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philia95 · 2 years

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Just finished watching The Northman (2022). I'm obsessed lol ⚔️

I went into it blind without knowing anything about it and was pleasantly surprised to find it was similar to the beginning of Vinland Saga (an amazing anime that everyone should watch). Both are based on Norse mythology (Vinland Saga on the story of Thorfinn Karlsefin and The Northman on the story of Amleth). They share similar themes of revenge and guilt however I'd argue Vinland Saga is a lot more complex, exploring themes of growing up, adulthood, forgiveness, faith and more, all while weaving real life historical events into it's fictional story. That being said, it's not fair to compare a 2hr movie to an ongoing series of a completely different story so I won't. I just wanted an excuse to talk about Vinland Saga lol.

Back to the movie. Everything about it's presentation was amazing from the striking imagery to the breathtaking scenery. Some of the outfits were also a treat to look at e.g the blind witch. The acting was good and I loved the hyper-theatrical dialogue. Basically this movie just goes to show how interesting films can be when they aren't afraid to be over the top and creative. For example one of my favourite aspects of the movie was the strong fantasy elements depicting Norse Gods and spirits etc. I like that they leaned into it and show-cased them through strange and beautiful visions. Again the imagery was just so good. One example would be when the Goddess Valkyrie carries Amleth to Valhalla. My jaw dropped.

I can't think of any negatives other than the story is one we are already familiar with so you know how it will play out (it is literally based on a tale so iconic it inspired Hamlet). This goes for the characters too. But this isn't really a negative. If anything, they did a good job of retelling a well known story without making it boring. They kept it interesting enough that the 2hr runtime just flew by. I found it way better than The Green Knight that's for sure. It's a simple yet solid plot that contains a valuable lesson as old as time.

I also don't know how accurate of an adaptation it is to the original source material but I also don't care. The story is so old, it's probably been retold countless times in countless ways. This is just another way.

Overall, it's a great movie. If you like Vikings, Norse mythology or high fantasy I would highly recommend this movie. It can be pretty gory and violent but it's about Vikings so... what do you expect?? I'm just happy I can add it to my small list of historical fantasy media I like, alongside Golden Kamuy and Vinland Saga. 8/10

#The Northman #the northman 2022 #tai watches movies #Tai's movie reviews #Vinland Saga #movies #golden kamuy

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malinaa · 5 months

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thinking about those two minuscule moments in the movie when lucy gray leans in for a kiss it's coriolanus that pulls away and when coriolanus leans in for a kiss it's lucy gray that pulls away. like in each other's homes they would never be comfortable with one another, not fully and instinctually their bodies know this. it just takes their minds to catch up

#films #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #snowbaird #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #meta #text #tais toi lys #thgpost #i finished the book yesterday and watched the movie today. i will be insufferable . apologies (is not sorry at all)#*

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pichichustudios · 7 hours

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Cats✨🥰 💙🧡

#lately I’ve been watching Kfp 🥰🥰🥰#the 4th movie sucks but still love kfp🥰🥰#kung fu panda #kfp #tai lung #tigress #kfp tai lung #kfp tigress #kfp fanart

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doyouguyshearaduck · 1 month

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Kung Fu Panda 4

Okay, I've seen a lot of hate for the recent Kung Fu Panda movie, and for a while, I agreed with what everyone was saying but I went to actually see the movie today and it was actually really good. Was it the best movie in the series? No. Did it have some wasted potential? Yes. But it was in no way the dumpster fire/cash grab everyone is making it out to be. The animation is still amazing, the story was good, the action sequences were great, Tai Lung is still Badass, and Akwafina's character wasn't nearly as annoying as people have been saying she would be. The absence of the Furious Five in the movie was disappointing but it doesn't ruin the movie. My only real critique would be that the villain wasn't as thought out or developed as the past Kung Fu Panda villains were, but she's by no means a bad villain. And to anyone who was scared that Po wouldn't be as good as he was in the last movies, I will confidently tell you he is still, if not more, kick-ass awesome.

Overall I really liked Kung Fu Panda 4, and I think everyone should see it before they start judging it so harshly.

