#uniqueness and fun in a film

[twilight-zoned-out]

The Ken dance is so magnificent because it’s reminiscent of the Golden Age of Musicals when there would just be artful dance sequences for no reason other than the director wanted to have one.

#and in being technically unnecessary becomes one of the best scenes in the movie #barbie #barbie movie #barbie 2023 #just ken #barbie spoilers #barbie movie spoilers #this movie includes so many moments that would technically be unnecessary or could be done so straightforward #like the opening or the barbie commercial #and its so great to see #uniqueness and fun in a film #also I'm pretty sure Ryan Gosling broke at least twice during that scene #which is also rare to see in a film #and unexpectedly fun #twilight-zoned-out

[repurposedmeatlocker]

I got tagged by @tiredeyes1975 (thank youuuu) to share my top 9 favorite movies I watched this year. Like Rory, I am going to assume these are first watches.

Here are the film titles in order from the start of the year to now:

After Hours (1985) dir. Martin Scorsese

The Apartment (1960) dir. Billy Wilder

Thelma & Louise (1991) dir. Ridley Scott

Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure (1977) dir. Richard Williams

Please Say Something (2008) dir. David O'Reilly

Mikey and Nicky (1976) dir. Elaine May

The Nightingale's Voice (1923) dir. Wladyslaw Starewicz

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) dir. Sergio Leone

Superbad (2007) dir. Greg Mottola

I am going to tag @majortomwaits @muirneach @princessmo @imeminemp3 @epizootics @streetlegal1978 @theamericanfriend1977 @seconddoubt @jathis but if you see this and want to do it as well, feel free! Consider yourself tagged by me : )

#I actually kind of had to narrow this down a bit since I've seen quite a few films I enjoyed this year #decided to cheat (maybe) a little and include two short films but I believe that still counts for something #always fun seeing these get lined up #they fit in their own unique way #tagged

[kindlythevoid]

You write so that your favorite actor will one day star in an adaptation of your book.

I write so that an adaptation of my work gets featured on Film Theory.

We are not the same.

#just so we're clear #i also want my fav actors to star #But also I would love to get onto one of the theory channels #I’d take anything #As soon as I finish writing #And publishing #And negotiating an adaptation #It’s over for everybody #also just so we are clear: all writers are unique in their own way! this is good and results in the variety of wonderful genres we have now #and since i'm posting my theory channel things it felt appropriate to add lol #this is not meant to be a put down just some harmless fun #and a twist on the “in her dm's” format!! #meme time #game theory #film theory #food theory #style theory #kiki writes #or more accurately #talks about writing instead of writes #As writers do

[squidlawyer]

G3 frankies live action fashion is so good and very much a style I want for myself I wish less of it was dollskill or that I could find things they wear or similar in general

#Also they did frankie so dirty in their poster #Their most boring and cheapest looking outfit #Frankies style is so fun #Especially the jackets #And the layers #Why didnt the teaser posters show that off #Had me worried before the film came out #frankie stein #monster high g3 #frankie stein g3 #monster high movie #One day I'll learn how to make or customise my own clothes #Some of these tags feel mean I didn't hate frankies poster look its just nowhere near as nice as some of their others #It's not bad but less unique or them I guess?? To me at least?? Idk

[harrowharkwife]

i am SO fucking exhausted by mainstream media opinions lately and i don't understand why they're frequently SO different from my own? like i genuinely don't think i am approaching anything from that unique of a perspective as a viewer? maybe it's just that i'm too easy to please when it comes to stories or something but like. how is the mainstream, widely accepted consensus on yellowjackets season 2 is that it's "bad" and "doesn't work as a season" and is "riddled with problems." literally what the fuck are you talking about. this is the most fun i have had watching television uhhhhh literally Ever? you're telling me people hated Burial? how? why? like i don't...i just don't GET it. and i'm not playing dumb for kicks here im like genuinely honest to god confused. that was the single best episode of television I've ever watched in my life. like i get that people have different opinions about things and that's fine but HOW am i in the minority here what am i missing

