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halfelven · 10 months

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Genuine question, what movies are you talking about in that post? Bc I can't think of any that fit that description but I'm also not a big movie person so I may just have been lucky with the ones I've seen dkjsfa

disclaimer! don’t @ me saying to watch better movies! i do! i just watch a LOT of movies! i like to see what’s going out there since i study media*

also i know this is badly written. i have not pulled myself together after a very long year and a half

this got rambly so i’m putting my tl;dr here: comedy feels stagnant to me, and that makes me feel weird when it comes to things (some of which are aimed at kids/teens)

okay so if you don’t watch a lot of movies you probably missed them! the kind of movies i was thinking about are mostly comedies that are aimed at teens but really just don’t feel right. just stupid forgettable movies that will have a random adult (maybe a teacher) make some comment about back in their day. and they just feel off in a very specific way where it’s like idk who is writing this but i don’t think they have a grasp of what is going on

probably due to being rich

i am terrible with titles and names and i’m currently in the wilderness so i’m not too confident matching scenes to titles

(also that post was slamming together a few themes i’ve seen repeated in different movies and shows and they are not all american. some are canadian/uk/australia but i use the ‘too movies’ or ‘too much (blank) on tv’ thing as a joke)

also some of the movies/shows are marketed to adults not teens. they also carry with some of those themes. um. working moms (show) is canadian and i’m not sure if they’re millennial or gen x but they have a lot of weird recurring issues with ‘ooh scary generation gap with my kids.’

and i think um. i’m trying to remember the name. idk it stars the australian woman who was in pitch perfect and she’s in a coma and wakes up 20 years later and goes back to school and they make the slur jokes. that is the one i watched most recently. i was having a hard time with trying to figure out who the target audience was… can’t remember the name and i watched it last week

another movie i can’t remember the name of that i think was marketed at teens also had the weird ‘oh the climate change protest kids just want attention’ gimmick that the movie with the pitch perfect woman had

is sarah jessica parker gen x? her new sec and the city show is Wild. one of the groups presentations in my media discourse class was about the representation of sexual minorities between the old sex and the city and the new sex and the city. i can try to find one of the articles they referenced in that because how the new one is almost more isolating is really interesting

which is kind of a trend? a ohh boo hoo don’t yell at me mean minorities!! i’m trying!! kind of vibe that runs through a lot of new movies/shows

like there is this distinct weirdness that is coming in with media created by white female comedians (i say female bc i tend to watch movies with female leads) amy palmer or pohler or whatever her name is. she has a movie out like 5 years ago? it had this teenage girl finding her mom’s old punk albums or something

but basically i had been watching a bunch of comedy things with female leads and so many are just weird. like it was leaving me wondering like what are the shows/movies teens are getting that feel somewhat authentic?

obviously movies are weird and there aren’t a lot of good ones that really stand out. and there have been constant jokes about how young people are portrayed in media for forever probably

but i think that movies are a good medium for comfort and hope, maybe especially for children and teens. you don’t have to have the energy to read to yourself. you can watch it when you’re doing something else with your hands. or are sick.

it’s the visuals. and the music. the way you can do something else while getting a story. they are very human.

and comedies are much harder to do than dramas. but they have a different sort of catharsis. i don’t know. people tend to downplay them as just stupid when there is a deep connection humans try to have through humour. i’m rambling but i just really love comedies and i love stories for children and stories for teens and i think they’re all downplayed as. being stupid. or easy. like you don’t have to try.

i’m sorry this just turned into rambling. maybe writers just went too far with the ‘set things in high school bc a.) kids will make emotional decisions that you wouldn’t see an adult character make b.) your characters are trapped in that environment c.) unlike college, they are trapped with other characters on mostly the same schedule and d.) they still see breakups etc as life and death situations’ advice that they give writers (this is paraphrased from several screenwriting guides i’ve read)

but idk i’m just bothered by the comedies i’ve been watching. and comedies do tend to show a lot about the current state of the world. comedies and horror are both downplayed genres that show a lot.

