#the cinematography is insane on top of the acting

[bubblegeon]

Even if I must rip my limbs out to survive, I shall survive. 👑 BLOODY HEART (2022)

#kdramaedit #kdramanetwork #bloody heart #kdramadaily #asiandramanet #dailyasiandramas #lee joon #kang han na #mygifs #kdrama #bh gif #ep 01 #the cinematography is insane on top of the acting

[diorsbrando]

i like ‘em a little insane, covered in blood and severely mentally unstable <3

#ʬʬ.sosa speaks.com #!tw blood #!tw gore & violence #the grimm variations #the way i watched this on netflix but IMMEDIATELY ran to a streaming site to rewatch…. #just to take screenshots……im so insane #when i tell you #for 10 minutes i could NOTTTTTT get past the scene in the first 4 photos #i was feeling so so so so crazy and extremely feral it was hard to contain myself #bc i wasn’t expecting it at all #i have so many things to say about this episode 😭😭😭😭😭😭 #aside from this man it was actually really good the plot twist was plot twisting !! #the cinematography the music the animation the voice acting ALL A1 & TOP TIER #they did not have to make him look this DAMN GOOD??? he’s so deranged you guys i wouldn’t wanna be alone with this man 😭 #but at the same time………………..👀👀 #idk i want him to choke me while he deep in it and say compliment my every body part #not just in a romantic way but in a ‘i want to eat you and satiate my ever growing desire for human flesh and authenticity’ kind of way too #the fact that in the eng dub he’s voiced by ray chase makes it NO BETTER! his voice was so sexy here

[livefromcastledracula]

Book Carmilla vs Adaptations (SPOILERS)

Here are a few 'interesting' adaptations. I like some of them for their own merits, but mostly dislike them as Carmilla adaptations for the below reasons, with some notable exceptions: Vampyr: The Dream of Allan Gray (1932 film): The first Carmilla inspired movie, although it keeps almost NOTHING from the novella except 'female vampire'. In this case, a creepy old lady rather than a charming young lesbian. This is a really moody, slow, acid trip of a film though, a treat for fans of vintage vampire film. (3/10) Hammer Karnstein Trilogy: The Vampire Lovers is the gayest and most book-accurate. Carmilla still kisses/seduces men before killing them, boo. The second one her identically-named reincarnation is blonde and has sex with / falls in love with a man booooooo. She's not in the third one at all. It's all very 70's and nowhere near queer enough, but at least we got the incomparable Ingrid Pitt in the first movie. 5/10. Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust: 'Carmilla' shows up as a surprise third act villain. She's an elegant and imposing vampire queen with a castle called "Cjethe" and the Vampire King offed her previously for being A Bit Too Extra. She's... Bathory. She's Elizabeth Bathory, right down to the name of her historical castle, the elaborate gowns and the blood-bathing. Bathory in Castlevania Nocturne even looks a lot like this one. Cool scary vampire lady, but Carmilla In Name Only. 4/10 Castlevania (Games): She's fine here, but mostly just kind of a big Dracula groupie like most of the other non-Dracula vampires. Often depicting as a flying skull or mask crying bloody tears, with optional succubus-like figure reclining on top of it. Cool. Rondo of Blood has her appear together with a ninja vampire Laura with bunny ears because why the hell not. 6/10 Castlevania (Netflix show): Baddass, angry Karen. She's amazing in the first season when she's scheming against Dracula, but after that she just sort of sits on her butt sipping wine and griping about men for a whole season until Isaac storms her castle. A cool character but not a great Carmilla, because Carmilla for me is defined by how much she loves women, not how much she hates men. Still amazing voice work by Jaime Murray though and her last stand was insanely baddass. 7/10

Carmilla Web Series / Movie: My favorite adaptation. It's obviously playing waaaay fast and loose with the canon and reframing her as a charming antihero in a zany urban fantasy, but there's deep current of love for the source material, especially in the movie. Natasha Negovanlis has charisma off the charts and the Hollstein romance is adorable. This Carmilla might be a black-leather-wearing snarky millenial goth with a Canadian accent, but as the show goes on it peels back layer after layer of the romantic, poetic, wistful, world-weary immortal hinted at by the novella. This show redeems LeFanu's lovelorn villain in all the best ways. 10/10. 2019 movie / Styria movie: I still haven't seen these, have heard good things about the gothic cinematography on the most recent one but not good things about the rest of it. The trailer looked moody and pretty though, I may watch it at some point.

#carmilla weekly #carmilla #carmilla karnstein #sheridan le fanu #carmilla castlevania #carmilla of styria

[gunsatthaphan]

🏆 𝒯𝑜𝓅 𝟣𝟢 𝑜𝒻 𝟤𝟢𝟤𝟤 💫

a few anons have requested this and also I was in the mood so here are my Top 10 BLs of 2022 (only including the ones that finished this year). Also I have posted more lengthy reviews for each of these shows already so I’m gonna try and keep it short lol. 

not much to say here, if you know me and my blog then you know how much this show and firstkhao have taken over my life this year lmao. I loved the story so much and everything about it felt so genuine all the way through. FK did an incredible job at actually becoming their characters and I was so in awe of their portrayal. They made something incredible out of a little budget and that’s why I cherished it so much. The plot wasn’t perfect, there were holes and weaknesses but firstkhao, paired with the watching experience, made it perfect for me. 13/10. 

this one gets the award for most underrated show of the year lmao. I loved it so much. like.... what an actual masterpiece?? the cinematography was stunning and the whole concept was so captivating. jimmysea delivered big time and while there were some draggy parts in the middle, the script ultimately proved itself to be absolutely outstanding. Sadly it didn’t get the attention it deserved. 

