Media (General)

[terse crystal]

https://tenor.com/view/uncut-gems-sandler-gif-15209359

[wet quest]

I heard Supergirl Movie is gonna be based on Woman of Tomorrow so I picked up a copy and CUTE PUPPY!

[west escarp]

https://tenor.com/view/superman-krypto-superman-krypto-bite-2025-gif-1900504045808796081

The galaxy’s worst dog

[wet quest]

Update: ||puppy got shot 😡||

[wet quest]

You take that back or I'm gonna get Supergirl to treat you like a smelly bus patron

[west escarp]

Look at him, he’s got no training and the ability to bite steel

He’s a objectively a bad dog

[dusk hound]

https://tenor.com/view/riddler-paul-dano-new-rockstars-thumbnail-does-he-know-he-doesnt-know-gif-27552850

[dusk hound]

Jokes on you, I would want Milly Alcock to treat me like that

[oak ivy]

Yeah zee way to misread the room

[dusk hound]

https://tenor.com/view/supergirl-supergirl-2025-superman-superman-2025-theplixel01-gif-6479374463024154579

She would crush me, but it’s worth it #DeathBySnuSnu

[wet quest]

No
Wrong
Incorrect
He is good dog

[oak ivy]

Terrible dog

[wet quest]

This, I can agree with. I wouldn't be able to handle if she [Woman of Tomorrow] ||woke up, punched me one (1) time, and then went back to sleep.||
I need attention

[buoyant scroll]

https://vxtwitter.com/discussingfilm/status/1993385706610438570?s=46

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

First teaser for the ‘SCRUBS’ revival series.

Premiering February 25 on ABC and Hulu.

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · Nov 25, 2025, 6:26 PM

[gritty sierra]

okay revivals are whatever but... i can't stop smiling

[buoyant scroll]

yeah the moment i saw Cox and Carla are both back I got way too excited

[turbid narwhal]

The Chair company ||Surprisingly very emotional ending to this episode, shaping up to be one of my favourite shows of the year||

||I saw it's been renewed for a season 2 and I'm not sure where it could go from here||

[dusk hound]

👀 👀 https://x.com/homeofdcu/status/1993430280695431342?s=46

Home of DCU (@homeofdcu)

THEY MADE THE SUPERGIRL ACCOUNT EVERYONE

X · Nov 25, 2025, 9:23 PM

https://tenor.com/view/michael-scott-the-office-steve-carell-oh-my-god-its-happening-gif-17270692

[velvet oriole]

Fallout ep7 ||"Back up power initiated." ⚡ ||

||If you aren't the scientist you are the experiment.||

[ivory night]

Okay finishing up the defunct land video and lol || them deciding to cheap out on everything in Star Wars land and the hotel because they didn’t want to pay union employees ||

|| chapek on video saying “cast members came up with their own characters all on their own” as if that is some mark of high quality and not a very obvious disaster of story telling and a way to clearly avoid having to pay somebody to write a cohesive story||

Might go rewatch Jenny’s video again lol

[west escarp]

They likely pair well

Jenny: Here’s what this was like (bad and disappointing and over priced)
Kevin Perjurer: Here’s why it was like that

[ivory night]

|| “they’re selling entertainment not tech”

and so their answer is to sell you slop. Because this feels like slop is where they’re headed ||

[west escarp]

||Disney dark age 2 (or is it 3?) ||

[ivory night]

For real def feels like they’ve moved into maximum extraction of money from people at parks because they have so much cultural value that people will still spend money to take their kids there even if it’s trash. Which is similar to what they’re doing with the live action remakes

Okay Walt charging millions in 60s money for his NIL is some god tier level of self dealing

|| oh my god that Walt animatronic jump scare ||

[inland jetty]

Now I wanna rewatch it once I'm home but I don't have enough time for a 4+ hour video if I want to go to bed on time 😭

[topaz oyster]

I'm commonly glad Disney parks have no appeal for me

I genuinely can't think of a more miserable way to spend the day than what they have to offer

[dusk hound]

I went to DisneyWorld once for my High School Senior Trip

Suffice to say that was enough DisneyWorld for me for a lifetime

[west escarp]

I think the ideal of Disney would be fun

The way the ads present it

But that’s not what it’s like so

I went once as a kid, don’t really remember it but had a great time. That’s probably sufficient

[forest wigeon]

Disneyland has good rides. I don't have much positive to say about the rest of it

[topaz oyster]

Growing up in Texas was like, its an eighteen hour drive to either one and ain't no way were my parents doing that for that when they had to be hard pressed to travel for actual family

And we had Six Flags locally

So if I wanted the roller coaster experience it was there

I don't need or particularly want the Disney Schtick on top of that

[novel bear]

there's something about the atmosphere of amusement parks that i admittedly do enjoy, even as someone who doesn't really click with roller coasters (being high up and going fast is scary 😖)

but i personally don't feel a need to have like, the disney version of that

[velvet oriole]

Finished Fallout.

[inland jetty]

My grandma paid for my family to do a weekend vacation at Dianeyland, not too long after I left high school, and I was honestly a little impressed by how much fun Animal Kingdom was to just like... exist in, but I think that was the best part, and uh... that's a really bad thing to be the best part of a theme park, no matter how cool it is

Epcot and Disney Hollywood Studios (or whatever that one is called) meanwhile were like... okay at best. Too long lines, impossible to get a fastpass for the rides I was actually interested in, theming was far less engaging or interesting than Animal Kingdom, legitimately one of the most interesting parts was interacting with the employees there and noticing stuff like "If they see a kid doing something stupid and dangerous, they're gonna say 'I'd hate for you to hurt yourself' as part of their warning to stop, instead of anything more direct"

[velvet oriole]

Fallout review:

Fallout generally was a really great. Video game adaptation wise, this has been my favorite overall. Not that I think Arcane is bad, but they really don't adapt the actual 'game', they instead adapt from backstory about the characters and not what you actually play.

This series was... Kind of what I wish Star Wars would be. Fun, bloody, not afraid to getting it's hands dirty. Even though one is in space, they are basically really similar, a sci-fi like western.

The story, writing, acting and such was generally alright.

My only problem was the ending, it felt like they were forcing to make a sequel and I didn't like that.

I myself haven't really played the Fallout games(past the intro) but I am familiar with it. It seems mostly stay true.

I hope the next season is as good.

9/10 Owls.

[crystal brook]

With league, summoners and the actual game got written out of the lore almost a decade ago

[midnight compass]

Yeah this is most of why my family hasn't gone there

[crystal brook]

The game isnt a thing in the lore at all anymore

And yet I would argue it is a bad adaptation of the lore still

[frail mulch]

Yeah, Disney parks as they currently are sound overcrowded and over priced- there was a NYT article earlier this fall following a school bus driver who saved so her family could go, but it was so expensive and the logistics are tricky if you're not shelling out for resorts, and there was a wealthy family it contrasted with who paid for lighting lanes (the $$$ fast pass replacement)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/opinion/disney-world-economy-middle-class-rich.html

I think my in-laws want to take their grandbaby to a park at some point, but I think it'd make more sense when kiddo will want to do/see specific things.

[ivory night]

I did a Disney after dark at mgm in 2019 w/ friends during a chemistry conference it was fun. But uh as for like actually going now….. nah feels like they took a lot of the magic out of it

My grandparents did a big fancy trip with us when I was 3 because my mom and grandpa had just beaten cancer (I remember none of it) so if you’re going with kids I’d recommend waiting until they actually are old enough to like remember anything

[gritty sierra]

that all sounds like hell

what an indictment of the world we live in

[oak ivy]

there basically isnt a way for disney to run well given the demand

[gritty sierra]

for me mostly the reminder that it's ubiquitous

[inland jetty]

I've heard it (without much evidence backing the claim up) that the way Disney's money moves, they're essentially a theme park company with just an enormous advertising budget, and that always stuck with me. And like... if the theme parks aren't even that good...

[ivory night]

The theme parks weren’t awful before. I think it’s a little like how flying has gotten worse and worse because they up charge everything now

Like the pay for fast passes is some nasty work

[cold sequoia]

Economically I dont think this is true

On the one hand I empathize with the people running the parks because Disney really has no solution to parks that pleases everyone. The parks are too desired and not big enough to support the demand they have.
On the other hand its Disney so I dont actually feel bad for them

[buoyant scroll]

-# Maybe what Disney needs is some sort of park...planet

[cold sequoia]

From what I understand the Disney Parks are not awful now either (unless you dont like crowds).
The experience of many people who go to the parks (especially the ones paying for the trip) are bad because there is so much stress to get the most out of the trip.

If you live close enough to the park to not have travel problems and go there on nonpeak times I imagine its closer to what it was like for me to go to the local amusement park (an hours drive away) albeit a more expensive ticket

[molten jetty]

Can confirm. Most people go on holidays / during the summer / on weekends but that’s when Disney is BAD because there are so many people

It’s also more expensive on those days for even a ticket

[cold sequoia]

If for some reason my local amusement park were an international destination I would probably read a whole bunch of people talking about how horrible an experience it is online similar to Disney

[sacred slate]

Disney Maxxing is a thing. My family goes a couple of times a year and my sister in law knows exactly how and when to book things. Once a decade is more than enough for me.

But they also only go into the parks to do the things they like and no longer feel the need to just be in the parks all day long.

My mom's best friend has a Disney time share and her husband is a veteran(for ticket discounts)so they can do it reasonably cheap.

[cold sequoia]

veteran (for ticket discounts)
Joining the military for veteran discounts to Disney World is certainly a commitment

Alternatively this could just mean marrying a veteran for discounts to Disney

[sacred slate]

Though in this case it was an added benefit I would infact believe that there are folks out there who married a veteran in no small part for that Disney discounts.

[dusk hound]

Just shed a tear at this omg

He had the interviewer crying, that’s legendary

[oak ivy]

just watched The Truman Show

unbelievable movie

absolutely nails everything about it

and what a soundtrack

[dusk hound]

In case I don’t see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and goodnight

[oak ivy]

may be my second favorite movie of all time

what an absolute banger

[topaz oyster]

I'm kind of surprised you hadn't already seen it

[oak ivy]

i never went through a true cinephile phase

and honestly i havent seen it talked about that much

[topaz oyster]

I think a "true cinephile" probably doesn't like The Truman Show

It is very specific for being as widely referenced as it is

[dusk hound]

Same guy who directed Dead Poets Society btw

[keen flax]

What's the first 👀👀

[dusk hound]

Peter Weir is crazy underrated

[topaz oyster]

I mean if you're gonna "other Peter Wier movie"

https://tenor.com/view/russell-crowe-captain-master-and-commander-no-nevermind-gif-7560347

[molten jetty]

My favorite movie

[keen flax]

I knew youd come running the moment he said It too 🤣

[dusk hound]

https://tenor.com/view/robin-williams-dead-poets-society-teacher-on-desk-perspective-gif-26878097

[oak ivy]

across teh spiderverse

[dusk hound]

O captain my captain

[molten jetty]

LOL

[oak ivy]

i clocked some of the reference but did not know what they are from

[molten jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/dead-poets-society-robin-williams-alive-love-beauty-gif-16847083

[oak ivy]

cinephiles not liking it is a skill issue

a lot of really good directing throughout

[keen flax]

A MAN WITH TASTE 🫵🏽

[molten jetty]

Sound your barbaric YOP

[topaz oyster]

Won't get any argument from me

[oak ivy]

anyway all of you should watch the truman show, i say misunderstanding the point of the movie

[keen flax]

I do that all the time, speak your truth king

[molten jetty]

I’m very predictable. Mention my favorites and I will nerd out.