#kung fu panda #kung fu panda 4 #movie review #opinion #Kung Fu Panda review #kfp 4 #kfp #tai lung #Please PLEASE Just watch the movie before you start hating it #free thought

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starredforlife · 1 month

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i'm assigning my followers animation homework u have to study these two battle scenes and tell me why they're both so goddamned effective. i could tell u all the answers myself. but i want ur answers

#i had the entire script of the second movie memorized guys when i say i like kfp i fucking mean it #i know the music beat for beat i could probably hum it along to every note #the sound design in both of these....immaculate #BUT THE STORYBOARDING. GOD THE FUCKING STORYBOARDING.#jennifer yuh nelson i love you forever #watching the 4th movie i was SO disappointed in the storyboarding #it was completely uncinematic!!!! and compared to the final fights in both movies the second movies and even the 3rd #the stage was so limited and not played with #it never felt grand and it never felt like the stakes were high enough #like it sucked so much ass AUGHHHGHHGHGH AND IT DIDNT HAVE TO #also the character animation???? also just not great????#like i LOVE how they did tai lung and tigress in the bridge scene ok #you have all the character motivation behind the way they hold and express themselves #and in the gongmen fight. po is just so SO well animated in all his idiosyncrasies #and the way he gets intense. and the way shen panics. and the boss wolf's turn. SO WELL DONE.#this is my fucking white whale guys this is it #videos #kfp #Youtube

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darkcrowprincess · 2 years

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If Tai Lung came back for a redemption arc and joins the team:

Tai Lung annoyed: Tigress isn’t answering my messages.

Po taking out his phone: Allow me.

Tai Lung doubtful(doesn't know Po and Tigress are together): She's my little sister I tried 6 times, what makes you thi-

Tigress voice sounds happy: *replying to Po's call* Hello Po, what's wrong?

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kierancaz · 3 months

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I think the idea of fate and destiny and tied to our free will. Like your “destiny” is the way it is because of the stuff you do out of free will.

Like a lot of people say that the idea of destiny/having a destiny means that free will doesn’t exist but I don’t think that’s true. Typically it’s the things people do to avoid their destiny that ends up sealing their fate. It’s because of their decisions, their actions, taken out of free will, that their destiny is what it is.

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justatree75 · 2 months

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i need to be stopped from writing angsty kung fu panda fanfic

#kung fu panda #i just watched the 4th movie (not the best movie ever but i will love this franchise until i die sooo)#and i'm having Thoughts™️#about tai lung specifically #and like #what if he hadn't turned evil as soon as he did #and he'd seen tigress grow up #i think i just need them as siblings content

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torchickentacos · 6 months

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I need to watch more movies. An assignment has me coding a webpage and listing movies I liked, and I'm desperately trying to remember if I even liked 10 Things I Hate About You or not. It's a movie I've seen, which at this point is all I'm looking for. I refuse to put Destiny Deoxys on my literal schoolwork, but GOD I am running out of movies I've seen that aren't just things I watched with my little sisters/pokemon movies.

#all i remember abt 10tihay is that i liked the fashion #and i watched it with irls in high school #and i was like. hey this guy sucks. so does she. and her. and that guy. and all of them #and my friends were like 'you only think that bc you're basically kat and don't know how to have fun' /they were lh. they're cool dw #they were right. i was. high school taylor was incredibly cynical and argumentative. as sixteen year olds tend to be. 180 from me now tbh #i should rewatch it and see if i like it more now or not #i don't remember hating it as a whole. just the characters #but i put very little stock in teenage taylor's opinions #like. to be fair to the movie. 16 year old tay would tell you that the mona lisa fucking sucked #plus i barely remember anything before being like 19 but that's another topic

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the-five-deadly-venoms · 5 months

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isn't this raya and the last dragon?

#hey i saw the kfp4 trailer i don't like it!!!!!!!!!!#kung fu panda #kfp4 #i was really hoping for a kfp2 #when i saw the thumbnails my first thought was ''this is a tv movie''#the flanderisation.... the quirkiness...... po is an idiot and shifu is a dork.......... why......#tai lung feels like such pander. awkwafina fur bait? if she is a wolf (AND A CRIMINAL) she should've been rougher. a fox still rough....#idk her design doesn't match the universe its not nico marlet :(#EUGH AND THE HUMOUR THAT WAS MY LEAST CONCERN AND NOW ITS MY MOST I JUST DON'T WANNA WATCH IT LMAO #but you know what? i love chameleon she can get it 🦎💖💍🧎#only thing i liked abt that smh #my anticipation for monkey & viper screentime/dialogue INSTANT CRUSHED when none of the 5 AT ALL FGSJJJS #like we got mantis & crane.. give those other two some love—NOPE #not even tigress???????????? shifu & tai lung family reunion of they don't interact AT ALL #or tai lung & po meet and its awkward and they idk have a Talk #ugh this isnt for me...... i will do it for you chameleon 💚 but not in theaters #yeah safe posts stuff

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jusiri · 5 months

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um hello??