OOF. I mean. How can I not include this mess of a project lmao (affectionate). was the script oscar-worthy? no. did it make a lot of sense? nah. but did I have the time of my life watching it? hell ya. The craze that surrounded this show was insane and it made the whole thing 10x better lmao. It was hilarious, the characters were likable and the chemistries were fire from every couple involved. It was the watching experience that made me put this as my no.3 because I had a blast.

This was such a nice surprise for me because I wasn’t in the mood for another KBL after the disaster that was To My Star 2 lmao but this was absolutely amazing. The script was genius and so was the entire production quality. This was the first show I saw with the 2 leads as I didn’t watch Kissable Lips but I was very pleasantly surprised by their chemistry. I would love to see them in more stuff in the future!  

GOD. This show has my whole heart lmao. I would consider it a guilty pleasure though because it’s definitely not for everyone. But it hit the nail right on the head for me. It was SO adorable and SO hilarious and I have a huge weak spot for kaownah and turbo because they are just so lovely together. Lots of crack but the best kind lmao. Perfect. 

🥺🥺 what an absolute gem of a show this was. A+ comedy and also the perfect proof that you can actually make something out of what seems like the most basic bl plot ever lol. But what they made of it was amazing. MekKim were super entertaining, also Lee and Park had no business being the most adorable couple I’ve ever seen??? sickening. I love them so much. The setup was super nice and it plays with several bl clichés in a very cunning way. Loved it!!!! 

YES I LOVED THIS!!!!!! This show polarized a lot when it aired, mostly because of the body swap plot and also the disney antics lol and tbh I was expecting to agree with the critical opinions as I don’t like body swap tropes but I was surprised by how much I loved it. How they handled the plot was funny and adorable, plus the whole roadtrip theme and all the sceneries were so nice! And needless to say you can never go wrong with EarthMix. they always deliver and especially Mix’s acting left a big impression with me.

This show never got a lot of attention and most reviews were not good but guess what I disagree kfjdghfd. I loved it so much. The dynamic between the mains was fantastic and with so much cuteness it made me sick dfkjghf. The power of this show lies in its minimalism for me, there were so many small endearing things and everything felt 100% natural. Also they were one of the few pairings in a KBL that actually felt like a realistic couple lol. Han Gi Chan was outstanding and considering this was Holland’s acting debut, he did a very decent job as well. Also the cinematography? stunning. I went in with zero expectations and came out with teary heart eyes lol. 

I was fairly excited for this one as it was Joong’s GMMTV debut and I was not disappointed. It doesn’t hold up with some of gmm’s other highlights this year but I liked it!!! It relied a lot on JoongDunk’s chemistry which I’m not mad about though. They’re really good together. The rest of the cast was also top-notch with an A+ friend group lol. The plot wasn’t super elaborate but once again, the watching experience did it for me lol. 

I liked this one a lot!!! It was the first KBL that I thoroughly enjoyed since Light On Me and it was so much fun to watch!! The chemistry between the leads was top-notch and even though it doesn’t quite hold up with some other KBLs for me, I still wanted to put it on my list because that’s what it deserves lol. 

thank you 2022 for giving us good gay food lmao. here’s to an even better 2023!! ✨

#thai bl #korean bl #bl dramas #top 10 #top 10 of 2022 #bl drama #feel free to tag me in your top 10 lol im curious!! 💜 #happy new year!!!!!!!

[casualhedonists]

what are you top 5 movies of all time and why? im too curious now :) love ur work btw ur wonderfully skilled, always love to revisit your page ❤️

AMAZING QUESTION 🤍🤍 and thank you so much!! <3

i’m suchhh an insane movie buff and i also love scores, like an insane insane amount so all these have fabulous scores rest assured. in no particular order:

meet joe black (1999)

Claire Forlani and Brad Pitt what can i say. the score is insanlely beautiful, i cry each time but it’s also funny and makes u think about life, also just

do you see the vision

la la land (2016)

like i was lucky enough to see this in cinemas a few days after it came out, and to this day it holds up. amazing incredible im so not normal about it and i never will be. the music the acting the talent the visuals the cinematography the story im. i need a minute

rent (2005)

amazing amazing adaptation of my all time favorite musical by jonathan larson. i weep. i laugh. i sing along. i have a rent tattoo on my arm so that this musical stays with me forever.

about time (2013)

are we sending a theme here perhaps?? read: emotional movies with a deep moral meaning?? but also funny and heart wrenching and perfectly cast w perfect scores? perhaps. it’s got time travel in a way i personally don’t think has ever been done before, or will ever be done again. it’s also a romcom i guess? it’s everything is what it is. here’s a gif for good measure

call me by your name (2017)

it’s just magic, perfection, everything and more. also gut wrenchingly sad and bittersweet. i used to watch it every single summer. the book is also amazing

notable mentions! bc i struggled to narrow it down lmao: music and lyrics (2007) is my fave like. i guess you could say traditional romcom. i know every single line by heart it’s actually concerning, a song from that movie is actually the first song i learned on piano/the reason i learned piano; the holiday (2005) also amazing and beautiful and holidayish and hans zimmer i love you; finally: sabrina (1954) i had a major audrey hepburn phase growing up and this movie remains an all time fave (you gotta watch the 1954 version though, the remake is good but not remotely as good as the original)

#ok WOW that got long pls do enjoy nonnie <33 #this is what gets me talking as you can see #thank you for asking!!! #asks 💌 #｡･:*˚:✧｡ mimi speaks! #🎬

[initiumseries]

Can you list the best asian dramas you ever watched?

