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Hayate Ninjas 20 Years After 200 Years Before
#hurricaneger#ninpuu sentai hurricaneger#super sentai#i've seen this movie... a few times#so here are a few of my thoughts <3 <3#i love that Koutaro has a younger son and older daughter - just like Kouta#its a cute lil detail and it makes me very happy#nami coming in singing Shinobi Koi 😀😀😭#look i know that they are implying that Younosuke has been sleeping with the maids at the tea house he's 'guarding'#BUT I AM CHOOSING to read it as he is actually one of the maids and you cannot stop me#hantcore#isshuu's look-alike ancestor has the same name as his and Ikkou's dad#so i like to think the blood line the gouraigers are from came through Ikki rather than through Ikkaku#also Oedo HurricaneRed is one of my favourite power up forms ever its so dramatic and pretty#gif post tag#i'll make sets for the thunder bros and sensei/oboro/shurikenger eventually <3 <3
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I'm telling you, everything's gonna be all right as long as we're together!
#mario movie#mario movie spoilers#super mario bros#super mario bros movie#super mario bros movie spoilers#cherrysip edits#i've seen so many screenshots and a few scattered gifs but it doesn't seem like anyone's actually done a proper gifset SO#I AM SO NORMAL ABOUT THIS SCENE. SO UNBELIEVABLY NORMAL. I DIDN'T WATCH THIS CLIP 60 TIMES AND CRY EVERY TIME#YOU CAN'T PROVE ANYTHING#but seriously it is unbelievable how sweet these brothers are. i am SO grateful that the movie is actually giving a lot of emotional weight#to their relationship! i just can't get over how mario is wholly focused on soothing luigi because that's what's important to him#and how luigi does relax and smile because he trusts his brother wholeheartedly#PICTURES TAKEN SECONDS BEFORE DISASTER :( :( :( :( :( :(#i also love how you can tell mario genuinely did not know that luigi was sucked in too (this is confirmed in the newest tv spot too)#and so he's kind of in quiet awe of where he is and then HE SEES LUIGI and PROTECTIVE BIG BROTHER MODE activates instantly#their reunion in the movie is actually going to end me. i will leave my mortal body behind and rejoin the sea. IT BETTER BE GOOD#but after this i don't see how it CAN'T be. this relationship is clearly the heart of the movie - if it's already emotional in this scene#then they've got to pay that off at the end!!! it's the law!!! otherwise things will just fall flat. i believe in u movie don't let me down
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Any good Chinese LGBT drama/ movie recommendations? And where to watch it?
Hmmm I thought I would have a lengthy list of recommendations but limited to just Chinese-language films/dramas, and ones that I would actually recommend, I realise that my list is a lot shorter 😅.
These are pretty much all going to be gay (mlm). Sorry for the lack of diversity 😔. Summaries are taken from Letterboxd for the most part.
Film Recs
(in chronological order)
霸王别姬 || Farewell My Concubine (1993) - China (mainland), Hong Kong - dir. Chen Kaige
Personal rating: 4/5 || [HQ link, EN subs]
Abandoned by his prostitute mother in 1920, Douzi was raised by a theater troupe. There he meets Shitou and over the following years the two develop an act entitled “Farewell My Concubine” that brings them fame and fortune. When Shitou marries Juxian, Douzi becomes jealous, the beginnings of the acting duo’s explosive breakup and tragic fall take root.
东宫西宫 || East Palace, West Palace (1996) - China (mainland) - dir. Zhang Yuan
Personal rating: 4/5
A heterosexual Beijing policeman and a young homosexual challenge each other’s sexuality.
春光乍洩 || Happy Together (1997) - Hong Kong - dir. Wong Kar-wai
Personal rating: 4/5 || [link, EN subs]
A couple take a trip to Argentina in search of a new beginning, but instead find themselves drifting ever further apart.
