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always thinking about that commentary video ben affleck did where he is talking about how stupid the plot of armageddon is because never has a man been more right about something ever. that movie was so stupid and so boring that I ate several allergens during it just to feel something
Wait so how does antz(1998) resolve like, ant wise? Like ants sort of live in colonies in our world so, do ants just stop doing that, like bee movie style “ants as we know them cease to be”? Or is it just the one colony? Or are they still in the colony doing their ant jobs but like, with freedom™️?
if you're anything like me, you'll hate this. but.
THEY DON'T SAY
the ending is the camera panning over a field while the main ant gives a little voice over about how his life is going now. what we know is this:
in some way, shape, or form, colonies still exist. he still lives with other ants
he has married the princess from the previous colony and made her his queen and had thousands of babies with her
the new colony has a swimming pool
"this has been a classic story of boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, boy changes underlying social structures" <- the final line of the film
it is incredibly unclear what any of this means in terms of the new lived experience of ants post-colony uprising. I don't know what any of this means and it frustrates me to high heaven. we don't even get to see the swimming pool
just watched and enjoyed a movie that has 7% on rotten tomatoes. gotta be one of the weirdest feelings. either I’m one of the only people in the world who can recognise art, or… no, it can’t be…. I just enjoyed a broadly recognised trashy movie
you’re not winning until everyone in your life starts introducing you to new people as “the fag”
the one thing I keep discovering with this project I’m doing is that people SUCK at meeting a movie on its own terms
“this movie is bad because it’s predictable” sir you are watching a slapstick comedy
“this movie is needlessly violent” ma’am it’s a war film!!
if you don’t like the genre conventions, that’s fine. but you cannot criticise a film for hitting all the beats of the genre, when… that’s exactly what the film set out to do. I don’t know man. go find a different genre of movie to watch
watched There’s Something About Mary. I know I said this when I watched Armageddon, but this is the worst film I’ve ever watched. constant r-slurs. treating disabled characters like objects. animal cruelty being played off as a joke. a woman getting stalked and sexually assaulted is supposed to be fine and normal. off the wall homophobia. so fucking distressing to watch. Armageddon was boring, but There’s Something About Mary made me feel violent
watched Wag the Dog this morning! it’s a political satire about a group of presidential staffers who invent a war to cover up a sex scandal, and… yeah. it’s good. it’s so so good. you can’t go into it looking for realism, because it is a satire, so it pushes everything one joke further than reality. but it did hit a lot of good points, and I really recommend it (especially if you are an enjoyer of West Wing or similar!)
the one weird thing about Titanic is that pretty much the same song is quietly playing throughout the entirety of the film. like. you can’t go two seconds without hearing my heart will go on (instrumental). to be fair to James Cameron, I also pretty much have the same song quietly playing in the background of my life 24/7. but. interesting choices have been made
