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[burnt shale]

None of them seem beyond our comprehension

[dusk hound]

I am feeling things I have never felt before… https://x.com/dcu_updates/status/1935376699103003089?s=46

DCU Updates (@DCU_Updates)

DAVID CORENSWET for @people

X · Jun 18, 2025, 4:38 PM

David is actually such peak casting, he is LITERALLY what Superman would look like if you took him from the comics into the real world

[wraith sand]

https://youtu.be/ll_UhrQMC-I?si=U2xH4bXEkUTPk9wJ

[turbid narwhal]

falling for the mindhunter news yet again 😔

[cold sequoia]

To be free you must cast off the last vestiges of hope

[turbid narwhal]

the idea of 3 movies doesn't even sound all that good but i'll take it

[cold sequoia]

just learned this dude isn't british

[dusk hound]

Better yet, he’s from Philadelphia

Grew up on 22nd and Pine right in Center City

And went to Shipley School in Bryn Mawr

[gritty sierra]

rewatched the first three jurassic parks

while all of them are obviouslyyyyy superior to the jurassic world movies, god, 2 and 3 don't even touch the first one

lmao

[ionic lily]

https://tenor.com/view/raptor-alan-jp3-gif-9139616

[gritty sierra]

my strongest impressions of jurassic park 3 are ||the moment you hear the phone ring and the dawning horror just before the moment of turning to see the big old spiny dinosaur. the second is seeing the 2 minute trailer for The Others right before this played and having that terrify me more than any dinosaur bit||

[heavy anchor]

I only really remember in 2 when ||the little dinosaurs rip the dude apart. Metal ||

[thin ridge]

-# any excuse to use a Nimona gif

[lone canyon]

I watched sinners last night

Good film although the ending fight was a bit lacklustre

||the “pick poor Robin clean” song and “we’re gonna start a new Klan. Based on love!” were possibly the funniest scenes ever put to screen||

[lone canyon]

Sinners ||also “hey baby I got the car warmed up”||

[wet quest]

||Oh him? He's just a little hungry is all.||

[frail mulch]

my maternal grandparents ran a grocery store in the south so I had feelings during Sinners (and also, another very excellent Ludwig Goransson soundtrack)

[paper hull]

It is such a good soundtrack.

[frail mulch]

The documentary maker for this series on Chinese diaspora who did this segment on the MIssissippi Delta Chinese actually got hired by Coogler as a consultant for the film! so the snippets of Chinese heard are Toisanese a similar-but-not dialect of Cantonese that earlier immigrant waves (like my ancestors) spoke. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NMrqGHr5zE

Like, they're side characters in the film overall but such care and attention to detail to what could be background parts in another movie was

[dusk hound]

Food channel when

[wet quest]

Jetlag this season really making me wanna go back to South Korea

Trains that can get you anywhere in the country and also you can get really good coffee right there in the station? Please take me back

[lone canyon]

Sinners ||I love how socially awkward all the vampires were lmao||

||mary was literally gonna invite them in and they weirded her out so much 😭||

||sinners is also kinda making me eat my words about hating hiveminds because the use of the hivemind there is so effective||

||remmick is an almost anti Christ figure who offers an utopian escape from the struggles of the real world but while the culture in “i lied to you” is able to grow and progress and evolve, and integrate new influences, all remmick can offer is a replica of a stagnant past||

[wet quest]

||I didn't fully understand what sinners was trying to say until the post credit scene where Stack meets back up with Sammie after a few decades.||
||Going into that scene I really thought it was gonna be the standard, "we let you go before, but now we're here to finish the job!" kinda deal you get with a lot of vampire media.||
||But no, we get a beautiful moment of Stack and Mary just listening to Sammie play, enjoying living in a world where someone can make something so beautiful.||
||And that's when it all clicked for me. Remmick may have claimed to be offering a better life, but it was never the case. He saw what Sammie could do and wanted to take it for himself.||

Legit, I felt like that Danny Devito meme

[lone canyon]

Sinners ||I feel like it showed (albeit in a bittersweet way) Stack and Mary starting to fall into the same trap Remmick did||

||Sammie has clearly lived out a full life and become wiser, but Stack and Mary are dressed and acting in a very juvenile way, while still clearly hung up on the time at which they were alive||

||in a hundred or so years, they’ll probably go down the same road remmick did, always trying to recreate a “community” without any care for the real world||

[keen flax]

Sinners discourse, I love to see it

[lone canyon]

Sinners ||im also trying to figure out the films message on religion which I feel is pretty muddled||

||my only take is that remmick makes more sense as a victim of the cromwellian genocide than as an Irish pagan||

[wet quest]

||That's exactly it. Remmick was a victim of colonialism and was continuing a cycle of violence dispite the harm it caused him.||

[lone canyon]

||yeah, I think in a way he was genuine about wanting “love and fellowship” but it was also clearly a crackbrained idea completely detached from the struggle of people in the real world (ie “we’re gonna make a new Klan with loooove”)||

[muted solar]

Just finished season one of Your Friends & Neighbors

|| Omggggg this man! So unhinged. Such bad decisions ||

Gahh I need to watch Sinners again. Saw it opening day so it has been a minute

Sinners || I feel like I definitely remember my girlfriend and I talking about how the vampires in the film paralleled cultural appropriation as well, particularly that moment towards the end where Remmick was like “I want your songs” and all that. Don’t remember the full quote ||

[lone canyon]

||I think the full quote is “I want your stories and you can have mine”||

sinners ||there is a strong undertone of the hivemind as a criticism of the progressive american melting pot idea||

[keen flax]

I didn't even think of that... 🫢

[oak ivy]

ok so NOW i understand why you like it

[lone canyon]

tbc i generally like the progressive american melting pot idea

however i think sinners is a very effective criticism of it

sinners ||remmick's ideal of an equal and inclusive community where everyone shares their stories and music is still dominated by white culture even if other cultures and peoples are accepted and welcomed; it is alienating for everyone involved because in seeking to build a new community they are cut off from their old ones; and it is simply implausible because of the inherent resistance from the racist white folks (ie remmick has to literally lobotomize the klan members to get them to join)||

||i think it's framed as an attractive but ultimately shallow utopia||

[ivory night]

Every trailer I see for the new Jurassic world makes me want to watch it less

[cold sequoia]

and yet it'll probably push a billion in the box office

people like dinosaurs I guess

[ivory night]

I like dinosaurs!

I don’t remember which Jurassic world it was but there was a point where they played the main theme in the movie and it pissed me off so much because it was over like this crappy looking theme park. Anyways they don’t know what made the first movie good

[keen flax]

Ive been told id like the originals

I havent seen a single one though :/

[ivory night]

The original is one of the best movies ever made so yes I think you’d like it

I was about to be like wow how did it not get nominated for best picture and then I saw what won and it’s like oh how did Spielberg put out schindlers list and Jurassic park in the same year

[cold sequoia]

hey man, if this movie doesn't do well then it's pretty unlikely that Scarlett Johansson will be able to play Jasnah

[burnt shale]

put dinosuars on screen for at least 10% of the run and i will go.

[oak ivy]

At least Mahershala Ali will get to cash that check

[ivory night]

Wait they had Omar Sy in the other Jurassic worlds?

[keen flax]

I am a believer of the "everyone grew up with a dinosaur movie" theory and mine was The Land. Before Time 🥰

[gritty sierra]

the first jurassic park is good

there's actually interesting things to talk about

vis a vis... capitalism.... character.... themes.....

actually SHOOT sorry i've undersold in my eagerness to talk about it, the first jurassic park is AMAZING

[ivory night]

And also it’s just shot and edited so well || you have the scene where they first see the dinosaurs and you get the wonder! You have the sequence with the T. rex and the jeep and the water. You have the velociraptors in the kitchen||

[inland jetty]

Mine was a hodgepodge of LBT sequels. I remember several, but could not draw any lines between any of them except that in one they helped raise a baby t rex, in one they met another flyer who didn't know he could fly, and in another met like some kind of dolphin or something and did a callback to an earlier movie where they were trying find big water (for some reason I wanna say the first Big Water movie was also the baby t rex one)

I also watched We're Back a lot

[midnight compass]

I remember We're Back but I only saw it once

[inland jetty]

I had it on vhs

[gritty sierra]

the first jurassic park was SO committed to the puppets instead of cg... even in JP2 and 3 it was too cgi

jurassic park og general thoughts ||and like, the way i needed to be an adult to really understand how wrong hammond actually was. as a kid, his grandfatherliness felt like correctness, niceness, but then as an adult with new eyes, i remember from the HOP going "hold up, he's... rich, and he's opening the broke-ass scientists' trailer champagne????" and then it just kept going from there||

character writing, man

[gritty sierra]

i was GONNA SAY - the big water one was the one we watched most often. our family watched the first land before time well AFTER the sillier sequels

[ivory night]

|| this is why then playing the theme music of the shot of the theme park in world annoyed me. Like that music expresses the wonder of seeing the dinosaurs roam the earth again. And then that wonder was destroyed by the greed of the humans. And in Jurassic world we’re supposed to feel wonder at dinosaur seaworld????|| original and world

[gritty sierra]

||literally no other movie managed to make that track hit ever again||

it's very big, big, big, big waterrrrrr

it's scary and it's strangerous... and things could rerrange-er ussssss... in that big waterrrrrr

[inland jetty]

I remember watching Jenny Nicholson's LBT ranking video and for like fully half of them, I was like "There's no way I watched this one", then she'd start describing it, and showing clips, and I'd be like "Damn, I guess I was even more obsessed with these movies than i thought"

[ivory night]

Because none of them ever understood why it hit and how that scene was built up. It wasn’t just oh wow this is cool! It was what ||they were experiencing at that moment!!||

[gritty sierra]

right like you can't just go ||oh look a wide shot of some dinosaurs, alright, let's go||

it's not GOOD

[ivory night]

Exactly!

It’s such a lazy way to make a movie

[gritty sierra]

jurassic park ||and like, alan's thing with kids developing over the course of the movie.... the final shot of the condor (or albatross or other seabird, not sure) as the final shot, the callback to the rightness of modern nature where the dinosaurs HAVE survived, like secret knowledge that was alan's little heart center the whole time, a beautiful little callback||

untouchable

[ivory night]

Also the world series seems really keen on making ||dinosaurs the monsters and like… ||

[burnt shale]

I got my friend to read the book before watching the movies for jurassic park there's so few people who i know whos experienced it that way.

[azure fern]

When I read this I went "oh, mine was that animated migration movie! I wonder what it's called in english?"

lo and behold, it's The Land Before Time

[dusk hound]

WE MIGHT BE BACK https://x.com/cosmic_marvel/status/1935720796061626606?s=46

Cosmic Marvel (@cosmic_marvel)

Jake Schreier will officially direct the ‘X-MEN’ reboot film.

