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artofkhaos404 · 8 months

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Hobie Brown is a fantastic character.

His design, concept, uniqueness and how HOT he is make him altogether very likeable. But all these things are not why I love him so much; it's what he represents that gets me.

The symbol in modern media he is for many different types of people. For one, he's pretty awesome for people of color to enjoy. Another black hero who can get down to business is always welcome, though it's nothing new for the Spiderverse universe with Miles Morales being our main protagonist. Having a British black character makes it all the more fun, diverse and interesting!

All that being said, the thing that warms my heart about Hobie Brown is what he means for the alternative community.

Im a punk. I'm also an anarchist.

Like anyone, I look for people in media who represent me in both appearance and ideals. As a plus sized person, finding people in media who look like me and aren't part of the toxic stereotype for fat people is uncommon. Chubby characters who don't make their weight part of their personality is unheard of.

Finding characters who properly represent my beliefs and ideals is nigh impossible in my experience. Seeing a punk in modern day popular media is rare. And when I say punk, I'm talking PUNK RAWK. Musicians with colorfully laced boots and symbols painted sloppily all over themselves. Gritty political activists in homemade clothes and piercings, fighting tooth and nail for what they believe in. In truth, I don't know if I've ever seen that in popular media; not authentically.

What do we get instead? Punk coded teenagers who don't really believe in anything, pissing people off for the sake of it. That ain't us. We believe in respect, love and morals. We believe in doing whatever is necessary to achieve the perfect world, whatever each individual believes that is.

The representation is even more insulting for anarchists. Everywhere are both mature antagonists and cartoon villains parading around preaching "anarchy" and completely misusing the word. Its to the point that my political belief is now more closely related to dictatorships (the literal OPPOSITE of anarchism!) or simply death and destruction rather than the true definition: no institutions, just people.

That word has been defiled. I've had people laugh at me and ridicule me when I share my political stance with them due to this stereotype. I've had people tell me I believe what I do just because it "sounds cool."

People that were uneducated to the concept in the first place have now been reeducated by an overlord walking across a battlefield of dead bodies in some movie screaming about "anarchy." Thanks Hollywood. Really appreciate that.

But Hobie is a punk. And he's an anarchist.

He's a hero. He's intelligent. He knows what he fights for and he fights well. That alone is revolutionary for the anarchist movement.

And in a MARVEL FILM. Millions of people watch Marvel films across the globe. Across the Spider verse has pulled in 1.35 Billion dollars. This is exactly what we need.

So, as a representative of my community, thank you Sony Pictures for this gift. I hope to see more like it. And while we're at it, thank you for all the diversity in this new film between all the ethnicities shown onscreen to putting someone my size in the mask!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

(also if anyone has any recommendations for realistic punk characters in media I'd love to hear em)

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yoursghouly · 10 months

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come on barbie let’s get the members of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA revised contracts with the AMPTP so that they can be compensated fairly and ensured protection against any unauthorized use of their likenesses via AI which would be an enormous violation of human ethics/decency ah ah ahh yeah

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realmermaid333 · 1 year

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Hunger Games Book Things That Should Have Been in the Movie!!!

There is sadly a lot of stuff that should have been in The Hunger Games movies but wasn’t and it makes me salty so I am going to make a list lol. Some of the stuff, I understand was likely taken out due to time crunches, but other things there’s simply no excuse except it’s hollywood *eyeroll*

1. Rue and Katniss scenes- they cut out some of their bonding in the movies which took a lot of the tragedy out of her death. Not that it wasn’t super sad in the movies, but we knew more about Rue in the book and we saw her and Katniss bond for much longer. Which in turn made her death so much sadder since we also knew how much Rue reminded Katniss of Prim, how innocent and young Rue was, and how badly Katniss wanted her to win if she didn’t.

2. Peeta and Katniss Cave Scenes- the scenes were in there, but they were kinda weird tbh. Like they made Peeta’s crush on Katniss seem kind of creepy and it was not at all in the book. Also, Peeta was lightening the mood and being funny in the books, and was not in the movie. Both Katniss and Peeta just seemed slightly out of character in the cave scenes.

