Resident Robot-Loving Grandma

“it’s a good thing that the minecraft movie isn’t about the intense loneliness of minecraft’s world and finding growth and hope in a post-apocalyptic society because it’s for children” Have You Ever Spoken To A Child

children deserve deep and profound media as well and i’m tired of pretending that something is allowed to suck and be a cheap cash-grab on the account of it “being made for kids”

Encanto - Teaser Trailer

1947

Bong realizing that his all movies end up in the bloodshed of the upperclass because he was a sociology major lol

The Indian in the Cupboard (1995) dir. Frank Oz

Over the Moon (2020)

I want genre movies with all the genre conventions but set in historical period pieces. I want paranormal horror in the mesopotamia. I want an ancient greek heist movie. I want a scifi invasion film set during the 1500s, I want fast and the furious type movie but set in 1800s napoleonic france.

i rlly dont want the theater industry to die. seeing a movie is like?? a hard emotional reset when i need it most. get away from my family + my house and sit in big dark room for 2 hours eating overpriced food???? that is the closest i will get to heaven before i die. i love movie theaters so much. please God let them live

“We’ll avoid fats and sugar, season lightly, eat in moderation, and live long, you and me.”

what did you eat yesterday - 2019

A beautifully animated Jungle Book adaptation that closely follows the original story. I highly recommend watching! It’s on YouTube in English and English-subtitled Russian. 

Bagheera is a female panther, Baloo is Mowgli’s mentor, and Kaa is actually a good guy. Very different from the Disney adaptation!

I am truly enjoying looking at promotional shots from the upcoming Terminator movie. No reason. No reason at all. Just good wholesome anticipation of a movie I’m definitely going to see in theatres.

Yeah the uh... the writing, and the dialogue, and the soundtrack sound great.

i know we all rag on MCU movies for being the most soulless pieces of garbage to grace theaters in the past few evers, but i think the music in those movies really doesnt get enough credit for being the least memorable or emotional music ever heard

every single piece sounds like placeholder music to give an idea of what someone might want for a scene but then they accidentally sent it off without ever actually getting a score composed

i do not know what this is supposed to mean

Frist off, that video was a damn revelation. But I have to wonder if Marvel’s spoilerphobia doesn’t also come in. Because I can’t believe that not a single Marvel executive has never thought “hey, where’s our Imperial March?” If nothing else, to be able to make shorter trailers that will get people talking (as any hint to the Imperial March in a 20sec SW trailer will do).

But if the conversation with the composer goes

“We need a theme tune for this character.” “Great! What can you tell me about their personality, role and narrative development?” “Nothing.”

The composer is probably going to murder you in your sleep.

My band has the Avengers theme as a pre-game piece and I could not for the life of me remember how it went without grabbing my book and looking at the music.

Character themes (technically known as leitmotifs) are so important to filmmaking because they help your audience form connections between characters, which helps them engage with the story better. A viewer watching, say, a Harry Potter movie, who has never read one of the books before, might still be able to predict Voldemort coming into the scene by recognizing his motif, even if they don’t consciously associate with him. In fact, Voldemort’s motif directly paints him as Harry’s greatest enemy; it’s melody is just Harry’s theme backwards and in minor.

Meanwhile, Marvel relies on well known songs to carry their largest scenes. Take Thor: Ragnarok. The large fight scene at the end is put over Led Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song, and it’s the most memorable scene in the film. In fact, it’s the only scene I can picture directly. The rest? Disengaging and not memorable at all, because the music is meaningless background noise meant to just fill space instead of connecting us to the film.

Tl;dr: leitmotifs are really cool and Marvel’s refusal to use them probably lends a lot to why their movies are so disengaging.

Baahubali 2

Zero special effected used in the entire movie.

I forgot how weird these movies are

I’ve never seen an action scene and been like “yeah I could watch 86 straight minutes of this” before today

I just need to mention for those of you who haven’t seen it that the entire fucking movie is like this. There isn’t a single scene that didn’t get the FULL DRAMA treatment and it is an absolute delight.

Hollywood btfo

News From Home 1977, dir. Chantal Akerman.

‪New Concept: We take live action movies and turn them animated — allowing for more art styles, more animation jobs, a way to break through the misconception that animation is for kids, we all get more cartoons, and ultimately replace the unwanted ‘animation-to-live-action’ genre‬

After Life ワンダフルライフ (1998) Directed by Hirokazu Koreeda