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[distant birch]

Kraven ||I forgot that the movie includes the Foreigner who is called that because he's "not from around anywhere" and a guy who can randomly pause time or something||

[minor ledge]

i need to watch the venoms so i have even more stuff to make fun of knull with

[lone canyon]

I’m so glad Aaron Taylor Johnson got a good role finally (the dad in 28 years later)

[crystal brook]

He was great in Nosferatu

[gritty breach]

||i’m unfamilar with people using “original sin”, capitals or no, to refer to anything other than the partaking of the fruit and the inheritance of this sin by all children thenceforth. thing is there is an obvious Genesis allusion, to the story of Cain. but they don’t make it.||

[minor ledge]

||I think theres a thing about each person having an original sin or wtver in some of the more odd american evangeicalism christianity area (which tbh the movie is mroe based on even though it has catholic aesthetics||

[vocal sandal]

Hello! It’s the ~1.5 month Hermitcraft Season Check-In

How have y’all been keeping up w/ various Hermits? Anyone you’ve particularly enjoyed? Anything interesting?

Personally I just caught up with Bdubs’ episodes, and his newest episode is very magical, I greatly enjoy the landscaping work he’s done

I’ve fallen behind on a lot of hermits, but I have one doc episode and 3 mumbo episodes to go before I’m back up to speed with everyone I want to keep up with (Doc, Bdubs, Mumbo, Grian)

[distant birch]

From memory I've been mainly keeping up with gem, grian, tango and mumbo, but I've watched a few random episodes from some others

[vocal sandal]

Hell yeah

[acoustic pewter]

I remain mildly curious enough about Avengers: Doomsday that I plan on watching it. Not sure if I'll see it in theaters, though.

With Marvel movies and shows these days, my interest can be gauged by how I choose to see them. If I'm genuinely interested, I'll watch them in theaters when they release or each episode as it premiers on Disney+ (like Thunderbolts and Loki Season 2). If I'm somewhat interested but not enough to shill out for a theater experience, I'll just wait till it goes on Disney+ and watch in then (like The Marvels, Brave New World, and the new Fantastic Four). And if I'm simply not interested, I just won't watch it at all (like Deadpool 3, the new Daredevil show, and the Agatha show).

I haven't always followed the pattern, though. I saw Quantumania and Multiverse of Madness when they released in theaters and was disappointed both times, and I didn't see Wakanda Forever until it was on Disney+ because I simply never made time to see it in theaters, but I wish I had because I loved it.

[west escarp]

https://youtu.be/4cCTgRax94o?si=r4BeQP9wLHf0H13c

[cold sequoia]

||theres also the whole Eves Apple name which she might have been referencing||

[cold sequoia]

https://fixupx.com/jbillinson/status/2003627415277564163

Josh Billinson (@jbillinson)

why does it fit perfectly

Quoting Sydney🚀 (@CountVolpe)
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It’s giving talk to your doctor to see if Skyrizi is right for you

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[midnight compass]

Beautiful

[steep bramble]

PJO S2 is sooooooooo good

[west escarp]

This reminds me to rewatch Rent

Also that all roles for Jesse Martin should make him sing

[odd fable]

finally say Zootopia 2 and the score was driving me crazy

https://youtu.be/Yu6JfjaLMqk

it sounds like Greedfall and Eastshade

https://youtu.be/eT8maqsi5no
https://youtu.be/w0DPtaR-7yw

[frank quail]

it wasn't until Hemsworth was holding the baby that I realised what was happening

[agile drift]

I think you mean Evans

[frank quail]

I did yes

[hushed moss]

The Thor teaser leaked and I think it’s much more interesting than the Steve one.

||It shows him walking through the forest, praying to Odin that he would have the strength to find Love, who I’m guessing has been kidnapped by Doom||

[west escarp]

https://www.tumblr.com/mandaloriandy/803835195203682304

Green Great Dragons

🔁 the-grey-hunt

you could never make blazing saddles today. movies take a really long time to film and it's already 11am on the west coast. also most actors and film staff would probably like to spend christmas eve with their families.

Tumblr · Dec 24, 2025, 5:23 PM

[feral flower]

If I go watch Avatar 3, it will genuinely be for these two

They deserve each other (derogatory)

[fair dirge]

i mean, I don't think they had much of a choice either; what happened with Kang's actor got out of hand

[keen flax]

Lady and The Tramp (1955) ||Lady is so adorable omg ||

||she's kinda like my dog, and she's the same age as him too! ||

[west escarp]

I love the opening of that film with the beautiful snowy street, Christmas carol, and soft cozy feeling of peace

https://youtu.be/oTkTfWz2Enc?si=fx_nxvkZeWY1Lw4O

[keen flax]

Oh codenames it was gorgeous

I didnt know thats how it started and I was fixated the whole time~

[feral flower]

I mean they could’ve easily recast Kang, would’ve even made sense in universe. The problem is the declining popularity of the MCU and especially people seeming to dislike the multiverse stuff made them panic.

[west escarp]

It feels so deliberately nostalgic and placid. A solid 1 minute of being inside a 19th century Christmas card

[fair dirge]

You know what? Sometimes when the discussion about Marvel gets serious, my dad always says, "IT'S JUST A MOVIE!"

[west escarp]

My other favorite part of this movie is that Lady genuinely things her owners are named “Jim Dear” and “Darling”, because they only ever address each other with those pet names

[keen flax]

Lady and The Tramp 20 mins in ||lowkey id be in my feelings if I was called "that girl" by my parents, I get you lady 😭||

[west escarp]

The Disney wiki has some obscure media that suggests their names are James and Elizabeth Brown and that Aunt Sarah is Jim’s aunt

[keen flax]

Lady and The Tramp 30 mins in ||see. I knew about the cats... I did not think it was gonna be THAT bad 😭||

||like I love their movements being on beat with the drums, it's so fun but uhhhhh OOF 😭||

[acoustic pewter]

Yeah... that 😬

[west escarp]

Disney slapped a warning for racial stereotyping in this film for a reason

[keen flax]

Yeah I can see why 🤣

||cause I understand that cats are often depicted as trisky and sneaky but you add that with the stereotyping and its so much worse 😭||

In spite of this, I still really adore it so far

[minor ledge]

is lady and the tramp the one with the weird racist stereotypes against asians??? i thought that was the aristocats

[west escarp]

It’s both

With the same cat breed

Siamese cats in mid 20th century Disney films just couldn’t catch a break

[keen flax]

Which is crazy because those movies are 20 years apart!

In 1955, alright, i get it. It's not good but its 1955. Doing that in a 70s movie is kinda crazy 😭

[minor ledge]

incredible how much racism they managed to pack in the aritocrats in like 3 minutes though

[west escarp]

They were too busy not being aggressively racist to the black jazz cat to not be racist to the Siamese piano cat

[keen flax]

I think the funniest racism whiplash I've had with a Disney movie is 101 Dalmations.

Its fine for the whole movie until ||Rodger randomly is like "we'll have a Dalmatian plantation!" And my mom and I look at each other like ||

[west escarp]

Fun trivia for that cat btw, they originally wanted Louis Armstrong but he died before they could convince him

[keen flax]

Awww :((

He would have ate that song up too :/

[minor ledge]

i havent actually watched 101 dalmations but plantation isnt inherently a racist term

[keen flax]

Its not! It still sets my alarms off 🤣

[minor ledge]

Just kinda means a large farm estate

[west escarp]

You should watch that film just because Cruella is so delightfully petty and Roger writes a diss song for her before she’s even been slightly evil

https://youtu.be/fXTQWVqBDWY?si=YCgsg24VgfBBRtAy

[keen flax]

Yes its so good!

