#oh I also watched Goodfellas

[creature-once-removed]

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#I'm on a 'I want to watch movie classics and/or thrifted DVDs I haven't watched yet' streak that's been incredibly enduring #and I had two more movies planned for today #but also I'm really struggling not just rewatching lucky number slevin again because I thought about it this morning #and it's such a good movie I basically always have to watch it when I think about it for longer #the movies I watched were American Psycho Shawshank Redemption the Dark Knight Trilogy the Back to the Future Trilogy #The Girl with the dragon Tattoo and 3:10 to Yuma. Planned for today are The Faculty and Sin City #I've watched all these in the last two weeks. I'm very proud of myself #oh I also watched Goodfellas

[citylighten]

What was your inspiration to write a mafia/mob/cartel/la familia type story?

So, I was primarily raised by my grandma and her sisters and they loved mafia films. Like, my grandma considered Robert De Niro to be her man. My grandma apparently wrote a whole mafia story in her notebook when she was a teen. 😂 I saw Once Upon a Time in America (my grandma's personal fave) and parts of The Godfather when I was really young, but I wasn't enthralled in these films. I didn't even understand the workings of the mob. Yet, I respected these and held fascination for them because it was my grandma's interest and I love my grandma! Some time passes. I'm in 6th Grade. My best friend becomes obsessedddd with Scarface. [which I feel is a general thing that's apart of black culture 😂😂] I mean she has her first fictional crush! And I'm in class endorsing it like a good friend! I saw that movie a total of three times when I was a preteen due to the love of my friend, including a lousy BET cut and even now I would say that is one of my favorite gangster films. Some more time passes and I'm still really into this genre even though I'm still dumb about the inner workings and hierarchy. I just know it's suits and action! In high school I wrote a shitty mafia AU story for a anime fandom I was in. We don't talk about that, but it was like a stepping stone and it was fairly well-received by my friends. Fast forward into adulthood and in 2016-ish? I made my OC Sal! Although Sink or Swim takes place in the modern day, Sal and Eve were originally historical ocs! So, I tried to do a lot of research through film. Instead of watching documentaries or reading thoroughly, I watched films like Harlem Nights, Goodfellas, Mean Streets, Godfather, A Bronx Tale, Casino! And in watching these movies I had the mindset of, "okay, I wanna take these elements for Sal, I wanna leave plot themes like this out." also shoutout to the video games Mafia I, II, and III. They had some immersive storytelling. I roleplayed Sal for awhile on tumblr and eventually I met @ladygangsters who was equally into the gangster genre! But due to her love of the series Narcos, I learned a lot more about the cartel beyond my shallow Scarface knowledge. She's really the one with all the cartel ocs, broadening my horizons!😂 I didn't know if I wanted to do a gangster story on simblr tbh. Mostly because tackling a complex story was daunting and it's WAY EASIER to just do slice of life narratives. When I first started Sink or Swim I was lowkey freaking out irl like, "I don't know what to do, I don't know I'm doing, oh my god I'm gonna torment myself with this story." But I didn't scare ya'll away with my content. I didn't feel overwhelmed when I reached certain heavy points of the story. I feel like I trust myself to tell this story now more than I did when I first plotted it out. And now I'm doing a lot of heavy co-writing with @ladygangsters and we treat our writing the way we would if we were still rping with each other, so that brings a high level of comfort.

#thank u for the ask sorry its long 😭😭

[saltygilmores]

"Could You Date Gilmore Girls' Jess?" (Another Super Duper Old Interview)

Wondering what a date with "Gilmore Girls" hottie Milo Ventimiglia is like? Well, you can start collecting your pinups of the celeb now because this is one chill dude.

The 24-year-old heartthrob who plays bad-boy Jess on the WB series says his ideal date could be anywhere, because he's all about kicking back and having a good time.

"I could go anywhere and find a good time," Milo dished to us. "Put me in a movie theater, put me in a party, put me in a theme park. I'll pretty much take the situation and have a good time."

And while he admits that having a good time is a major requirement for a date, he also has his rules laid down for the nerve-racking first date. "Don't let thing get too serious," he said. "Just try to enjoy yourself."

We all know Jess has been totally crushing on Rory Gilmore from day one, but which gals actually make Milo's list of potential girlfriends? "Honest caring, compassionate, intelligent. Your basic good qualities," he said about what he looks for in a girl.

Over at Milo's new pad (FYI: he's currently putting the final touches on his new crib in Venice Beach, Calif.), you can find all sorts of movies and music.

"The Godfather" 1 and 2, "Goodfellas," "The Matrix" -- those are movies I can sit down and watch over and over again," Ventimiglia mentioned. As for the music scene you can usually catch Milo listening to stuff he grew up on like the Sex Pistols and a lot of classic punk bands. "Things I listen to now are The Hives, The Strokes," he said about his wide range of interests. "I also listen to a lot of hip-hop like De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest and Wu Tang."

However, girls, this laid-back dude has a little bit of a rebellious streak running through him. "There's definitely some of Jess in me and some of me in Jess," he explained about the similarities between him and his on-screen ego. "I used to get in trouble in high school. The friends I hung out with, they were considered the bad apples and played pranks and got away with everything."

Luckily, though, Milo wasn't as naughty as his buddies. "Because I was their friend, I relate myself and say I was a rebel," Ventimiglia continued. "But for the most part, I had a halo and a set of wings in high school." If he admitted having similarities to Jess, something tells us Milo isn't as angelic as he says he is.

