#best. movie. year. ever.

[onihcinimkcin]

Russell wasn't quite finished with the past. Neither was the soon-to-be forty-third president of the United States. "He comes to shake my hand," says Russell. "And I say, 'I'm editing a movie right now that's going to question your father's legacy in Iraq.'" Bush smiled widely, still gripping the director's hand. "Well," he said, "I guess I'm going to have to go back there and finish the job."

This exchange (after a private campaign event at then-WB co-chair Terry Semel's home) from Best. Movie. Year. Ever. is almost certainly a self-flattering fabulation from David O. Russell's two-decade post facto interview with author Brian Raftery.

On the other hand, it is extremely easy to believe GWB said this on June 30, 1999.

#best. movie. year. ever. #brian raftery #david o. russell #george w. bush

[harasharaved]

The fact that Judaism is trending because of both the wave of bomb threats on synagogues and Bradley Cooper's Antisemitism Adventure (his huge fake prosthetic nose, and him basically stealing the story from a Jewish man) is so infuriating and so exhaustingly typical.

The fact that I see Judaism trending on Tumblr and immediately think "oh no. Something Bad is happening to us." We're never trending cause it's fucking good. I never get to be excited, it's just cold dread.

The fact that Antisemitism is getting worse everyday and the only ones who ever talk about it are other Jews. The fact that no one else fucking cares. The only ones who support us are other Jews. Even when gentiles talk about Nazis or white supremacists they don't want to help us. We're just their prop, the canary in the coal mine and the perfect victim.

The fact that everyone's uncomfortable with Jews still being here. Reminding them of things they'd rather forget.

The fact that it'd be easier for them if we were all dead. Then they could tell stories about our people, dressed in offensive caricatures, without us making a fuss.

#im so fucking pissed right now #jew tag #judaism #jumblr #when will we be able to catch a fucking break man #i keep thinking about dara horn man #she said it best #a hundred times #Sarah's bullshit #I'll probably delete this later i just AUGH #g-d im angry i just wanted to rant #me and every jewish person ever who went to hebrew school or shul or anything #we have armed security guards as some flimsy protection so we dont get hate crimed #so no one comes in and shoots our kids #by the way. its not normal. its been all ive ever known though #g-d forbid one of those bomb threats is real will gentiles slap on a fake nose and make a movie about it twenty years later

[shiningwonho]

today, we are canceling the apocalypse!

happy 10th anniversary pacific rim!

#pacific rim #pacificrimedit #predit #pacrimedit #maleigh #mako mori #raleigh becket #chuck hansen #herc hansen #stacker pentacost #newton geiszler #hermann gottlieb #saeedits #HAPPY 10 YEARS TO THE BEST MOVIE TO EVER EXIST #i'm giffed out now bye bye lmao

[robotsandramblings]

great news everyone!!! upon my millionth-and-some rewatch, i can confirm that Captain America: The Winter Soldier is still a perfect 10/10 movie, and still the best MCU film. 👑🥇🏆

#i just realize the movie is going to be TEN (10) YEARS OLD THIS APRIL?!?!?!?!!!!!!! #happy tenth anniversary to me and my love for bucky barnes and sebastian stan lol #also arguably the best MCU post credit scene ever (the bucky one obvs) #of course i'm 200% biased lol but honestly it really is on a whole other level #i could still write an essay on that lil 15 second clip #oh and i do admit that Infinity War is right up there as Best MCU film too #bucky barnes #captain america #mcu

[front-facing-pokemon]

#celebi #i debated about whether to make this one shiny or not. but i didn't. for the integrity of the blog #which means i can't talk about pmd here and instead i have to talk more about pokémon 4ever. although i feel i've said all there is to say #about that movie. which is just that i have basically the whole thing memorized and i watched it a lot as a kid. i dunno celebi fucking dies #uh spoiler alert for that like 20 year old movie but if you're on this blog i'm sure you've already seen it. and if you haven't then you #probably weren't going to see it anytime soon. so. here's celebi um #shoutouts to the time guy. that's. the end of the sentence Well i guess i could talk about psmd bc green celebi is in that #ugh. psmd will always be my favorite pmd game even though pmd sky is kinda objectively the best game ever created #the partner character just. aghargrargaraghrahgrghragh #okay i'm not gonna talk about this right now. take celebi

[finchers-ipad]

fight club makes me feel so ill. i want to kill it with fire. it’s been over a month since i watched it in the cinema and i’m not the same person.