I really liked it, and noticing all the animation tricks they used was fun too~

[west escarp]

At this point in the film all she’s done is be annoying while visiting her friend and float the idea of a puppy coat

And break driving laws

[keen flax]

Roger was her number 1 opp it was great 🤣

[minor ledge]

tbf her name is cruel villain

[west escarp]

Or Cruel Devil

[keen flax]

Lady and The Tramp 40 mins ||This is the night, such a beautiful night, and we call it Bella note ||

||one of my favorite Disney songs and this my first time seeing it in yhe movie ||

[west escarp]

||Ah yes the other moment of the film with ethnic stereotyping but this time it’s ok because society have moved pass anti Italian racism ||

[midnight compass]

Didn't she specifically ask if she could have their puppies for that coat?

It's been a while since I watched that movie

[west escarp]

Yes that’s the second part of my comment

[midnight compass]

I mean that's a little more than floating the idea

If someone asked me if they could turn my pets into clothes I'd make a diss track about them too

[cold sequoia]

Cruella ||the dogs deserved it for killing her mom or something||

[cobalt onyx]

||Damn puppies with their time machines||

[midnight compass]

I still can't believe they tried to make a relatable villain backstory for Cruella of all people lol

[cobalt onyx]

I remember seeing claims it was a good movie, but it's been years since I last heard anything about it, so maybe that was just astroturfing

[terse crystal]

Eyes Wide Meow

[sage finch]

Is Pluribus ep 9 the finale?

[gritty sierra]

think so

[west escarp]

Stargate episode: prominently features a child

Me: Time to start the countdown until Jack throws a fit about child endangerment or something related

[sage finch]

Did u watch it? What’d u think

[west escarp]

You can also do this with leverage except it’s a shorter time until the meltdown because Nate is an alcoholic and risk to children makes him drink more

[cold sequoia]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/398779631202992140/1453522803449139241/G893VRNXQAA2k56.jpg?ex=694dc219&is=694c7099&hm=1c7eadc3bee73a43c51a966b5b800668d60c94db03e455fd86c3b8bb266f6769&

[minor ledge]

who the hell is the guy on the bottom right

[midnight compass]

Watto

He's the junk merchant from Episode 1

[west escarp]

The one who owns Anakin and Shmi

[west escarp]

The Green Knight is free on tubi

I guess I’m watch that as my Christmas movie tomorrow

Pretty Dev Patel and the couple that wants him to be their third. And also there’s a big green guy with an axe

[gritty sierra]

oh I gotta watch that

[crystal brook]

I loved The Green Knight a lot

[wise epoch]

Stranger Things S5E4 ||It's very funny how there was no reason for Vecna not to kill Joyce. He just decided not to.||

||HAHAHAHA WILL KILLED THE DEMOGORGONS THE SAME WAY VECNA KILLED PEOPLE LAST SEASON||

||WILL IS FINALLY DOING SOMETHING, meanwhile Mike is more worthless than ever lmao||

||Bro what are you even doing here||

[distant birch]

||excuse me, Mike is locked in this season!||

||he's doing his best at what he gets to do he just doesn't get much to do||

[wise epoch]

||What HAS he done||

||I can think of something that everyone has done except for Mike and Jonathan||

||well i mean i can name things that jonathan has done, it's just that he hasn't done anything helpful except for "fill in for dustin", and even that he messed up at||

[distant birch]

ST 5x4 ||I liked seeing him really lock in to try to help get the younger kids out of the battlefield at the end. I thought that was a nice moment, seeing him really take action to get them out of there||

[wise epoch]

Mmm

I suppose

||But he wasn't very effectual at it, and anyone else would have done it||

[velvet oriole]

We're so back.

https://youtu.be/giE5-sKMa4Q

[dusk hound]

Fun fact: In the DC Universe, every year on Christmas, Santa personally goes to Apokolips to give Darkseid coal

[west escarp]

Love that it’s just Darkseid and not everyone else on Apokolips

[sage finch]

I love the lore implications of him calling Darkseid “young fella” lol. Santa is an ancient ageless being

[midnight compass]

NOOOOOOO WE STARTED WAKE UP DEAD MAN TOO LATE IN THE EVENING AND NOW EVERYONE ELSE IS GOING TO BED

THERE'S HALF THE MOVIE LEFT AND I NEED ANSWERRRRS

We did this with Tenet a couple days ago but this is so much worse

[west escarp]

Just keep watching the movie and act surprised when everyone else sees the second half tomorrow

[midnight compass]

I'm tempted

Unfortunately I can't keep a straight face lol

[muted solar]

My family was trying to pick a movie earlier tonight and WUDM was a contender, but I just… really wasn’t feeling a murder mystery for some reason. So we did Wicked instead since none of them had seen it

[acoustic pewter]

My family had my grandpa over for Christmas, and sometimes he'll just pick a movie he wants to see and we'll roll with it that will just happen to be what we watch on Christmas Eve. One year, it was Star Wars; The Force Awakens. This time, it was Iron Man 2. 😅 Quite random.

So we followed it up with starting Thor last night and finishing it today, which led to skipping to Thor; Ragnarok after that. All quite odd. Not what I expected us to be seeing on Christmas, but it is what it is, y'know?

I will say, though, regarding Thor; Ragnarok ||I don't remember Hulk's voice sounding so bad. It's very autotuned and ridiculously obvious that it's very autotuned and I don't know how I didn't notice because now it's very immersion-breaking. :P||

[minor ledge]

Wait ragnarok isnt the second thor /j

[gritty breach]

does anyone know why some movies and other media will do the big flashy credits for the big names. and then repeat all those credits in the big ol scrolling list

[wise epoch]

Next batch of Stranger Things

Derek is surprisingly funny, I actually really like him lmao

[placid river]

I think it’s actually the first and only Thor movie

[wise epoch]

Yeah it was real weird how one of the main Avengers only got one movie

And it wasn't even solo cuz Hulk was there too

(actually i say that facetiously, but hulk genuinely did only get one solo movie)

[placid river]

ST 5.5 ||ooh, what a cliffhanger. I’m guessing Dustin just realized that the “shield generator” is actually some kind of nexus for the entire Upside-Down.||

[wise epoch]

Ohohoho that was good

[tight dove]

they get paid a lot of money to lead and part of the contract is that they are orderede by how important they are*
and then the end credits are usually in order of appearence e

-# *the featuring and And credits are at the end and weird

[acoustic pewter]

It just became a Thor marathon today that skipped the second one. Unfortunately, that also included Love and Thunder.

[distant birch]

Time for ST 5x5

5x5 start ||how did vecna get the kids if the demogorgons died in the real world?? Did they just... throw the kids through the portal??||

||I guess vecna wants to use 12 kids (with powers?) to turn the world into the UD||

[distant birch]

5x5 ||Oh my GOD these two boys are so annoying||

||please GOD get this plotline out of the show||

||for god's sake these two are being SO annoying||

[distant birch]

5x5 ||oh what the heck||

[distant birch]

5x5 ||oh my goddd the cliffhanger xD||

[turbid narwhal]

I watched sentimental value and it’s the best movie I’ve watched this year. Does so much so well from the editing to the score which are done so well. Really hit me on an emotional level that I can’t describe

The acting in the movie is also brilliant, stellan skasgard and Renate Reinseve in particular really blew me away

Sentimental value ||the movie gets extra points for using Cannock chase in the final scene which is a perfect song||

Marty supreme on Sunday is next

Watching this movie in an empty theatre was also a new experience but it was a good one

[wise epoch]

||They grabbed the kids and then came back to kill everyone||

||So they took the kids, shoved them in the magic goop, and then returned||

[thin ridge]

Just finished a Spiderverse 2 rewatch

I really like this movie

[keen flax]

I have seen it a trillion billion times and it does not get old once

[tawdry snow]

Time to see what all the hype is about

[keen flax]

You can run from it, you can hide from it, but media will return to KDH all the same

[paper hull]

Is good movie.

