#Rejected Movies

[whatyourusherthinks]

Arthur The King Review

Eeeey it's the Mahky Mahk dahg movie! Funnily enough, I've had the exact opposite pre-experience with Arthur the King than I've had with a movie like Imaginary. Which is to say I saw the poster, we showed the trailer, but as soon as it came out there was crickets. I haven't looked, but I also haven't heard a single thing about the movie. I was not looking forward to this, even though the trailer was good. One, I am vehemently a cat person. And two, I hate Mark Wahlberg. He's a racist asshole who can't act.

What's The Movie About?

Marky Mark is a runner who is competing in the Adventure Games in the Dominican Republic. Along the way his team finds a stray dog that follows them throughout the race.

What I Like.

The racing, mostly. If you remember that show the Amazing Race, it was kinda like that except it's in one location and all the participants are suicidal. Simu Liu plays a jerk, but he's so goddamn charismatic that I liked him despite that. The locations they shoot at are also very pretty. I liked that they didn't translate any of the Spanish in the movie, so if you didn't speak the language than you just had to pick things up through context clues.

What I Didn't Like.

Funnily enough, my two biggest problems are Mark Wahlberg and the dog. I'll say it again, Marky Mark cannot fucking act. His character is pig-headed and stubborn, and it's revealed at one point that he spent all of his wife's savings to run this super dangerous race. And she tells him at the end of the movie that she's pregnant! (Marky Mark also doesn't know what poor people are, since he's in dire financial straits but he still owns a pretty nice house in the mountains with a pool and eats steak for dinner every night.) This movie has a hilarious ego trip scene where Marky Mark carries two bikes and an adult woman across a zipline in one go like he's a goddamn super soldier or some shit. Speaking of unintended hilarity, there were several moments where something that was supposed to be dramatic was happening, and but I had to stop myself from bursting out laughing. Funnily enough, almost all the dramatic moments had the super obvious product placement happening during them. I usually don't mention product placements in movies (because that's what the companies want) but I want Nissan to be forever associated with the line, "My dad has cancer!" Both of the women characters all suck. The first is Marky Mark's wife, who not only is the breadwinner of the house, but literally just exists to support her husband as he tries to get himself killed. The other is one of the team members in the race, and her deal is daddy issues. She also weirdly gets coddled throughout the movie (She's the one who has to get saved on the zipline.) even though she's clearly the team member in the best shape. The camera work, additionally, sucks. It along with the editing are incredibly inconsistent. Sometimes it's shot in standard, sometimes it's clearly hand held, other times it's back-to-back drone shots. Sometimes you can see how the racers are running and where they are going, other times it's impossible to parse because of close-ups of Marky Mark's face and, of goddamn course, shaky cam! The structure of the movie as a whole is like that. One second everyone is buddy-buddy, then at a turn of a dime everyone is yelling at each other, then the dime turns again and its back to quips and goofs.

Finally, let's talk about that stupid dog. The dog is cute. Whatever. You might think from the trailer that the entire movie is gonna be Marky Mark's team running with this dog, but the dog doesn't even meet the team until halfway through the movie. We still see him, but's it's just shots of him wandering around the slums getting chased by other dogs in goofy scenes. Once he joins up with the team it's mostly fine, but then the ending happens. The ending was so saccharine that I got a cavity. I kinda hate that I watched with movie with other patrons in the theater, because I have never wanted to yell, "Just kill the damn dog already!" more in my life. The ending is nonsense. They pretend this dog is gonna die like three times, and he never fucking does. I know this makes me sounds like a miserable bastard, but that dog should've died. "But the dog survived in real life!" Shut up Buggnutz. Stories based on real events change things around all the time. I'm sure the real runner carried a woman and two bikes across a fucking zipline. "The ending is a tearjerker!" Is it? Because I wasn't crying. I was tapping my foot on the floor waiting for this movie to wrap up.

Final Summation.

I can see some people liking this movie. It's a feel good piece about a dog, maybe for you that makes up for the fact that Mark Wahlberg made and stars in this movie. But I wrote in my notes "If they pull a happy ending out of their ass I'm rejecting this movie", so unfortunately my hands are tied.

#Arthur the King #Rejected Movies

[mrkida-art]

Young dwarf Thorin

#I reject the way the movies changed Thorin's backstory #sorry PJ I hate what you did there #This is supposed to be post war of the dwarves and orcs by not too much time #Maybe a few years after Thráin brings Durin's Folk to Ered Luin #Since you know... Thorin didn't become king until after Thráin went on his quest for Erebor #anyways here are some tags #thorin oakenshield #thorin #the hobbit thorin #the hobbit #tolkien #my art #dwarves #lotr #the lord of the rings #durin's folk #lord of the rings #longbeards #young thorin oakenshield #mr.kida talks #in the tags at least #dwarves with shitty beards

[prokopetz]

These are opposite poles of an extremely specific spectrum.