3. Peeta’s missing leg!!!!- In the books, Peeta loses his leg from health complications from the blood poisoning in the arena! He had a metal prosthetic leg, he was disabled. They took that out of the movie which is disheartening considering the lovely disability representation that could have been there. They could have hired an actor with a missing leg, gave him a realistic prosthetic and hid it under his pants for the beginning of the movie, then had him wear a metal prosthetic for the rest of the series after Peeta’s injury, that would have been amazing! The least they could have done was have Josh be missing a leg! Also, Peeta’s lack of disability made his struggling in the Quarter Quell make less sense, the reason why Peeta was lagging behind a little and needing more assistance was because the boy was missing a leg! I will forever we upset about this lost opportunity due to hollywood’s bullshit.

4. The adorable plant book scene and Peeta carrying Katniss to bed- this was wholesome content that made their relationship so much sweeter and really showed how Katniss did care for Peeta and really did like him. I’m not sure why they took this out, I guess it was a time related thing, but tbh the movies should’ve simply been longer because they butchered the books to make them fit into 2 hours, it is annoying af (there’s been loads of super long like 3 hour movies, THG could have been one of them)! Also the cute rooftop picnic scene when they were in the training center, and them cuddling all night afterwards. No wonder tons of people who only watched the movies think Peeta and Katniss’s relationship is lowkey boring, they took out all of their cute bonding moments outside of the arena!!

5. District 2 scene- The part where Gale and Katniss are together in District 2, they makeout and Gale realizes that Katniss is barely paying attention to him and isn’t that into it. This part was crucial I think! It showed that Katniss did not actually like Gale romantically. It explained why they did not end up together. And this isn’t just a THG movie thing, but I really wish this scene was used to explain Gale and Katniss not ending up together instead of Gale being involved in Prim’s death. This could have very easily been the turning point, where they decided to be platonic. I would have loved it if Gale and Katniss would’ve stayed best friends, maybe Gale would find someone else to pursue romantically and him and Katniss could move on. I think they deserved that.

6. Johanna and Katniss bonding- I really wish we got more of this in the movies, they were roommates in the book! That would have been really easy to throw into the movies to show that they were friends. I like to imagine the two of them stayed in touch after the war :)

7. Peeta and Katniss’s burn scars- There is no excuse for this! This is just hollywood being stupid and thinking they couldn’t put burn scars on Katniss and Peeta because they’d “no longer be cute” or whatever (they did the same thing with Katniss’s body hair, she was clean shaven even while in District 12, which is inaccurate as Katniss hated having her body hair removed). It would not have been hard to include the scars, they’d be more faint too by the end considering that they had all the fancy Capitol technology used on them. All they had to do was use some makeup to add scars to Katniss’s neck, Peeta’s forehead, and both of their hands. Katniss’ hair was shorter after the bombing because quite a bit of it was melted off, they could have put Jennifer in a choppy, shorter wig to show that. It also could have been a cool way to measure time passing by when they went back to District 12. Katniss’s hair could have grown out throughout the ending scenes to signify the months that passed because the last 10 mins or so of Mockingjay part 2 is super confusing lol. Like Peeta comes back, then all of the sudden Annie sends a photo of her and her like 5-month-old-looking baby just chilling lmao.

8. Haymitch parenting Katniss- As we know, Katniss’s shitty mom leaves her at the end, but in the books it is more clear that Haymitch ends up being the adult in her life that parents her. He makes sure she is eating, taking her medicine, he checks on her to make sure she is okay, he talked to her and gave her information even when she wasn’t responding. He helped Plutarch get her pardoned for killing Coin as he knew exactly why she did it. He went back to District 12 with her to take care of her, and he ended up comforting her a lot in the series (they did have this in the movies too), they even argued like a father and daughter in the books lmao.

9. Katniss’s mental health issues and grief- So many scenes of Katniss’s grief are removed from the movies. She was so emotionally traumatized that she lost the ability to speak for a long time, many nights she’d wake up screaming, and she would wonder the mansion aimlessly and end up in odd little hiding places. She was trying to kill herself after she killed Coin, the poor girl was in absolute mental anguish and I do not think that was accurately shown in the films. She did not brush her hair, change her clothes, or shower for a long time when she went back to District 12. When her and Peeta reunite, she looked sickly and dirty--- enough so that Peeta was sad when he saw her. But, of course, in the film she looked fresh out of a shampoo ad, with flowing, long, not-matted hair.

#katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #gale hawthorne #everlark #the hunger games #catching fire #mockingjay #thg #disability representation #female body hair #thg books #books to read #book recommendations #send asks #hollywood sucks #haymitch abernathy #district 12 #katniss x peeta

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wanderingmind867 · 9 months

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My mom never liked it when Canadian actors went to Hollywood and became (for all intents and purposes) American citizens. Just based on that alone, I think it's nice to see Hollywood getting uncomfortable. Maybe it'll encourage people to realize that there's more to films than just Hollywood. You shouldn't have to go to Hollywood or the US to become famous. It's something that should change.

#After the strikes #this is all I think of Hollywood #I hope it crumbles #so other countries get more of a fair shot #anti hollywood #wga #workers rights #hollywood sucks #sag strike #wga strike #one big union #autism #asd #rant #anticapitalism #in an indirect way

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shinmothra13returns · 4 months

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Gundam creator says Disney movies are BORING and SAD! Hollywood is comin...

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Even the gundam creator say that disney sucks.

#hollywood sucks #disney sucks #gundam #Youtube

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just-an-enby-lemon · 1 year

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Art shouldn't justify suffering.

I was reading a debate about Kubrick's treatment of Shelly Duval during the filming of The Shinning and a lot of people - or maybe a small but very vocal group of people - were trying to defend that the end result (her great perfomance) justify the abuse. They talk as if it was the only way that Kubrick could have used to get her best perfomance, that art is a result of real emotion and this emotion is mostly pain and suffering (one even talking about Van Gogh cutting of his ear - and fr can we apreciate Van Gogh art without this tormented artist bs, yes he suffered dearly and some of his best work shows it, but some of it was also about the few moments were he felt genuine happinness and about his love for nature, not only that but there are a lot of great artists who didn't suffer for their art and they are as valid as Van Gogh).

I will admit that some of this coments were results of the almost cultist adoration some people - not only film bros - have for Kubrick. They are uncapable of admiting his mistakes (including small continuity errors that ofc he had because making movies is hard) and do massive loops to defend any criticism towards him (and I like Kubrick, with exception of his depiction of Lolita, I hate that movie with passion, but like Dr. Strangelove is one of my favorite movies and I rly like A Clockwork Orange).

That all being said in the end the major reason was still this idea that art = pain. Is why Hollywood is still obcessed with method acting, why actors dehidrating, starving themselfs or living months in isolation are all saw as positive, why there are actual murders show on movies (it is older movies but still), why cinema realism was used to justify a rape, and maybe not to those extremes but we hear this abuse stories like how in Now I See You the actress actually though she was in danger during the scape artistry scene and we think wow soo cool this is real art. Art can come from pain and it can aliviate it and be cathartic and we should not disminish it but we have to stop acting as if creating more pain is the result to good art.

Van Gogh mental illness didn't made him a better artist. It made him kill himself. The art he made from the pain was beutifull but the art he made from his genuine happy moments and from his love for nature also was. He was a good artist. Period. And his pain is valid and important to his art but it shoudn't be inspirational. It's a tragedy. People shoudn't idolize his pain. Imagine how much more he could've done if he had a better mental health, how much more he could have created, how happier would he be. Why wouldn't you want that?

Art is an important form of expression. And if you're depressed or even just sad the art you make from it is valid and the emotion you put in it turns it beutifull. But you should not be afraid of getting better and losing your talent, as I know it happens, and people should not be driving others to this abys for art. Pain can create amazing art and I think creating can help aliviate this pain. But we should not generate pain for art sake. We should do art from pain and not pain for art.

Now this are just rambles. I'm not an artist. I write somethings and maybe they are art but they aren't good or anything and my life is good, but I do have mental health problems and I do think my bad moments do inspire some of the less bad of my writing but there are other pieces driven by happines and fun and I think in the end I don't want to see this suffering glamourized. I don't want people to feel like they have to suffer. I'm studying to be a psycologist it would be an antithesis to my dream job to think otherwise.