[turbid laurel]

Just got out of Marty Supreme. It was pretty good! Would recommend

No spoilers, but the trailers really don’t give anything away lol

If you think you know what the movie is about from them, you’re probably wrong

[paper hull]

Marty Supreme ||ngl I was rooting against the dude for a good stretch of the movie, but accepting the 'small' win and not getting into the tourney in the end was I guess an inch of character growth||

It's definitely like, the cinematic equivalent of a run-on sentence. In a good way.

[sage finch]

ST s5e 5 ||what do we think about the Steve/Dustin conflict? Seems terribly forced in my view||

[distant birch]

ST 5x5 ||I kinda get it but it also, like a lot of the interpersonal conflicts this season, frustrates me||

[sage finch]

In what way

[distant birch]

||I get why Dustin's whole thing he's been doing because of Eddie is annoying Steve, and I understand how the general rest of the season and how he's being treated is making Steve more upset and so making him lash out more at Dustin. But the longer they go on, the more things like this and the nancy/jonathan/steve conflict annoy me because I find it really frustrating that they're arguing over dumb things and in the process making their world-saving mission harder.
-# I get, as well, that that's probably realistic, I just don't enjoy it when it feels like a single conversation and a bit of sense could fix it||

[sage finch]

||Part of it I think is the fact that there’s really no substantial character writing to be done anymore since we know these characters well enough by now, so they’re basically just killing time with most of the meaningless conflicts this season.

Everything feels filler while they all recite the lore and their plans to each other 60% of the time lol||

ST s5e5 ||noah’s going pretty hard with his performance. His expressions while he was possessing Vecna were crazy||

||dustin literally says “don’t touch anything” and Johnathan makes like he didn’t just hear that and goes “they’re outta range” 😑||

[wise epoch]

Yeah they uh

Coulda made it more broken up

[sage finch]

ST s5e6 ||yeah a rifle round will totally destroy an inter dimensional entity. Gr8 plan guys||

||dope visuals of the upside down bridge||

[tawdry snow]

Agree, but overhyped. Animation was fantastic though

[turbid laurel]

Marty Supreme ||I found a lot of the movie very stressful lol. It had a lot of great performances, though.||

[midnight compass]

Wake Up Dead Man good

[wise epoch]

Ye

[west escarp]

https://www.tumblr.com/wheredidthisglittercomefrom/771432028365307904

I always make such expensive mistakes

🔁 saturnmixedwithmercury

Tumblr · Jan 1, 2025, 1:28 AM

[sage finch]

ST s5e7 ||Christ this is the longest a scene has dragged. Did we really need a 10 min scene of will coming out||

[distant birch]

Starting ST 5x6

5x6 start ||oh holy hell||

[minor ledge]

DNFed one battle after another

[distant birch]

5x6 ||honestly I do struggle a little to take vecna/henry entirely seriously||

[wise epoch]

||It is very funny that his big W was followed up immediately by two consecutive Ls||

[gritty breach]

the spanish prisoner ||man. this guy is stupid||

[wise epoch]

ST S5E6 ||Very funny how the Demodogs conveniently killed the soldiers with Robin, an then avoided literally everyone else for no real reason because they were beelining for Max||

[distant birch]

||Im not even sure I'm at that point yet, its just something about the performance unfortunately comes across a lot too much as "person trying to be a scary monster" instead of actually scary or monstrous||

[wise epoch]

||Nah you're on Ep 6, when I say his W is followed by two Ls, I mean him taking the kids, and them immediately being foiled by Will twice in a row||

[distant birch]

Ah right

5x6 ||I think its mainly when hes in vecna form and when he's really pissed (like with max & holy at the edge of the cave). When he's vecna, I just have a hard time not seeing it as a guy doing a scary voice, and when he's pissed it just looks a bit over the top or something? Idk. I liked his performance in s4, from memory||

||I think its just the I-am-really-mad stuff||

[gritty breach]

||scratch that. everybody in this movie is stupid||

[oak ivy]

i watched the green knight

it was mid

i feel like it never really came together

@lone canyon have you seen it

[lone canyon]

IT WAS FANTASTIC

Do not slander Gawain

[crystal brook]

I wouldnt necessarily disagree but I loved it anyway

[oak ivy]

i knew none of the lore

[gritty breach]

films should stand on their own

[crystal brook]

The film doesnt require you knowing any arthurian legend

[gritty breach]

spanish prisoner ||also all this recurring business about “the japanese” feels vaguely racist||

[wise epoch]

Time for Round 2 of Kate Bush topping the charts because of Stranger Things

[distant birch]

ST 5x6 ~almost half way ||yknow, I'm starting to feel like byler isnt happening. I dont have strong feelings either way, but I know some people who really think/want it to happen. I think if it were gonna be endgame we would've seen more signs by this point||

[wise epoch]

||What is Byler lmao. Is that Byers and Wheeler? That describes two possible relationships lmao||

||You probably mean Nancy and Jonathan||

||Because Mike is clearly and unambiguously with El||

||But still lmao||

[distant birch]

||Mike and will||

[wise epoch]

Ah

Yeah no that ain't happenng lmao

[distant birch]

||I assume people just didnt like the ship name wike/mill, because ive only ever seen byler used for them||

[wise epoch]

||Mike is entirely too committed to El||

||They have not had any relationship problems at all since they got in a relationship||

[distant birch]

||you say as Im literally watching a scene of them arguing xD||

||Tbc I dont think thats a major problem or evidence, just funny timing||

[wise epoch]

||Yeah but they're not arguing in an unhealthy way, like Nancy and Jonathan were||

||Couples can argue but that doesn't mean it shakes their relationship. Nancy and Jonathan was shaking their relationship||

[distant birch]

||After vol1 I was like... I doubt it, but there's enough time that I could see it maybe being pulled together. But now... even if the feelings are there on both sides, assuming we get will out of a coma by the end of the episode there's only 2 episodes to break up mileven and out mike and will and get them together soooo I'm gonna say it seems definitively not happening||

[gritty breach]

i give the spanish prisoner 1/10. why did anyone like this

[wise epoch]

||I didn;t even know that Mike/Will was a ship even in S1||

||I thought the seeds of it were only planted in S4||

||After Will had already realized he was never gonna get with Mike||

[distant birch]

ST ||I've not rewatched the early seasons lately. I know some people argue there's evidence for it back there, but I dont know||

ST s5 up to mid 5x6 ||on the other side, I dont know if I want jonathan and nancy to break up or not, I just want their drama to go away. The whole nancy love triangle thing is really annoying me and ruining my enjoyment of multiple of my favourite characters in the show||

[wise epoch]

||I think any evidence people have of it is based in S2, with Will feeling like he was being left behind because nobody wanted to play D&D, but that doesn't work because A. That's a feeling he felt for everyone, B. It can read very platonically even if it was just about Mike, and C. I doubt he even knew he was gay yet||

[wise epoch]

||Honestly Nancy romances have always been mid||

||It's never felt natural unlike everyone else||

||Even in S1, her relationship with Jonathan started after he literally stalked her and took pictures of her having sex with Steve||

||And nothing that has happened after made that relationship feel any more natural||

||Her relationship with Steve feels more natural, but it's weird how insecure Jonathan is because after Steve joined the party and stopped being an asshole, they've been very platonic as far as I remember||

[distant birch]

||I dont even care about who she ends up with I just hate how she's trying to do plot and everyone around her seems to only be able to think about her romances||

[wise epoch]

||It's clear that Steve has moved on from Nancy completely, and to be fair their relationshipe ven when they WERE together, was super unhealthy||

[wise epoch]

||Yeah she keeps going "MY SISTER IS MISSING" and literally neither of them care||

[distant birch]

||I find it so frustrating to watch jonathan and steve's bickering and i hated the scene with murry in vol1||

[distant birch]

||EXACTLY||

[wise epoch]

||I don't even get where their bickering comes from in this season specifically, because it never felt this prevelant since the start of the series, and Steve, as I said, has alreayd shown that he has no interest in Nancy anymore||

