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filmmakerdreamst · 1 year

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I went to go see if the person who uploaded the entirety of Life With Derek plus Vacation With Derek on YouTube had also uploaded Life With Luca, only to find that either they had deleted their channel or deleted those videos, because they weren’t there anymore :( If I want to watch the show again I’ll need to pay for the Family channel extension on Amazon Prime, which I would rather not do. Amazon loves their paywalls.

Nah they just made it unlisted.

Life with Derek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcESER0d7U0&list=PLiX9FA_nmKnFdnmvEt3a8Jfu7iYXpBVPX

Vacation with Derek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxllq0ueEuA&list=PLiX9FA_nmKnH7v0-zfLluFWdFY3KkY3Vw

Life with Luca: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dq2U6K_aTw&list=PLiX9FA_nmKnHy6moTZ4GySd-XVFYacmQt

#i love asks!#send me more!#its been a while since you sent some #have you watched life with luca #tell me what you think #dasey #life with derek #life with luca #tv show #film #ask #question #answer

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sga-owns-my-soul · 7 months

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thanks @spurious and @colonelshepparrrrd for the tag!

List 7 comfort films and tag 7 people:

1. Iron Giant

2. Ferngully: The Last Rainforest

3. Hunger Games

4. Easy A

5. Mean Girls

6. uhhhhhhhhhh idk i don't watch movies 😅

7. not a movie but Stargate Atlantis bc it's my Ultimate Comfort Media

uhhh idk who has been tagged so sorry if you've already been tagged @frostysfrenzy @the-mushroom-faerie @lightthewaybackhome @books-space-things @stinalotte and anyone else who wants to do it!!!

#tag game #comfort films #this was actually hard to come up with bc i never watch movies #i absolutely prefer tv shows #and i almost just listed comfort shows instead #i got 5 tho so #that's good enough #and obviously sga is included bc u can't ask me about comfort media and NOT have me include it #sga

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project-sekai-facts · 5 months

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Nene probably still calls ruis mom aunty tbh. It's very standard practice in most of Asia. I mean it's still one thing if they met when she was older (still would not be particularly weird though), but it's the norm when she's called her that since childhood and known her that long. There shouldn't be a reason to stop. (I have lived in Japan but I myself am south asian, so grain of salt here, but I'm pretty sure of it. One thing I can say with complete certainty is that words like aunt don't necessarily convey familial relation especially when used by kids, people are a lot more casual with their use.)

Yeah, the only reason I specified “as a child” because it’s never been used in present day even if it’s most likely that she still uses it.

#it’s pretty common practice in some places outside asia as well like a lot of people call their friend’s parents auntie/uncle where I’m from #and i hear it in foreign films and tv shows sometimes #asks

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letmetellyouaboutmyfeels · 11 months

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My issue is - how would the powers that be at abc even catch on to this? I don't want to count on this even getting on their radar :/

I'm not in the film/TV industry so I'm not a good person to ask but I will say that at least one of the stars of this TV show saw what she said and unfollowed her over it. It's highly likely he told at the very least his other cast members, and also highly likely that other crew and cast members saw that post. The head honchos at ABC might not see it, but the people in charge of hiring and casting for 9-1-1 itself are highly likely to, and that actress has no contract for season seven yet since they haven't even written season seven due to the WGA strike (BTW, SAG-AFTRA is 99% likely to strike at this point and DGA will most likely follow, so we're in it for the long haul, folks). That means there is no legal obligation to hire her again for the next season. And casting directors, producers, and others on a smaller level follow the policy of the overall company. So while I doubt the studio heads of ABC will hear about this, ABC has shown a precedent of zero-tolerance policy for such behavior, and that means that everyone who is on an ABC show is going to follow that precedent, including the people in charge of casting, hiring, and re-hiring for 911.

#mads answers things #I need to stop answering asks about this but anyway #again: not a TV/film person! also not a lawyer!#but given that one of the stars of the show knows what she did #I'm sure others involved in the show saw it as well #and it is wildly easy (and less of a PR liability) to not hire her back and not bring back her character #note how even though it was on the FOX network the moment Cocoa made her comments 911 stopped having Carla around as much #she's barely been back since then #so I think we can trust that Marisol will not be coming back

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t4tmetalsonic · 5 days

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you. individual with masters degree on astrophysics. what are your thoughts on Christopher Nolan's hit film Interstellar

I liked it!! I'm always a slut for sci fi movies that have slow wide shots of space and futuristic/alien looking planets and ships (Blade Runner, Arrival and Dune come to mind as well).