[dusk hound]

I will say, The Truman Show had me paranoid for like a good month after I watched it

[buoyant scroll]

😭

[oak ivy]

if you dont know anything about it just watch it, dont look anything up

[molten jetty]

EXACTTTTTLLLYYY

[oak ivy]

i knew the premise and honestly wish i hadnt

[molten jetty]

this movie is such a tearjerker

[buoyant scroll]

Knowing Robin Williams's life-long struggles really recontextualizes just how much heart he puts into parts of it

[oak ivy]

truman show all ||the wife havinga nervous breakdown, doing an ad read for no reason, and then gaslighting truman was just an unreal scene||

[molten jetty]

And it’s just so good

I love Robin Williams

[keen flax]

This and Good Will Hunting are on my list for him

And also the Truman show now apparently?? 😂

[molten jetty]

Dead Poets Society is just… wow. It’s a hard movie to watch.

[oak ivy]

robin williams isnt in the truman show

mg just got excited

[buoyant scroll]

Patch Adams is a great Williams movie also

[molten jetty]

It’s just by the same director I think Ryan mentioned

[molten jetty]

Hook too

[molten jetty]

I will take every chance to shill my favs

[keen flax]

Go off queen

I would tweak out too if someone mentioned my favorite movie, the hit 2010 original CN movie Firebreather :3

-# and pookie knew what it was, the bar was in hell and he leaped over it!

[dusk hound]

Did I ever tell you guys what my favorite movie of all time is

You won’t guess it ever

In like a million years

[molten jetty]

Superman

[keen flax]

Is it the hit 2010 original CN movie, Firebreather

[dusk hound]

No

It is not a superhero movie, I’ll tell you that much

[topaz oyster]

Superman (1978)

[keen flax]

Narrow it down a bit, give us a medium, like animated, acted....
-# if you say motion capture im taking that as a cry for help

[dusk hound]

It’s live action, from the 80s, and its fantasy

[keen flax]

glances at the Clevland Browns fantasy mini movie

No no

Hmmmm

[buoyant scroll]

Krull?

[dusk hound]

Nope

Final guesses

[keen flax]

-# amazed there were even fantasy movies before LoTR

[buoyant scroll]

Dark Crystal?

[dusk hound]

I guess it’s fantasy?

Idk

Very high fantasy tho

Medieval timesish

[molten jetty]

Labyrinth

[buoyant scroll]

(And before anyone says anything Muppets are definitely live-action)

Excalibur?

[dusk hound]

This is a very popular movie, I’m surprised

I just don’t think it’s something you guys would guess I’d like

[buoyant scroll]

I might know it and just not know it's 80s xD

[burnt shale]

even in their own fake movie they have one of the worst drafts of all time

[dusk hound]

It’s The Princess Bride

My favorite movie of all time

[keen flax]

OHHHH RIGHT

I feel stupid now

[dusk hound]

I literally rewatch it like 5 times a year

[buoyant scroll]

...oh that is 80s huh

[molten jetty]

Oh that makes sense

[keen flax]

Not my fault, I havenr seen it

[molten jetty]

COSMIC NO

[keen flax]

cue the 20 people to tell me to watch it

Theres 1 😂

[molten jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/damper-relationship-that-does-put-a-damper-that-does-put-a-damper-on-our-relationship-damper-on-our-relationship-gif-2475253213991405380

[dusk hound]

This is probably my favorite scene in any movie ever, next to the trench run from A New Hope https://youtu.be/rMz7JBRbmNo?si=jpt7mzmEml6przKD

[molten jetty]

Princess Bride is definitely one to watch ASAP because it’s low commitment, has high pop culture impact, and is amazing

[dusk hound]

It’s very short too, an hour and 38 mins

But it genuinely is so masterfully paced

[keen flax]

Hey thats not insane!

glances at the 12 hrs of LoTR

[wise epoch]

I'm watching Wake Up Dead Man tomorrow for my birthday!

(I say tomorrow, it's technically today, it's 2 AM for me. I watch it in 12 hours)

[muted solar]

I should watch princess bride at some point too

[azure fern]

Fine... I will let you watch Princess Bride before LotR. But only because it's The Princess Bride.

[novel bear]

I can't believe this man messaged me last night to say "you should watch this!" about a film that's been one of my favorites for a decade

The disrespect

I grew up loving Jim Carrey's goofier movies, and I really love how in the Truman Show his manic energy somehow becomes something very subtle

||With how all his mannerisms were subtly incentivized by the people around him to make him a more watchable personality||

[keen flax]

Hes the best part of the first 2 sonic movies

So im sure this is good too

[novel bear]

This is one of those "wait he's also a really good dramatic actor" movies

[keen flax]

Oooo oh really??

[topaz oyster]

I mean it is a dramatic role that plays to his comedic strengths

He's still Jim Carey in The Truman Show

Of course the best of these kind of comedian-to-dramatic-roles do

Good Will Hunting and Dead Poets Society are both very Robin Williams roles, Breaking Bad is keenly aware of Malcom in the Middle in particular, etc

[oak ivy]

I think it works bc of the stilted unreality of the entire situation

You are never sure who is really acting

[novel bear]

Banger final scene btw

Like the last shot of the movie

[vernal stirrup]

Stranger Things tonight

its been too long

[oak ivy]

The whole sequence leading up is just chefs kiss

[novel bear]

It's good on rewatch

[velvet oriole]

For those of yall who are going to watch Zootopia 2,give me your reviews, I am thinking about watching it.

[feral flower]

Absolute Batman 14 was excellent
||Can’t believe they found a way to make Absolute Bane even more ridiculous. Also I really like that the solution to this wasn’t Bruce taking Venom and overpowering Bane, it was Bruce stripping the Venom out of his system and making it into darts so he could force Bane into ODing on Venom||

[west escarp]

Scott Synder refuses to make a the absolute Batman version of a villain a normal size

[tight dove]

My thoughts on the Hazbin demos they released (Brighter 80s mix, Piss Power Ballad mix, and Losin Streak R&B mix)
||I fw brighter heavily but i think the darker more aggresive tone fits the emotion of the scene better, the Piss demo is.... alright but the final is just objectively better, and the losin streak demo is basically a different song and its a really interesting musical idea i hope sam revisists for the inevitible season 3 huskerdusk song||

also Sam can sound shockingly like Christian

[main dew]

The what? 👀

[tight dove]

buying the seasn 2 soundtrack on apple music gives the 3 demos mentioned and the Alastor recap song
someone uploaded them all to youtube as well but those arent offical uploads and might get snipped

[dusk hound]

Stranger Things tonight

Isn’t it crazy how my excitement for it just… died after they made us wait 3 years

[sage finch]

It lost its charm after like season 2

[wise epoch]

In the theater for Wake Up Dead Man!

[delicate temple]

https://fxtwitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1993766104536080853

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

Quentin Tarantino has finally directed the missing chapter of ‘KILL BILL’ that never made it into the final film
︀︀
︀︀The short film will release in Fortnite on November 30.

**💬 325 🔁 1.6K ❤️ 25.9K 👁️ 980.2K **

▶ Play video

FxTwitter · Nov 26, 2025, 7:37 PM

[turbid narwhal]

does this count as the 10th film he won't shut up about?

[west escarp]

In Fortnite????

[cold sequoia]

Epic will have to put millions of dollars into foot rendering technology

[west escarp]

I saw Once Upon a Time in Hollywood with my grandma

When we left the theater, she turned to me and said “Now what do you suppose was the symbolism behind all the shots that started with feet?”

[cold sequoia]

https://tenor.com/view/tarantino-sunglasses-head-turn-gif-16095500336819635617

[oak ivy]

Funny. I watched Once Upon A Time In Hollywood with my 3 year old son, and after we walked he looked to me and said, “Father, i believe the quantity of naked feet symbolized how Hollywood is an upside down place, if you will, where truth is not found in the eyes or mouth or, more scandalously, the breasts (and isnt plastic surgery such an epidemic?), but in the feet, the last bastion of integrity.”

[west escarp]

That’s a real story though

My grandma is a film buff

She has watched the Oscar’s every year since they started airing on tv and always sees all the films up for best picture at a minimum

[oak ivy]

I know the pacing of that comment just reminded me

[wise epoch]

Hell yeah. That was awesome

[distant birch]

Oh I'm going to see it later today 👀

[thin ridge]

Just finished Wicked: For Good and I liked it a lot. Might be one of my new favorite movies

[agile drift]

Oh right stranger things is out now eh

[distant birch]

Hazbin demos ||I really don't like the Brighter one 😭 mainly just because of how much Ive listened to the original I think, but it just feels really weirdly slowed down||

[wise epoch]

||Someone on a comment said that the Brighter one was the song Vox stole to make the one in the show, and I think that idea is too funny to be wrong||

[dusk hound]

And… Netflix crashed

[wise epoch]

||I do find it really interesting how they just made it more obviously violent in the official lmao||

[tight dove]

||whats funny is all the changed lines are food related for some reason||

[molten jetty]

Who could have foreseen this

[dusk hound]

I don’t know how they’ll handle the Christmas Day traffic

The next 3 eps of Stranger Things drop then and the NFL games are also on there

[ivory night]

They handled Beyoncé last year

[distant birch]

Is it worth trying to watch ST now or is netflix having issues

[west escarp]

id give it a day

[ionic lily]

Watch the new Ken Burns documentary instead

[distant birch]

If I watch anything else it'll be the new mighty nein

[agile drift]

Stranger things 5.1 ||god they are all SO OLD it's killing me lmao||

[distant birch]

5.1 ||the opening present-day scene was so strange to watch 😭 ||

[timid zodiac]

Watched wicked part 1 today

It was very good

[small quarry]

oh is new ST out?

[tight dove]

Yeah

[distant birch]

First 4 episodes

[pine flicker]

never watched ST

b4

[west escarp]

I didn’t like it

I wanted a horror show. It was actually slice of life 80s nostalgia fest with elements of horror

[cold sequoia]

I think season 1 was effective horror

[west escarp]

Not the show runner’s fault they didn’t cater to me, but I did feel lied to by the ads and everyone telling me it was super scary

[distant birch]

I think I saw an interview where they described it as more coming of age then anything

[west escarp]

Not to someone who wanted it to be primarily and mainly horror it wasn’t

[cold sequoia]

Granted horror in the 80s movie style

[west escarp]

What I wanted was another Haunting of Hill House

[cold sequoia]

Stranger Things S1 ||like specifically the Will plot line with his mom discovering the upside down had some nice spooky moments. The Eleven plot line wasnt really horror in the horror movie sense||

Having recently rewatched the original Alien, I would say that the spooky parts of ST S1 were spookier than the spooky parts of Alien

[wise epoch]

STRANGER THINGS SEASON FIVE LET'S GOOOOOOOOOO

[agile drift]

ST 5.2 start ||holy crap they actually killed some old characters. Not that they were terribly relevant but it's still something||

Netflix is fighting for its life so I guess I'll try again later tonight or tomorrow

I'm liking it so far though

[small quarry]

oh wow they look so goddamn old

[wise epoch]

Holly looks way older than she should lmao

She's supposed to be, what, 7? 8? She looks 10, if not older

[distant birch]

Seeing Wake Up Dead Man soon 🙏

[wise epoch]

Hell yeah

It's a roller coaster

You're getting on Rian Johnson's wild ride and there's no stops until the light of God shines. Or something like that

I was trying to come up with a religious metaphor but I couldn't think of anything better lmao

[distant birch]

Very excited 🙏

[wise epoch]

Slight expectations but no actual spoilers ||This movie was really funny for me cuz I made a theory like 15 minutes in, went through like five other theories over the course of the movie, and then the theory I made at the start was right||

[wise epoch]

||There wasn't even a reason for that original theory. It was just a baseless thing that I made in five seconds lmao||

[minor ledge]

is stranger things any good

[wise epoch]

I like it quite a bit

[minor ledge]

Finished rewatching breaking bad

[wise epoch]

It has its good seasons and its bad. S4 was really good.

