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ophelialoveshandsomemen · 3 months

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Say what you will about Van Helsing 2004; hate it, love it, be indifferent, But the All-Hallow's masquerade ball went sooooo hard and it had zero right to do so! It's a fun, campy, monster mash movie with wonderfully dated ( and expensive) cgi and non-stop action meant to be a popcorn flick one takes out to watch around spooky season. And it has this* chef's kiss* GORGEOUS 6 minute sequence plopped arbitrarily in the second act, which unexpectedly surpasses nearly every other ball in the last 30+ years of film( notable exception being the Cinderella 2015 ball) for literally no reason other than to be dramatic af.

Like feast your eyes on this Gothic masterpiece!!! Who doesn't want to immediately live in this picture?!??

They used those candles with oil in them so that they would have real candles, real string orchestra( I believe), probably around 100 real life extras( something which is tragically absent in modern film), said extras are all in beautiful fully decked-out costumes( which are in luxuriously dark colours, but nearly no fully black, another thing you cannot say for much modern cinema), REAL CIRQUE DU SOLEIL PERFORMERS for all the acrobatics!!!! Hell, instead of filming in a sound stage, where they could control the reverb and the acoustics and the size of the set and the bloody lighting ( they apparently had a heck of a time emulating the firelight for this sequence) and the temperature( it's very cold in stone churches!) better, they filmed in a Baroque church in Prague! As I said, peak dramatic splendour, jfc...

Think about that a second...They filmed a vampire masquerade in a Baroque Catholic Church( St. Nicholas' in Lesser Town, if you were curious) with amazing over-the-top acoustics and marble statues and real, tiled floors and marble pillars and a choir loft which they very much utilized, covered the pipe organ and the altar with a grand brocade curtain so it wouldn't be so obviously a, you know, a church! And there's a gold gilt elevated and canopied pulpit into which they put two vampire kiddies for, again, the sake of being dramatic.

And the costumes! They remind me of the 25th anniversary Phantom of the Opera Masquerade costumes. Same quality, like they're old, well-cared-for costumes pulled out of a warehouse, instead of fast industry churn-outs. With lots of trim and colour and masks and lace and feathers and..just...ugh.. they are all perfect! Just look at all the head pieces on the ladies and the hats on all the gentleman ( save Dracula of course) and the powdered wigs on the musicians. ANNNNDD! The dresses are historically correct!!!!!! It's the 80's bustle era! Nobody does the 80's bustle era in film anymore and it's a bummer. Oh and one other thing! Anna's ( and other women's) hair, at least here in the ball, is also historically accurate because it's all pinned up! None of those fucken modern beachwaves at a ball! Everybody's got updo's!

Gah, I swear, Dracula in his gold cloak really does things to me in this scene!

By the way, the acrobatics are bonkers in here for just background stuff!! Especially the random guys on unicycles and the dude playing the violin whilst standing on a ball...Like....WHAT?

Anyways, all this to say, that this masquerade ball feels sooo real and tangible and because of that it blows every other film out of the water, and no, I will not change my mind!!!!!

Here's a few more gifs, bcuz, why the hell not, this scene is sexy as fuu*ck?

Alright I need to go to bed now.

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crispycreambacon · 10 months

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I'll forever be upset about how Elemental (2023 Pixar movie) flopped so hard, and it's not even its fault.

Let's be real, going against Across the Spiderverse would be a deathblow for any animated movie, but the marketing team REALLY didn't help matters. Not only did the trailers barely show up (to the point my friends DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IT EXISTED), the trailers also did such a poor job representing its actual story.

A lot of people were turned off by the "unoriginal premise" as well as the "forbidden romance", and I can't even blame them but no!!! The story is so much more than just "ooo they can't fall in love because they're (gasp) FIRE AND WATER?!?!?!?" and "what if (insert concept) has emotions but elements this time"!!!!!