自梳 || Intimates (1997) - Hong Kong - dir. Jacob Cheung
Personal rating: 4/5 || [link, ZH subs]
Set in Hong Kong and China in the early 1900s, an older Wan and Wai travel through China in search of Foon, Wan's true love. Wai, whose on-and-off status with her boyfriend leads her into a struggle with self-identity, slowly learns about the life of the aging Wan. Through flashbacks, we learn about Wan in her early days and Foon, who move in and out of each other's lives.
美少年之恋 || Bishonen (1998) - Hong Kong - dir. Yonfan
Personal rating: 3/5 ~ 3.5/5 (I flipflop on this lol)
Jet is a gay hustler who one night spots a young man walking with a woman, and falls for him instantly. He does some research, and discovers that the man is called Sam, and is an apparently straight policeman.
蓝宇 || Lan Yu (2001) - China (mainland) - dir. Stanley Kwan
Personal rating: 5/5 || [HQ Link EN subs] [HQ link, ZH subs] - Bear in mind these are both the cut version of the movie. There are about 4 scenes cut from this version, which is unfortunately the most easily found.
A love story between a country boy in Beijing to study and a wealthy businessman set against the backdrop of the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident.
春风沉醉的夜晚 || Spring Fever (2009) - China (mainland) - dir. Lou Ye
Personal rating: 3/5
Hired to spy on a philandering husband, Luo Haitao soon becomes entangled in a clandestine affair with the other man. Along with Luo’s girlfriend, they succumb to the delirium of drunken nights, but how long can their tryst last?
谁先爱上他的 || Dear Ex (2018) - Taiwan - dir. Mag Hsu, Chih-yen Hsu
Personal rating: 4/5 || [HD link, EN sub]
When Sanlian’s ex-husband passes away, she discovers he has altered his insurance policy, cutting out their son in favor of a stranger named Jay.
叔・叔 || Twilight’s Kiss (2019) - Hong Kong - dir. Ray Leung
Personal rating: 3.5/5 || [HD link, EN subs]
One day Pak, a taxi driver who refuses to retire, meets Hoi, a retired single father, in a park. Although both are secretly gay, they are proud of the families they have created through hard work and determination. Yet in that brief initial encounter, something is unleashed in them which had been suppressed for so many years. As both men recount and recall their personal histories, they also contemplate a possible future together.
刻在你心底的名字 || Your Name Engraved Herein (2020) - Taiwan - dir. Liu Kuang-hui
Personal rating: 3.5/5
In 1987, as martial law ends in Taiwan, Jia-han and Birdy fall in love amid family pressure, homophobia and social stigma.
Extra mentions (haven't watched these ones yet but they have decent reviews):
夜奔 || Fleeing by Night (2000) - China (mainland)
Saving Face (2004) - U.S.A
盛夏光年 || Eternal Summer (2006) - Taiwan
Drama Recs
Most of the LGBT dramas I've watched are trash or censored, sorry to say, and I tend to watch movies over dramas, so what's left for me to recommend is just from the HIStory (Linked: wiki with summaries) Taiwanese webdrama anthology:
HIStory1: My Hero (PR: 3/5)
HIStory1: Obsession (PR: 3/5)
History2: Crossing the Line (PR: 3.5/5)
History3: Trapped (PR: 3.5/5)
#text#answered ask#movie recs#long post#all the movies i recced are dramas basically#there are a few movies out there (that i've seen) that are more lighthearted but also.... not good lol#personally i don't think a movie has to be 'good' but this is a rec list so...#unrelated but i ended up rewatching farewell my concubine for the first time in a while yesterday and one of the top letterboxd reviews#is a terrible take lmao#shoutout to sally on letterboxd you uncultured swine lol#but that's what happens to most chinese movies on letterboxd -u-'#either barely anyone has logged it#or it's popular to the point of there being a bunch of white film bros writing reviews where they manage to add something#offhandedly sinophobic#or otherwise add how they think the director became a sellout later uwu but THIS film is pure bc blah blah (yes this is about zhang yimou)#(white film bros - speaking broadly)#anyway. lol.#my letterboxd rant no one asked for.#i just think we should be allowed to downvote reviews on there that's all
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Top 7 Comfort Films
Tagged by @piratefalls Hi Kelly!!!!! I also watch the same movies on rotation lol
The Three Musketeers (1993)
The Swan Princess
The Blues Brothers
Hansel and Gretel, Witch Hunters
The Martian
Charlie's Angels (2019)
Logan Lucky
Tagging: @goingsparebutwithprecision, @acountrygirlsfun, @tulmultuous, @zahnie, @ialpiriel, @alwaysboth
