girl help there's people saying the multi-million dollar toy advertisement is going to save cinema

this isn't about people hyperbolically expressing their excitement btw. the barbie marketing team is doing well promoting the film as a great work of costume and production design which is very fun and interesting I love behind the scenes shit like this but the state of the mainstream industry is so fucking bleak that people (mainly on film twitter) are genuinely surprised that actual physical sets were built for the movie as opposed to the cgi Disney uses for their own multi-million dollar toy advertisements. and I just. can you people please watch real movies. can you please try to find a movie to watch that isn't being pushed by your fucking algos like the barbie movie doing this is not going to save cinema it's YOU fucking watching and supporting actual movies made by people who have something to actually say

im prepared to love this movie for the rest of my life but it is an EXCEPTION; a diamond in the rough. Barbie (2023) is shaping up to be great in the same sort of way that Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004) was great, and i love that, but it is by no means even the tiniest step back toward a cinematic landscape that regularly produces things like Slumdog Millionaire (2008) or Fight Club (1999). if you want that, go watch Mad Heidi (2022)

Categories of people who point at the main character two thirds of the way through a movie and ask "who's that guy":

Scrolling through the Nope tags and everyone is so correct and so right but. I am finding a strange lack of mentions of the swallowing scene. The vore. The massacre. Whenever I will think back to this movie, it will always be looking at the shadows behind Jupe of the audience members flying. It will always be the look on Jupe's face before it cuts to black, and then back to the open orifice of Jean Jacket and seeing the bodies flying in. It will always be the slimy, fleshy pocket they find themselves in, and their screaming.

The cosmic horror. The way they are helpless in their suffering. The way they are still alive for the few hours before they are consumed above OJ and Ems house. The strange things they see inside. Their haunting screams. Wow. Wow.

I love horror, and this was the first time that I had an actual visceral reaction that wasn't from a jump scare. I remember reaching out to my friend next to me and the empty chair, cause I was truly truly horrified. I cannot stop thinking about that moment. That scene. Amazing fucking movie

#i only watched nope once. probably one of my favorite movies of all time. i cannot watch it again.#this scene specifically gave me an anxiety attack without me realizing it was what was happening. just pure unfiltered unstoppable dread.#it forces you to sit with it and experience it with no power nor agency.#and then you aren't allowed to sit with it anymore#and you didnt realize how much worse it would be to have that agency taken away from you too (via @inneskeeper)

Nightmare on Elm Street was crowdfunded. Texas Chainsaw Massacre was a money laundering scheme. we should go back to funding horror movies this way big budgets are doing nothing for them

Mad Heidi (2022) was crowdfunded and also has a merch store that sells branded absinthe for $90/bottle

if you liked Ring (1998) you'll like Dark Water (2002). same director, same DP, same editor, and based on another novel by the same author. it's my gold standard for slowburn

it also got an american remake in 2005, but after doing a direct comparison of The Ring (2002) to the original, i don't particularly care to bother seeing it

my friend recommended i watch this one movie called freaked and i watched it yesterday and i just have to share this one scene with you all. i didnt edit this together btw the movie is just like this

i also have to mention that this is the most fake looking movie i’ve ever seen. as in any frame from this movie looks like it’s from something that doesn’t exist

men in black is not a b-movie! it had a 90 million dollar budget in 1997! tommy lee jones and will smith were two of the most famous actors in the world! fuck off!

famous actors being involved doesnt necessarily make something not a b-movie. 11:14 (2003) had patrick swayze and hilary swank in it, but it also made back <2/3 of its $6M budget

but yeah, MIB was a fucking blockbuster wtf nothing that gets burger king kids meal toys made for it is a b-movie

I don't think I've seen an actor who is this passionate about their role ever

i have, but only once. ryan gosling cares about ken the way mark hamill cares about luke

movies used to be about a small community in the american southwest being serial-killed by something that shouldn't exist. this return to form is what makes Rubber (2010) so great