#media #movie #television #memes #semiotics #spoons #rejected #don hertzfeldt #santa clarita diet #food mention

[twicetolivetwicetodie]

Miguel: To be Spider-Man is to suffer

Miles: um...no?

#that's it that's the movie #i just really like it was miles rejecting the norm and what's expected of him #and doing his own thing #across the spiderverse #across the spiderverse spoilers #miguel o’hara #miles morales

[bollywoodupdate-bysejuti]

Hrithik Roshan Rejected 15 Blockbuster Movies List

#Hrithik Roshan #Rejected Movies

[inkskinned]

it just sucks because nothing is ever fucking made for you, and if it is made for you like 75% of the time it gets chopped into little pieces by every person alive because this is the one thing you have, so it has to prove itself to you.

like, a thing can't just be for women. men need to assign it to women. women have to experience "must" or "should" before their hobbies and passions - women are allowed to do silly, passive things like tuck our ankles and titter behind a fan, or something. women are allowed to, they are welcomed to. like the world is a house and we are supposed to be in the kitchen and now we are being given the divine right to enter the living room if we bring chips

because when it becomes for you, or about you, that is when the thing is vile. you should/must wear makeup so you can appear beautiful to men. once you wear makeup for yourself, or because you yourself enjoy putting it on, then you are no longer doing the right thing. there is a reason men hate certain fashion trends. there is a reason men hate things like the pumpkin spice latte - because it's not about them. you are buying it because it is good for you. they degrade your passions and interests. there is a reason women-led fields are largely seen as being "not a real" profession. when you are a good cook, that is because you can provide for him. close your eyes. you're not going to be a chef, be honest. that is a man making food for himself.

bras are made so breasts will be appealing to men. they are rarely about comfort or support. you have given up entirely on the idea of pockets. young girls have to worry about a shorter inseam on their shorts. a girl on instagram gets her septum pierced, and men in the comments are rabid about it - i just want to rip it out of her face. she'd be beautiful without it.

and fucking everything is for them. even the media that is "for you" is for them, eventually. remember "my little pony"? remember how hard it is to convince any executive to believe that little girls are worth selling to? in the media that is for you, you see little ways that you still need to make it accessible for them - the man is always powerful, smart, masculine. he is a man's man. the media usually forgives him. it usually says okay, some men are awful, but hey! gotta love 'em. because if you don't hold their hands and say "this is literally just a story about my lived reality", they shit their pants about it. they demand you put them into the media that's for you.

these are people who are so used to glutting themselves on the world. they are used to having every corner and every dollar and every place of leadership. so you say can i please have one slice of cake, just for myself, please, holy shit. and they fucking weep about it. they say you're being unfair, because some of their one-thousand-slices aren't beautiful, and your singular cake slice doesn't have their name on it. and aren't you being rude by not offering to share?

and honestly. fucking - yeah, man. you were kind of surprised, because the cake is a little basic (you bake at home, you're way past this stuff). but holy shit, it was nice just to be offered cake in the first place. you're used to having to starve. you're used to getting nothing, but going to the party anyway, because you're expected (professionally) to show up. you liked that it is a simple cake, and that it is warm, and mostly: you like that there is, for once, a cake-for-you.

in the real world, outside of metaphor, it feels like fucking being slapped. barbie didn't even say anything particularly unusual; it literally just made factually evident points. there are less women in leadership than men. we can look at that fact objectively. that is a real thing that is happening. and the movie is aware that it has to defend itself! that it has to spend like half an hour just turning to the camera and saying: i know this is hard for you to understand, but this is a real thing that women experience.

it's just - this is that one kid on the playground who thinks its allowed to hog all the toys. he builds this hoard that nobody else is allowed to even look at, or he'll get aggressive. everyone's a little scared of him, so they let it slide, because his daddy gave him the golden touch. he hates when people cry and thinks bullying is cool. he writes boys only! on a big sign and makes all his friends take "alpha male" classes.

and then girls pick up barbies, because there was nothing left for them. and in the void they've been given, with their scraps: they make long, spiraling narratives about how barbie is actually descended from snakes and has given her righteous followers magical (if concerning) powers and can speak 32 languages (2 of which are animal related) and has big plans for infrastructure (beginning with the local interstate). and the boy comes over, and he has a huge fit about how the girls aren't "including" him. he wants to know why the girls aren't making the story about ken.