#Im concerned... but also all the movies have been at least good #like 1 and 2 are great 3 isnt my fav but it aint bad either so #i didn't watch the trailer uh i literally just #saw it and immediately cane here to post about it lol #but Tai Lung in there? in the thumbnail at least #im intrigued #not watching the trailer tho

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philia95 · 2 years

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I watched Netflix's The Sea Beast. It's pretty shit tbh.

Why?

1) It had boring character designs. MC guy is just generic Walmart Flynn Rider and the Captain is just Walmart Long John Silver from Treasure Planet. Also why are their names so forgettable? Jacob Holland? That's just a guy.

I thought the designs of the monsters were also super lazy. Red is just red which makes no sense considering she wouldn't be able to blend in with her natural habitat, the Ocean. Blue is cute and I do love it but the nit-picky side of me wonders why it has the light bulb on its head like an Anglerfish when it doesn't live in a dark environment. Basically they don't look adapted to their habitats which makes me think the creators didn't bother with any sort of thoughtful world building.

2) The plot and music were very predictable with the music carrying the more emotional parts of the movie. Honestly, the emotional parts felt like they only happened to tick-off plot points, thats how predictable it felt. Sweet innocent child befriends sentient monster who end up saving eachother. I usually like that trope but with age I'm getting tired of it lol ☠️ she also befriends the Jaded Adult™️ but the sad part is I felt no chemistry between them. The two main characters are supposed to be like a found family by the end of the film but it didn't feel real. Maybe it's because they literally only knew eachother for a few days. 🤔 But also the bad writing. Honestly none of the characters deviated from their character tropes so none of them felt real.

3) The dialogue felt awkward and unnatural. Especially the kid. She doesn't say things a kid her age would (her voice actor was really good though). But it's a pet peeve of mine when writers mess this up. It's not just her either. A lot of the characters just say generic things that we've all heard before. Lazy imo.

Anyway, now for the positives! 💖

1) The overall message of the movie was good and educational, "be weary of the content you consume as it might not be coming from reliable sources". Even if it was explained in a very heavy handed way, that's to be expected from a kids movie. (Absolutely zero nuance lol).

2) I liked the character development that Walmart Flynn goes through. The Captain and him were good parallels to eachother in regards to their morals and values. They started out the same but ended up choosing different paths. 👌

3) I also liked the detailed backgrounds and pretty colour pallets. Also the animation itself was great. It's just a shame it was wasted on such a boring story.

Overall, just watch How to train your Dragon instead. It had the same themes but done a lot better with better characters and better everything else. It also didn't bore me out of my mind unlike The Sea Beast. 2/10

#my movie reviews #the sea beast #httyd #how to train your dragon #Netflix #tai's movie review #tai watches movies

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storminmybestdressfearless · 2 months

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there is nothing that can explain the pure chaos before the surprise songs. taylor's face. us trying to figure out the song on a sold out stadium. people screaming when they figure it out. the first words. it's all so chaotic and i love it!!!!!!

#tay watches the eras tour movie

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velvetineblue · 9 months

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wrow, ok.......

#becoming a monochrome blogger ig idk #hi i watched gotg vol 3 last night ( IT WAS SOOOO GOOD; I'M SORRY FOR BEING A MARVEL SHILL BUT GOTG TRILOGY IS THEIR MASTERPIECE )#& i feel.... Inspired. quill always gave me such major tai vibes and this movie didn't change that at all...#but i also slept on the unsupported floor which. at my decrepit age of a disintegrating hag ( i.e. older than 22 ) ( / joking btw asjajasj #anyway this means i have a crick in my bones that won't go away & is so annoying it's making me want to set the world on fire so #i probably won't do anything Productive today but #.. he pretty . slayer of b&w photoshoots #that my contribution < 3 #imgs.

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seventeenlovesthree · 2 years

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Digimon Adventure Last Evolution Kizuna Relationship Analysis: How the dramaturgy keeps telling the viewer that Taichi and Koushirou are always (and have always been) connected.