At the heart of it all is a personal immigrant story. A story about two fire people moving to another place in order to start a new and hopefully better life (aka literally immigrants). A story about their daughter who feels in debt to them for making the sacrificd to leave their home. A story about her feeling like she'll have to sacrifice her whole life and her dreams in order to repay them and make them happy.

Not to mention how Asian-coded it is!!! The director, Peter Sohn, is clearly writing from his perspective as a Korean-American immigrant, and as an Asian immigrant, I resonated so unbelievably hard with Ember's story. It really felt like the movie held up a mirror in front of me. I've never felt this seen in a movie before this one.

And it feels so good!!! I'm so sad that a lot of people will be missing it out because the marketing team did such a terrible job at their literal jobs. If more people gave it a chance, they'll likely find a story that truly made them feel heard.

Also the romance is really cute. Like I don't typically seek out romance stories, but damn that was good food, that was good fluff. I think it's also a great allegory for interracial couples, but I'm not in an interracial relationship, so I won't overstep too much!

Long story short, if you're unsure on whether you really want to see this movie or not, hear it from me who saw it twice:

Go Watch Elemental!!! You will not regret it!!!

#THIS MOVIE WAS MADE FOR ME AND OTHER ASIAN IMMIGRANTS FOR REAL FOR REAL!!!!#also obviously it's not perfect #I understand the concerns with how fire is dangerous so the allegory may be flimsy #but they addressed it in the film!!!#also honestly there's also a good disability angle to look at here?#especially with how fire people are trying to live in a world that refuses to accomodate them #and would rather discriminate them #or shun them from society to the point they have to make their own community #but I'm not disabled so again #i won't overstep!!#elemental #pixar elemental #elemental 2023 #pixar #review #rant #opinion #commentary #chris p fried rambles

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booigi-boi · 7 months

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It's @shipwreckedcomedy's 10th anniversary and I had to draw something 🎂

Thank you for making me realize what my real aesthetic was and making me buy a big poster of Oscar Wilde that stares at me while I sleep ✨

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non-un-topo · 7 months

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Forever fucked up over the fact that sometimes you have to write the thing you desperately want to read/watch because it doesn't exist yet

#this isn't about fanfiction btw dfghfds #i love writing but at what cost !!! also in this economy ???#and all of my ideas are so niche and silly but at least i have a feeling my dad would love them !!! we have a similar brain #inherited the brain while i also inherited his entire face #anyway one of these days i'm going to write a long rant about how almost EVERY novel that takes place in the middle ages -#- takes place in fucking england and has something to do with monarchs or the construction of a church.#or it's all fantasy OR the story of king arthur a hundred thousand times.#don't be a coward. tell stories about non-english commoners. and stop making the crusades sound like a noble thing.#were it not for The State of The World and the Economy i would quit everything and write movies and books #because all of my writing is very visual. like i think a lot of my ideas would translate better on film.#ohhh you know what it is? a lot of these books i'm thinking of are written by historians and i think historians of the english type -#- get really hard over royals and famous battles and such.#and that's all well and good but it's not very accessible to readers just starting out in the genre. i've complained about this before lol

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catastrxblues · 7 months

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my mission this october is to just persuade (and, if push comes to shove, affectionately force) my friends to come watch the eras tour film with me on november 3rd, the marvels on november 10th, and the ballad of songbirds and snakes on november 17th. next month calendar is booked and busy, it seems!!

#i think i've got the marvels one secured because fortunately some of my friends are also a fan of marvel (or enjoy it at least)#eras tour and hunger games though ://#i have a couple of riends that might be interested to watch the film so i think i'm just going to try to ask them #before falling into despair #hunger games is the hard part #NO ONE i know is a fan of it 😭#none of my close friends seem to have heard of anything about it either #and my sister is fucking tired of me ranting about it so might just go alone if i can #my school is also holding a concert next month so that's another thing #the marvels #the eras tour #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #mcu #taylor swift #the hunger games #thg #nadirants

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viensamoimoncher · 3 months

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I've absolutely missed everything to do with this, but why the hell are people wanting the show to get cancelled?!

Don't like?

DON'T WATCH

Is that so fucking hard to grasp?