Oh 100%. Now this is in no particular order. So I'm gonna combine best and most compelling. Some dramas I watched weren't necessarily "The Best" but they held onto me and I think that's worth noting.

Goblin The Great and Lonely God

This drama, is a drama I'd pay money to have my brain wiped of memories of so I could watch it again for the first time. Everything about it is so good, so emotional, and it's literally changed the landscape of kdramas since.

Touch Your Heart

Lee dong wook and Yoo in na's reunion drama right after goblin is EXACTLY what we needed and it was such a perfect, quintissential romantic comedy drama. Exactly what got me into kdramas in the first place.

Hi Bye Mama

I've said this before, but this drama was...whew. It's weirdly slept on, because it's the first drama that made me CRY, cry. So worth the watch.

Navillera

Not necessarily the best kdrama I've ever watched, but you put young people in need of a parental figure and old people in need of a young person together and you've got me HOOKED. I will watch ANYTHING kdrama related with young folks and their grandparents. I'm very close with my grandfather so this drama MESSED ME UP. So emotional, so good.

Something In the Rain

this drama was like...it took over my life, made me SO FUCKING ANGRY, and then like ruined me. Their chemistry was INSANE, and it elevated the emotionality of their relationship. Also the cinematography was so...thoughtful. They deliberately filmed it so their intimate moments felt like we were spying on them a bit, and I really liked that idea of seeing them behind bookcases while they're cuddling to watch tv etc. They felt like a real couple.

Crash Landing On You

It's just a drama you have to watch. Nothing I can say about it will make sense. But when you watch it and see them AND the second leads together? Bro.

Princess WeiYoung

This was one of the first c-dramas I actually sat through. The backbiting, the scheming, the costumes, the sets, HOOKED me. I was IN. And THEN their chemistry?!?! LOOK at how he's LOOKING at her. Ugh.

The Rise of the Phoenixes

So, I know I'm alone in this, but this was one of the most thorough and intense dramas I've seen. The attention to detail really resonated with me. It's like, the definition of a slow burn, but their chemistry is CRAZY, the acting is top tier, the sets, the costumes, the drama. It was all just such a feast. Even the fact that, there was no dub for this drama, the actors read all the really challenging poems they recited themselves, the meaning behind everything, was sooo cool. The director's cut saved it, I know, but I felt like they could've cut some stuff out to keep it tight. Such a melancholy drama from beginning to end.

The Story of Yanxi Palace

I am a messy bitch who lives for drama and yanxi palace DELIVERS. All the women are insane, and compelling, and NASTY. And I LIVE for that. I've been watching kdramas a long time, and I was so happy when they finally got to the point of making their female leads have personalities and not be doormats. So when I started getting into c-dramas, the thing that hooked me was that the lead female characters were often women with strong personalities, smart, and simply limited by the circumstances of the world they live in, but even with those restrictions, they exercise such power within those boundaries that I LOVE. This drama does all that and more. A+.

Misty

this drama is so tough for me and zalrb. It was SO COMPELLING to watch. Kim Nam Joo is RIVETING to watch, and it was her comeback drama and boy did she come BACK. I remember rushing home from work to watch the next episode because I had NO idea where it was gonna go, and the TENSION between her and the guy not her husband was STRESSFUL. But whew the fucking whiffed it at the end. It's so unfortunate because a tight ending would've sent me over the edge. But alas, this was (minus the ending) one of the most compelling kdramas I've ever watched.

Till the End of the Moon

Jesus christ. This drama was so FRUSTRATING. But their relationship was compelling, HE was compelling. Tantai Jin was SO incredibly interesting to watch and it felt like watching an actor level up as you're watching. I'm generally not a fan of fantasy C-dramas bc the cg is ALWAYS awful. But I just ffwrd through most of that stuff to watch the relationship stuff. I felt like there was a stronger way to tell this story, but they were compelling.

I feel like I might be missing some but these are the ones I thought of right away.

#till the end of the moon #the story of yanxi palace #goblin the lonely and great god #touch your heart #hi bye mama #something in the rain

[lcatala]

My top 6 movies discovered in 2023

I watched 52 new-to-me movies in 2023. Not nearly enough , as I could only find 6 movies that stood out sufficiently to be worthy of a personal top, in what was otherwise a pretty meh year — yes I'm a picky watcher — and yeah The Boy and The Heron didn't make the top, you can read the long rambling I wrote about it if you want to know why; I haven't watched Barbie, Oppenheimer or the Super Mario Bros. Movie, and haven't watched any Marvel-related movie since 2015.

6: Nimona (2023)

I didn't really expect to like the animated adaptation of N. D. Stevenson's comic, and I went in reluctantly, only because a lot of people who seemed trustworthy recommended it. Despite having some of the flaws I've come to expect in modern 3D animation, this was a very good surprise. You can read my detailed review here.

5: Suzume (2022)

The plot of Suzume stays very much within the bounds of the "modern artsy anime film", with a rather predictable 3+1 acts structure and an exploration of themes and human interactions which has some subtlety and nuance but overall stays very safe and on-the-surface. Nothing offensive, but nothing truly groundbreaking either.

But.

Suzume had, by far, the best animation of any movie I've seen this year. This movie is an absoluteely beautiful, every-frame-a-painting kind of deal. If I was to rank every animated I've ever seen solely by the quality of their animation, Suzume would easily be in the top 10.

4: Cape Fear (1962)

American cinema achieved maturity during the New Hollywood era that started in the late 1960s, marking a shift toward more naturalistic and more adult filmmaking and themes. But there were a few notable precursors before that.

The most famous of those is of course Psycho (altho tellingly, it was from a British director). But Cape Fear followed close behind, and is another example of an early 60s movie which you don't expect to be this dark and this raw, starring an absolutely get-under-your-skin-terrifying Robert Mitchum — if you thought he was creepy in The Night of the Hunter, you haven't seen nothing yet…

3: The Outwaters (2022)

This was the biggest surprise of the year, watched the same day it was recommended to me, having heard absolutely nothing about it before that (I didn't even know this movie existed). I got treated to a no-budget yet beautifully-shot found-footage horror movie — in fact the best found-footage movie I have ever seen, with a lot of attention put toward making the gimmick plausible, making the characters realistic and likeable, making this look like the kind of actual footage you'd find on a personal camera — while also having amazingly beautiful cinematography — all while slowly building up the tension.

Because that's just the first half.

Oh yeah, it's one of these horror movies in which you think you know where the story is going, and then second half just explodes in your face and becomes completely, utterly batshit insane. This is on par with Men (2022) for how weird and fucked up the climax is. Don't expect any kind of explanation or closure here, the second half of this movie turns into one of the most fucked up and bizzare horror movies you'll ever see.

2: Godzilla Minus One (2023)

Yeah so this one was a surprise late-year hit for everyone, not just me. First live-action Japanese Godzilla film in 7 years, with rather tempered expectations — we all knew that Shin Godzilla was an odd one out, that the average Japanese Godzilla movie is not like that, that we shouldn't expect this kind of quality on a regular basis.

Well we played ourselves.

This was incredibly well made as a blockbuster — Japanese cinema has completely caught up on American cinema, for a fraction of the budgets — one of the best Godzilla movies ever made from an action and visuals point of view, and a reminder that Godzilla, as a character, can also be scary, a terrifying incarnation of destruction and disaster.

But somehow this also managed to be a powerful and well filmed drama — no lazy endless shot/reverse shot dialogues here, a lot effort is put into framing choices, blocking… — a movie that actually touches on difficult questions and goes against the message of many other war or action blockbusters.

When so many stories glorify the idea of sacrifying your life for a greater cause, here's one movie that says "hey maybe expecting people to sacrifice their life for your cause is actually pretty fucked up, and maybe it's actually better to choose to live for the sake of your loved ones than to die for the sake of your own pride". Yeah a Japanese movie is saying that, a Godzilla movie is saying that.

1: Skinamarink (2022)

So, speaking of low-budget independent horror, back in 2022 I had foolishly overlooked Skinamarink. I had vaguely heard that it was good, but no particular detail was mentioned that would have picked my interest, and the poster looked fairly generic, so I skipped it, even tho I should have been more intrigued — 2022 was already shaping up to be a really good year for horror films…

Skinamarink was a tough proposition from the get go, in the "experimental" kind of tough: an entire film made in the analog horror genre — usually short videos made to ressemble old media from the 80s and 90s, advertisements, warning messages, weather channels, documentaries and informercials, with a disturbing twist; a format usually made of short segments. Trying to tell a film-length story in that fashion is an entirely different exercise, but that's fine, I've sat thru Begotten (1989), I can do this.

Right away, this is not framed like a movie: it's more as if someone had negligently left an old camera on the floor — but this is not even found-footage, there is no camera in-story, we just happen to be seeing this world thru stolen, furtive points of view. The image is grainy, the sound is bad quality (subtitles are provided), the frames are often askew, you never even see the actors' faces. We get no narration, no exposition, just a succession of disjointed scenes that slowly form a story.

This shouldn't work. And for many people, this will not work. Most will turn this off not even 5 minutes in. But if you're among the exceptions, then howdy does it work. The format is not a gimmick at all — it's completely in service of the story. The grainy image, the low quality sound prey on your pattern recognition, never quite certain if something is there or not; the framing by a "forgotten" camera contributes to make the atmosphere hyper-real in its intimacy, yet alienating and uncanny.

The director of Skinamarink deals with one very specific topic: nightmares. Not the idea of nightmares, not the heightened nightmares of fiction, but the literal nightmares that real people have; he started by making short videos representing common nightmares that people would tell him about. When it came time to make a full-length feature film, he kept the same approach. Skinamarink doesn't really use any of the classic themes or structures of horror movies; it largely ignores that folklore and instead focuses on deep childhood fears, the kind of stuff your mind used to conjure up long ago and that you have forgotten but not erased from your brain.

If you manage to enter into this very peculiar format, this very unusual and seemingly disjointed way to tell a story, and if you identify with the kind of fear material the movie is drawing on, this is a truly scary experience. Not really in a jump scare or suspense way, more like a deeply haunting and unsettling atmosphere, a strong ambient uncanniness where things are almost normal but just broken enough to give you a constant feeling of unpleasantness, of wanting to run the hell out of here while being trapped, a sense of horrible lurking threat while having nothing concrete to fight against or protect yourself from.

Of course, this isn't exactly a fun experience. This is very, very intense, I'm talking Antichrist-levels of playing with your nerves, and the story, as simple as it is, is tragically harrowing and cruel — you're essentially watching two young children getting psychologically (and eventually physically) tortured by a sadistic, unseen entity for a hundred minutes.

It's hard to recommend, and yet recommendations is how this movie ended up grossing 2 millions on a 15k budget — promotion included ! Most people actually didn't like the movie, but those who liked it liked it so much they can't shut up about it (case in point!) It's one of those horror movies that completely break the boundaries of the genre and do something truly new and unique. It's what horror should be for: imagination gone wild, format-breaking fantasy, and realism thrown out of the window.

#skinamarink #godzilla minus one #the outwaters #cape fear #suzume #nimona #2023 in films #top movies #movie review

[boba-beom]

your theme looks so pretty bhie! im inlove! 🫠 i love how you incorporate every details from the concept trailer

skl, i don't understand a thing on txt lore, or anything that happened in that recent concept trailer but damn they gave what they had to give! cinematography is insane! its so unique, eerie and emotional, also the boys' acting was so natural. i can agree with you when you say that freeze were they're best and i just can feel that this comeback may just top that. i already see a lot of improvements from freefall and im so here for it!!

im planning to read the little prince, and read more theories about it hehehheeh

yieee thank you bhiee! I thought I’d try smth a little new because my theme’s been the same but different colours hehe so thank youuu >3< I still love the orange hazy type of vibes I get from your theme 🥹 the golden hour of our trio theme with evie hehe

I’ve been a little out of it in terms of txt’s lore, BUT my take on their concept trailer is like everything that before this; all the fairytales, were just their own little story to fulfil their childhood, living a little longer in that phase of not wanting to grow up in a world where we grow up so quickly 😔

their acting was so good, yeonjun and soobin on motorbikes, beomgyu driving the car? just the snippets of their ‘every day lives working’ and then when they come together that’s like their comfort of some sorts.

I can’t wait to read more lore and theories, they’re always so interesting. esp when there are different takes on it! I can’t wait to see the rest of their concepts and when they’ll be releasing these!

I think you’re love little prince, for sure. there are some quotes that have started to make sense for me and the connections between the members and the story.

“it is only with the heart that one eye can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” that with one eye is hueningkai and with the heart eye patch,, I just want to read more lore hehe

#seoli ᡣ𐭩 #seolis-world ᡣ𐭩 #[ 🪴 ] — asks. #[ 🧸 ] — mutuals.

[televised-uhhh-nerdistry]

Haven't heard people really talk about this, other than complaining about that one moment in Revenge Party, but personally I hated the cinematography in Mean Girls (2024).

My main issue was the TikTok lighting and the emptiness of every shot.

For one thing, in terms of TikTok lighting, I guess it's just something I have to get used to in film. Netflix has been using it for a bit now in terms of films like He's All That. It rubs me the wrong way because it feels cringey (at least for me personally), but aside from that I can't really give constructive criticism, it's just a "me-issue".

In terms of the emptiness, I can actually offer an explanation as to why that bothers me. American high schools, or honestly, most high schools, are busy places. You've got students running around, busy hallways, teachers chatting this way and that and shaking salads and talking through bites, vice principles wandering and yelling, kids getting dragged out of bathrooms for vaping, smoking, or drugs or sexual acts. School is busy! And I don't see that anywhere in the 30 or so minutes that I managed to complete before exiting the film. It genuinely feels so jarring.

There's little to nothing in the background, the foreground, or anywhere quite frankly. The students are all incredibly spaced out as if there are no cliques other than the Plastics or whatever other groups are mentioned in the introductory cafeteria scene. AND SPEAKING OF CAFETERIAS!!! The cafeteria is so empty?? Like it's genuinely insane how empty it is. The tables are so small and minimalistic, like you can fit five people tops. There's no decorations on the walls, no flags, no posters, nothing.

Now I understand minimalism as a design choice in certain films. There are whole subsets of genres that thrive on this design choice. Clean Space, for example, as a Sci-Fi aesthetic. It's built on minimalism, it wouldn't exist without it. But, in terms of describing a busy high school? Maybe it's just me, but I don't feel that it fits. It doesn't make sense to me as a design choice.

Anyways. The film has its issues for sure, but overall, it is camp, and Renee is mother. Also the Letterboxd reviews are so funny I cannot express that enough! And despite the bad camera angle during Revenge Party, you have to admit it's worth a good chuckle. Not to mention John Hamm teaching sex ed, like honestly I didn't care for the jokes that much but the concept is hilarious.

#mean girls #mean girls movie #mean girls 2024 #mean girls musical #film #film analysis #movie #movies #bad movies #movie review #cinema #film review #movie adaptations #2024 movies #new movies #film aesthetic #film adaptations #aesthetic #minimalism in film #letterboxd #movie rant #camp

[ryuubff]

You are always gonna be my love

Even if some day I fall in love with somebody else again,

I’ll remember to love, you taught me how.

- First Love (Hikaru Utada 1999)

YEAAAAH FIRST LOVE REDRAW (AGAIN.)

Sorry the grip this jdrama has on me is insane because first of all the song is already so fucking good and SECOND OF ALL JUST THE. STORY ITSLF. is still so good i cannot stress enoguh at how amazing it is heeelp sorry like not only is the storyline but the acting and color grading and cinematography in general is top tier .

anyway the whole . first love thing is crazy isnt it. some people never really get over them and thers that thing about how youll most likely end up with someone who isn't your first love and its fucked up but i guess its just!!! life!!!!!!!

it makes me want to write a littel. something diferent for xiao's birthday lol but we'll see it depends at how horrible i feel then but from the looks of it i feel like i'll still be feeling pretty horrible!!!

#kazuxiao #a little venting under the tag i guess #genshin impact #kaedehara kazuha #xiao #i draw skrunkly #i draw first love again because i can never get over it #you all need to watch it #and then talk to me abotu it #its 5 qam im a little nuts righ tnow

[dylan-rodrigues]

Tell Me That You Love Me ep. 1

did bro just toss a bucketfull of oil onto the fire?? Yeah, that kid's getting *so* fired....

Most selfless kdrama FL award goes to... The flight attendant training must have really kicked in, huh?

That ramen looked so good 🤤

This drama is giving me a lot of A Piece of Your Mind vibes. Like the cinematography, the music, the pacing… I think even her cafe is on one of the iconic streets from APOYM? I'm pretty sure up that hill, you'd see Seo-woo's recording studio? In fact, is that the same cafe with the pretty shadows on the roof?

Her trying to learn KSL was so sweet, but him giving her that drawing of her addressed to Ms. Actress... 10/10. They're two very wholesome ppl so far

Why was that shot of her in the train so stunning? Actually, every scene in this drama looks like a painting or an artsy photo the ML would take. Like, the budget for this must be high as hell. The cinematography is gorgeous, the production value is insane. Everything looks so sleek and polished.

Ooh, they're gonna have a fateful second meeting in Seoul? Man, it sucks that they keep missing each other tho they’re just a few steps away… but it wouldn't be a kdrama otherwise.

I hope we're not getting bigotry and prejudice against ppl with disabilities from this landlady … getting flashbacks from that scene in ✨🍉

I like this actor, he's so expressive and lively. I like the character too, he looks very kind and he seems like a nice teacher too.

I also love the lil doodles over the students, they're so cute.

There's gotta be a less rude way to put that, director guy.

This episode really made me think about how much suffering and stress and tears actors have to go through in their careers.

Also, this is kinda meta no? An actress acting as a bad actress who’d be a good actress if she just acted more soulfully.

Wait a minute, that's just sexual harassment?? Yuck 🤢 the way some ppl fetishize flight attendants…

Their smiles when they saw met again could light up a city. 🥹

Wow, that was such an amazing first episode. I enjoyed this premiere even more than My Demon, tho it's diff genres. Just top to bottom, amazing work from everyone.

#tell me that you love me #shin hyun bin #kdrama #a piece of your mind #tell me that you love me kdrama #jung woo sung

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8 shows to get to know me by

I was tagged by the lovely @emiliosandozsequence 💜

Rectify - This is a show that absolutely destroyed me. It's very heavy at times, and some of the subject matter can hit home and be quite triggering. However there is a sense of light, and that even though all this bad has happened it'll be ok.

The Americans - if you want a show that maintains its momentum for 6 seasons look no further. It's packed full of crazy moments, and incredible music. Also it makes me insane knowing that the 2 lead actors got married because they reunited on this show after like 20 years(??)

Better Call Saul - listen...they may have lost at the emmys but they're winners in my heart. This is not only a prequel but a sequel to Brba. The tone/visual shift in this show imo is one of its strongest points. Along with the incredible acting/writing, it's a fun time.

Friday Night Lights - I don't know what they put into this show, but I now love football...so yeah.

Broadchurch - never did watch the 3rd season, but 1 & 2 are perfect and wrap up everything nicely so I didn't feel the need to continue. Again you're dealing with some heavy material, and Olivia Coleman is in it so idk what else you could want.

Sharp Objects - This is a short 8 episode series based off of the book by Gillian Flynn, and it's a pretty good adaptation. The attention to detail in this show was insane, and the cinematography was stunning( rip to Jean-Marc Vallée )

True Detective - like most people I'll be talking about S1 of this series, and that's cause so far it's the best 1 to have come out. Nothing has topped it, it was an 8 episode home run. I don't think I've ever felt this satisfied while watching something, because it leaves no questions unanswered.

My so called life - this didn't deserve to get canceled. Like you don't understand how crazy this makes me. Rayanne Graff I love you 4 ever 💕

I'll tag - @deadwivesclub , @iskarieot , @quinnmagdalene ,@sahtrn , @iloveyoumorethangod

Don't feel any pressure to do this, I just feel like y'all have good taste.

#tagged

[castiel]

i was tagged by @clarkenting (thanks bestie!!) to talk about 8 shows as a way to get to know me better, so here they are :)

1. x-files: one of my first big ships. how can i possibly resist the skeptic and believer dynamic? the vibes and aesthetic of this show are also top notch. spooky foggy nights, fbi jackets in an empty field, travelling across the country solving mysteries! plus i’ve always loved the paranormal. also the height difference between mulder and scully is off the charts. YOU’RE MY ONE IN FIVE BILLION <3

2. merlin: god the BANTER. another one of my early ships. starts off lighthearted and then progressively gets darker and more intense as the seasons go on but still has silly moments to lighten the mood. honestly love every character in this show so much. and i’m sure i don’t even have to mention how much the finale broke me completely.

3. star trek - the next generation: i grew up on this show and it will forever be my favourite trek. used to watch it with my dad and sisters and i have very warm fond memories of it. despite some truly bad episodes, i always loved the vibe of exploring and learning in space. if i could live in a fictional show this would be the one. i just want to go to space so badddd

4. the oa: goddd this show. the magical realism! the vibes! the aesthetic! bonds across universes!! i’ve watched it so many times (more s1 than 2) and it never fails to give me goosebumps. that long cold open in the pilot leading to the sweeping violin theme over snowy landscapes.... perfection. 

5. maniac: very similar vein to the oa for me. i’ve also watched this multiple times. i love that it’s a self contained story and i ADORE the themes. soulmates across universes! friendship! dealing with loss and grief.. it has it all. also the music in this is so good. the ending just fills me with warmth and hope and i can’t get enough of it. we need more shows like this.

6. supernatural: finally succumbed to the pull of this show. i resisted for years but now i have the brain worms. i’m sure you’re all aware but like COME ON. an angel saving the righteous man, teaching him faith and in turn learning doubt! nothing will ever be like them.

7. chernobyl: i have watched this multiple times and it’s still just as good. just a masterpiece of a show. the storytelling, the cinematography, the music, and the acting is all phenomenal. probably seems like a bit of a weird one to have on this list but it’s just ART. 

8. midnight mass: i love all of flanagan’s shows but this one is easily my favourite. the aesthetic and vibes of this one are just UGH... so good. the writing is chefs kiss. all those character specific monologues... and don’t even get me started on the themes around death and finding meaning, the darkness around religion and faith, the bonds of friends and family... heartwrenching but beautiful.

honourable mentions:

handmaid’s tale: june’s anger and increasing insanity speaks to my soul. also every episode directed by elizabeth moss is just SO good. 

succession: i love that you aren’t spoonfed and there is so much to read into one liners. the dynamics between all these awful people and how they’re all deeply broken through generational trauma and abuse, wanting to be better and having no idea how to do that. they’re all terrible and i love them.

i no pressure tag: @septembersghost @highlynerdy @angelcasendgame @hiraeth-doux @universalcas @sunglassesmish @deanbroco @angelsdean @klinejack @jactingjoices @deanncastiel @nesnej and anyone else that would like to :)

#i loooove talking about shows #writing this made me want to rewatch all of them right now lol

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Top Gun: Maverick

I can definitively say that while we did not in any way need a sequel to Top Gun, boy am I glad we got (this) one.

This will likely sound heretical to some, but the 1986 original is a pretty bad movie. Tom Cruise becomes a bonafide movie star right in front of our eyes, Anthony Edwards and Val Kilmer are great in their supporting roles and the aerial cinematography was thrilling in its derring-do and innovation. But beyond the sparingly used aerial sequences and director Tony Scott’s inimitable visual acumen, there’s not much to really latch onto. The characters are paper thin, the fabricated conflict that gets the pilots into action feels forced at best and the love story at the center of it all never makes it off the runway.

In other words: What could a decades-later sequel to this puzzlingly iconic film actually have to offer? In short: Just about everything the original film lacked.

Say what you will about Tom Cruise as a public personality. But as a movie star and entertainer? Top Gun: Maverick is now the prime example of why he’s one of cinema’s greatest action heroes and one of the last truly great movie stars in the business. Maverick is his raison d’être, his magnum opus as an actor who will go to literally any length a human being is physically capable of in order to thrill and entertain an audience.

If you’ve stayed aloof from all the pre-release hype for this movie, Cruise and the rest of the production team have made sure that everyone knows the flying was done with a level of commitment to “realism” heretofore unseen. That means strapping Cruise and most of the cast (playing a motley crew of hotshot Top Gun pilots he’s charged with training for a nigh-impossible mission) into real fighter jets and rolling cameras. Said cameras had to be invented for what was to be accomplished here, namely safely securing them in the cockpits so that they (alongside the cast) could withstand the intense g-forces that fighter pilots regularly endure. So when you see Cruise or Miles Teller or Monica Barbaro strain to even move in the cockpit, it’s because their bodies are actually under threat of being flattened by gravity. It’s one of the most audacious things I’ve ever seen accomplished in a movie. The original Top Gun resulted in Navy applications hitting an all-time high, but Maverick may just scare off a lot of potential recruits by making the insanity of flying a fighter jet so palpable.

This “commitment to realism” actually matters, though, in ways that go beyond a marketing campaign. No amount of CGI could ever replicate the actual experience of what these actors did. Lawrence Olivier once famously told Dustin Hoffman to “just try acting” in reaction to Hoffman’s method acting obsession during the making of Marathon Man. But even Olivier couldn’t muster the sort of unguarded reactions that this style of filmmaking forces out of actors. Digital sets, digital blood, digital landscapes and even digital actors have given contemporary filmmaking an inescapable sheen of cold artificiality that is instantly recognizable, even at its most impressive. There is a genuine sense of danger and intensity that permeates every moment we see in the air that simply would not be achievable with a cockpit on a gimbal in front of a green screen, no matter the actor. It actually serves the story to drive home how brave these pilots are, how dangerous the work is and how few people in the world would actually be able to pull any of this off in real life. Plus, it just makes everything look incredibly cool, and that’s ultimately what you want in a movie about hotshot fighter pilots.

The film also presents as the culmination of everything Cruise has worked toward since he began truly pushing himself as a stunt performer circa Mission: Impossible II. I feel confident in saying that no other action star aside from Jackie Chan has ever pushed themselves to such visible extremes for the purpose of entertainment. But while jumping between cliffsides or scaling the outside of the world’s tallest building are thrilling and dangerous, those were also performed as safely as possible. There’s a sense of danger inherent to strapping yourself into a hunk of jet-propelled metal that feels like it’s a level above anything he’s done before, a fact that the movie communicates quite well. Maverick is Cruise’s repudiation of Hollywood’s overt reliance on digital effects, inserting himself as a lone vanguard of “traditional” filmmaking, hopefully inspiring an entirely new generation of actors and filmmakers to follow in his wake. Cruise wants to entertain, he needs to. Calling him an adrenaline junkie feels reductive and crass, but his addiction isn’t to the danger so much as it is his need to deliver a good time. If that’s the case, Maverick provides what may be the ultimate high for him.

Because for all the deserved attention paid to the intensity of the stunts and action, the movie strapped to these stunts is fun and funny and satisfying all its own. It may be fairly by the numbers and even outright rips off a portion of the original Star Wars, but it commits to what it wants to be. There’s not an ounce of cynicism on this movie’s bones. There’s no clever winking at the audience, no attempt to subvert or deconstruct expectations. It doesn’t try to be smarter than its audience or feel the need to “elevate” the genre. Cruise and director Joseph Kosinski understand that sincerity is the film’s greatest strength, and to waver from that for even a moment would be to the film’s detriment. Maverick is about as straightforward and traditional as Hollywood summer blockbusters come, but just like seeing the Navy’s outmoded fighter jets take on the new-generation tech the nameless enemy throws at these pilots, it’s tough to beat a classic when it’s guided by the right hands.

