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lookingforcactus · 4 months

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Live action Yu Yu Hakusho liveblog: ep 1

This is so much fun. Nostalgia time. 13 year old me is LIVING

Warning for like whole ep 1 spoilers and all

Yusuke and Botan look great which I already knew going in from the gifset that informed me this show exists lol, but it's delightful, bc the characters in this show aren't necessarily the easiest to translate to live action

Botan is adorable. Her hair is adorable. And I'm delighted to see that Yusuke's hair is the Correct amount of Poufy

Plot twist: Kuwabara hot. He looks great actually. Translated nonliterally compared to Yusuke but v well. The actor is selling me on it too, fun casting

Kuwabara was always hard for me to watch in the original bc he set off my vicarious embarrassment soo hard. Glad they're less committed to making him the constant source of painful comedic relief here lol

KOENMA PACIFIER REVEAL I LOVE IT

Laughed out loud for real tbh

Idk if I'm a little disappointed he's not a baby but like live action would make that ridic hard to do in a lot of ways so I don't blame them at all. He's in his adult form which makes sense. Still damn glad they kept the pacifier it is RUINING his dignity and I love it

I also don't blame them for cutting the flying oar effects. A lil sad but the initial transition to Reikai looked great so they're forgiven

Yusuke. "No thanks." I knew it was coming and the delivery still made me laugh out loud. Just dropped it in there. Yusuke I love you please see a therapist

Fight scenes are v creative and p epic

Seriously they do a really good job of making Yusuke's fighting style as a human believable, fun to watch, and effective. He rly does come off as just kind of a natural fighting genius (with practice ofc)

Sakyo in ep 1? Weird but I'm not opposed. The wavy hair is kinda freaking me out though ngl. Smoothness was just such his THING in the show it's distracting

Really liked Yusuke's mom's introduction (not that it was flattering to her as a character) but I wish they'd done more with her in the rest of the ep. Her power hug at the end is great tho

Show's slowing down a bit but it's fine I'm still having fun, the nostalgia power will get me through basically whatever

NO PUU!!!! This is tragic but I Do understand this as an adaptation choice. Reluctantly. Tragic tho.

Bug under guy's face effect EPICALLY creepy

That said I keep watching the motion of him and the other demons in this ep and thinking about Hayao Miyazaki said about the disgusting cruelty of using effects technology to make the scary scary inhuman monsters just fucking. look and move like disabled ppl

Seriously I keep seeing flashes of the appearance and movements of people I know with developmental disabilities (particularly this one guy I know with cerebral palsy but also I've worked in care work for disabled adults and just kind of a lot of people in general) and. I hate this. Especially as a person who DOES have a (nonvisible) developmental disability myself. This is such a rising trend in horror/sff/fantasy tv/movies/video games and I hate everything about it. Hayao Miyazaki was right this kind of attitude and shit really is "an insult to life itself"

Anyway fight scene cool

I love Keiko btw. Her crying and blaming herself! Her face when Yusuke comes back! Also Yusuke "I'm not gonna die just bc you talked shit" pffft jackass (affectionate)

DEMON CREW CAMEO AT THE END

Kurama looks pretty good. Goki actually looks wayyyy better than he did in the anime imho, which I did not see coming.

Effects on Kurama and Hiei's fighting looks surprisingly great. They pulled off the rose whip way better than I thought they would, and did some great wirework with Hiei's speed and fighting style

That said....Hiei...oof. That hair was always gonna be a Challenge but I think their ambition here did uh. not play off rip. Hopefully it'll look better later on

#yu yu hakusho #netflix yu yu hakusho #yu yu hakusho spoilers #can't believe I'm typing that in 2k23 #anyway this is fun #me #liveblogging

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addictedtostorytelling · 2 years

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Hey there! Been enjoying your ep-by-ep reboot gifsets! Since it looks like you might be rewatching the reboot (or at least combing it for footage) I'm curious: have you noticed anything new? I know when I rewatch a movie or show that means a lot to me (even, or maybe especially, one I've seen a million times) I tend to always notice or focus on something different. Salt welcome! But the neutral/positive/miscellaneous is as well!

hi, @clintbeifong!

thank you for your kind words! i'm glad you've been enjoying the gif series.