The visuals of the black hole were incredible, the fact they created new CGI software just to get the physics behind it right too?? Good shit. Did you know 3 scientific papers were published as a result of this CGI bc it revealed new things abt black holes irl? We love to see it!!

I actually liked the ending too. We have no clue how it would be like inside a black hole so yeah why couldn't it take you back in time? And inside a bookshelf? Sure it was weird but like, that's the point!!

I alsoo rlly like that the effects were actually done FIRST and they filmed with the effects behind the actors rather than using green screens and adding them after. The TV show 1899 does something similar and I feel it's more effective with the lighting and looks more natural.

Overall, 8/10! I liked it a lot, the music is gorgeous (very important to me) and I would recommend it to others :]

#my 4th year project was actually about black holes but only using the basic schwarzschild and kerr models #the one in interstellar would have been a kerr black hole (rotating) but it also had an accretion disc #i was ignoring those existed skjhgdkfjg #also i love learning abt how they filmed movies and tv shows i find that so interesting #like the sandscreens and infra red cameras in dune. v cool #i just loooove sci fi movies tbh there should be more of them. in general #but like the specific ones i enjoy LOL #ANYWAY. THANK YOU FOR THE ASK!!!#fenn.post

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innocentlymacabre · 5 days

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Happy Storyteller Saturday!

How would your main wip change if it was a short story instead of a book? (Or vice versa!)

Thanks so much for the ask! My main WIP at the moment is The Crescent of Fools and Forgotten Time, which is a feature film, so I'll modify the question and answer for if it was a show; maybe something in the 20 minute episode range.

As a movie, I wanted it to hit the roughly 1.5 hour range because that's what felt right for a comedic fantasy heist. I love what I put out but converting it to a show would open up some interesting possibilities I haven't explored.

I'd show Lott and Jayce on a completely unrelated heist to establish them as thieves and explore how the thieving guild works in this world.

I'd add in a visit to Lott's family - maybe even a whole episode - because I think his past is really interesting.

I'd stretch out the final showdown (not commenting on who it's between for the sake of spoilers) just a little bit because I'd love to have a visually explosive spectacle.

I think Amara is a really interesting character and her doddering about in her workshop could be given more time.

Lucille would go on to recruit more than she does in the movie as it stands at the moment.

I think a show format really just allows you to flesh out the world some more beyond just the main plotline simply because it gives you more time to do so. There's also minor arcs created by breaking down the story into each episodes which lends itself to greater possibilities, and you can even pause the overall arc for an episode or two while you go off exploring something else.

Jayce and Lott find themselves in the twisted grasp of Lucille Carmine, one of the most dangerous Overlords of the criminal world, in a fantasy-heist, splicing the thrill of walking the edge of a knife with fantastical malevolence.

This is a feature film, the script for which I've submitted to a competition where the grand prize is the winner's movie being fully funded and produced!! You get a say in who this is and literally all you have to do is read the script and give your honest opinions (psst your honest opinion is that you love my movie).

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blood-choke · 5 months

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My girlfriend and I are watching Bound (1996) right now because of your recommendation, and you were SO RIGHT. She and I are foaming at the mouth over this film

YES!!!!! i'm so excited for you. it's such a fun film to experience for the first time. they put so much thought and love into it, and they really fought for it, too, despite the MPAA originally trying to restrict it with an NC-17 rating. and shout out to susie bright who was a sex consultant on the film o7 check out this interview with her & this one with jennifer tilly. it was susie's input that really made corky and violet authentic butch/femme lesbians on screen.

#i love listening to jennifer tilly and gina gershon talk about the film #also they reunited on the chucky tv show and recreated one of the iconic scenes and theyre both still so [redacted to preserve my diginity]#i dont really care much for most of the wachowskis more recent work at all LOL but this movie. it speaks to me....#again i think a big part of it is susie bright's input & their willingness to listen to her and take her feedback #particularly with the intimate scenes #i hope you enjoyed it!!!!!#ask #jezidel

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blackswaneuroparedux · 10 months

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Anonymous asked: Are you a Mission Impossible fan? I’m not a Tom Cruise fan but it’s great dumb fun. And it has a cast full of talented (and beautiful) women. You seem the type to enjoy a good adrenaline rush of a flick (I’m sure the French have a fancy cinematic term for that)

I am unashamedly both a Mission Impossible fan - of the television series and the Cruise movies - and a Tom Cruise fan.