More than a year ago, I wrote my very first analysis post on Digimon Adventure Last Evolution Kizuna after having watched it for the first time - and my initial verdict regarding the relationship between Taichi and Koushirou was that there was some kind of implied drift between them. Granted, the narrative keeps hitting the viewer on the head about how it’s not easy to keep everyone together throughout adulthood and that Taichi’s situation (and mental health state) specifically is causing him to keep a distance to (the majority of) the others. Some of these points will still be part of the following analysis - however, after having watched the movie several times now and with a lot of bias pushed aside, I noticed that they’re actually more connected than the narrative makes you believe at first glance. Let’s take a look at this. (Disclaimer: There’s a lot of interpretation on my behalf of course, I’ve tried to gather as much evidence for my claims as possible, but in the end, it’s also still a fanon interpretation of their relationship.)

First of all, it’s noticable that the actual group still defending Tokyo from materializing Digimon has decreased significantly - at least at the time the movie takes place. Besides Takeru and Hikari, we only see Taichi and Yamato being involved in the first fight against Parrotmon, while Koushirou is managing the logistics from afar - not only is he the one able to open gates to the Digital World at will by now, but he is also the one who provides everyone with the technology they need for their fights to turn out successful. Smartphones, headphones, the (prototype) goggles Taichi uses... It’s easy to see how he’s basically their sponsor and Taichi the “guinea pig” to try it all out - and he does so voluntarily. Thanks to this translation here, we know that Taichi took the googles without permission. So while the others are obviously using Koushirou’s gadgets as well, Taichi seems to be particularly interested in trying them out.

As mentioned, the phones the Chosen Children are using were also made by Koushirou’s company; he’s the connector who manages the Chosen Children network, he is being on-call and has all his contacts, chats and calls ready if required. It’s his logo that continuously appears throughout the movie. And why is it notable that it’s there? Because he and Taichi keep communicating with each other through electronic means; headphones, phones, text messages. And while Koushirou also contacts Yamato and Takeru to gather them all in his office, making it appear like a rather formal “work arrangement”, meeting up like that seems to be something Taichi definitely enjoys ditching his adult obligations for. Taichi immediately shuts down Koushirou apologizing to them for calling them despite knowing how busy they are; he dryly says that it’s an emergency, implying that it should have been natural for them to come after Koushirou asked - but seeing how giddy he appears to be upon going on an “adventure” with his closest buddies again, it does give the impression that he welcomes it all.

It seems to be something that boosts his confidence, so him reassuring Koushirou that everything will be fine is a nice change of pace - especially when you take into consideration that we’ve seen him being quite gloomy in previous scenes, unsure about his future, unhappy in his part-time-job, all alone in his tiny flat. Probably dealing with a lot of insecurities, self-doubt and maybe even inferiority issues - because even if it was never outright mentioned, a (potentially) subtle little nudge towards Our War Game tells the viewer once more that Taichi Yagami (understandably) doesn’t like it when smart people around him make him feel dumb - or when Koushirou actually interacts with people he deems much smarter than himself. (Perhaps - despite it being quite a stretch - he might even feel inferior towards Koushirou himself, who, being the CEO of his own company at the age of only 21, already has his life together for the most part, whereas Taichi hasn’t. And thus, we do not see Taichi confide in Koushirou throughout the span of the movie - which doesn’t mean that they don’t talk about personal issues at all, but Taichi seems to be more inclined to - superficially - mope about his future angst with Yamato, while still keeping the majority of his doubts to himself. Again, that’s mainly interpretation.)

Back to the communication part: One of the things that has been a constant throughout all of Digimon Adventure was that Taichi is relying on Koushirou figuring things out, giving him/them the information he/they need to progress. And even during adulthood, that still seems to be a thing. Sure, the narrative always required Koushirou to be “info-dump-boy” who easily figures out what is going on (because plot), but no matter how bleak things appear to be and even if they don’t seem as close with each other as they used to be on an emotional level, these two still trust in and rely on each other.

Taichi asks him about where Menoa resides, stays on the phone with him to make sure he’ll definitely know how to get to the place Hikari is being held hostage at - because he knows he can trust Koushirou 100%. In fact, despite the implied (emotional) distance, he actually seems to know quite a lot about what is going on with him - implying that, after all, he’s still attached to him. This is not only shown by him being the one who talks about Koushirou being the owner of a company to Yamato, but generally in the way he continuously mentions or refers to him.