[distant birch]

||her sister is missing and her parents are in hospital and everyone around her seems to only care about her romantic potential. Murry asking her about her "mood" and telling jonathan it was a good time to propose was even more insane and annoying||

[wise epoch]

||Jonathan being insecure about it is one thing, but Steve should have been indifferent to it because he shouldn't care||

[distant birch]

||I think jonathan sees the issues in their relationship and so is insecure about steve being around in case nancy leaves him. Less because of what steve does, more because he worries theyre already falling apart||

Yep yep yep

[wise epoch]

||As funny as I find Murray, he is very good at ruining the mood at every opportunity||

[distant birch]

ST ||murry is very hit or miss for me. Sometimes he's funny, sometimes he's really annoying||

[wise epoch]

||I like Murray but I get why people don't, the series does use him a bit too much sometimes||

[distant birch]

ST s5 question ||when the earth split at the end of s4, how much did the public see/know about that? Did it just look like canyons opened, or was there the red glow/spores?||

[wise epoch]

||Especially since Murray has lost his schtick as the insane conspiracy theorist||

[wise epoch]

This is a very good question

||I imagine there were spores and stuff, but the propaganda machine of the martial law that was imposed gave them false answers that they accepted||

||Cuz it's not like anyone but the party knows what is happening, so they'd probably believe whatever they were fed by the military||

ST S5E7 ||Mrs. Wheeler's role in this story is so funny, knowing that this is the same woman who fell in love with a teenager in S3||

[distant birch]

5x6 ||ok, that was a nice moment between jonathan and nancy. I liked that||

[wise epoch]

||It resolves that plotline so that's enough for me lmao||

||and it seemed like Steve and Dustin's drama is over too||

||Now hopefully Steve and Jonathan can shake hands and kiss||

[agile drift]

ST 5.6 start ||HUH?
What in the arcane s2 is going on||

[wise epoch]

Oh also, ST S5 general ||I'm kinda happy the Russians are just gone lmao||

[distant birch]

ST 5x6 bit past midway ||i think i would care more about the jonathan/nancy ship if jonathan was like... a character in any of the show||

[wise epoch]

||Yeah Jonathan is easily the worst character in the main cast||

||Unless you REALLY hate Murray||

||Even back in S1, Jonathan was always the weak link, and he's never gotten anything notable since||

[distant birch]

5x6 ||lmaooo the classic "resolve a character arc to get out of a plot arc" moment||

[wise epoch]

ST S5 general ||I'm surprised that after episode 1, the jocks have done nothing||

||They had one purpose and then they disappeared from the plot||

[oak ivy]

what is everyone's favorite movie

[distant birch]

same as aneonfox ||I think they were a s4 remnant that existed and then left the story||

[oak ivy]

i need reccs

every movie ever made is uninteresting to me

[wise epoch]

Spiderverse

[oak ivy]

agreed

seen it tho

[wise epoch]

Have you watched One Piece

[buoyant scroll]

i don't think that falls under "movie" xD

[wise epoch]

No but it has movies

And my next favorites are Film Red and Z

[topaz oyster]

I swear One Piece is the "have you read the Cosmere" of anime

[distant birch]

ST 5x6 ||why did vecna need will to find max?||

||will doesnt have powers of his own and wasnt at the hospital||

[wise epoch]

||Will already knew Max was at the hospital||

[distant birch]

Ahh right

[wise epoch]

||Vecna had no way to know her exact location until he got Will||

[distant birch]

||so the hospital vision thing was just a visual representation of vecna getting the memory/information from will?||

||not him using will to search the real world||

[wise epoch]

I think so

That's how I understood it

[distant birch]

That makes sense

5x6 ||lord how do these soldiers not know that lights flickering is a bad sign xD||

[wise epoch]

||They're idiots||

||Real answer, probably too low on the food chain||

[distant birch]

||I guess theres not going to be any hiding the upside down stuff after this||

||demogorgons just running around a hospital||

[lone canyon]

The film is an extremely effective coming of age story in an immersive fantasy esque setting

@oak ivy what did you not like about it

[molten jetty]

Dead Poet’s Society

[distant birch]

Oh i need to watch that

[ionic lily]

It’s so good

[molten jetty]

It’s great

https://tenor.com/view/thank-you-boys-thank-you-le-cercle-des-poetes-disparus-gif-20166350

[distant birch]

ST 5x6 ||SERIOUSLY??? Are we leaving Holly in the mind dimension??||

||oh shes got the figurine||

[oak ivy]

Interesting

[distant birch]

5x6 ||oml stop standing around GO||

[oak ivy]

The green knight ||i think gawain himself is pretty bland and all the themes are standard. I also think some of the surreal sequences dont really come together||

[molten jetty]

It’s about coming of age and the struggle of children against their high achieving parents in a boarding school that constrains and controls them.

In a lot of ways inspired the “dark academia” aesthetic

(Wasn’t the first, but definitely a big inspiration of the modern trope)

[ionic lily]

Also Robin Williams giving one of his best performances

[minor ledge]

prob something coen brothers

maybe fargo? idk

[wise epoch]

Final episode oming December 31?

Is there only one episode left after this batch?

Or is it another batch of 3

[minor ledge]

maybe the 2011 muppets movie tbh

[cold sequoia]

I can honestly say that I don't have a favorite movie, I think i could pick a favorite for a given genre with some consideration

I can't meaningfully compare, for instance, Bladerunner 2049 with Mothlight

[minor ledge]

yeah fave movie is way harder than fave game or fave book lol

[molten jetty]

Some of my favorites: Dead Poet’s Society, Pride and Prejudice, Return of the Jedi, Return of the King

[ionic lily]

Mine are: Everything Everywhere All At Once, Stardust, The Princess Bride

[molten jetty]

On the animated fromt: Beauty and the Beast, End of Evangelion, and the Iron Giant

[minor ledge]

Princess bride is a good pick

[cold sequoia]

I recently saw Flow. Really enjoyed it

Unsurprising I guess given that it one the oscar

[lone canyon]

||gawain is relatable rather than bland I’d say, he’s written to be a mirror to human weakness and the story ultimately affirms that weakness is okay and forgiveable if we try our best||

[cold sequoia]

A movie that comes to mind which I am certain most people here haven't seen: The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola. Stars Gene Hackman and is kind of like Uncut Gems but much slower paced if that makes any sense

The premise is a guy hears a fragment of a conversation and it drives him crazy

[gritty breach]

aw i was hoping the ping was about the film i actually talked about. not the single interjection i made into the gawain convo

[cold sequoia]

You gawain crazy over the ping?

[gritty breach]

sigh

[buoyant scroll]

The Whale is a pretty brilliant movie.

[distant birch]

Of stranger things?

[wise epoch]

Yeah

And yeah it looks like Episode 8 is the final

[distant birch]

It's one more episode on the 31st, yeah

Neon are you fully caught up?

[wise epoch]

yea

[keen flax]

The hit 2010 cartoon network original movie Firebreather, why 🥴

[distant birch]

What'd you think of it overall?