[minor ledge]

i meant s5

i watched 1-4

[wise epoch]

Ah

[minor ledge]

i liked season 1 and the first quarter of 4

[wise epoch]

It just came out. I'm enjoying ep 1 so far

[minor ledge]

tbh i never actually bothered to watch BCS to its completion

also forgot how ass the breaking bad finale is

tbh

feels like it ||undoes all of the consequences walter caes in ozymandias||

[agile drift]

ST 5.2 ||was the vecna= whatsit reveal supposed to be shocking? I thought it was pretty plainly obvious by the fact that nobody could see him, and then they did the drawn out writing of his name which was clear from letter 1. All after Will just outright said it. Idk it didn't hit that well for me||

||also as always some good duos for this season. Robin and Will is fun (gaaaaaay), Jonathan and Steve is annoying but tolerable because I think they'll have good stuff to work out. And maybe I'm misremembering but have Mike and Nancy ever been paired up during actual action/investigation? I like seeing them work together||

||Hopper is annoying me though, I think the writers have struggled with him a lot after season 2||

[agile drift]

5.3 ||drugging a whole family so they can do home alone is crazy work||

[agile drift]

Finished the first batch of stranger things. I'm liking it so far, more than I expected to

5.4 ||following through on 008 was very very unexpected||

[placid river]

ST 5.1 ||pretty solid start. Curious about Holly’s imaginary friend, I have a strange feeling he’s not actually evil. Not sure if Dustin is even alive which is crazy.||

[distant birch]

You're totally right

Crazy experience

[wise epoch]

Yeah lmao

Wake Up Dead Man full ||I was gonna say "there's no brakes until the culprit is confessing their sins" but I decided that was quite literally the end of the movie, so I went with a different angle||

[distant birch]

WUDM ||i was so convinced wicks faked his death and was the culprit||

[wise epoch]

||This movie is a very unique subversion because Rian Johnson played with the two most likely theories based on his prior movies and what would be most unexpected for this movie: That the victim didn't actually die, or that the protagonust Jud is the actual killer. And he used BOTH of them and made them BOTH red herrings to the real answer. He used "Jud was the killer" as a red herring MULTIPLE times, in fact||

||He knew what the theories were gonna be when he wrote it, and he used them to throw us off completely||

||Oh yeah, also. The theory I mentioned was that Martha did it. I said it to my friend in the scene that we met her, I just went "She's gonna be the killer". And then my theory proceeded to change multiple times before it was finally revealed that yes, she was in fact one of the culprits||

[distant birch]

||one of my friends guessed Martha and I replied with my theory one of us had it. Though I was right in being convinced someone would come out of the tomb, just not who||

||between the title and the tomb and some of the stuff he was preaching I was so sure wicks had faked his death so he could rise and punish them||

[wise epoch]

||I didn't even figure out that "Wake Up Dead Man" referred to Wicks rising from the grave until I was leaving the theater lmao||

||I should have figured it out when it happened, if not sooner||

||But yeah, my theories were basically: Wicks killed himself, the entire flock was in on his murder, Wicks AND the entire flock were in on it, Wicks faked his death, Jud did it, I thought the groundskeeper was in on it for a minute....||

[distant birch]

WUDM ||as soon as they described the tomb I was convinced someone would be waking up from it. Originally thought it would be the grandfather xD||

[wise epoch]

Fair

Oh right

||I also considered that Grace was never actually dead and she was the one who did it||

||....for about half a second before I realized that if that were true she would be way too old||

[distant birch]

||there was also a bit where they summarised some of what wicks had been preaching as "rising from the grave and punishing them" and then said something about him being talking about himself instead of christ||

[distant birch]

||oooh I also was considering Grace being involved||

[wise epoch]

||She would have died of AGE if she survived at the tomb||

[distant birch]

||I had no real theory on how but I was sort of expecting her to tie into it somehow, especially being "redeemed" or explored in some way||

||mainly because of the way past movies have had young women struggling against systems and power||

[wise epoch]

||When Martha was leaning over the casket, I knew she was doing something untoward. That reignited my suspicions of her before I promptly forgot about her doing that lmao||

[wise epoch]

||tbf, they did kind of do both, since they made her out to be a victim who was treated terribly by everyone close to her, then cheated out of the one thing that kept her staying there, before ultimately dying because of it. If she wasn't promised the fortune, she would never have stayed and would have lived a far happier life. That's why Jud made Martha apologize to her as well before she passed, and why Martha had to acknowledge that she wronged her.||

||It's kind of interesting that they never bring up where the flask went after it got stolen from Jud. The answer is probably just "Martha/the doctor stole it", but idk, it felt like there was something there that wasn't explored. It's easy to fill the pieces in, they realized that he stayed behind to take the flask when it was never found and assumed he put it in his room, took it back, and disposed of it, so it's not necessary to address it. But they never do anyway||

[distant birch]

||oh yeah definitely. I'd forgotten about it by that point, but I wasn't totally surprised we explored that||

[wise epoch]

||I love the trio of protagonists when viewed as a collective. They're all from minority groups: Martha is an illegal immigrant, Andi is a black woman, and Jud is a Christian who actually preaches Christian values! /s
(yes i know that jud is a killer and that's how he's the outcast but idk that joke was too funny not to make)||

||I just thought it was really funny that we had two women of color as the protagonists, and then a white dude as the third||

[distant birch]

WUDM ||I'm not religious myself, but I did like that the themes of the movie felt like they leaned more towards "the church isn't bad, it just has some bad people in it" than totally damning it. And I liked how Jud was worked into all that||

[wise epoch]

Yeah I agree

||I was going into the movie thinking that it would be an out and out criticism of religion, which would make sense since the last two movies were both overt criticisms of rich people, but I wasn't sure how I'd feel about that.||

[distant birch]

||I really enjoyed the way blanc and jud's characters and arcs worked with the themes||

[wise epoch]

||And I am happy that ultimately Johnson did portray religion positively through Jud, and just said that Wicks was a cancer who was poisoning this specific group of people||

||And especially Blanc's characterization throughout the movie, how he starts out completely dismissive of religion and proclaiming it as a bunch of hoo-ha, and then at the end he realizes "Wait, I can't solve this crime. Jud has to do it because he has faith, and that's what the resolution of this case requires"||

||So he completely cedes the climactic "Detective breaks down the whole crime" thing in favor of allowing a priest to accept the confession of a parishioner||

Glass Onion/WUDM ||Overall, while I don't think this movie gels as well as the original, I think it is a lot better than Glass Onion. I liked Glass Onion, but its entire point was criticizing the rich, something the original did a lot better, and the joke that Miles is a complete and utter moron. It doesn't really do anything beyond those two things. WUDM makes me actually think about things beyond its runtime other than "Wow, billionaire influencers are idiots"||

||Though one criticism I will have for this movie is that the characters aren't all there. Blanc, Jud, Wicks, and Martha have amazing characterization, and to a lesser extent Cy and Geraldine. And then the other are just. There. Nat has so little focus despite being the guy who does the deed, and everyone else is just sorta there. And aside from the groundskeeper, who seems like a chill guy, the other characters are portrayed as assholes, but it doesn't really feel as important as it does in the other two movies.||

Knives Out/WUDM ||For instance, in the original Knives Out, the characters being racist assholes feels like it has a point, because Marta is an easy object of their hatred because she is a hispanic woman who isn't in the country legally. In this movie, the author guy is a racist asshole just to make us hate him and he doesn't do anything in the story to really justify that character trait. I know the point is that Wick is encouraging the worst in these people, which is why they are the way they are, but still.||

||That said, it is interesting that the ones who are the least terrible are the women, because Wicks is a sexist asshole and he puts the women down for being women (forcing one to raise his kid and the other to give him loads of money for nothing). While with the men, he encourages them to take out their aggression on others. Cyrus and the author guy, he directs to hate the woke. Nat, he directs to be misogynistic. I'm sure that's definitely on purpose||

WUDM ||Though Nat's misogyny over his wife divorcing him doesn't really come up as anything but a tertiary characteristic. It's hardly relevant, no conflict comes up with it. He doesn't harass the women at all, he even works with one of them to commit the crime.||

[distant birch]

||i feel like this one probably goes deeper into the main cast, but at the expense of a lot of the side/less central characters||

[wise epoch]

Yeah very true

[distant birch]

WUDM/benoit trilogy ||which I don't mind. We've had two movies about assholes already, so it is nice to go for a more thematic angle and look at the protagonists more||

||but feels a bit like there's maybe some untapped stuff there||

[wise epoch]

||Neither of the other movies focused on Blanc very much. He was just the dude solving the murder. He was funny and intelligent but he didn't really grow at all. Blanc is the same man at the start of Knives Out that he is at the end of Glass Onion. But this movie feels like a marked difference, he does into this one treating it like any other murder, but he comes out of it with a different perspective, realizing that maybe he doesn't need to solve the murder this time, maybe he just needs to trust in a man with faith in God.||

||I do wish Nat had some more meat to him though. Martha is clearly the primary culprit and the one that the story wanted you to care about, but Nat also had an important role and also they got jeremy renner for him and gave him so little lmao||

[distant birch]

||I keep forgetting which one Nat is ||

[wise epoch]

||He's the doctor||

||The guy who actually stabbed Wicks||

[distant birch]

||part of me wishes that Renner was playing himself because of the GO reference, but I see why he wouldn't want to be that character||

[wise epoch]

||I forgot too I had to look it up lmao||

[distant birch]

||yeah, it just keeps taking me a minute to connect the name and person||

[wise epoch]

||That said, it was so worth it, because Jud is the best protag of the three. He's really good.||

[distant birch]

Benoit trilogy all ||I feel like this one maybe leant harder into the drama/character stuff? Jud felt a lot more fleshed out and felt like... messier? maybe? With him often coming into conflict with Blanc and all. Felt a bit like it was drawing less on archetypes||

[wise epoch]

Fair

[distant birch]

||If they do a fourth movie, I think I'd probably want that to hit closer to the first two, but I did really enjoy this one||

||its probably recency bias + the gothic vibes but it might be my favourite of the three 🤔 ||

[wise epoch]

||It's cuz Jud went on his own little journey. He met Blanc and was like "idk about this guy, you want me to help solve a murder", but then as it went on he got inspired to solve the murder and he was getting super into it. But then he had that phone call, and he remembered why he was doing what he was doing. He saw that he was, to some extent, losing his faith chasing after Blanc's murderer, and he cut it off.||

[distant birch]

||It feels like much more of a jud movie with benoit supporting than a "benoit and [x]" movie, I think ||

[wise epoch]

||Marta and Helen had a pretty stable relationship with Blanc. Helen was always on Blanc's side, and Marta was against him for most of the movie but only because she thought she was the killer||

||But like that scene in the rain genuinely felt like Jud had started to actually resent Blanc||

[distant birch]

Yepp

||I really like what they did with jud and benoit||

WUDM ||both had really juicy arcs, imo||

[wise epoch]

Yee

||tbh Jud didn't really even go on much of an arc, he began and ended in the same place, it's just the middle he wavered a bit before regaining his conviction||

||But he was VERY strongly characterized||

[distant birch]

||I kind of see it as an arc of reaffirming himself||

[wise epoch]

Fair

[wise epoch]

Oh also (WUDM) ||I like the subtle characterization that the groundskeeper is the dude who isn't all in on Wicks because he doesn't even pay attention to most of the sermons since he's just listening to baseball the whole time||

[distant birch]

Ooh true

[dusk hound]

Thanksgiving on a nice Kansas farm vs Thanksgiving in a dark brooding cave, I’m choosing the Kents https://x.com/jcbedgar/status/1994061828222067064?s=46

Jacob Edgar (@jcbedgar)

My annual debate post is here. Would you rather have Thanksgiving with the Waynes or the Kents?