Looking at Koushirou’s perspective, he will go as far as to completely commit to the cause and sacrifice himself for the sake of making sure Taichi (and Yamato and everyone else) won’t lose their partners. His facial expressions throughout the movie tell you how bitter he is that he hasn’t figured anything out yet to stop the departure from happening.

The novel-only part about “The Candle Of Life” eventually foreshadows that Koushirou is indeed willing to sacrifice himself (which is something he has always done): “Instead of taking things from people against their will, I’d rather give to them what I have before my end.” And that is exactly what he does - he manages to get the coordinates to the Digital Realm to Taichi before losing his consciousness, by typing on a pre-paid-phone behind his back like it’s the easiest thing in the world. Obviously, Taichi trusts in that information without a single shred of doubt - because it’s Koushirou it’s coming from.

And Koushirou himself? It’s not really a surprise that he - and Hikari - are the ones who latch onto Taichi while they’re being turned back into children. Because Taichi has always been among those people he’s been the closest with. My theory back then was that it may have been a subconscious action, fueled by the wish to stop Taichi from destroying this ideal world, in order to bring back old times, easier times, times in which they were much closer than they are now. But then again - is it really the case? Because the connection between them hasn’t really vanished. Koushirou - as shown above several times now - has always stayed in touch with Taichi; telling him about Digimon attacking the city, about trouble coming up, about his sister being in danger, always making sure he’d be okay and safe. (Which might also explain why he was so furious about Taichi taking the prototype goggles - since he has made goggles for him for several years now, it’s fair to assume that he wants his own creations to not be a safety hazard to his friend. Plus, Koushirou has always been worried about Taichi doing reckless things - even the stageplay picked up on this, repeatedly and with emphasis -, so this should not be surprising either.)

And in the end - as much as Taichi relies on Koushirou, Koushirou always relies on Taichi too. Hence why he sent the coordinates to him specifically. Because he’d always call/contact him first. He has done so since he was 10/11 and still does so as an adult.

And since they’ve always been plan crafting like this together, it’s actually still fair to assume that this attitude has never really changed.

#taichi yagami #koushirou izumi #digimon adventure last evolution kizuna #digimon adventure kizuna #taishiro #taishirou #my two cents #meta #anime #digimon #koushiro izumi #izzy izumi #tai kamiya #look this is purely platonic because when i first watched this movie i was kinda sad #i mean the overall tone of the movie was sad but it reeeeally felt like my boys had drifted apart #but looking at things a year later it actually doesn't seem to be that grim anymore

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violentdevotion · 1 year

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I had multiple dreams last night.

I had a bf </3

someone in my family got bit by a zombie </3

some guy made me explain narrative structure to him </3

#ameera speaks #1 expanded) it was someone ik in real life 😔 which sucks soooo bad anyway he was at mine and we were watching a movie in my bed on my #laptop < (loser behaviour) and okay so im lying by referring to him as my bf bc we were just friends in the dream but then he started like #acting well intimate and i wasnt not into it so i was like hey whats going on here and we had a talk and then i had to sneak him out of my #house. dream 2) zombie apocalypse im in my room my nephews and nieces come in and i usher them out. the world is the samw just + zombies.#like think covid when it was dire but schools were still open? (my dream was a commentary on the countries failures to manage covid) so i #usher my neohews and nieces out and i make a comment to my sister in law like ooh im scared one of them got bit and my nephew was like some #girl bit me at school today and i told his mum and i stayed in my room and like an hour later i rang her like whats the update #and she was like oh yeah and came into my room to find my journal on zombie stuff and sge was like should i just cut off his arm and i was #idk try but if that doesnt work youre gonna have to... and she was SO CASUALLL !!!! and as she was leaving she started like picking things #up off the floor and i made a comment like your sons dying and youre sweeping and she was like way harsh tai and i woke up #that one was a commentsry on covid and also how i might be too mean to my sister in laws sometimes #3) i was in a library with friends researching smth and some asian guy sits on our table turns his back to us and talks to his friends.#then he starts playing music loudly from his phone and i move back to my table and as im walking he stops me and starts talking to some #girl on the table next to mine who he knows and is like hey i have an assignment due where i have to write a compelling narrative from my #own life ur clever can u help and she was a stem girly and went highschool with me and she pointed at me like ask her she does english #and he was like no u just tell me and she started helping him but i felt the advice she was giving was.. bad. so i interrupted like dont #you think that you should do __ instead and we had a discussion about it till i woke up. < that dream was a commentary on how useless my #degree is and how i wish it wasnt useless

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