so, uh—

confession: i have rewatched very little of the reboot even doing this latest project.

a lot of the gifs are ones that i made previously and am now just recycling into the new sets, and even of the ones i’ve made new, entirely "from scratch" (complete with freshly clipped video from the show to work from), i've only really rewatched the individual scenes themselves and nothing much around them.

the truth is, since gsr was the only part of csi: vegas i actually enjoyed, and, even then, i was infinitely less interested in their work on the hodges case than just their interactions with each other, i haven't really been able to bring myself to revisit the reboot at large just yet.

i’m in it for the cute middle-aged marrieds™, and that’s about it.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

that so, there’s not much i can speak to in terms of new observations.

like.

i’ve noticed a few little visual parallels between the reboot and the original series here and there, but nothing especially significant or revelatory.

certainly nothing related to narrative.

of course—and here’s the salt—i suspect that even if i were to actually sit down and rewatch each episode in sequence, taking good notes, there might not be a lot there to notice, as, frankly, the story itself is underwritten/sparse. there’s just not much going on with it, either in the macro sense, with the hodges case overall, OR the micro sense, with the individual characters. everything is so superficial and one-note that there just aren’t “hidden depths” to plumb or subtexts to be read into or character developments to analyze. it’s pretty much a “what you see is what you get” kind of deal.

that said, with what very minimal, "just the gsr interactions" rewatching i actually have done, my main takeaway is just how impressed i am with the texture billy and jorja managed to give grissom and sara’s marriage—which is something i’d appreciated before, too, but which now seems even more impressive to me, the more that i think about it.

as they both talked about in their bts spots leading up to the reboot, they’d really never gotten the chance to play grissom and sara as a happy, stable, committed couple with their relationship “out in the open” before, so what they were doing for the reboot was in many ways new to them.

returning to a character after years spent away would be a hard enough challenge just by itself, but bringing something new and believable to your performance—taking something that had previously been hinted at and making it explicit in a way that feels organic and substantive—to the degree that they did is just wildly impressive.

there’s just no question that the grissom and sara we see in the reboot are “old marrieds” who’ve spent just about every waking moment of the last six years on a tiny boat together.

they feel so worn into each other, so comfortable around each other.

there’s just no hesitation between them.

and it’s not like we get that sense because we get to see a preponderance of deep, emotional moments with them, because really we don’t.

their almost total lack of personal storyline denies us anything more than just the hug in episode 01x03 “under the skin,” the ring return in episode 01x08 “pipe cleaner,” the kiss in episode 01x10 “signed, sealed, delivered,” and a few other scattered comfort moments here and there.

it all just shines through in the quiet, everyday interactions between them—the little affirming glances, the subtle nonverbal communication, the way they play off of each other, how they anticipate each other’s moves.

it has almost nothing to do with what’s in the script (which is again, next to nothing); it’s all in the portrayal that billy and jorja bring and what they imply, which is just so wonderfully, classically gsr, plus that little bit of “we’ve been together forever by now” extra sauce.

anyway.

among all of the other stuff about the reboot that i don’t enjoy—including how very much the whole production feels like a “first draft” as opposed to a “finished product”—i do appreciate getting to see this incarnation of my otp, where there’s just so obviously so much history and knowing between them as a couple.

it’s very validating.

thanks for the question! please feel welcome to send another any time.

#answered #clintbeifong #asks: csi #**#my meta #meta: vegas #let's talk shop #csiverse

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pastelofmunchain · 2 years

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Quick gay movies reviews

It's Pride, so I'm watching a gay movie a day to keep the heteros away. I'm going to do this once a week to review the movies I watched. Also going to discuss Heartstopper since I watched it right before Pride started. Hopefully I don't forget any, but I most likely will:

FIre Island

Really cute. Definitely meant for adults. It's a great adaptation of Pride + Prejudice. I do find it funny that the movie points out that racism, especially Anti-Asian sentiments, in the gay community, and how white men are treated like the prize to win, and the most liked gifsets on here are for the side character who ended up being a rapist. Anyway, Conrad Ricamora is a dreamboat. I also loved the little bit in the middle where the soundtrack was Kim Petras, Perfume Genius, and then Alvvays. Chef's kiss.