#it’s been around one and a half YEARS #GET OUT OF MY BRAIN!!!!!!!!!!!! #best movie to ever movie (kill it) #fight club

[forecast0ctopus]

which characters do you want to draw more of?

yknow i feel like this is probably more pointed towards star trek. which there ARE a lot of trek characters id like to draw more of. but you just opened a whole can of worms man theres so much stuff i love that i havent really done much fanart for..... i want to do scooby-doo fanart soooo bad but i never get past the sketch phase....i havent drawn hardly any paranatural in ten years... woould love to draw more my babysitter's a vampire fanart its been so long since ive drawn those guys....... ive wanted to do jaane tu ya jaane na redraws for the longest time... okay i wont go on any longer ill stick anythin g else. in the tags lmao

#ask #anon #om shanti om i want to do fanart of om shanti om so so so bad but id want it to be colored n finished but. i dont finish things much :( #gravity falls ive got gravity falls wips tht i wanna finish #AMERICAN DRAGON i wanna draw jake long again its been forever since ive drawn that guy #PARANORMAN MY FAVORITE MOVIE OF ALL TIME PARANORMAN #jab we met my favorite romcom #ive got a screenshot redraw of that but i haated how it turnedd out lmao #aditya kashyap u are sooo handsome. #i just get so single minded about things and get so many ideas that i just have to draw that one thing over and over and over #and i get stuck with so many wips that i never finish #that i cant even get around to drawing the other things i like because they arent the one media thats shoved its way to the front f my brai #anyways. #at least i had a scooby doo halloween costume last year #somewhat fanart considering i did a painting for it. but it was captain cutler........ #i had a scooby-doo birthday party when i was 5 and i think it was probably the best birthday ive ever had and will ever have

[misha-69innit]

nowhere to go on the internet because only me and five other people are crazy enough about veer zaara (2004)

#veer zaara #srk #it is the perfect epic romance #this and oso are just the best movies ever made #can't believe i hadn't watched this until last year

[werewolfoffeverswamp]

more springy doodles. i HATE this guy (lying)

#old grandpa stabs a lot. #art #my art #spring bonnie #springtrap #fnaf #fnaf movie #william afton #hey btw go listen to ‘my grandfathers clock’ off the soundtrack. best somg ive ever heard (true) #anyways guys that’s my allotted 2 fnaf posts of the year. sorry if you followed me for fnaf that’s all i got till next year #not really but i could be telling the truth.

[flannelgirlxx]

just rewatched bottoms!! had to end the year off right yk🫡♥️

#literally the best film ever created #happy new year guys<3 #bottoms movie #bottoms 2023 #hazel callahan

[wenellyb]

On a more serious note, it's interesting to see people being shocked at how Henri Cavill is being treated when DC has been treating their cast and crew as sh*t for years. Ray Fisher has been calling them out for years but didn't get the support he deserved.

Even more recently, the way they discarded the Batgirl movie, after it had been filmed and wrapped, disrespecting the hard work of the directors and actors.

It's almost as if stuff start being scandalous when when a White Male actor is the victim and only then.

All my love and respect to Henry Cavill, he doesn't deserve this but this isn't their first strike.

#henry cavill #superman #mcu #dceu #ray fisher #they've been trash for years #the could have the best movie franchises ever and I would be disgusted by how they treat people

[morninkim]

thinking about how they added the 2017 movie blue ranger to battle for the grid, but it couldn't be 2017 billy for some reason, so they just made an oc who amounted to a raiden mortal kombat clone

#power rangers #mmpr #pr 2017 #happy 7 years best movie ever made <3 one day the fandom will stop using you for engagement bait on twit <3 #power rangers battle for the grid

[snixx]

pll was my entire adolescence i swear to god. like i grew up on that franchise it also was the original catalyst for turning my entire friend group gay

#pretty little liars #in typical kavya fashion it started with the books for me i didnt even know there was a show #and the show was my first tv show ever. i was mind blown by the concept #like 22 FORTY MINUTE EPISODES??? INTO SEVEN SEASONS??? THATS LIKE A HUNDRED MOVIES #there are only 16 books and they finished the first book in two episodes how does this work #like how is there so much content for this one thing. i didnt know it was possible #i had never watched a tv show before unless you count like. random cable tv episodes of like chhota bheem #cant believe im used to the concept of tv shows now they feel so unreal. how does one get back to being sated by movies after youve seen em #i still havent finished the show btw its insane to me. that franchise defined my teenage years #and was also both my and my best friend's first representation of lesbianism lmao it triggered so many gay crises

[pollyna]

Halo and Ice have their annual meeting to rewatch Pride and Prejudice together. It doesn't matter what Ice has to do—meeting with the President, with generals, cadets, and sometimes even his husband—on the 23rd of January, they are going to sit on the couch to watch the movie. Hot chocolate, a slice of cake, and repeating the lines all along.