I've not seen 5x7 yet but I've started hearing some things and I'm curious how you found it

[agile drift]

ST 5.6 ||man that was the episode of all time lol. Just some bizarre stuff happening. We're redefining the lore of the upside down again? Also all the slime was just so weird. And why is it completely melting through these stairways but this one room is able to hold all of it in a pool? And endnighthazer you took the words out of my mouth about the jonathan stuff. He's so boring, I couldn't tell you a single thing about him as a person||

[distant birch]

5x6 ||I can tell you two things! He... used to like photos and he used to like drugs?||

||I don't mind the redefined lore of the upside down, but I'm gonna need a proper explanation at some point that im growing worried they won't deliver||

[wise epoch]

I quite enjoy it, but I'm also easy to impress

I have no major problems with the last episode

[agile drift]

I only saw it once a few years ago but I loved City of God. Also love Alien, Zathura, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, and the Intern

[sage finch]

||proper explanation why? It’s obvious they’re just pulling this out of their behind lol

That’s the thing about fantasy, anything works if you want it to||

[agile drift]

All right diving into episode 7

[distant birch]

||well I want a proper explanation because I'm assuming there's some sort of logic of how everything we know about it fits together, and I'd like that to be clear. I admittedly wouldn't be surprised if there isn't one, but I'm choosing to hope it will all fit||

[thin ridge]

My favorite movie is still Nimona but I honestly don't have a ranking beyond that

[sage finch]

||I wouldn’t hold my breath, seems like they’re only having these crazy “reveals” just for the sake of doing reveals, given that it’s the last season

Can’t have a final season without some mind bending reveal. Whether it makes sense or not||

[distant birch]

||that doesn't seem unlikely. I don't expect much, but as soon as I know for sure there's not going to be one I'll like it a lot less, so I'm not letting myself rule it out until the end||

[sage finch]

They ran out of ideas a while ago it seems to me

[distant birch]

I don't know if I'd say they ran out of ideas so much as, ||if there's no proper explanation, they keep changing their ideas||

||we've gotten a few different "the upside down is actually x" reveals and if they don't fit together nicely it feels to me like they just had a new idea each season for what was actually going on||

[agile drift]

ST 5.7 start ||how convenient that holly chose the perfect spot to fall from lol||

[agile drift]

ST 5.7 ||"or me" cut the cringe guys||

ST 5.7 ||I think these episodes kinda weakened the season tbh||

I'm seeing the finale in theaters though so whether it's bad or not it should be fun

[distant birch]

Wait it's getting theatre showings ??

[minor isle]

Mad Max Fury Road

[distant birch]

ST 5x7 start ||this is really nitpicky but I feel like both 5x6 and 5x7's opening scenes wouldve worked better at the end of the previous episode||

5x7 start ||lowkey has karen wheeler gotten more good scenes than mike this season? She might've||

||Im guessing holly/vecna are in the other dimension that is connected to earth by the upside-down?||

||oh my god are they still trapped in the paint goo room||

[distant birch]

5x7 ||Oh my GOD people keep being unable to hear stuff that is CLEARLY spoken over the radios||

||like yes its broken up but dustin CLEARLY said "found her"||

||ok robin heard nvm shes the GOAT||

[wise epoch]

||Robin is the only person with working ears||

||She hasn't spent enough time with guns, with monsters all around, in the hell dimension||

||So her hearing hasn't gone yet||

[distant birch]

||Seriously? Vecna caught her?||

||rip to that ig||

[empty locust]

Oh. Vecna is a Stranger Things character

[wise epoch]

Vecna is originally a D&D character

And he is also in Stranger Things

But he is not the same character

[empty locust]

and he is also in the 17thShard

[wise epoch]

So he is

[distant birch]

ST 5x7 ||its kind of funny just how many characters are involved in this now||

||there's like 20 people at this planning session||

[ionic lily]

I choose to believe ST means Star Trek

[distant birch]

||i dont like how much guesswork this plan relies on, but also they cant really get the information I'd like||

||like, whats to say destroying the bridge doesnt further the collision? How do we know proximity will allow El into vecna's mind? how do we know the abyss approaching wont destroy the SQWK? But they cant really figure them out, I get it||

||what in the cult?||

||hopper's gonna kill a child?||

||god if el dies im gonna be pissed||

ST 5x7 ||is will being forced to come out so that vecna doesnt kill him???||

||everyone???||

||vecna hit will with the power of homophobia??||

||quota of 1 good jonathan scene per season has been met||

||xD why is murry here for this at all. And steve? Vickie? xD||

[distant birch]

I have mixed feelings on vol2 and some worries for the finale

5x7 ||Mainly I feel like a lot of people are not getting enough development/screentime, and there's a lot of plotpoints & things I dont think we'll have time to resolve in the finale||

||I don't like that Will mainly seems to have come out out of fear||

||I worry we won't have enough time to actually explain the upside down and all||

||I'm gonna be really unhappy if el dies||

||and I worry Mike (and sorta joyce) will get nothing to do at all this season||

||but I did like some of the emotional moments we got, I am interested in some of the lore we've gotten, and I do think there's some interesting themes going on with henry/el/brenner/will||

ST all ||i also just... don't really care for Henry as a villain. I feel like he's both too much and too little. A (imo too) complicated backstory but he feels very bland||

[full wolf]

Finished Pluribus S1 ||Deeply underwhelming, especially for a finale. I find myself incredibly disappointed that this is apparently Apple's most watched show because it's just so... empty. Not just the literal emptiness of the scenes and settings (though there is a lot of that that's there on purpose) but just there is not enough character or plot here to sustain interest, and I feel like I'm going to keep getting strung along with promises that something interesting might happen at some point in the future if I keep watching. I don't think I'm going to come back for season 2||

[civic trellis]

Pluribus s1 ||Did they reveal anything interesting about the hive mind's plans?||

||or like, anything interesting at all?||

[topaz oyster]

It is so bizarre to me that Severance activates the general public's Lost hackles when Pluribus feels like it has so much more in common in terms of just refusing to answer any questions ever

[oak ivy]

Is pluribus a victim of 9 episode syndrome

[cold sequoia]

The general public noticeably compares Severance to Lost more than it compares Plurbius to Lost?

I am surprised Lost is even still in the public consciousness

[topaz oyster]

I've seen many comparisons between Severance and Lost and none between Pluribus and Lost

When s2 of Severance was airing I kept seeing people who were like "I watched [1-4 episodes] of Severance and it reminded me too much of Lost so I'm out"

JJ Abrams traumatized a generation

[oak ivy]

JJ is one of the most influential directors of all time (derogatory)

[cold sequoia]

Millenials when confronted with an opaque premise: "omg this is just like Lost"

Zoomers when confronted with an opaque premise: "this reminds me of an Hbomberguy video about Lost"

Gen alpha: idk tiktok or something

[oak ivy]

Gen alpha doesn’t watch TV wtf

[topaz oyster]

Lost absolutely has transcended what it actually was to become a shorthand for "show that makes a lot of promises and makes the viewer ask a lot of questions, avoids doing anything with those promises and questions far longer than makes sense within the constraints of the story, and then what it finally does deliver sucks and is bad and not well thought through"

[lucid haven]

Pluribus is a victim of a premise not explored beyond what could have been done in a single epp of something like dr who

[topaz oyster]

I believe gen alpha is a big part of why Stranger Things is having its best season to date

Somehow

[topaz oyster]

I've been using X-Files as my touchstone for this because Vince Gilligan used to write for that show, but yeah same basic idea. You could throw in The Twilight Zone as well

[novel bear]

How much of this is just that Gilligan shows decompress stories like crazy so everything is just really slow scenes on the way to something happening

I will call it my own skill issue that BB was too slow for me, but it seems like that is the trend

Like slowness of story progression as a direct result of just, lingering in scenes and hemming and hawing constantly

[topaz oyster]

The pilot is the only thing that happens this season

[lucid haven]

Yaa x files fits better

[topaz oyster]

And that certainly is not true of the first season of Breaking Bad despite it getting cut short by the 2008 writer's strike

[lucid haven]

Even like a 2 part xfiles or twilight zone epp could have done such a better job of this exact premise

Im so sad that pluribus didn't live up to the 1st 2 epps of the show

[crimson kelp]

This kinda "mystery box" as I believe he called it technique is so frustrating and annoying, it's such lazy writing. It's the ponzi scheme of storytelling, great at stringing people along right until the whole house of cards comes crumbling down and the whole thing blows up in everyone's faces except the guy who's already run away with all the praise and accolades.

[topaz oyster]

Mhmm

[minor isle]

ST s5e6 || Bruh. They have completely lost the sauce ||

[topaz oyster]

Its too bad that somehow Severance of all shows has been left holding that bag too because it is so aggressive about engaging with its own questions

[crimson kelp]

I haven't yet watched Severance but I think this kinda trust once broken is very hard to rebuild.