Obviously being born decades after the original Mission Impossible tv series created by Bruce Geller was first aired in the 60s and 70s, I only had the pleasure of watching the box set episodes later in life. I have to say I loved that series. I loved when they hatched the plan. Loved the fake masks. And of course I loved the Lao Schifrin music - one of the most recognisable signature themes in music and TV history.

Classic television has a bit of a blessing and a curse working on it. Most shows of the Golden Age of television didn't have a structured narrative through-line. The idea that one episode will build upon the next is a pretty modern concept. As such, Mission Impossible had a prescribed routine. Mr. Briggs in Season One and then Mr. Phelps in the subsequent seasons drive to a random location, find a hidden mission briefing that self destructs, discusses the plan with the team, and then they execute the mission.

There wasn't much variation to the structure. Thankfully by season three, they got rid of the silly waste of time where Jim Phelps selects his team - because aside from the random guest the team was virtually the same from episode to episode. The thing that changed was how the team pulled off their mission. It was always a mixture of subterfuge and fancy fakery, but it was always exciting and the great team of writers, directors, and the dynamic cast always kept the audience just enough out of the loop for there to be plenty of surprises and suspense.

It's not that Season One wasn't any good, but you could really feel the show was still working itself out. Steven Hill as original team leader Daniel Briggs is decent enough, but he's just not as interesting a performer as Peter Graves as Jim Phelps. Graves is indelible to the show. But it's not just who leads the team that made the show - it was the great actors who made up the series regulars. Greg Morris as Barney Collier and Peter Lupus as Willy Armitage are always great as the tech masters and inside guys who narrowly complete their tasks with milliseconds to spare. Husband and Wife duo Martin Landau as Rollin Hand and Barbara Bain as Cinnamon Carter really helped cement the show through the first three seasons.

So when I got around to watching Tom Cruise’s first Mission Impossible film I was a little miffed. It seemed like the story bumped off his team - a staple of the original tv series - within the first act and the rest of the film is on Cruise control ie it’s just about Ethan Hunt. But slowly as the other MI films came out I was won over. In fact in my mind I tend to think there are two Impossible Missions Force (IMF) operating in two different universes, just because the dynamics are different. That way I don’t waste time whining on which is better or poke holes in the Cruise films for its lack of purity to the original series. I prefer to enjoy both on their own separate terms.

To me Thomas Cruise Mapother IV is the biggest movie star in our current culture of excess entertainment. That’s my gut feeling. The definition of a movie star, in my personal opinion, has changed dramatically. There was a time and period when the movie star was defined by the name alone. If a Hollywood star had a film coming out people didn’t know what the film was, they just saw it because of who was in it: Will Smith or Jim Carrey or even Stallone and Schwarzenegger. No one else comes close.

The two exceptions might be Leonardo DiCaprio or Keanu Reeves. I think of the two Reeves comes closest because of the success of the franchises he’s been in - The Matrix and the John Wick franchises - but he’s not a movie star. What I mean he doesn’t behave like a movie star in the sense that he is not immersed in the film business as a business nor does he cultivate his star power (he prefers to travel around on a bus and sit on park benches looking forlorn) in the way Tom Cruise does.

Interestingly there are even few directors that can open a movie on name alone. Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino, and Steven Spielberg can still get people into the cinema based on their name alone, but the movie star, not so much. Audiences today want IP. They want franchises. However Tom Cruise has navigated all of that and consistently shifted.

Cruise’s dedication to big screen spectacle, also offset by interesting asides like American Made, and very underrated sci-fi and high concept films like Minority Report, Oblivion (very underrated) and Edge of Tomorrow, brings a sense of anticipation to his films. Maybe we’re there because we expect stunts, or we know that he’ll give nothing less than 100%, or it’s an example of a creatively driven project, rather than a marketing machine, but we still show up. It may not always go right, like the misfiring The Mummy or Jack Reacher (where he felt miscast in both), but Cruise has his sure-fires and his surprises.

When a movie like The Mummy doesn’t work out, he reimagines Mission: Impossible, and he is able to take what everyone loved in the 80s about Top Gun and magnify that to what the audience wants today. Honestly, did anyone expect Top Gun: Maverick to be the box office behemoth it has been? I expected it to impress, to be a good example of Cruise’s fervent passion for as much practical work as possible (as opposed to doing 95% with CGI), but after 36 years, that it’s his highest grossing film ever - and the highest-grossing movie of 2022 - is impressive.

