#LIKE??ITS A FUCKING WAR FILM???

[johnmeowston]

media analysis or just . SPEAKING about it for that matter on tiktok is so abhorrent it literally is making me infuriated 

#IM LITERALLY FUMING RNN my sibling told me that its okay i should calm down bc #people ontiktok arent real/the reading comprehension is horrible #BUT LIKE. FOR EXAMPLE #THIS GUY WHO TURNED HIS COMMENTS OFF ON HIS RANT ABT ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT #I WIL NEVER GET THOSE MINUTES OF MY LIF EBACK AND FOR WHATT #HIS ARGUMENT WAS THAT IT WAS 'BASICALLY LIKE ALL OTHER WAR FILMS' AND #AND I FUCKING QUOTE #'WAS GUT PUNCH AFTER GUT PUNCH. AND WHEN YOU REALIZE THIS IS ABOUT REAL PEOPLE IT MAKES YOU SADDER' #LIKE??ITS A FUCKING WAR FILM??? #WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?? THEM TO BE FROLICKING IN FIELDS ?? #THATS THE POINT!! IT SHOWS YOU HOW MEANINGLESS FUCKING FIGHTING TURNS PEOPLE INTO SHELLS OF THEMSELVES #AND FOR WHAT? FOR MEN WHO DONT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THEIR LIVES? #ITS JUST SHEDDING BLOOD FOR NO GOOD REASON ITS FIGHTING OTHER MEN TAKING THE SAME ORDERS AS YOU BUT JUST FROM A DIFFERENT MAN #YOU ALL WANT TO GO HOME!! YOU ALL WANT TO GO HOME #BUT YOU CANT . ok im done yelling but #thats the point. youre SUPPOSED to witness this and feel horrible and self reflect #if its not your cup of tea? thats fine. theres plenty of other media to enjoy #but when you make baseless critics and then refuse to believe youre wrong its. its just?? i dunno #also saw this w nope but dont even get me STARTED !!

[jaded-of-mara]

#mara jade #star wars eu #star wars legends #fancast #someone please rb this and edit han's caption to say the smuggler #also tried to replicate the 70s film stock in the mara fancast. idk how successful i was #also do you know how few sw characters have bangs? its really very few #the mara image really feels like those old 1d imagines that made people ask “who the fuck is richard”

[oatbugs]

Jack Marsh (2005), Friendship Otherwise - Toward a Levinasian Description of Personal Friendship

#saw carnation lily lily rose by john singer seargent irl today. it was basically at my doorstep all along idk why i never went to see it #it was placed at a corner in the gallery. me and my friend sat down and sketched the paintings of beautiful naked people quite badly. paper #provided by tate britain. she told me about how she couldnt look her boyfriend in the face after a harrowing film about war. when i say the #interview was informal i mean the person who was supposed to be my boss told me let me get you a cider and then he said after #50 years of life he knows people are inherently good and it only takes a little bit of kindness to save this world. he said he tricked #his wife into keeping the baby and then he said he quit his job at a US bank to help people find meaning and in it #he would have liked to find meaning. instead he started climbing with his friends. he said he chews his cigarettes because its a habit from #when he had to hide things from people. the entire time i felt uncomfortable and incredibly enlightened. this is my friends mentor. she has #his pattern of pauses and expletive and penchant for ends-justify-means attitude. i do think im not very clever #but maybe one day i will love you enough to make up for it. i wrote code i dont understand staring at the final error i thought about how #we both thought of how when we're too old to remember the voices of our friends we would like to stand in the pathway of the LHC beam pipe #cut it open and eat light in the freezing cold vacuum (kills you long before radiation will) the invisible puncture wound unfolding dna #back to the start larger than you ever were. you go to heaven once youve been to hell. my friend is in my bed #practicing calculations of eigenvectors by hand and she is uninterested in a visual proof you are uninterested in incompetence #we catch a train this is your kind of burden you tragic hero wincing at that word you only do this because you have to. im the only one #who can. i am a coward in this for the fucking poetry. the visual proofs. the pretty numbers. an architect who was horrible at maths wanted #to be a philosopher and accidentally ended up neck in deep in 70th Error On Visual Studio Code i want to kiss your eyes before we say #goodbye we both know there is no love in the way there should be. I still have your dress in my wardrobe. i hope you make art. #you think im alright head-wise i think you fucking hate me i think ill never be so clever you want me to tell you my idea? #if you wanted more of this world i would have liked to kiss you harder. we cant both be like this. im sorry i cant be with you the whole wa #the love is gone if you have to ask it. his breath catches his eyes feel stiff it is -1.9 kelvin he is near the beam pipe i miss holding #his hand i miss her singing voice i miss his hair and i found the antonym of pain thank you for carrying me home.