[topaz oyster]

Unless you're Vince Gilligan I guess

[crimson kelp]

the fact that ya'll sound pretty disappointed with Pluribus suggests otherwise

[topaz oyster]

Well, its AppleTV's most watched show already

So people-not-us are apparently really enjoying it

[minor isle]

I think stuff have happened in this season, and we have progressed in the concept and characters and etc, but this is a case where 6 eps seems to be extended to 9

Slowness feels to be padding than deliberately used to tell us visually about the world or the characters or to have any interesting philosophical conversation

The slowest ep this season was || Manousos || [Pluribus] and that was my favorite one cuz it felt deliberate to build the character and || show us how the world in macro level has been running after hivemind takeover ||

[turbid narwhal]

this season of pluribus reminds me of the left overs first season, just executed a lot worse

[minor ledge]

tbh ppl had similar criticisms of bcs in the s1-3 days to ppls criticisms of pluribus rn

[full wolf]

Pluribus season 1 ||the "big reveal" of the finale is the thing everybody guessed back in like episode 5 or whichever one it was when the hive mind revealed they need stem cells to make a special version of the virus for the immune: that they can use Carol's stem cells from the eggs she froze (mentioned in episode 3 I think?) to make her a special virus without her consent. And the show was so cowardly about this plot point, despite the fact that it's SO EMPTY of content, they still reminded viewers in episode 9 about the frozen eggs before they later did the reveal that that's how they're getting the stem cells 😩 ||

[civic trellis]

that's so lame

thank you, but that it so lame

[full wolf]

It's so lame!

[lucid haven]

Im just so dissapointed in it. I was expecting something as good as severance

[minor isle]

Thank god I am not the only one negative on Pluribus

in the places I am active the most, literally everyone is liking it so so much

[gritty sierra]

I like the version of Pluribus I'm getting from the reactions and meta on Tumblr

[lucid haven]

I like it, and I love the premise and will watch season 2. I just am dissapointed in how they did it

[minor isle]

I liked the premise, but its very less good moments padded out across 9 episodes for me

[lucid haven]

There's so much more they could have done outside of this like "you have to dig deep to get any meaning out of it, and we hid so much meaning in all the little things." Its just atmospheric annoyances cause I see it all but nothing happens

[crystal brook]

I think Pluribus is fine so far

[sage finch]

Pluribus all ||The show's premise offers so much but Gilligan seems content to let us linger on scenes of Carol opening doors, doing random mundane crap, dollar store detective work, tediously recording messages to the others with her stupid camcorder in a world of smartphones....

Hell, the show wastes so much time they make us listen to that answering machine message from the hive at least 8 times in full with no cuts.

It's like wtf are we doing here||

[lucid haven]

Thats my problem with it

Its atmospheric for the sake of being atmospheric

[frank quail]

Pluribus All ||The fact that at no point does Carol ask to have the voicemail message shortened is a little infuriating||

||I don't she's self aware enough to listen to it as punishment||

[sage finch]

Exactly, making her listen to it is one thing but why are we subjected to it tens of times? It's like he wants to piss us off

[frank quail]

unrelated, Pluribus All ||At the pacing of this show, the ending of S1 is basically "WE HAVE YOUR EGGS" Smash Cut to a Nuke. you either or you ||

[sage finch]

Pluribus all ||what'd you guys think of the HDP revelation? In the last ep when Carol writes on the board "They. Eat. People." I involuntarily scoffed and said to the TV "Grow up Carol"||

[lucid haven]

That annoys me too. Pluribus all || the show wants to force you to pay attention to all the little things. Then one of the more obvious things they said earlier in the season is played off as this big reveal. When anyone fully engaging with the TV show was talking about it for a while||

[wise epoch]

Stranger Things S5 full ||https://www.ign.com/articles/stranger-things-duffer-brothers-first-told-netflix-about-the-big-season-5-reveal-before-season-1-even-came-out||
@distant birch @agile drift

If this is true they apparently planned it lmao

[frank quail]

||They don't even eat all people, they eat dead people. It's not like they're zombies going around eating brains, or cannibals firing up the bbq||

[agile drift]

hm. if that's the case i feel like they dropped the ball on properly setting that up in the show

[muted solar]

Oh yeah I need to continue pluribus at some point

[full wolf]

Pluribus all ||It feels like such an empty, vibes-based show for so much of its runtime, lots of spectacle, very little substance. The actual plot and developments of it are paper thin and predictable. I want there to be interesting questions about the hive mind and why they're like this but they kind of just feel manufactured to be lame. They're all happy but they're slowly starving to death and they don't want to accomplish anything other than sending a signal of the virus into space and converting the immune. The story doesn't have anything to really reveal about what's going on because it feels like we kind of know all the things going on and even the "secrets" they revealed were extraordinarily guessable. There's not enough characters to keep this thing character driven, but there's not really enough of anything else to sustain it either, imo :/||

[topaz oyster]

Very

https://tenor.com/view/oh-my-god-omg-no-shocked-surprised-gif-3456559

vibes

[frank quail]

I was very happy to ride along and see if they stuck the landing

-# they did not stick the landing

[turbid narwhal]

the scary part about pluribus is they keep talking about it reaching 4 seasons

[wide stag]

I don't know what this is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpgoDiYKBLM but I am pretty sure it's the child of Arcane and either Tangled or Coraline (or maybe all three)

oh look, top comment

[frank quail]

not Fortiche though

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[wide stag]

It's the most Fortiche-looking not-Fortiche thing though

[frank quail]

also, hilarious, apprently discord spell check autodetects language?

[wide stag]

Discord spellcheck just... stops working sometimes

[full wolf]

I kept seeing headlines about the finale with words like (pluribus) ||Pluribus' big reveal, or the big betrayal in the last episode of Pluribus and I actually got my hopes up that they did something 😩 ||

[frank quail]

||The real big betrayal was the script we heard along the way||

[lucid haven]

I feel like the media literacy crisis is being pulled into pluribus stuff. In the online discourse when its totally unrelated

Like im reading into and seeing all the stuff they are doing. Like I get it all the atmospheric character development and all of the sitting with things

There ofc dumb ppl arguing dumb stuff about it all but I just think its poorly executed

[dusk hound]

We are definitely in a media literacy crisis

I’ve seen so many people read things in bad faith in shows and movies I’ve liked

And I literally have to sit them down and explain “no, they literally didn’t intend for you to read it like that”

[novel bear]

we might be a little worse off in a few things compared to a few years ago due to factors like the pandemic

but i have to wonder what people think media literacy was like in the 2010s

or the 00s

or the 90s etc

i don't think we lived in a time where people were very conscious and analytical in how they consumed stories

[dusk hound]

I think it’s just social media amplifying a lot of bad media literacy

We live in a time where we’re subjected to everyone’s takes

As somebody who spends a LOT of time in the comic community, I’m subjected to bad media literacy CONSTANTLY

But it’s gotten better since I’ve been cutting out a lot of social media

[novel bear]

remember how breaking bad viewers HATED skylar

[distant birch]

I'm ngl I have nothing to back this up but I wouldn't be shocked if social media encourages bad takes, even if you don't believe in them

[novel bear]

do you think there's a prior decade in recent memory

where that would have been better and not worse

[distant birch]

Because simple bad takes probably get lots of engagement and activity

[dusk hound]

Don’t remind me

Please

When I watched BB for the first time I had a friend who had already watched it who HATED Skylar, and when I told him I actually didn’t mind her and thought a lot of what she did was valid, he looked at me like I had two heads

[lucid haven]

Im not saying that we arent

[sonic trench]

Skylar is a classic case of people who don’t think too hard about media just siding with POV characters implicitly
Walter is the main character and POV focus so therefore anyone that questions or disagrees with his decisions must be horrible, is their subconscious train of thought

[lucid haven]