Without new fans, media dies

Whether or not you like a certain adaptation, you should be happy it's introducing new blood (pun intended) to the source media

Sure, people are gonna have their favourite versions. Some people may not want to read the source material. Some people may not want to see the film. Similarly, some people may not want to see the show

But it's keeping it alive

And some of the new fans are gonna dive into the source material and love it

The brilliant thing is, you can love and respect all versions of something. That's possible. That's great!

And on the other hand you can dislike a certain version of something yet still remain civil and kind to others who enjoy it. That's also great (with a strong emphasis on the 'remain civil and kind to others' part)!

Infighting in fan spaces is only ever going to end badly. Don't like an adaption? Don't be a dick, just be civil and move on

And more importantly, if you love something (like the source material) so much to be so passionate about it, you should at the very least be happy it's not being forgotten

#I say this as someone who loves the film and book (am making my way through the novels currently on IWtV) AND adores the TV series #I've just logged on and seen quite a few posts about this #I'm absolutely out of the loop as to what the hell has gone on so I'm sorry if I've missed anything big #but idk why the hell fans can't just be civil to one anothwr #there are people on the other side of the damn screen #and people seem to forget you can noy #iwtv #amc iwtv #sorry for the rant I'm just so sick of fan spaces being toxic waste sites #toxicity in fandom is the quickest way to kill said fandom

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sharkylass · 2 years

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14. Adventure!

LADIES AND GENTS AND THE THEYS INBETWEEN- I PRESENT TO YOU MY TAKE ON MONA LISA/Y’GYTHGABA IN RISE OF THE TMNT0

So- The basic things about her is that I based her on a big mouth cave salamander, as well as a yokai- I decided to write her as a lost friend of Red fox. They were in movies together for Jupiter Jim, but due to personal reasons Mona quit, and went back into the hidden city and became a pirate.

I like to think when the boys see her they recognize her (Raph specifically) even tho she was only in like. 2 or 3 movies.

(More versions under cut!)

#I like to think Mona starred in Jupiter Jim Sails The Seven Galaxies #They mention how Raph always gets a pirate accent afterwards and thinking it could be his all time favorite JJ film endears me to no end-#Mon and Red were like. Childhood besties. They wanted to work in the movie indestry together #But Red ended up becoming really close with JJ. And Mona started feeling kind of- Ignored.#She brings it up to Red; but she just tries to reasure her that 'Of course you're my friend! I treasure you. We'll always be friends'#Without actually doing anything to reasure her or trying to spend more time with her. She thought their bond was stronger then this #So one day Mona just. Quits. And leaves.#What I'm saying is Mona has abandonment issues #I could keep ranting about this but I'll leave it here-#rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #rottmnttober #rottmntober #tmnt #tmnttober #tmntober #tmnt mona lisa #rottmnt mona lisa

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hamartia-grander · 7 months

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My professor took off a point from one of my scripts because I labelled a character as Nonbinary, and he claims I should've left the gender description blank because "it's not necessary for this character", as if "nonbinary" is a placeholder for "I don't care what gender" I am actually going to tear him to shreds

#This is hands down the worst professor I've ever had in my life this is the guy I've ranted about before who is so fucking pretentious #And treats us like we're all inherently going to fail at scriptwriting/film in general as if he's the all knowing being on that #Like oh I'm sorry how many scripts of yours have been produced? Oh what's that? NONE? Interesting #And he's old so he's also one of those “I know absolutely everything and you all know nothing and there's nothing more I have to learn”#Can't wait to be rid of him dear lord #Dreading my workshop with him so bad thank God this is an online class bc if I had to see him every week in person I'd kill him #Film #Film shit

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incorrect-koh-posts · 1 day

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You said "which is a tragedy in its own right as far as my tastes are concerned, but I digress", but I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this. I hope it's okay to ask, but what kind of fics/pairings would you like/prefer to see emerge from the fandom?

Of course it's okay to ask, dear anon!

