[ddead3ye]

Self indulgent crossover doodle of my favorite alien hunters and alien

[justabigoldnerd]

I SAW "PROJECT HAIL MARY" WITH THE DIRECTORS' COMMENTARY AND HERE'S WHAT I WROTE DOWN

The voice of the Hail Mary was recorded live on set with Ryan so they could react to each other in real time!!

Ryan was so nervous and intimidated by the kids in Grace's class (who were played by children of the cast and crew 🥹)

The dots of astrophage Grace shows his class??? That was done by filming burning steeling wool, inverting it, then PUTTING IT IN BLACK AND WHITE

Ryan didn't know what was going to be in Yáo and Ilyukhina's bags, and they were real photos of the actors. He was told to "remember who these people are" and a lot of the emotions we see from him in that scene were real 🥹

The walk outside the classroom was one of the first scene Sandra and Ryan shot together. Sandra whispered "You wanna race to the bike?" And they DID and they KEPT THE SHOT which is why they're doing that hysterical little speedwalk I- ajdgsjshsj

They purposely emphasized reflections to reflect the themes of the movie. They loved glass, they loved light, they loved reflections.

They called the hardware store "off brand homedepot" LMAO

When talking about the shopping trip they said they wanted to show that "Playfulness and creativity are intertwined" 🥹

Grace's goggles that he uses to find the astrophage in the box in a box are literally made from an iPhone duct taped into makeshift goggles. And the infrared footage of him finding the four dots was actually shot ON an iphone!!!

There's a bright orange sticker that reads "CIVILIAN" on the back of Grace's flight helmet and the directors don't know if thats something they actually do but they found it hilarious

When Grace is shoved in front of the room full of world leaders to explain the astrophage, they said, "One of the many times we demonstate Ryland Grace's social anxiety by having people stare at him" ajdgsjdgsjjs

There was a team called "The Poetry Unit" who's job was just getting beautiful shots. And goddamn did they do a beautiful job. Also I've been talking nonstop about the inherent poetry of space travel since Artemis II launched and this just solidified it for me.

Talking about Daniel Pemberton's masterful soundtrack, they said, "He would not be alone in the soundtrack. In fact, two different planets would be rooting him on." 😭

THAT SCENE ON THE BEACH IN THE DONT GO CRAZY ROOM WHERE SOMEONE IS WALKING TOWARDS HIM??? THATS HIS FUTURE SELF ON ERID. (They also said "we dont know how they let us keep this in the movie" which is very funny but im very glad its there)

The scene where he catches the canister took ELEVEN takes for him to actually successfully catch it and everyone on set cheered

They call song that plays (or maybe they're were referring to the scene? A little unclear) when Rocky's ship starts spinning "The Gravity Tango" because "as Rocky spins his ship, its an invitation to dance."

They had 3 ramen ship models on set and every single one broke at some point 😆

Some of Ryan's reactions to Rocky copying his dances are his live reactions of being "absolutely delighted" by the puppet team

Rocky is 200 years old!!

The "Close Encounters" joke was pitched by STEPHEN SPIELBERG HIMSELF

Rocky's carved patch has the petrova line, as well as the base line six number for 23, the number of crew on his ship

The overlapping blue circles on Rocky's arm is his wedding band!!

When Rocky puts his forearms together, he's displaying his family crest!

Rocky has a lot of nonverbal communication cues, and one of them is that every time he says "Question" to form a question, he stomps twice!

They had a deaf consultant for Rocky's nonverbal communications!

Quote from one of the directors: "Its a movie about looking, witnessing one another."

In the scene where Rocky is bossing Grace around telling him how to build his enclosure and Armando and Mary get involved, one of the directors says, "Mary, Rocky, Armando- he's [Grace] creating his space family!"

When Stratt sings "Remember everything will be alright" it is confirmed she is singing it directly to Grace. They talk alot about how much she cares and loves but cannot care and cannot love, and how much she believes in him. How much she sees in him. I just. Man. Wow. They also say that this scene is a bit of an exchange. Grace is daring her, "Come, be human with us." And Stratt is accepting that dare, as much as she can.