#tagged by#piratefalls#I was having a really hard time figuring how to narrow this list down because there's quite a few more I watch#eventually I decided to only include the ones where I don't 'skip to the good bits'#(Fast Five and Mr & Mrs Smith and The Italian Job and Avengers 2012 I do all watch incredibly often but mostly only the back halves#and my animated movies and musicals I mostly watch the songs and the ends. not the Blues Brothers though)#and then the rest of these I put in order by when I got them because that's probably the best indicator of how often I've seen them#also worth noting that The Martian could easily be swapped for Star Trek (2009) or Charlie's Angels for Ocean's Eight#I tend to watch them back-to-back because they fill similar niches in my brain#Logan Lucky has recently beat out a lot of the other heist movies I rewatch because the characters and accents make me happy#(if anybody has heist movie recommendations though please please share I always want more)
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*twirls hair* so there's this anthropomorphic spanish cat with a paralyzing fear of death
#puss in boots#puss in boots the last wish#puss in boots 2#the last wish#i have seen this movie. like six times already. somebody send help.#why is it so visually striking and emotionally compelling like who gave dreamworks the right#(i've actually been sitting on this for a few weeks but i (a coward) refused to have this be my first posted piece of the year)#fanart#vesper arts
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henry 🤝 zack
hanging out with an eccentric inventor that exclusively wears coveralls
#i'm rewatching the suite life and i'm picking up on some insane parallels#like they're so specific???#they've literally both been on a game show and said while standing on the game show set#that they can't fight a girl#only to promptly get their asses kicked by said girls#i mean they both also ended up winning in the end but still#and that's just one. there's so many more#they've both traveled to an alternate dimension that was caused by a storm. and everything was like. backwards#the only time we've ever seen either of them drive a car it was a toy car#(i don't really count the truck because Hen wasn't really driving it. it was basically self-driving)#altho that one is kinda up for debate because I know henry took the wheel a few times when ray was being stupid#and zack may have driven his dad's red sports car in the movie?? it's been so long since i've seen it#i can't remember if we actually saw him driving it or just parking it#whatever. even if that one doesn't count there's still more#being involved in cheating during a spelling bee without actually being in the bee#being like 14 and heavily flirting with an older girl they have no shot with#having only one canon girlfriend that lasts more than one episode but ends up leaving them in the end#i know i've said it before but their canon superpowers are both speed based#i KNOW i've brought up the ghostbusters costumes 6 million times#i need to stop cause honestly i could go all night but who has the time
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i always queue things from my likes and it's so funny bc i just go back in the years and see what my obsession was then or what i was just keeping for later
#txt#2021 is sambucky#2022 is ofmd#2020 just a bunch of portrait of a lady on fire posts bc i meant to watch that movie and now 4 years later i finally have#then there's a bunch of shadowhunters posts somewhere in between those years#+ the sudden iwtv in early 2023 (i think)#and ofc the return of hannibal in latter 2023 tho some posts are from 2020/2019 lmao#so if you see me reblog smth u reblogged in 2020 yes u did#i try to keep my likes as minimal as possible#it's only like 1.6k posts bc i just like to clean them a lot lmao (yes i've seen the end a few times tho there used to be a lot more posts)#not sh#saskia talks
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I don't know how to explain this but the versions of JTTW feels weird when the Tang Monk has the power to defend himself right, and whole reason he argues with Sun Wukong is he want to stay a pacifist and hes powerless when dealing with monsters on the journey
I kinda like the different interpretations!! Personally, I think that there are some versions that make it really exciting having Sanzang as a fighter or at least can defend himself as it changes the dynamics of the group a bit, just enough to make it where the audience can see the same character but with slightly altered roles!