Art by me, color by @KikinhoJ

X · Nov 27, 2025, 3:12 PM

[velvet oriole]

Kent's ez. You know they got the good food. And I'll feel welcome.

[west escarp]

Kent’s, the conversation would be significantly less awkward and stilted

[forest wigeon]

Kents are normal people

[placid river]

Also the Kents don’t live in Gotham so that’s a plus

[minor ledge]

waynes are rich so you can ask for money

also is pa kent dead

and what robins are there

[forest wigeon]

I think the art answers both questions

[half dock]

Okay but like, thanksgiving with bruce wayne and all like 30 of his adopted children would be so funny

Surely we can revive all the dead ones for one gag comic

[minor ledge]

assuming current mainline canon arent they all alive rn

[oak ivy]

also alfred is a SSS tier michelin star level chef so like

[oak ivy]

is alfred back?

[placid river]

No but Bruce has a hologram Alfred

[oak ivy]

well that doesnt count

[west escarp]

Holo Alfred is more pathetic than mourning and moving on

[minor ledge]

hes not a robin

[velvet oriole]

How's Stranger things s5 so far?

[lucid haven]

The Kent's is the only true answer.

[burnt shale]

honestly i think he can rock the robin suit

[agile drift]

I liked it

[ionic lily]

I think smiling Batman is much more interesting conversation

[cold sequoia]

The Kent's is the correct answer because they would be happy to host a stranger

[crystal brook]

ST Recap ||So like, was the upside down just kind of an empty place with nothing in it other than some tendrils and goo before Vecna?||

[distant birch]

ST4 ||I think there were some creatures in it, iirc||

[agile drift]

ST4 ||I think the mind flayer and the demogorgons and bats and stuff were there and vecna took control of them||

[distant birch]

||that's how I remember it. At least the MF we definitely saw him reshape and control||

[crystal brook]

ST5x1 ||THE FALL MENTIONED 🗣️ ||

||A LOVE SUPREME MENTIONED 🗣️ ||

[distant birch]

ST 5x02 ||man some of this character drama is really frustrating me||

||like, I get it, they're people, but I feel like they're letting the dumbest things get in the way of really important stuff||

[distant birch]

5x02 end ||I wonder how much of this is real/truthful, and how much is just lies||

||what Henry is saying||

[distant birch]

...welp I just got spoiled on ST by a netflix article, not even two full days since release. Great.

I didnt even open the article

[keen flax]

Oh that SUCKS :((

[pine flicker]

I have serious anger issues right now

Maybe a ST marathon will help!

5 seasons! wow

[west escarp]

https://youtu.be/FMX9ZAD_h3g?si=AqT6qeb40nOVaA0j

[west escarp]

https://www.tumblr.com/singularsoldier/799848443336097792/is-this-anything

TheScunt

Is this anything

-# #frankenstein 2025 #frankenstein #mary shelley #monster high

Tumblr · Nov 10, 2025, 5:15 PM

[agile drift]

I remember when I was like 6 my cousins were watching monster high and I was surprised to really like it and it was my greatest shame lol

[west escarp]

It’s surprisingly good and the dolls are very high quality

[dusk hound]

WE ARE BACK BABY https://x.com/hollywoodhandle/status/1994475503672004932?s=46

The Hollywood Handle (@HollywoodHandle)

The first teaser for DC Studios’ ‘SUPERGIRL’ should debut at CCXP next week.

X · Nov 28, 2025, 6:36 PM

[west escarp]

https://youtu.be/BHgGYW7-Oto?si=gCPeZ8YcRMr9wUz1

[ionic lily]

I may have just entered a sweepstakes to win a Lego Enterprise signed by him

[acoustic pewter]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOXolSQcEb4

This just premiered on YouTube today.

Actual classic 2D hand-drawn animation illustrated entirely by one guy, a Disney veteran.

It's beautiful.

[west escarp]

https://youtu.be/dbUDSxJFsDA?si=o2zEfWR7FbiNzYdL

Since it’s now Christmas time I shall share my favorite joke from the Marx brothers

[topaz oyster]

Wake Up Dead Man good

[ivory night]

I’m pissed that the nearest theater was like an hour+ away

[cold sequoia]

Will probably have to stream it

Unfortunately

[gritty sierra]

we have to wait for christmas to stream it?

[ivory night]

Yeah the no amc theaters kinda sucks when everything around here is amc or closed down

I think it’s the 12th

[gritty sierra]

ooh

[sharp eagle]

OMG. On hazbin hotel I just realized the voice of the (s2) ||speaker of god|| is the singing voice of || Anastasia from the 1997 film and Odette from Swan Princess ||

[quasi hatch]

insert gif of charlie saying "you didnt know" from season 1 which unfortunately does not exist

But yeah definitely made me feel a way when i learned that. Already loved the song she sang and yeah no wonder!

[dusk hound]

Did the dead man wake up

0/10 movie if he didn’t

[distant birch]

WDUM all ||yes but also no||

[agile drift]

I watched all 3 for the first time this week. Us was my favorite

[ivory night]

It’s still really funny to me that one of the k&p dude ended up being a top tier horror director

[minor ledge]

this miught be a hot take i have no clue

but i absolutely hate it when shows feel like the cameraman is just someone walking around and not like actually proffesionally shot idk

[sage finch]

Whom watched Pluribus ep5

[frail mulch]

I haven't seen Us yet, but between Nope and Get Out I like GO more

[frail mulch]

Meeeeeeee
Pluribus 5 ||I'm guessing what Carol found at the end in the walk in freezer was corpses- I can see Them seeing body recycling as a way to reclaim nutrients and since they are all one they don't necessarily need the death rituals that make us feel better, I guess?||

I'm partly influenced in my theorizing by reading Record of Spaceborn Few at the moment haha

[main dew]

I have read a few things about how close comedy and horror are. Both require build up, suspense and payoff, just with vastly different emotions being manipulated

Like, the timing of a punchline to a joke and the timing of a scare are very comparable

[main dew]

I watched Get Out last which might be why it's my least favourite but I found Nope to be so utterly up my street

Like I didn't just like the movie, I loved the concept and the theming and Nope ||The monster design, both physically and audio design||

[pine flicker]

I liked Get Out more

[cold sequoia]

See also: Zach Cregger from whitest kids u know

Also did Barbarian and Weapons

[main dew]

Yes! Both movies I also thoroughly enjoyed

[keen flax]

Get out is probably better but Ive only seen nope and it was nuts in a great way

[west escarp]

https://www.tumblr.com/stage-props/795720624612016128/i-will-never-be-able-to-live-up-to-this-letterboxd

🍰 Hey Two! 🍰

I will never be able to live up to this Letterboxd review

-# #stage sings #the long walk #stephen king

Tumblr · Sep 26, 2025, 3:45 AM

[buoyant scroll]

This general idea is also why you can often see comedy actors turning around and killing it in dramatic and thriller roles

[topaz oyster]

Every time I see that sentiment I'm reminded of that bizarre Audi commercial with Aaron Paul, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, and Bryan Cranston

[ivory night]

It’s just the dude who did the slap ass sketch going from that to the Oscar’s is just… incredible

[west escarp]

https://youtu.be/cK98jx7gw7w?si=zZsiDid9ZdoeZD3N

I think this sketch is the best example of how he can do both

[ivory night]

To be clear I’m not saying I don’t understand it’s just the K&P to horror icon is funny

“You’re the only slap-ass that matters Garcia”

[inland jetty]

Th east-west bowl games

[acoustic pewter]

Those "team lineups" were my introduction to Key and Peele. 😆

[muted solar]

Huh I hadn’t seen that one. Thats great

I really need to watch Us and Nope at some point

[keen flax]

Nope is incredible

Like every single person in it did a great job

[agile drift]

I thought I would like Nope way more than I did. Idk, something about it just didn't hit with me. Felt a little disjointed

[keen flax]

I hear that a lot

[feral flower]

Pluribus episode 2

[tight dove]

Zootopia 2 time

[thin ridge]

Ooh I'll be interested to see what you think

I haven't seen anything for it yet

[tight dove]

Out of Zoo 2
||like 8/10 probably, it was a fun romp and the twists were genuinely pretty unexpected. I just want them to make out already.||

Its pretty good

Equal to 1 id say

[west escarp]

2 Zoo 2 Topia

[tight dove]

Yeah

There were so many actor cameos it was insane

[distant birch]

ST 5x03 start ||i feel like I missed something||

[distant birch]

5x03 ||lord i hate how everyone is treating nancy||

[distant birch]

5x04 early ||dont tell me the military are kidnapping kids for vecna...||

[pine flicker]

I can't wait for Avatar 3!

[tight dove]

How did avatar make a bajillion dollars and leave zero cultural impact

[winged mountain]

Twice

[agile drift]

Clearly it has left a cultural impact in that nobody can mention it without somebody saying it has no impact

[winged mountain]

It’s like the wave of people saying everyone forgot game of thrones

[lucid haven]

Idk about 0 cultural impact

[tight dove]

Name one character

[lucid haven]

Jake suuuly

Sigorny Jesus weaver

[lucid haven]

Also this is a meme

Such a bs way to fact check stuff

I get that your lived experience tells you that it had no cultural impact and that asking me to name characters might make you feel better about you thinking it has no cultural impact but its just your lived experience. Mine is different

I will forever remember the visuals and how beautiful the movies are and how much I love the world building and how much I crave more of that world

And how silly it is that sigorney weaver is jesus

[velvet oriole]

I confused it with atla even before watching atla.

They really failed with the naming for me, IDK even the name 'Avatar' has to do with the actual film.

[tight dove]

The people go into Navi “avatars” to interact with them i think

[lucid haven]

Yep that's where the name comes from afaik

[velvet oriole]

I really don't see it. 😂

[tight dove]

Ok sorry it might be disingenuous to say zero but we can agree its impact was way smaller than Titanic, Endgame and The Force Awakens

[velvet oriole]

Tbh I don't think Force Awakens had a big cultural impact either, it road the star wars wave.