Personally? I'd love to see more variety. One of the chief reasons why I enjoy reading fan fiction is finding new things I like - perhaps some pairing I hadn't considered before, some batshit premise or crossover that turns out to be actually brilliant, or maybe a cool genfic that explores previously unseen sides of a character or character dynamic that people don't write about very often. I'm not really the kind of person who seeks out fic based on specific tropes. Once I've read a story with a certain trope in a fandom, it's pretty unlikely that I'll go and read another one with a very similar premise, unless I really enjoy the author's writing.

So what I'd be excited about seeing in the AO3 tag would honestly just be: something new. For instance, a sapphic Sibylla/OC fic would be such a fascinating read (as would be anything at all that explores Sibylla's character a bit more). Or a Saladin-centric fic - sign me the hell up. I'd adore finding something for Godfrey or Imad, and we all know a new Tiberias fic would have me foaming at the mouth. I'd also love an interesting and/or wacky AU (and I'd write one myself if I had the time). Make it Jane Austen and let Baldwin have a gentleman suitor, while Sibylla elopes Lydia-Bennett style with Guy, and Godfrey and Raymond grump about in the Navy. Write a daemon AU (as in His Dark Materials) in the canonical universe. Or throw them all into the 21st century and let Reynald send Saladin threatening messages via fax.

I know the KoH fandom is much too small to engender the sort of variety I'd ideally like to see, and it's only reasonable for writers to sort of double down upon the fic premises and tropes that have done well in terms of hits and comments in the past and write more of the stuff the majority enjoys. As far as taste goes, I'm aware I'm the complete outlier here, and I really don't mean to antagonise anybody with this post or insult their writing or reading preferences. I'm glad your fics are doing well, folks, I truly am - it's only that I'm very likely not the target audience for them. Sometimes I just wish I weren't the only freak in the circus, lol.

(The post anon is referring to is this one btw.)

#asks #kingdom of heaven 2005 #my fandom rants #kingdom of heaven fanfic #do ignore my whining though #my thesis has me stressed like a nervous rabbit and i'm not in the best of moods atm #but honestly this fandom's laser focus on one (1) character and like three (3) tropes baffles me sometimes #there are SO MANY interesting characters in this film and nobody ever writes about them #does no writer appreciate the supreme twinkliness of yusuf's eyes?? godfrey and his big sword? raymond being a sad wet dog?? horsegirl imad #a tragedy #yes this is a post brought to you by me #the KoH fandom's resident old man connoisseur

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anghraine · 1 year

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I've complained before about the kneejerk "film/TV is a different medium, [literally any change from the original] had to be made in this adaptation's exact way because of the change in medium."

I find this irritating for many reasons—mostly because it seems a defensive and oversimplified attempt to silence criticism while denying that actual artistic choices go into deciding how to interpret and adapt a text.

Something else I was thinking about, though, is that frequently it's just wrong. Like, people will often leap to "but the medium!!" when anyone tries to talk about the lack of subtlety in a lot of the choices wrt characterization and atmosphere in the LOTR movies. But film and television are perfectly capable of nuanced characterization. They certainly can convey subtle menace—arguably more easily than prose alone, given that visuals and music can be used to great effect in crafting quieter tension.

This is apart from the question of whether this should be done, or should have been done in adapting scenes that were originally written as unsettling/uncertain rather than FLYING SKULLS!! or beating up Gollum or whatever. But film as a medium can absolutely be subtler than the LOTR movies, come on.

The idea that it can't seems a weird denial of the artistry of the medium and of the many artistic possibilities in adaptation. To me, this makes about as much sense as saying "the movies had to leave out most of Tolkien's songs because film is a silent medium." Whatever you think about including the songs ... uh, no, it's not?

The closest this comes to a valid response, IMO, is not that everything in an adaptation is reducible to its medium, but that X would be unusual or difficult for a particular genre. It's not that, say, film can't do scenes where an apparently normal or pleasant conversation has another layer of fear or danger and the very civility contributes to the tension. But you could argue that it's unusual or difficult in action-adventure films, yet that that's the most effective genre for LOTR as a story. Whether I agree or not, that wouldn't straight-up deny the capabilities of cinema as a medium.