Maurice

Hugh Grant was very pretty in this movie, which is surely why most of the images I've seen of this film are of him, but his character was annoying. I loved that the conflict later on became about Maurice dating someone who was of a lower class than he, rather than the drama about him being gay. I wish the movie had kept the epilogue where the sisters accept Maurice since they realize he's happy. The movie was gorgeous to look at. The directing was beautiful.

Jongens

I can see why this movie was titled Boys, since they are literally children. I wish we had more background on why the lead was afraid to come out and why he played straight until the end. It felt more of just general culture, but it's never really brought up. It just seemed to be there to add drama for the love story, but I wish we had seen that maybe his brother or his dad was slightly homophobic if we was going to be in the closet. I do realize this was written by a straight woman I believe, and I'll talk more about that in my Beach Rats review. Either way, this movie was fine. I think I'm just too old for this whole closeted kid plot, and I just wish we understood why he was in the closet besides societal pressures when no one seemed to care.

Breaking Fast

I remembered the lead from Those People, and I liked him better there. I don't know how I felt about these leads being not like other gays. It felt like it painted every other gay character who wasn't the lead and his love interest as shallow, idiotic, and horny. But not these two! They like cooking together and don't drink or have sex! I think they should've skipped the religious debate if they weren't going to expand beyond some people were hurt by Islam so they left the religion, but Islam itself isn't inherently homophobic. I think that people constantly try to have it both ways sometimes, but you can't really act like conservative religious folks in Middle-Eastern countries who throw gay men off buildings aren't actually followers of their religion, much as Christians saying homophobes don't represent their religion or their attempt to make their holy text seem more progressive than it actually is.

Fun Fact: One of the men in the choir during the birthday scene is actually an acquaintance. Hey, David!

Handsome Devil

I actually really enjoyed this movie, but I felt it was slightly neutered. I didn't care that the leads didn't end up together because I do think it's important that queer people can just be friends. I also don't think the movie ever states if the lead is actually gay or if he just doesn't care if he's labeled as such. I did zone out during the rugby parts, but the coach was very annoying. I do wish the English teacher and his boyfriend had actually touched at least. I did wonder if this movie inspired Alice Oseman to make Heart/Stopper since they're both about a rugby player befriending the outcast, but both projects were probably written around the same time so it's coincidence.

Matthias et Maxime

What was the directing at parts of this movie? The random dramatic zoom-ins took me out. I did like the openended nature of Matt showing up right before Max goes to the airport, and I also liked Max finding the drawing Matt made of them as farmers together. I think it's interesting to think that they might actually be gay/bi but in denial due to societal norms seen by the way the one more effete member of their friend group is bullied and called a fag by the rest. I will say that if any of the characters besides Max and Matt were in a slasher flick, they'd all die. Finally, that scene where Matt kisses Max's birthmark was super-hot, and that's all I say about it.

Beach Rats

While I did like that this movie gave a motivation for why our lead didn't come out, this whole movie was pretty hard to watch for me. And it wasn't because of the homophobia he faced, but because I find everyone in it prickly and awful. The best person was probably his beard, but even she had issues. I also despised the ending with the gay-bashing.

Like I mentioned earlier, this movie was written by a cishet woman, which is completely fine, but I generally find that cishet people, when writing queer characters, focus on suffering. Matthias et Maxime was also about sexuality, but it's told in a more mature way since the people working on it are actually queer. This movie seemed to be about a closeted boy (the movie makes sure to show his limp dick when having sex with a girl and his erection when he's with a man), but they focus so much on his internal struggle that it just feels like I myself am being tortured. At the end, it seems like he decides to bury himself in the closet since his friends kill a gay man over weed (which itself was ridiculous. For weed? Lordt).

I also just wanted to point out how much I hated this era of electronic music. It's so ugly-sounding to me. That scene on the boat with all the Skrillex style beats made me want to shut off this movie, especially since the whole flick made me uncomfortable (like why were there so many longing shots of prepubescent people?). Overall, do not recommend this one at all, but that's my personal taste.

HeartStopper

I was very surprised to come on here and read some of the discourse people have been having on this series. People on here are seriously angry that an LGBT show aimed at a younger audience exists, mocking it for not having drug use, sex, nudity, or a lot of swearing. I think there is a time and place for all of that, and you all know that shows like Sex Education, Elite, and Euphoria exist, right? This show is for actual 12-18 year olds who are still discovering themselves, and it's meant to assure them that there's nothing wrong with them and they deserve love.

