[shesnake]

mutual destruction is very sexy actually

[shesnake]

hero corruption >>>>>>>>>>>>> villain redemption

[cryptotheism]

Sensitive white boy on a quest for truth

[blajahblast]

[thickness-protection-program]

Your love for garlic and your love for vampires is sending mixed signals luv

[funrob]

i literally love the rain so much when cars slow down and people hide in the stores and restaurants or bus stops with strangers or when they run home with plastic bags on their head or when groups of people share one umbrella i love you peace love even light and happiness on planet earth truly

[sandsvendor100]

Everything In My Body Is Clunking Like A Machine

[rattlesnek]

HIGHLY foreboding thrift store omen

[minervafloofdraws]

[justarandomgirly]

Matt Damon explains why they don't make movies like they used to. Pls watch.

[luna-rainbow]

This is actually a really good perspective and explains why the MCU is the way it is. It is essentially one-off entertainment without the backup of DVD sales (of course Disney being Disney it is still backed up by massive merchandise and spin off sales). The movie is designed to be “disposable”. The rewatch value is low because it’s not intended to be sold on DVD for people to treasure and rewatch every year at Christmas (or whenever) with family. The idea is to generate hype, through manufacturing controversy or teases or gossip. Keeping spoilers under wrap is integral because the rewatch value is negligible. It hinges on surprise or shock (or wtf value) to entice audiences to give up their money to see it in theatres. It is about spectacle, about being loud and colourful and busy, so that for the first 30 minutes after you walk out your senses are still buzzing and you feel like that was worth your $30 or however much. It takes a while for your brain to come back online after the sensory overload to then try to pick apart the plot, and by that stage it doesn’t matter, you’ve already hyped it up to your friends.

And the story or characterisation doesn’t matter because no one is watching that again to care.

[laikawriter]

@indifferentvincent

[indifferentvincent-deactivated2]

God, this is depressing lmao. I'm gonna transcribe what the video says under the cut, for anyone who needs it.

So I think a scenario lots of viewers can relate to is sitting on the couch on a Friday night, going through the streaming services, cycling through the movies, and thinking to themselves, 'they're not making movies for me anymore.' As somebody who has been intimately involved in movie making for thirty years, what are the macro Hollywood conditions behind that sentiment? Well, so what happened was...the DVD was a huge part of our business, of our revenue stream. And technology has just made that uh...obsolete. And, so, the movies that we used to make, you could afford to not make all of your money when it played in the theatre, because you knew you had the DVD coming behind the release, and six months later you'd get a whole other chunk. It would be like reopening the movie almost. And when that went away, that changed the type of movies that we could make. I did this movie Behind the Candelabra, and I talked to the studio executive who explained it was a 25 million dollar movie. I would have to put that much into print and advertising, right, to market it. What we call P and A. So I'd have to put that in P and A. So now I'm in 50 million dollars. I have to split everything I get with the exhibitor, right, the people who own the movie theatres. So I would have to make 100 million dollars before I got into profit. And the idea of making 100 million dollars on a story about like this love affair between these two people...yeah, I'd love everyone in the movie, but...(exasperated sound)...that's suddenly a massive gamble in a way that it wasn't in the 1990s when they were making all those kinds of movies. The kinds of movies that I loved. And the kind of movies that were my bread and butter.

[deadbodyrave]

hate the fact that bisexuality has been reduced to shit like "listens to pop punk and British men with no charisma" and "drinks starbucks, cuffs jeans and does fingerguns" when real bisexuality is about fucking nasty and getting trashed

[casbitchh]

it annoys me when sapphic women see an attractive woman and are like “i’m no better than a man 😳😔” like BABE you are allowed to see an attractive woman and want to fuck her!!! free yourself from the cottagecore PG13 narrative of sapphic attraction, look at her with lust in your heart!!!

[skullhaver]

#also men wanting to have sex with women is not disrespectful either! what’s disrespectful is crossing boundaries on purpose

[anarchopuppy]

I truly hate how the cinematic critique concept of the "male gaze" has been taken and fully bastardized into a progressive puritanical idea that privately feeling sexual attraction to someone is sinful

[svsspiria]

Kate Winslet on the set of Romance & Cigarettes, 2005

[sapokanikan]

kate BUSH. not kate SHAVE. something to think about..............

[funeral]

Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

[sykesarchive1]

i'm sick of feeling tolerated. either adore me or despise me. cowards

[jerseyclown]

the only way to overcome unrealistic beauty standards and botox culture and the fear of aging is to start living our lives as fully violently and lovingly as possible. be human on purpose

[fagsromana]

"they shouldve fucked raw" actually is the most insightful and thought provoking commentary and analysis that can be said for any media and if you disagree you'll never make it in this business

[fxlthyangxl-deactivated20240122]

[itehexael]

I think Americans need to understand how normal it is in other countries to have extremely limited hours of operation to ensure the sanity and health of workers are kept in tact. We are so accustomed and entitled to demanding people’s time that we forget that they’re… y’know… people

[itehexael]

Being in Germany was really humbling because legit the GROCERY STORE would straight up close for almost 3 days because of how holidays would line up and the hours were already limited to literally be from 8-8 because people need to go home and live their own lives

[itehexael]

It is very common for places in Spain to straight up shut down for 2-3 hours because people take siestas seriously since it gets hot and people deserve to take a nap

[itehexael]

The world is not going to end if you’re inconvenienced by just… coming back later. We’ve been spoiled with immediacy and technology that we forget there was a point in time in human history where a person had to trek 20+ minutes down to the village bakery only to find it closed because of some family emergency and that just meant there would be no bread that day- and that’s okay!!

[itehexael]

The discourse surrounding labor is so sad because we should not demand or expect things to be open 24/7 because we were not designed to be constantly moving machines. We need to relearn how to plan better since downtime is a wonderful opportunity to reflect and enjoy the moment. Not everything needs to be done with gusto and fervor. Sometimes it’s fine to pivot and just enjoy the moment for what it is and try again later. Touch more nature. Bask in the sun and rain. Breathe.