stupid line at the end? Where Gloria’s like ‘honey he stole your house etc. don’t feel BAD for him’ #rings hollow. especially because the General Public DID feel bad for him. He was the only one to feel bad for!!!!!!!!! #so Greta and co. Tried to make this Point about rejecting the guy who thinks you Owe him Something #But Ryan’s Ken was not really that guy! He just wasn’t! The core is too pure the love is too real! so the ending is just kinda mean #and it de-centralized her! Ironically enough!!!! Ken WANTED her to have the world. His best self did! #the movie should have let him give it to her. that is really it at the end of the day #barbie

[beif0ngs]

#A GOOD BOY

#The Bad Guys #DreamWorks #animationedit #dreamworksedit #filmedit #Mr. Wolf #*mine #i love how this scene was the main reason that most people wanted to check out this movie in the first place #or at least for those who still had some reservations about the movie premise itself #and honestly y'know what that's a 100% valid reason

[mundifinis]

i pray the day never comes when tiktok discovers gregg araki's films (specifically the teenage apocalypse trilogy ones) because the amount of discourse i can already picture.... oh my god

#“actually it's problematic all these bad things happened to these queer people!!! it's bad representation!” #tell me you missed the point of these films #sorry this isn't h*artstopper..... #like i think these films #and other films apart of the new queer cinema genre (not new as an adjective to describe NEW modern queer movies #but the genre itself) are important to watch and learn #because a) they're actually good and show the context for queer history #but also b) it's authentic and usually made by queer people and they didn't have to worry about appeasing to cishet society #but like most of them would cause tiktok's head to explode and frankly i do not wanna be there for that #can already picture the too many brain dead takes.... #very glad i deleted it though so when that day comes i will not see it! #gregg araki #nowhere #the doom generation #totally fucked up #mysterious skin #the living end #film #ashla.txt #hmm

[nonbinaryeye]

Got to see special early Barbie premiere and nowhere from marketing you could guess what the movie is actually about...

#it was fun it was not bad I have some issues tho? #Like I need to let it sink it in #I am probably a bit disappointed with the plot? Like I'm not even entirely sure what was the underlying message? #I would almost dare to say it does not even have a happy ending or clear resolution of anything #Like execution is fun love the humor and characters just maybe not the plot itself so much? #Also got to the special early screaning thanks to cosplay connection did not actually pay for it #barbie spoilers #barbie movie #Barbie review #Eye ramble

[thisisadonaldduckblognow]

the way i rewatch any part of rottmnt and once again come away from canon leo wondering where the actual heck are people getting this “oohhhh he only thinks he’s good for self sacrifice or as a tool, he has absolutely zero self worth whatsoever” instead of the canon version who’s kind of a manipulative lil stinker and KNOWS he has stuff to bring to the table but isn’t sure how to be Seen

it’s not that he thinks he’s worthless or not wanted. i fuckin promise you that about rise leo. he does not seriously think he is unloved or unwanted or ~one mistake away from being dropped by his own family~ or whatever

what he IS is rejection-sensitive in the way that makes any time he fails feel like the end of the world to HIM (setting aside that time he messed up and it did literally trigger the near-apocalypse and near deaths of him and his family lol), so he’d rather not try than risk messing up

#rottmnt #if i woobified raph the way ppl do leo itd be like 3k word essay on how #idk #the ms cuddles prank was actually extremely cruel and insensitive and CLEARLY why raph had so many trust issues #esp w his dad laughing at him etc etc etc etc like #i dont get it i really dont!!!! #like even as far as the movie goes raph kinda. suffered.... more. yk. #im not big on suffering olympics but like. #raph also self sacrificed and got physically beat up in the big alien fight #AND tortured AND mutated AND mind probed AND controlled into hurting his own family #raph literally starts the movie trying to explain to leo how it is HIS JOB to keep their whole family safe and ready for the next struggle #his entire finale arc is about how tied into the identity of protector and carrying them all he really is and how bad that is on him #fandom makes me so mad when the canon material itself i always enjoy and want to pick apart even for leo #(who frankly im burnt out on! bc of the overwhelming attention he always gets!)