I've also been confused on people saying this show sanitizes discrimination when we have characters like Ben who are afraid to be out due to how aggressive Henry (Harry?) is, Elle being bullied and ostracized for being trans, and a whole episode dedicated to people's lesbophobia affecting Tara.

Overall, this show felt truer to my own experiences at that age than most of the series I've seen about 15-17 year olds. I also just really enjoyed it and thought it was cute. It's a show I wish I had had when I was struggling with the closet when I was Charlie's age. And to me, it being family friend is actually a bonus, so I can suggest it to my sister as a show for their young boys to watch instead of something like 13 Reasons Why, which is a sensationalized soap opera that uses scandalizes premises to generate buzz much. I'd much rather watch a show where two boys fall in love, befriend a lesbian couple from their sister school, and then join forces to setup their trans friend and her crush.

Sometimes, I just need something wholesome, and sometimes, I need something like Fire Island. And some of you seriously need a reality check if you think it's a bad thing for a major streaming service to make a rated PG show about LGBT teens when previously anything that hinted at LGBT people was automatically rated R.

#text #gay movies #reviews

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msgrumpygills · 3 years

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Social Media Anon Here!

Firstly, never change Grumpy ;) you are probably the only person on Tumblr to LISTEN to another view and let it change a prejudice.

Secondly, the Padagram/Social Media change bus continues. Don't be fooled people will be looking at positive and negative reactions to that change on social media.

So here goes!

1. They are starting to market season 2 of Walker in Hiatus. That really doesn't happen. That means they know they need to target new viewers. They are acknowledging they have a problem. The main problem is Jared either didn't learn enough about production quality on SPN (Jensen/Misha were both more interested in behind the camera's) or that he thought he could stick a Stetson on and we all had such sh1t for brains we'd watch anything. So they need a viewer boost DESPARATELY and are going all out to (a) persuade Walkers remaining viewer(s) that it's worth sticking around and (b) get back old viewers or convert 1m+ viewers to season 2. So now we see all the cast (and Keegan has more followers than Jared and Lindsay has a VERY engaged following) trying to persuade their followers how fabulous Walker is. Expect this scrabbling to continue if they want their COVID paychecks.

2. Connected to 1, Jared has started trying to break out of the fandom bubble. I don't think he's trying for power couple (the clue in a power couple is that two FAMOUS people get together and create a super brand, here we have one niche C famous guy and a hanger on wife), I think we are in Jared profile raising and trying to raise his recognition score, which is probably a little low having half assed it in the last year and a half. He's doing it by scatter-gunning so I'm not sure it's going to stick.

3. Connected to 2,

(i) if I run my algorithm clean laptop with a "Jared Padalecki" news search, I get (a) a daily mail article on Jared "clarifying the rift" (b) a "hello" magazine saying he's been "inundated with support after death of "family member"" (c) the new york times article on Walker and Supernatural. It then goes into a variety of articles about Jared raising money for Holly's family (fucking atrocious in my view to use her death for publicity) and a series of derivative articles on his mantrum and later explanation. ONLY THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE MENTIONS WALKER other than as a throw away, all of the others link to Supernatural only. Walker isn't on the main radar of anyone as a show. It's not mainstream enough to mention. it has ZERO buzz.

(ii) if I run the same search on my compromised tablet, I get a SEA of fluff articles "jared padalecki goes to venice", "jared padalecki's wife wishes him a happy birthday" "jared padalecki goes to watch soccer" "jared padalecki goes to the wrestling". I'm expecting "Jared Padalecki defecates regularly" tomorrow.

At the end of that I get the same articles as in (i) but the majority of his publicity is still going through the fandom and the, not very viewed, endless zine type websites that update on every episode of every geek show every day.

So we are seeing, and I expect it to continue, a break out Padalecki, (who knows he and his forehead may wish to have a final crack at films), and a fluff Padalecki, trying to stay relevant a year after SPN relevance ended, because he hasn't got the same push for season 2 of Walker as he had for season 1 and Walker has zero presence. No one, not even the fans are talking about Walker.