[tight dove]

I mean it was the first star wars movie in 10 years it was a little important on its own

[minor ledge]

tbh it made money because its pretty adn thats about it

its cultural impact is in its tech not its writing

[tight dove]

Also in not saying it didnt make an impact on people it just didn’t really make an impact on popculture as a whole

[lucid haven]

Is its impact on popculture the only metric for why it should have success and continued success as well on top of all this

Like your acting as if its the case that impact on culture is the only metric we should he assigning success to

[tight dove]

No
My comment was “its weird something so successful didnt leave much of an impact”

[minor ledge]

Like the writing is kinda ass but the writing isnt the point really

[minor ledge]

It led a massive impact though

[lucid haven]

Ahh then for me I would answer that with "pretty blue aliens look cool"

[minor ledge]

it massively impacted CGI

[velvet oriole]

I personally saw from Avatar, wasn't that it was actually good, but the effects/motion capture/cgi was done well.

[topaz oyster]

They've aged quite poorly

[lucid haven]

Also its got a story that even if its simplistic and kinda dumb at times. A story that resonates with enough humans

[velvet oriole]

It effected the industry and not the culture.

[topaz oyster]

I went back and watched it in like 2021, 2022ish and it was just all around bad

[oak ivy]

i dont think a lot of stories took inspiration from avatar, mainly bc the only innovative thing about it was the tech, but even in terms of art or vibe it feels on an island

[topaz oyster]

How, exactly?

What did it do that ILM and Weta Digital weren't already doing?

[velvet oriole]

A lot more people use motion capture now days, even games do.

[topaz oyster]

I mean guess who invented motion capture

Hint: not James Cameron

[tight dove]

Again i never said it was bad or unsuccessful

[minor ledge]

also kickstarted the 3d craze for the 12th time

[topaz oyster]

The best case you can make for it is that it is like a 5-10% improvement over Revenge of the Sith which is the closest prior big budget CGIfest I can think of that left a mark on that front

[ivory night]

I think there was something about real time rendering or something but it’s been 15 years so… eh could be mixing it up with something else

[oak ivy]

im pretty sure the tech invented and used in avatar has had a tangible impact, but idk if you ascribe that to the film in the same way you would for spiderverse for example

[topaz oyster]

Or I guess maybe the original Iron Man? But that didn't actually use that much CGI even

[oak ivy]

iron man 1 i would not call a cgi fest

[topaz oyster]

Certainly not by modern Marvel standards

[oak ivy]

one of the most disaponting turns of the MCU

the scene with iron man and the jets just has a weight to it that marvel movies never recaptured

[lucid haven]

Yes and im giving you reasons for its success. 1. Visuals look good. 2. Story that resonates with enough humans. 3. James Cameron name

[sage finch]

Enough humans lol

[topaz oyster]

Actually, hilariously, Weta Digital was the lead visual effects studio for Avatar

[tight dove]

Ok you misunderstood my statement
I never said “why is it successful” i said “why did it leave no cultural impression while being successful”

Ik why pretty movie by famous man jimmy cameron made lots of money

[topaz oyster]

Judging based off the Wikipedia page, I can't see anything here that isn't just an iterative improvement over the Lord of the Rings movies six years prior

[minor ledge]

Wait did anyone actually care about the story of avatar,like anyone i dont think i know a person who cared for a story people just saw it 12 times because pretty 3d

[tight dove]

I was wondering how it did that and also didnt stay relevnt

[lucid haven]

Yes and I am answering that. You can have low cultural impact while being successful when the movies draw is mostly about name recognition reputation and good visuals with a story that resonates with enough humans

I am directly answering your question

[velvet oriole]

I think they started full facial motion capture with a head mounted cam closeup, which made it a lot easier to do.

Even Sandfall Interactive is using it and they make games.

[lucid haven]

I would also argue that the cultural impact is still higher than you think but that's a different discussion

[topaz oyster]

The head mounted camera I would very much quantify as an iterative improvement, not a revolutionary one

[ivory night]

It did unfortunately convince a bunch crap to be released in 3d for a few years

[velvet oriole]

And it kind of forced theaters to upgrade their screens/etc.

So I feel like it impacted the industry than our culture.

[lucid haven]

3d stuff is still so forced I hate it

Stuff is still being released in 3d

[topaz oyster]

I mean George Lucas did more for this than Avatar did, he spent a great deal of his own money developing and subsidizing standards for cinemas to use during this same time period

[lucid haven]

Because it was thinn veneer of pretty movie with big name and pretty average story and that's it

[velvet oriole]

Apple didn't invent touch screens but they sure did use it to change a lot in our world.

[lucid haven]

Yaa invention usually isnt the person who makes the most cultural impact with a thing

Its an eddison tesla type situation

[topaz oyster]

Apple also offered a level of improvement over what previously existed to make it market viable. Avatar didn't do that, Lord of the Rings did as they invented it, as shown by the existence of, well, Lord of the Rings

Also notable that it is the same people who invented it who were working on Avatar as their lead digital studio. It would have happened with or without Cameron

[frank quail]

when did anyone say it was James Cameron, specifically?
they would have needed (a) money, and (b) a project that required these improvements

Avatar is the project that did happen, and the source of that budget

[velvet oriole]

The theater with the big seats isn't the one with the good resolution.

[lucid haven]

[topaz oyster]

It was a project that happened, and it happened to be the first one to utilize a specific, iterative improvement

It isn't responsible for "changing the industry"

[lucid haven]

There's a reason I used to always go for the more expensive cinema experience back home.

1. Big comfy seats.
2. Alcohol and food delivered to me during the film.
3. Away from the normie poors

[velvet oriole]

But I am the poors

[lucid haven]

Ahh well there is a solution to that

Just stop being poor

[minor ledge]

Delivered to you??????????

how rich are you

[lucid haven]

Yeah its such a good experience and very normal. Almost all the big cinema chains in Australia have an upcharged separate film experience for not THAT much more

[velvet oriole]

Yeah, we have a bistro where you can get them to bring the food to your seat.

[lucid haven]

It was always worth

Cause you got unlimited free popcorn and soft drinks ontop of food and alcohol you could order during the film

[minor ledge]

ah

[topaz oyster]

It is relatively common these days, thanks in large part to the popularity of the Alamo Drafthouse

[minor ledge]

When i lived in china i was friends with a guy who managed a theater so i got free tickets or wtver and where i live rn i just go to this local kinda cheap theater

[topaz oyster]

Most major theater chains have a variant that does this now

[velvet oriole]

I have two theaters near me, one attached to a mall, that has the good screens, and the bistro that has good seats.

[topaz oyster]

I had a fantastic burger from one of these places called "To Kill A Mockingburger"

All the items on the menu were named after some notable movie

[minor ledge]

i dont even have food at theaters anymore

[lucid haven]

This is all in aussie dollars so this is the normal price for a ticket

Then this is the luxury experience

[gritty sierra]

yeah i got tacos at superman

[gritty sierra]

it ruled

[topaz oyster]

Alamo Drafthouse specifically is also super aggressive about policing phone usage and talking during the movies, they really will throw people out for being disruptive

[minor ledge]

i go to a theater to watch stuff not eat

[velvet oriole]

I sneak in a drink.

And I might get some popcorn if I am feeling flush like Latter.

[lucid haven]

About twice the price but very worth

[minor ledge]

Wish my local theater was like that

lmao

[lucid haven]

https://www.hoyts.com.au/experiences/lux

[gritty sierra]

i don't go to the theater anymore, but for like a once-a-year outing with my siblings, it was so novel for me and great

[lucid haven]

Here's the full details for the curious

[velvet oriole]

Let me calculate to US....

[gritty sierra]

i was the driver, so alas, no alcohol

but maybe we'll uber next time :P

[lucid haven]

Especially cause I would go to the cinema mabey 3 or 4 times a year max

It was super easy to find the cash for that when I was working

https://hoyts.s3.amazonaws.com/lux_menu/HOYTS-LUX-MENU-AUSTRALIA.pdf

This is the menu as well for the curious again in aud

[velvet oriole]

Damn, this is a lot.

The highest prices I can find in my theaters are like 32aud, and that is the fancy vibrating chairs, and our normal prices are even cheaper.

Tuesday is really cheap for me as well.

[lucid haven]

I wouldn't judge the prices too much

Its always kinda reductive to compare directly. Cost of living equations and all the complexities of life change so much between aus and usa

[velvet oriole]

Yeah, I do live in a low cost of living place, and honestly not that many people go to my movie theaters generally. The last three anime movies that I watch combined couldn't have filled a single theater.

[lucid haven]

Yaa and like that cinema brand alone has 9 different locations in the city I come from in Australia

And theres probs 2 or 3 other large cinema chains

In that city

Its always crazy to remember just how rural it is at times here in iowa when comparing it directly to perth, and I really do miss perth at times

[minor ledge]

BCS S2E1 + Breaking bad||Lmao the tequilla is the tequilal from breaking bad they use to poision the cartel||

[sage finch]

Damn u guys getting scalped

[lucid haven]

Nah its just how much something like a cinema costs when everyone along the chain gets paid well and tips dont exist

Or at least aren't normalized

Its not that much more expensive than here in the usa

[merry heath]

TMA relisten ||Stars above I love Michel

The… the… the “Not Sasha”? No, but the table…
MICHAEL
Was binding it quite effectively.
||

[placid river]

ST 5.2 ||okay so I was wrong and Mr Whatsit was just Henry. Not sure what he’s playing at now if he’s trying to kidnap all the kids. Is he trying to activate powers in all of them like the Hawkins lab test subjects?||

[merry heath]

TMA 80 || [EXTENDED SOUNDS OF BRUTAL PIPE MURDER]||

[cold sequoia]

Filming performers in an empty box while capturing in their movements and faces and generating a real-time virtual environment.
I'm unaware of any movie that did that previously

Oh, didnt realize how far back I was

[west escarp]

He deserved it

[cold sequoia]

Bottom line I don't get the downplaying of what Avatar did technically

Its not comparable to LotR at all, those movies were still using matte paintings!

