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haveyouseenthis2023film · 5 months

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Summary: A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers embark on an epic quest to retrieve a long lost relic, but their charming adventure goes dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.

Release Date: March 31, 2023

Directors: Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley

Rating: PG-13

I went in with mid-tier expectations due to the early trailers being meh, but it ended up being one of my favorite films of 2023! There are so many genuinely laugh-out-loud moments, the cast is phenomenal, and it’s wildly entertaining from start to finish. So if you’ve been avoiding this film due to low expectations, I’d definitely recommend checking it out!

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gebo4482 · 10 months

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How ‘Nimona’ survived a studio shutdown among many challenges on its way to the screen (latimes.com)

The Art Of Nimona | Netflix

#nimona #nimona (2023)#animation #fantasy movies #concept art #character design #environment design #artwork #netflix

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cinematicsource · 1 month

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This is fabulous. It is? You're in the dark period. Before light and wisdom come to you. You must forge through it, and once on the other side... you will be grateful to this moment. But you must keep going.

POOR THINGS (2023) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

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arleniansdoodles · 4 months

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Alrighty, here's my first bit of fanart for 2024! Asha and Starboy from Disney's Wish - more specifically, Wish's concept art :''') I haven't seen the movie, but I think I can confidently say that I would've been more interested in seeing it if they'd kept the romance/soulmate dynamic from the early concepts.

But anyways, here's my take on Star's design, and also a little cheek kiss for Asha! :D Also, I never made an official "Happy New Year" post, so I just wanted to say thank you all for your support in my art and writing endeavours! I hope this year is a kind one for you, and may all your wishes come true <333

#i drew this while listening to the transformers 2 soundtrack loll #those movies are chaos incarnate but the music is pretty great imo #(referring to the first three movies cuz i never bothered to see the others ^^;;)#art #my art #fantasy #illustration #disney #wish #disney wish #wish 2023 #wish asha #wish star #asha x star #human star #romance #platonic love

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ivebeentotheforest · 5 months

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Sandworms in battle - Dune: Part Two (2024)

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salmonpiffy · 2 months

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Disney's Wish poster redesign

The composition was referenced from Stardust (2007) poster because that movie is about the star character who falls from the sky and meet the main human character just like Wish's early concept.

Original poster below

#my art #fan art #disney wish #wish 2023 #wish rewrite #disney #asha #star boy #queen amaya #king magnifico #stardust is one of my favorite fantasy movie of all time!

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jq37 · 5 months

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Who Is Allison Moore?: A Disney's Wish Mystery

OK, this is a little off the rails and random but this has been driving me crazy since I looked into it last night.

So, Disney's 100th Anniversary movie Wish is coming out soon and people have had a lot of hot takes about it so I wanted to do some digging. As part of that, I looked at the writers and two people have a "Screenplay by" credit: Jennifer Lee and Allison Moore.

Jennifer Lee, of course, wrote Frozen--their biggest princess hit in the modern era so that makes total sense to me. If you're coming out with a new princess movie for the big centennial of course you'd tap her. But I'd never heard of Allison, and when you look at her name on Wikipedia:

No blue link. So I headed to IMDB to check out her credits, figuring maybe she was some hot new talent recently promoted from within who did storyboards on some recent projects like Moana or something. But when I went to her IMDB page, this is what I found (after a brief mix-up with a Dexter's Lab actress):

Her Producer credits come up first and...huh. That's a lot of adult live action TV projects. Well, maybe her Writing credits are where this starts to make sense:

What? That can't be right, can it? The only vaguely Disney-esque thing on that credit list is Beauty and the Beast and, to be clear, that is a CW reboot of a 1987 procedural with the logline, "A beautiful detective falls in love with an ex-soldier who goes into hiding from the secret government organization that turned him into a mechanically charged beast." And she wrote two episodes on it.

And look at Disney's official page about Wish!

Everyone else on this page has credits that make sense--Frozen, Frozen 2, Raya, Encanto. And the two credits they list for Allison?

Night Sky and Manhunt.

Night Sky, an Amazon Prime show that she wrote one episode for and was cancelled after one season. And Manhunt--and show about hunting the UNABOMBER--that ran for two seasons and that she wrote two episodes for. Those are her two credits that they put up there next to Frozen and Encanto.

I have been scouring the internet trying to figure out who this woman is and how she got this job and I have come up *empty*. This is the big 100th anniversary movie! Why would they have one of the two screenplay writers be someone who seemingly has never done something like this before??? Like, I understand that not having done something before doesn't mean you can't do a good job, but it usually means you don't get the keys to the biggest most anticipated projects in the company's history!

They presumably could have gotten anyone they wanted for this and they picked this person and I have zero clue why and it's driving me crazy. If anyone has ANY information that could illuminate this at ALL--an interview, a social media post, gossip from your cousin who's a gofer at Disney--please let me know because I feel like I'm going full Pepe Silvia over this.

