opinionated

used to be lit and plays but now it's mostly movie stuff

[spookyboywhump]

I do really love it when women write graphic and fucked up things. I feel like so often people react to fucked up fiction with “of course a disgusting man would write this 🙄” and it often carries an unspoken (honestly sometimes spoken) message of “a woman’s PURE and DELICATE and FEMININE mind could NEVER think of something this VILE”. Thank you women in fucked up fiction 🫡

[notebooks-and-laptops]

Fucked up fiction by women you should 100% read:

[thedoubteriswise]

not many fictional narrators have made me feel like I'm stuck in an endless conversation with a stranger who's having a manic episode quite as much as ishmael does. really every page is like wow that's. that's great man I'm-- yeah no I see you've read a lot about whales-- oh wow. yeah that's. you know I'm not sure any of your coworkers act the way they do because of their race, I mean I haven't met them, that's just-- uh huh-- oh that's. uh huh. and queequeg is your husband? that's nice. oh. not like... he's not your husband? you're married but he's... okay. look man I kind of have to go but-- polar bears are scary, yes. uh huh. becau-- because they're white? I mean, I think they're scary because they're huge and known to hunt humans when they get a chance, I don't think white animals are like, universally scary. I'm-- oh. haha yes that's. that's a funny pun. yeah. yeah no I got it. right haha yes no I understood you don't have to explain-- no really I did understand the joke it was funny I promise-- yes I know you think whales are cool

[iwilleatyourenglish]

something i have always found really weird is when english texts italicize words from other languages.

i remember reading a book as a kid and the author continually italicizing the word tamales

[iwilleatyourenglish]

[stns-classics]

Watching something in another language and the characters suddenly start saying something in English just feels like

[theinternetarchive]

a few more great films that are free on the internet archive

in decent quality too!

first list, second list

aggregate letterboxd list, archive list of all the films

perfect blue (1997) dir. satoshi kon

carol (2015) dir. todd haynes

the elephant man (1980) dir. david lynch

a girl walks home alone at night (2014) dir. ana lily amirpour

d.e.b.s. (2004) dir. angela robinson

nausicaa of the valley of the wind (1984) dir. hayao miyazaki

killer klowns from outer space (1988) dir. stephen chiodo

mommy (2014) dir. xavier dolan

jennifer's body (2009) dir. karyn kusama

suspiria (1977) dir. dario argento

battleship potemkin (1925) dir. sergei eisenstein

his girl friday (1940) dir. howard hawks

cube (1997) dir. vincenzo natali

nightcrawler (2014) dir. dan gilroy

black orpheus (1959) dir. marcel camus

chunking express (1994) dir. wong kar wai

meeting people is easy: a film about radiohead (1998) dir. grant gee

the grapes of wrath (1940) dir. john ford

the black cat (1941) dir. albert s rogell

the tin star (1957) dir. anthony mann

[manderley]

ELIZABETH TAYLOR in The Taming of the Shrew (1967)

[stns-classics]

Kit Connor, if you had been born Italian, you would have played a fantastic messy queer in Un Professore.

[isabelladjanis]

RUSLAN AND LUDMILA Aleksandr Ptushko, 1972

[ndnbutch]

but if I were to say that I don’t think vampires inherently and universally represent queerness and that if that’s the only way you engage with any story containing a vampire then a lot of very important messages are going to go straight over your head? i would be killed to death.

[shelterwoodpod]

ESPECIALLY an issue when vampires very explicitly represent fear of outsider immigrant non-white invaders! Dracula can absolutely be read with a queer lens but we cannot let our desire for ~spooky gay stuff~ blind us to the very real xenophobia, antisemitism, and orientalism present in a LOT of the foundational media in vampire history! nor the racism present in modern vampire stories!!!

[mayahawkins]

2026 is the year toby stephens wins an emmy for james flint, i can feel it in my bones

[number1mongrel]

"You hear that? They're saying The Odyssey doesn't even have nobody!"

"They've got nobody in the Odyssey?"

"No I'm saying they don't got nobody."

"Nobody's there?"

"Nobody's not there!"

"So everyone's there?"

"Everybody but nobody!"

[rthwrms]

thinking about coptic mummy paintings and weeping

like. i know these people

[alieninthewalls]

I know that evil dead 2 is like a retcon of evil dead 1 or something but ash continuing to bring girlfriends to this terrible cursed cabin in the woods is another funnier worse option.

[sophelstien]

omfg i started reading project hail mary and its BAD. like. fanfiction. it reads exactly like fanfiction. they let men write whatever and shower him with accolades and cast ryan gosling in a movie adaptation but the moment a woman writes something transparently fanfiction she's ruining society.

[stns-classics]

Sometimes I'll see a word in another language and be jumpscared by sudden understanding of an English word.

Like, "Hm... in Italian, L'emicrania is a really bad headache in half (hemi) your skull (krania)— Oh, fuck, we really butchered that one, huh?"

[oneinchbarrier]

[v4mpgrrl]

ID: screencaps of James Baldwin saying, 'What's gonna happen, sooner or later, all the wretched of the earth… in one way or another… next Tuesday or next Wednesday… will destroy the cobblestones on which London and Rome and Paris are built. The world will change because it has to change. The party is over.'

/end ID

[genericpuff]

i can't even come up with an adequate enough comparison to describe the second-hand embarrassment i'm feeling at this moment, all that's coming to mind is that time i threw up in the school hallway in 5th grade and that was still easier to cope with than this

[stns-classics]

The fact that this is the movie that made Tom Holland realize that Marvel movies weren't filmed well is embarrassing for everyone involved.