As for his future in Stars Hollow, Milo assures us he's willing to stick around for as long as the show stays on the air. "It's an amazing cast and crew," he quickly replied. "The writers are the best."

Season 3 of the "Gilmore Girls" starts shooting in August, but Milo is wary of giving his predictions for the new season because the writers are so unpredictable. "When I say, 'Oh, this might happen with Jess,' it doesn't happen," Milo admitted. "I'm constantly surprised by the writers."

However, what Milo would like to see happen to his character is that he doesn't change too much. "I still want to get in trouble," he affirms. "But I want to see him soften up to Luke a little bit. I have a fear that Jess is going to soften up too much, but I really don't see that happening."

#jess mariano #milo ventimiglia #more fun stuff on the way

[cha0ticr0b0tic]

oh my god I finally got around to watching Home Alone (for some reason it was never on my family's Christmas essentials watchlist) and I, a grown ass man (in his mid 20s) laughed so hard I might as well have turned back into a kid for 90 minutes. I also love the fact that Joe Pesci was making this alongside Goodfellas, really makes you think

#christmas movies #home alone #kevin mccallister #macaulay culkin #joe pesci

[virgincels]

picking out my fav parts of puppy love :3

Claire sent him this ‘Get porn sites taken down for women blah blah blah’ petition, he signed it, clicked out of the tab and got down to watching some silly slut get fucked within an inch of her life. — this is so funny like 😭 such a guy thing to do

Oh, is that right, sweetheart? Cinnamoroll’s a puppy, not a bunny? Wow, I didn’t know that, baby, fascinating ain’t it? Miffy‘s from the Netherlands, god, she’s gotta be careful over there in Amsterdam, honey. They don’t call that place Sin City for no reason, the red light district is no joke. Oh, I see, she’s from Utrecht? Ah, guess she’s safe then, I’m glad. What’s her name? That’s your favourite, Cogimyun? That’s a mouthful, ain’t it? She looks like a cloud. No? She's not? She’s a what-? Made of wheat flour? Oh! Well, that’s real funny, baby. Bet she don’t do well on windy days. - THIS ENTIRE PART HAD MY HEART BEATING SO FAST

The Persian Cat triplets are named Serena, Nate and Blair. From Gossip Girl of course, he didn’t know what that was. Tedious is his review. Leon thought Henry, Tommy and Jimmy were more fitting names. You didn’t understand the reference. “You buy ‘em little plates and forks and cups, they’re living better than us, baby.” - i also don’t understand his reference but the details are so!!!

and the little note you made from him ACK! cherryyyyy!!! wonderful fic :3

AAAAAHHH i literally squealed when I saw this u made my heart SWELL like this is so fucking sweet I will cry i love u so much wth :3 and henry, tommy and jimmy r characters from goodfellas :3

#inbox 💌 #🎀.lovey dovey

[lesbiancolumbo]

I saw someone on twitter trying to do the "media literacy is dead" schtick but about people not getting that the exploitation of Blonde was intentional to make people think about how Marilyn was exploited? As if that's not a point that can be made without depicting graphic fictional SA and having your lead actress topless for the entire second half of the movie????

i swear to mother fucking god, i hate that every fucking year we have to do this. every year some beloved male auteur makes a film with misogynistic treatment of women and a decent chunk of but not all women critics and normal ass people on film twitter will phrase it like hey! kinda sexist! don’t like it! feels exploitative! and then men will see that and it’s like why are these HATEFUL FEMINISTS being like this!!!!!! sorry i trust this male filmmaker who up until now makes movies primarily about men butthat’snotrelevant to make a good movie REGARDLESS OF GENDER #REALFEMINISM and then the exact same four pick-me women of film twitter come home and see that their ugly ass boyfriends and husbands got their fee fees hurt by some cunt online and log on and go ACTUALLY AS A WOMAN I LOVED THIS HASHTAG NOT ALL WOMEN THIS IS BIOLOGICAL ESSENTIALSM GOODFELLAS IS MY FAVORITE MOVIE #COOLGIRL and then the movie comes out and everyone else is like oh yeah this is actually misogynistic lol

i’m sorry but (i am speaking rhetorically, not to you stephenroot i love you, you are one of the few who gets me on this and i appreciate you) media literacy does not mean some cunt bitch online thinks misogyny in the movies isn’t fun OR this stupid joyless WOMAN doesn’t realize that MISOGYNY IS THE POINT HAHA (I AM VERY SMART). media literacy is that i understand what andrew dominik’s intentions are and that i think they’re horseshit. i haven't read blonde yet but i think there was a way to adapt it in a way that was both faithful to what it tried to accomplish while also being respectful to the very real person that it (however fictionally or not) depicts and everything i've read about the finished film leads me to believe this isn't the case. so then why would i give this the benefit of the doubt? and like, i'm sick of this constant cycle where women can't speak expertly about what is sexist or not on film? for fear of upsetting those four women on twitter who go like ummmm actually i LOVE graphic rape scenes in films :) like ok good for you? no one cares? men get to go to tiff and watch a film about a group of women debating whether or not to leave their community because their husbands and boyfriends won't stop raping and beating them and say its politics are too blunt and obvious or whatever, and that's fine, but women can't watch blonde and go hey this is exploitative! because what if that's the point? okay sometimes it is the point. and sometimes the execution of that point fucking sucks. what now.

anyways i care about this so much only because this woman has been so misinterpreted and profited off of and exploited for her whole life and longer dead than she ever was alive, and i want people to engage with her as a fucking ARTIST and a PERSON and a BUSINESSWOMAN and as she wanted to be remembered. all people ever care about is the fucking tragedy and her body. blonde only encourages this, and andrew and anna the arms can say whatever the fuck they want about marilyn would have loved their little tragedy porn experiment, but THESE were the last words in her last ever interview, and i trust her more than them to speak on her own fucking experience. so i will leave you all with this.

"Please don’t make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one. I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity. If fame goes by, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live."

#asks #i hope this was coherent. i was drinking at a fundraiser lmao

[amplesalty]

Christmas 2022 - Day 2 - Home Alone: The Holiday Heist (2012)

On t he second day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...

...two thousand dollars worth of tools!

Oh hey, we’ve reached the point where they got embarrassed about the number of sequels they were making. We took a diversion last year to look at the newest entry in the franchise, Home Sweet Home Alone, but we’re going back into the archives now to check out the last new to me entry actually set at Christmas. I’ve never seen 3 but I know that’s not set at Christmas and doesn’t involve the McAllisters either but maybe I’ll look at that one day as a random review just for the sake of completeness. With this coming out in 2012, it almost sort of maybe looks like they’re going for a ‘once a generation’ thing where they draw in one bunch of kids, then hit the next batch when the others have grown up. I mean, you had the original and the sequel at the beginning of the 90’s, 3 came out mid-to-late 90’s, then 4 was early noughties, now this one in the early tens and finally HSHA in 2021. At this rate I suppose we can look forward to the next entry in the early 2030’s. Maybe by then it’ll be set on a terraformed Mars.

I don’t know why but I’ve somehow always managed to misjudge this art for the film. I think something about the hair looking floppy made me think he was a spoilt little rich kid. Plus what is quite plainly a hoodie I’d somehow seen as like a blazer of sorts with a tie. I can only assume I only ever glanced at this and didn’t pay too much attention because boy is that ever a wide of the mark assessment. Indeed, this is the story of your average American family with 2.4 kids who have moved all the way from California to Maine in aid of mom’s new job.

At least he’s doing the whole ‘scream’ thing here to immediately remind you of the old movies. They even mention the painting at one point and the kids get oddly embarrassed at their parents doing the pose. I don’t know if he’s really selling fear here though, he just looks slightly appalled by something.

Fittingly for Maine the house is allegedly haunted by the spirit of an old timey bootlegger but we’re not exactly going into Stephen King territory here. It does give extra reason for our young protagonist, Finn (played by Christian Martyn), to be scared senseless but he doesn’t exactly need any help since he’s pretty much scared of his own shadow most of the time. It’s also the motivation for our obligatory gang of baddies as they plan to steal a painting which is said to reside in the house.

And hey, there are actual recognisable people in these roles again! Malcolm McDowell makes another appearance on our Christmas list, this time as the ringleader Sinclair. Alongside him he has Jessica played by Debi Mazar who sort of looks familiar but I don’t think that’s down to some of the more logical places I would have seen her like Goodfellas or Empire Records. She’s apparently Madonna’s bestie as well and she’s been in a whole bunch of her videos.

Maybe it’s because she looks like she’s come straight out of that Jim Carrey Grinch movie at one point. Definite Who vibe off her here. Plus there’s Eddie Steeples who was ‘Crab Man’ Darnell Turner on My Name is Earl and was also in Would You Rather that I watched during Halloween a year or two back.

Say what you will about these sequels being cash ins but they put their hand in their pocket sometimes to get people you might actually know. Granted, McDowell is very much a working actor and whilst thoughts do obviously turn to A Clockwork Orange, you can just as easily find him providing voice work to Pinocchio 3000 (okay that sounds stupid and I kinda want to see it) or Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes (...same) so it’s probably not an amazing ‘get’ but I imagine he doesn’t come cheap.

Another recognisable face is Edward Asner who just feels destined to turn up in so many Christmas films. I swear it’s either him or the goddamned Northen Lights. At least he’s not playing Santa this time. It’s kind of a weird performance because he’s hosting this Christmas party and the mum is his new hire, only they’re trying to play him off as being massively drunk but it’s not that far removed from just being a vaguely senile old man.

The whole former bootlegger house does very nearly come close to giving this movie a gimmick and some sort of identity as pretty early on Finn inadvertently finds a hidden safe in the basement. Eventually he and his sister find out that it has a hidden wall that has a speakeasy behind it which, when his sister tries to steal a bottle of alcohol, triggers the door to shut behind her and lock her in. The idea of the house itself having these sort of traps built in and leftover from it’s former occupant would’ve been a new dynamic and you could potentially have moments of peril from Finn accidently finding himself on the wrong end of one. But it doesn’t really come up so we’re just left with the results of Finn’s imagination; icing up the front porch (a classic), pouring oil over people or baking poisoned cookies full of hot sauce. Hey, Home Sweet Home Alone took that one! That movie has clearly sunk to a new low if it’s having to rip off this movie. Thinking about it though, the kid in these movies is meant to be the viewer analogue, the little boys and girls watching at home are meant to be able to imagine themselves being the one setting the traps and getting their own back on all the mean grownups so it doesn’t exactly work if the kid isn’t the one actively setting the traps.

His big secret weapon is the power of sexual harassment as Jessica gets stuck in a window trying to break in so, when he two partners in crime try to pull her out, Finn keeps firing things at her that smack her on the arse and makes her think the guys are trying to cop a feel. A swift mule kick to the nards sorts them right out though. I don’t know if I want to run the risk of upsetting the moderation bots of Tumblr again though in order to show you, I’m not sure what the party line is on a nice bottom.

The traps feel a little tame in comparison to the other movies, especially when you consider the multiple times Kevin nearly killed the Wet/Sticky bandits with blunt force trauma, electrocution, burning, falls, Birdemic... Honestly, the most violent act isn’t even directed at the bad guys, it’s when he’s convinced the house is haunted so tries to collect evidence and ends up shooting his own Father with a taser. I know these kids are shown to be resourceful in these movies but where did he get that from?!It’s like the reverse Chekhov’s Gun as it never shows up again.

Or when this one guy pretty much gets Swatted and maced by about a dozen cops.  See, there’s this whole subplot where Finn just wants to play videogames and not make any actual real life friends, only it comes across vaguely weird when the one guy he’s talking to online is this one dude in like his mid 20’s. Finn kinda has this whole borderline social issue though as he seems geniunely anxious at the thought of any human interaction with his peers. His sister is portrayed as being obssesed with her phone so it’s very much the type of writing you expect from that relatively early period of smart phones where adults are complaining about how their kids just wont get off the dang cell phone or those violent viddy games!

Then there’s this whole scene where Finn tells the guy they’re being robbed so he hacks Finn’s gamertag, gets his mum’s mobile number from the account details and calls her to tell her what’s happening. Only it turns into this whole misunderstanding where she thinks he’s grooming her son and has her daughter locked in the basement. Oh, noncing and child abuse, what japes we have.

Honestly, this one wasn’t too bad. It’s massively derivative and there’s no reason to watch it over 1 or 2 but it’s not the worst thing in the world. It’s just a very safe rehash that makes absolutely no attempt to try and stray from the formula, it just settles into the well worn arse groove that the original movie and the sequel already made and is quite content with that. It’s just the same movie but adjusted 20 years down the line with some new possibilities thanks to the advancement of technology.  Still, because it’s giving itself such a low bar it didn’t really come across as making any massively glaring faults. Whereas last year I think Home Sweet Home Alone kind of forgot it even was a Home Alone movie for large portions so it’s a lot easier to pick fault with it. Maybe that one just set some low expectations for me that this one was able to meet.

It’s not to say there aren’t problems. Like Finn is just a massive dweeb who seems to have this sad look on his face the entire movie. Plus, him being scared borders on the ridiciousless on occasions. Like there’s one moment where he manages to run screaming out of the secret room, through the basement, up the stairs, through the kitchen, up another flight of stairs, into his room, throw off the covers and then dive under them. It feels like one of those jokes where someone is falling for a really long time so they have to stop to breathe before starting to scream again. Granted, Kevin was pretty scared in the first movie but he was a good couple of years younger, was actively left alone for days on end rather then just a couple of hours whilst his parents went to a party and the Wet Bandits were a lot more intimidating the guy guys on show here.  These guys are only interested in the painting and even when they do discover Finn and his sister, they just try to keep them out of the way. The Bandits though, they took that shit seriously when Kevin was fighting back against them and you really did think they were going to kill him before Old Man Marley showed up with that snow shovel. I suppose this is a kids movie after all though and you’ve got to keep the menace and fear to a minimum.

#Christmas 2022 #home alone #Home Alone 5 #Home Alone The Holiday Heist

[inkykeiji]

Clari!! I’m also a film fan + mafia/noir fan and I would love to receive some mafia (or perhaps other genre) film recs from u! I watched goodfellas and true romance after u mentioned them n I really loved them <3 so preferably smth similar vibes!

I hope you are having an amazing day & drink lotsa water! You’re amazing c:

oooh anon!!! omg two of my absolute fave films <333 okayokayokay let’s chat film under the cut!!

okay, so you’ve probably already seen them, but i have to mention the godfather part one and the godfather part two just in case!!! we also can’t talk about gangster films without mentioning the holy trinity from the thirties: the public enemy (1931), little caeser (1931), and scarface (1932). other gangster film recommendations:

casino (1995) (ROBERT DE NIROOOOO oh my god he’s so Daddy in this i’m drooling just thinking about it)

scarface (1983)

the departed (2006)

touch of evil (1958)

i also highly suggest watching the sopranos, which has absolutely incredible writing and quite literally changed television and writing for television. it’s definitely a commitment since it’s quite long, but it’s a must-watch if you’re into gangster media, especially mafia.

marty (scorsese) is a true auteur in the sense that he literally makes the same film over and over and over again—which is to say, his films all contain a specific set of elements that he uses in slightly different ways to tell slightly different stories, so if you enjoyed goodfellas and you watch casino + the departed and like those, too, then it might be worth it to check out some of his other films. i absolutely love the wolf of wall street, and while it isn’t exactly ‘gangster’/mafia it does obv encompass elements of organized crime (and drugs!!!!! and extremely flawed characters!!).

in terms of vibes when it comes to true romance, i’d suggest checking out literally any of tarantino’s other films but reservoir dogs and pulp fiction in particular, since they 1. contain/center around organized crime in some way and 2. were written around the time he wrote true romance, so the writing + characters are very similar in terms of style. there’s also natural born killers, which isn’t great but it was also written by tarantino around this time as well and contains similar elements, too. other films that may peak ur interest:

wild at heart (1990)

kiss kiss bang bang (2005)

bonnie and clyde (1967)

gun crazy (1950)

breathless (à bout de souffle) (1960)

i hope these help anon bb and i hope you find some more films that u love!! happy watching <3

#i love love love *almost* all of these films #also if ur a fan of my bmb then u will loooove mia + vincent in pulp fiction #my sibling is obsessed with the sopranos they've watched it SEVERAL times #which is like;;;;; so many hours of their life LMAO but anyway #pls enjoy these!!!! #and have a fabulous tuesday <3 #inky.bb #clari gets mail

[nexility-sims]

get to know me.

tagged by: all my friends ! [insert crying emoji] thanks for the inclusion, @warwickroyals & @armoricaroyalty & @funkyllama & @trentonsimblr & @trouvailleroyals

favorite color: black, red, all of those verdant shades of green.

currently reading: [unhinged screaming] on the docket for today is gary nash's forging freedom and cynthia radding's wandering peoples. yesterday, i read stuff about the andes and also women in plantation households. for leisure, i've been reading since this summer: tommy orange's there there, ottessa moshfegh's my year of rest and relaxation, and stephen graham jones' my heart is a chainsaw. also y'all's stories ! i don't want to jinx myself, but i'm hoping to FINALLY catch up with @ardeney-sims this weekend, among some others i'd like to at least start. if anyone has suggestions for how to keep your place in stories instead of frantically scrolling someone's blog every time ... lemme know ...

last song you listened to: uh oh. spotify says "king" by florence + the machine, which checks out.

last series watched: my watching is all over the place. lately, it's been dance moms (finished. chaos) and season two of rez dogs (so good), plus i started rewatching american horror story: coven with a friend this week. i also started fear city on netflix last night but idk if i'll go back to it. why when i can rewatch goodfellas for the 1834935th time .... oh, and fear the walking dead ! i picked it back up recently but idk if i will continue anytime soon (more zombies, less interpersonal drama that isn't about zombies). either way, it's october. should be watching scary stuff.

sweet, savory, or spicy: i like them all but i'm a savory gal at heart. i love desserts so much, and i like spicy food more than it likes me, but ultimately... pretzels make my world go 'round.

craving: OKAY SO LIKE. i wanted italian food, and then when i sat down this morning to make my dinner plans, i was like "meh... vegetables?" i am craving green things, but i ain't a quitter, so we're having salad and decadent pasta tonight. we're in a weird and not-good place this week, mentally and emotionally, that's my explanation.

tea or coffee: i like both. but ... i have coffee daily—latte, almond milk because i hate the environment or w/e obviously, no sugar—but tea is more infrequent as of late. i am a southerner through and through, tho, so i love sweet tea. that counts.

working on: everything and nothing, it feels like. grading papers. trying to stay on top of my reading list. writing grant applications. writing a historiography for my dissertation proposal. building a house for sims who haven't even been born yet. researching tattoos and testing them in cas. procrastinating revisions for my story outline. ruminating on the asks y'all've sent. whew.

tagging: anyone who wants to do it ! i think everyone i might've tagged has either done it or been tagged. but, uh, tag me so i can see your answers, if you haven't & want to.

#im sorry this became a journal entry lmaooo #about n. #insert a flurry of heart emojis here

[mountain-in-springtime]

i was tagged by my darling @loser-user-noaccuser (thanks for the tag love) so let’s go!

(i’m also gonna tag @takenbythelightfantastic @shutupdevvie and @myfriendtheghost but if you see this and i didn’t tag you, feel free to participate anyway!)

what book are you currently reading? i just started shady hollow: a murder mystery by juneau black. i’ve been meaning to read it for ages, so i’m excited to finally get around to it. 

what’s your favorite movie you saw in theatres this year? this is really hard to pick because i did see a lot of films this year, most of them screenings of older movies. my top three are probably labyrinth, goodfellas, and rear window. i do feel that elvis deserves an honorable mention as well because i did really enjoy that and it made me cry multiple times. 

what do you usually wear? it depends on the day. if i’m at home i just wear athletic tights and a t shirt, but if i’m going to class i’ll throw on a cardigan as well and sometimes wear jeans instead of tights.

how tall are you? i’m 5′3″ 

what’s your star sign? do you share a birthday with a celebrity or historical event? i’m a pisces! i also share a birthday with johnny cash and victor hugo (and i’m one day away from sharing one with george harrison)

do you go by your name or nickname? they’re pretty interchangeable tbh. some people call me mallorie, but just as many call me mal. 

did you grow up to be what you wanted to be as a kid? yes and no. i think that who i am as a person is the type of individual that i’ve always been and wanted to be, but in the tangible sense of a career, lifestyle, etc., i’m still in a transitional period of my life and can’t say yet if i’ll reach the more material goals set by my childhood self. 

are you in a relationship? if not who is your crush if you have one? i’m not in a relationship, and i don’t really have any crushes aside from my multiple famous/fictional/tumblr mutual babygirls. 

what’s something you are good at vs something you are bad at? ever since i was a child, i’ve been pretty talented in the arts (singing, acting, visual art, etc.) and i did really well in school, but i am absolutely terrible at sports or really anything atheltic. 

dogs or cats? both! although i don’t know if i could live without a dog.

if you draw/write or create in anyway what’s your favorite picture/favorite line/favorite etc. from something you have created this year? it’s definitely this (technically unfinished) painting that i did of george harrison at the beginning of the year. i consider it one of my best works to date, and it was done at a time when i was really deep into a beatles phase so i think my love of the band and george really manifested into the work. 

