reading the wiki for the american psycho movie every single thing itās saying about christian bale has me in tears ā¦ā¦.. he literally wanted the role so bad he got that buff in two weeks, rejected every other offer for 9 months while the producers tried to get dicaprio to be patrick bateman bc bale knew dicaprio would chicken out, went to dinner with the director and the guy who wrote the novel IN CHARACTER apparently scaring the shit out of the novelist, took the role for $50k, and then made all his costars think he was a giant freak bc he never fucking broke character, and APARENTLY LITERALLY HAS CONTROL OVER HIS SWEAT GLANDS AND USED THIS IN THE BUSINESS CARD SCENE
I hate people who call themselves ābrutally honestā when really theyāre just mean. You donāt need to be brutal to be honest. You can deliver the truth in a way thatās direct yet kind. If you only use the truth to hurt people, thatās not honesty. Itās just being an asshole
Gang of violent murderers has a fear of people defending themselves against their attempts to murder them.
Of course "defending themselves" to them means "killing anybody who looks at you funny," so they're of course afraid of people killing them for doing nothing in particular.
This is how the system of white supremacy Ā operates. The media is used 2 create stereotypes like blk on blk crime.They need black men to fill jail cells for the Prison Indstrial complex
You know what? Iām tired of this.
I do not know what exactly they are waiting for. I mean our government comes up with āreasonsā to invade other countries, such as Syria, like their government is allegedly violating human rights or something like that. butā¦ I mean for other countries, they do not even have to go deep to bomb the fuck out of this place, they can just look at our media. And this has been happening to people of color since the media has existed.
Did a research project on this in undergrad and the results are extremely alarming because itās not just in imagery, itās in language used even in the law making process and within our own communities in a completely different way than expected.
tbh a lot of my advice boils down toĀ āhey you know that terrible horrible looming thing youāre doing your best to avoid and distract and escape as much as possible but no matter what you do it just keeps looming and looming and ruining your lifeā
ājust, fuckign, run straight at it screaming.ā
Just watched Iron Lung, it was 100% worth the wait. There were so many expansions to the original game lore (bare with me, I've only seen Mark's original playthrough) and they're HAUNTING
*** SPOILERS ***
There's a moment during the movie where Simon says something along the lines of,
"What makes more sense, every planet and most of the population vanishing? Or only a few small space stations?....and if it's already happened once, it stands to reason that it could, possibly, happen again."
That idea that THEY might be the ones that vanished??? That there's a (very slim) chance of them getting flashed back but it could be POSSIBLE??? What a line. What a concept.
What a way to show how Simon has and always will always cling to any possible hope of things getting better, even if by the end that means giving up himself up to pass that hope on to the rest of the survivors.
I haven't seen the film yet, but I've been carefully following news about Mark Fischbach's Iron Lung for the last couple of months.
It's REALLY gratifying to see that on opening day yesterday, Iron Lung surpassed its 3 million dollar budget, grossing a cool 3.5 mil. Sam Raimi's latest film, Send Help, also opened yesterday - and it made back only 2.2 million of its 40mil budget.
Ok, you say, but why is that so notable? A difference of 1.3 million bucks is nothing in Hollywood, right? But please, walk with me while I give some context:
For those who are unfamiliar, Sam Raimi Created the Evil Dead trilogy, directed the Toby McGuire Spider-Man films, and remains a noted figure in the long line of Marvel Universe writer-directors. Whether you like him or not, he's an Action-Horror Juggernaut that's established his place in film canon over the last 40 years. Distributors pick him up on name alone. Send Help is his 16th film, so to say he's a veteran of film distribution is no overstatement. Despite the ad blockers I run on my phone and tablet, I've personally seen so many ads for Send Help over the last six weeks that I'm tired of Rachel McAdams' face. Raimi can afford that kind of marketing saturation; he spent 40 million making this film. It opened yesterday in 3,475 theaters, which is on par with a typical "big budget" release spread.
On the other hand, Mark Fischbach is, well, Markiplier. Despite his long youtube career, in the larger film world he's an incredibly niche, small potatoes filmmaker. Anyone who's followed the plight of Qcode's podcast-to-miniseries adaptation, The Edge of Sleep, knows that Mark's incredibly focused and tenacious when it comes to polishing and distributing his work. He fought tooth and nail to get TEoS out of development hell, arguing with streaming services of all stripes, and eventually facing blatant sabotage by Amazon Prime, despite already being Emmy nominated for his previous webseries.