It helps that he almost never 100 percent disappears into his roles; we still get that Tom Cruise smile and stare no matter who he’s playing. And the fact that he still looks like 1980s-era Tom Cruise only adds to the lustre. Indeed when Tom Cruise does it, whether that’s fighting for justice in a courtroom, making cocktails, jumping off a roof, flying a fighter jet, or even singing “I Want To Know What Love Is” shirtless while wearing leather pants, we’re like, ‘Sure. I buy that.’ He’s relatable even when what he’s doing on screen is so far removed from our reality that it’s insane. There is a grounded matinee idol musk to Cruise’s presence on screen that seems to transcend class and political divides. He’s America’s hero and the nice guy who is tough with a sensitive side, as well as the kind of wisdom that impresses but never intimidates. He’s Hollywood’s fine wine.

Tom Cruise is not only the biggest movie star working today, he’s the last movie star working today.

There are plenty of actors who people recognise, and the right combination of actor and role can still be explosive, like Keanu Reeves. But “Tom Holland as Spider-Man” is a very different thing than “Tom Holland as anything except Spider-Man,” and to some degree, that’s by design. Studios would rather own the biggest part of the equation. Tom Cruise doesn’t need your IP, though. Tom Cruise is the IP. People buy a ticket to see Tom Cruise, and they do that because Tom Cruise has figured out how to be the most Tom Cruise that any Tom Cruise could ever hope to be, and every time out, he does his very best to turn the Tom Cruise up just a little bit more.

When he was younger, Cruise built his career by trusting himself and his image to the very best directors he could find, slowly refining a certain kind of alpha masculine ideal. What makes his late-era stardom more remarkable is how he only transitioned into action movies once he was in his 40s, and he has pushed himself harder than arguably any action star of any age in the last few decades. When you see a Tom Cruise film and you see an insane stunt, part of the kick is knowing that’s really him and that he’s entering his fourth decade of being an icon.

That Cruise almost died after becoming entangled in his parachute in the water in Top Gun was somewhat irrelevant, because it was this first Mission: Impossible where Tom Cruise: Stunt Man was also born. From the infamous wire descent, to leaping out of a window to outrun a surge of water from the restaurant he’d just blown a window out from, Cruise was in on the action.

If audiences didn’t quite get that dedication to being visibly involved in the action then, they certainly would by the time he made the more action packed second film, directed by John Woo. M:I 2 cemented the lure of the Cruise stunt. From mountain leaps, to motorcycle rides and more, Cruise set a new expectation for his work going forward. It was a string to his bow, a selling point, and it has proven a tool of forgiveness and resurrection even as his career has threatened to implode under off screen contention.

I think that’s why we rush to go and see the next Mission Impossible film. It’s not for the thread-bare plot or the fantastic action - although it’s better than most action franchises these days. But it’s the mind blowing stunts which we know is not CGI driven nor is done by a stunt double. It’s done by Tom Cruise himself.

He is the Tom Brady/Mark Cavendish/Ronaldo/Roger Federer (delete as appropriate) of movie stars, not just because of his success, but the longevity of his career, as he has found ways to adapt to each change in the industry while also not giving in to what others have had to do.

The key thing is he adapts just enough to make it fresh. The Mission Impossible films are a case in point. Even as the stunts have got bigger, more dangerous, and more spectacular (as all franchise films must it seems), the characters portraits and arcs have got more intimate and more relatable.

In the MI movies he is of course super spy Ethan Hunt but he’s not super-human. But Tom Cruise’s secret is that even when appearing borderline super-human on screen, there’s still an air about him that makes the viewer want to be him or be with him and believe that’s possible. There’s an old-school debonair swagger and a hot everyman to him that many movie stars lack. Dwayne Johnson is many things, including a mountain of a man and a brilliant business person, but few of us could carry that off or believe that what he’s doing on screen is something we could replicate. Inspire, sure, but we could never be him. With each film the character is finding it harder and harder to be cocky and confident. There is a world weariness etched on his strained face. He barely wins fights and often he relies on others to help him or bail him out. Cruise is self-aware that he is getting older, like his character. It’s these little details which count.