The Car: Road to Revenge (2019) is a delight, but it is a bastard child and a usuper. The Car (1977)'s succession was held in regency by Tremors (1990) before ultimately and rightfully being inherited by a movie about a psychic tire, and i will hear no more on the matter

DIRECTOR: Hey Tom Hardy here is some weird shit we're gonna put on your face to hide your beautiful little kissy lips pretty boy mouth

TOM HARDY, ENTIRELY NOT LISTENING BECAUSE HE'S BUSY FORMULATING AN ACCENT NO HUMAN BEING ON EARTH HAS EVER FUCKING HAD: Sure boss

makerrcat made me watch John Wick, and my hot take about it is that the entire plot of the movie is impossible, not because of the action sequences and cool fight scenes, and not because of the awesome mob hotel run by a dude named Charon, but because it's illegal to pump your own gas in the state of New Jersey, so John never could have had that interaction with Viggo's son at the gas station

"oh, but IMDB says the gas station scene was set in New York!"

bull. shit

yes, the gas station scene may have been filmed in Upper Nyack, New York, but it was set in New Jersey.

someone made those fake signs for The Northern New Jersey News and the NJ Lotto and stuck them on a New York gas station, thus making the entire plot of the film impossible, when they could have just set that scene in New York and nobody would have been the wiser.

it's an amazing mistake for them to have made, but it is a mistake, and it does invalidate the entire plot of the movie, so there

IMDB is wrong, and I am right, thank you for coming to my ted talk

If we're playing Um Actually...

The law in new jersey does not prevent you from pumping gas for your own vehicle. Rather, it prohibits anyone "who is not an attendant" to pump gas. (N.J.S.A. 34:3A-6 d)

So I propose a simple theory: John Wick works as a gas station attendant while out of the game

If his shift was ending we can say that he left the Russians to their own devices because he presumed someone on the next shift would attend to them. But I think a simpler justification would be that he is clearly suspicious of them through the scene and simply wanted to avoid a confrontation given his past.

bravo, this is the funniest possibility! xD

I absolutely can't prove that he didn't work as a gas station attendant, and so I will incorporate this into my system of beliefs, and then die laughing while imagining a gas station attendant living in that huge fucking mansion

thank you for your service

just saw someone call barbie movie an independent film. and. girls. what are we doing here. a $100mil movie, from warner brothers, about one of the most famous toys in the world, produced by the makers of that toy, is not an independent film. come on. you can be excited for it without treating it like some low budget arthouse underdog.

people have now convinced themselves that barbie movie will be an anti-capitalist manifesto and i’m genuinely asking that people please be serious here. you can have fun at the feature length blockbuster toy commercial without performing a cirque du soleil routine to convince yourself that supporting mattel and warner bros. isn’t exactly what it is. it’s okay. you’ll live.

I don't want a direct sequel to the DnD movie

I want more DnD movies with the same cast, but they play totally different characters every time, except for Xenk, who is the only recurring character in the entire franchise

So the subplot of Holes is that Kate Barlow deals with the politically-sanctioned execution of her black boyfriend—who unlawfully kissed a white woman who was in love with him!!!—by becoming a serial killer who targets racist/sexist white dudes who harassed her, were rejected, then went after her boyfriend as revenge from the depths of the “friend zone”.

Go off Louis Sachar, let em know!

Don’t forget the main plot was a damning satire of the brokenness and inherent racism of the American justice and prison systems! Louis Sachar does not fuck about

It always fuck me up that older people don’t understand how this story is as essential to most american children as Gone with the Wind or Mary Poppins was.

unironically, this is one of the best books/movies for young people that exists

Kissing Kate Did Nothing Wrong

And the technical writing of Holes is perfect. Like, it’s one of the most technically-perfect books ever written. Basically any plotting or pacing or characterization issue you’re having, read Holes and really study how Sachar did it. THE LIZARDS! THE LIZARDS.

the twisty prophecies! the lizards! the lipstick! the humor! this book doesn’t play. a true classic.

the way a treasure collected by a white woman’s revenge for a black man was found and claimed by a white boy and a black boy who had come to see themselves as brothers