12/26 Edit: A SMALL UPDATE IS HERE!

#disney's wish #wish 2023 #disney #personal #this is separate from my opinions on the movie itself #which I def do have oh boy #but I also just want to know how this happened #how did she get this job?????#she doesn't write for kids or for animation or really for fantasy very much #so why did they hire her???#this doesn't seem like her wheelhouse at all!

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memoriafilmica · 4 months

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Renfield.

(2023) Chris McKay.

#1018 #01.01.24 #renfield #chris mckay #2023 #20s #comedy #fantasy #terror #cinema #movie poster #hbo

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guillotineman · 4 months

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Poor Things (2023, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)

#Poor Things #2023 #Yorgos Lanthimos #Emma Stone #Mark Ruffalo #science fantasy #comedy #movie #scene #cinema

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eternal-gromnommer · 6 months

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Binging up on some obscure monster horror movies for the spooky season and stumbled upon this bizarre gem: Isolation (2005).

Apparently it's "Alien, but on an Irish dairy farm" and its monster is a mutated cow that is the result of an experiment gone wrong. The creature itself is hardly ever seen: it's shown in its embryonic larval form, but it looks more like a spikey croissant than anything, and once it matures into its full adult form we never get a good look at the creature, only catching glimpses here and there.

Fortunately after some searching it appears @bogleech found a good screencap of the mutant cow spawn thing and well...it's a mess. No wonder it was so hard to figure out what the thing looks like cause it's a vaguely-centipede-like collection of bones that don't even look remotely recognizeable as a cow?

So here's a more bovine-esque take on the creature, a completely-wrong, still-recognizably cattle-like creature that's completely inside out with its skeleton on the outside. The original creature seems to have no visible limbs and instead walks on its ribs so I've incorporated them here but also kept the vestigial inside-out limbs that still resemble those of a cow, as well as the skull-like head based on an actual cow skull.

Isolation has a very interesting premise and a truly unique and grotesque monster but let's be honest: it's kind of hard to take an inside-out cow seriously as something capable of actually hunting down and devouring humans. Why it's even carnivorous is never properly explained, neither of why it reproduces parasitically in a xenomorph-esque way. At least it's absolutely disgusting to look at, which is a plus for any horror movie monster, so it's at least got that.

#halloween #halloween 2023 #tw body horror #speculative biology #fantasy biology #creature design #monsters #movie monsters #isolation 2005

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gebo4482 · 7 months

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WISH Concept Art

#wish #wish (2023)#animation #fantasy movies #adventure movies #concept art #character design #artwork #disney

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motionpicturelover · 4 months

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"Labyrinth" (1986) - Jim Henson

Films I've watched in 2023 (111/119)

#films watched in 2023 #Labyrinth #Jennifer Connelly #Shelley Thompson #Toby Froud #David Bowie #Sarah Williams #Jareth #The Goblin King #Hoggle #Ludo #Sir Didymus #Jim Henson #fantasy #musical #1980s movies #1980s cinema #motionpicturelover's screencaps

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escapismthroughfilm · 1 year

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seethesin · 8 months

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can't believe i wasted a cute outfit and makeup to go see bottoms and left the theater without a girlfriend 🙄

#im really out here serving the femme fantasy and for what #guess i just gotta go back and try again LMFAO #bottoms 2023 #bottoms movie #nicole speaks

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ageofzero · 10 months

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a crack in the wall

The thing that struck me immediately, like the first time I saw the scene, was the Director saying “...and now, we have a monster in our kingdom.”

framed like that, holding the sword she stole so she could frame Ballister.

My literal first thought was “yeah, I’m looking at one right fucking now”. Two seconds later she’s using that sword to get rid of a threat to her order, so like yeah.

It’s not subtle cinema language at all, it’s basically shouting it at me, but I liked it anyway. She’s a threat and the movie is no longer remotely hiding it.

#Nimona #meta #spoilers #ssh spoilers #Nimona (2023)#I have more Thoughts going on about this and around this #That I read this as a villain monologue from my position as a queer jobless person #while my datemate reached the end of the movie and said he wondered why they didn't show her reason for doing what she did #from his position as a straight white-passing male #he called it boring when I tried to explain it to him #while I found it real and horrifying because the banality of evil does so much more damage than the theatrical chaotic evil in fantasy #That her opening with her nightmare about a crack in the wall had me understand her motivation and her irrational reaction to fear #hell I saw this before I read the comic and now that I have read the comic #my thoughts about the banal evil vs theatric evil feel even more like it was INTENTIONAL DESIGN #congrats to the team tbh #Disney so clearly never deserved to have this movie under its umbrella #movies I would show my kid if I were a parent

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lilyginnyblackv2 · 9 months

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Thoughts on Barbie - Feminism, Power Fantasies, Isekai, & Existentialism - SPOILERS!