[mummer]

they could never EVER neverrrrrr ever ever do this even ryan condal would never cede such an “iconic” setpiece & “memorable” dialogue and even if he wanted to HBO simply would not allow it but in my minds eye ideal hotd adaptation of the battle of the gods eye completely discards EVERYTHING supposedly recounted/editorialized in fire and blood no anime dialogue no ultra choreographed fight scene no cinematic beautiful shots of the dragons dancing no leaping from dragon to dragon its actually like incredibly fast and loud and incomprehensible to the audience just beasts colliding and ripping each other apart dirt and blood and horrific and disgusting and ultimately super SUPER pathetic ❤️ daemon and aemond dont get to make any epic last stands theres no glorious blaze out, no chilling last words, no grand narrative, in the end it really is just two men thudding to the bottom of a lake and getting eaten by fish. make the craziest climax in the world an anticlimax. ultimate antimoment

#of course. this can only be in my dreams #hotd #my greatest idea is daemon doesnt even get his sword in the eye grand leap moment #cause like. Well physically that would be completely insane #they both get thrown together when their dragons collide and theyre both already dead from blunt force trauma #and the sword just kind of accidentally impales aemond lol #i just hate to see a character like daemon get somehow validated by the narrative as super cool and awesome and sexy etc #like for what? hes just a maaannn it’s just what you do. hes a human man at the end of it #cant ascend to godhood good buddy. better luck in ur next life. u sucked at this one #L + you have erectile dysfunction you cannot be legolas jumping on floating dragon scales. lame! #even if he did sink that sword in… its so pointless JDGDKSH. U ARE BOTH GOING TO DIE ANYWAY…. #i love crazy awesome action setpieces i love good cool action directing i dont think it necessarily would even be bad #but i think it does cede some of its own point. i guess thats the whole ‘you cant make an anti war film’ thing again #daemons whole fucking deal is just so boring to me unless it’s undermined and subverted. i love when hes a whiny pathetic mess. #and NOT a slay dom daddy. aemond i cant even discuss he does not do anything for me.

[destielyurii]

sg1 really did get Ben Browder and Claudia Black on a 2 for 1 deal directly after peacekeeper wars huh

#peacekeeper wars aired oct 04 sg1 s8 aired july 05 like its directly back to back #cannot stress how fucking funny this is to me #sg1 looses their leading man and claudia black is like “well youve had me on what if i come back and bring you a new all-american boy?” #also stargate filmed in canada and farscape filmed in sydney that is such a different climate #i dont envy ben and claudia (who are from memphis and sydney respectively) having to acclimatise to that #sg1 #farscape #claudia black #ben browder

[slutdge]

The sound design of War of the Worlds (2005) was crazy regardless of whether or not you hate it, the tripod noises are blood-curdling

#IM BACK TO HYPE UP WAR OF THE WORLDS AGAIN #when i saw it as a kid it terrified me but now im rewatching it for the first time in like probably 10 years #it is beautifully directed in a way i never appreciated before #and whoever made the tripod noises was a genius because its so fucking scary even now as an adult #the cgi for 2005 was also incredible #also the scene where ray kills harlan but its off screen was so great and it scared me soooo much when i was a kid #my dad read me the book when i was a kid it is the VERY RARE good memory i have with him cause were both sci fi geeks #not to get Too Deep but thats probably why i cling to it and anything else me and my dad enjoyed together when i was a kid #i love it in film when you can hear a character being killed but you dont see it