what’s something you’d like to create content for? oh my gosh there’s so many things. i’m really big into any kind of pop culture/media so i draw a lot of celebrities that i love and things like that. i’d really like to continue to make art that shows my love of the beatles, but i would like to branch out into making art for some of my other loves like john denver, gvf, and the muppets. i’d also love to give writing fanfic for any of the fandoms i’m in a try.

what’s something you are currently obsessed with? well i’m obviously obsessed with the beatles and gvf, but i also adore john denver, the solo works of all the beatles, the muppets, the simpsons, film (particularly old hollywood and 80s films), and a million other things. i’ve also been hyperfixating on seinfeld a bit lately bc that’s the show i’m currently watching. 

what’s something you were excited about that turned out to be disappointing this year? i think every year i convince myself that i’ll make new irl friends and finally have a full friend group or even get into a relationship, but that never really happens much. (although i am thankful for all of the darling friends i have made on tumblr. y’all mean so much to me.) i also went see paul mccartney in concert this year and while it was amazing and by no means disappointing, it didn’t hold the life-changing gravity that i thought it would, and it almost made me a bit sad because it reminded me how much time has passed since the beatles and that the people that i really care about won’t be around forever. 

what’s a hidden talent of yours? i’m pretty good at impressions! i can do a lot of them, but some of my favorites are miss piggy, cher, bob dylan, chubby checker (specifically singing the twist), a ton of simpsons characters, jerry seinfeld and jimmy stewart. (the last two aren’t always great but they really make me laugh.)

are you religious? yes, but it’s a bit complicated. i was raised catholic, but i find that i don’t agree with all of the teachings of the catholic church, so now i’m trying to find where i stand in the religious community and where my beliefs and morals fit. it’s something i’m working on and figuring out as i go along. 

what’s something that you wish to have at this moment? happiness, love, and peace

#thanks so much again to shae for the tag #this was so much fun #also sorry if i got too emotional or whatever #mal lore

[cjwayne]

This is my first time posting but I’ve hc’s for Damian Wayne:

He loves snickerdoodles

He watches Wildkatts, SpongeBob,Octonauts we bare Bears and Bluey  my babysitters a vampire With a passion (also Jason and Timothy make fun of him for it but always watch it with him)

Also his favorite movies are turning red , (Good dinosaur Dogs purpose.He cried and so did I)Goodfellas and all the John Wick movies

and he becomes so into it that he doesn’t know what’s going around him like you can be right next to him and he wouldn’t notice so Graysondecided to take a death toll and just plop him right in his lap and he did nothing He just watched But Grayson did a mistake of moving and went into his room with two black eyes and a broken rib and then Alfred had to go in his room and tell him not to do that ever again he’s gonna do it again (and he did )and Damien asked if Alfred can make him cookies (snickerdoodles)

Oh my God this sucks

#dc comics #dc robin #night wing #damian al ghul #damian wayne #dick grayson #batfam #alfred pennyworth

[oimoi-op]

Tumblrina "who watches BrBa and why" takes are so fucking weird. "Only cis straight guys watch it because it's a power fantasy for them" I asked my brother and dad what they thought about BrBa and got this:

Dad, cis straight white dude in his late 40s: only watched s1 and stopped bc it was "too violent" then watched the series finale out of curiosity when it aired, and yes he is aware of how you're typically not supposed to do that with any show. The only thing he wanted to know in regards to the show is how Walt and Jesse's relationship ended (i.e. if they still cared about each other, if they wanted to kill each other, etc.). He's watched most of BCS s6 (but only s6, yeah ik ik, no he has not learned anything in 10 years) with me bc he refuses to leave the room, and so far he thinks he "likes" it more than BrBa bc it's "significantly less violent" (he was unhappy when I told him that's bc he missed out on s3). He calls Bob Odenkirk "Better Call Saul" every time he sees him or anything he associates with him (BCS is a show about Better Call Saul from BrBa, Nobody is a movie starring Better Call Saul, Kim Wexler is Better Call Saul's wife, oh hey did you see this commercial with Better Call Saul in it??? and so on). Not sure if this is related but he has a Peacock subscription so he can watch The Officer "superfan" episodes over and over again.

Bro, cis straight (well. maybe) white dude in his early 20s: Watched most of BrBa but can't recall specific plot points or episodes to save his life, thinks the show is badass (no idea why since he doesn't appear to hold any opinions regarding specific characters or events). He very angrily told me how he thought it sucked that the show got canceled bc Aaron Paul wanted to go do movies and was very surprised when I told him BrBa wasn't canceled and ended organically after 5 seasons and that Aaron Paul starring in Need for Speed (2014) had little to no effect on the show ending. He recommended The Sopranos to me but also failed to give me his thoughts on any of the characters or plot points other than Tony Soprano being an Italian Mobster But Not Quite Like Goodfellas Or Carlito's Way, The Writing Is Really Good Though, Anyways Have You Watched Wrath Of Man Yet????