"we didn't like your story." the girls blink at him. they point to his war stories and the gi joes and the millions of male-led narratives and how still in the modern day men get two-thirds of the speaking roles in movies and they point to men making mediocre shows that don't get lambasted and they point to men encouraging toxic masculinity and they point to men everywhere, men and men and men. and they say: "how is this our fault? you had ken."

"no!" he is already back to screaming and stomping his feet and tearing at his hair and intentionally reminding them that men are holding back thinly concealed violence and he says: "if it's not for me, it's actually sexism."

#it's almost as if you spent your entire life fucking denying us things and then get mad when god forbid #we point out that you've been denying us something #writeblr #almost as if . u ACTUALLY think women dream of being in a male-run society #like dude mostly i dream about not having a tummy ache #love when ppl tell me that men have to deal with more rejection than women do #im like. just say u have never had a hard day in ur fucking life. if u think the most difficult experience is getting turned down at a bar #men: this one movie doesn't suck my entire - #women: yeah so i went to the doctor and was bleeding out of my eyeballs but like the doctor said #it was probably just my time of the month i guess? #anyway so i died there and had to be revived but they think i faked dying bc it was hysterics #so i took 3 advil and now im back at work i guess

[bl00dfroma-fairy]

#love of my life #love of my liiiiiiiiife #horror art #horror #horror films #horror comedy #horror movies #psychological horror #cw: gore #gore lover #cute gore #soft gore #art #rob zombie #rob zombie michael myers #rob zombie halloween #rob zombie movies #sheri moon zombie #captain spaulding #house of 1000 corpses #baby firefly #devils rejects #3 from hell #richard brake #bill moseley #alternative #grunge #grungy girls #horror film #red aesthetic

[rustedhills]

Disney, releasing Wish: "so it's all about legacy--the new generation surpassing the old, overcoming the evils perpetuated by them, relinquishing singular power... and there's an old man in a tower, uh... animal sidekick, i guess..., ah... magic...?

Miyazaki, just out of frame, sledgehammer raised:

#the boy and the heron #not tagging wish 'cause i'm being a little acidic #this isn't to be negative in the slightest--I really respect both films--but it's interesting to see how visceral boy+H gets with its story #what evils have to be rejected and what they represent--and how characters and the world suffer from those evils--as well as how the whole #'rejecting' part goes. in terms of animation powerhouses discussing their legacies - disney and miyazaki both - I find it interesting that #one makes a pretty safe and nostalgic movie about imagination and dreams; the other is a long trudge through the land of the dead. #b+h is a hard watch - and a look at the legacy of a man questioning his whole purpose in the world - after his cultural touchstones #have long passed by. Mahito needs to understand his grief to keep living--but if he drowns in it he'll just continue the cannibalistic and #violent world of his granduncle. how the hell do you make art when the trauma of your entire life has colored it forever? How can anyone? #maybe after a while... it's time to detonate that damn tower and keep living. #this is to say #if you have enough money to make whatever you want #Make It Fucking Count

[thethiefandtheairbender]

How To Train Your Dragon (2010) / The Dragon Prince (2018—?) / The Sea Beast (2022)

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#tdp #httyd #the sea beast #netflix #how to train your dragon #the dragon prince #aka 'i have every right to speak' 'put an end to this. i have to try' and 'i don't want to be that kind of king' #all slap #THEY'VE KILLED HUNDREDS OF US AND WE'VE KILLED THOUSANDS OF THEM #MAYBE EVERYTHING WE EVER LEARNED ABOUT ELVES IS WRONG / EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT YOU GUYS IS WRONG #REJECT HISTORY AS A NARRATIVE OF STRENGTH AND INSTEAD HAVE FAITH IT CAN BE A NARRATIVE OF LOVE #parallels #mine #animation #movies #personal fave

[whatyourusherthinks]

Anyone But You Review Rant

GOD FUCKING DAMN BULL SPIT FUCK SHIT HORSE COCK DICK FUCK SHIT HELL FUCKED GODDAMMIT! This movie came out LAST YEAR. I SHOULD HAVE MISSED IT. But no. They had to do Valentines Day rerelease with "extra content". I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FREE. I WASN'T GONNA HAVE TO WATCH IT. FUCK.

So this isn't gonna be a review. Because I could only stand to watch half the movie, and as little integrity I actually have, I don't think it's actually fair to review half a movie. That being said, that little shred of integrity I do have won't stop ,me from bitching about how much hate I have for this pile of drivel.

