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Second rant/review on a movie chosen to my Instagram follower...

Here we go!

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I AM OBSESSED WITH THIS SCENE!!!

I AM OBSESSED WITH THEM!!!!

I AM OBSESSED WITH THIS MOVIE!!!!

Finally some quality content film about dancing after the STEP UP universe. I really enjoyed the movie, its characters, the storyline, everything was just amazing choreographed

THANKU NETFLIX FOR GIVING JORDEN FISHER AN AMAZING SCRIPT. YOU REDEEMED YOURSELF AFTER THAT DISASTER TLBILB (To all the boys i have loved before).

Protect Jorden fisher as Jake Taylor at all cost was my motto of the film.

Sabrina Carpenter as Quinn was amazing. I already loved her from TALL GIRL and i soo wanted her to have her own film and she didnot disappoint.

Liza Koshy is Queen and Gurl your taste over that mattress guy *yum* *yum*. 🤤🤤

So in movies i dont go all over in ships because they just have a two hour span to cover everything and i adore them not all over in love with them but daaamnnnn i could not hold myself over QUINN AND JAKE. I tell yaaah they will make you fall in hard....*cough* upper scene *cough*

Can i have its part two... Can i have more of Jorden Fisher. He is really precious i tell yah

I AM LIVING FOR THIS MOVIE SOUNDTRACK.

A must watch film guys. Go check it out.

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🤡I rewatch movies that traumatized me as a little girl 🤡

Since i decided to do reviews of classic movies i though why do not of iconic movies that traumatized me as child?

👉Context, i used to watch a lot of tv doing zaping and of course i always found short scenes of movies that made me thought wtf haha👈

So let me share that movies and his specific scenes that let me think for a long time what was going on with the people... the first one:

The Butterfly Effect 🦋

Ahh, how to forget that years when every time i turned the tv i always found the cruel scene when the dog is killed by the little crazy Tommy Miller and when the kids were in the basement... that was hard i remember that i knew what was going on, since i was four i wacht The law and order but never before i wanted see the movie complety until now...

And hell it's good, it was still hard to watch that scenes that i mentioned before but now i had the full context it's one of the best movies of Ashton Kutcher.

A great cast and also with a young Logan Lerman! The story never bore you and let you think how masterpiece is the name of the movie. But when i found that there were two more movies, i said no thank you ,next. Though not before i read the sinopsy, and i don't know you but i'll pretend that doesn't exist them.

9/10⭐

Let me know in the comments which movie traumatized you as a child😱😱

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had i watched this movie when i was 12 years old, i’m sure i would have thought the Onceler was hot, but if i told my 12 yo self, in the future, when i wil be 18, i would spend a saturday night watching a children’ movie, she would totally believe it.

Anyway i did a review of The Lorax, and it’s darn long, so it’s under the cut (pls read it, it took me days to write all this)

Yesterday i saw “The Lorax” (2012), a movie adaptation of the children’s book “The Lorax” by Dr. Seuss, a writer who is know for being able to transform heavy social and political topics in stories for little kids...seriously, one of his books “Yertle The Turtle and Other stories” is about Hitler, or “Horton hears a Who” is about post-WWII Japan, jesus...

And the cool thing is his book are actually very good, it’s hard to describe his style but Dr. Seuss’s works are the proof children’s literature can be deep, relevant and though-provoking justas the next book about fascism.

You should totally read some of his books (specially “The Lorax” if you wanna read this), Dr. Seuss was also a very “woke” person, so i’m sure you will like his morals.

So you can see there are high expectations for anything related to this author, “The Lorax” is one of his favorite and most popular stories so course there would be some adaptations, in fact there are 2, an 2d animated short film made in 1972 (i recommend it to all you) and a CGI movie made in 2012.

Of course i watched them both, i don’t wanna compare them, the 1972 short is a perfect reproduction of the book but except some dialogue, there is nothing original, while 2012 movie had lots of new content, but there are some questionable writing decisions.

Speaking of new content, i really liked the soundtrack, there aren’t many OSTs but i felt every melody was right for the every scene, specially the songs, even the deleted ones are all incredibly catchy and well made, otherwise they wouldn’t be huge memes; i also liked the little “easter eggs” like when Lorax revives Onceler you can hear a reprise of “This is the place”, fitting as both scenes are about Onceler bonding with the animals or how “Let It Grow” is a reference to Lorax’s amazing monologue in the 1972 short, and there are many others

Now speaking of the movie, it isn’t neither the best or the worst adaptation ever, it’s ok, i give 7/10, it has some problems, like the fact it fails the Bechdel Test, the Villan Song is basically 1/4 of book, but maybe the biggest mistake is the completely useless “main” plot, the OG book has 64 pages and there isn’t even much text, it would be hard make a movie longer than 30 minutes, i could understand why they decided to add that bland plot...if they didn’t add original stuff in Onceler’s flashback, and worst of all, that original stuff is actually good.

