gritty both capturing the zeitgeist as usual AND educating me on the availability of free flow butter at american cinemas

Oh gosh lindsay lohan is coming back with a romcom movie on netflix. And from the trailer it feels like several 90s and y2k movies in one. Maybe they did that on purpose for the nostalgia effect to gain views, but I don’t care

Gimme back silly simple entertainment. And I don’t mean that condescendingly but very affectionately. Please make this movie work and bring back that ye ole wholesome romcom vibe.

I don’t need blockbuster type of movies that want to serve adventure adrenalin or overly sad drama or jumpscare splatter or vfx/cgi bombardment or whatever. Just want to put my brain on autopilot and want smth soft and fuzzy

Ñíbrahge. 

Hm?

Ñíbrahge. Means water that’s flat. It’s Otoe.

Yeah, Nebraska. Like I said.

Ñíbrahge.

chaske spencer as eli whipp // The English (2022) 1.05 “The Buffalo Gun”

Alright so I got a bit curious... just how much of Vice Versa was ads? So I went in and cut out all the intros and up next screens and previews to get the total run time of the actual show, and also isolated the product placement segments.

I was generous with the product placement. I didn’t count the entire segments that were clearly based around the product, just the points where they actually interacted with the products.

Here’s my calculations (unless I’ve got the math entirely wrong)

The total run time was 11:32:11, which comes 692.18 minutes

The ad segments were 1:51:17, which comes to 111.28 minutes

Approximately 16% of Vice Versa was purely product placement

Basically, what I’m getting at is

I HAVE ARISEN FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL TO SAY THAT YESTERDAY I WENT TO THE MOVIES AND I SAW THE NEW DND MOVIE AND IT WAS SO GOOD Y’ALL

My expectations weren’t super high unfortunately, seeing the track record of movies based off of games and existing franchises but DAMN WAS THIS MOVIE FUN

me trying to come up with literally ANY type of explanation to the aous ending that wouldnt mean what it most obviously means because i am so devastated

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.

the boy and the heron (how do you live?)

The Banshees of Inisherin / Polite Society / Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse / Summer of Soul/They Cloned Tyrone /The Godfather/Rye Lane / Bottoms / Die Hard

9 Favourite First Time Watches: 2023

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Sometimes you just need a beer and a joint lol

Writing loads and loads about how beautiful life is and how it definitely gets better for Oomf who is struggling atm knowing damn well it got better for me and then Immediately got 100x worse after like a year of feeling better 😭😭😭😭 and the only "better" times I can really think of is when we did that thing for school . And we sat in a field to eat lunch after walking for a few hours . And just. Sitting there, in the grass, leaning on my friends, sharing food, complaining about how we had to walk for Another few hours, I was so happy despite how tired we all were. I hurt my leg, I got a chest infection, and still . I was so happy . It's one of my best memories ever. I don't remember a lot of my life, but this one thing, I don't think I'll ever forget. It was so beautiful, the field was so beautiful, it was so nice and sunny, the food tasted better than usual because we were so tired and hungry from walking so much. Everything felt so much funnier than it actually was, we were just laughing at everything. I don't think I'll ever be so happy again in my life, but the thought that maybe life will be as good as that again, makes me want to keep living . I would do anything to feel like that again . But then the day ended with us asking for water at 6 different checkpoints and them Only finding us at the Last checkpoint AND they only found us because we waited there for like 30 minutes . We almost died!!!!!

also its so fun suddenly remembering music that i listened to as a 15 yr old because I always think "oh haha that stuff is probably kind of shitty now" and then i listen to it and realize oh this rips actually

so. i watched anatomy of a fall