He previously directed ‘Thunderbolts*’

(via https://t.co/Qb5sJOQKpZ)

X · Jun 19, 2025, 3:26 PM

[molten jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/power-intro-cyclops-x-men-'97-shooting-a-laser-ray-chase-gif-9940742080770174559

Time for my mans

[dusk hound]

Cyclops will hopefully finally get the recognition he deserves

https://tenor.com/view/patrick-beverley-patrick-beverley-nba-timberwolves-gif-11752728165167489486

[steep bramble]

That name just throws me off because I think of another series.

[wet quest]

My favorite part of the Jurassic Park books is that in the first one ||Ian dies, on screen, in no uncertain terms. Heart stops and all.||
And then in the second one ||he's the main character and someone goes, "wait didn't you die?" and he just scoffs and goes, "obviously not"||
And that's how it's addressed

[gritty sierra]

lmao

[distant birch]

Wait is that a thing

[cold sequoia]

no, it's a riff on how she was in the ghost in the shell live action remake

[dusk hound]

Why does he look like he’s on a zoom call https://x.com/jamesgunn/status/1935359028856549524?s=46

James Gunn (@JamesGunn)

Lex in his office. #Superman

X · Jun 18, 2025, 3:28 PM

[wet quest]

"Ope, how'd I end up in the ocean? Can someone help me turn this off please? It's distracting."

[dusk hound]

Reminds me of the time when a lawyer used a cat filter on Zoom https://youtu.be/lGOofzZOyl8?si=4WUESrjTpExeBeEz

[distant birch]

Someone should put a Superman filter on lex's device

[molten jetty]

If they don’t cast someone hot…

[dusk hound]

Best I can do is Timothee Chalamet

[keen flax]

I will do, quite literally, anything to keep that from being reality

[burnt shale]

in the forward the author is like yeah i know he died but hes so popular bringing him back is the right call.

[wet quest]

Twas the phenomena I was referencing yes

[dusk hound]

I’ve been seeing Patrick Schwarzenegger being thrown around

I wouldn’t mind that

[keen flax]

Ill accept it

Anything but Timmy tbh

[topaz oyster]

Tom Holland

[dusk hound]

https://tenor.com/view/how-do-we-tell-him-mr-krabs-spongebob-meme-spongebob-meme-gif-24063814

I can’t wait for Brand New Day

Hopefully Tom gets to really shine in that movie

[topaz oyster]

Didn't stop RDJ

[dusk hound]

Don’t remind me

Still one of the worst decisions I’ve seen

And that’s saying something

[topaz oyster]

Honestly, and this is not a meme, the only thing preventing Tom Holland from landing a secondary MCU role is probably his inability to shut the hell up

[dusk hound]

“MCU box office numbers are at an all time low you say?? Should we just start making good movies again that people will show up for??? NO, let’s just bring RDJ back as Dr. Doom”

[heavy anchor]

And one of my favorite things about him is his inability to shut the hell up

[topaz oyster]

It will probably work

[keen flax]

They got him till hes 90 😔

[dusk hound]

Honestly I’ll go see Doomsday

[heavy anchor]

Getting that contract must have been insanely expensive

[dusk hound]

But I really hope this is leading towards a soft reboot for the MCU

[cold sequoia]

I wouldn't call Dr Doom a secondary MCU role

[molten jetty]

I think F4 will be good and I hope Doomsday works but I don’t think RDJ as Doom was the right call

[heavy anchor]

Plus, he shouldn't really take the mask off hardly at all

[cold sequoia]

MCU ||and I think the common speculation is that Doom being played by the same guy as Tony Stark is going to be relevant to the plot (i.e. he's a Stark variant or something equally disappointing)||

[heavy anchor]

Doom just doesn't do that

[topaz oyster]

I mean that's relative here. Everything is secondary to his role as Iron Man in this particular continuity

[molten jetty]

I want Doomsday (and Doom) to be good and not just “Stark variant”

[molten jetty]

This is how I feel…if it’s just ignored that he’s RDJ, I’ll be happy

[heavy anchor]

Yeah but because its RDJ and they probably paid a small countrys GDP to get him on they're definitely going to use his face

[molten jetty]

😔

[lucid haven]

Can't they do a stark variant and do it well

?

[heavy anchor]

No

[lucid haven]

Why not

[dusk hound]

Maybe we can hold off on multiverse stuff for a while

[heavy anchor]

Because they're terrible at writing multiverse stuff

[lucid haven]

Idk i enjoy all the multiverse stuff

[molten jetty]

Nope. Because it’s Doom.

[heavy anchor]

I can count the ones that did it well on one hand

[molten jetty]

Doom should not be Stark

[heavy anchor]

And regardless doom is an entirely different person

[molten jetty]

Doom should be the Doom people know and love

[dusk hound]

Main reason why I’m excited for James Gunn’s DCU is that he’s actually giving each project time to cook in the oven, and a project doesn’t even get greenlit if it doesn’t have a finished script

It’s a really good system

[molten jetty]

It’s like Chris Evans showing up as Norman Osborne and not focusing on Green Goblin but on the angst of him being a Steve variant

[heavy anchor]

It does seem like Gunn is being careful with managing it

[molten jetty]

Like ⁉️

[heavy anchor]

Which I approve of

[keen flax]

Which is nice

Im sick of being in the trenches with stupid bad DC movies

Ww84 made me give up

On what? You decide 🥰

[heavy anchor]

Honestly they need their animated stuff writers on their LA stuff

The disparity in quality is kind of staggering

[dusk hound]

DC fans have been in the trenches for years when it comes to live action movies

[keen flax]

That's why I ignored them and rewatchef Flashpoint Paradox over and over 🥰

[heavy anchor]

IT WAS ME BARRY

[dusk hound]

Oh my god I want to send that video so bad but it’s NSFW

[cold sequoia]

the disparity within the animated stuff is also very large

[heavy anchor]

I'm a die hard flash fan

[keen flax]

Your time will come 😔✨️

[heavy anchor]

Today I was giggling like an idiot when an infinite mass punch was referenced

[dusk hound]

Don’t forget Under the Red Hood

[heavy anchor]

@tribal saddle can confirm I was a staunch Flash show defender for a long time
But eventually it got so bad I couldn't defend it anymore

[dusk hound]

My breaking point was the ||discount lightsaber fight in season 7 I think||

[heavy anchor]

Oh I fell off season 5 or 6

[molten jetty]

The only Arrowverse show I watched was Arrow

[heavy anchor]

I watched all of them to some degree or another

[molten jetty]

It felt like they wanted to make a Batman show but didn’t have the rights to Batman

[heavy anchor]

But the flash was my baby

[molten jetty]

XMen 97 lost it’s head writer lolol

[keen flax]

I wanted to give Black Lightning a try (because young justice + I'm black of course I did) but then its cwness was trending and I just couldn't do it man 😭

[heavy anchor]

I thought the first season slapped

[molten jetty]

But I still think it’ll be good because writing is collaborative for these things

[heavy anchor]

Black lightning was a lot of fun

I'll never quite forgive legends of tomorrow though

[molten jetty]

There was uhhh drama

[heavy anchor]

Yeah probably

[molten jetty]

I think S1 was great

[heavy anchor]

I was like 15 I didn't care

LoT s1 ||I'll never forgive them for killing Captain Cold, I LOVED him||

[molten jetty]

Riverdale would be a fun show if it wasn’t so CW

[dusk hound]

I actually really liked Legends of Tomorrow

[heavy anchor]

What are you talking about Riverdale is an absolute blast

[keen flax]

My favorite CW show was Beauty and The Beast soooooo

[heavy anchor]

(note I have never watched the show, just watched very long videos about the sheer insanity of it)

[dusk hound]

God that reminds me that we desperately need a Sabrina the Teenage Witch reboot

And make it a sitcom like the first one

So many fond memories of watching that show with my sister

[molten jetty]

There was this concept trailer for a live action gritty Scooby Doo that seems like it would be a fun show

[dusk hound]

Salem the talking cat was the best character

[molten jetty]

(Content Warning) https://youtu.be/YEKBPcNpS_U?si=eMnmq6jDbFK4avGU

[dusk hound]

Will NEVER forgive Chilling Adventures of Sabrina for not having Salem in it

That diva was the entire reason I watched the original show

[muted solar]

Y’all The Bear is back in less than a week!

[dusk hound]

YAY

This season is gonna be great

Was a bit disappointed with last season tbh, but this one is gonna be better

[tribal saddle]

This is absolutely true

And I still hate that stupid trial storyline. None of it made any sense

[tribal saddle]

I just finished rewatching that

[tribal saddle]

We get a Salem cameo in the last season, at least!

[ivory night]

I’m watching Jurassic park now and wow it’s been a while since I watched anything shot on film

[ivory night]

I forgot about the opening || where a worker dies because the safety protocols are dumb and then when an inspector comes the site manager is like oh Hammond hates inspectors || jurrasic park

[tribal saddle]

There are so many things in the movie that don't make any sense heh

I could plan a better park in my sleep

The book is better, but also has glaring flaws

[ivory night]

The science is very bad too but omg dinosaurs

I feel like there are so many shots in this movie that just don’t exist anymore || like the extended wide helicopter that’s a real helicopter. Then basically the entire jeep sequence at the start. Like that convo Hammond has with the lawyer||

[ivory night]

This movie is such peak sci fi nonsense (complementary)

Anyways pausing to sleep

[green fjord]

Doctor Who Gatwa 2x02 Lux ||It just occured to me how to describe how the Pantheon episodes feel to me. They're difficult to take seriously, the logic is often questionable and the sequence of events a touch random, and the ending can be a little dubious if you think about it much, but there is a good deal of creative, silly, fun ideas throughout. Basically, it feels like the Doctor is guest starring in Legends of Tomorrow.

That's not 100% what I most want from Doctor Who (despite really liking Legends of Tomorrow), but I am having fun watching it.||

[keen flax]

GUYS

KPOP DEMON HUNTERS IS OUT TODAY

I cant wait to watch peak 😌

[dusk hound]

Calling out of work rn

I LOVE this https://x.com/discussingfilm/status/1936067696963002549?s=46

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

New poster for James Gunn’s ‘SUPERMAN’ inspired by the classic Superman poster.

X · Jun 20, 2025, 2:24 PM

[acoustic pewter]

I just watched two movies within the past two days that I really liked

Sister Act

and Mission Impossible; The Final Reckoning

[molten jetty]

I started it and it’s so stupid (endearingly)

[acoustic pewter]

Sister Act was fun. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. It was on my Disney+ watchlist for a long time before I finally got around to it.

And that new Mission Impossible movie was AAAAAGH SO EPIC

[steep bramble]

Sister Act is fun

[acoustic pewter]

Now its sequel has taken its place on my watchlist 😉

[crystal brook]

Since I first saw this was happening I've been curious if they originally pitched this to riot

Because of KDA

[keen flax]

I can see the resemblance 😂

[thin ridge]

I just watched a movie breaking down the new Lilo and Stitch

...Yikes. Way to miss the entire point of the original.

[buoyant scroll]

Speaking of yikes, someone i know saw 28 Years Later and had their review effectively summarized as: 28 Years Later Too Facist for Hitler

[cold sequoia]

huh, I've been hearing good things about it

[buoyant scroll]

It's definitely been weird seeing some of the other impressions, but i trust this one person's Fascism Radar pretty well

[lone canyon]

Isn’t it a zombie movie?

[cold sequoia]

yeah

[buoyant scroll]

It not being a zombie movie is probably the most frequent criticism ive seen

[cosmic dock]

What's fascist about the movie? In their opinion

[buoyant scroll]

I couldnt do their whole detailed breakdown justice, but it some of it is ||how the infected are now treated like just a foreign barbaric society, the mcs steal a baby from one after killing the mother, and there aint a single PoC in sight in the film.
There's also weird, like, the very bad kind of nihilism stuff||

[warped snow]

talking to my mum about how she would want a stormlight adaptation done if she could choose. she is insistent on it being dogme 95 lol

[cold sequoia]

||is the treatment of the infected and the baby thing treated as good though? ||

[buoyant scroll]

||From what I understand yes. It's a positive thing that they took the baby and the mom mc is happy to take care of it||

[keen flax]

Alright guys I want to test something:

If you grew up with Power Rangers which one is your favorite 👀👀👀 i am VERY tempted to sit down and watch every season tbh

And by every season i mean from mighty morphin to samurai (id rather eat a rock than rewatch megaforce)

[frank quail]

I was too young to know which power rangers i was watching

[midnight compass]

I never watched any

Phineas and Ferb s2e37 (some kind of special thing) ||oh my gossssssssssssh they went to Tokyo and it's Carmeldansen (though that's actually Swedish)||

[ivory night]

Blue obvi. Do I remember anything about it no. Could I tell you anything about it other than it existing also no

[crimson kelp]

Pretty sure I watched the original and it was the green ranger

[keen flax]

Green was pretty awesome back then tbh

[buoyant scroll]

Uhhhhhh
Honestly hard to pick. Maybe SPD or Time Force. Lightspeed Rescue, Dino Thunder, and in Space+Lost Galaxy are all really good also

Mighty Morphin of course gets a shout out

[tribal saddle]

What if you grew up just before the Power Ranger craze, started watching it and couldn't get over the extremely goofy plotlines and costumes?

[tawdry snow]

Jeez asking me to dredge up knowledge from 15-20+ years ago? Probably going with Jungle Fury, but I know I watched Ninja Force, Dino Thunder, SPD, the one in the dome city, the one with the treasure hunting theme, and Mystic Force

Gods above and below that makes me feel old, 15-20 years???

[acoustic pewter]

I never really watched Power Rangers or ever got into it, but this one clip has already decided the blue one as my favorite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6LoXoonOZE

[keen flax]

PEAK RPM refrence

Also thats the one with the dome hehe

[dusk hound]

God this looks so good https://fxtwitter.com/discussingfilm/status/1936109361094697070?s=46

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

New teaser for James Gunn’s ‘SUPERMAN’
︀︀
︀︀“They’ve always been wrong about me. I love, I get scared, but that is being human. And that’s my greatest strength”

**💬 200 🔁 870 ❤️ 9.2K 👁️ 387.6K **

▶ Play video

FxTwitter · Jun 20, 2025, 5:10 PM

James Gunn understands Superman

Me thinks that we’re in for a generational movie

[turbid narwhal]

Too much colour. Looks like a comic book

[dusk hound]

He’s not aura farming while a whole room of people burns to death in front of him #notmySuperman

It genuinely just FEELS and looks like it’s a comic book, vibes that we really haven’t gotten since Raimi’s Spider-Man

[hushed moss]

I was watching a bit of the old Fleicher cartoons and man am I sucker for 40’s style narration.

||found it interesting that it says that Superman was raised in an orphanage. I thought that the story was always that the Kent’s found him and raised him.||

[frank quail]

I feel like you must have posted the whole movie in clips by now Ryan

[hushed moss]

40’s Superman ||Newspaper boss: You and Clark go investigate this supervillain who threatening to destroy the city tonight. Louis: Nah I am just going to fly my plane over and investigate it myself. Newspaper Boss: Ok that’s fine with me.||

[dusk hound]

Don’t blame me, they keep posting clips

[dusk hound]

||His golden age origin was that he was raised in an orphanage but they changed it to being raised by the Kents in Silver Age I think||

[forest wigeon]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_Superman#Golden_Age

[dusk hound]

Comic timelines get messy

Best not to think about it

[forest wigeon]

I would also note that the Fleicher shorts are based on the radio show, not the comics

Although apparently ||In the radio show he comes to Earth as an adult, so I think in this case they did get the origin story from the comics||

[hushed moss]

Ah like Batman’s no guns rule or Cap getting frozen in ice.

[frank quail]

the corollary is that you don't need to pay to see the movie anymore

[dusk hound]

Honestly they’ve revealed very little about the plot

[placid river]

Murderbot S1E8 + books ||I forget, did the books ever establish the backstory of Gurathin being a corporate spy? Or is that new?||

[gritty sierra]

new

[dawn kayak]

does anyone know a fun, knowledgeable and non-right wing history podcast?

[lone canyon]

Mike Duncan

[gritty sierra]

https://open.spotify.com/show/6FMMKMemXFFOkEgxWAqnvb?si=72WuqomnSjmnv_hVoBHCXQ

[dawn kayak]

well okay to be fair "knowledgeable" and "non-right wing" are kinda synonymous so

[gritty sierra]

I got this one recced to me

[lone canyon]

He hates Trotsky but he’s pretty left wing overall

[dawn kayak]

but some people are good at faking being knowledgeable so 😅

[dawn kayak]

which one is that one?

[lone canyon]

Revolutions by Mike Duncan

[dawn kayak]

also I'd prefer like, a multiple people podcast and something more focused on entertainment (though I'm fine with history lessons podcasts too!) but also not in the style of uh the UFC stand up comedian guy

the format that is the most common now unfortunately

joe rogan that's his name

[dawn kayak]

o I really should listen to that one eventually

[dawn kayak]

o this looks pretty pog 👀

[lone canyon]

Tbh Trotsky has thicker skin than me because if I unilaterally declared peace and disbanded the army, and then my country got invaded I’d ice-pick myself

[dawn kayak]

ooo DSH has an episode on blavatsky 👀

[steep bramble]

Dan Carlin, Hardcore History. He doesn’t really talk about politics, and I never listened to Common Sense, which was the politics show from long before it got so polarized.

One person, but great storytelling. Also British, but The Rest is History

[dawn kayak]

I've started listening to Supernova in the East

need to continue

[steep bramble]

Supernova is my favorite series of HH

[dawn kayak]

oh he's the history of rome podcast guy no?

I also listened to a bunch of the history of rome, it's also pretty good

but the 'problem' with Supernova in the East and History of Rome is that they are very dense podcasts, which for background audio that I'm half paying attention to is not great

if I'm playing something like battlefield where I don't really need to think about what's going on in the game and can just autopilot I can still listen to it though I still go back on episodes a lot to catch something I missed or forgot the context for because I was distracted

but for something like PoE or pokerogue I'd prefer something lighter because I still gotta think a bit about decisions and moves in these games

[steep bramble]

Yeah you can’t do that. But The Rest is History would be a better fit for that.

[crystal brook]

I listen to and enjoy this podcast occasionally but if you want to avoid right wing people, I definitely do not like what bits of their politics I've seen outside of the podcast

Or Dominics anyway

[gritty sierra]

oh wait Jonathan Bailey is in this new Jurassic world.... ughhhh I might have to watch it

[lone canyon]

There’s history teatime with Lindsay holiday

It’s on YouTube but I think it also works as a podcast

She mostly talks about the British monarchy though so there is a vaguely royalist bent to her

Although I haven’t really listened to enough to say for sure

[dusk hound]

Sinners is coming to HBO Max on July 4th!!!

[crystal brook]

There's a reddit post that will come up that goes into more detail about his politics, obviously can't go into more detail here myself but yeah, one to avoid if you really want to totally avoid that kind of person

[dusk hound]

No excuse for me not to watch it then

[verbal lintel]

Behold Chat!
The real Krypto we should have gotten!

[dusk hound]

Why didn’t we get this Krypto smh

[midnight compass]

Behold!
Dog

[tawdry snow]

TMA all: ||Relistening to the series because why not and I'm on Boatswain's Call (s1e33). It just hit me that Peter Lucas is the captain of The Tundra, a very lonely place. This is why you revisit media, to catch all the foreshadowing||

[distant birch]

TMA all ||s1 has a lot of future stuff dropped throughout||

||I was relistening to episode 4 yesterday abd they mention gertrude having bought a lietner, but obviously a first time listener doesn't know it was gertrude, for example||

[tawdry snow]

TMA all: ||And some stuff that got dropped. The Hive becoming The Corruption, whatever the thing was in the priest, curses like Angela's thing...||

[tribal saddle]

I miss Christopher Reeve

[tawdry snow]

TMA all: ||Don't forget the weirdness with Hilltop Road. That was less of foreshadowing though and more retcon||

[dusk hound]

He was an amazing human being

[stark crag]

TMA all ||Jane/The Hive just was of the Corruption, not a separate entity, and I think Angela was just able to do that as part of being an avatar, that doesn't feel too different from what we see some other avatars do to me, it's all nightmare logic. for sure there were some weirdnesses before they settled what all the entities were though, like with the priest, and the early garbage collector episode||

[dusk hound]

HTTYD Live action was excellent

One of the best animation to live action adaptations I’ve seen tbh

[small quarry]

its the same movie

[tight dove]

Yeah its good cause its the same

[dusk hound]

Tell that to Disney, the people who keep making crappy live action adaptations

Also helps that they have the same people making it too ig

[molten jetty]

If it’s the same, why make it?

This just helps push the idea that live action is better than animation 😤

[dusk hound]

Live action just tends to get more box office numbers then animation

It’s just the sad reality

[molten jetty]

Which is why live action remakes are trash

Because it reinforces that trend

Cinderella is like the one case I except because that movie is unique and fresh in a good way

[tight dove]

https://tenor.com/view/counting-money-paper-stacks-gif-9918098029500472876

[molten jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/society-seinfeld-george-airport-jason-alexander-gif-5796128

[tight dove]

Because they dont make it the same movie

[lone canyon]

Murderbot e7 ||please no more of the polycule 💀||

||i physically cannot handle it anymore. It’s killing me||

[tawdry snow]

TMA all: ||I more meant that the original idea was to go with Hive and later got changed to Corruption with Hive either a) being another name for Corruption or b) a part of Corruption. Another example is Burned getting changed to Desolation||

||I always thought Angela was some early weirdness rather than an avatar because the curse seemed to jump to the statement giver after he interrupted the curse's work||

[buoyant scroll]

TMA ||Angela was the lady that did the jigsaw flesh curse right?||

||Yeah i'm unsure if she was an avatar or if the curse itself was an entity she could direct||

[tawdry snow]

TMA all: ||What entity do you think was responsible for s2e15 Binary? My vote is a very early version of the Extinction due to the central nature of technology||

[buoyant scroll]

||My impression was Spiral, cause of the mind being trapped and maze imagery.
Which a quick search has show me was the intention.||

[tawdry snow]

TMA all: ||I was never super satisfied with the Spiral, but I'll update once I get back to the episode||

[ivory night]

Taskmaster: WAIT YALL CALL BOWLING PINS SKITTLES

[distant birch]

TMA all ||my guess would be a combo of spiral, extinction, end, and maybe flesh||

[dusk hound]

Apparently 28 Years Later has been a very divisive movie

[minor isle]

@dusk hound https://x.com/HardDriveMag/status/1932423534133051451

Hard Drive (@HardDriveMag)

Zack Snyder Fans Worried New Superman Movie Will Show Him Rescuing Someone https://t.co/2PIC7vOp0o

X · Jun 10, 2025, 1:04 PM

[dusk hound]

Zack Snyder fans when they see the littlest amount of bright colors

It’s just… so strange to me that he’s garnered a cultish fanbase

But the internet is strange in general

Snyder himself is actually a great guy, I just don’t really like his movies that much

He’s the opposite of “separate the art from the artist”

[buoyant scroll]

Snyder I think suffers from "just not getting it"
Which is much better than the typical "doesn't care about it"

[dusk hound]

Yeah, at least he puts effort and he obviously cares about filmmaking

Which is… more than I can say for a lot of modern comic book films

[sacred slate]

Snyder I think exemplifies the issue Brandon has talked about a lot with prior adaptations of his works.

He has a vision for something he wants to tell and molds the vehicle he is given to tell that story. Sometimes this works but other times it's jarring to the broader audience. He also is(or was) at the blank check stage of his career so there wasn't much pushback to him doing that. He was a safe bet so they let him do his thing. When studios started stepping in folks came out do the woodwork to cry foul but I don't think getting a clearer picture of his original vision for things actually improved them.

[stark crag]

ah, gotcha, I'd forgotten them mentioning that

[dusk hound]

Yeah, I think Snyder’s style just really works with only a niche group of people but not with general audiences, and before he even did the DCEU stuff he was never really THAT huge with general audiences

[sacred slate]

I think it's also something that worked for a while when it was new/different but it becomes less interesting when applied to every project.

[dusk hound]

And then they REALLY over corrected and gave us the Joss Whedon Justice League, which was… awful

[dawn kayak]

he makes blockbusters though...

inception was not a cult movie lmao

hell neither was 300

Snyder is kinda like Michael Bay but people kept telling him he was a cult director and he started believing it

[buoyant scroll]

Inception was Christopher Nolan

[dawn kayak]

o sorry fair

sucker punch, then

[heavy anchor]

HTTYD- on one hand, I'm glad they didn't butcher the story in LA
On the other hand, it's the same movie, so what's the point
All it does is make me want to rewatch the trilogy

[distant birch]

I feel like this is a big inherent problem of LA remakes - if they're accurate, they're pointless, and if they're different, they're likely worse

[minor isle]

Eh. It's just a way to get people who think they are too "good" for animation to enjoy a good story that we have already consumed from the animation

[distant birch]

I feel like, as an EPIC: The musical fan, I've been slowly watching a fandom decay over a year or so into something so frustrating

[west escarp]

Welcome to fandoms full of over eager teenagers

[cosmic dock]

Still on my soapbox saying the httyd la should've done a closer adaptation of the books (with some necessary changes ofc)

[distant birch]

I've been becoming less engaged with the fandom recently but whenever I've dipped back into it it seems so... frustrating

[west escarp]

They all turn out like this

[distant birch]

Character discourse is all "x is the worst person ever and has no good traits" or "x is perfect how could you hate them", people just share the wildest misinformation about the myths/EPIC, apparently some fans were attacking animatic artists online

Not to play the stereotypical grumpy old person but I swear the fandom wasn't like this back when I first got into the musical

Also I've seen a lot of really weird parasocial stuff

It's also just really strange that EPIC ||telemachus/antinous|| is such a hated ship by a lot of the fandom because that seems like it'd be more popular

[cosmic dock]

Httyd first book specifics, series general ||I think the biggest change that you'd need to do is fix the gender imbalance in the first book lol. Probably by making the Hairy Hooligan "boys" a coed group, and bringing in the Bog Burglers as the other tribe at Thor's Day Thursday so we get Camikaze early? Though I haven't thought through all the implications for later books||

[distant birch]

It just adds to the fandom feeling really unwelcoming to more varied/different opinions and takes

[distant birch]

How different are the books to the movies?

I remember reading the first one ages ago and feeling like it was quite different

[cosmic dock]

Some names are the same

A dragon is trained

[distant birch]

Well that's... a start?

[west escarp]

Yeah they are WILDLY different stories

If I remember right the books are set at an established Viking dragon training school

[cosmic dock]

Books ||Not really? I don't remember an established school until the swordfighting one later. Iirc dragon training was passed down in the village like any other skill? But it's been a while so I may be wrong||

Been too long since I last read it tbf

[distant birch]

I'm just like... why do we hate nuance here?

Ugh rant over ig

[cosmic dock]

But yes, dragon training is an established viking system in the books. Where the civilised people ride horses and hunk with hawks, vikings ride and hunt with dragons

[frank quail]

genuinely, because internet

the mass broadcast of opinions to huge numbers leads to polarization, as the other person you're talking to stops being a person and becomes a representation

[west escarp]

Don’t forget the hell hole that is children’s cartoons that got popular with adults

[frank quail]

I only had two heads to attach text to

[west escarp]

Fair enough

[green fjord]

Discussions of adaptations are also a toxicity magnet. 😔

[frank quail]

though TBF, I couldn't think of any 100% example except Homestuck

so that would have been a good one

[crimson kelp]

Idk if it's the kinda people who latch on to fandom style engagement or just human beings in general (I lean towards the latter) but yeah my interactions in those kinda spaces have lead me to a) not want to be a part of them and b) conclude that a lot more people need therapy than are getting it

[frank quail]

probably a bit of both

[west escarp]

The 2016 Voltron cartoon had a fan base so toxic, “antis” (as a fandom purity concept) originated there

[frank quail]

no way is antis that recent

[west escarp]

https://fanlore.org/wiki/Anti-shipper

In the modern sense it is, see “parafandom use since 2016”

Hmm looks like they didn’t originate in Voltron, it merely got big/escaped containment there

[crystal brook]

Some day we will get a book adaptation, I believe 🥲

[distant birch]

ig I'm in a mood for potentially hot takes right now

TMA all ||started thinking about the potential of oliver banks/jon sims ship and I kinda think I prefer it to jon/martin||

[muted solar]

I don’t think that’s strange whatsoever. I’m not one to really think about ships at all granted, but that sounds to me like something that wouldn’t be popular whatsoever. But I also immediately hate the concept myself

Not part of the fandom myself though. I think that all sounds awful and people need to chill out and let people have their own opinions

[distant birch]

It feels like something that would be popular in fandom, to me at least

It feels like it hits a lot of the beats people like to take for enemies-to-lovers sorts of fanfic ships

[muted solar]

I would think given how recent Epic is, the fandom surrounding it may lean younger and thus there may be a generational thing there with a ship like that? Possibly?

Just spitballing there

[distant birch]

Though its definitely not my main issue with the fandom, just felt like it could be related to how it feels like the fandom really doesnt like complicated takes

[muted solar]

Fair I suppose. Perhaps it’s just how incredibly toxic || Antinuous || seems to be to me. He feels pretty irredeemable. Not to mention the || open desire to rape Penelope ||

[distant birch]

||he's defnitely toxic, and i assume most of the shippers somehow remove the penelope aspect||

||it just feels like the sort of dynamic fandom shippers would love, to me||

[muted solar]

I’ll have to take your word for it. You likely know far more about all that than me

[distant birch]

This one is very much me guessing based on vibes tbf

I could be totally off

Just was something where I saw the discussion around it online and went "huh, not the way i expected that to go"

Especially given [epic] ||ive seen a lot of ody/poseidon and ody/zeus stuff||

[muted solar]

Just off vibes I think I’d say those feel different in my head upon hearing them? Can’t explain it but there’s a particularly strong “do not like” reaction to the || Telemachus/Antinuous || idea for me at least that isn’t there with the others. Couldn’t say why, it just feels different?

[distant birch]

I think ||tele/anti feels a lot more personally toxic||

||which, i thought would be the sort of thing people would enjoy. But maybe I have a skewed view of fandom||

[muted solar]

Yeah. || Was starting to say it felt more personal. Like the gods feel like it’s just the gods doing what they do. It’s not as personal really with Ody it seems. Whereas Antinuous actively wants to murder Telemachus and rape his mother. Antinuous also to me feels like he’s Ody’s age, so shipping him with Telemachus just feels pedophilic to me too. That’s probably the biggest thing, now that I’m actively thinking about why my brain just actively strongly rejected the concept. Yeah Telemachus may technically be an adult, but also he’s kind of still a kid. He doesn’t feel like an adult ||

[distant birch]

||epic definitely makes anti/tele feel much further apart in age than the odyssey, imo||

[muted solar]

|| Fair, I haven’t read it admittedly. Or if I ever did it has been such a long time ago I don’t really recall it at all ||

[distant birch]

||I read it a year or so ago, don't remember it perfectly but they definitely felt more equal than in EPIC||

||EPIC feels like it does a lot to make tele feel young/inexperienced, with things like "that's so sick!" and "l-l-l-egendary"||

||while anti is out here calling him "boy"||

[muted solar]

|| Yeah, Antinuous feels like a grown man and Telemachus feels like a sheltered bright eyed kid who just hit young adulthood but still mentally is like a kid. So that ship just seems super predatory to me. Just in the same way I think a sheltered woman who just hit 18 being with a man twice her age feels super predatory(though I’ll admit any case of a big age gap like that feels predatory to me, sheltered or not). Same vibe.

But even if that all wasn’t the case, I personally have really strong opinions about rapists, so Antinuous really couldn’t ever be redeemed in any way as my brain could never separate that from him ||

[distant birch]

||As someone who has not seen any actual antinous/telemachus fics/art/etc., i assume they probably just remove the rapist thing?||

||if not, definitely agree. Even if they do, its still tough||

[muted solar]

|| For me, mentally, that can’t be done. I can’t separate the two.

Besides, if you’re changing parts of a character, what’s the point? That’s a different character then, no? Or am I way off base? ||

|| I also have strong opinions about age gaps generally though. Sure, consenting adults and all. But as a 29 year old man, I cannot fathom why any other 29 year old man would want to date a 21 year old for example. I think even 25 feels like it’s starting to push it a bit.

For me that is. Not going to judge anyone. My parents have a 9 year age gap. Just couldn’t ever be me. ||

[distant birch]

||I think to some extent you can change parts without changing the character, but given antinous's like... 1 character trait is aggressively wanting the throne/penelope, I think its tough here||

[molten jetty]

This is the best way to put it, yeah

[distant birch]

||like i can imagine an AU where... idk, maybe Odysseus starts ruthless, but you maintain the rest of his character because he's pretty fleshed out. But with anti you're kinda just making him into a deep-voice intimdating oc/archetype if you remove his actions/intentions. So it'd be a tough line, imo||

[muted solar]

Yeah, not my wheelhouse haha

I am very much one who takes media at face value myself

Like I think the only ship I’ve ever heard people discuss where I’m like “yeah I can get that” is ATLA || Katara/Zuko ||

It’s just something I’ve never actively thought about myself

[frank quail]

When codenames first suggested children's cartoons up here, my first instinct was to pretend to be a ||Zutara|| shipper

[west escarp]

Jonas: if we make the Stargate public knowledge on Kelowan, everyone might work together towards peace
Kelownan PM: If that were true, then the Stargate would be public knowledge on Earth too. Right, Colonel O’Neill?
Jack:…………. yeah

[midnight compass]

I'm sooooooo glad I never saw any of that when I watched that show

[west escarp]

https://youtu.be/NkX4WmpHj0s?feature=shared

Apparently the team played this clip pretty often during that years playoffs. They also filmed in Vancouver

[molten jetty]

It’s because (ATLA) ||Kataang|| is lame

[azure fern]

Atla || I never really understood Zutara shippers, seeing as Zuko is very clearly extremely tied up in a very deep relationship ||

[keen flax]

Atla ||I never understood zutara shippers because they weren't endgame 💀||

||also, and ive said this before, I probably would have been if zuko didnt... go on a redemption arc 😭 lil cosmic liked em toxic and terrible 😌||

[west escarp]

Azula was a formative crush for me that exact reason

[midnight compass]

AtLA ||how dare||

[lucid haven]

Would any of you ATLA nerds be interested in the magic the gathering avatar set that comes out this year. Like would it be something that drives you to play

[west escarp]

https://tenor.com/view/gohine-hohino-no-hohineee-gohineee-gif-17792172174678204487

[keen flax]

Probably but I dont play MtG

[midnight compass]

Also I'm watching that Kpop demon hunter movie and this is hilarious

[azure fern]

I'm sad nobody took my bait 🥹

[lucid haven]

https://tenor.com/view/muppets-muppet-show-kermit-the-frog-yay-tied-up-gif-7840246560924780401

[midnight compass]

Nah man I agree with you

[azure fern]

You agree Atla || Zuko is tied up in a very deep, unbreakable relationship already? ||

[midnight compass]

||not quite unbreakable but already in a relationship yeah||

[azure fern]

-# I feel like I'm trying too hard now t_t

[midnight compass]

There are things I can rage about but this isn't one of them

[tribal saddle]

Mmmm I suddenly want to rewatch Babylon 5

It's such a great show

[azure fern]

Atla || the punchline was going to be if someone contested his relationship with Mai was not that deep I was gonna reply "not Mai, his Honor" T_T ||

[keen flax]

Oooohhhhhhhhhhh

I get it now! 😄

[azure fern]

I'm hilarious, I know

[midnight compass]

Okay that's good

[stark crag]

pitch it to me? I'll ship a lot 👀

[oak ivy]

children's cartoons that got popular with adults were a mistake

we tried it, saw what horrors it unleashed, we do not need to return

animation should exclusively be for children, actually

spongebob is the upper limit

[keen flax]

But but but what if I never grew up and expanded my tastes and interests from childhood

[gritty sierra]

voltron and steven universe fandoms were terribleeeee

[west escarp]

Yes yes they were

[midnight compass]

I'm really glad that I barely used the internet when Voltron Legendary Defender aired because dang have I heard stories

[gritty sierra]

what happens when a certain volume of young people don't want to grow their tastes is that they are bringing their current level of depth and understanding and new developing value systems to whatever media they're watching, and the children's media just wasn't made to bear the weight of that kind of analysis

so you got some teenagers talking themselves into the position that Steven Universe is pro-fascist

[lucid haven]

woa

i would never have thought that someone could talk themselves into SU is pro-facist

wtf

[gritty sierra]

and it's just... I'd actually make the point that young people don't actually "watch children's media like adults", because the adult position is recognizing what the limits of the children's programs are, and recognizing what the story is for. they aren't actually ready to accept it on the show's own terms. so they watch it like immature teenagers

rigid over-application of a black and white moral system of the type that teenagers pass through as a typically normal and healthy part of their journey to being a self-actualized adult - but then getting stuck there because now on the Internet they get caught up with a bunch of other young people also rigidly applying said moral black-and-white to them too

sigh. Internet.

[oak ivy]

i feel like there was an evolution from "kid's shows can be just as serious as adult shows" to "kid's shows should be held to the same narrative standards as adult shows"

[gritty sierra]

felt like I saw that happen in real time

[oak ivy]

i think it happened exactly when the diamonds were introduced in SU

[gritty sierra]

for SU in specific, yuuup

[oak ivy]

it is also part of the adolescent crunch happening across mainstream media: children's programming getting pulled up and adult programming getting dragged down

it used to be there was a clear progression in media taste: you went from looney tunes, to teen dramas, to crime shows. now everything is muddled up. some of my favorite things come from that muddling, but i do think atla should remain the exception, not the rule

[gritty sierra]

I do think it's very rough that there isn't really good stuff aimed at teens

Young adult fiction is now read by mostly people in their 20s and 30s who are upset if things aren't max spicy

[oak ivy]

the concept of spice really broke containment

[molten jetty]

Remember when people thought Hunger Games was popular because romance and made a whole subgenre derivative of it

[keen flax]

Watching Cartoon Network step away from this in real time will be the reason for my villian arc 🥰

[molten jetty]

Media literacy being low is crazy

[keen flax]

shudders in Divergent

[oak ivy]

idk if its media literacy being low, or self awareness being low

[novel bear]

i agree with everything you're saying but i also feel like so many people say "X fandom was terrible" and really mean "X was popular among teenagers who acted like teenagers"

like the way people talk about "bad fandoms" comes off almost like shaming a lot of the time, and it's like, who cares, teenagers will be teenagers

"X thing is great, but the fandom ruined it" "X thing is great, but don't interact with the fandom" i already don't interact with 15 year olds online anymore

if part of your motivation for getting into something was that you need to talk to 15 year olds about it and for them to be chill, that's a you problem

[oak ivy]

i think with SU in particular it gets weird bc it feels like the fandom was part of the experience

[frank quail]

same with Homestuck

and then there's MLP:FIM where the fandom is definitively the problem

[oak ivy]

MLP is its own thing

[crimson kelp]

Idk I think it's natural for someone to enjoy something and then think "ah I'd like to talk with other people who also enjoyed this thing and have interesting discussions about it" and you can't just assume that toxic elements of a fandom are just "teenagers being teenagers" (paraphrase)

[topaz oyster]

I think the difference here is that it is (to my understanding) specifically teen-oriented media

[crystal brook]

The issue is that talking about things you like with people is cool but the internet has mashed all age groups together

[frank quail]

also just mashing disparate groups together

[oak ivy]

if you are 25 and rage posting about a CN show that is on you

[frank quail]

I think I'm leaning into the whole tribal theory, "we're only meant to know ~50 people" thing (or w/e that number was)
(and I'm not sure how valid that theory actually is?)
but yeah, teens being teens in the local village/neighbourhood is fine and good
teens being teens across an entire country/the world is maybe a problem

[gritty sierra]

I'm happy to communicate one aspect of what I think the problems were without needing to communicate ALL of what I think

[crimson kelp]

Also sadly there are many people who, to go back to what Grey wrote earlier, never get out of that "teen" black and white thinking so I don't think it's exclusively about teens ruining things for adults

More immature people ruining discussions for people who want a little more nuance than a playground shouting match

[gritty sierra]

I think the environment stokes and keeps people in this longer than they normally would have

I was a teen who went through my own rigid over-application of moral standards, but the social environment of the Internet fandoms I was on back then, that existed back then, allowed it to truly be just the usual temporary step along the way

I cannot imagine being a teenager in fandom these days

[topaz oyster]

I wasn't terribly active on the internet as a teenager and I can only imagine what its like

[gritty sierra]

seems like a pressure cooker of the new moral purity.... very scary to think about how this is going to develop

[west escarp]

https://www.tumblr.com/rosenkranz-isnt-dead/773660447881740288/and-to-be-honest-its-saturday

[buoyant scroll]

stares at the gaping maw of Youtube

[small quarry]

okay but what's worse rage posting about CN show or rage posting about someone rage posting about CN show

[cosmic dock]

It's all rage posting, all the way down

[keen flax]

People still being mad about TTG existing is just so funny to me honeslty

[buoyant scroll]

Most of my anger at TTG is contextual to when it came out

The show itself I have no concern or care about. It's CN's whole business strategy that was the issue, and at the time TTG was a bold symptom

[keen flax]

agreed!! DX

[lucid haven]

TTG?

teen titans go ?

[buoyant scroll]

yes

[burnt shale]

I mean I just think it’s 🫏

[cold sequoia]

I have never watched more than 5 second clips but I think its funny that people beef with it

[lucid haven]

why is there salt around TTG

like ive never really engaged with it or heard about salt around that show

[cold sequoia]

I think because it replaced the old teen titans show?

Which I also have no seen but I do beef with that show because it meant the show I did watch (The Batman) didnt have Robin for the first several seasons because there was (and I think still is?) a rule in DC shows that you couldn't have the same character appear in multiple shows at once

The exception being in the Justice Leage animated shows which had Batman and very occasionally someone like the joker while he had his own animated series

[burnt shale]

Many feel it’s irreverent towards the property, low brow humor, offensively low attention span, its bright colors loud noises for babies and it became like 80% of their programming.

[cold sequoia]

It is impossible to be irreverent towards superhero comics as a property

[burnt shale]

There were some early comments that did feel a bit mean spirited they got better as they went on though by the time they hit the movie the jokes actually landed but some of the early jokes were more “wow you guys actually like the original” than anything else

Like don’t get me wrong you can’t be irreverent towards any comic book character but if your targeting a specific run you kinda can

[cobalt onyx]

It definitely didn't replace the OG TT show (assuming I'm remembering the timelines correctly, it ended at least like half a decade before TTG). However, as long as it exists (and is popular), there's no real chance of an OG TT reboot or restart, they're too fundamentally different as shows.

[keen flax]

OG TT was over for a while before TTG came to the scene i believe

But yeah, I agree that it became way funnier when it moved away from the mean spiritedness toward the original fans

[burnt shale]

At the minimum it’s a focal point towards an imagined superior past. Remember when shows had good stories verses brainrot. Which ignores a bunch of other old brain rot. But it’s an easy and obvious comparison when they take a show and turn it into the other

[main dew]

It doesn't help OG TT ended on a cliffhanger for another season we never got

At least we got the TTG movie which featured the TT cast turning up and finding out wtf has happened to their show

I actually saw that movie in the cinema and very much enjoyed it

[main dew]

BTW this isn't just a one off joke in the movie, it's the premise of the whole movie

Huh turns out there 2 teen titans go movies and I've mixed the two plots up into one movie

[hushed moss]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/spider-man-brand-new-day-jon-bernthal-1236296073/

[steep bramble]

Oooooo

[lone canyon]

There’s a whole generation that never grew past last airbender

[hushed moss]

I am really hoping that this means that we are getting a street-level Spidey story

[topaz oyster]

The recentish video games are simply better at doing that than Marvel has ever been or apparently really wants to be

[distant birch]

Basically:
TMA all ||I think Oliver would be able to support Jon in a way Martin kind of struggled with in s5, and that no one else was really able to. Because Oliver is an Avatar, and he seems fairly relaxed about that, and also still fairly normal? Just looking at his statement episode. He's not crazy and sadistic like some, but he also seems to have accepted his Avatarhood. And hes the one to push Jon to wake up from the coma. I feel like he'd probably be able to... sort of reassure Jon and support him in doing what he has to to survive, while also not pushing him to go overboard. And I feel like Oliver seems to understand Jon's situation pretty well, at least based on 121.||

||I'm maybe failing to explain this properly but I really like rhe possible dynamic of jon, who's struggling with being "the antichrist"/an Avatar, and his partner being Oliver, someone who made his choice and seems to have accepted it, and can lay out the options for jon and help him make a choice||

[stark crag]

||yeah no I think you explained it fine, makes sense||

||I've seen one or two fics shipping them but not anything super serious and it is a good concept||

[distant birch]

||idk it just ended up on my mind and I quite like it||

[dawn kayak]

aughts and 10s internet would've been all over it

nowadays it's too problematic 😔

[forest wigeon]

I think crossovers are classified differently

[dawn kayak]

that's kind of the point lmao people ain't shipping with Epic all ||Antinous|| because he's redeemable

[midnight compass]

My girlfriend is an enormous Star Trek fan so today she showed me Star Trek The Motion Picture for the first time

It honestly wasn't that bad

Unfortunately, it wasn't that good either

The special effects were actually pretty good for the 70s, which is good since there are lots of scenes of panning around the fancy environments while no one says anything. That's clearly where all the budget went because the costumes look like this

Everything looks so washed out. The original series had better costumes than this

[dawn kayak]

gonna have to wait for the gritty live action remakes sorry 😔

[midnight compass]

Also instead of his normal hamminess, William Shatner sounds really stilted and now I understand this Animaniacs skit

https://youtu.be/1tt_SqxUB3k?si=97FhRe3Xv6FUoyRE

[dawn kayak]

someone needs to give another super hero to CW for them to make a show about 😌

whenever I think about media literacy being low I think about the ogre baalbuddy comic lmao

[burnt shale]

Baalbuddy has hit the sweet spot of fantasy gooner humor where it’s unabashedly gooner but also still funny

[dawn kayak]

this is part of why I like staying with my old games

you ain't gonna find many teenagers talking about Koudelka that's for sure 🙏

[dim hill]

They manage to satirize the stereotypes by cracking it all up to 11 and treating it 100% seriously

[cold sequoia]

that's an orc though

[burnt shale]

Nope no tusks

This is an orc

[tight dove]

baal usually draws orcs with darker skin

[burnt shale]

Jagged teeth are not tusks

[molten jetty]

https://youtu.be/KQ2Js2nnU38?si=5WN7hJ0BX3yO38dM

||Bihyung’s voice is crazy 💀 ||

[muted solar]

The what now?

[lucid haven]

magic the gatering avatar the last air bender set which comes out this year

after the spider man set

https://i.imgur.com/FxfZAXp.png

these are the sets that come out this year

[muted solar]

Of all properties that could get me to play a little magic again, that one may do it. Maybe just some pre-releases and drafts. Idk. Maybe not

I already have Flesh and Blood

But I do love me some ATLA

But also probably a discussion for the tabletop channel

[heavy anchor]

The one preview card is really interesting but also doesn't answer the giant question of the set design

Clearly there's a bending mechanic for the 4 elements
And that raises the giant question of what black is doing in the set lmao

[ivory night]

Jurassic park || lol the shot where the kid goes flying off the electric fence|| makes me crack up every time

|| bad raptor stop trying to kill Laura Dern||

[minor ledge]

i like mike duncan but IMO at times hes too left leaning

but hes one of the best hsitory bpdocasters

but the rset of history is a really really bad podcast

[lone canyon]

It varies series to series tbh

I haven’t finished his Russian Revolution podcast but the parts I’ve listened to so far hit a good balance

For Haiti he was obviously very pro revolution

Also for the Mexican Revolution he was pretty obviously stanning Zapata

His French Revolution one was very moderate/ a bit right leaning

Also off topic but I watched ballerina

Knew it wasn’t gonna be a character heavy film but I did think there would be more character than it had lol

[oak ivy]

REAL, unfortunately

[crystal brook]

I take it purely as entertainment, theres no real analysis or much historical work going on by two guys who appear to me to have the majority of their worldview informed by great man theory

[west escarp]

Jack: This changes things.
Jack: …..
Jack: Carter, how does this change things?
Sam: I don’t know, sir.

[lone canyon]

Wdym a judgemental and moralistic way 😭

[wet quest]

None

[worn notch]

The poll shows otherwise

[keen flax]

-# I havent seen any of them

[wet quest]

They are all amazing

[worn notch]

Except the third

[keen flax]

Ive heard! I need to consume them 😔

Theres so many classic movies i havent seen

[worn notch]

I can count on two hands the number of good 80s movies

[keen flax]

• The Outsiders
• The Fox and The Hound

The end 🥰

• little mermaid

That counts too

[worn notch]

The Fox and the Hound book was better imo

The Fox and the Hound book ||The hound, Copper, chases the fox, Tod, to exhaustion, and Tod ultimately dies. The master, facing eviction from his land due to factory development, takes Copper and a shotgun, implying he intends to euthanize the dog at a nursing home where dogs are not allowed. ||

[keen flax]

O.o

Well thats dark 😭

[worn notch]

But more tragic

I like tragic stuff

[keen flax]

I do too! It just sounds... oof because Tod and Copper are my babies

[gritty sierra]

jurassic world is on tv ||and the scene where it just LINGERS on this woman's life makes me so furious, the misogyny of the director. i want him dead.||

[burnt shale]

||The pterodactyl one? || Jurassic world

[gritty sierra]

yeah

[burnt shale]

||I’m not sure it’s sexist but probably unnecessary. I just think they wanted to have an excuse to have the mosasaur eat someone || jurrasic world

[gritty sierra]

||nah it's overtly misogynist. that crem was typical punishment. ||

[lone canyon]

I’m still thinking about Ballerina

Seeing it right after Sinners was insane

It had actually less character and plot than a marvel movie

I didn’t expect it to have much but it had so little it distracted me from the action lmao

[tawdry snow]

TMA all: ||Relistening to Grifter's Bone made me realize Tchaikovsky was somewhat aligned with the Slaughter. Or at the very least, The 1812 Overture had a connection with the Slaughter ||

[hushed moss]

Yah I remember the director I think talking about how ||she was the first named female character killed and how he wanted to make it “memorable”.|| Which is weird to say the least.

||And I think she is the only named woman to die in the movies at all.||

[minor ledge]

i dont remmeber what it was but i remember them spreading some pretty bad misinformation at one point udring the first episode i watched

[dawn kayak]

oof

[crystal brook]

wouldnt be shocked

[dusk hound]

Plot twist: none of the Back to the Future movies are bad

1 is the best tho

[dusk hound]

WE WILL BE THERE https://x.com/filmupdates/status/1936870880900219067?s=46

Film Updates (@FilmUpdates)

First trailer for Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s ‘PROJECT HAIL MARY’ will be released soon.

Starring Ryan Gosling and Sandra Hüller.

X · Jun 22, 2025, 7:36 PM

Billions must watch

[heavy anchor]

Pog

I am so excited for this movie

[topaz oyster]

RIP Artemis

[heavy anchor]

I hope it's as good as it should be

[steep bramble]

I’m so excited

[paper hull]

[dusk hound]

Book was CRAZY good, I can’t wait for the movie

And Ryan Gosling is always great

[topaz oyster]

10/10 cast for the role too

[dusk hound]

Only person I can see playing Ryland tbh

And Phil Lord and Chris Miller always make bangers

[lucid haven]

do we know if soon is today

or if soon is next couple weeks

[molten jetty]

Time for K-pop Demon Hunters

[cold sequoia]

weird sequel to this

[heavy anchor]

Project hail Mary ||but I've said it before, and I'll say it again, the key to the movie is making Rocky work. Since that relationship is what the entire story hinges on||

[dusk hound]

Probably this week

Maybe even as soon as tomorrow

[lucid haven]

also hinges on the design choices of that character and how they want to display everything

[heavy anchor]

That's included in my meaning

||from the actual design, to the language, to the different tech, that all matters for making him work||

[molten jetty]

KPop demon hunters ||Jinu is hot||

Huhhhhh

[molten jetty]

KPop demon hunters good

[molten jetty]

||I had a feeling Takedown would be a credit song ||

[dusk hound]

Look at this abomination I found

[wet quest]

Quinton Tarrentino on his way to save you from watching your favorite movie because it was shot on digital

[cold sequoia]

Quinton Tarrentino on his way to stop a movie of his from releasing without a gratuitous foot shot

[dawn kayak]

and five slurs

per minute of runtime

[dusk hound]

Apparently Transformers One won’t be getting a sequel

[thin ridge]

I started Young Royals and I don't think I've ever watched something dubbed into English before.
It's a little weird but I'm sure I'll get used to it

YR 1.1 ||I hope that Simon is the love interest because STARS that voice||

[steep bramble]

Please tag me once again. It’s a fantastic show

You’re lucky you can watch the entire thing. Waiting between seasons was torture.

[thin ridge]

Cheyenne how am I accidentally hitting so much media you love?

YR 1.1 ||Wrinkles nose
It's hard for me to look at a party like this and understand how people would enjoy something like that. It just looks like a personalized form of torture.||

||WHY WOULD YOU PUT A GLOW STICK IN SOMETHING YOU'RE DRINKING THAT'S LIKE A FORMULA FOR CANCER||

||Ok Simon (Simmon?) is really cute. Wilhem (wilhelm?) is decidedly not my type.
And that one horny girl is so into Wilhelm it's scary.||

||That's... A place to end the episode||

[verbal lintel]

Damn, then the Peak-Content-Timeline shall forever remain the following :
Transformers One -> Highmoon’s War for Cybertron video game Trilogy -> Transformers Prime

[full wolf]

This is my Monday now:

Ngl I kinda just wanna watch it again...

[molten jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/yeahhhh-rumi-mira-zoey-kpop-demon-hunters-gif-11508471156771090103

[keen flax]

I bet that twice song is so freaking good

Anything with my queen Jihyo in it is peak though so I expect nothing less 😌

[full wolf]

I do think the animators commitment to doing really big, exaggerated facial expressions even in 3D animation is such a credit to the style

It's something they did really well in Spiderverse and I feel like they had some fun opportunities to push it further in this one too

3D animation incorporating techniques from 2D animation is so

[steep bramble]

I have no idea

[steep bramble]

You got the spelling right the first time

[wet quest]

This is the kind of news that is best not to share, as now my only hope for the future of cinema has been extinguished. Would that I could live in a world of blissful ignorance, forever hoping that one day I could get to see Transformers One II; that hope would keep my light going indefinitely. For now, I live in darkness

[steep bramble]

They do that a lot

[acoustic pewter]

I know, I was really hopeful for a Transformers Two. 😭 Like, we finally got a genuinely good Transformers movie, and that's it? No more? It's not like there's no demand for it.

I know it's due to a bunch of studio stuff and Hasbro stuff, but it's too bad anyway.

[frail mulch]

yesssssss it's so good

really loved how, like spiderverse, they incorporated stylistic exaggeration from the 2D counterpart mediums

the facial expressions! the really great soundtrack!

https://tenor.com/view/demon-tiger-kpop-demon-hunters-gif-15629466418718903696

these derps

[full wolf]

There's something so great about how you can tell the story is written by fans of kpop, but is also poking fun at kpop fandoms and idol culture too

Kpop DH ||Stuff like the fake-out meetcute with all the K-drama slow-mo before he psychs her out, or all the hyper analysis of their interactions at the joint signing were very realistic in a silly, fun way||

Kpop DH ||But also, what kpop fan has not wanted to believe that the bond of love between the fans and the idols and the feeling of being at a concert with everybody singing their hearts out together could magically protect the world from evil :p||

[thin ridge]

Oh fun
Well I downloaded an episode to watch today during lunch today
So... Yeh

[molten jetty]

This tiger was so cute

KDH || “I made the hat for the tiger but the bird keeps stealing it”||

[frail mulch]

KDH ||I think that implies he made all the hats for the final Saja Boys performance hahaha||

[molten jetty]

||we see them at the beginning too ||

||when he says he has the idea to form the boy band ||

My takeaway from KDH was I need more 😭

I need to know what happens next

[molten jetty]

It also implies (KDH) ||he made a hat for the tiger but not the bird. Like the bird specifically is his least favorite pet. ||

[inland jetty]

Coming to the conclusion I may need to watch The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, considering I have an actuual (if vague) interest in it, unlike Cats, which was the big thing that connected to the second season (I am only now realizing how little sense this makes when you don't know its about Bigtop Burger, or if you don't know what happens in Bigtop Burger)

[steep bramble]

You want a warning about the biggest cliffhanger of the season?

[thin ridge]

Probably not?
I can watch all three the whole way through so if there's a horrible cliffhanger I can just watch the next one

[steep bramble]

Ok valid.

But you'll understand why I say it was torture to wait for the next seasons.

(and no, the one I'm referring to is not the last episode)

[celest mango]

It bothered me so much I just watched in Swedish with subtitles

[thin ridge]

Young Royals 1.2 ||OH THEY ARE SO DOWN BAD FOR EACH OTHER
I mean they kissed so that seems somewhat obvious but STILLLLLLL
Wilhem is so utterly unsure of himself and it's amazing||

[steep bramble]

Yepp

[dusk hound]

THE BEAR COMES BACK THIS WEEK CHEFS

[lucid haven]

THIS WEEK ???

[dusk hound]

https://tenor.com/view/the-bear-carmen-berzatto-carmy-jeremy-allen-white-jaw-gif-13487111760924528729

[lucid haven]

i just caught up not long ago

im ready

[dusk hound]

WEDNESDAY

[lucid haven]

WEDNESDAY IS A GOOD DAY FOR ME SINCE I WILL BE "WORKING" from home

which streaming service is it released on again

i forget

[dusk hound]

Hulu

[lucid haven]

and disney ?

like i have access to disney but was watching it on plex

[dusk hound]

Yeah, it should be on Disney+ too

[lucid haven]

sweet

[dusk hound]

Disney has all the Hulu shows I think

[cold sequoia]

In the US this is true

[lucid haven]

and i am currently inside the usa

[tight dove]

fun fact disney+ only has the most recent 2 seasons of doctor who

[cosmic dock]

Given it's known as "Disney Who" yeah I'm not surprised

[midnight compass]

Started rewatch of Arcane s2 (finished S1 rewatch a while ago)

Arcane s2e1 ||man I don't think I paid enough attention when this funeral scene played. This is so good||

[full wolf]

okay so i just started rewatching Kpop DH, shut up, and also ||i just realized the Saja Boy named "Abby" is... the one who's all about his abs ||

[midnight compass]

Arcane S2 ALL ||ah frick you Maddie||

[dusk hound]

Inject this into my veins please, spoiler marking it since it’s kinda spoilers for Superman but not really??? Very minor

[lone canyon]

my brother wanted to watch murderbot so i ended up rewatching the first four episodes with him

honestly, i liked it even better on a rewatch

the group dynamics just hit so well in a way they don't in the books

murderbot and gurathin are both really interesting characters who are good foils for each other and this comes off really well in the show

[dusk hound]

I’ve been meaning to watch Murderbot

It’s been a while since I read the books

[full wolf]

I think it'll be even better watching back-to-back when it's all out, b/c the episodes are soooo short watching week to week

[lone canyon]

The episode length is lowkey frustrating

Also the never ending cliff hangers lmao

[full wolf]

okay this is the funniest post so far in the kpop demon hunters tag:

[gritty sierra]

lmaooo

[full wolf]

~~it was better the second time 😭 ~~

[keen flax]

so watch it again
It would be funny if you saw it like 5 times before I saw it once 😂

[full wolf]

its one of those things that like. the music is so plot important that there's all this extra stuff when you know the songs really well while you're watching

(feather you watched it for the first time last night, how can you know the songs "really well")

well you see, i listened to the soundtrack at work all day 😅

[midnight compass]

My sister in the Almighty it is a 37 minute soundtrack

[full wolf]

and its full of bangers

i do think it's best listening to them in the movie first, b/c you get them in situ

but then you listen to them a bunch and you watch them again and then you hear all the little motifs they wove in there

[molten jetty]

What’s your fav song Feather

[full wolf]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm genuinely so hard to pick

[molten jetty]

Mine was ||Your Idol because ||

[full wolf]

yeah that ones up there

||golden|| might be the one for me tho

[molten jetty]

Valid

[full wolf]

I get goosebumps from a lot of them tho, which is like, ok that's how i know a song is good

the vocal performances are really excellent

[molten jetty]

Yeah

[molten jetty]

You fr need to watch it. You’ll be obsessed.

[full wolf]

It's hard to beat this moment tho, ngl ||https://64.media.tumblr.com/a5f7a6fff798f7c3a39a84e9fe74c873/64ac5b923affc642-4b/s540x810/0f5178c24e6d064aaafe9853a394ea9f97241c46.gif ||

[molten jetty]

EXACTLY

KDH ||that’s the moment that’s been in my head since I watched||

[frail mulch]

KDH gang look at this fanart: https://www.ddinstagram.com/p/DLPo5mnT_m1/

sanjiseo (@sanjiseo)

너무 재밌게 봄😂

InstaFix

[buoyant scroll]

Can't decide if i think Tech weapons are worth dealing with the charge up

[topaz oyster]

They are

I love tech weapons

Favorite archetype of the three

[buoyant scroll]

...oops, wrong channel

didnt realize i hadnt switched

[topaz oyster]

Oh lmao

[buoyant scroll]

they tend to have less attachment slots which is sad to me

[full wolf]

Oh heck yeah

(it's the highest combined critic and audience score out of all the Netflix films)

[keen flax]

🫢

So close...

[full wolf]

Soooooonnnn

[molten jetty]

Cannot wait to see Cosmic’s reaction

https://tenor.com/view/watch-yourself-ginu-kpop-demon-hunters-be-careful-netflix-gif-18285982083917035825

[keen flax]

The dude covering his eyes is sending me omg 😂

But... oh my 🫣🫣

[full wolf]

Wow, Huntr/x's new member looks great in the lineup, but I don't know how I feel about the full face mask...

making Miles shorter than Rumi and Mira was such a choice tho

short king energy

[muted solar]

Tickets secured for avatar the last airbender in concert for this year! So excited to see it again!

[topaz oyster]

The Mahershela Ali Blade project appears to be fully dead in the water

Ali saying "someone please tell Marvel I want to make a Blade movie" levels of dead

He apparently has no idea what's going on with the project anymore

[keen flax]

Yall

I had a Kpop Demon Hunters dream without even seeing the movie

[keen flax]

GUYS

KPOP DEMON HUNTERS?? PEAK.

Give it the Oscar now

KDH ||That last Saja Boys song was absolutely incredible my goodness, im surprised an actual kpop group hasn't done a demon theme, they absolutely need to||

||also jinu's voice???? PLEASE im in the wedding dress already||

[dawn kayak]

the juxtaposition is very funny to me

[midnight compass]

https://tenor.com/view/water-spray-stop-sprinkle-water-gif-11895255

[lucid haven]

@full wolf shes watched it

[full wolf]

YES

another succumbs

[keen flax]

I DID AND IT CHANGED MY LIFE

KDH ||a friend told me my favorite group had a song in it and I didnt believe him so when it showed up I had a physical reaction||

||also I have 2 hands, one is for Abby and the other is for jinu 🥰 also his name being Abby is so funny||

[full wolf]

A geeft for u ||https://www.tumblr.com/moonlessoul/787178788555538432/ill-be-your-sanctuaryyyyyu?source=share ||

[keen flax]

https://tenor.com/view/fangirl-fangirling-kasesan-phone-kasesan-gif-15143633452972939936

Im gonna be giggling like an idiot all day huh 😭

[full wolf]

Yeah someone pointed out that (KDH) ||they probably would have just won if they'd debuted as a demon kpop boy band trying to devour their fans' souls, because that would have been way more effective ||

[keen flax]

THATS WHAT IM SAYING 😭🤣

||see they would have taken my soul so fast 😔||

also KDH ||The girls' fits were absolutely STUNNING like red velvet and twice need to take notes because omg....||

Also also KDH ||Rumi and Jinu's duet was so cool, why did they kill my mans off??? 😭 surely there will be a sequel so they can surely fall in love... THEY DUDNT EVEN KISS DX||

[full wolf]

KDH

[keen flax]

Mr fr honestly 😌✨️

This movie healed me

Also (KDH) ||After the credits, seeing twice recording Takedown?? Ohhh my sweet girls 🥺🥺💕💖💕💕||

Also also ||Jinu. Hehehehehehehhehehehehe||

||it was so hard to focus on him talking because I was just sitting there like "good lord your voice is transcendent"||

[full wolf]

KDH ||Like first they made him that hot on his own, but then they turned up even further by making his chemistry with Rumi just insane. The fakeout asshole meetcute?? The blade to the throat introduction, immediately into the armband tie in the middle of the fight??? Like they started at a thousand miles an hour and then just kept speeding up 😭 ||

[keen flax]

||RIGHT!! I was 🫣💕💕💕🫢 the entire time those two were on screen!! Anytime he got those freaky yellow eyes i was tempted to climb through the screen and take him myself 🥰||

||especially toward the climax and he yelled about how bad of a person he was... I would have fixed him just saying 😔||

Honeslty this made me realize that kpop is fun again!! Like yeah, of course I love it but since my favorite group has been in the military trenches since... 2019?? Ive been so mmm about it but this and Turning Red did wonders to my soul

Tldr I miss EXO

Anyway this movie is peak and deserves 50 trillion Oscar's and everyone should watch it right now

[dawn kayak]

this is a movie not a show right?

like not a movie divided in three parts and stuff?

[keen flax]

Yep, just one movie!!

[full wolf]

Not even a super long movie. 88 minutes of beautiful brilliance

[keen flax]

Yeah honeslty it was nicely paced!!

[full wolf]

I will say, for people looking up the trailer, I do think the trailer picks the goofiest clips to try to sell it. The movie is more serious than the trailer would imply, even though it does have some goofy moments in it.

[keen flax]

Hmmm yeah 🤔 I didnt expect it to go the way it did honeslty

KDH ||Literally everything about Jinu was a surprise, which i think was a excellent choice||

[gritty sierra]

i remember the trailer from ages ago, i thought it was cute

[keen flax]

-# also I changed my tag, felt the kpop one was fitting hehe

[gritty sierra]

i'll probably watch tonight after raid

[full wolf]

do you want company for that

[full wolf]

Yeah, based on trailer vibes alone, I thought it was going to be wacky goofy the whole time, but its got quite a bit of emotional depth that's really well done

I got tears a couple times for sure

[keen flax]

Yeahh 🥺 I didnt tear up but I did gasp

Both from the emotional bits and from Jinu... breathing 😅

But @full wolf and @molten jetty what were your favorite songs 👀👀 mine is probably gonna change but ||Your Idol has me in a god damn vice grip rn 🫣💕💖💕||

[molten jetty]

That’s my favorite too LMAO

[keen flax]

🤣

[molten jetty]

KDH ||they did not have to make him so hot because????||

[keen flax]

GIRL I understand it now 😭

[molten jetty]

I feel like that song being someone’s favorite says a lot about what they enjoyed in the movie hahahaha

[keen flax]

🫣💖

[molten jetty]

FRFR

[keen flax]

Like not a single song misses either it is insane

[full wolf]

I told MG different songs yesterday but I think as of today it's ||This is What It Sounds Like||

literally tho it does change by the day/hour which one's my fave

It is solidly a no-skips kind of album for me, except it's a musical soundtrack 😅

[keen flax]

Exactly!! And that one's such a good one too 😭

[full wolf]

ok i just got out of therapy and my therapist said i should watch kpop demon hunters more

now i have no choice

actually i have things to do and i gotta raid in two hours so. lame.

[ionic lily]

https://tenor.com/view/blade-wesley-snipes-deadpool-and-wolverine-eric-brooks-there's-only-been-one-blade-gif-14125652457894000393

[lucid haven]

[full wolf]

okay maybe it was something more about not being embarrassed or downplaying the importance of having a fun, good experience that brought joy in a really difficult week and that if i want to do the thing, i should just do the thing and enjoy it

[keen flax]

yess!! Do what makes you happy XD especially when it involves hot kpop boys 🥰

[lucid haven]

That sounds mostly like therapy speak for watch kpop demon hunters again tho

[molten jetty]

KDH || https://tenor.com/view/jinu-kpop-demon-hunters-hot-mf-gif-6518207124349355730 ||

[keen flax]

Yes, im- oh HI POOKIE 🤭💖💕💖😔

[azure fern]

Is this a movie someone who knows barely anything about kpop can enjoy?

[keen flax]

Yep!!

-# I am the wrong person to ask

[full wolf]

Yes, definitely! I've been really enjoying reviews from people with no exposure to kpop before this realizing how fun kpop fandoms can be

It's very approachable to outsiders

[keen flax]

Yeah like kpop isnt all terribly Fandoms and saesangs, its about enjoying incredible performances and the people behind them (it helps that they are always gorgeous) 🥰

[full wolf]

There's definitely some deeper touch points for people who do know a lot about kpop/kdrama culture, but that knowledge is not required to enjoy it

There's a lot of the deep kpop fandom references that are there to lovingly poke fun at the whole subculture

But the broader story is just a fun musical about pop groups fighting demons and singing catchy songs

(also the critic and audience reviews are all consistently extremely high, and you know all those critics aren't kpop stans)

[molten jetty]

As a non-K-pop stan who dabbles in other pieces of Korean culture, I found it very good

[azure fern]

I do have some passing knowledge of that culture, but very extremely shallow

I know it exists, at least. Same can't be said for many people xd

The only piece of Korean culture I dabble in is StarCraft xd

[keen flax]

Yeah it's not a "you need to know the lore of these 42763 groups' concepts to get it" kinda movie
-# yes each one has their own lore 😂

[azure fern]

I will look into watching it. Which of the 100 streaming services is this on?

[keen flax]

Netflix!!

[azure fern]

Ezclap

The only one I pay for heh

Lucky me

[midnight compass]

Yes

[dim hill]

https://www.vxtiktok.com/t/ZTjcTYq3L/

GUYS

HES DOIN IT

JORGE'S WORKIN ON THE ILLIAD

[keen flax]

OH WAIT that means my pookie Hector will be in it 🤩

[dusk hound]

https://tenor.com/view/patrick-beverley-patrick-beverley-nba-timberwolves-gif-11752728165167489486

[molten jetty]

Poggers

He’s been seeming hyped for it

The question is: will Jorge still voice Odysseus?

[tight dove]

guys help me im watching the minecraft movie agian

[cosmic dock]

The Minecraft Movie, or A Minecraft Movie?

[tight dove]

A Minecraft Movie (Block Party Edition)

yhey look its dantdm

hey look its mumbo jumbo

[dim hill]

I'd assume so; I'm also assuming most of the gods will stay the same too

[full wolf]

...alright im three for three

very normal about this movie, y'all. extremely normal.

[topaz oyster]

https://tenor.com/view/squint-eye-sad-about-to-cry-gif-12357864

[molten jetty]

This whole movie lives rent free in my head

[dusk hound]

2

MORE

WEEKS

https://tenor.com/view/superman-dc-comics-dc-david-corenswet-superhero-gif-12358087505936562136

[main dew]

Guys idk if I'm gonna regret asking. What is Epic The Musical

I understand it is not a musical in the traditional sense, but like how does one consume it

[ripe stag]

It's either the Iliad or the Odyssey I believe?

[distant birch]

Musical adaptation/retelling (more the latter) of the Odyssey inspired by anime/video games

[main dew]

Wikipedia says it's a series of albums, so do I just listen to it on Spotify?

[distant birch]

Released in "saga" albums over the last few years

Yup, there's an official playlist compiling them iirc

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3sdEH7HfFE3d4xry5RnnLr

Places them in order

[main dew]

Danke

[celest mango]

There’s also the creator’s livestream from when the last saga was released that might make it easier to understand exactly what’s going on thanks to the animatics/on-screen text https://youtu.be/hjotpDjR5YM

[cold sequoia]

I think it's the prequel to Bacon the Musical

[dusk hound]

https://youtu.be/18QQWa5MEcs?si=vI2YwwjtMr9kkT7V

Final Fantastic Four trailer!!

[dawn kayak]

Sonic 1 movie ||damn peach you live like this?||

[keen flax]

Same tags ||my girl is in the trenches 😔||

[minor isle]

this slaps

[cosmic dock]

Same ||I think we only got one use of Mr Fantastic's powers in this trailer? Damn they must be worried about the CGI coming across wonky||

[minor isle]

or probably finally learning that Trailer shoudln't show too much

Like thank god || we didn't see galactus here || f4 new

||and only his shadow ||

|| or legs ||

[dusk hound]

28 Years Later seems to be VERY divisive

I’m seeing some reviews saying this is the worst movie ever and some saying that it’s a masterpiece

[full wolf]

Alright, my kpop demon hunters thought of the day, from watching it again last night ||I know "Your Idol" is great for those sinister steal your soul vibes, but honestly I do have a lot of fondness for the "saccharine sinister" vibes of "Soda Pop." Like the lyrics are so clever because it just sounds cutesy and flirty, but it's also all about wanting to devour the fans souls, too.||

[keen flax]

KDH ||Soda Pop has been stuck in my head, id just randomly say "my little soda pop" 😭||

||i dont even listen to that one 😂||