What's this movie about? It's a romcom about possibly the two most unlikable characters I've seen in so long pretending to date even though they hate each other because they don't want to ruin a wedding and also they're soulmates or something. I don't fucking know. They kinda hook-up at the beginning of the movie and everyone acts like all "IT'S DESTINY FOR YOU TO BE TOGETHER" and it's the stupidest fucking thing. So the story is horrible, but of course it is. Comedies never have good plots. But Anyone But You get's a special prize for having a plot specifically written to annoy me.

How about the acting? Well, I hate the fucking leads. Both of them are horribly written and are just nasty to every single other character. The dialogue of this movie is snippy and sarcastic and not at all natural. The girl can't act. The guy can, but has nothing to work with. Their meet-cute begins with the girl pissing her pants. All of the side characters are wooden stereotypes, or over the top stereotypes.

Comedy? No. This movie is not funny. The only intentional joke I laughed at was a old man getting exasperated at the literal premise of the movie. There is a wacky black sidekick for the guy (Because of course there fucking is.) who I hope was paid more than director to repeat the most horrendously unfunny shit I've ever heard. There's a little bit of physical comedy that involves anal fingering so.... Enough said.

Aside from being racist, it's also sexiest "as a joke" but it isn't funny. There's a slightly jarring amount of very unflattering nudity. I was going to give it props that the interracial lesbian couple seemed like good representation, since they just seemed like characters who happened to be lesbians, and not "lesbian characters". (If you get what I'm saying.) But then I realized that they have the straightest wedding possible and they literally get pushed to the background to make room for the straight white leads, and I realized that the writers probably just made one member of a straight couple a woman and barely changed the script.

If I have to say something nice... The movie takes place in Australia so the setting is pretty nice. There's like pretty beaches and the Sydney Opera House and stuff. Oh by the way, the reason they rereleased this movie is so that they could add bloopers after the credits. I didn't watch them.

So in conclusion, Anyone But You? More like Any Movie But This One! HAHAHAHAHA *Proceeds to punch self in the face repeatedly*

#Anyone But You #Rejected Movies #Not A Review

[fanofspooky]

Go To Hell…

#horror #horror movies #horror movie #movie #movies #poster #posters #movie posters #movie poster #horror movie poster #horror movie posters #house of 1000 corpses #the devil’s rejects #3 from hell #rob zombie #fan made #Shari moon zombie #sid haig #bill moseley #2000s horror #00s horror #2000s horror movies #2000s horror movie #00s horror movies #00s horror movie #otis driftwood #baby firefly #captain spaulding

[wrongspacetime]

BOTTOMS (2023) | dir. Emma Seligman

#bottoms 2023 #bottoms movie #ayo edebiri #nicholas galitzine #bottomsedit #wlwsource #dailylgbtq #bottoms spoilers #mygifs #the last fight keeps cracking me up #josie carrying jeff's useless ass out of there like a sack of potatoes >>> #and his astonished face at the rejection #comedy is so back

[the-brucest-fan]

This is how the movie ended 👌

#mario defeated; peach rejected and Bowser proposing to Luigi #they're married now and live happily ever after #the super mario bros movie #mario movie #movie mario #movie luigi #movie bowser #king bowser #bowser x luigi #bowser #bowuigi #king koopa #princess peach #super mario brothers #super mario bros movie #mario bros movie #super mario movie #super mario bros #mario bros #super mario #mario #luigi

[headfullofdrought]

The boogeyman is real and you found him.

#rob zombie #otis driftwood #house of 1000 corpses #otis b driftwood #horror #horror art #slashers #devils rejects #3 from hell #rob zombie movies #bill moseley #Spotify

[lapinparka]

Everything about Ryoji and Minato's relationship on 12/31 in Reload is kinda wild because the game goes out if its way to make sure you can neither accept nor reject his confession and keep their relationship in some sort of ambiguity, but if you complete his linked episodes - aka if Minato just hangs out with him - you automatically unlock lines on 12/31 that he only says to Kotone if they're dating. And then he gives Minato a music box, which Akihiko gives to Kotone on Christmas... if they're dating. And it's this music box Minato decides to put at the top of his bed without player input, which is especially funny if Minato's in a relationship with someone else at this point because he's chosen to display Ryoji's music box over whatever item his current partner's social link has given him. Unromanceable forced romance.

#p3 #ryomina #and the unmissable thank you scene on 3/4 #ryoji aigis parallels continue #especially for p3p where kotone can reject every romance option except for aigis #this why they each got a movie to themselves

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres • western horror

simply put, western horror is a mixture of horror and western. this genre is a combination of something called “weird westerns.” 

#horror sub-genres #western horror #horror movies #horror #tremors #vampires #from dusk till dawn #near dark #brimstone #the borrowers #nope #the devil's rejects #bone tomahawk #ravenous #horroredit