Its more comparable to the prequel trilogy. Mediocre writing with visual spectacles. I think Avatar ages better than, for instance, Attack of the Clones because Cameron is just a better director and the aging CGI is still generally "shot" in interesting ways

[west escarp]

https://www.tumblr.com/wafflelovingbatgirl/801661825937801216

Smilodon Admirer

🔁 notkatniss

taylor swift would release a 30th special edition of the tortured poets department to block the vampire lestats spot on the billboard chart and within 24 hrs travis kelce would go missing

Tumblr · Nov 30, 2025, 5:38 PM

[topaz oyster]

https://x.com/knivesout/status/1995183609859194973

Wake Up Dead Man (@KnivesOut)

SUNDAY SERVICE. 1:15PM ET. 📿

X · Nov 30, 2025, 5:30 PM

[crimson kelp]

trying to see if any of my friends can be bestired from their couches to go see it in the cinema

[topaz oyster]

Its so good

[minor ledge]

is the new knives out out?

wait

OH IT IS

[frank quail]

It is, and I didn't know what it was called when people were talking about it in here the other day 😭

https://tenor.com/view/tag-spoiler-t-spoiler-tag-promare-discord-gif-23156904

[crystal brook]

I watched it earlier this afternoon

Its very good

[dusk hound]

Lowkey need to rewatch the first two Knives Out

Actually I don’t think I watched the second one

Now that I think about it

I remember the first one very well tho

[sage finch]

New one was pretty tedious

The first one had an especially magnetic cast

[turbid narwhal]

just watched tombstone and val kilmer as doc holiday might be the most perfect casting ever

[burnt shale]

agreed

[sage finch]

Sadie Sink’s eyes are like husky bright blue this season lol

[placid river]

ST5 about 20 min into episode 3 ||calling it now, the mysterious message to Holly came from Max||

[distant birch]

ST 5x04 ||wait, didnt henry do the masscare at his house as a kid? Does that mean he just... went on to go to school and act after tormenting his family? Lol?||

[placid river]

ST5.3 ||CALLED IT!||

[distant birch]

5x04 ||um... ma'am... I think you might want to stop choking hop if you actually want answers? Not sure he can talk right now xD||

[dusk hound]

Inject this into my veins https://x.com/goodnightdrew/status/1991536087177785550?s=46

Drew (@GoodNightDrew)

Courtney Eaton as DCU Wonder Woman (edit by me)

X · Nov 20, 2025, 3:56 PM

[distant birch]

ST 5x04 ||oh I think I like this vecna design more than usual||

[agile drift]

||I think it's way more intimidating, the old look is honestly just ugly imo||

[distant birch]

||I dont mind the head/shoulders of normal-vecna, but the whole rest of the body looks a little goofy. I like how this one feels intimidating all round||

[verbal lintel]

It was a simpler era back in the day

[crimson kelp]

the two kinds of puzzles, this and "you needed to go back to the start and click off the edge of the screen to pick up something and then even if you somehow found it without buying the sierra strategy guide you still need to figure out that you need to stick it to something totally unintuitive and use it on an unremarkable part of the screen"

[dusk hound]

I could see her being Kitty Pryde tbh https://x.com/marvel_updat3s/status/1995219555803934811?s=46

Marvel Updates (@marvel_updat3s)

Millie Bobby Brown is reportedly being eyed to play an X-Man in the upcoming ‘X-MEN’ movie.

(Via: MyTimeToShineHello)

X · Nov 30, 2025, 7:53 PM

[buoyant scroll]

The source with the artist without the weird faded color change
https://twitter.com/adamtotscomix/status/1991546372546510990?t=KNLaIkgx--8CIZKnlw1AJw&s=19

Adam Ellis (@adamtotscomix)

X · Nov 20, 2025, 4:37 PM

[full wolf]

Thanks Mori. This is a good chance to remind people to please make sure they're posting the source for art they want to share.

[dusk hound]

How dare he

Doesn’t he know Superman should be aura farming while a courtroom full of citizens burns to death around him

[frank quail]

Pluribus E5 ||The cynic in me wants to say this is one way to stop hiring so many extras||

Pluribus E5 ||Hmm, a white crystal. This could be literally any of thousands of organics chemicals.||

||Weird to think there's some required vitamin for them, when it can spread with fluids so quickly||

[lucid haven]

Plubrius E5|| its just a soylent green is poeple reveal I belive||

[frank quail]

I wish I'd read that 2 minutes later 😭

[lucid haven]

Oh I assumed you had watched the full epp

But its also what I was thinking during most of the epp

[velvet oriole]

Okay about to watch Zootopia 2.
-# Snuck in a drink.

[full wolf]

Pluribus 5 ||I do find myself doubting that a water soluble thing that results in a clear liquid could hold all the required nutrients for human sustenance in there. Like. You're getting enough protein and calories in something that looks like apple juice to live? I feel like food doesn't work that way...||

[velvet oriole]

I am the only one here. O.o

[full wolf]

Pluribus 5 ||I do hope the reveal is not going to be a soylent green thing because that does feel kind of obvious. If it is though, it does imply that there's more to the Joining than just the unified consciousness that's focused on happiness and efficiency. If you averaged all the humans in the world together, I feel like the majority opinion would be opposed to cannibalism! That's not just a thing the average human thinks is a good idea. Maybe it would be like, the Joined are incapable of feeling bad stuff like disgust anymore? But honestly it's not really efficient to eat human bodies either I'm pretty sure, especially people who died in random ways.||

[full wolf]

Pluribus 5/Mirror Empire ||Like there is a weirdness to the idea of a group that is opposed to killing any kind of creature, including for food but is okay with cannibalism. There is kind of a culture in the Mirror Empire books that does a similar thing where they're all pacifist vegetarians except they also practice funerary cannibalism, but in that case I kind of buy it more as a cultural set up where the idea of eating meat disgusts you because that experience is reserved for this funerary rite. IDK I guess if Pluribus is doing that, I'm inclined to think that The Mirror Empire already did it better.||

[distant birch]

Depends on the movie, personally

I saw kraven with friends in an empty theatre, great experience because we could laugh at stuff. I saw Wake up dead man in a packed theatre, great experience because everyone was reacting and such

[frank quail]

Pluribus 5 ||IMO, if it is Soylent Green, it's either "waste not, want not", or it's that that's just how little they care about individual bodies||

[burnt shale]

Depends on the movie but you and the gang can’t throw a football in a packed movie theatre

[dusk hound]

https://tenor.com/view/f-bi-raid-swat-gif-11500735

FBI OPEN UP

SNEAKING DRINKS IN THEATRES IS ILLEGAL

[cobalt onyx]

Just say it's whiskey, they won't get mad at you for violating their monopoly because they don't have a liquor license

[burnt shale]

My local theatres have liqour licenses so that doesn't work for me

[full wolf]

I feel like most theaters these days do yeah

They've all got little bars inside with movie themed drinks, even the big chains now

[velvet oriole]

https://tenor.com/view/oops-busted-eric-cartman-south-park-s14e9-its-a-jersey-thing-gif-22863314

[dusk hound]

I’m friends with people who work in theaters, trust me, they see you sneak in the drinks and food, and no, they don’t care

[velvet oriole]

Okay an old guy and his grand daughter came, no longer alone.

[dusk hound]

It’s only if you don’t make an effort to hide it

[cobalt onyx]

You better offer them a sip so they stay quiet

[burnt shale]

But will they let me sneak in a tv and second movie to watch during the movie

[ionic lily]

Of course

My local theater provides those on the house

[muted solar]

Only if there’s yet another layer of misdirection and the second movie is actually host to a third movie

[frail mulch]

Ok as the lone person who voted packed so far, I'm thinking of when it's release week and you've got other people reacting for the first time to something and that's fun

[burnt shale]

Oh yeah no that’s great

Packed or empty or great it’s in between which is mid

[frail mulch]

I will say between the crowded KPDH and the one-other-parent/child for Gabby's Dollhouse, alone is sliiiiiightly better if I'm taking a tiny person who wants to run and I am less stressed, but those movies endorse crowd participation

;-; getting a babysitter makes going to a theater movie a more expensive treat, alas so I'll probably save For Good for when we visit my parents and they can hang out with the toddler

[lucid haven]

Plubrius 5 || there is just too much weirdness in what the hive mind is bad at or dosent know. That i think we are ment to see the flaws and the fact its not the sum total human brains that are left. Things are weird enough that its making me question a lot. Also yeah it felt like it was leading to soylent green the whole epp in an relatively obvious way so it will be interesting to see what it is actually. ||

[full wolf]

Plur 5 ||I will definitely be very annoyed if they led up to a really obvious answer and did a jump cut cliffhanger at the end to not reveal what it is and then it turns out to be the obvious answer that everyone guessed. That would be... bad. I am telling Pluribus for its own sake it better do something different||

[velvet oriole]

Zootopia 2:

If you liked the first one, you are going to like the second.

Though I do think it has problems, it suffers from sequelitis, where at the end of the first movie everything was good, so they have to restart conflict/etc to make another movie. I honestly see this as lazy.

But overall the movie was fine.

8/10 Oowlkas.

[velvet oriole]

It does have an after credit scene BTW.

[winged mountain]

Pluribus ||The scene in, I think it was episode 4, where the hivemind apparently didn't know Carol's book until it had a few moments to prepare and then appeared to start reading from one of the first pages, it sort of shows that there are limitations||

[thin ridge]

I ain't gonna lie people are giving it a much better rating than I expected

[lucid haven]

Pluribus || for me its the way the hive mind is so bad at talking to and dealing with carol that shows to me its mabey the memories of the humans but but not like the essence of them or somethings missing. There has to be missing info or something imo||

[frank quail]

Pluribus 5 ||"We experience it through many eyes, many hearts". I think there's no scale between different people. Someone enjoyed reading Wycaro "as much" as someone else enjoyed shakespeare, so they're the same in the hivemind's eyes||

[lucid haven]

That part i totally buy

[velvet oriole]

Eh, I was leaning towards a 7 but I thought being gracious. I really only had one or two problems with it. It could have been better. But it's wierd... I think on the whole a lot of movies are a lot worse generically.

Now I probably won't want to see it again though.

[acoustic pewter]

My best movie theater experience I ever had was when my dad and I went to see Captain America; The Winter Soldier and were the only two people in the room. In fact, it would seem the theater itself forgot we were in there, because it just kept playing the previews-before-the-actual-trailers for like, 20 minutes. My dad went and told them about it, and they started the movie and gave us two free tickets to whenever we next came as an apology. And then my dad and I saw one of the best Marvel movies ever in a room all to ourselves. It was epic.

[keen flax]

That sounds so sick

My favorite movie theater experience.... its a tie between Sinners and Black Panther probably

[acoustic pewter]

Black Panther is another one of my top theater experiences. 😁 Mainly because it released on my birthday and Black Panther was already one of my favorite Marvel superheroes, so of course it was a given done deal how I'd be celebrating.

[agile drift]

Endgame can't be beat for me. One of the biggest theaters I've been in, packed to the brim. The energy was crazy

[keen flax]

Oooo yeah good answer!

[agile drift]

Another funny theater story I have. My mom is prone to falling asleep in the theater, and we went to see infinity war. ||Sometime during the battle of wakanda I think, she leans over to me and asks "where's Loki? I thought he was in this one"
I had to tell her he died ten minutes in but she was already asleep lmao||

[keen flax]

Infinity war ||what is it with moms and loki omg 😂||

[cold sequoia]

Tom Hiddleston is mom crack

[keen flax]

Apparently 💀 hes my moms favorite (after black panther of course)... she has a track record for villains though

[acoustic pewter]

Infinity War and Endgame were also peak theater experiences. Maybe that's why I used to be such a fan of the MCU. They knew how to make a great theater experience back in the day.

[keen flax]

Princess and The Frog was also a foundational theater experience. I was 8 years old, rocking in my seat happy to see the pretty brown princess

[acoustic pewter]

This plus Thor: The Dark World ||Especially since last time Loki had a mom, he was indirectly responsible for her death. 💀 ||

[keen flax]

I keep thinking of theater experiences darn it... I saw Revenge of The Sith for its anniversary this year... that was SICK

[forest wigeon]

I totally would have watched that if it was like an extended cut or something

But I was just like "I can watch it at home tho"

[molten jetty]

My fav theater experience was Force Awakens or Endgame

Endgame was… wow.

[molten jetty]

Tom Hiddleston is fine

[cold sequoia]

monkeygirl confirmed to not be a mom

[molten jetty]

No fine as in “fiiiiine”

[cold sequoia]

monkeygirl confirmed to be a mom

[dusk hound]

No Way Home was mine

Went opening night

Best theater experience of my life

[keen flax]

Watching Isle of Dogs for tje first time and good GRAVY this voice cast is stacked

[cold sequoia]

unironically an average Wes Anderson cast

[keen flax]

You arent wrong 😂

I havent seen a wes Anderson movie since... fantastic mr fox??

