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The plot structures of movies need to start taking more cues from classic opera. Open with fucker in a hat who directly addresses the audience and explains what's going on in a way that raises far more questions than it answers, then immediately drop the viewer into the middle of a shouting argument between three of the weirdest people you can possibly imagine.
the most fucked up fictional universe is all those mouse movies where mice have a secret society underneath human society where they’re fighting mouse versions of the same wars and have the same religious oppression and each have a human version of themselves
Why does Mouse Victorian London have a military campaign in Mouse Afghanistan in The Great Mouse Detective?
What does Mouse England gain from the continued occupation of Mouse Afghanistan
Mouse Opium
yikes
I ran an Aliens rpg years back. But the players didn't KNOW it was an Aliens game until halfway through the first session.
They thought it was a sci-fi game but they also thought the monsters were going to be zombies.
Over a period of 2 hours they then proceeded to make EVERY Aliens movie cliche "mistake" known to man. Because at the time they all made sense.
The characters in a story don't know they're in a story or what kind of story it is.
They might think their in a romcom instead of a slasher movie. And if you're not in a slasher movie, why the fuck would you search through every closet in your house just because a cup mysteriously fell off a table in the dining room?
Other movies spend so much time asking “why is there badness in the world” and Free Guy, movie of the decade, assumes from the beginning there is badness, of course, the code is stolen and corrupted into a stupid shooter game, and so it asks instead, “so why is there any good in this world?” And then it answers with “because it’s made by someone who was creating a love letter to you.”
We’re not hiding that in the tags.
Richard Roxburgh and Kate Beckinsale in Van Helsing (2004)
The best part about this scene wasn’t just that Dracula didn’t have a reflection. She was at a ball with a few hundred other people attending it, and during this dance, there were dozens of other couples also dancing alongside Anna and Dracula. The scene showed that everyone at that ball was a vampire, not just Dracula. And she was the single only human there. It’s so subtly threatening to be surrounded by bloodthirsty killers all dressed to the nines, masked and pretty. And it was such an ingenious way of telling that part of the story, I adore this movie so much.
watching movies is so much more fun once your ear is trained to recognize the Wilhelm scream and the Dies Irae
to my fellow fans of animation and film in general: please please please, see puss in boots: the last wish in theatres if you get the chance. i mean it. it has no right being as good as it is and i’m very sad that there’s so little talk about it here on tumblr. i enjoyed every single character; they all serve a narrative purpose and everyone’s arcs are meaningful, including the worst of the villains. the worldbuilding & how the narrative plays with classic fairytale lore is extremely fun — a loving callback to early shrek that still feels like its own thing. the character designs are excellent. the animation is spider-verse levels of insane, with several transitionary moments that had my jaw on the floor. the music is beautiful. i was shocked by how just how dark the movie was willing to get at times, too; dealing with themes like death, mortality, animal / child abuse, commitment issues, and toxic masculinity. there’s a depiction of a panic attack that hit so close to home for me i was almost in tears, especially how they chose to resolve it. it was very touching and true to real life, which isn’t something you’d expect from a fantastical cartoon.
in an industry that’s being dominated by disney, we need to support films like this now more than ever or we’re not going to have many more of them. give it a shot if you can — i promise you won’t regret it.
it comes out in cinemas in the UK on the 6th of February!! please go see it !!
This is a really good movie
I need people to stop blaming the death of movies on “quips”. A quip is just a funny line of dialogue. That’s all. Like I just saw a post talking about quips and the death of movies and brought up Pirates of the Caribbean as an example of a better movie and yes it is but also that movie is FULL OF QUIPS. I just rewatched The Princess Bride. It’s all quips. Every single line. And it’s a masterpiece.
Movies suck when people don’t care about the art they’re making. That includes them not caring about their quips. Which is why a lot of comic relief dialogue ALSO sucks now. But the problem isn’t that funny dialogue exists.
The Princess Bride is almost all quips, but it’s all sincerity. Every aspect of the plot is ridiculous and yet no movie dialogue has ever gone as hard as “I want my father back, you son of a bitch”
[ID: A 4 star review of "The Sea Beast" by ankle-beez on Letterboxd that reads, "an anti-war message intertwined with themes of historical revisionism, complex characters, sick monster designs, and mature storytelling? yea this movie had it all. this fucking ruled"]
The Lego Movie was really good actually
reasoning:
I’d like to add one because I love this movie
Unikitty's character arc is so good as a child- accessible way to show the importance of embracing scary and negative emotions in life and in art
According to her, Cloudcuckooland is a place where "any idea is a good idea, except the NOT happy ones. Those you stuff down deep inside where you'll never, ever, EVER find them."
Unikitty, with increasing desperation, repeats the mantra of "just stay positive!" to herself when terrible things happen, like the raid of Cloudcuckooland that destroys her home. She tries to repress and avoid her negative feelings—until at the end she flies into a destructive rage as all the negativity she's been stopping herself from feeling roars out. Her "angry kitty" side isn't evil; it's the result of Unikitty's unhealthy way of dealing with her feelings
my favourite dark academia film watchlist :
- rope (1948)
- picnic at hanging rock (1975)
- mr. klein (1976)
- another country (1984)
- maurice (1987)
- dead poets society (1989)
- school ties (1992)
- little women (1994 / 2019)
- heavenly creatures (1994)
- good will hunting (1997)
- wilde (1997)
- the talented mr ripley (1999)
- russian arc (2002)
- bright young things (2003)
- the dreamers (2003)
- mona lisa smile (2003)
- pride and prejudice (2005)
- the great debaters (2007)
- northanger abbey (2007)
- the oxford murders (2008)
- dorian gray (2009)
- cracks (2009)
- an education (2009)
- black swan (2010)
- midnight in paris (2011)
- kill your darlings (2013)
- only lovers left alive (2013)
- la migloire offerta (2013)
- la grande bellezza (2013)
- inside llewyn davis (2013)
- the theory of everything (2014)
- whiplash (2014)
- the testament of youth (2014)
- victor frankenstein (2015)
- indignation (2016)
- the beguiled (2017)
- le brio (2017)
- call me by your name (2017)
- mary shelley (2017)
- collette (2018)
- ophelia (2018)
- portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019)
- tolkien (2019)
- the goldfinch (2019)
- the professor and the madam (2019)
- and then we danced (2019)
list of cinematic moments of all time (incomplete)
- spiderverse ‘whats up danger’ scene
- shrek 2 i need a hero sequence
- the incredibles; both the ‘bob discovers syndrome’s plan’ and the entire plane sequence bcs i cant pick just one of these
- prince of egypt deliver us
- the part in napoleon dynamite where the guy runs over the tupperware bowl with his car and it shatters
- iron giant you are who you choose to be
excellent addition thank you <3
The kitchen scene of emperor’s new groove
that scene in ratatouille where the critic tries the ratatouille and is transported back to his mum’s kitchen
Inigo revenge scene in Princess Bride
The Avengers Assemble scene in Endgame
The elevator scene from CA:TWS
When Shrek beats the shit out of knights with Bad Reputation by Joan Jett playing
that’s literally supernatural
society if movies in theaters had closed captions
i dont caare if it ruins filmbros’ “experiences” fuck you I Cannot Understand what any of these people are saying because there’s too much noise
I, Tonya (2017) Little Women (2019) The Queen’s Gambit (2020)
a classic bonus:
