#making parallels with only trailers isn't funny :')

[luckydragon10]

KinnPorsche Ep11 Lines of Power

You know the drill by now: I'm here to talk about lines of power, staging, and framing in KinnPorsche.

D: I'm a day late. Apologies. My power went out yesterday... which, as @antique-forvalaka pointed out to me, is pretty funny. Totally different line of power.

This post focuses mostly on the first sequences with Vegas, Pete, and Khun Kan (or however we feel like spelling his name today). I won't be showing anything graphic, but there's some camera angle work that is SO interesting that I gotta dive into extra detail.

I have a few fluffier images later to lighten up the post, though, I promise. 😉

More LoP posts: [Trailer] ... [Ep07] [Ep08] [Ep09 Part 1] [Ep09 Part 2] [Ep10] [Ep12]

Pay close attention to the camera tilts (aka the Dutch angles) throughout this scene. I can't even cover everything because there are sooo many shots and angles, but I'll call out my favorite bits.

The two pics above establish the tilts. Vegas's angle tilts left, and Pete's angle tilts right. Their angles are leaning away from each other, like the opposing poles of magnets.

Be careful how you watch the scene... sea sickness may occur. There's lots of tilting back and forth, and when the cuts are fast, I feel like I'm on a boat that's rocking with the waves, very discomfiting.

Then we get a disruptor coming in. Hello, Khun Kan (Kun, Gun, whoever the hell you are).

This shot is so severely tilted, and Daddy Scarfs-a-lot has a biiiiiig thick line of power at his back with that unobstructed column in the foreground. He stepped in, took control of the room, and is like a crushing power looming above both Vegas and Pete.

What do we have here? Vegas is the focus in this shot, and his angle changed. THIS. THIS GOT ME.

Vegas has gone from the one abusing to the one being abused. He's taken on Pete's tilt, going to the right.

I see what you did there. I SEE IT. And I am so impressed by this choice. 🤌

Khun Namechanger takes a deep breath, cools his emotions, and returns to practical decision-making. He brings the scene into an upright position for the moment. The vertical column to the right helps steady the rocking boat that is this entire scene (though only briefly).

After Papa Goatee leaves, Vegas resumes his left-tilt angle.

FIRST SHOT: Oh hey, look, the column is tilting left, so that screws up the tilts from the establishing shots, doesn't it?

NOPE.

In the top pic here, Pete's head serves as the right tilt. If the camera were also tilted the way it usually is for him, his head would practically be horizontal, which wouldn't be any good. So Pete's right tilt still remains in effect, only with his head.

SECOND SHOT: There we go, back to normal with the pillar leaning right. Pete's head in both shots? Parallel. SO PARALLEL. Holy crap.

This is so good it blows my mind. 🤯

If anyone decides to break down every single angle from theses early VP scenes, link me, please? I'd love to see it.

Tableaus! Beautiful tableaus once again! (I explain what a tableau is back in Ep 5 LoP.) These really look like they could be sets on a live theatre stage.

Mostly I want to say how much I appreciate what they've done with P'Chan here.

This demonstrates a great way to accomplish a lot without any dialogue, using the staging to tell a story.

In the first shot, P'Chan is off to the side. He isn't really necessary to this conversation. Then for the Porsche scene, not only is his gun out, but he's looming like an avenging angle.

Peak comedy.

This is my freebie for this post. I haven't gotten a freebie for ages.

It's pretty. I like it. I could stare for hours.

Oh, and there's a damn reflection again. This show drives me mad.

Tankhun is so big here, and Porchay is so smol.

Tankhun's size is emphasized in multiple ways:

Tankhun can't even fit in the frame — the top of his head is getting cut off, emphasizing his stature.

Tankhun is in the foreground, whereas Chay is in the mid-ground.

Tankhun's fluffy jacket more than doubles his width.

These details all add up to make Chay look even more child-like than usual, out of proportion to Tankhun. His smolness is perfect for a scene where Tankhun basically adopts Chay as another little brother.

In this scene, Kim finally (at long last) makes a big breakthrough in his investigation.

Check out the background! It's an open doorway, a direction, a way forward, even if it isn't the direction he expected his sleuthing would go.

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More LoP posts: [Trailer] ... [Ep07] [Ep08] [Ep09 Part 1] [Ep09 Part 2] [Ep10] [Ep12]

For more great meta from folks across the KP Tumblr fandom, please visit the Damn Good KinnPorsche Meta doc.

#kinnporsche #kinnporscheep11 #kinnporsche meta #cinematography breakdown #lines of power

[pikkish]

Jupiter Hell headcanons. Giv.

Headcanons? Plural? HECK YEAH DON'T MIND IF I DO

^^^also putting the cinematic trailer here bc its good and more people should watch it (and then go buy the game and play it for hours and give it a good review)

anyway yes I have lots of headcanons about this game and since I'm basically the only one posting about it here on tumblr there's no one to contradict me on them. also a lot of them parallel and/or contrast with Doom headcanons, since JH is largely inspired by Doom.

For starters, the CRI isn't inherently evil like the UAC. I mean, they definitely have problems, what with the Callisto mines being run primarily by prisoner labor, and the primary funder of the CRI being the us military so their main focus is war weapons, so they're just as twisted as any major government funded war profiteering company, but they're not actively going "hee hoo lets sacrifice our own employees in cult rituals to Hell for ~SCIENCE!~" They just went "Woah whats this funny pentagram thing buried in the heart of Europa? WOAH ITS A PORTAL TO IO!! SICK WE CAN INSTANTANEOUSLY TRAVEL BETWEEN MOONS hey wait there's another one here on Io YOOOOOO IS THIS A SPACE STATION INSIDE JUPITER??? WE SHOULD TOTALLY INVESTIGATE THIS!" And then it turned out it was a portal to Hell and they accidentally started the demonic invasion. Tough luck, guys.

As for the protagonist, JupeGuy, or Mark Taggart, as is his default name for each run, I like to think that for all his flippant, snarky comments throughout the game, he's actually a relatively sane, levelheaded character, especially compared to Doomguy. This is mostly inspired by the fact that, once you get to the Dante Station levels, he stops with all the silly snarky voicelines and gets a lot more serious and solemn in reacting to things, but there are a few other points that work well with the headcanon. He uses cover when fighting, he can actually pick up a medkit and store it in his backpack for later use instead of either using it immediately or leaving it behind, he can modify and repair weapons and armor, he can gather intel on what's ahead and plan which route he wants to take based on that intel, and he doesn't just go charging at the final boss screaming ferally (unless you're playing a melee build.) He's like Doomguy's smarter, more wary cousin!

He 100% did go to The Pit on Europa, and he did pet Rexio, and now he has a funny puppy that's like five feet taller than him and will maul anything that looks at him mean. Let the man have his pet hellhound.

Also speaking of pets, solely because Doomguy has Daisy, I headcanon JupeGuy also likes small, flluffy animals, though he tends more toward birds, specifically budgies. He had a little green budgie with a yellow head named Spinach.

Ok, just one more headcanon, though this one takes a bit of explaining: there's a secret level in JH called Purgatory, and it is... punishing, both to survive, and just to get to.

First, in order to get to it, you very much have to know what you're doing. First, you have to go to a specific branch on Callisto, which is the first moon you're on. If you miss it, you're out of luck. on each floor you have to close a portal within a pretty short time limit, which usually means tanking damage from all the enemies between it and you, and again, this is early-game, so you're relatively low level and don't exactly have the stats to be tanking like that. Then, you have to close two of these portals, minimum, when at maximum, there only are three portals, and sometimes, there are only two to begin with, depending on where the branch entrance is.

So if you manage to do that, you'll be given the "Demonic Attunment" status, which... well! It's entire description is just "Unknown," so it doesn't really give you a whole lot to go on! But, if you can make it to the branch special level and successfully fight off a handful of archreavers- essentially JH's equivalent of Barons of Hell- then so long as you have a high enough rank of Demonic Attunement, you can hit a handful of pillars in the right order (an upside down star, of course) to open the portal to Purgatory, which doesn't sound so difficult in theory, but those pillars are the only cover you get from the archreavers in the entire arena, and if you accidentally bump one out of order while seeking shelter from the archreavers, then you're out of luck, you can't open the portal.

BUT, if you do get everything right, and you go through the portal, congratulations! you have a whole new set of problems to worry about! For one thing, Purgatory is jam packed with late game enemies, and you're still using early game gear, maybe with a few buffs if the loot in the Callisto Anomaly was good. For another, Purgatory is a liminal space, and going up and then right does not take you to the same place as if you go right and then up, so it's very easy to get lost. And the final icing on the cake? You gain the "Catharsis" status, the description for which reads, "You've witnessed the Purgatory. Some wounds will never heal, and you're less motivated to learn from new experiences."

How does that translate to game mechanics? the "less motivated to learn" means you permanently get 20% less experience for killing enemies, so you level a lot slower, and "some wounds never heal" means that every time you go through one of the teleporters to the next room, you permanently lose a few points off your maximum health.

So what's the reward for going to Purgatory aside from the challenge of it, fighting the secret boss battle, and unlocking the second, harder hardest mode? Well, see, Jupiter Hell is a roguelike game, so all of the loot and weapons you get are randomized. But if you know the route- and I do mean really know the route, because again, going right and up is not the same as up then right, and the health loss applies when backtracking, too- you can get your pick of any of the unique weapons in the game, of which, in a non-purgatory run that goes to all three possible special levels, you are normally only guaranteed to get one unique, and a random one that may not work at all with your build. But in Purgatory, if you can survive there and back, you can get any of them that you want.

Now, the unique weapons are great and all, but if you know what you're doing, you can beat the game without one. So what's an even more powerful weapon, or perhaps, a more powerful defense against Hell itself, that which does its utmost to rip all the joy and hope and love out of you? What could possibly let you knowingly stand against and fight Hell itself like that?

Here's where the actual headcanon starts, because my answer is apathy.

Or, the achievement of catharsis.

Knowing that you're going to bleed forever, knowing that your achievements don't actually amount to all that much, knowing that you are going to go to Hell, choosing to go to Hell, and being okay with that. Being at peace with that. Because how can you truly be affected by misery and suffering if you have already made peace with your situation?

So I think that JupeGuy figured out pretty quickly that he was fighting demons and realized he wouldn't be going home, but to Hell instead. I don't know how he knew to get to Purgatory, since, like I said, it isn't readily apparent, but you pretty much need to know what you're doing in order to get there, so it was a conscious decision on his part. He chose to go there, chose to take up the burden of eternal pain, chose to lose the joy of learning new things, the excitement of life, he chose the horrible apathy of catharsis, all so that he could fight Hell itself and stop the invasion.

And I just think that's a terrible, awful, and incredibly interesting concept, of catharsis first being a bad thing, a painful thing, that only by knowingly, willingly choosing to bear that pain forever can one gain some meager benefit.

as a last note, here is the background music for Purgatory. I think it is absolutely terrifying and also sometimes I will listen to it on repeat and think about JupeGuy.

(I had to record this myself by sitting in the level and taking a video then converting that video to mp3, because no one's put the ost up on youtube, I don't know if/where you can officially download it, and apparently JH uses a weird filetype that I could not for the life of me find a tutorial on how to rip the soundfiles for. So idk if that's its actual name or what.)

#pikspeak #jupiter hell #thank u for asking me about jh i love it so much it is such a good game #i think you in particular would actually really like it. it feel very very much like classic doom to me #albeit with more stat management and reading and such #but it actually plays so SO fast for a turn based game #and has only marginally more lore than classic doom does #the vast majority of which is entirely just flavor text #which means there is SO much room for making up your own stuff lol #ive actually been thinking about a JHxModern Doom crossover au for a while now #in which doomguy and jupeguy are brothers and end up fending off their respective hell invasions at roughly the same time #and then things get funny while dg is in argent dnur and later when jupeguy gets back to earth #im sure ill talk about that sooner or later if people wanna hear it #also it was made by a small dev team and theyre still actively updating it even a year after launch #like the full game is definitely there but the devs are still adding the stuff from like #kickstarter goals that werent initially reached in the original kickstart #and i hopped on the discord a while back and everyone there is so nice #i was actually able to reach/beat the purgatory boss bc of tips they gave me #and they have a channel for posting your death/victory logs and #even though most of the ones people put there are like their super hardcore victories #both times ive put my little medium difficulty victories in there people have congratulated me #also i see the lead dev in the discord all the time especially in the bug report channel and the design suggestion channel #helping people troubleshoot and talking with them about their ideas for the game #basically what im saying is that its a super awesome game AND the devs seem super cool too #you should definitely play it. and let me know what you think of it if you do!! #we could yell at each other about ANOTHER silly stupid space marine...!

[ineffably-human]

Okay, in honor of the Critic's Choice Awards tonight and in hope that we will FINALLY get a season 4 release date once they know if they won for teaser/trailer bragging purposes, here's a post I've been meaning to do for ages. There's a copy of an older version of the Shadows pilot script that I stumbled on a while back. And this is definitely older older, like Guillermo is still 20 years older here and there are also a lot of differences as far as Nandor goes, things that are really intriguing to me.

Even in the pilot we got, all three of the traditional vampires have different shades of the characters they'd become and their relationships to each other. But specifically with Nandor and Guillermo, I wonder how the series would have evolved if they'd cast whatever actor they had in mind for Guillermo originally. (Apparently it was a specific person, which is why he was a Latinx/Latine character to begin with, but the guy wasn't available when it came time for casting.)

Observations as I reread this are below the cut!

- This version of Guillermo has been working for Nandor for 20 years, but I think was meant to also be 20 years older than the character we know, according to Harvey? So in his 50s and he started working for Nandor in his late 20s/early 30s, rather than age 19 or so.

- Guillermo tries to pry the stuck coffin open with a knife but Nandor tells him not to because it'll screw up the mechanism, then Guillermo pretends he wasn't just trying to do so. I wonder if proto-Guillermo was supposed to be kind of mediocre at his job.

- The opening credits are supposed to be pretty similar to what we got but "every few images, there’s a quick pop of something frighteningly grotesque -- less artistic or cultural vampire depiction, and with more of a crime-scene photo feel." I wonder just how dark this show was supposed to be at first or if they just realized there were only so many times that was going to be funny.

- The house meetings aren't a regular thing here, Laszlo thinks they "just had one" in 1981 and Nandor corrects that it was in 1891. The whole thing about the fancy room isn't part of it, they're more opposed to the concept of a meeting at all. Laszlo says he thinks it's another New World invention Nandor is trying to foist on them and he doesn't like it.

- One of the victims in the cells had five birthdays since he'd been there. Nandor made him some birthday cards, then killed him. Who is feeding these people? Guillermo, I guess? Where is the Steven Universe Future-esque episode about Guillermo's complex PTSD?

- Laszlo considers himself a Renaissance man because he was born in 1531, I'm pretty sure they've changed that since.

- Script!Laszlo worships the Baron and says legend has it their powers come from him (so I guess the Baron potentially is the Sire here). Nandor is not as sold on him and is a little jealous. He's irritated that the Baron is only showing up a day after the letter was received and makes a joke about the Baron not discovering Federal Express, which only Guillermo understands. He knows the slogan for Federal Express (or one of them, no idea if it's an out of date one) but not exactly what FedEx is, Laszlo asks if he's been secretly viewing a TV again and Nandor says no, of course not, it's a contemporary folktale Guillermo told him.

- So Nandor's The Little Mermaid complex was alive and well from the show's inception, looks like, except here there's an active taboo about vampires modernizing in any way.

- Nandor implies in a talking head that he doesn't think the Baron is as great as his own legend (I wonder if this was meant to be parallel to himself or they hadn't gotten there yet) and Laszlo does a talking head saying he thinks the Baron's heard how Nandor is running things and is coming to put a stop to it.

- Guillermo calls Nandor 'sir' a lot more here. He can also basically finish his sentences, there's a scene of him hanging one of Nandor's garments on a tailor's dummy and repeating in tandem with Nandor a thing about how the gold in the brocade came from the treasury of Vlad the Impaler.

- Instead of Guillermo thinking the Baron is coming to see him be transformed, he's put out because he thinks it's interrupted his anniversary but it'll at least be cool to see an ancient vampire.

- Nandor hasn't ventured out of the house in the entire time Guillermo has known him. He's never seen crepe paper before, 'creepy paper' isn't part of the script and I'm willing to bet it's a Kayvan thing. He specifically wants glitter in "every color", says sotto that it's meant to be like Twilight (maybe he's not supposed to know about Twilight since it's a very modern thing). Script!Guillermo is equally unimpressed with Twilight.

- "In the Old Country, we’d weave a canopy out of the flayed human skin. But I think that’s because we didn’t have crepe paper." "You want I should ask up front if they have anything that looks more like the flayed skin?" "No, Guillermo. Thank you." Guillermo's a bit rougher around the edges in general, I've read an article saying that most people auditioning tried to make him too sinister and that's why Harvey stood out, but that's honestly what comes across in the script too. When he goes to the LARPers he's pretty derogatory: "Look at them pretending to be elves and shit."

- There's still the 'little too familiar' scene, with an additional "can you see how he’s just always around me? Look at him." When they argue about the coin Nandor says he disobeyed him and then asks "it's because I didn't like the skeleton, isn't it?"

- "Can you tell me about when you became a vampire, Master? How long did you wait?" "Not that long. Hey, any progress on those virgins yet?" Implying this version of Nandor was a familiar or apprentice once as well?

- "[Some bats fly out a doorway.] LASZLO: Those are just some vampire buddies of mine. NADJA: They are just normal bats. LASZLO: That’s Jeremy and Carol! NADJA: No vampire would be called Jeremy." Jeremy is also the name on the Vampiric Council website - I think they really just like that name. And Carol, apparently. And Jeff, if Our Flag Means Death is any indication.

- Nandor is the reason they have a Stairmaster because it's supposed to improve health and stamina, Laszlo says it just made their victims very skinny very slowly. - The Baron can apparently change form and is slightly more half-man half-bat. He also doesn't eat June but his very presence apparently has Guillermo and June paralyzed with tears trickling down their cheeks.

- Guillermo makes a point of saying that he recovered Jenna and Jonathan and is keeping them in the basement even after Colin drained them (but separately, Nandor insists, so they don't devirginize each other). They're still named in the script even though they aren't in the dialogue, I wonder if there were different plans for them. - Nandor makes a point of saying that the real reason he wanted the glitter was for the portrait!! Doesn't point out that he's next to Guillermo, but the portrait is very much of the two of them. The direction says Guillermo doesn't know whether to be touched or insulted. Instead of the curtain, Guillermo says 'freaking brocade' and rips the brocade that Nandor was so intent on being unharmed off of Nandor's cape, which is the last line we get of the script.

- So intrigued by this version of Nandermo, because they have immense 'old married couple' energy. They would have absolutely been shipped by the audience in this version too, maybe even a little more easily at first but with less chance of being a canon relationship, and I think are still meant to be each other's most important person - but with the main conflict being Nandor's instead of Guillermo's.

My theory (based on very little, I admit) is that when they cast someone younger for Guillermo, they played with him having a plot with Jenna or Shanice, but ultimately came back around to the original setup: Guillermo wants to be a vampire, Nandor is intrigued by modern society and the human world in a way the other vampires don't understand, they're attached to each other but at odds.

Anyway, I know this breakdown is long, hope this was as entertaining for everyone else as it was for me! I miss this show so much, and I hope they get some well-deserved awards tonight.

#fandom: wwdits #what we do in the shadows #otp: nandermo #i am a meta gremlin

[that-shamrock-vibe]

Movie Review: Cinderella (Spoilers)

Disclaimer: I am posting this review the day after the movie airs on Amazon Prime, so if you haven't yet seen it don't read on until you do.

General Reaction:

It is slightly weird to think of another movie studio taking on one of the classic fairy-tales that isn't Disney, because, as I am sure is the case for a large portion of the mainstream audience, Disney have almost claimed fairytale adaptations as their own.

However, as identified, Cinderella, is a fairy tale and one created long before Disney came about. As such, other studios are allowed to put across their own interpretation of these classic stories that we have seen a lot of times adapted at this point.

That being said, we have seen many different adaptations of Cinderella at this point from the classis Disney Animation version and it's live-action counterpart, to modern-day reworkings like A Cinderella Story of the mid-noughties starring Hilary Duff.

It's quite an easy story to tell and adapt to a variety of different settings, and what this 2021 retelling does with the story blends the old-fashioned with the modern. Does that mean it is set apart from the others? Well in my opinion yes and no.

While this is a Sony movie, it plays a lot like a Disney Channel Original Movie. From the comedy to the settings to the costuming and the music, it plays like the best of those types of movies. I'm talking the High School Musical franchise and the Descendants franchise. It is by no means bad or corny, but it isn't even on the level of the 2016 live-action Cinderella.

While that version was pretty much a straightforward live-action version of the original animated version, the style of the movie outweighed the substance.

Here however, there is a great blend of both style and substance. The story takes the classic elements of the original Cinderella fairy tale but tries to inject a modern and feministic twist that the recent live-action Beauty and the Beast tried to do.

In terms of whether this version of Cinderella stands out in the crowd of Cinderella movies, I would say it does. Not only is the titular character race-bent and the setting she is in seemingly plays into that, but the reworking of the Fairy Godmother as the Fab G as well as giving the Stepmother a more humanised backstory allows for a more compelling take on a classic.

Cast:

Because this is just the one all-in review I'm not going to do an in-depth character analysis and instead group the characters as who were my favourites, who did a passable job, who was bad and who were for some reason just there.

Favourites:

I have a top 3/4 favourite characters in this movie. Idina Menzel's Stepmother Vivian, Billy Porter's Fab G, Minnie Driver's Queen Beatrice and additionally Beverly Knight's Queen Tatiana.

Idina Menzel was always going to be fantastic in this movie, but to see her portray what is traditionally the villain character in the movie as a sympathetic character as part of the movie's feminist agenda was an interesting twist. No cat for a start, I don't know if Lucifer was a part of the original fairy tale but of course in the Disney adaptations Lady Tremaine is always accompanied by her faithful feline, but also the fact that her backstory parallels Ella's current story and the fact Vivian was so willing to have Ella reject her passion to do what is expected of her just as was forced on her was actually great motivation.

In truth I have only ever seen Billy Porter in one other thing aside from this movie and that was American Horror Story: Apocalypse. I have never seen Pose though I have heard good things, but from what I understand, Billy Porter only really has one speed. However, as the character's name states, that speed is fabulous. I loved Fab G in this movie, the fairy godmother is usually one of my favourite characters in the movie and every interpretation I have seen has brought something different and memorable. If this version of Cinderella is remembered for anything it will be for this very modernised take on the Fairy Godmother, not only gender-bending and race-bending a traditionally white female character, but with Porter choosing to make the character non-binary and that outfit speaks for itself, Fab G was simply a fabulous character.

In both Disney adaptations, I have never heard mention or reference to Prince Charming having a living mother...or a dead one for that matter. So to not only have the Queen being in a chunk of this movie, but also having her own story branch tying into the feminist agenda running through the movie and being portrayed by Minnie Driver, I was in love with this character.

Pretty much similar to the Fab G, if you've seen Beverly Knight's one second in the trailers you've pretty much seen her in the movie. She contributes to Ella's story in the movie and only appears in the latter half of the movie in 2 maybe 3 scenes but she makes an impact because she's Beverly Knight. My only gripe with her is she does not sing in the movie, you have Beverly Knight with not even a solo in a group number?

Passable:

Unfortunately the star of the movie Camilla Cabello is just passable in this movie as Cinderella. She does have some humour about her and her singing is great despite maybe being autotuned because I know how she can sing, but she doesn't feel like Cinderella to me, it actually feels more like a version of what Emma Watson was doing with Belle in the live-action Beauty and the Beast rather than Cinderella but at least she tried.

As for Nicholas Galitzine, he's definitely more engaging as a modern-day Prince Charming, Robert is definitely more engaging a character than Ella unfortunately, which to be fair is still good as the 2015 Cinderella is the only other adaptation to really make the Prince interesting, but I can't quite put my finger on exactly which movie it is but there is another movie I have seen where the Prince Regent doesn't want to be king but the Princess does and has to fight for her right to be it...that's pretty much this story for them.

Also Pierce Brosnan as the King, despite jokingly singing towards the end, did a great job at being the archetype of old-fashioned values with his on-screen wife Minnie Driver's queen pushing him into a modern-day thinking.

Bad:

As for who's bad, I have to say it pains but the British comic relief characters really let the side down in this movie.

In the three mice defence, Romesh Ranganathan and James Acaster are somewhat funny but unnecessary. James Corden however is abismal in this movie. I get he produces it, but particularly after Cats I do not understand 1) Why he'd want to portray another CG animal or 2) Ever think that one shot of him changing back from human to mouse with his head on a mouse body was funny...it was terrifying.

Also this movie is supposedly a family-audience movie...so why include a crass joke of Corden's character talking about peeing out of his front tail?

Additionally to the three mice, Rob Beckett has a surprising role in this movie as a potential suitor for Vivian's daughters, but he simply portrays such a creepy, cringe-worthy character it's almost uncomfortable to watch.

New Additions:

So as well as the two queens and the British comic relief there is also the addition of Princess Gwen to the movie who is the sister of the Prince and the one who wants to be ruler. It's kind of the same story as Jasmine's in the live-action Aladdin as wanting to be Sultan but being a woman isn't taken seriously, however here it is treated more comedically as every time there is a serious moment with the King trying to force Robert to grow up and be King, she always tries to interject with "Would this be a bad time to tell you about an actual real reason why I would be a good ruler" and they make sense but she's always dismissed until the very end.

Then there's a town crier, who is also inserted as a musical number while he's reading his proclamations but as a rap. Honestly I don't know Doc Brown as an artist but I did happen to enjoy what he contributed.

Music:

Which brings us on nicely to the music of the movie as this is a musical and I usually break down the songs. Again this time I will be doing groupings of best to worse.

Honestly my favourite number is probably "Shining Star" mostly performed by Billy Porter with verses by Camilla Cabello and, unfortunately, James Corden.

I also enjoyed the two original songs of the movie, "Million to One" which is Cabello's "I Want" song of the movie and used a lot through the movie, and then also "Dream Girl" which is Idina's main other song but also sung by basically the women of the movie, it's Idina Menzel if you don't give her an original song it's an insult.

Idina's other song is a cover of "Material Girl" and honestly it is a lot of fun, Nicholas Galitzine's rendition of "Somebody to Love" was also fun and surprising as I did not think this guy could sing that well.

The group numbers were fun and well choreographed but they are also somewhat forgettable. The song at the ball of "Whatta Man/Seven Nation Army" was probably the most memorable but still just mediocre.

Recommendation:

So with all that said, would I recommend watching Sony's Cinderella? Honestly I would say it is worth at least one viewing, and I do recommend watching all the way through just to get the full experience. I do think it will do better as a streaming movie than it would have done as a theatrical release, but I cannot pinpoint a market for this movie.

I don't think this will go down as one of the great adaptations, but there are moments and aspects of the movie that sets it apart from the crowd.

Overall I rate this movie a 7/10, it's not as fantastic as I feel the trailers were making it out to be, but having seen the movie twice there are definitely elements of the movie I looked forward to watching the second time around.

So that's my review of Sony's Cinderella, what did you guys think? Post your comments and check out more Movie Reviews as well as other posts.

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Venom Review (No spoilers) (for people who are afraid to go watch it)

All the info here was in the trailers. No spoilers.

REMEMBER THIS IS MY OPINION AND THAT YOU SHOULD TAKE YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS.