(More than once, Nat and Maverick got back from their annual "we can't stay home this afternoon because they absolutely didn't kick us out" trip only to find their spouses dancing around the living room on some violin music they still couldn't recognise after all those years.)

#they're watching the 2005 movie obviously DJJDJDJDJD #ice🤝halo: we have a dedicated day to rewatch p&p everybody out #tom iceman kazansky #callie halo shen #sort of #father & daughter relationship #(ice adopts halo 100% no need to ask the whos and whys) #pete maverick mitchell #natasha phoenix trace #mav 🤝 phee: they kicked us out again :( #icemav #halix #married icemav #married halix #<- best tags ever #no drama like the drama they see on tv every year #halo and phee have the day for notting hill but that's most of the movie going on and halo quoting stuff in phee's ear while they make out #top gun: maverick #otp: things get old our love is gold

[kyouka-supremacy]

Hello there 👋

Can you talk about why you feel the way you do about the female bsd characters? (including the female characters you like) and while I don't think the author doesn't know how to write female characters I think the biggest problem with the female characters is that they're underutilized and barely have much screentime ( the most one we saw recently having screentime currently in the manga is teruko)

Hi!! I love you all SO much but seriously I don't have the mental stability to talk about why the bsd female characters are badly written ahah. Here's my best attempt at it:

I hope it's enough for me to say there's a female / male characters proportion of like 1:10, and no female character has any real repercussion on the plot– literally. Besides from Kyouka and Lucy and maybe Yosano? you could hypothetically erease every other female character and... Realistically, nothing would change. That's just how much irrelevant all but three female characters are, and there's already very few compared to the rest of the male cast. The four main / most popular characters are all males. Dazai is openly sexist and it's just kind of there never to be addressed. Akutagawa is repetedly violent with his female coworker and it's treated as a gag (like you DO realize how repulsive it is to write a character who is obsessed with her abuser and never be intentioned to elaborate on that because I guess that's what women are supposed to do according to author? Like. okay). But honestly the main issue for me is how each of them literally gravitates around another male character. God, it's SO annoying. And I mean every single of them!!! Every. single. Every single!!!! I struggle to come up with even one exception to the pattern. Kyouka has Atsushi as her savior, Lucy has Atsushi as her savior, Higuchi is obsessed with Akutagawa, Naomi is obsessed with Jun'ichirou, Gin literally exists because of Akutagawa, Alcott is just there to aid Fitzgerald, Margaret's only role in the story is to save Hawthorne, Elise is just expression of Mori. Teruko is a person in the body of a child who literally drools over her 50-something superior, like we hadn't as a society come to the common agreement that the “not as old as she looks” trope was disgusting pedophilia apologism like ten years ago (but it's okay though, because pedophilia was established to be okay in this manga at like, chapter 15 or something) (is this the good time to bring up that time Aya asked Kunikida out? No? Okay let's just collectively pretend that never happened). Do I need to go on? I haven't read Gaiden, but do I really need to read it to know Tsujimura gravitates around Ayatsuji? Oh wait, I was just remembered about Gaiden's full title: Bungou Stray Dogs Gaiden: Ayatsuji Yukito VS. Kyougoku Natsuhiko, and if that doesn't speak of the consideration author gives their female characters, I don't know what does. It's just– no female character is ever going to have their own novel. No female character is ever going to be protagonist. They'll just keep being treated as they've always been so far, like flat and personality-less disposable plot devices.

Now. I love Yosano's backstory, I really do- I think it was the best executed arc of the manga, reading those two chapter still gives me chills. But you do have to acknowledge, Yosano herself has no agency in the entire arc development. It's okay, she was eleven, it's natural; but she is just tossed one way to the other by other characters. That, and I can't stretch it enough, is not a bad thing on its own; not all stories have to scream #womanpower to be good stories. It's a good story. But you need to acknowledge it does nothing to empower female characters' role in this manga; it just speaks once again of it being a systematic problem, how author can't write female characters like they were masters of their fate if their life depended on it. And it's not that just because there's one (1) mini arc that happens to have a female character as its protagonist, author knows how to write female characters with depth, or agenda, or an objective, or personality, because... They clearly don't.

Like. I probably became annoying by now but like. When was the last time you found any bsd fan whose favorite character was a woman? When was the last time you found people describing themselves as a Lucy kinnie? If you ask me, it's not a matter of fans' fault for overlooking female characters; the female characters in this franchise are meant to be overlooked, because they're abysmally less stretched out and complex compared to their male counterparts– because male characters are distinctive and unique, while author can't go outside the range of one-dimensional femme fatale, letal woman (Yosano, Kouyou, Teruko, Christie, Gin / Lucy / Elise too to an extent) and woman who's just there to obsess over a male character (Alcott, Higuchi). But do not fret, because author will sometimes go outside that scheme by making a letal femme fatale who also obsesses over a male character! (Naomi). Also this

(Have you ever wondered why I never talk about Beast Gin? Yeah.)