In fact, while i think the hour and 26 minutes spent watching this movie were well spent, the only parts worth REwatching are Onceler’s flashback (aka the book’s plot) and the songs.

Still as i said before this movie did something right, but i really feel like the best way to talk about this is talking about its characters and its deleted material.

Oh by the way, “The Lorax” is the absolute proof you should ALWAYS RELEASE THE UNUSED MATERIAL.

About the animation, it’s CGI, you either like it or not, and i liked the background, the color and the characters design, it’s not good like “Coco” but it works, in particular i loved the truffula trees:

They look cotton candy and they are lovely, i’m sure this is how Dr. Seuss wanted them to be.

Anyway, characters:

Ted Wiggins: i like they gave him a name and a story, the book never said why this child is the middle of nowhere listening a creepy hermit’s backstory, his tale also shows us the horrible consequences of Onceler’s industries; but did Ted really needed to be the protagonist?

In the OG book the child stands for the reader and the seed represents the awareness that only us can save this planet from pollution (worth nothing Dr Seuss’s characters are mostly animals and cute little monsters, while the child is on of his very few humans characters). 

In the movie he should have remained that, he’s bland and the writers didn’t cared enough to give him depth and complexity, just he isn’t worthy to be a main character.

The movie should have been like this:

Opening + first sing (thneedville)

Ted and Audrey

The Air Company

Ted’s family

introduction ends

Ted looks for the Onceler outside the city

Ted meets him

Onceler tells the first part of the story

 He tells Ted to return the next day

Some Air Company and family scenes

Ted returns

Onceler finishes and give him the seed

Ted, family and Audrey plants the seed (+Let It Grow)

Credits

(maybe) Lorax’s return

No secondary plot, lust Lorax and the Onceler, like it should be.

Audrey: well that’s certainly Taylor Swift, like her facial expressions, she was cute, (and it was nice they named her after Dr Seuss’s wife).

Ted’s mom and Gradma Norma: they were funny and good secondary characters, wish they had more lines.

Aloysius O’Hare: ok, i liked him, but he should be a secondary character, not even a minor villan, i liked him because: the Air Company was funny, and so it is that in-your-face Take That to the bottled water business.

I really liked the scene where a worker asks what will be the next each cow-invention and immediately we see O’Hare, like it shows hoe the Onceler and O’Hare are just two of the milions of capitalists, they aren’t special and their inventions and success aren’t outstanding or something, so yeah, erase the whole 1984-esque plan to stop Ted and you can keep him.

The Lorax: what can i say? he is just like his book version, just voiced by The King Danny DeVito, speaking of him, he voiced Lorax in many languages, one of them is italian and it’s pretty funny listening this otherworldly creatures’s weird italian pronunciation.

Anyway as i said there isn’t much to say abut him, he is literally the voice of nature, he is here to say to our faces “stop destroying the environment goddamit”.

I think, they expanded Onceler’s backstory, why the writers didn’t did the same for Lorax?

There is much you can do with him, and even if you don’t wanna say where he come from or what he exactly he is, you can explore his morality, the 1972 version did give him more lines to give more thickness to his opinions, like his whole speech on progress.

Overall: cute, funny and sassy character, he had some hilarious lines (”breakfast is overrated” was my fave), interactions with the Oncelers and the animals were nice.

 Also, this is pretty personal but after the last truffula falls and he starts to fly away, sorry but that moment was too much ridiculous, the whole scene is so incredibly dramatic and then Lorax flies away with his butt up.

Hilarious but i think it was unnecessary, but still in the original book that part was like the only funny moment, so i guess the writers didn’t felt cutting it was a good tribute to the OG story.

The forest critters: they could have been annoying, but they are adorable, funny and childish.

The “problem” with them is in the original book they had more focus, there were at least 12 for when and why they go away, 4 pages for the Bar-ba-loots, 4 pages for the Swaomee Swans and 4 pages for the Humming Fishes, in the movie all these pages are basically 1 minute of “How bad Can i Be?” and then the then all the animals leave the forest together.

In the end it’s not much, but i would be much more effective if we (and the Onceler) saw the animals leave one after the other, like in the original story.