again sorry this is rambly. i don’t have energy to find my sources. there are interesting theories on comedy out there that just make me feel weird about what i’m seeing. like it’s so stagnant. that’s my tl;dr

most comedies i’ve seen lately seem stagnant

*i have a degree in this so i feel bad that i’m not pulling sources bc it feels like plagiarism at points

#asks #anonymous #about writing #about movies #comedy #genre

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llycaons · 2 years

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baccano for the ask game? or if you've answered one like this before hmm lof?

ohh I'll do both, thanks!

baccano (light novel version! the anime's fun but it doesn't get the depth of the characters)

Favorite character: so many but I'll say for this one chane and jacuzzi splot my beloveds

Second favorite character: special shoutout to ennis, nile, rail, carla, nice, luchino, and graham, phil

Least favorite character: with the sheer volume, there are so many unlikeable or boring characters or characters who are just villainized in a really poorly-written and overdone way...I'm going to say raz smith because he's annoying and pretentious even though I actually do get the appeal

The character I’m most like: uhh carol. everyone in this show is off the rails bonkers I'm just along for the ride. also ennis! god I love ennis

Favorite pairing: despite him only writing straight relationships and having a strong need to pair up almost all of the women with men, I actually love a lot of narita's couples. claire and chane, jacuzzi and nice, keith and kate, and huey and monica all stand out to me. they're all so fun but all for different reasons :)

Least favorite pairing: on the flipside, when he messes up it's...bad...one of my most hated pairings ever is in the books. bobby and carnea (turns to retch). all of the other couples, even if I have issues with them for one reason or another (ladd and lua, firo and ennis), don't inspire the amount of loathing I have towards this couple. you shame your great-grandparents, boy

Favorite moment: like tgcf, this series is long and rich and I could name many scenes in every book. for now I'm going to say the finale of the grand punk railroad with jacuzzi standing up to face the rail tracer is fucking phenomenal (in both show and novel) and it blows me away every time.

Rating out of 10: 9/10. there's a lot of juvenile writing choices that I was less able to pick up on when I was younger, one of the books is incredibly racist, a lot of the plots boild down to "and then everyone meets up and fights and there's a lot of chaos" and some of the villains are written in such a shallow and over-the-top way it's painful. but to me the story and characters (and their interactions) are just mesmerizing, the structure keeps things fresh and interesting, the fantastical concepts introduced and followed through on are unlike any I've seen before, and the fight scenes are magnificent. I do think the good outweighs the bad, but I haven't read them in years so take this with a grain of salt

EDIT: I FORGOT LOF kahdsahdksaf

legend of fei

Favorite character: zhou fei herself is a delight even if strangely underdeveloped

Second favorite character: her little cousin!! Ii yan (had to google her name but I adore her)

Least favorite character: yin pei. FUCKING yin pei. why did he have so many arcs why couldn't he have just died nobody wanted him around and he contributed nothing that made bearing his presence worth it. also li zheng he was so annoying and he never seemed to grow into the role I think he was supposed to

The character I’m most like: hard to say. chuchu maybe except if I lost my younger brother I would literally have torn that town apart. love her though it's not her fault the writers dropped the ball

Favorite pairing: xy and zf are cute! tere are definitely issues I had with them early on and stuff I disliked later but overall I really enjoyed their relationship

Least favorite pairing: LI ZHENG LEAVE CHUCHU ALONE. goodddd that's the WORST she literally likes zf better...zf has two hands!!

Favorite moment: oh that battle scene in 25 fucking spectacular. the one where xy releases the bonds on himself and then spends like the next 20 episodes dying bc of it

Rating out of 10: hmmm 6/10. it was fun and full of sexy old people and the main characters had a great dynamic and the side characters were pretty fun and the figh scenes were awesome but the plot was kind of a mess and the camerawork was dreadful and the finale was just a tad underwhelming and there didn't seem to be any deeper messages or themes within the work. but it was fun! I'm glad I saw it

thank you!!

#asks

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