[thebadtimewolf]

barbie meme - billie piper characters

#bw: munedits #bw: out of ethos #billiepiperedit #a: billie piper #{YOU HAVE TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE BILLIES BECAUSE NOT EVERY BILLE CHARACTER CAN BE ROSE} #{JUST LIKE ROSE CAN NOT PULL OFF EVERY BILLIE CHARACTER. GET. UR. SHIT. TOGETHER. OR. GTFO!} #{ROSE WOULD NOT FUCK HER COUSIN STOP MAKING THE DR HER COUSIN FOR MANSFIELD PARK AUS PLS IM BEGGIN} #{ROSE WOULD NOT RUN AROUND CHOPPING PPLS HANDS OFF! LET ALONE CHOKING! SHE IS A GUN TOTING WOMAN NO MATTER THE ERA} #{ROSE BEING A FLIRT? DOESNT EQUATE TO POLYAMORY } #{rose maybe the bomb BUT NOT THE LITERAL BOMB THAT DESTROYS GALLIFREY. SHE IS NOT THE CAUSATION OF A ALIEN'S WAR TRAUMA} #{THATS THE WHOLE POINT OF THE MOMENT. THE MOMENT IS JUST A JANET FROM THE GOOD PLACE} #{even villainous rose didnt even choke anyone. she'll beat someone to death before chopping anything} #{stop trying to make rose tyler into ur human barbie. barbie can do anything. rose marion tyler cant! its a decharacterised flanderization} #{the only way rose can be literally any of em is if that character did exactly what lady cassandra and the tardis did} #{which was killing rose's entire brain. just killing miss rose! ya girl! thats not a win! thats a fail! a nat 1!} #ihatesuziedit #film: yerma (2017) #yermaedit #barbieedit #film: barbie #mansfieldparkedit #tv: penny dreadful #pennydreadfuledit #tv: i hate suzie #tv: doctor who #film: mansfield park #ttdby30edit #film: things to do before you're 30 #doctorwhoedit #{yes sea devil rose being positioned like that is intentional. its how the fandom treats her similar to how the dr treat martha and jack}

[ackerslut]

no but listen i am constantly thinking about the mcu and other franchises like star wars and dc have tried to replicated their cinematic universe and i think the problem is that these big budget movies aren't willing to commit to the concept of a stand alone film. the entire reason avengers (2012) actually works is because all of the movies beforehand were complete stand alone action flicks that tied into the same universe only by a few end credit scenes and the fact that SHIELD was at least mentioned in each movie. when you go over to the DCEU they're trying so hard to get to the justice league and they haven't even made a batman movie yet!!!

i also think this is why the mcu started sucking after age of ultron because they stopped making stand alone movies and instead made a cinematic experience where you had to go to antman: 17 revenge of the cockroaches just so you could see an ensemble movie where deadpool crosses the multiverse to find spiderman's girlfriend for an ocean's 11 team up with moon knight

#THESE MOVIES ARE EXHAUSTING BY THE TIME YOU HIT PHASE THREE #like??? #you have to watch wandavision and MAYBE loki to understand wtf is going on in DOCTOR STRANGE'S movie #during phase 1 & 2 i did not have to watch a single thor or captain america movie to understand what was going on in the iron man films #and vise vera fr #and then you go over to whatever the FUCK is going on with dc and star wars and guess what its so incoherent that i've watched every #property associated with the franchise and i have no fucking clue what's going on #mcu #mcu critical #except not really? #dceu critical #star wars critical #this isn't anti anything i'm just throwing it in the tag #marvel cinematic universe

[vivelarevolution13]

the way I would kill for an M-rated howling commandos oneshot. she could’ve saved the mcu and this is 100% the hill I will die on

#like gimme historically accurate waiting around marching for days humping through the mud #gimme thinly veiled inglorious basterds references #gimme seven specialized rowdy fucking assholes passing the time by taking the piss out of each other #and clashing and still coming together after to roll their eyes at the brass #gimme the actual fight needed for an integrated unit gimme the politics and posturing of captain america vs. the reality of war #gimme steve actually forming grounded connections to the people around him and becoming a proper leader gimme bucky the NCO #gimme dernier’s resistance stories gimme more about morita in california #and jones the french major and dugan from the fightin’ irish #gimme all of them cussing and fighting and having a miserable time and finding comfort in each other’s company #listen ​i know its been literally 13 years. i know #i just can’t get over that one BTS of them together and laughing filming the scenes for the TFA montage that we never really got to see #and the deleted scene of the capture at azzano #and i know its too late i just wish we got that instead of the 2838282838 captain carter appearances #howling commandos #captain america #ca: tfa #max.txt #ignore all the typos I was very enthused #i think i need to go back to writing a howlies fic lol

[virtualcarrot]

Foundation really said "I'll solve every plot thread through deus ex machina", uh?