Onceler’s family: probably the best addiction in the movie, because for what we know of Oncie’s OG family, it’s totally possible they were abusive money-hungry piece if shits, all we know is Onceler hired them because he wanted to enrich his family and they left him when he failed.

Maybe they had very few lines but they were a good example of emotionally manipulative family, the sort of people you should NOT consider in your life, they gave the Onceler a good freudian excuse, without making him someone “who did nothing wrong”.

I would like to know more about them, specially why they always looks like middle-class everyday workers rather rich entrepreneurs, even Oncie makes the family rich they looks the same, with the same clothes and all.

Onceler: oh god

So in the OG book he was never seen because he, the capitalist that destroyed the environment, could be anyone, even you, even Jeff Bezos.

In the 1972 short it was implied he is a human with green gloves and green pants, but the movie gives him a face, a backstory and his story gets expanded.

And despite all this change, i feel the character is still the same, he is still morally conflicted greedy capitalist.

Anyway in this movie the Onceler is a handsome, cute young man with a apparently adorkable personality; he’s pleasant, sweet and he likes to sing and play the guitars, he “likes” nature but loves animals and animals love him back, their bond is almost a parody of the “friend of the animals” trope because while their scenes are definitely adorable, you can see the forest’s animals aren’t exactly helpful like in Snowhite.

I think they added this sub-plot so

to show Onceler isn’t good with people and for him it’s easier befriending animals (ANIMALS?!)

to add cuteness

to make the whole flashback much more emotional, in the OG book Onceler was sorry for what he did to them but he didn’t cared until he was all alone; here, all his little ex-friends are now leaving because of his selfish greed, when i think Onceler said “i don’t wanna trouble” to the little critters that used to follow him literally anywhere, like he feels they are now enemies, well, i do feel bad.

He is like a brutal subversion of a male Disney Princess.

About his morality, while it’s the same of the book, the movie kinda make look like he is greedy because it runs in family, while said family is the “Lady Macbeth” of his life.

While “Biggering” is entire entire deleted song about why he is like that, i wrote a comment with my interpretation:

The Onceler’s character really improves with this song, in this movie it seems is greedy because it runs in family, here we see Onceler’s actually very prideful, and he wants prove himself to be the best, “bigger” than everyone else, he knows his company is just like every other, no matter how rich it is, every single company could fail, and even one big like his thneed production “his just trying to survive”, he wants to be proud to say he is a rich and powerful man as long he can, but like Lorax said “he is never satisfied” because there is no end to “biggering”, he saw the chance to be a great man and took it without thinking, i think this song made Onceler even more human”

THE END

this took to much time to write, i could be shorter, but whatever i’m proud, this is my first full review

[cigardojo]

My Father La Opulencia debuted in 2017, marking the fifth official line under the My Father umbrella today we give it a test drive @MyFatherCigars   (via My Father La Opulencia Robusto)

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the 100 Season 4, Episode 13 Review - “Praimfaya”

To change things up, I picked my favorite GIF’s throughout the season to use.  Since, somehow it is already the finale.  What the shit.

Finales can be horrible because of the cliffhangers or they can be exceptional because of what’s to come in the next season.  I don’t think I’ve ever loved a finale so much!

Praimfaya will kill you with spoilers if you continue to read…

I almost cried so hard in the beginning when Octavia and Bellamy were talking to one another.  Bellamy was like may we meet again and then she’s like I’ll be here hiding on the floors.  Like asdfghjkl.  And his reply didn’t help matters because he said she’s not that girl anymore and the first time ever Octavia sees her brother no longer sees her as a little girl.  But, I thought that was all.  Nope.  I was wrong.  THEY SAID I LOVE YOU TOO EACHOTHER AND I JUST… shit.

I love how helpful Bellamy was this episode from embueing Raven she can do it when she was doubting herself to getting Echo to not take her own life because she didn’t want to love because of the things she did.  Go bell!

And I really love the moment between Bell and Clarke when they were getting into oxymorons.  Like grounders going to space haha.  But, the conversation afterwards ugh.  How Bellamy was basically like I only use my heart because you are the one that uses your head for the both of us.

Next, I love love love how Raven finally got her opportunity to spacewalk again. After all the hell she has gone through time and time again whether it was this season or all the others before.  It was amazing seeing something good happen to her!

And finally the ending, I loved it so much.  I was always hoping they would do a time jump.  One, it will allow them to no longer be teens.  Two, it will allow the characters to age up to be close to the actors/actresses that portray them.  Since, they cannot play teens forever especially once they reach their 30′s.