Isle of Dogs like 20 mins in ||I like the Walter White dog, hes doing a FANTASTIC job||

I adore this movie already why did it take me a decade to eatch this

[turbid narwhal]

Mad Men s1e7 ||https://fxtwitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1995902602064671184?s=20||

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

The new 4K release of ‘MAD MEN’ on HBO Max has shown an error that wasn’t in-frame on the initial TV release.
︀︀
︀︀The scene where Roger Sterling drunkenly pukes up oysters now shows a set technician holding the hose to simulate the vomit in the side of the frame.
︀︀
︀︀(Source: www.vulture.com/article/mad-men-hbo-max-4k-rerelease-problems.html?utm_campaign=vulture&utm_medium=s1&utm_source=twitter))

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FxTwitter · Dec 2, 2025, 5:07 PM

[turbid narwhal]

going through twitter and there's apparently a lot more issues like this, crazy that these companies don't care

[dusk hound]

Method acting at it’s finest https://x.com/discussingfilm/status/1995925537005420877?s=46

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

Matthias Schoenaerts has been sentenced to 6 months in prison, a €4,000 fine and a one-year driving ban for driving without a valid licence.

He will star as the main villain Krem in ‘SUPERGIRL’ next year.

(Source: https://t.co/bYz12CFaUa)

X · Dec 2, 2025, 6:38 PM

[lilac hull]

He looks like he’s about to give me an offer I can’t refuse.

[verbal lintel]

Lin is not a gamer and leaned into that as a strength when pitching his take on the material

The director is known for turbo-charging the Fast & Furious franchise into a multi-billion-dollar global phenomenon. After directing The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, he went on to direct Fast & Furious, Fast Five, Fast & Furious 6 and F9: The Fast Saga, which have collectively earned $2.66 billion globally. Lin also helmed Star Trek Beyond

The Helldivers movie and Super Earth is cooked homies 😔

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/helldivers-movie-justin-lin-sony-1236438370/

[small quarry]

There is already a helldivers movie smh

[frank quail]

Lin is not a gamer and leaned into that as a strength
Why is that a strength? "I have no idea about this property, and that's why I'm the best choice??"

[wise epoch]

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

This is great what the hell

[winged mountain]

There's probably a risk that someone who was too much of a gamer would lean too much into easter eggs and callbacks, and might lose the forest for the trees? The example I use for adaptations like that is Warcraft, which was a reasonably fun adaptation for fans who know the story, but honestly a rather bad movie if you don't already know the story and characters and what the callbacks are reminding you of

[placid river]

A lot of great adaptations and IP work has been done by people who were not super fans of the original

[winged mountain]

besides, I don't think you need to play Helldivers for more than a few hours to 'get it', this isn't something like The Last of Us where people fall in love with specific characters and details that they need to perfectly capture

[cold sequoia]

it's a strength because this THR article was paid for by the studio

[winged mountain]

I think you can portray any perspective as a strength, it's just a question of what someone's looking for

I could walk up to them and say 'hire me, I have absolutely no idea how to make a movie and you'll get a movie that reflects that', but if a producer is looking for something that looks amateurish, that might sell

especially if every other applicant is showing perfect, flawless work

(maybe the project is just for some awful shakycam indie project or something)

[cold sequoia]

my point is I don't think that author has any idea of why him not being a gamer is really a strength

they are writing a puff piece

[topaz oyster]

This is true, but I think its notable that it is puffing for I think no real audience at all

[cold sequoia]

the audience are people who will repost the article

unironically, THR doesn't really do reporting

[novel bear]

Crazy how this mystery is solvable in the first minute if you lock in

[cold sequoia]

articles are either puff pieces, summarizing box office results (that can also be puff pieces), or reviews (that can also be puff pieces)

[novel bear]

some kind of joke in here about hollywood reporting being like hollywood accounting

also your statement was both unironic and ironic

[cold sequoia]

listen grandpa, in this day and age no one uses "ironically" to actually mean "ironically"

[novel bear]

listen grandson, your grandma was SUPER hot back in the day

[cold sequoia]

next you'll expect people to be using "literally" correctly

[cobalt onyx]

How ironic, that he used ironic to portray ironic

[keen flax]

Isle of Dogs was very good!

It did make me want to rewatch fantastic mr fox though

[frank quail]

jedi bell curve linguist: they do

[dusk hound]

Decent replacement for Greig Fraser https://x.com/discussingfilm/status/1995940111742333251?s=46

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

Erik Messerschmidt (‘The Killer’, ‘Mindhunter’) will reportedly serve as the cinematographer for ‘THE BATMAN: PART 2’

(Source: https://t.co/81zi6JR7RL)

X · Dec 2, 2025, 7:36 PM

Dude has an Oscar for Best Cinematography too

[turbid narwhal]

He’s actually working on season 3 of mindhunter, David fincher told me

Seems like a great fit though

[cold sequoia]

Cruel

[turbid narwhal]

BTK is the Batman 2 villain, the build up is paying off

[forest wigeon]

Did Fraser have other obligations or something

[turbid narwhal]

The Beatles movie

[dusk hound]

Yeah, he’s doing all 4 of the Beatles biopics

[forest wigeon]

Even the biopics can't avoid MCUfication

[dusk hound]

Mick Jagger shows up at the end of the 4th movie in a post credits scene

[dusk hound]

Matt Smith fam here we go https://fxtwitter.com/homeofdcu/status/1996003686896615680?s=46

Home of DCU (@homeofdcu)

The shortlist actors for Brainiac in Man of Tomorrow are rumored to be:
︀︀
︀︀-Claes Bang
︀︀-Matt Smith
︀︀-Sam Rockwell
︀︀
︀︀(via @NexusPointNews | www.nexuspointnews.com/post/brainiac-shortlist-for-man-of-tomorrow-revealed-nexus-off-the-record))

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FxTwitter · Dec 2, 2025, 11:48 PM

Him or Claes Bang I would love

[lucid haven]

Oh dam I would love matt smith

Matt Smith would be a brilliant brainiac

[dusk hound]

Sam Rockwell is a very interesting choice too

I could see it

Not familiar enough with Claes Bang

But I saw a clip of him from Dracula

[keen flax]

I dont want Sam Rockwell solely because all id here is Mr Wolf

[dusk hound]

Since they’re particularly looking for actors who are buff and who actually look like Brainiac, I think they might be going the Colu origin route instead of the AI route

Which I’m fine with either but I prefer the Colu route because we really haven’t seen that done yet in an adaptation

[west escarp]

https://www.tumblr.com/honiemun/801044786467504128/watching-the-new-defunctland

𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗲'𝗌 𝗁𝗂𝖽𝖾𝗈𝗎𝗍

watching the new defunctland

-# #defunctland #stitch #its 4 hours i havent finished watching yet im sure the final thesis will be different

Tumblr · Nov 23, 2025, 10:10 PM

[dusk hound]

https://tenor.com/view/morbius-morbin-time-dance-david-tennant-gif-25814621

Matt Smith as Brainiac just so he can recreate this scene ^^^^

Doctor Who to James Gunn villain pipeline must continue

[dusk hound]

Seeing Wicked this Friday

I have not seen the first one

My sister and mom are dragging me to go see it

[keen flax]

Wicked is so great though! You've got time to see it!

[dusk hound]

I only know Defying Gravity

Because my coworkers play it nonstop when we’re closing

[minor ledge]

bcs 2.10||chuck called jimmy "johnny on the spot", is jimmy the mechanic from GTA||

[minor ledge]

Matthias Schoenaerts got six months for a driving infraction

[green fjord]

I know I missed the theatre experiences conversation, but I want to share anyway. We were watching The Desolation of Smaug on a really hot day, got up to the point where || Bard says “No, I’ve had enough of dwarves.” and the power went out. 😂 ||

In terms of actual favourite though, Endgame and Treasure Planet might qualify if not for Frozen. That film was a genuine turning point in my ability to respond emotionally to media.

[heavy anchor]

Endgame was the best theater experience I've ever had

It was SO hype to be there with everyone being so excited opening night, just nothing quite like it

[full wolf]

I'm the most normal about this movie, don't worry!!!

[lucid haven]

yes because everything ive seen from everyone in this discord has shown me that yall are very normal the most normal about this movie

agreed

[full wolf]

Spotify wrapped spoilers I guess?? ||Okay but the fact that they actually made a thank you message from Huntr/x in their studio was very cute and they also canonized the fandom name for their fans! "Hunters"!||

[frank quail]

||well now I have a problem, because I barely use spotify these days, so I might not see that video||

[full wolf]

I'm sure someone will post it to YouTube

[gritty sierra]

yeah I don't think I even have wrapped since I cancelled - oh well!

[full wolf]

Aha, okay not YouTube but someone put it on Reddit: ||https://www.reddit.com/r/KpopDemonhunters/s/oW111MuYOw ||

[keen flax]

||hello mira my queen ||

[azure fern]

oh, its that time of the year?

unsurprisingly, mine opened up with en Epic music

and another after

I listened to 192 genres? I didn't even know there were that many genres

wth

[keen flax]

I usually get around 70 😭

[ripe stag]

321...

I think they're being a little silly.

[azure fern]

ah, I forgot I gmed a small adventure for my old dnd group earlier this year. My top song is not from Epic but from Skyrim on loop during one (or several) sessions

all my top 5 songs in fact are skyrim, oblivion or pillars

oh, Jorge did come out on top 😮

I didnt listen to a single Epic song more times than one of my dnd session songs, but he is my top artist

[stoic falcon]

I use Amazon music, heres what I got from the equivalent

[full wolf]

Quick mod nudge, but for those just looking to talk about their music recaps, please head to #1378391089366696046 for that!

(I know, I started things in here, but that was because it was about the movie)

[acoustic pewter]

Oops, I'm sorry! I thought I was posting this in #1378391089366696046. That's my bad for not checking what channel we were on.

Moving my messages to the appropriate channel.

[dusk hound]

Seems we are getting our first trailer for Supergirl early next week

(This is my warning so you all have enough time to vacate the channel before I froth over this trailer)

[dusk hound]

Now watching:

[frail mulch]

oh good, I was wondering if you were going to roll in to For Good on friday totally confused (that WOULD be a very novel experience, basically coming into a show after intermission)

[dusk hound]

Movies pretty long so I probably won’t finish it today but who knows

[keen flax]

No ryan you just have to lock in

[dusk hound]

Wicked

||”You’re green”
“I am?”
Oh this is gonna be hilarious||

[full wolf]

Oh good🍿

[dusk hound]

I lowkey forget a lot of the Wizard of Oz lore it’s been a while since I watched the original

But this movie does a good job of explaining stuff

[frail mulch]

well, and it is a movie based on a musical based on a book that reimagines another book but uses visual cues from the movie adaptation of that first book

so, lore can shift depending on how you look at it

[full wolf]

Wicked, one of the most successful fanfics of all time

[inland jetty]

Don't forget that the first book that got reimagined later ALSO started using elements kf the movie when its sequels came out

[dusk hound]

That title belongs to 50 Shades of Grey, it actually started as a Twilight fanfic

[full wolf]

50 Shades of Grey is not fanfic anymore after it filed the serial numbers off. Wicked still is.

(Also I don't think 50 Shades got a beloved Broadway musical adaptation in addition to its theatrical adaptation, so I'd say wicked wins there too)

[forest wigeon]

I mean, The Divine Comedy actually influenced people's religious beliefs

[full wolf]

It is funny to call the Divine Comedy a fanfic but if I'm splitting hairs I don't think religious allegories count as fanfic because a religious adherent isn't really the same thing as a fan imo

[gritty sierra]

there are lots of non-fanfiction things that influence people's religious beliefs

[lucid haven]

idk if fan fic or not fan fic really matters tho

even if things start as fanfic they can still be good

[gritty sierra]

it was the topic at hand

[full wolf]

but also Paradise Lost has the sexier Satan character

[full wolf]

This was my point actually that Wicked is very beloved and is openly fanfic

Indisputably fanfic!