#I am going to have to read this and/or see the movie #in my defense #both book and movie came out when I was in my 30s (via @athelind)

this is the rare case where the movie adaptation of a beloved book is equally beloved. certain parts are afforded more depth by the book simply due to differences in the strengths of the formats, but the only significant change in the movie is that stanley isn't fat at the beginning, and even that's only because the director didn't want to put a teenage shia labeouf through that kind of weight fluctuation, especially on their tight shooting schedule

My favorite quote from any movie critic ever is from Roger Ebert, who once said “The Borg Queen looks like no notion of sexy I have ever heard of, but inspires me to keep an open mind”

My favorite Roger Ebert movie-review quote was when he said that Danny DeVito "has a way of making the taller people around him seem unsure of what to do with their legs."

[image ID: a May 22 tweet from Joe Russo @/joerussotweets with an attached screenshot of text. Russo quotes the screenshot: "A tri-guild Hollywood walkout? It's never happened before, but this time it just might." He then comments, "Burn Hollywood, burn."

The screenshot itself is from writer Matthew Belloni for news site Puck and reads, "Several days ago, I wrote that an actors' strike was possible, but I now believe that one is likely. And if the directors don't achieve a deal in the next several weeks—which would probably have to include a favored nations repoener, allowing the DGA to gain the benefit of any better terms achieved by either of the other two guilds—then we might just see directors walk out as well. A tri-guild Hollywod walkout? It's never happened before, but this time it just might." end ID.]

(For context, this is Joe Russo, writer of Nightmare Cinema and Inheritance, not the MCU guy with the same name. Yeah, it's confusing.)

For further context: we all know the Writers' Guild of America is currently on strike for a fair contract. But were you aware that the studios are also now re-negotiating their deals with the actors' guild (aka SAG-AFTRA, which stands for Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) as well as the Directors' Guild of America, aka DGA?

A few days ago, SAG-AFTRA authorized a strike vote. This is not proof that they will go on strike, but is basically a head count of who among their membership is giving them the go-ahead to strike (it's used as leverage in negotiations). Actors from Mark Hamill to Nick Kroll and many, many more tweeted about voting YES, and there is large public support for the strike, so it looks pretty certain that the SAG-AFTRA strike authorization is happening.

When the WGA issued a similar strike authorization vote in April, the overwhelming majority—nearly 98%—voted YES. That gave the WGA strong leverage and proved that the writers meant business. Hopefully we're looking at similar high numbers among SAG-AFTRA.

That leaves us with the Directors' Guild, which historically has only gone on strike much less than the WGA, and which might be a tougher group to convince. If, however, all three unions go on strike, Hollywood would completely shut down. Studios would be forced to re-negotiate on the unions' terms and give in to union demands.

Now is the time to tell any Hollywood union members in your life to support the possibility of SAG-AFTRA and DGA strikes! Get on social media and support the actors who have already announced their YES vote. Gently encourage (do not harass!) actors who have not publicly spoken up about it to add their voices to the strike authorization, because the future of Hollywood is at stake.

And because strikes are hard on crew members who don't belong to major guilds and cannot access strike funds, you can always donate to the Entertainment Community Fund under Film/TV to support those entertainment workers. If you can't donate, you can support the WGA on social media by hastagging #IStandWithTheWGA and #DoTheWriteThing.

The screenshotted text above is from Matthew Belloni's newsletter "What I'm Hearing" on Puck, which is paywalled, but there is a 2-week free trial if you're interested in reading some insider info on the strike.

follow @fans4wga for reliable strike news, from an organization of fans working in solidarity with WGA members.

i love movies with my entire heart, and for that reason:

this is not a house fire that threatens to destroy everything you love. it is a long-overdue grassfire that promises to clear away the dead husks making you think the prairie looks like shit and replace it with freshly wakened wildflowers

everything you hate about tv and movies stands to be incinerated by these strikes, leaving behind things a lot of us are too young to remember having the first time around

let it burn