Clarke oh my gosh.  She looked so amazing when we met her again 6 years and 7 days later!  I don’t know it’s just something about that red strip that reminds me of her Wanheda days.  And it was nice seeing her contiously trying to contact either the bunker or the Ark to see if they are ok.  Plus, it was so nice that they didn’t make Clarke survive those years alone.  She actually had someone.

I needed season 5 in my life as soon as I heard the 100 was renewed.  And now, I most definitely need it in my life because of the direction they are going.  Because of the time jump.  Because of the unknowns as to if everyone on the Ark or in the Bunker are ok.  And because of the introduction of the prisoner ship.

These months of waiting for the next season will be cruel but when the time comes.  I can be happy watching live again.  Thank goodness we have Netflix in our life to constantly bingeing it while waiting!

Until we meet again, the 100.

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Zatanna: Bring Down the House #3

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Criolo - Nó Na Orelha

Lançado em 2011, Nó Na Orelha, como já indicado no título, foi um puxão de orelha, uma bronca de um pai bravo, porém amoroso, um estopim filosófico aos ouvidos, uma verdade ácida, porém necessária. Resumidamente, foi a concretização do potencial da poesia e do que ela pode revolucionar. Não é à toa que hoje o disco é considerado uma obra-prima da música brasileira contemporânea, com uma produção que, apesar de buscar raízes na cultura sedimentar nacional, criou movimentos para além do velho e conservador, fazendo surgir pensamentos que atingiram não só o público-alvo, mas toda uma massa de ouvintes atentos ao cenário do rap. Criolo é, não só em Nó Na Orelha, mas em toda a sua rica discografia, um observador aguçado da desigualdade brasileira e foi nesta obra que sua assinatura foi criada: mesmo trazendo temas abordados há décadas na música urbana, Criolo temperou sua musicalidade com uma sonoridade culturalmente específica, inspirada no samba, na MPB e em outros subgêneros da música contemporânea nacional, dando vida a algo que rompe as barreiras da indústria fonográfica para a cultura de modo mais geral. Em resumo, a obra se torna nossa (dos brasileiros) pois é a expressão artística pura, serena, melancólica e, às vezes, raivosa das dores sofridas por um povo historicamente forçado a sofrer.

Nó Na Orelha se inicia com “Bogotá”, onde o tráfico e a desigualdade são temas centrais e que têm como fruto a violência e a opressão nas periferias. Apesar do tema ácido, a melodia é vibrante e utiliza de instrumentos de metal para seus períodos de excitação musical. Fica claro que o eu-lírico tem dois alvos, o proletariado e a burguesia. Para os trabalhadores, “Bogotá” além de expressar sua realidade e cutucar feridas que, até mesmo, as pessoas mais politizadas deixam passar batido, Criolo cria, em forma de cantigas antigas de samba raiz, o cenário da percepção de uma realidade doída mas que, para ser mudada, precisa ser vista. Para a elite burguesa, que detém o lucro máximo com o tráfico, ‘Bogotá’ é o início de uma denúncia contra seu papel na perpetuação das injustiças nas periferias.

Em sua época de lançamento, “Subirusdoistiozin” foi criticada por romantizar o crime organizado — quem assim a criticou, errou. A segunda faixa do disco descreve a realidade violenta vivenciada pelas comunidades mais pobres, como uma fotografia de cena, e ganha importância documental. A linguagem utilizada é proveniente do mundo do crime organizado, de fato, porém fica óbvio com alguns versos que a intenção foi, além de conscientizar, denunciar a desigualdade na Justiça brasileira e a hipocrisia cometida pelos próprios traficantes, que, em alguns casos, se apresentam como justiceiros contra a as injustiças socioeconômicas. “Feio é arrastar e nem perceber”, citada por Criolo na canção, pode significar tanto o modo de propagação do uso de drogas, que, geralmente, é por recomendação de “amigos”, como também o recrutamento de crianças por parte do tráfico, que, devido à necessidade financeira de pertencimento ou à grave insegurança alimentar e falta de apoio familiar e social, acabam entrando no mundo criminoso. Nos últimos segundos, com teor revoltante e rebelde, Criolo deixa claro os reais inimigos: “Acostumado com sucrilhos no prato, né, moleque? / Falar o quê? / Enquanto o colarinho branco dá o golpe no Estado”.