[oak ivy]

people say paradise lost justifies fanfic as high art, but I know, in my soul, there is nothing high about it

the more things change

[frail mulch]

and then it's fascinating because the musical is definitely more of a fic of the book than adaptation because the book is nowhere near as interested in the glinda/elphaba relationship

[lucid haven]

okay can i put the book of mormon musical in this as well ?

cause thats brilliant

and kinda fanfic?

WAIT HOLD THE HELL UP, MATT AND TREY WROTE BOOK OF MORMON MUSICAL ??????????????????????????????????????????????

[oak ivy]

i do think there is fanfic as a genre definition and fanfic as the modern cultural movement

[frail mulch]

(I am curious about Gregory Maguire's announcement of writing Glinda; A Charmed Childhood because like... I assume that goes into his world, but definitely sounds influenced by the musical)

[oak ivy]

DNA wise the steminist books are very fanfic

[frail mulch]

hahaha yesssss with the Lopezes (of Frozen and other disney movie musicals) doing the music

[lucid haven]

i really need to see the book of mormon live one day

[winged mountain]

I caught the tour once, it was pretty fun

[frail mulch]

it's very fun

[forest wigeon]

It's pretty good

[full wolf]

Book of Mormon musical is a different third kind of thing that I would not consider being in either category. It's about a religion, not a fictional work (therefore not fanfic) but was also written by outsiders of that religion, rather than the religious adherents themselves (therefore not like DC or PL)

[frail mulch]

and it cracks me up that the LDS church advertises in the program and there's usually a table of missionaries with copies of their BOM outside the theater (at least, they were there when I saw it on tour)

like... maybe the sequences where it talks about the history could fall into this "fanfic of a fanfic" concept but yeah, as a whole BOM musical is a story about missionaries than religious fanfiction

[winged mountain]

I don't think there's any way to describe Book of Mormon as a fanfic, I think the person who suggested that might not have seen it?

[lucid haven]

would you label it as just straight parody of religion then as a label ?

[winged mountain]

it's an original story, mostly comedy, but it's set in a present-day context about mormons

[wet quest]

Isn't it just about a couple missionaries? Not really a parody of the religion, more a satire of their practices

Even then I'm not sure if that label is entirely accurate.
Some things just are and don't need a label

[frail mulch]

Oh, maybe Nosferatu since that was initially an unauthorized version of Dracula

[full wolf]

Parody is probably closer, but from what I know of the story, it's not trying to make fun of the religion itself, so much as be funny while also being about Mormons

[gritty sierra]

just a comedy...?

[winged mountain]

I think a parody would be more like, if it was heavily inspired by some other story

[minor ledge]

wicked isnt a fanfic

[minor ledge]

isnt book or mormon a satire on mormonism as a thing and not really the religion in it

almost

[frail mulch]

It's a fanfic in that Gregory Maguire didn't invent Oz and the characters, and it's not in the original Baum canon

[minor ledge]

Is that what a fanfic is though

[midnight compass]

Yeah?

[winged mountain]

what else would it be?

[frail mulch]

50 Shades and the recent Dramione books started as fanfic but got the IP filed off so they don't count

[midnight compass]

The what books?

[frail mulch]

There's like 3-4 romantasy books recently published that originally were Draco x Hermione fanfiction

[winged mountain]

I guess you could say that Wicked specifically is a broadway and later film adaptation of a fanfic

[minor ledge]

Fanfic implies media thats still in copyright

[full wolf]

Filing the serial numbers off a successful fanfic is pretty common these days, it's a lot more than just 50 Shades that did it

[frail mulch]

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/nx-s1-5261003/harry-potter-fanfiction-authors-publish-books

[minor ledge]

Which AFAIK the original oz book wasnt when wicked was released

[gritty sierra]

uhhh no it doesn't imply it needs to be in copyright

[midnight compass]

Oh wow lol

[gritty sierra]

where did you get that definition?

[minor ledge]

And also an amateur writing

[midnight compass]

The Harry Potter fandom needs to chill

[full wolf]

I don't see what copyright would have to do with being a work by a fan of a fictional property

[gritty sierra]

also, lots of published professional writers (ie not amateurs) also write fanfic

[full wolf]

I also wouldn't agree with the amateur thing as being part of the definition, yeah

Grey beat me

[frail mulch]

Mmm I don't know that copyright status necessarily matters on if it's a fanfic- like by definition fanfics are writing in a world you didn't create, with preexisting characters from the original works

[minor ledge]

Something something the like 3???? cults that harry potter fanfic has started

[ionic lily]

Dramione makes me so uncomfortable

I don’t understand why it’s a thing

[full wolf]

Just because those things are common aspects of a lot of fanfics doesn't make them definitional imo

[winged mountain]

I could at least comprehend someone saying that a fanfic should by definition be informally published, not professionally published and possibly not even self-published for profit

[gritty sierra]

wait til you hear about snarry. and snamione. sometimes you just gotta stop caring about ships you don't like

[winged mountain]

I don't think there's a consensus there

[frail mulch]

I didn't realize Love Hypothesis was ReyLo until people started making jokes about movie casting

And then I look at the cover and oh ok, that's kind of obvious (I haven't read it)

[minor ledge]

yeah informally published is a big part IMO

[winged mountain]

I imagine there are some sort of underground for-profit fanfics out there so drawing a line there would be tough

[gritty sierra]

me emerging from the depths of REAL old fanfiction land before ao3 existed: oh a m/f pairing of similarly aged people in the original media is bothersome? oh dear

[frail mulch]

citrus ratings and all that

[gritty sierra]

i come from the time before they labeled fanfic!!!

[full wolf]

Informally published is commonly the case with fanfics, but it's not part of the definition

[minor ledge]

Underground??

[gritty sierra]

you were LUCKY if you got a "lemon/lime" etc

[ionic lily]

I don’t know why but I read that as Eeyore

[midnight compass]

Even then the main reason this happens is because most fanfics are of copyrighted works where you can't sell them, and as a result released online for free which means you don't need an actual publisher so the barrier to entry is far lower

[gritty sierra]

people DO sell them and if caught usually just get a cease and desist. it doesn't stop being fanfic because someone put $ in their ko-fi

[frail mulch]

which I think is how Gregory Maguire got away with publishing Wicked in the first place, since he could riff on Oz in public domain

[gritty sierra]

the "not being paid" for them is a legal protection to continue having fanfiction exist as it does, it's not definitional

[midnight compass]

Yeah exactly

[winged mountain]

I mostly just wonder, like in the case of Sherlock Holmes, is every person who writes a story about him from now on writing a 'fanfic', or is there some threshold that can be crossed where the term no longer feels appropriate?

[frail mulch]

oh lol Oz has its own wiki page on copyright status https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz_and_related_works_in_the_United_States

[full wolf]

Adaptations of older fictional works that are out of copyright are fanfic imo, but doubly so if the new work significantly reinterprets the original

[frail mulch]

because I was just thinking, I think Ozma is still behind copyright

[ionic lily]

Ozma was so good

[gritty sierra]

people are still writing sherlock holmes fic today (yes even for the original novels) and it's not NOT fanfic because it's out of copyright

[minor ledge]

i also think that if a work reaches a certain level of cultural touchstone it becomes less fanfic and more work based on that world

[midnight compass]

Yeah that gets weird. I would probably call it an adaptation if it's covering the original stories, but then you get most modern shows being set in the modern day instead of being period pieces and then idk

[frail mulch]

nvm Ozma of Oz went into public domain in 1983 which is maybe why there was that weird disney movie with Tiktok etc.

[full wolf]

If we think of it like a spectrum, BBC Sherlock and Elementary are more fanfic than something like the RDJ movies

[gritty sierra]

that is a fine thing for people to feel personally but doesn't get to be The Definition

[minor ledge]

calling BBC sherlock a fanfic is insulting to fanfics

[ionic lily]

BBC Sherlock is overhated

[gritty sierra]

there are some terrible fanfics, idk what you're on about

[frail mulch]

ebony dark'ness dementia enters the chat

[minor ledge]

Nah

[winged mountain]

I could go either way on that, but I do kinda feel like a book that's published professionally by a major publisher, it's fundamentally different from something on a tumblr blog...

On the other hand, 20 years from now when people can theoretically write their own Middle Earth stories, nobody's going to think of them as anything resembling canon, and 'fanfic' might feel appropriate

[minor ledge]

I do not like BBC sherlock dear lord

[gritty sierra]

i rewatch hbomberguy's BBC Sherlock is Garbage all the time and i've still read fics worse

[midnight compass]

Shoot I was gonna share that one lol

[gritty sierra]

that's part of the joy of fanfiction

[ionic lily]

Rings of Power

[gritty sierra]

it gets to be bad and still exist

[full wolf]

I also don't like it but that wasn't part of the discussion?

[burnt shale]

yes but honestly more soul to them

[gritty sierra]

don't think it changes the point being made tbh

[midnight compass]

Also I like Sherlock 😭

[frail mulch]

like, I'm kind of stumped thinking of something that would be more successful than Wicked for this general category of successful fanfic

-# maybe the Witcher adaptations but those are adaptations made with the author's awareness

[full wolf]

I do think Wicked is impressive in the level of adaptiveness it's had

[midnight compass]

Yeah I think we can agree not to count officially licensed adaptations as fanfic

[minor ledge]

My immortal

smh

[gritty sierra]

the funniest thing about watching wicked was my mom trying to square it with the wizard of oz and me trying to explain over and over "it's not the same, it's not going to happen exactly the same"

[ionic lily]

I enjoyed Twisted more than Wicked

[full wolf]

Original Wizard of Oz > Book version > Broadway version (very different) > Movie version

[gritty sierra]

i can't just say "it's an au of wizard of oz" which would have worked so much better

"it's an au of an au"

which is a thing that DOES happen in fic land

[minor ledge]

au of an au of an au

[frail mulch]

OH Love Never Dies probably counts, for Phantom but I wouldn't call that successful

Was just thinking it'd be very funny if Stephen Schwartz decided to adapt Son of a Witch

Or any of the other Wicked sequel books

[ionic lily]

Idk, does it? It’s a sequel to the musical rather than the book

[topaz oyster]

Speaking of murder mysteries

Haunting in Venice is up on Amazon Prime

For anyone jonesing for murder while they wait for Knives Out to leave theaters

WRT BBC Sherlock, I think they're horrendous murder mysteries in the classical sense but just fine as Sherlock stories

[minor ledge]

They are horrible sherlock stories

[topaz oyster]

If I'm looking for classic murder mystery I'm looking at Agatha Christie anyway, not Arthur Conan Doyle

[frail mulch]

Sure, but "what if the Phantom moves to New York to operate a Carney Island sideshow" definitely feels like a fanfic premise

[full wolf]

I love an hbomb essay, is my personal stance on it

[minor ledge]

Horrendous gay baiting