Okay but you see the problem here? You see how it's impossible to make the same kind of argument for the male characters, because they're all diverse and various and multilayered as much as their little screentime allows? Higuchi doesn't exist outside Akutagawa, Lucy doesn't exist outside Atsushi; but it's not like you can say the same goes the other way round. That is, crossing out the various parallels drawn between male characters, but that only speaks more of how precisely curated male characters are, while all female characters... I'll be honest, aren't written as people. Author really sounds like your average Washington Post best selling psychological thriller author of the week that writes women like an alien species from another planet. It would have spared me having been writing this whole post for an hour (two hours? Which is definitely not the time I wanted to spend on this, man) if only author would have formed the thought, at the start of the serialization: “perhaps! Perhaps I should write women as people instead of writing them as female characters (whatever that means)”. Alas, we ended up with the infamous Naomi description from Untold Origins (what the fuck. who in their right mind would ever think of writing something like that. what the fuck.)

Now, I know if you're here reading this you most definitely like bsd. It's okay, really. Unpopular opinion, but people are perfectly allowed to like things that are flawed (and this is a big flaw). What's extremely important, seriously, I'm on my knees begging you, is to be critical of the media you consume. All kinds of media. Even if you end up disagreeing with me on this matter, really!! Just be able to tell apart the things that make appealing a series for you from whatever kind of agenda / worldview the author is pushing through, and peacefully acknowledge you can like something despite it having issues (because bsd has issues). I don't know who needs to hear this, but someone definitely does: “I love s/kk!!” “the bsd storytelling has many compelling aspects!!” and “I recognize the bsd writing has flaws some of which actively harm an already disadvantaged part of society” are statements that can and should coexist, and if anything - and I know you hate to hear this, I'm sorry, I'm sorry - it should be kept in mind when deciding to support the franchise by buying its products.

One final note is that like... I'm sorry if this comes off as pretentious but I seriously feel like people have NO idea what media with well written female characters look like, because for people to even question bsd being sexist is just insane to me (in the way: do we really need to to talk about it, isn't it obvious like ten seconds in the show??). And this is probably the least good place to advertise things, but please do yourself a favor and read The Promised Neverland and learn what well written female characters read like.

#bsd #bungou stray dogs #Me writing this: I guess this is why everyone hates political sciences students uh #Following up: Why Romanticizing Mafia Is Actually Very Bad (no click bait ‼️‼️ ) #Also since I brought up tpn: do you really think that it's a coincidence that the manga with incredibly well written female characters– #and a socialist agenda who was in the top ten Japan's yearly best selling franchises for the entirety of its four years serialization– #got an insulting two seasons anime adaptation that completely narrated another story from the manga‚ a live action movie and THAT'S IT #While series like bsd which didn't even enter the top 20 selling franchises like? Ever? are at their tenth year of serialization– #an excellent four seasons (and counting) anime adaptation five spin-off manga one of which has its own anime– #nine novels as many stage plays and two movies? Do you REALLY think it's a coincidence? #anti bsd #For blacklisting purposes ಥ_ಥ #I know there's some people who won't like reading this but let's be honest... That's probably the people that need to read this the most ;; #bsd analysis #Of sorts... #mine #people asks me stuff #This post contains the several reasons why Tumblr can't become like Twitter namely 1) author in question has Twitter #2) Tumblr is anonymous so people can't send me personally death threats #3) It's Tumblr so people won't send me death threats at all (... Hopefully) #Also I'M SO SORRY I know I have dms pending I'm just the worst at answering them 😭😭😭 #I swear I'll do my best to get to them eventually ;;;;;;

[cakegatedisaster]

"The thing about anger is that it’s a reaction to something else. With Jason, it’s always pain. You can’t scare Jason angry; you can’t scare him at all. But hurt him, and he’ll lash out, every time. The Joker and Bruce managed to hurt Jason so badly that he melted himself down and reforged himself into something that was all edges, sharp in every direction. Nobody could touch himself without cutting themselves to pieces."-- @thepartyresponsible on ao3

#Ive been rereading their whumptober in preperation for this year's and this STILL the best Jason Todd analysis ive ever seen #In canon movies or fanfiction #Also you should totally go check outbevery single one their works #Its all incredible #jason todd #red hood