#personal #breaking bad #like yes plenty of cringe redditors have cringe brbabcs takes #but it's so weird to assume that critically acclaimed shows only attract viewers Like That #like what am i only supposed to watch kids' cartoons bc i'm queer or something lmao #anyways talking about movies and television with my family is such a fucking experience #my certified filmbro brother thought brba was canceled over aaron paul's need for speed movie obligations #like actually #i think about that a lot

[by-kilian]

Oh TASTEEEEEEEEE

I just knewwwwwww it. I knew you were THAT GWORL. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Kill Bill HELLO! I wanted to put that up there 😭😭😭😭 , Spiderverse - if I could bottle that inner child joy I first felt watch that film in cinema for the very first time omg 😭😭😭. AMELIE tasteeeeeee. Mulan DUH?!!!!!!! Goodfellas 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 I need to watch LOTRs 🫣

Oh TASTEEEEEEEEE

sfghsoghsoh SISTER!!! 🫂🫂 A fellow person of TASTE and intellect, iktr. Kill Bill is honestly such a great movie for its story-telling, the themes of motherhood/revenge/etc. Quentin tells the fuck out of stories and I love how non-linear he chooses to make things. And omg. Into The Spider-Verse was such an unexpected love. I think it was on Netflix at the time and I randomly put it on one day and when I tell you I CRIEEEEED! 🥺❤️❤️❤️❤️ They took such a classic formula of a hero's journey, specifically Spider-Man's journey, and STILL made it new. When you know who died, I was like NOT HIM?!?!?! WHEN HIS THEME PLAYS WHEN MILES FINALLY TAKES THAT LEAP? CINEMATIC POETRY. As for Amélie, that is truly one of my fav films of all time. I relate to my shy sister who lives inside her head a LOT. Perfect film that's just the right amount of quirky and whimsical without being too much. Mulan is a given and Goodfellas is just THAT film. I watched it in a film class in high school and was blown away like wow. This is actual cinema 😭. THIS is storytelling. Pure excellence.

Also Lord of The Rings is the best but I am very biased. The original trilogies are perfection but I would say if you're not typically into fantasy, it may not be for you. But the payoff in the storytelling is worth it all. Also Aragorn, hello. That is a MAN.

#asks

[stylecouncil]

any biopics you’d recommend?

I still think Love and Mercy was really good and a great example of focusing on a particular aspect of a persons life / a specific time (or in this case alternating between two)! also an example of doing a music biopic and still making it worth while as a film and not totally about spectacle / soundtrack (although if we’re being honest that can be fun too in certain doses/context! I already talked about how I think the elvis movie was fun even if it was a hot mess, i’m human lol. also in this zone, say what you will about rocketman but I still think it was done fairly well and kind of gets an unfair rap for helping start the recent music biopic avalanche). I have somewhat mixed feelings about Control (2007) myself but it’s an interesting watch that feels like a movie not just a blockbuster if that makes sense? Walk the Line, also very good! 24 Hour Party People is fun and a little different than your usual approach. Coal Miners Daughter! Funny Girl!

Also oh my god Amadeus! I almost forgot about it. and Litsztomania ! (also two films where it’s like…a good story / presentation matters so much more than strict adherence to every fact with biopics because like you’re never gonna be able to achieve that)

and in the realm of general biopics, I mean Lynch’s The Elephant Man is always a classic / good example of what I mean about vision! and I mean onto my point about a lot of great films being biopics, goodfellas, raging bull etc etc are all technically biopics (based on memoirs) even if that’s not always the first throught / genre distinction that comes to mind. I also love I, Tonya… I don’t have concrete reasoning I just think it’s a fun watch and well done. I know maybe some think it was approached too lightly probably and there are some things that could have been done better, but I personally really enjoyed Pride (2014). Fruitvale Station also technically falls into the biographical film category and I’ve only watched it once but I remember thinking it was fantastic. some others that I liked to varying degrees: Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters, Serpico, In the Name of the Father, The Favourite, Chaplin, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, 12 Years a Slave…and do I even need to bring up The Social Network on this site? also death 2 woody allen and it hardly counts but I still think Midnight in Paris was a fun approach to showing a snapshot of a few real peoples lives in a very particular moment in time through a very fictional lens….could have been done better but I like the concept

(also Persepolis is great and I always end up forgetting about it because it’s animated)

also lmao it barely counts but in the realm of imaginative takes on the biopic format of course velvet goldmine (also on this topic, I’m literally one of the only stardust defenders that exists, but I think if you’re bored of big loud flashy biopics and like a more slow paced road-trip / character study, it’s honestly worth a watch for the parts that are well-done) is one of my favorite films of all time, here’s some good stuff from an article (although I don’t agree with the article in full necessarily) about its biopic-ness that I think is a good addition to this:

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it’s like, I think my point about biopics is that it’s more about having a view point on your subject / something to SAY about your subject etc.

you didn’t ask for that digression but it was on my mind lol

I’m sure there are SO MANY more I’m missing, wasn’t sure if I wanted to put them (like for example I think Wilde is pretty good as well, but I watched it when I was like 12?? for the first time so it might be nostalgia googles / a heavy interest in the subject. I also have such a soft spot for made for tv boy george biopic Worried About the Boy because I think there are some like genuinely great scenes in it and it actually presents the main subject?? a lot more fully / is a better character study imo than some much bigger budget things, I don’t know maybe that’s a weird one, I just think it’s good!) but! those are a few

#I’ve also yet to see spencer but I liked the premise of it being very constrained to a specific time and everyone I know that watched it #liked it! #sorry that was insanely long! #asks

[lonelyprinceofthedark]