Will it work? I don't think so. Keegan has 7m followers on Insta and that's because he's a photographer and writer and it's interesting. I would follow his account (I don't), but certainly it isn't a Walker instagram.

Jared is a clever guy, but he's boring on social media. He has a limited appeal. He does family snaps, hunk snaps, flogs orange pee and flogs his show. He says "family" and "mantra" a lot but that's really it. The clue is, if you didn't know who he was and came across his instagram you wouldn't follow him. Why would you? For a video of a guy running up steps? A smug picture of two middle aged men trying to flog you something?... (oh and lots of "brother" comments on Keegan's social media, which is irritating. It's like he thinks that is his repeatable formula and it isn't).

His media approach won't work because advertising and exposure pushes a product. In TV's case, it's not a one off product and there is a lot of competition. Product Jared needs to be more interesting (his mantrum's are the only exciting thing about him - and that is tragic) and his TV show just needs to be BETTER, well, a LOT BETTER.

Soooo, expect the Padapush to continue, but it's not about a couple, it's about individual marketing and for Jared breaking out of SPN bubble. For Gen, it's her tag along profile that she'll never break out of. She'll have to be satisfied with her superpower of being able to persuade people to buy toothbrush's and dog food (if she can).

Expect though the couple's bit to die off a little. Jared is getting over exposed. His engagement rating is plummeting (nearly 3% is a plummet) because of the repetitive photo content. He'll have to back off or people will switch off (I have already). What makes me laugh is.... from the dawn of time when cavemen took their wives 2 miles away for a new cave weekend.... NO ONE HAS EVER BEEN INTERESTED IN SOMEONE ELSE'S HOLIDAY SNAPS.... Gen and Jared apparently need to learn that lesson...

I might stop these posts now because, well, it's gotta be a bit boring for you and I write LONG. :)

Stay safe and wear your masks ;) xxx

I don’t want you to ever ever change, lovely! Also, I’m NEVER bored by your messages! You put so much effort into the research you do and the messages you send and it’s appreciated! <3

I started following Lindsey on IG because she seems pretty genuine, and her cat is way too cute! Plus, I like her attitude. I haven’t followed her for the whole Walker season, but even she doesn’t post a lot about it. She posts interviews and then posts about that night’s episode, but other than that, nothing. Can’t speak for Keegan, but how are fans and non-fans supposed to be excited about a show when the people STARRING in the show can’t be bothered? Maybe they’re all aware of how shitty it is or maybe they’re lazy, but it doesn’t make sense.

I’m always interested to see the difference in an “algorithm-free” setting and one that has an algorithm. I always figured Google was the same for everyone, but seeing the difference in articles you’ve outlined is insane. It really just goes to show that Jared isn’t the star that his stans think he is. He’s not as important as they think he is, he’s just an actor. It’s even more jarring to see just how little Walker is talked about at all. All of my devices probably have been “contaminated” when it comes to algorithm so I can’t really speak personally about the public and fans talking about Walker or not talking about it. I can say that on the posts about Walker from the Supernatural Facebook page, a good chunk of the comments are people saying they stopped watching, never got into it, or thought it was trash. There are only a handful of comments talking about how they enjoy the show.

I think it was disgusting for him to use a fan’s passing for publicity. And no, I don’t think it was anything other than a PR stunt. Her family had a GFM going that was promoted by plenty of the case INCLUDING GEN, so you know he knew about it. But for him to make his own special one and then have articles posted everywhere about how charitable he is? That’s gross PR bullshit and I hope it backfires.

I still follow a few Supernatural fans, Jared fans, Jensen fans, etc. on Tumblr and even they aren’t mentioning it. I think maybe the hardcore Jared stans post gifsets or whatever, but I don’t see much praise for the show itself, just Jared’s looks. Even the fans aren’t biting and that would make me reevaluate everything if I was Jared.

I'm expecting "Jared Padalecki defecates regularly" tomorrow. This made me laugh way too hard!

who knows he and his forehead may wish to have a final crack at films You are on a ROLL! Maybe I’ve become biased, but I can’t see Jared doing films. I mean, I could see him doing like a side character role or something small, but I can’t see him having a big part of a movie. Like I said, maybe that’s me being biased but I see him staying in TV. I could be proven wrong, but I don’t know.