I know that it goes against the OG narrative but I think it kinda leans more into that kinda area of 'what ifs' where the reason Sanzang has Wukong, Bajie, and Wujing isn't that he needs protection but rather he generally wants to help them on their redemption. I know that's never every take when it comes to a fighting Sazang trope but I think it adds another layer of having new dynamics without taking away Sanzang's core elements of wanting to help others and being compassionate. I don't think having a character that can defend himself takes away his values of valuing life. If done well I think that it can be interesting to see someone that doesn't like violence still have the view that they understand certain circumstances cannot be avoided. Like Sanzang doesn't want Wukong to kill but he also never tells them to fight either, just to show mercy on their enemies and never go overboard, especially when they are far weaker them the overpowered yaoguai.
Of course, they aren't accurate but that is the fun of re-marks like that, and I think if done well can still have Sanzang's core traits of seeing good in everyone while having a more playful twist of dynamics in a media.
.....I'm mostly talking about Westward 西行纪 BUT I JUST LOVE THE CRAZINESS OF IT ALL! I'm not here for power structures, I'm here for character-driven narratives.
This Sanzang BENCH PRESSES demons, everyone else is just there for show. HE ALREADY GOT WARPED AROUND HIS FISTS HE READY.
What I'm trying to say it, I think if done right, it could be a really fun concept to play with but understandable if they just make him just a fighter and not a monk. A good "What if he was a Warrior Monk" but don't just make him a fighter.
#anonymous#anon#anon ask#jttw#journey to the west#xiyouji#tang sanzang#monk tripitaka#I can't help but enjoy when some media goes way different while still keeping the core traits of a character#I think that is a hard thing to sell considering that the characters are so set in their dynamics#But I'm not going to say it CAN'T be done well as I've seen it done a few good time in some media#one movie I saw had Sanzang with a huge back tattoo that was the suntras so that it was a last line of defense from demons trying to eat hi#honesly that was kinda badass#Another is where he like trying exorcise demons in conquering the demons where he can just do what Buddha did and just SLAM it down on them#It doesn't count as violence if it's a Buddha palm lmao it's insane#might just be my love for more bizarre but as long as the characters and story is good#ask
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Aro book review: So Many Beginnings by Bethany C. Morrow
This a retelling of Little Women, and is about a Black family living in a colony for the recently emancipated during the American Civil War. It follows the four sisters and their mother.
The book does a really good job of adapting the setting and teaching some history I was unaware of. I did struggle a little with the writing style at first - it's a bit tell, not show and seems to only briefly go over what's happening at times. It is on the shorter side and I wonder if it would have benefited from being a bit longer to flesh parts of it out better.
It seems pretty clear that this version of Jo is aroace in some way - all versions of Jo I've seen have had strong aroace vibes but often this is neglected at the end when she gets married - but here she gets to stay in that aroace space.
#aro#aromantic#aro books#This book might have been disadvantaged by me reading a day of fallen night at the same time#Which is written so wonderfully#Haven't actually ever read the original little women. But I had an abridged version as a kid I read a lot#And I've seen the recent movie.#And most recently I was heavily involved in a production of the Broadway musical#(which I have quite a few opinions on...)