Interestingly, I find his women character also infinitely more relatable than any current iteration of the action female heroine. Marvel are lost in swamp of woke feminist BS where all their franchise films have to be led by the cookie cutter ’Strong Single Female’ - the one who doesn’t need mentoring (because that’s just sexist mansplaining); can pick up a life time of a superior set of skills in a matter of seconds; can beat to a pulp a man much stronger than she is; she never falls, stumbles, or fails like the men do; and she alone saves the day of course. Look at Rey in Star Wars or Captain Marvel in the MCU or even Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s character in the latest risible Indiana Jones film and tell me any of that isn’t true.

The women in MI franchise are far more relatable within the context of a hyper-realised film about super spies but not beyonds the laws of gravity. They are strong, independent, smart, sure. But they are also feminine and vulnerable. They fight like skilled women and not prize fighters that play to their feminine strengths (they get punched a lot in the gut and it shows). More importantly, they fuck up and fail, but they still come and help others to save the day. From Emmanuelle Beart to Thandie Newton to Rebecca Ferguson, these are kick ass women but in a much more believable way than any Marvel movie she-heroine. Go back and see these movies and you will see what I mean.

What I also like about him is the vibe he gives off that he cares deeply about his movies. It’s not a cynical exercise in money. Of course ego is a different matter, but I’ll give him a pass because he is the consummate professional and perfectionist about his craft. To me Tom Cruise is one of the few performers today who generally thinks of the audience first. Maybe even to his own detriment. But you can tell with everything he does, in all of his films, there is a different kind of commitment he makes to the audience. He actually gives the impression that he cares about giving his audience a good time.

Moreover, to hear it from Cruise himself, as we did during leaked audio of the dressing down he gave M:I7 crew members who were flouting COVID-19 safety regulations: “That’s what I sleep with every night - the future of this fucking industry!” Cruise makes a grand spectacle of carrying every film on his back, so it’s never in question who calls the shots or who, rather than what, makes the movies cinematic. Cruise’s power as a producer really deserves kudos for this. His steadfast aversion to shrinking theatrical windows for any of his projects, and his continued allegiance to, especially in the case of his flagship franchise, adding more ambitious stunts and exotic locations with every entry.

He doesn’t do television. Don’t you dare ask him about streaming. Other stars have also made that transition to streaming. You might call it selling your soul. Deals with the devil. We’ve seen other films in difficult circumstances, having to change their models to incorporate simultaneous streaming and cinema releases. Dwayne Johnson had seen a decline in box office revenue prior to the pandemic that has seen him go a little safer with more Disney material, as well as become a big fish in the Netflix pond. Cruise however… is all about the big screen experience.

Everything Cruise does is about maintaining his star power in the face of any and all obstacles, from a diminished global box office and studio manoeuvring to his own mortality. His legacy decades since secured, Cruise’s latest impossible mission appears to be nothing less than saving the movies themselves.

For that reason and that reason alone, I will always take time to see a Tom Cruise movie especially his Mission Impossible franchise films. Roll on summer. Cue the Palo Schifrin guitar chords. And action!

Thanks for your question.

#ask #question #mission impossible #tom cruise #tv series #movies #cinema #film #hollywood #spies #arts #culture #stunts #marvel #mcu #hero #icon

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sweatandwoe · 7 months

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i know you haven't written anything for star wars in a long long long time but i just finished mando s3 and I was wondering if you watched it? it just felt so... different

anon I would need to unleash so much nerd anger to do this. So asking followers: do you guys wanna hear me rant about star wars media for like a few paragraphs. 1 like and I'll do it

#sweaty asks #sw #because my opinion is that mando s2 is when the show really fell off #also that andor is best piece of film/tv media in the whole thing #also thank you for sticking around from the days I wrote mando fanfic <3 #btw that fanfic isn't available anymore

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saintshigaraki · 13 days

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damn you do not care about anything except your mother x son ships huh. we were supposed to boycott dune since idk maybe cus it has zionists cast but yall are just too spineless for that to happen. are you pretending to not know or just ignoring it? cus I remember I sent you an ask about it too

anon i do indeed follow the boycotts set by the BDS movement which has not mentioned dune or i believe any other movie boycott at all. the only like streaming/entertainment they’ve asked us to boycott (i believe) is eurovision which of course i will be doing

#all i will say is it’s nearly impossible to avoid films and tv shows that include zionists bc of how prevalent they are in hollywood #i guarantee you personally have watched a tv show or film that includes a zionist whether you know it or not which is most likely why #the bds movement has us focusing elsewhere #ask

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