I’m sure there are faults to be found within Maverick, but I’m hard pressed to say what they were. It’s fun and light on its feet. The new cast is solid and I’m thrilled that Jennifer Connelly was given a prime opportunity to display what a luminous presence she can bring to the silver screen. And it revels in being a legacy sequel without ever feeling like it uses past characters or callbacks merely for the sake of it. The way an ailing Val Kilmer is brought in to reprise his role as Iceman is both delicate and wonderful, for instance.

This is everything I want out of a summer movie and joins the ranks of movies like Blade Runner 2049 and Creed as proof of how to do legacy sequels perfectly.

#tom cruise #top gun #top gun maverick #jennifer connelly #miles teller

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Top 5 BL series

Ok so I'm new to the BL drama world (I've read BL comics/yaoi/webtoons forever tho) and now I feel like I've seen enough of them to make a top 5 list.

#5 Plus & minus

I'm gonna be honest the main reason this show is so high up on my list is because it's just so unproblematic. This feels like one of the few shows that's is actually written for the LGBTQ+ community instead of rabid BL fans. Ze Shou and Li Gong are such a cute couple, but our final breakup is a bit stupid tbh. I don't really care as much about Yuki and Ying Ze but Zheng Qi Lei really slays the day away, he could really just stand still and I'd love him. The opening makes me gag though, it's truly terrible I'm sorry.

I'd give it an 8/10

#4 Where your eyes linger

I've talked about this before but this show really has one of my favorite soundtracks. It's only 4 songs but there all on my playlist. This is the main reason this show is on here but I still like the actual show. It is kinda icky with this servant/master relationship but I don't think they take it to far.

8.5/10

#3 Color Rush

Color Rush is such a unique show that it truly delights me every time I see it. Yoo Han introducing Yeon Woo to the world of color is so beautiful. I also love we address this idea of love vs obsession, very nice, very fun. Yoo Jun is also an ACTOOOR, I love every scene he's in and the level of just pure, shattering pain he's able to display is amazing. We got some bangers on the soundtrack to

9/10

#2 The Eclipse

Number 1 and 2 are really neck and neck on this list but since The Eclipse hasn't ended yet I can't really say it's my favorite yet. Also this show is just like slightly to chaotic. Anyways we love a fancy boy school, we love a revenge plot, we love enemies to lovers, this show ticks so many boxes for me. I get so much entertainment out of this show it's insane, and I think at the end of the day that's really what makes a show for me. I wish we had some music but the soundtrack for this show is a little weak tbh.

10/10

#1 KinnPorsche

Acting 10/10

Music 10/10

Cinematography 10/10

Plot 10/10

Relationships 10/10

It's 10's across the board, this show ticks every box for me. Does it have a pretty mid ending, yes, but I don't care I was entertained from start to finish. We really just have amazing actors all around I could watch them forever. I listened to Free Fall on repeat while writing this and we also had Jeff Satur a MUSICIAN writing songs for this show and he only makes absolute bangers. Our sets, amazing, every scene is so beautiful and well thought out. Kinn and Porsche, a beautiful couple they really bring out the best in each other. Pete and Vegas... Anyways Kim and Porchay pretty cute, we write some beautiful songs and like I said I love Jeff Satur so.

100/10

(I'm sure this will all change as I watch more shows)

#akkayan #thai bl #ayanakk #the eclipse #bl drama #the eclipse series #kinnporsche #color rush #plus & minus #where your eyes linger #bl series

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@mejomonster you should never have asked for my top 3-5 willy recommendations bc now you will GET THEM

(For full and detailed reviews of william chan’s filmography, check out the William Watchlist here)

I am purposely not saying m9 because, while it is the best, you all already know i rec that one with my life so uhhh just watch it if you haven’t (most of you have)

SO. TOP FIVE WILLIAM MEDIA RECS......

NUMBER FIVE: I Love That Crazy Little Thing (2016)

he’s stupid in like every movie that he’s in but he’s especially stupid in this one. there is a scene where he goes to a sex dungeon for no reason. also gu ying from tientsin mystic is his assistant and I love her

NUMBER FOUR: Adoring (2019)

once again a whole dumbass. he’s fucking adorable though, and gives like one of the best acting scenes of his career? the entire movie is just really really good tbh

NUMBER THREE: Age of Legends (2018)

this show is so fun. it’s like, ridiculous, but it’s fun. and it’s like william in his niche. action/adventure badass while being the stupidest man alive? that’s where he thrives

NUMBER TWO: The Inside Me Tour (2017)

honestly if you really want the full scope of william’s insanity you have to watch the inside me tour. this is what really got me into him because it really is one of the wildest things I’ve ever seen. i still can’t believe that someone let him do that

NUMBER ONE: As the Light Goes Out (2015)

really this one is just a good movie. it’s not even because of william, he’s just a bonus. The cinematography slaps, the plot is great, and the thematic elements are fantastic. I cried. It’s just a really good film guys pls watch it. @jockvillagersonly and i are both obsessed with this one

BONUS: All About Love (2010)

I just really love their love, and I’m soft about their canon polycule. also william is literally the stupidest man alive. he’s so so so so so dumb. he has no brain. i wrote fanfiction about this one bc i love it so much. not like, super high quality, but it’s so soft and feels like a hug

#thank u so much for asking and fueling my rage #i finished the list last night and my roommate was like what are u gonna do now? #and i was like idk watch them all again? #and she was like or you could find another man to be obsessed about #and i was like NO >:( #william chan #observe william #william watchlist