I see you also own Honeyburton and Honron! Yes, they provide beekeepers for our farms. Beekeeper. I find that to be a very disturbing term. I don't imagine you employ any bee-free-ers, do you? - No. - I couldn't hear you. - No. - No. Because you don't free bees. You keep bees. Not only that, it seems you thought a bear would be an appropriate image for a jar of honey. They're very lovable creatures. Yogi Bear, Fozzie Bear, Build-A-Bear. You mean like this? Bears kill bees! How'd you like his head crashing through your living room?! Biting into your couch! Spitting out your throw pillows! OK, that's enough. Take him away. So, Mr. Sting, thank you for being here. Your name intrigues me. - Where have I heard it before? - I was with a band called The Police. But you've never been a police officer, have you? No, I haven't. No, you haven't. And so here we have yet another example of bee culture casually stolen by a human for nothing more than a prance-about stage name. Oh, please. Have you ever been stung, Mr. Sting? Because I'm feeling a little stung, Sting. Or should I say... Mr. Gordon M. Sumner! That's not his real name?! You idiots! Mr. Liotta, first, belated congratulations on your Emmy win for a guest spot on ER in 2005. Thank you. Thank you. I see from your resume that you're devilishly handsome with a churning inner turmoil that's ready to blow. I enjoy what I do. Is that a crime? Not yet it isn't. But is this what it's come to for you? Exploiting tiny, helpless bees so you don't have to rehearse your part and learn your lines, sir? Watch it, Benson! I could blow right now! This isn't a goodfella. This is a badfella! Why doesn't someone just step on this creep, and we can all go home?! - Order in this court! - You're all thinking it! Order! Order, I say! - Say it! - Mr. Liotta, please sit down! I think it was awfully nice of that bear to pitch in like that. I think the jury's on our side. Are we doing everything right, legally? I'm a florist. Right. Well, here's to a great team. To a great team! Well, hello. - Ken! - Hello. I didn't think you were coming. No, I was just late. I tried to call, but... the battery. I didn't want all this to go to waste, so I called Barry. Luckily, he was free. Oh, that was lucky. There's a little left. I could heat it up. Yeah, heat it up, sure, whatever. So I hear you're quite a tennis player. I'm not much for the game myself. The ball's a little grabby. That's where I usually sit. Right... there. Ken, Barry was looking at your resume, and he agreed with me that eating with chopsticks isn't really a special skill.

I wish free will was real some days.

[d2kvirus]

30/10/23 Fact or Fiction

Statement #1: You will pay for the premium “no ads” tier of Netflix (or whatever your streaming service of choice is) no matter how much they raise the price. FICTION - When it comes to Netflix I won't since I sub at the mid tiers (aka the least I can pay without ads, because isn't late stage capitalism great that you can pay a subscription fee yet still get ads???) as I only use my account for a month here and there, while in terms of Crunchyroll I'm simply not going to upgrade my account to premium because they can fuck right off with suddenly holding shows hostage behind a paywall when they were free to watch literally the day before

Statement #2: Martin Scorsese has the best filmography of any director. FICTION - Oh boy, which punchline do I use for this one: Kundun or Gangs of New York? Wait, you wanted a serious answer? Okay then: no, as while Scorsese does have some impressive peaks such as Goodfellas, Casino and Taxi Driver, there's plenty of particularly deep troughs (i.e. the two I already named) and some middling works and even works which are (unfairly, IMO) overlooked like Bringing out the Dead, not to be confused with the middling works people pretend are marvelous like Shutter Island, The Aviator, or - screw it, I'm committed at this point - Raging Bull. Come at me, Film Twitter!!!

Statement #3: Your favorite horror movie villain is based on the quality of the movies they were in more than their character or appearance. FICTION - This is the problem with a lot of horror movie villains: they tend to be in one or two good or even great movies, but are also in a whole heap of crap ones. Case in point, Pinhead is a fascinating horror movie villain...but outside the first couple of Hellraiser films, they have appeared in some utter dreck. Similar can be said for Leatherface: Letherface is an interesting character and the first Texas Chainsaw was a masterpiece, but the three sequels sucked...and then the remake and its sequel sucked, and I only watched the Dead Meat for the legacy sequel and that's enough to tell me that it sucks

Statement #4: You have the dreaded “super hero movie fatigue”. FACT - Every time LadyVirus and myself are thinking of going to the cinema between June-September, since on the off chance the one film we want to see is playing at the local cinema it has one screening a day either at lunchtime or even worse at brunchtime, while there's at least a dozen screenings all day every day for the latest slab of Marvel Spam. So yeah, I've got fatigue, because certain cinema chains make it damn near impossible for their customers to watch anything else, and it has been the exact same thing every summer for over a decade now

Statement #5: AI will replace actors and writers for Movies and TV within 10 years. FICTION - Ahh, I remember the good old days of 1994 where people watched Forrest Gump and/or Weezer's Buddy Holly video and were worried that studios would start replace actors with facsimiles, which hasn't happened - barring outliers like Brandon Lee in The Crow or Oliver Reed in Gladiator, which were more a necessity to finish the film due to their deaths during filming. More than anything else, studios will hopefully see the response to the digital necromancy used in The Flash and realise that audiences don't like paying to spend a couple of hours in the uncanny valley, and more than anything else audiences are put off by seeing an obvious lack of effort - as demonstrated by the widespread disdain Kwebbelkop has been getting for using an AI to churn out react content. In other words if Hollywood studios intend to have something reading out dialogue robotically, they're more likely to use Gal Gadot in the future than the Monroebot 3000

#fact or fiction #factorfiction