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henryscavills

The Addams Family (1991) dir. Barry Sonnenfeld

wwillywonka

hey so what the actual fuck

edit: that's the link to the video btw^^

hetrosjistin

So if what I'm hearing is true is right, Shatner was so upset about the idea of Spock having traveled to an alternate universe, away from everyone he had known and loved in the OG timeline, that he (shatner) bankrolled a 10 minute short film where Kirk is transported to that timeline too so that Spock wouldn't have to die on his own, but would have Kirk beside him.

talk-nerdy-to-me-thyla

thats what money and influence is FOR

grissomesque

this... simple feeling.

juniperandthistle

This is more than Spock and Kirk, "going canon."

It is two characters who were irrevocably influential to science fiction, to fandom, to media at large, getting a beautiful and poetic ending.

This is layered in Star Trek canon, but more than that it is Kirk and Spock reuniting.

Against all the odds in the universe, ours and theirs.

Kirk was dead. Spock was dead in ANOTHER DIMENSION. They died alone and without each other. This was their unbelievably tragic and canon ending UNTIL TODAY.

Now their ending is this.

Reunification, connection, crossing time, space, and reality itself to be together again. Because that is how important they are to one another. Because that is how important they are to Star Trek itself. Because that is how important James Tiberius Kirk and S'chn T'gai Spock are to media at large, Star Trek fans and beyond.

This is monumental to a degree that I truly do not know if people can understand and I will NEVER get over it.

bro LMFAOOOO

Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke, the youngest MP in Aotearoa, starts a haka to protest the first vote on a bill reinterpreting the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi

scarstiletto-deactivated2026040

a very famous headcannon in the fandom about dwarf culture, whose braids have meaning (including courting), but Bilbo doesn't know it

btw, I'm still traveling and working so I took a break from my modern au, but I did it so at least I wouldn't end up not posting anything

thewitchqifrey

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES 2023, dir. Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Dale

small-witch-big-hat

LIVE ACTION PRACTICAL EFFECTS TABAXI

captainlordauditor

I recently watched this and was blown away by this entire scene. This was a one off pair of characters with no names and no lines. They exist entirely to demonstrate the paladin being a Good Person by saving a baby. After he does this, he goes and gives money to a beggar - who is a dragonborn. He is one of two dragonborn in the film, and neither one needs to be a dragonborn. It would have been so easy to make the tabaxi and dragonborn characters humans, or slap some ears on them to make them elves, and they didn’t. They really went out of their way, building practical effects for the tabaxi and dragonborn when they didn’t need to… this is a movie that loves its source material and it also loves being a movie. People working on this movie cared.

I really missed that.

captainlordauditor

#and the birdman#don’t forget the birdman YES! AND the birdman! Now the birdman couldn’t be human because Plot Reasons demanded he have wings, but he was also almost entirely practical effects!

monarobot

This movie was so much fun, loved how lovingly made all of the creatures and effects were

a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark

I love Jarnathan

rogue-of-broken-time

Oh! Oh, I have the artbook for this movie!!

Can confirm, Jarnathan (the aarakocra, or “birdman” as some people here call him) was all practical effects! His face was an animatronic mask, his feet were articulated high-heel shoes, and he had three fully-functional talon-like fingers on each hand too!

The directors Daley and Goldstein could have made him entirely CG, but they instead went to Legacy Effects, who specialize in prosthetics and animatronics and puppeteering, because they REALLY wanted Jarnathan to look and feel authentic.

According to the artbook, the wings on him were a backpack, a self-contained mechanism that weighed around 60 pounds. The wings extended open to about ten or eleven feet!

I love this movie! :D

tinfoil-catholic

@dangerously-human

las-lus

In the same line, if you haven’t seen Star Trek: Beyond you’re missing out! They created 50 alien races to include in the movie, and all of them were made using practical effects! None of them are main characters, they could just do what the previous 2 movies did and make all the aliens identical to humans.

But they DIDN’T. And instead of humans with pointy ear or boring GCI, we got this:

LOOK AT THIS MASTERPIECE IN MAKE UP AND PROP MAKING!!

By the way, the head makeup artist and designer for this movie is Joel Harlow, who, among many other things, was also responsible for this masterpiece.