Anyway I don't know if I'm making sense or even saying something meaningfull but I wanted to write this and I did and that it's it.

#art #musings on art #we need to stop glorifying suffering #stanley kubrick #the shinning #shelley duvall #worker abuse #hollywood abuses it's workers #hollywood sucks #now let me go back to silly riddle man and the other bat villans and bat kids

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clairedelune-13 · 2 years

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“If Misha is Straight”...

Listen, unless that man turns on a camera and actually SAYS IT, I’m not believing a damn word on that specific matter concerning his sexuality.

I could type “I sprouted bird wings and flew to Australia” but other than my written word, there’s no actual evidence that I did that. There’s no proof that I defied human physiooogy and became a bird person.

So, unless he says it. He’s still unlabeled, cuz a lot of shit is written on social media that is complete BS. And Misha Collins has a habit of being one of the most sincere people I’ve ever seen on a platform, due to his habit of addressing important issues verbally.

Hiding behind a block of text with no face or voice means nothing. For all anyone knows, PR wrote it for him cuz why wouldn’t he come out and say it right out? Unless he didn’t want to lie, therefore hiding behind meaningless words, and that’s why he’s been so quiet on SM.

Honestly, when I have to lie, it has to be done over text cuz I’m a terrible liar and my voice wavers and I can’t meet anyone’s eyes.

Hollywood is a land of lies and it’s best to hear it from the source.

That’s it. I’m done. My stance is just that.

Vid or it didn’t happen.

And no more blaming Misha, blame Hollywood PR bullshit.

#misha collins #bishagate #Hollywood sucks #pr nonsense

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iminaworldofpureimagination · 9 months

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chelsea handler met epstein at a dinner party for andrew in 2010 claiming she didn know him, and is friends with bateman who is freidns with willarnett so now my brain is fried again ughhh

Chelsea Handler Recalls 'Weird' Dinner Party at Jeffrey Epstein's House (toofab.com)

she admits it here

#chelsea handler #ugh #hollywood sucks #claims ti know noting is it true i dunno she gains nothing from saying this

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toshootforthestars · 10 months

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From the report by Chris Lee, posted 24 June 2023:

Multiple Across the Spider-Verse crew members — ranging from artists to production executives who have worked anywhere from five to a dozen years in the animation business — describe the process of making the the $150 million Sony project as uniquely arduous, involving a relentless kind of revisionism that compelled approximately 100 artists to flee the movie before its completion. Four of these crew members agreed to speak pseudonymously about the sprint to finish the movie three years into the sequel’s development and production, a period whose franticness they attribute to Lord’s management style — in particular, his seeming inability to conceptualize 3-D animation during the early planning stages and his preference to edit fully rendered work instead.