#so much bait and switch #foundation #finally caught up with this show and #hm #let's just say i don't quite get the hype #it's gorgeous #it's well filmed #it's well acted #(mostly)(i can't stand mallow and the clerics) #(seriously the tonal discordance URH) #(though poly gets a pass because he doesn't feel as much like a character that'd belong in a disney!star wars) #but gods if the plot doesn't keep UNDOING its own emotional beats #also honestly if hari was able to create something like the vault from the very beginning #and the vault can SAVE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE FROM AN EXPLODING PLANET #why the fuck are we bothering making it all about psychohistory? why are we pretending? #Demerzel remains the only stable and compelling thing about this show she has yet to fail me #because it's COHERENT #new knowledge we get about her doesn't keep REWRITING previously acquired one #anyway it's not a bad show but it definitely lives neither to the hype nor the expectations of those early season 1 episodes (imo etc etc) #carrot has an opinion

[themoonking]

sorry not sorry but if you were ever a prequel hater i'm gatekeeping you from being a prequel lover now that it's popular to do so. you don't get to shit on the prequels for no reason only to turn around and be a prequel stannie (ESPECIALLY a hayden christensen stannie) now that kenobi is the hot new star wars thing. obikins don’t touch my post, i am also gatekeeping you <3

#the prequels had shitty dialogue? that's subjective but either way its the same exact quality of dialogue as the original trilogy #so if you constantly make fun of the pt for its dialogue you HAVE to constantly make fun of the ot for ITS dialogue #or else we both know that thats not the actual reason its just an excuse #the prequels had shitty cgi? they were all made in the late nineties/early aughts i wont say this this was the most cutting edge shit around #but it was pretty standard quality special effects for the time #you can't hate on a film because it's cgi aged poorly its unfair because this was quality shit at the time #the story was dumb? i have nothing to say to that because i can't help you if you don't have taste #ewan mcgregor was the only actor from the prequels that the 'fanbase' was even a little bit kind to #hayden christensen never got a moment's peace about his (fucking GOOD) performance and yet somehow despite that #maintains nothing but love for the films and excitement and joy at his return which makes absolutely no sense #because given the amount of shit he got he should be going through a (completely justified) fucking joker arc fr #natalie portman was treated horribly for daring to be a woman in a star wars film and then even more after the films were made #for daring to talk about star wars #despite the fact that she was In The Movies #like that one tumblr post where someone sends an ask about who does she think she is wearing a star wars shirt when she probably #hasnt seen the movies #(same ask might have also called her a bitch idk) #where the person who received the ask has to be like 'that's natalie portman and she was IN THE MOVIES' #jake lloyd's life was basically ruined and he was a fucking child when he was in the phantom menace (never forgiving y'all for that one) #and even alleged prequel lovers act like they needed to be 'fixed' like the way some 'pt lovers' talk about tcw and how it 'fixed' the pt #as if they arent just spouting the same shit that pt haters say fr #but that's a topic for another day another post i wont get into that now #i speak #star wars #kenobi #i've been a prequel stannie basically from birth i wont allow former pt haters to jump on the bandwagon #you know how people who hated the amazing spider man films started being andrew garfield stans after nwh came out? #and ppl who were constantly shitting on rpatz for the cardinal sin of playing batman before a TRAILER was even released #suddenly became stannies once the film was released and was best batman film ever made? #and how ppl who were stannies from the beginning were like 'absolutely fucking not'?

[istherewifiinhell]

besties i know not many of u are star wars people but just know there are new strides being made in the wet pathetic man department you couldnt even dream. the only things this guy did this episode were get yelled at. pull his sleeves over his hands to use elevator buttons. and get slapped by his mother when he showed up at her doorstep.

#some shit #brother and me didnt catch his name first 3 eps so weve just been calling him baby blue (very blue. very wet eyes) #to be clear. hes a fucking rent a cop and like to see him suffer hes a tool and a loser and not to me. in a little meow meow way. #but. hes a lotta other peoples... #im here for fucking. diego luna. they dont make eyes more soulful than that #also extremely good intergrated star wars lore and good film making but thats. harder to post about without making sw ur part time job #andor good. watch andor. is the point. #its fucking better than mando. no jon faveru. fight me

[ziracona]

People who want to like Marvel movies so bad should watch Mission Impossible franchise instead because it's like all the high action but way better and with practical stunts that are stunning instead of CGI and also all the HC found family and character development and likable characters, except they actually exist and are amazing. Like no downbeats from action yet they still manage to have the most interesting and likable cast because characters actually aren’t that hard if you’re a good writer. Morals and ethical takes that don’t suck. it’s actually funny. Everyone loves each other. Well written women who don’t get fridged. Like the franchise you guys keep pretending exists is right there fulfilling every box that needs ticking--you just aren't looking in the right direction. It has what MCU /WISHES/ it knew how to do. You are sleeping on one of the best action film franchises to ever exist like I will sing its praises eternally.