I really like how the feminism in Barbie is actually kept simplistic. I don’t think the feminism in it needs to be super layered to make for an excellent and engaging movie, especially due to how Barbie the Movie, itself, is structured.

Of course the feminism presented in it is rather simplistic in nature. This makes sense since this is Stereotypical Barbie’s first exposure to feminist ideology and thoughts. She was a doll with a very childlike understanding of how the world works and functions. This also makes sense, since the Barbies in general are all toys geared at young girls. Their world is a reflection of the fluffy promises and hopes that we, as adults, feed to young children (especially girls). This idea that they can be anything and do anything.

But the reality is much more messy and complicated than that. We see the Barbies (and Kens) beginning to understand this towards the end of the movie - after they have all been “touched” by the Real World. They have engaged with Gloria and Sasha and the CEO of Mattel and so on and so forth. There is now no instant change in ideology (like what we see happen when Ken brings over patriarchy to Barbie Land), instead, we see the sort of social change that happens in the Real World - slow moving and made in small intervals. But, at the same time, we see Stereotypical Barbie and Ken working through more complex ideas and emotions surrounding feminist thoughts and ideologies.

I also feel like it was less the feminism itself that makes the movie stand out in a way, but the way they present it. They don’t hide it behind a dark and grim story, they don’t have it being presented just generally to the audience or subtlety hinted at - instead the movie is bright and colorful and silly - and we have two older women (Gloria and Ruth) guiding younger women (Sasha and the Barbies) through the ups and downs of womanhood. Right, Sasha is a teen girl in the Real World who is starting to understand more and more of life’s complexities, but still missing some of the time and experience that can add more nuance and understanding to many areas of life. While Barbie is like a young adult woman - a college girl that is just getting ready to graduate and really head out into the actual Real World.

So it’s all about being able to relate (whether in a big way or a small way) to the shared experiences that are being depicted on the screen. It’s a movie created by a woman specifically for women (and yes, that includes trans women - the Youtuber, Kat Blaque, who is a trans woman, did a review of Barbie where she talked about the trans rep and how they got it right - I’ll link her video below). It is speaking directly to us women. All of us.

Which also gets me into thinking about power fantasies, isekai (and reverse isekai) a genre that is about “normal human ends up in a fantasy land,” with the reverse being that a fantasy being (usually of some high power or standing) ending up in the normal human world, and how men and women tend to play into these narratives.

Many power fantasties that we see tend to involve men - even the ones aimed at women - such as the take I’ve seen of how “teen girl x immortal (usually male) being” in YA novels is about girls seeing themselves in a place of emotional power over men. Superhero narratives are all about normal people gaining superhuman powers - usually in a way that makes them physically stronger - and these all tend to play into male power fantasies and gazes, even when the superhero is a woman. Even if they may touch on feminist ideologies, the way the power fantasy element is handled is still very different from what we see here in Barbie.

In Barbie, we follow Stereotypical Barbie. She is like that ordinary human. Nothing about her really stands out and she doesn’t have any amazing job. That being said, there are elements about her existence that we, as humans, would find to be almost superhuman or advantages over us - never aging, never dying, being able to float from the top of your house right into your car, etc. But, Stereotypical Barbie herself, like within her own world, doesn’t hold any kind of power or high standing. Her journey into the Real World is essentially a reverse isekai.

In the end, Barbie chooses to stay in the Real World and become a human. She chooses the more flawed existence over the more perfected one (or seemingly perfected one anyway). And I think it is the moments that touch on this aspect of Barbie’s journey which is what makes the movie so special to so many women. Not necessarily the Feminism 101 aspect, which is just an element to Barbie’s journey into womanhood. It’s Barbie seeing the elderly lady next to her on the bench and seeing the beauty in her. It is Barbie meeting Sasha and Gloria and learning from them about how hard life is for women in the Real World still. It is Barbie’s talks with Ruth. Quiet and introspective and filled with a soft patience that comes with age and life. And it is Barbie seeing and experiencing all of these things and then choosing to become human and live in the Real World.

Not because of men. Not because of romance. Not because of any sort of power fantasy that engages in a male gaze and perspective. But because of the women she has met in the Real World. The connections she made with them and the hopes, dreams, and feelings of all girls and women in the Real World.

That’s the moment that makes Barbie so special. That’s the moment that really makes everyone in the theater feel connected, especially the other women and girls present there. That moment is what made the movie for me. The culmination of Barbie’s exploration of existentialists ideologies through a purposefully and specifically woman focused lens.

#Barbie #Barbie the Movie #Barbie spoilers #Barbie 2023 #Barbie 2023 spoilers #Barbie meta #thoughts post #long post #feminism #isekai #reverse iseaki #power fantasy #existentialism

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