#changes in medium aren't only about 'welp i guess we can't do [thing] now because it doesn't work in any other medium'#some things can actually benefit from the advantages and creative potential of other mediums!#imo the limitations of cinema as a medium is overwhelmingly bound up in /time/#but that makes what an adaptation chooses to spend its time on not 'but the medium!!!' but all the more relevant #for discussion and scrutiny #(i got thinking about this because of the usual kneejerk response about how a halfway recognizable denethor wouldn't work on film #because the medium can't handle subtlety #and i'm just thinking ... since WHEN)#anghraine rants #adaptation #pj critical #long post #ish

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invisibletripwire · 1 year

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The last two years 4 movies came out that I saw in the cinema that I really liked, The Green Knight, The Last Duel, The Northman and Devotion. They all reminded me of movies like they used to be, before franchises and superheroes took over the big screen. Except for The Green Knight (who slightly over-performed in the box office) they all ended up flopping. Sure, the pandemic and bad marketing played a role (Ridley Scott really need to stop blaming millennials and their phones) but another thing is happening as well. People are bad-mouthing these movies before they even see them. Let’s take two examples:

The Last Duel is about a very sensitive subject matter (that’s why it’s rated R) but the film acknowledges this, it is not just ‘’two men butchering each other over the honor of a woman’’, as I heard said (by people who did not watch the film), and no, the woman in question is not just a prop in the story. Her story matters here.

Devotion is not ‘’whitewashing’’ the Korean war. It is less of a warfilm and more of a character drama about Jesse Brown, who was the first black naval aviator. Only at the end of the movie do you see any war at all. And the movie is pretty accurate to the true story, especially considering they had to condense it down to a 2 hour runtime. It’s a good movie, and very moving at times.

I really whish more people saw these movies, so original stand-alone movies is seen as less of a risk for Hollywood and more are made. Sure, The Last Duel has violence (including sexual violence) and Devotion tells of racism and grief, totally understand if you want to avoid them for that reason, but they don’t deserve the bad rep they get. Again, mostly by people who have not bothered to see them.

Stories deserves to seen on the big screen even if they have a sensitive subject matter.

#sorry about the rant #just been to a party #slightly drunk and feeling sad because film projects I'm looking forward to seeing is canceled left and right #because they are considered a ''risk'' so no studio wants to touch them #oh well #2022 was a good year for cinema really hope 2023 keeps on giving me reasons to go to the theater #the last duel #devotion #the northman #the green knight #historical drama #hollywood movies

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usernose · 1 month

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*Sigh* welp, it's time for a fandom war.

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(The people who genuinely like the series are now going to have a terrible time now with this video up)

#megamind #megamind rules #megamind vs the doom syndicate #Whatever happened to just enjoying stuff #user rants #this actually started to made me cry #Youtube #I don't care what any popular people says about the film I'm still defending it

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alien-girl-21 · 1 month

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Can't wrap around my head that people use tumblr for fashion inspo, like today I must have reblogged at least 20 posts about stabbing a roman emperor wdym you're coming here and searching how to build an outfit?

#inspired by me watching a tt from a guy that said that people where i live don't have good style #and saying they should go to pint.erest or here to find good outfit pics to run with #which like the piint of his video is amother whole tangent i can go off on but that's for another day #like??? i'm here spending my days talking aboyt slovenian rock band green finnish man and shitposts #you're here looking at fashion???#two different worlds fr #and then you have my friend that asked me what i was doing the other day and i went 'on tum.blr' and she asked 'people still use it?'#like wth #also fun fact: i saw the guy film said tt lmao he walked right past me the other day with the same fit #he didn't use that take though probably got scared at seeing someone with actual style here /j #anyways rant over

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zivazivc · 9 months

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mutant mayhem spoilers

i can't believe that the first ever image that surfaced about the movie (I think at the end of 2021!) actually already gave us a hint about how this movie was going to end... I was just so in denial about it that I completely erased those early theories out of my mind. Not to say that I didn't love the movie, I had a blast in the theater, but that ending with everyone learning about and accepting the turtles and them going to school was not for me. Maybe I'll change my mind about it when I see future installments of this new version, but for now I'm being one of those sulking older fans about it.