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Sony executives dispute these claims about Lord’s management style, including his alleged insistence on approving every sequence in the film, describing feature animation as a generally “iterative process.” According to Amy Pascal, the former Sony Pictures Entertainment chairperson who produced the three most recent live-action Spider-Man movies as well as both Into and Across the Spider-Verse, “over a thousand” artists and techs worked on Across the Spider-Verse alone, tasked with scripting, storyboarding, animating, editing, and visually enhancing the film. So it’s unsurprising, she says, that as many as 100 of the Across the Spider-Verse film crew would choose to depart the grueling project, which Pascal admits involved major overhauls to both the narrative and visuals, along the way. Michelle Grady, the executive vice-president and general manager of Sony Pictures Imageworks, agrees, claiming that Lord is not to blame for the delays. He, as the main messenger for editorial changes coming from the three co-directors, executive producers, Miller, and the studio, is instead a convenient target for worker ire. “It really does happen on every film,” she says of the revisions. “Truly, honestly, it can be a little bit frustrating, but we always try to explain that this is the process.” “One of the things about animation that makes it such a wonderful thing to work on is that you get to keep going until the story is right,” adds Pascal. “If the story isn’t right, you have to keep going until it is.” To the workers who felt demoralized by having to revise final renders five times in a row, the Spider-Verse producer says, “I guess, Welcome to making a movie.” Grady says the sources who spoke to Vulture are not representative of the majority of crew on Spider-Verse 2, who she says found the production process difficult yet “extraordinarily rewarding.” But our sources’ concerns amplify those of the Animation Guild, a 6,000-member branch of Hollywood’s below-the-line union IATSE, established in 1952 to ensure equitable employment practices within a once-sleepy industry that has become a multibillion-dollar powerhouse since the animation explosion of the 1990s. A half-century ago, there were around 1,000 animators working in Hollywood, around half of them just for Disney. In 2023, no data exists for the number of artists, digital compositors, and effects specialists working across the globe, but their ranks have grown exponentially to meet the metastasizing demand for animated fare. Like organizers within the VFX and gaming worlds (which often overlap with each other and with animation), TAG hopes to formally obtain a seat at the bargaining table of an industry that is increasingly reliant on animation talent but that has historically treated its artists and technicians as gig workers, According to TAG, the guild recently renegotiated an agreement with Sony Pictures Animation and achieved increases to minimum wages for pre-production staff. However, Sony Pictures Imageworks, which despite its corporate affiliation is an independent vendor contracted by Sony Pictures Animation to do the physical animation on Across the Spider-Verse, remains a non-union studio. “Having spent time in the lower ranks of the visual effects industry,” says Steve Kaplan, business representative for TAG, “I am intimately familiar with how different those workplaces can be."

#sony #sony pictures imagaworks #sony pictures animation #into the spider verse #spiderverse #spiderman #hollywood sucks #news #vfx animation #new york magazine #chris lee

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dreamyeyes-fadingsmiles · 1 year

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The Ghost of Joy

Joy once felt has now faded

Leaving me feeling jaded

The past has flown

We have grown

Once together, now apart

Ripped from my chest lies a broken heart

The happiness of this artform

Now leaves me feeling forlorn

Vacuous space, a void now forming

Inside my mind it is now storming

Debilitated, betrayed, repulsed

Haunting, weeping, a howling ghost.

#the witcher #the witcher netflix #henry cavill #geralt of rivia #original poem #original poetry #my heart is broken #hollywood sucks

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bridoesotherjunk · 2 years

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and the way Colleen O Shaughnessy was ignored in posters and marketing for Sonic 2 is honestly the reason we need more VAs and less celebrities. Actual good talent is being glossed over, because as far as Hollywood is concerned, they aren't even "real actors".

The difference between here and, say, Japan is staggering. Voice actors are actually viewed as properly talented over in Japan. They're not treated the same way they are here in the USA. They get hired to do a job that they're really fucking good at. And it's not a problem. It doesn't hurt ticket sales or anything.

Hollywood legitimately does not view voice actors as a viable option anymore. They have convinced themselves people will only go see animated movies if every fucking character is played by a big A list celebrity.

Even when that isn't true in other parts of the world. It also wasn't true even here for a long time. Things only changed after the Robin Williams as Genie stuff.

The shift started with "let's get one celebrity for the adults" and has turned into "everyone needs to be a big celebrity or people might not watch our movie and we might lose a tiny portion of profits."

I'm so glad they added her name to the posters after people complained. She deserves recognition. She did a great fucking job.

Voice actors deserve respect and recognition and not to be treated like undesirable options by Hollywood. Not everyone can do a good job voice acting. Even good actors can be bad voice actors.

#Voice acting #Sonic #Sonic 2 #Tails #tails the fox #Movies #Ugh #Hollywood sucks #colleen o'shaughnessey #Sonic Movie 2

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moregaythanyourealized · 7 months

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Personal grievance: Why was emma stone always casted as a teenager??? I never thought she looked like one and my guess is so hollywood could go on sexualizing teen girls while using a grown woman to portray them.

#emma stone #movies #hollywood sucks #hollywood

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labyrinthcat · 2 years

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The fact some people strive to live the life of a celebrity confuses me. You seriously want to live a life consumed by parties with shallow people, lots of money, constantly traveling, big mansions, popularity, and materialism? Do you think celebrities actually live happy lives? Most of them are perpetually lonely & miserable deep down, despite having the world at their fingertips.