#most of the critiques I've seen are that it 'focused on the adults too much' and was 'too weird' re: mistys sequence #like??? that was clearly supposed to be funny and campy and silly and artistic and a twin peaks homage? #and the 'focusing on the adults' i... i mean i guess some people are just here for the '96 mystery #and are completely uninterested in the psychological effects it had on all the characters? #i guess some people don't?? care??? about watching them wrestle with that trauma and go on to try to have lives #after something like that? #but like. that's the entire point of the show though. if you hate that why are you watching it every week #with enough investment to like. blog about it and put energy into writing whole ass thinkpieces #so much of media criticism these days boil down into 'i wish this show was Not the show that it is' #'i wish it was this other show that im writing with my twitter mutuals' #and like that's fine and fun and cool and valid and that's what fic is for! but a show isnt BAD for committing to itself and its own vision #like. there is something sooo sexy abt a piece of media that is so wholly itself that you have to meet it where it is #and judge it by its own metric #it creates a whole new unique lens for each and every thing you love! quit comparing apples and oranges! #it's SO fucking fun analyzing different pieces of media through the lens of their own little world and conventions #and guiding principles and plot pacing and what they choose to emphasize and their genre conventions and etc etc #it's FUN! and not to sound like a pretentious film bro dipshit but like why does it seem like this is a dying art these days #'s2 is boring' THEY. THEY ATE A PERSON. ARE WE WATCHING THE SAME THING

[birt-art]

Poor Things is so fucking weird please go see it

#genuinely the most unique and beautiful film I've seen in a long while #no one is doing it like yorgos lanthimos and good for him #everyone in it is clearly having so much fun #personal post

[skitskatdacat63]

Every time I watch a Nolan film I'm just mentally preparing myself for when I inevitably go "what the hell..." at the end 😭

#i honestly rly like his movies! theyre like a puzzle :) #interstellar ive watched so often so i mostly get it #and then oppenheimer was so great to watch twice #when you watch one of his movies the first time youre kinda just like taking the punches yknow? #youre onnthe ride ig. like okay all this is happening very cool very nice cool movie #and then you rewatch it and its like OHHHHHHHH #you get to see all the foreshadowing and actually understand the timeline 😭 #Oppenheimer is especially great bcs when you watch it again you actually understand rhe different eras #anwyays. watching the prestige. lets hope it goes well :) #after this ill hsve seen all his movies but two! #I just think often abt my letterboxd revirw after watching Memento #'christopher nolan making films: im going to make a film thats *so* non linear' #i like them a lot and i think its a very fun and unique aspect #but its hard to parse on the first watch 😭 #and i alwaus try to guess and figure stuff out but im like ah nah im just along for the ride atp #catie.rambling.txt

[assortedvillainvault]

Lads there is something about childhood media that can be so wholesome

Catch me crying at Wallace & Gromit in the club tonight

#not villain related #these shorts & movies were such a large part of my childhood no joke #i grew up on aardman films #not to mention i lived around the kind of area w&g was set so the nostalgia punch after moving away even over a decade later hits hard #i wanted wallace as a fun uncle so badly growing up #my dad is also an inventor type but wallace is just a ball of well meaning oblivious sunshine #such a uniquely northern british setup and done with such accuracy and love my heart hurts

[vonlipvig]

now this is TELEVISION!

#not for broadcast #bits of your life #jules plays not for broadcast #please this ending was so silly #peter chasing eamon around the studio??? please they must have had so much fun filming that fjhfjh #and poor eric got whacked in the process #i love how even when you 'fail' you can still get SO many unique scenes and scenarios #cause not only you have the drunk angry sober endings but also the inbetween stages you'll get some fun things #depending on which guests you have #like when i had jimmy chizzle and dorothy for last eamon was like #'one of them is jimmy chizzle and the other is the scariest woman ever. eric go tell me who it is' #and eric goes to the back and his face goes O__O it's soooo funny #i love this dlc so much

[edenorisshitposting]

A few polaroids

#polaroid #instant photography #photography #light #artists on tumblr #my photography #Edenor get into an expensive hobby #send help #and by help I mean more film packs #It is very fun and the photos come out very neat #objectively worse than digital cameras but worse in a unique way

[ablednt]

I don't understand advent children haters because like what do you MEAN you don't want to watch a 2.5 hour film taking place after your favorite video game in which the main character is trying to live an ordinary life as a father in the middle of a sci-fi plague and he struggles with all the trauma from the game that went mostly unaddressed because they didn't have time to unpack their trauma in the game and there's cool fight scenes all leading to a sequence in which every playable character in the game appears to fight together and then they all must, literally and figuratively, uplift the protagonist so he is strong enough to defeat the obstacles before him

And the film details his struggles and culminates in the ending sequence where he smiles for the first time and is able to be at peace

"Nooo Cloud can't have be broody and emotional he's just supposed to be an asshole :(" me when I didn't pay attention to any of the game actually.