In the wake of all that static from the TV industry, Mark knew he had to get Iron Lung to an audience with no studio backing whatsoever. He and his wife Amy contacted 60 individual theaters, asking for distribution. There's been no ad space on websites, outside of the domains belonging to theaters showing the film. There have been no billboards, no promotional tours, no studio money. But that's where 38 million Markiplier fans have taken over.
Mark's viewers and longtime fans called and emailed their local theaters directly, en masse, because they wanted this movie. The three largest movie theater chains in America sat up and took notice, and international theater chains soon followed. Now, as I write this, Iron Lung is showing in 4161 theaters internationally. That's almost 700 more theaters than Send Help. It's made a 17% profit in 24 hours. For Send Help to make that kind of box office return on investment, it would have had to make 46.8 million yesterday alone - the same amount of money that Sinners made over its 3-day opening weekend.
I don't care if you like Markiplier's body of work or not. I've heard people call this film a "Vanity Project," or an "Ego Trip." I've seen several reviews for the film that are less than glowing. Frankly, I don't give a shit. The debut of this film, on this scale, is a massive achievement. It's an eldritch chamber-horror sci fi bottle film. The last time I encountered a film built like this (one set, carried by one actor, produced on a shoestring budget), it was the Willem Dafoe film Inside (2023). That film grossed less than a million dollars worldwide through its entire run.
Think about that. Markiplier outgrossed a fucking Willem Dafoe Movie. Three times over. In 24 hours.
Forbes, Variety, and so on are like "Huh. This Mark Of Pliers guy made a video game movie that's running with the big boys. Weird." Not one of them has thought to give Mark his flowers for the truly unprecedented nature of this debut. Tiny production. Overwhelming pushback. The beginnings of an unexpected triumph.
It's almost like the film industry built this unfairly maligned artist a coffin, threw it into the ocean of hollywood, waited for him to drown, and got their shit rocked.
lord of the rings really was lightning in a bottle. it shouldnāt have worked but by god it did. peter jackson, who had no filmmaking education and was mostly known for making low budget splatter movies, had no business going out and changing the movie industry like that but he did. return of the king showed up at the oscars and became one of the most awarded movies of all time. to this day it holds the record for the highest clean sweep. hollywood will keep trying to recreate that magic with bigger budgets and high profile actors and they will keep failing. i look at the state of these blockbusters where everything is smoothed over by soulless cgi and actors are acting opposite tennis balls and they will never hold a candle to the pure heart and soul and craft of the lord of the rings. every single person involved in that project loved being part of it and it fucking shows. iām so thankful the stars aligned the way they did for these movies to happen like that.
Lord of the Rings worked precisely because everyone loved the story and the work and each other. The Hobbits are actually still besties in real life, so the love between them on screen is real.
Viggo Mortensen bought and kept the horse that saves Aragorn's life. This man broke more than one finger insisting on doing real sword fights with real (unsharpened) swords.
The only kinda janky CGI in the entire movie is in there because Orlando Bloom broke a rib trying to actually jump onto a running horse and they ran out of time for him to heal and try again.
Andy Serkis scrambled around in a stream in New Zealand in winter. rather than do anything on a green screen.
Christopher Lee was Ian McKellan's real life hero. The way Gandalf felt about Saruman until his betrayal.
Ian McKellan loved the source material so much he walked around with a copy of the books on set and made script changes to quote it more often.
Peter Jackson became a director because he wanted to make Lord of the Rings. This was his childhood dream.
And most importantly, the production executives gave him a buttload of money and shut the fuck up and let him do anything he wanted with it. Which is their job. The most successful thing about Lord of the Rings is that the execs kept their mouths shut and didn't get in the way of art.
Shout out to the (many) times I got called an elitist gatekeeper for saying that the only real way to fully understand a work of fiction is to experience it firsthand and that summaries and reviews are not a replacement for that
Me, reading the first 80% of the post: What do you mean, "experience it firsthand"? How am I supposed to join the Hunger Games or go on the Odyssey?
Me, reading the final clause of the post: Oh, you literally meant that people have to read the book/listen to the audiobook in order to fully understand it. And people got mad. Oh dear.
To quote what a friend of mine said after she watched Jerry Maguire (1996) for the first time, having thought she knew what it was about because of its cultural ubiquity: āyou miss a lot of a movie when you donāt watch itā
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