I have seen this film three times (counting today) and until the directors' commentary pointed it out, I didn't notice the little HEEL CLICK Grace does when he comes in from collecting the astrophage coming from and going to Adrian AHHHH

"I love how on the spectrum Rocky is" CANON AUTISTIC ROCKY also the director who said this is a parent of a child on the spectrum which makes this all the more authentic and heartwarming 🥹

A lot of the scene where its revealed to Grace that he is the back up is improvised by everyone at the table

After Rocky saves Grace. The little model of himself that Rocky made that he holds up. The little item he holds up beside it? Thats a model of the device that opens the orb that caught the Taumeoba. Its Rocky telling Grace to finish the job. I'm in tears.

"As Rocky wakes up, the lights turn on, the movie warms up. Its like day breaking." 😭😭😭

They built the flexible panel on Rocky's ball MAINLY so Grace could give him the Earth ball akdhjshd

THE RAINBOW WHEN GRACE IS GETTING SEDATED IS REAL IT HAPPENED WHEN THEY WERE FILMING THAT SCENE IT APPEARED IN THE SKY JUST WHEN THEY WERE FILMING AND THEY HURRIED TO CATCH IT IT WAS JUST TOO PERFECT

"Even though he's going away from his home, Earth, he's going towards his real home, which is Rocky." HIS REAL HOME IS ROCKY Y'ALL MY HEART

When Grace and Rocky reunite on Rocky's hull, the translation of what Rocky chirps at him through the transparent xenonite is "You came back for me, question?" 😭😭😭

The tattoo Stratt has at the end means Life In Prison Without Parole

The beach in the Earth Dome on Erid is so rocky because the Eridians got the scale of sand wrong 😭 They're TRYING OKAY

About all the imperfections of Grace's habitat: "Really, all that matters is that he's with his best friend." 🥹🥹🥹

The song choice for the end credits, the "Hallelujah", is because Grace has ascended 😭😭😭😭

THEY REPLACED THE MGM LIONS ROAR WITH ROCKY'S CHIRPS FOR "AMAZE AMAZE" AWWWWWW

[bonivers]

this this this

[gholateg]

It's rage inducing, because we've HAD short run series with huge fandoms before, because they took the time to let the shows marinate in the fandom space, giving us time to question and theorize and fucking do art, and fics and get in slap fights over where the plot was going.

Arcane would be fucking CANDY to this Hellsite on par with Doctor Who, If they had spaced out the episodes and let it run for three months.

The 9th doctor had 13 fucking episodes. THIRTEEN.

Bingeing is supposed to be for people who want to wait. the show itself can't GROW an audience if the audience is watching it all at once.

[re-jet-irony]

The episode ends, on a cliffhanger, or even if not, it leaves you wanting more. But there won't be more until next week. So you rush to your computer to get your fill online, discussing ideas, squeeing over the good, talking fanfic an and what ifs and searching art...talking to people, making friends maybe, even more excited for next week's episode and what it may bring...

With binging, there's a bit of a high at the end, some squeeing and art, but there's no theories because it's over, or discussion will only last so long between seasons because the show didn't really marinate in the brain the right way, and the gap will make you lose enthusiasm as you are encouraged to binge something else in the meantime.

It's created this...flighty feeling in fandom, and why some people don't even seem to care about characters beyond shipping or surface level representation: they're only in fandom for so long, because the new method is to watch it all and move on.

[irishyuri]

a kiss to take with me

[catchymemes]

[ambassadorquark]

television exists so that lesser known actors can be cast in random mid to decent shows nobody watches where they will deliver astonishing performances potentially superior to anything winning any kind of award for no reason at all

[indiana-jones-hat]

I am cursed with the “the more posts I read where ppl like mi3 the more I actively dislike it” thing

It’s a good movie but not for the reasons anyone thinks

the relationship is not cute it’s fucked up Ethan is a pos that coerced julia into marrying him quickly and under false pretenses that is not cute

Also it’s way more interesting to read it as it is: in-universe, he doesn’t love her, he loves the idea of having a woman to protect (as I read it because he has nothing to hold onto). Out of universe, it’s a fascinating example of the role of misogyny in American imperialist propaganda in the 2000s

And from Julia’s perspective it’s a horror movie

[sixties-doctor-who-stan]

Slightly mean opinion, I thought that RTD 2 Who visually looked worse than Moffat and Chibnall Who (which both mostly looked really good) so I dunno wtf he was using the budget for.