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I've somewhat made a horror movie blog (not on tumblr) so now I need to figure out what to post there. There's several topics I'd be interested in exploring, but idk how to make them sound interesting or good
#also need to find the time and motivation to edit what ive written and write new things#one topic I've researched before and wpuld be cool to talk about is the horror space sequel thing#since like several franchises just randomly have space sequels and i've spent hours reading about it bc i thought it was really interesting#and also really strange how its kind of a thing#id also be interested in talking about obscure movies#I've been watching some more obscure japanese and korean horror films lately and maybe i could talk about that#bc the more obscure movies are very rarely talked about#like everyone talks about the grudge and ringu and train to busan and audition#but i really like the more obscure moviee too. not just from those countries but others too#and it'd be cool to maybe explore them more?#idk#i dont want to do like reviews bc im terrible at reviewing movies (i guess maybe mini-reviews would be doable but not long ones)#I'll have to figure it out more but i do want to make a horror blog#I'd try my hand at a yourube channel but i hate video editing ngl so blog (for now) it is#oh also i wanna talk about lesbian/sapphic rep in horror!!! lesbians in horror are always my favorite thing ever so i love watching them#I've seen quite a few and i could maybe try talking about that too?
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actually it's totally normal to watch the same movie 4540340920329 times i heard it from. uhh the movie gods
#it takes quite a lot of convincing to get me to watch a new movie. most of the time anyway#so yeah i have seen the same 3 movies like a million times and various other ones quite a few times#august rambles#my friend keeps trying to get me to watch star wars like yeah that's never gonna happen that is Too Much Movie#tbh watching new stuff just like. takes energy out you know? it's so much more relaxing to watch stuff i've already seen
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Do you think CLTCL Penguin (or Killer) likes those little devilish Penguins from the Madagascar franchise?
If either of them do, who's their favorite brother?
Oh, they both love them. Penguin loves them all, he doesn't do favorites. Killer too, but every time they do something devilish, Killer is like "You do this too", and "This is why I can't trust you."
Penguin's most quoted movie line from all movies that exist, is "Just smile and wave, boys."
Killer likes to pinch Penguin's cheeks every now and then and say, "I want you to look cute and cuddly." (Penguin hates that)
#cltcl#kilguin#ask#anon#listen I am not extremely familiar with the whole franchise#I've watched the first movie a few times and I think I've seen the second (and third?) movie once#(around the time they came out)#but that's it#I love the first movie though
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Something that's been bothering me lately is the amount of vitriolic posts that I see directed at fans of something that the OP and the people who reblog the post dislike. It's perfectly fine to say, "I didn't enjoy the Barbie movie," or "I don't think that OFMD lives up to the hype." But many folks seem to be misplacing their aversion to the show and pushing it onto the fans.
I'll see posts deriding people for enjoying Margot Robbie's performance in an hour-long commercial for a doll and mocking them for thinking that she deserves an Oscar nomination for it. But they could have easily said something like, "Personally, I didn't think that Robbie's performance was all that great, and the premise of the Barbie movie rubs me the wrong way." Why did they have to make it an attack against people they don't even know? They're making generalizations about why a person would enjoy the movie and offending people en masse by turning an opinion into an insult.
I don't go searching for these mean-spirited posts, but they find their way onto my dash regardless. (The amount of OFMD posts that get mixed into the Death Note tag makes me alternately laugh and cry.) And I wish that there were some way to block posts based on a specific tone, but there's no shared tagging system amongst them, and I don't want to avoid an entire show just because a few people are being rude about it. I want to be in a little Internet bubble full of people who are kind and respectful about the shows they don't like. There's so much to be anxious and indignant about already in the world. Why do some people want to waste their energy going after fans of TV shows and popular movies?