#just to be clear I'm not hating on the movie #the movie is great and the animation is fantastic #just not a fan of a lot of the choices that were taken in the last 10-15min of the film #tmnt #tmnt spoilers #mutant mayhem spoilers #tmnt mm spoilers #the main reason I don't like the choice is because I feel like they got rid of what made tmnt so unique from the rest of the shows #they have to live in complete secret in a world that's crowded with humans #and they can't rely on anyone but themselves and a few individuals to have their back #while I can think of a bunch of shows that about people going to school and trying to fit in even though they're so different from everyone #this has been a bit of a rant #but I haven't seen anyone else talk about the ending and I wanted to talk about it #answered #mutant mayhem

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sillyfudgemonkeys · 7 months

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Everyone's talking about Wish right now.... The only thing I can say about WISH.......let's hope it's like a Frozen 1 type thing. Where the trailers were ABSOLUTE ASS but then the film turned out really good. TT0TT

I mean.....there is a difference between the two. While the west got weird trailers that didn't matter for Frozen (Olaf vs Sven carrot thing), JPN and other countries got trailers that actually showcased the plot and drama in an interesting way.... And Wish.....well...... Wish at least gives us a villain and a part of an argument.....and I can't see that argument leading anywhere.....great tbh. So maybe not the best comparisons but let's hope for the Frozen 1 vibe!

Anyway I'm not liking what I'm seeing so far, but I'm hoping its better than the ass disaster Frozen 2 and Ralph 2 were. ;w;

#silly talks #disney #WISH #frozen #as frozen's first fan and the one that didn't care the trailers were ass......my heart goes out to Wish fans rn kldjsafkljsaf #'silly that's pretty bold of you to consider yourself THE FIRST frozen fan-" i drove that damn bandwagon y'all just jumped on later #no really around 2009-2010 i remember looking at the Snow Queen disney page wikipedia page to see if it finally got taken off of hiatus she #*off the hiatus shelf #i remember the damn day the announced Dinsey would take a crack a the Snow Queen adaptation again #then when they announced Kristen Bell for a character (super estatic cause i wanted to hear her singing even more after watching Veronica m #*after watching veronica mars)#The Snow Queen has been a fav fairy tale of mine since i was a baby so yeah I was excited to say the least TT0TT #and yeah 5 seconds into the movie (the day it released mind you! yes I was there I remember how dead the theater was) i was like 'I love it #I ended the movie and wanted to go back in too i loved it that much #safe to say I was BLOWN AWAY by how much OTHERS loved it esp after everyone was bitching abt it leading up to that film TT0TT #anyway love frozen 1 it's my fav #hate frozen 2 it's hot garbage I never felt more lied to by trailers than this movie holy shit #i'm like 8 rants away from writing a complete dissertation on how Frozen 2 completely misunderstood Frozen 1 in it's entirety #(note: I dont think F1 is perfect nor do I think it's a masterpiece I just happen to love it a lot uwu)#anyway I hope wish has a similar thing (sleeper hit release part....not a shitty sequel part)

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sideprince · 10 months

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You know who really bullied Neville? Steve Kloves.

#fight me #I'm right #every single film has contempt for Neville except the last one where it's inescapable that he be a hero #it's in the dialogue #it's in the writing #even when we get tot he point where the books give more of Neville's backtory and we start to understand him #Kloves pushes him aside and still treats him with the schoolboy values of an 80s high school villain talking about the nerdy kid #I could write endless posts about how Steve Kloves was the wrong person to write the films and didn't understand the books #or their values at all #but I don't want to go on rants that tear apart things people love and that are comfort watching #and tbh I watch the movies a lot too #I just think Steve Kloves did this story wrong

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