If you wanted to go to the movies but the first critiques demotivated you, just ignore it and go watch it, specially if you're a Venom fan. The movie was really cool, both the villain and the protagonist were interesting to see, the "love interest" people said that was useless in the movie actually had a really important plot and character development, even in the final battle. Of course the movie isn't the best movie of the year and it's not as fun as Iron Man or Spider Man Homecoming, but even so to me the movie is fun to watch and totally worth the time and money. The 3D wasn't sooo relevant, just in a scene where there were drones, but all the rest, 2D would have done just fine too. The visual effects were very good, the actors too, there was a lot of realism, the suspense was awesome, the relationship between Venom and Eddie is the best of the movie. The only bad things (which aren't so bad) is that the movie from the mid act to the final act speed up a lot and the battles are a bit dark, but at the same time, the vibe is great. Venom even without gore and blood still gave us the impression of his/her/it violent brutal nature, it was a surprisingly light movie, even when Venom attacks and eats people still isn't gory but we also get the realism of the thing, so it is FUN.

I feel like many people exaggerated when they said the movie was bad, and a lot of people followed the vibe and repeated the same shit, but in my opinion all that negative reaction was just mass effect. Venom looks VERY realistic, the sound effects and the visual effects too. Side characters aren't explored much, but well, we don't want a 3 hour movie, right? I think Sony succeeded at adapting an origin story for Venom without Spider Man. Venom here is the hero of the story (with Eddie) despite being violent, brutal and with antagonistic morals, but well, he's an alien and Eddie is sort of teaching him the things.

The sensation I had from this movie was that it was the intro to the characters that will participate in an awesome trilogy yet to come. The movie lasted around 2 hours but I confess it was super fast, you really don't notice time passing as the parallel events start to unfold. The first act of the movie, despite being a bit long when compared to the total screentime, was very light and fun to see, I don't think it was a negative point at all as people were saying. We get to know Eddie, his life and what kind of person he is as we watch the villain build his way through as well. For people who just wanted to see Venom breaking things and killing people, the movie was halfway boring, but to people who want to hear a story and understand what is going on, get to know the characters and follow their development, the movie was super cool, super funny to watch.

I totally recommend, my mom isn't even a Venom fan and she enjoyed the movie, which was a typical action and fun super hero film, darker than usual Marvel movies are but not as dark as DC movies (I'm literally talking about the light.).

Eddie is totally not like Jim Carrey and the movie was way better than Cat Woman, I really REALLY think the critiques, specially the professionals missed a chance to do a great constructive analysis to just keep repeating "the story made no sense, it was a comedy movie", no, it wasn't. It was fun sarcastic humor, badass action scenes and scientific suspense. It left a "I want more of this".

Many of the critiques like "there were no cameras in the Life Foundation experimental area!" are just silly cause NO ONE WOULD PUT CAMERAS IN AN AREA WHERE FORBIDDEN EXPERIMENTS ARE TAKING PLACE!! THEY WOULDN'T BUILD PROOF AGAINST THEMSELVES ANY SECURITY GUARD COULD STEAL A TAPE AND RUIN THE WHOLE ORGANIZATION! Indeed, a lot of the critique makes no sense, specially the ones regarding Venom's choices, those guys really didn't read the comics and basically they assume Venom is just a heartless alien who wants to kill everyone. Any fan who read 1 chapter with Venom in it knows the alien is way more complex than that, he's sentimental too, he has his morals and yes he is hungry, but he isn't a dumb eating machine, we all know in the comics Venom hates Spider Man because HE WAS REJECTED and that Venom's relationship with Eddie is a super physical and emotional bond, and to me who wrote the critiques ignored all that aspect of the characters.

So yeah, if you had even just one sparkle of will to go watch the movie, go watch the movie and take your own conclusions, but be sure the movie totally wasn't the shit professional critiques are saying it was.

Conclusion

Totally recommend because it's fun to watch and respects the canon for the characters, even if Eddie was a bit "improved" when compared to the comics, I really like him and Venom in the movie. 3D really won't make much of a difference, there's no gore so if you're afraid it will be like horror movies, don't worry, it's not. The movie gives us exactly what the trailers promised and wait for the post credit scenes, specially the first one.

In my personal scale of fun...

I give it a 7,8 out of 10

Made me laugh, made me smile, I got home happy and satisfied, wanting more of it.

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