Após duas faixas com significados mais políticos, “Não Existe Amor em SP” chega para evidenciar a humanidade de uma sociedade. Apesar de simples em sua produção, contém tanta poesia, elementos culturais e filosóficos que ficaria difícil mencioná-los num só parágrafo. Foi com essa música que Criolo se consagrou com o público mais jovem, fazendo então da balada melódica o maior sucesso do disco. Retratando a solidão em cidades lotadas, Criolo não está somente denunciando a depressão de uma população em uma época específica, mas sim, com muito sentimento envolvido, refletindo sobre como o sistema capitalista, com sua filosofia individualista, competitiva e assassina, desumaniza uma população que, desesperadamente, clama por felicidade. Já no final da música, Criolo bradea: “Não precisa morrer pra ver Deus / Não precisa sofrer pra saber o que é melhor pra você / Encontro duas nuvens / Em cada escombro, em cada esquina / Me dê um gole de vida”, e fica clara a mensagem que tem como alvo a inocente alma que acredita na glória e justiça vinda após sua morte, que decapita uma vida sofrida, com pingos de humanidade em um mar cheio de sofrimento.

Não podendo ser diferente, “Mariô”, faixa que dá sequência ao álbum, é uma canção raivosa. Levando em consideração a sequência das faixas, é possível interpretar como o grito de raiva após um choro melancólico e sofrido. Apesar da composição bem elaborada, reflexiva e bem estruturada, são os instrumentos musicais que ganham destaque, trazendo africanidade — e logo, brasilidade — à canção. O uso extravagante da produção continua com “Freguês da Meia Noite”, uma composição com duplo sentido que evidencia dois possíveis tipos de negócio: não sabemos se a canção fala de prostituição ou tráfico de drogas, visto que, em ambas as situações, os versos se encaixam perfeitamente. Os violinos trazem tristeza, a percussão uma sensualidade enigmática e os versos humanizam uma terceira pessoa, que não é mencionada pelo nome, mas deixa clara a sua difícil busca por felicidade.

A frase “The grajauex, duas laje é triplex / no morro os moleques, o valor” é o refrão de “Grajauex”, a sexta faixa do disco. Nessa gravação, Criolo também aborda temas como a desigualdade, a fome e a corrupção, utilizando ainda mais a linguagem periférica. “Grajauex” é um clássico do hip-hop, mais evidente até do que as outras faixas que apresentam mais elementos da MPB. A faixa subsequente, “Samba Sambei”, tem como objetivo intensificar a mensagem de que a música cura as dores humanas, utilizando elementos do reggae.

As três últimas faixas, “Sucrilhos”, “Lion Man” e “Linha de Frente”, possuem um papel fundamental na mensagem do álbum como uma obra completa, pois evidenciam os alvos do Nó Na Orelha. Em “Sucrilhos”, obviamente a mensagem é para o público-alvo,, ou seja, para toda a população brasileira, especificamente, aqueles que se consideram mais politizados e engajados. Resumidamente, é uma crítica à própria esquerda, que, muitas vezes, se afasta da realidade das desigualdades no país e adota um discurso liberal. O verso “Cientista social, Casas Bahia e tragédia, gosta de favelado mais que Nutella” teve grande repercussão para além dos fãs de Criolo. Em “Lion Man”, a música mais forte e revoltante, Criolo utiliza poesia e instrumental para criar um sentimento único de revolta e o objetivo é tocar a população, utilizando emoção e ação para criar movimentos que possam mudar o presente. Podendo ser traduzida como um hino revolucionário, a canção declara guerra à realeza, que se traduz na burguesia. Já em “Linha de Frente”, um samba animado que utiliza personagens da Turma da Mônica para explicar o tráfico de drogas, é criticada a adesão de crianças e adolescentes ao mundo do crime. A composição lírica ressalta como é importante que a população brasileira se una em uma luta contra a desigualdade.

De fato, Nó Na Orelha é um registro fantástico e necessário. Apesar das dores brasileiras serem facilmente percebidas devido à sua gravidade e evidência, foi com esse disco que Criolo conseguiu capturar as emoções específicas e necessárias para movimentos de entendimento de um povo sobre sua situação e vivência. O poder da obra está, além de sua qualidade, em seu acerto indiscutível: tocou quem tinha que ser tocado. Os sentimentos causados, as palavras usadas, os instrumentos tocados e as inspirações aproveitadas são, resumidamente, as vivências de uma nação e, portanto, facilmente absorvidos e aceitos por estes. É por esse motivo que considero Nó Na Orelha o LP mais importante da MPB contemporânea, pois além de se conectar com gêneros dominantes na atualidade, como o hip hop, oferece a reflexão necessária para entendermos que a guerra de classes no Brasil não acabou com a abolição da escravidão e está longe de acabar. As palavras doem, de fato, mas o que esperar de um nó na orelha?