I agree about Jared being boring on SM. I used to get some giggles from his Twitter posts and even some of his early IG posts because they were goofy, clever, and candid. It showed his humor and was more personable. Now it’s just all fake and comes off as someone whose only motivation to engage with fans is money and that’s a big turn off.

For me personally, I think that if instead of the “couple goals” bullshit that they try to push for their lavish trips, if they just posted cool pictures they took of different locations, activities, food or whatever, that would be more palatable than all the “Look at my hubster and I! We’re in Italy! Look at how in love we are!” But maybe that’s because I’ve become a bit of a photography nerd?

I guess time will tell whether or not Jared will make positive changes and if Walker can be saved, but I’m not really optimistic about it.

I AM optimistic about your takes on things so keep them coming! Long posts or not, I love them! <3

#grumpy answers #social media anon #anti jared padalecki #anti walker

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dredgenshrike-defunct · 2 years

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For your muses:

🗡Shrike

🗡Alpha

🗡 Seraph

Shrike

Ginger Snaps / The Forever Purge / Wolf House / The Ritual

So like, there's about 100 more movies and different media that inspired Shrike- hell, these aren't even the main ones. The Magnus Archives I can't fit here even, but The Hunt was one of the things he is heavily inspired by. But for the movies....

Ginger Snaps is about two teens girls as one of them struggles to help the other with onset Lycanthropy. I have reblogged a gifset from it too. I absolutely ADORE how werewolves are displayed in this, and especially how the werewolf looks just before turning, in the more human than wolf form.

The forever purge is the most recent of the purge series- and I'd argue I don't adore purge movies as much as alot of other series but this one really stands out to me. The movie is high on gore- but does touch upon some real life issues such as racism and gun ownership. I do love this movie though, and the gorey executions that happen early on inspired Shrike quite a lot.

Wolf House is one I never see talked about. There are actually two movies with the name- one animated and completely different from the found footage one I'm talking about. Wolf House holds a place in my heart that just...rubs me the right way though. It's not great, hell, it's pretty cheaply made- but it's a good kind of bad.

The Ritual remains one of my favorite movies to this day. The monster design sticks out to me as norse inspired- and the inspurstion that Shrike takes from Fenrir and many legends of wolves makes me connect it back to him in some way.

Alpha

Little Shop Of Horrors / Cloverfield

Little Shop Of Horrors just feels too fitting to Alpha in a way I can't describe. I wish I could put a more detail synopsis here but everytime I watch it I just think of him. It's a funky little movie about a carnivorous plant and I just adore it for nostalgia purposes.

Cloverfield has incredible scenes and I absolutely adore this movie- the way it works with vague scenes of monsters and nightvision is a masterpiece. I rewatched this today actually- and I will never stop just absolutely indulging in this movie whenever possible.

Seraph

Void / JeruZalem / Midsommar / As Above, So Below

Seraph is also deeply inspired by The Magnus Archives- but also these four movies in particular.

Void is good old horror, with intense body horror scenes and I remember therr used to be a certain scene that used to circulate the internet but i dont remember if it does anymore. Void is about a police officer who gets trapped by a cult in a hospital and god- do I adore the symbolsim in this movie. This movie has a really fucking intense scene very, very early on.

JeruZalem is another utterly shit movie but its grown on me so much that I can't help but to just absolutely love it. It's like...a zombie movie but instead of zombies, it's fallen angels. Its a found footage taken through google glass.

Midsommar...Oh Midsommar. My Beloved. Cloverfield is a masterpiece- but Midsommar is on the level of Mona Lisa for me. The tactics this film uses to slowly indoctrinate the viewer into the cults way of thinking until you can't help but to think the cult isn't all bad is an incredibly good tactic. It plays on religious imagery- but not christianity, and instead the imagery of a swedish religion, dealing with may queens and feasts. Has alot of talk of manipulation due to the entire cult thing- and in the relationship itself that the movie shows...and also one particularily heavy gore scene that did make me squirm.

As Above, So Below is terrible but also great. It's just about this team who goes into the catacombs and ends up not int he catacombs anymore- and goes through what exactly hell is. I can't say much about this movie because it's just...a trip tbh.

#//asks #long post

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