#i've never watched a single episode of ofmd#and i don't understand why some people are so mad at its fans for being upset that it was cancelled#the barbie movie hits closer to home because seeing the movie with friends was just the pick-me-up that i needed back in july#and my mom went to see it for her birthday a few weeks later and had a great time#who cares if it's not groundbreaking feminism? my mom felt seen when she watched it and it made her smile#everyone is entitled to their own opinions#i just wish they wouldn't resort to insulting people who think differently especially#*spongebob voice* we're not talking about this! [basic human rights] or this! [divisive political opinions]#or this! [respect for someone else's boundaries] we're talking about this! [a popular TV show/movie]#bunny babbles
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-resurfaces after 1000 years- hey guys
(not a virus link I promise)
#💎🌠art#I am straight up serious that this might've been my favorite movie I watched this year#how did it escape me so easily. it whips. I say this unironically.#and yes I have seen The Last Wish and the other Dreamworks classics ofc! They're wonderful and fantastic!#I just feel this movie is severely overlooked and how much it genuinely loves music and it's history has inspired me to look further into i#Plus those enviorments and artsy crafty details oh my ***GOD***. Genuinely the only time I've been really wowed by hyper realistic renderin#If you're willing to put up with a few kinda dumb jokes you're in for something great#Anyways that's my review I'll be here all night
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“i have a theory that elves are actually super duper itty bitty and blue pathfinders turn them human size but like that’s why they can travel at the speed of light and why humans can’t find them” -my sister
Comes home to my hardworking elf family and puts a single blueberry on the table for dinner and it collapses under the weight because the blueberry is bigger than all of us combined (I carried it with my super tiny elf mind) and we'll feast for weeks
That aside, what is "super duper itty bitty" in numeric values? Are we talking small like, kitten sized? Like rat sized? Like snail sized? Like ant? Like tardigrade? (the irony of me requesting numeric values and then listing nothing numerical is not lost on me).
Because currently I'm imagining them like a colony of ants that you can just step on. Their entire existence relies on something not stepping on them.
I will say, this does actually account for a few otherwise inexplicable occurrences--aside from the traveling at the speed of light and undiscovered by humans. For example, the over abundance I mentioned in an earlier post. Living mostly off fruit and such, anything normal sized will feed several people. That's why they're not at risk of starving. And the reason they can be so lavish with crystals is because proportionally, they need very little crystal to decorate themselves the way humans do. An entire house would be several fortunes over for a human, but there's enough resources to build a small elf house without draining the planet in the same way. It also explains why their economic system sucks so bad; their brains are too small to realize their own stupidity.
There are more kinks to be worked out (how does the blue crystal make them big, for example), but I think your sister is onto something. Not quite sure what, but her mind intrigues me.
#kotlc#kotlc theories#quil's queries#nonsie#i shall have you know that my first response to this was 'can we bee movie this?'#i typed it out but deleted it in favor of the current introduction to this response#introduction? am i writing an essay out here?#honestly chad sometimes it feels like it. there's a lot of words here#who. who is chad.#i've got a second cousin named chad he's. a goofball. haven't seen him in a few years. he works at a coffee shop#and plays video games with my dad all the time across the internet#how. how did I get on this topic#anyone who actually reads my tags going on a bit of a trip right now#but yeah chad and my dad are excellent friends. grew up together. were idiots together. are still idiots together just across the country#anyway
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willowenigma submitted:
For AMM: The Wall (1982)
The movie is a musical using the music from Pink Floyd's "The Wall" album. It focuses on a fictional rockstar named Pink, who's in the middle of an emotional and mental breakdown and is remembering/hallucinating the traumatic events of his life that brought him to that point.
Romantic relationships do play a key role in the movie, but they're generally not depicted positively and it's very possible to watch through the lens of Pink being aro.
Other warnings include graphic sexual content, depictions of WWII and Nazi imagery, blood and death, drug use and overdoses, misogyny, and violence.
(Sorry if this has been submitted before, I had a hard time checking the rec lists on mobile!)
Additional Information: R | Drama, Fantasy, Music
Trailer:
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#aro movies monday#amm: oct23#amm list: aro friendly#willowenigma#((I just learned today the main character has a name#like I guess they say it in the movie#but I've seen it a few times and still#it surprised me --C))#Youtube
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