Just that I dont think media literacy is the issue with pluribus

[dusk hound]

Oh no, I’m just saying my thoughts about media literacy

I wasn’t disagreeing with you

Apologies if it came off that way

[novel bear]

and also hating women but the fact that walter is the one who gets to be the protagonist itself exists in the context of gender

[sonic trench]

Yeah the misogyny also can’t be ignored

Representative of trends in TV and movies in general of female characters having less interiority and agency than male ones

[novel bear]

there's an interesting paper i read about that hang on

[sonic trench]

Not that breaking bad is necessarily actively misogynistic just that it’s a product of US culture which is misogynistic

[novel bear]

i thought this was an interesting look at how morally dubious male protagonists are usually able to get audiences to root for them and ally with them, but that rarely happens with morally dubious female protagonists https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e2b847eb-0c54-4ccd-badd-b9faa01a4c57/download_file?safe_filename=Clavel-Vazquez_2017_sugar_and_spice_and_everything_nice_what.pdf&type_of_work=Journal+article

the point i thought was especially interesting was how flawed female protagonists tend to still exist in relation to gender norms, having strong motherly instincts, being femme fatales, or being survivors of sexual violence

[lucid haven]

There's also things like how I met your mother and big bang theory that are deeply misogynistic in their premises and throughout the shows

[sonic trench]

Interesting
I’ll read this after dinner

[lucid haven]

Totally my statement was more for the lurkers than you specificly

[frank quail]

I think this is fairly well known by now, to paraphrase:

1. bad / provocative takes get more responses than good / tepid takes ("someone is wrong on the internet")
2. social media algorithms promote content with more engagement
3. you're mostly going to see the content with hotter takes
4. you're conditioned to prefer to write things in a more provocative way, partly because that's what everything you're reading looks like, and partly because Number Go Up

[lucid haven]

For me it all comes from the fact that its an attention economy so what humans devote more time to attention wise will always get more content. Just by the nature of our lizard brains we focus on bad things and remember them more

[lucid haven]

Agreed

[dusk hound]

I’ve said this a million times, but my life got infinitely more better when I deleted Twitter and cut out social media

Now I just focus on what I like

[frank quail]

I've caught myself doing it here, phrasing my opinion a certain way because I know it will get more react emotes
(generally aiming for positive emotes like , so it's a little better than being as polarising as possible at all times)

[west escarp]

https://www.tumblr.com/funny-tik-toks/765659803601207296

Funny Tik Toks

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[cold sequoia]

In the 90s I think there was a clearer distinction for what kind of stuff warranted what kind of discussion

Like in the extreme example kids cartoons wouldn't merit media literacy discourse because there wasnt really discussion of it outside of maybe some academia circles

In the case of Plurbius, I dont think prestige tv was even a thing in the 90s. Were there nonepisodic tv shows that were discussed at water coolers then?

[dusk hound]

They actually cooked with these concepts https://x.com/i/status/2005030536277086526

👑 (@RoyalMaj3sty)

Put together some suit concepts for DCU Wonder Woman…

Which is your favorite?💫

X · Dec 27, 2025, 9:38 PM

[buoyant scroll]

Twin Peaks immediately comes to mind

[cold sequoia]

Erm, technically that was the 00s ☝️ 🤓

[buoyant scroll]

? No?

1990-1991

[oak ivy]

Lonesome dove was 89

[novel bear]

I'm on episode 3 of The Chair Company

this is quality television

[cold sequoia]

Huh, weird Wikipedia had the wrong dates in the preview

Oh, it was previewing the DVD release

Based on the cancelation I guess it wasnt really suited for the 1990s TV landscape

[west escarp]

If it was being release today I think it would be canclled

Twin Peaks is a deeply weird show

[cold sequoia]

Would it have even needed to be canceled?

[crystal brook]

Twin Peaks today would have lots of season 2s filler cut out which would make it a better show

[cold sequoia]

Doing just two seasons of a show to tell the story you wanted to is perfectly acceptable now in a way I dont think it was in the 90s

[buoyant scroll]

oh it got like...actively sabotaged by inane executive meddling

[cold sequoia]

The cancelation to me appears to be due to Lynch fitting a square peg into a round hole

The square peg being a long form non episodic story and the round hole being network television in the 90s

[buoyant scroll]

To sum up a long story i'll definitely remember names wrong in: An executive thought audiences wouldn't watch a long-form mystery so they made Lynch reveal the core mystery of the show really early...ratings tanked afterwards

[topaz oyster]

I do think there's a difference between "Netflix kills unfinished shows after two seasons as a matter of course" and "two seasons is a normal thing that audiences want"

[cold sequoia]

I counter with "Andor"

There are Andors and Mindhunters

[west escarp]

I doubt that. David Lynch liked filler

[topaz oyster]

In fact, there was a good deal of buzz a couple of years ago about how studios were shopping their shows to Netflix less often and usually as a last resort because they don't like working with that kind of instability

[topaz oyster]

Mindhunter was cancelled

Andor is one in a million

[west escarp]

the main change to twin peaks is that the reveal of who killed Laura Palmer who’ve taken longer because forcing it into season 1 was studio meddling

[cold sequoia]

Yes... my point is there are 2 season shows on purpose and there are ones by chance

[west escarp]

Otherwise I think the story would’ve been largely the same

Completed with that *****ing mopey biker boy James who made the 10 minutes per episode he was on screen feel like a ******ing eternity

[buoyant scroll]

If he'd been allowed to make it the way he planned it would have been drastically different anyways

[topaz oyster]

An intended two season show is really quite rare. I can't even think of another example in the last ten years other than Andor

[buoyant scroll]

Like, the way s2 went down is so specific to...quick google search Bob Iger being a massive moron

[topaz oyster]

And there's so much else that makes Andor a rare bird that using it as an example of what's what's working these days just doesn't land for me

[west escarp]

We must kill Bob iger for this and other crimes such as Disney’s latest round of slop

[buoyant scroll]

Need a "Don't get the server subpoenaed" emote here

[topaz oyster]

The stark reality is that he is still the better Bob

[cold sequoia]

Fleabag

[topaz oyster]

Fleabag, which was unusual enough that Phoebe Waller-Bridge kept getting asked Seinfeld style why she was walking away from a successful show? That Fleabag?

[frank quail]

short tv shows are (were) unusual because TV execs HATE the idea of a successful brand name stopping

netflix is in a weird place because they want NEW NEW NEW to sell more subscriptions, not same old same old to keep existing ones

but then as mentioned the writers are selling ideas to all parties, so there's multiple incentives being followed

[topaz oyster]

They're also unusual because production studios don't like spinning up for 2-3 year projects. Sets and props and contracts that can be reused for years are a better value proposition

[cold sequoia]

Yes, the one which I think is an example of what you were trying to think of

Artists with the freedom to often end thing when they want to rather then when its commercially run its course

[sage finch]

I made my brother watch Pluribus and now he shares all our frustrations

Skip watched most of it cuz of all the dead air lol

[lucid haven]

Just watched the new blue avatar movie and all have to say is it was bloody brilliant

He did it again

[minor ledge]

hot take: This wasnt that bad of a take you were meant to hate skyler

[sage finch]

That was always crazy to me. Imagine your s/o starts killing ppl and comes home pretending everything’s normal lol

[winged mountain]

Skylar was always meant to be an obstacle to Walt but I wouldn’t say the viewer was supposed to hate her

[lucid haven]

That is one of the weirder things you have said

Can you delve deeper into why you think we were ment to hate skylar

Because I truly dont understand how we get to "the audience was ment to hate her"

[minor ledge]

S1 especially shes depicted as being very much a caricature of a suburban american life wife while walt breaks out of that caricature by the end of episode one

[dusk hound]

Started Reacher yesterday

Almost done with season 1

Pretty good so far

[acoustic pewter]

You say Lost, but my mind went to X-Files too. There's a reason this trope got nicknamed the "Chris Carter Syndrome".