[snovyda]

A while back, while working on Dead Reckoning and Final Reckoning, Christopher McQuarrie was asked about his once dream project - an Alexander the Great biopic, a script he wrote which infamously never got picked up by any studio back in the 2000's as they didn't know what to do with an action epic movie that was also gay.

And this was what he said:

The context of this twitter exchange was McQuarrie posting an article about the "Legion of Lovers", which would have been featured in his Alexander project.

I have to say, when I was watching The Final Reckoning, the submarine USS Ohio and its crew (aka the Gay Submarine) did make me think of that tweet. The context is different, but I still felt like it was evoking something.

And then my friend @sexypneumothorax decided to look up other aspects of the Alexander story. Particularly Hephaestion - military officer, engineer and diplomat, Alexander's closest friend, right-hand man, and, as many (including, evidently, McQuarrie himself) believe, - Alexander's lover. And some of the things on his Wikipedia page just... evoke scenes or events from The Final Reckoning and feel like a source of inspiration for it.

Alexander and Haphaestion were extremely close, with Hephaestion always following and supporting Alexander even in his riskiest and most controversial decisions.

There is an anecdote about how after a battle, the two, dressed in similar-looking clothes, went to meet the Persian royal family, who had been captured and held as prisoners, and the queen mistook Hephasetion for Alexander because he was taller. The Final Reckoning does not have any confusions like that, but it does feature a scene where the two main characters go to see a certain prisoner, dressed in (identical) prison guards' uniform, and their height difference is emphasized.

Then here is also this detail:

"Time after time, when Alexander needed to divide his forces he entrusted half to Hephaestion, knowing that in him he had a man of unquestionable loyalty who understood and sympathized with his aims and, above all, who got the job done."

Remind you of anything/anyone?

To the point where...

"After the siege of Tyre (332 BC) Alexander entrusted his fleet to Hephaestion, who had orders to skirt the coast and head for Gаzа, their next objective, while Alexander himself led the army overland. Hephaestion's task was not an easy one, for this was not the Athenian fleet with which Alexander had started and had earlier disbanded, but a motley collection of semi-reluctant allies of many nationalities who would need holding together with patience and strength."

Even the ending of the movie now feels like some sort of a fix-it for how Hephaestion actually died: "Alexander had to be summoned from the games to Hephaestion, who was seriously ill. He did not arrive in time; by the time he got there, Hephaestion was dead."

(Albeit this can be applied to several characters, without the "fix-it" aspect).

Obviously I might be reading too deep into this. But am I?...

[julielilac]

[tvandfilm]

The X Files How the Ghosts Stole Christmas | 6.06

[dwgif]

DOCTOR WHO (2005―) "The Christmas Invasion" (2005)

[myjetpack]

A Christmas cartoon from my new book of science cartoons PHYSICS FOR CATS. In good bookshops and online now: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

[fridayindulges]

[the-polyhedron]

How many people’s most beloved childhood stuffed animals are actually teddy bears, like I feel like that’s a thing someone made up. Reblog this and put what your longest owned and/or favorite stuffed animal as a child was in the tags, inquiring minds want to know

[darillium-night]

mission: impossible is a movie series about the power of friendship

[buellersfueller]

The Benoit Blanc mysteries are so enjoyable to watch, like these are Movies!! With characters, and sets, and scripts, and lighting, and themes, and plots, the whole shebang!! Not that other movies don't or that Hollywood is some monolith exclusively producing hot garbage except for these valorous exceptions, just that they feel so thoroughly and intentionally crafted and not for optimized market appeal but to create art and tell a story and think about the world and context from these movies have emerged, Movies!! in the most loving sense of the word