watched lair of the white worm for peter capaldi's portrayal of a lesbian but stayed for the. whatever else happened in this movie
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something i’ve been thinking about since seeing saw x that i haven’t really seen anyone else bring up is that. the only survivor is the rich white lady. she’s taking advantage of all these people. valentina’s a sex worker, gabriela’s an addict, etc etc like. her surviving the movie (to me) kind of represented how people like her walk away almost completely unscathed even after all the harm they caused to other people. she was sort of an instigator, in the way that she was making them do the traps. it came off as kind of supportive in a way, like a “you can do it!! cut your leg off!! if you put your mind into it anything is possible!!” almost pretending to be helping them
cecilia, as a character, represents big pharma and capitalism and how they fuck over everyone. it goes after people who have no hope left, that includes the terminal cancer patients she scams AND everyone else who becomes involved with her. they do it because they need to survive, cecilia does it because she wants to get rich. and she’s not above doing anything, she WILL waterboard a child
idk i just found that really interesting, the movie takes place almost entirely in mexico and the only person to survive is cecilia, the only non-mexican person involved in the trap
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Show Snotlout is just so vastly superior to movie Snotlout, and I KNOW i KNOW they had more time in the shows, but they didn't have to reduce him pretty much solely to comic relief in the movies (I adore movielout btw even though thw Snotlout was a total nightmare)
Bc like it would've been so easy to give him a moment w Hiccup where he's like we believe in you in the second movie to show his growth from the first, or to show him joking around WITH the gang as opposed to being the butt of the joke constantly and stuff idk
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deeply refreshing to see someone critical of Swift who also like, genuinely likes her. Like i'm neutral to positive on her, but the online discourse has been absolutely rancid. flipping between "Taylor Swift has never done anything wrong ever and she's a fucking genius" and "Taylor Swift is the worst lyricist of all time and also a bad person" is exhausting, so thank you for like. nuance or something lmao
not to make it serious for a sec but i genuinely think that being able to like things that are bad is really important. like I think that it's an important skill to be able to look at something and see what you personally enjoy about it and then take a step back and acknowledge that objectively it's flawed. and to also be able to acknowledge that liking something isn't necessarily an identity or a moral stance. and i think that fandom space in general could really benefit from more people taking the time to learn how to do that. it's okay to like things that are bad
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Opening with a parallel to 2001: A Space Odyssey is not only very funny for Barbie but also I think it carries the message of how female directors don't receive the same amount respect for their work male directors like Stanley Kubrick get from the offset. Like I can't name a single female director with the same sort of filmbro cult reverence Kubrick has. (Barbie touches on this again with the Godfather joke too). But also making that statement while premiering the same day as Oppenheimer, mainly hyped because of Christopher Nolan, a male director who has a bad track record with female characters and has said cult following really makes it stronger.
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Actors who are used to doing live action work aren’t incapable of doing good voice work and they never have been, it’s just that voice acting requires additional skills that they probably haven’t learned or had time to practice. The real issue comes when that live action actor has to decide if they are going to try to learn those skills and give a good voice performance OR if they’re just going to cash a paycheck, and so far it’s very fucking clear which actors in the Mario movie are trying to give a good voice performance and which ONE is just cashing a paycheck.
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Ok but like they knew what they were doing with this scene. Like, they HAD to know what they were doing with this scene.
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