#media cw #I think about this a lot #genuinely one of my favorite films like it's so well done #and the fight scenes are fun #and the characters are interesting #side note I'm obsessed with whatever reno and rude have going on in that movie #writers were really like. what if they were needlessly homosexual #like look I'm here for it #ALSO the respect I have for them for having clouds family situation be something unique and #the farthest thing from a cishet nuclear family as possible #they were like 'yeah Cloud and Tifa are co-raising kids together' #'no they don't know what their relationship with each other even is. it's up for interpretation' #like when was the last time u saw that done with not a gay coded couple #also just cannot relate to ppl who don't love Denzel like that's just a child. son boy allowed etc

[fluffykitteninabox]

Anyway, have you guys seen the new TMNT trailer? It looks great

I grew up with the 2012 series and I've also seen a couple of clips from the 2018 series which looks great. I want to watch that before this movie comes out.

What I love about this trailer though is that they seem to be more like preteens. They act dorky and awkward and I love that. DXFXIXICICICGCI I just want to adopt them!! I can't wait to see more. And also Donnie looks adorable with glasses.

#spiderverse has really changed animation and I love it #if only disney would see it too #a bunch of other studios are making all these creative unique looking films now #and you can really tell the animators have fun working on them #while disney is still stuck in this era of trying to make realistic cgi and it's just so lifeless and boring to look at #I mean their animated films look good but they don't have an identity anymore #all of them look exactly the same #anyway LOOK AT MY SONS!! #aren't they the cutest?

[chocobijou]

Very VERY unpopular opinion:

I like the first Thor more than Thor Ragnarok.

#thor #thor love and thunder #thor ragnorak #thor ragnarok #i dont think its better but i like it #just fun and unique and kenneth branaugh really knows how to make a film idk #the jokey jokey shit works for gotg and ant man bc those premises are ridiculous #thor is a really compelling character with a powerful backstory #he is great when hes funny but not to such a goofy extent

[borom1r]

dude the corporatization and homogeneity of the internet is actually fucking heartbreaking especially as a horror fan?? the 2007 Hitcher site goes hard as fuck. i miss when companies were like "here's a map of violent crimes committed on american highways to promote our movie!!" that fucks actually

#if i get murdered i hope my death is used to promote a film + i mean that 100% genuinely #(its the deadly highways tab if yall wanna see the map) #anyways remember when movie promotion was cool and fun and ppl did unique things with web design and there was actual artistry?

[sodacowboy]

seeing everyone shit on damsel makes me want to scream lmao

#like am I the only fucking one that liked it??? #am I the only one who’s bothered to look at it in good faith??? #like jesus fucking christ #aren’t y’all tired??? #aren’t y’all tired of being negative about EVERYTHING #have y’all TRIED to analyze things from a more positive perspective??? #even if the messaging isn’t as deep as I’ve made it out to be #ITS STILL FUN!!!! #LIKE SHUT UP!!!!! #not everything needs to make sense!!!! #not everything has to be analyzed to hell and back!!! #you’re allowed to shut off your brain and have fun with things #and also I need people to stop acting like this film is uniquely ‘bad’ #as if all action movies don’t work the exact same way #but now that it’s a woman protagonist #with a girlboss feminism overlay #it’s all of a sudden bad #like yeah okay I see how it is #uggghhhhhh #I’m not doing a good job of preventing this movie from becoming my new obsession movie

[dashiellqvverty]

patrick was sooooo hot in the second verse of arms race i didn’t get a video though :(

#anytime he stops playing and is sort of strutting with the mic does something for me idk #but that particular time i had a Moment #i was so torn the whole time bc i wanted to film all the unique stuff but i was having so much more fun when i wasn’t filming #like i HAD to film my favorite songs and the exciting stuff bc i KNOW i’ll want to revisit it later #and i’ll be sad if i cant #but it would’ve been so fun if i’d had a little more freedom to dance during ginasfs #i actually had the most fun when i was like sitting down and dancing in my chair lmao #r.txt