If I ever personally became some “famous celebrity” I’d be the loneliest, most suicidal person imaginable. Fame is a death sentence. A luxurious prison. No matter how creative I am I never want that lifestyle, because frankly, it looks repulsive. The only entertainment I personally enjoy from celebrities is awkward moments being edited into funny compilations. Beyond that, their lives don’t even seem that interesting really.

The fact some people in my personal life have implied I should be apart of that world bothers me a bit. The arts shouldn’t be based on how much money & popularity can be gained from it. The arts should feed your soul and empower minorities. If popularity comes along with it, that’s fine, but it shouldn’t be a priority.

#celebrities #hollywood sucks #clout chasing is a disease #fame is poison #please stop putting celebrities on a pedestal #the best artists are the ones underground

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artist-issues · 5 months

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It isn’t all the filmmaker’s fault that all we’re getting is second-rate remakes and sequels to franchises that should’ve been left alone a long time ago.

We don’t have a clear idea of why we like the things we like. So we don’t clearly communicate why we like the things we like. So it’s no wonder Hollywood keeps getting your favorite movies and their characters wrong. The fans don’t even know why they like what they like.

When Genie is set free in the original Aladdin, that moment was impactful, and you remembered it all through childhood. When Luke tosses the lightsaber away and says “I am a Jedi, like my father before me,” it was impactful, and you remembered it.

But did you stop and analyze why? What made those moments, and those stories, impactful?

Did you say, “Genie wished to be free for the whole movie, and he was always trying to tell Aladdin about how freedom only comes from trusting, and he was learning to trust Al himself, and Aladdin finally DID trust Jasmine to still want him even if he wasn’t rich, so he set Genie free in the most satisfying way!”

Did you say, “Luke spent all previous movies rushing into fights, and trying to control everything to save the ones he loves, but when he finally has his enemy at his mercy and is at the height of his power, he realizes that being a Jedi isn’t rushing and fighting and controlling; it’s having faith in the good and throwing your opportunity for control away.”

Did you think through and appreciate that stuff? The values? The point of the whole story, and how the characters act as pillars holding that point up? The good and the bad things that they embody?

No. Not out loud. Because we don’t think critically anymore. We just go “what’s this? Entertain me. Oooh, I felt something! Good! Next!”

The why behind what you like is the only value in liking anything.

But we don’t look objectively at the “why.” We don’t dwell on the “why.” If we dwell on anything, it’s to superimpose ourselves or whatever we like onto the characters.

You think Barbie was hyping feminism because you like feminism, and because you felt things during Barbie. You write fanfiction about Eddie Munson that has nothing to do with what Eddie Munson actually is as a character—because you like love stories, and you felt some compelling emotions when you saw Eddie Munson onscreen, so you’ve decided that those things should go together. You take something that made you feel emotions while you watched the canon material, then you don’t bother to process those emotions or what made the canon material compelling. You just slap whatever you already think you like onto something that made you feel, whether it had anything to do with what you like or not.

You eat the apple and benefit from it without knowing, at all, what nutrients are inside. Then when someone offers you crap and tells you it’s apple-flavored, you wonder why you’re not feeling the same way afterward.

Then you misdiagnose. You say “no, I don’t wonder why I’m not feeling the same—it’s because the CGI in live-action remakes suck!” Okay, great, so they’ll get better CGI. And it’ll still suck. Because that was never the problem, just like the reasons you liked the movie were never the reasons it actually impacted you in the first place.

Figure out. WHY. You like what you like. Figure out if it’s because the stories said what their creators objectively intended for them to say—or if you like the story in spite of that, not because of that.

Then open your mouth about it. It is worth it.

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shinmothra13returns · 4 months

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Hollywood will LOSE another BILLION dollars in 2024! Woke movies have SH...

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Hollywood deserves this because of their failures.

#hollywood sucks #Youtube

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lil0ak · 7 months

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Just in case anyone is unaware this is a Paul Hollywood hate blog

#gbbo #bake off #gbbo 2023 #gbbo liveblog #paul hollywood can suck my nuts bro i will fight him

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