#(this excludes MI2 which was so bad they canonically retconned the entirety of its events. Bc they also know how to admit they f'd up & are #better off saying 'that actually never happened' than letting things go in 18 directions) #mission impossible #Every single other film in that franchise is so good it's on my list of movies I'd watch at any time if anyone suggested like hell yeah bro #let's get this marathon GOING #/incredibly/ responsibly anti-govt a lot of the time despite being a spy franchise??? Like MI Ghost Protocol was made /DURING/ the Iraq War #& was explicitly about the US Govt intentionally creating chaos and death in the middle east/blaming it on the middle east so it could #pretend to be the hero & go in and take over later for the 'greater good' and the actual good guys are like 'fuck that' & kill the people #doing it. Unlike Marvel which is pro govt like 24/7. Please don't sleep on this franchise it's SO good #I MEAN 3. Not Ghost Protocol sorry was thinking abt 4 bc I want to rewatch. 4 is about Russia & the US actually not being incredibly #different & people being people & the dangers of nuclear war and letting extremists take action & friendship and is so good. #MI3 is the Iraq war govt critical one that's also literally my favorite romance film I don't even like romance films but I'd die for MI3

[bittersweet-mojo]

ive started reading star wars fic out of context because it amuses me and cus there’s just so much genuinely well written stuff i can just stick to like, poignant political novels instead of all the fucking family drama. however i remain a staunch kyle hater. i dont even care. theres nothing about that entire family that interests me at all. but there kind of gross looking ginger fascist, that guy compels me. im enjoying his deal.

#about me #i hate that star wars is just this is the most important family in the world #i dont give a shit about that #but some fans have put the fairy magic sword movies through a blender #and come up with some genuinely cool like. moral questions and stuff #kyle wants what armitage has #first off the best first name in existence #second. the ability to fucking get anything done. #i like this fascist he has goals #and i think his face is kinda weird which i find amusing #its hilarious like ive seen this actor in other things where he doesnt look weird. and yet. he is a weasel. #anyway i think i like armitage cus hes not whiney. hes a terrible dude. but hes not moping about it. #this has been my out of context star wars takes ive literally only seen 1 film with him in it and it was YEARS ago

[chewwytwee]

sucking and fucking everyone else who's torrenting the non-remastered original star wars trilogy with me

#fuck the remastered version #fuck its ugly ass color palette and poor upscaling #fuck its ugly ass 3d effects and extra bullshit footage to connect it to the prequels #fuck remaking a classic 1970s space adventure film with some of the most charming and well done puppetry and practical effects youve ever #seen into some butt fucking ugly cash grab #they didnt 'fix' the movies by editing over some of the more obvious effects #they ruined the entire charm and artistry of the original #literally its like painting over classic art with your own interpretation cuz you dont like how the colors look #ITS NOT YOUR FUCKING PAINTING #I wouldnt care if disney also wasnt actively trying to erase any version besides their dogshit remasatered version #there isnt any way to legally stream or purchase or watch the original films as they were shown in theaters #its a fucking joke #and a historical travesty #its not revisionism but it is fucking tasteless and infuriating #.txt #i dont even like star wars that much #i just like film history and it makes me sad thinking we might lose the originals and the mastery on display #star wars #yeah star wars fandom get pissed at this with me

[oflgtfol]

after going on a ~2 hr long gifset queue spree i think something needs to change w how i tag star wars stuff bc ive mostly been tagging individual properties and just using “star wars” for the main films + miscellaneous things. but now i realize if anybody wants to blacklist literally all sw content that must be real annoying to have to block all the individual properties. so uhm. wah

#might start tagging everything with ‘sw’ ??? #with ‘sw’ being the Entire Fucking Franchise ? #and ‘star wars’ being for the main films ?? #and then ofc the individual side properties are their own things #ive come to realize this due to the fact that my queue is a mix of main movies. rogue one. showbi wan. mando. jedi fallen order. 2003 cw. #LIKE. ITS SO MUCH…. #brot posts #sw posting #but also maybe if you want to blacklist star wars entirely i think you would have. unfollowed me at this point ……