At least, on TV Tropes.

[lucid haven]

Why does that mean we should hate her?

Why is not breaking out of her caricature showing us as the audience that we should hate her?

[agile drift]

Skylar has the most reasonable reaction to all the stuff that happens, i don't get what's hateable about that

[lucid haven]

Exactly

I just dont understand kris's reasoning for saying that the show is trying to tell us that we should hate her

Im so confused by it

[burnt shale]

first season is the best imo but its pretty solid its a nice action mystery

[minor ledge]

ehhh shes nowhere near as bad as most of the rest of the cast but by the end shes a horrible persom

[wraith sand]

What would you guys say the difference is between existential horror and cosmic horror? 🤔

Or are they nested categories?

[distant birch]

My totally vibes based no research first-thought answer is that I would class something as existential horror if it deals with existential themes, cosmic horror if it deals with things of a cosmic "scale", and both if they overlap

[turbid narwhal]

So happy to see someone else watching it

[minor isle]

Cosmic horror is about the insignificance of humanity in the vast, insurmountable, indifferent world with entities which define our sense of normalcy and are incomprehensible
While existential horror is about absurdity, meaninglessness of life

[minor isle]

You would be correct

A huge overlap would be between Lovecraftian horror and Cosmic Horror tho

and almost Lovecraftian horror is subset of Cosmic horror

[distant birch]

I mean, I see the two used basically interchangeably a lot of the time

[turbid narwhal]

Just watched Marty supreme and it lived up to the hype

Loved it

[keen flax]

TADC ep 3 ||Kinger is kinda goated omg ||

[fair dirge]

Avengers Doomsday leak ||https://www.reddit.com/r/MCUTheories/comments/1pxnhlz/avengers_doomsday_xmen_teaser_leaked_video/||

||Finally, the classic X-Men suit😭||

[winged mountain]

ah, a new one

honestly the quality is so bad it's not worth watching, I'd just wait for the official drop in, I'd guess a few days?

[placid river]

I'm guessing a little over a week

based on how long it took for the Steve teaser to release officially

[winged mountain]

I thought they said something like one per week, and the first one was released last Tuesday or something?

[naive mica]

To me this whole "show it in theaters only" thing with the teasers feels like purely a marketing ploy to try and generate hype so people actually remember the MCU exists. Which is working I suppose?

Perhaps that's too pessimistic of me but idk, just reeks of trying too hard.

[winged mountain]

I'm not sure this thing is running in theaters currently? I know the first one did, but I'm not sure about this one

[naive mica]

Interesting. I thought that was how they were "leaking".

[dusk hound]

I just think the whole 4 trailers thing is stupid

No reason for that

[fair dirge]

It's really a great marketing strategy

[winged mountain]

the first one also leaked before it was in a theater

and yeah be salty if you like, but marketing gonna market

[fair dirge]

If it had only been the Steve Rogers trailer, the topic would only have been talked about for a week

[winged mountain]

I'm guessing they're trying to just preserve a sense of mystery before the marketing blitz begins in earnest in the summer or something, right around spider-man

[fair dirge]

Releasing a trailer every week is something I've never seen before. Maybe it's nothing new, but it's working really well for Marvel

[winged mountain]

and then they'll start showing the entire movie in the trailer, as is tradition

[fair dirge]

I mean, the fact that we're talking about a movie with such fervor a year before its release says something lol

[oak ivy]

I think there is some momentum to try and reestablish the theater as an event considering everyone just waits for streaming

[winged mountain]

that reminds me, I currently have disney+, I should probably watch some of those movies I skipped

[oak ivy]

Should you?

[winged mountain]

no way to know unless I do

I didn't only skip unpopular ones, though, like I haven't seen Thunderbolts yet and people seemed to mostly like that one

[dusk hound]

There’s some that are worth watching

Thunderbolts is 100% worth it

I really liked it

[winged mountain]

I know I saw Multiverse of Madness, Shang Chi, Fantastic Four, and Spider-Man, and I'd venture to guess there are one or two other Marvel movies I've seen in the past 5 years but may have forgotten them

a couple are coming to mind as I think of it, but yeah I've skipped most of them

[fair dirge]

Shang Chi reminds me alot to an anime, iits agood movie

[thin ridge]

I've tried twice and just never enjoyed that one

[fair dirge]

I have to say I'd like to see X-Men First Generation, but the 2000s ones are great, especially seeing Ian Mackellen

[placid river]

Yeah so the Thor teaser will be this week, and ||X-Men|| will be next week

[topaz oyster]

"Any publicity is good publicity" is not actually true and I think the consistently bungled marketing of Doomsday has probably done more harm than good at this point

Ever since that bizarre chair stunt like a year ago at this point lmao

[cobalt onyx]

Iunno, this marketing SNAFU has reminded me that there's a movie coming out that I'm not planning to watch

[small quarry]

this was so weird lmao

[inland jetty]

What chair stunt?

[buoyant scroll]

oh god the livestream of like...20 chairs

[topaz oyster]

It was a really slow pan that took like actual two Earth hours to go down a row of chairs that had the actors' names on them

[cold sequoia]

It got you guys talking about it

So yeah that publicity was good publicity

[topaz oyster]

So?

[buoyant scroll]

(well, probably not "live" stream)

[topaz oyster]

Not gonna watch Doomsday

[winged mountain]

I don't know what harm you think it may have done

[topaz oyster]

Makes them look like a bunch of buffoons

[cold sequoia]

I am opposed to chair related videos on principle

[topaz oyster]

Reinforces the idea that Marvel has lost their touch

[cobalt onyx]

TBH, I suspect stunts like that are an attempt to remind people that the movie exists and will be coming out.

You, someone that's already made up their mind, aren't the target, only the medium.

[winged mountain]

from where I'm standing, it's the kind of thing that people who are heavily invested are even aware of, whether that's invested in loving it or invested in hating it, and hating it has become an entire YouTube enterprise

[buoyant scroll]

that there is the trick
the video wasn't the marketing
Kon talking about it is

[topaz oyster]

Me saying "Marvel has cringe marketing" is not marketing lmao

[cobalt onyx]

No, but you saying "Marvel's Doomsday advertising campaign has been cringe" is

[buoyant scroll]

You remind people who don't have this flesh deep negativity in them that the movie exists

[topaz oyster]

No

It isn't

I don't have any particular animosity towards Marvel

Calling a spade a spade isn't marketing

[cobalt onyx]

The target isn't even people that are on the fence. It's people that have forgotten that there's a fence to be on.

[topaz oyster]

Everyone knows there's a fence

[winged mountain]

you can't say that about every franchise

[molten jetty]

Not everybody. Not the vast majority of movie goers (who they want to reach and who they will reach)

I wouldn’t be surprised if Doomsday is a massive financial success

[cold sequoia]

Most people who will end up seeing the movies hadn't heard of Secret Wars or Doomsday before the chairs stream

[forest wigeon]

There's nothing Marvel can do to make me interested in a new Avengers

[topaz oyster]

That's not true for me, thought they have to work a good deal harder than they did in 2019, that's for sure

[molten jetty]

Alas I will be in theater seats opening night to view the train wreck or the hype

[topaz oyster]

In large part because so many Marvel projects in that time period have been mid or worse

I liked Daredevil and Shang-chi and that might actually be it in that entire time period

[turbid narwhal]

who flinches first for the imax screenings, dune or doomsday?

[topaz oyster]

I suppose No Way Home was alright but that runs into a potent combo of "I don't like Toby" and "Into the Spider-verse did it better"

[topaz oyster]

Probably Doomsday?

[forest wigeon]

Well, I suppose if it turns out for it to be good enough for very positive word-of-mouth I'd consider it. That worked with Fantastic Four. I just don't think that will happen with Doomsday

[winged mountain]

I think Dune has already indicated they intend to move

just figuring out exactly when

[turbid narwhal]

have they? the last thing i remember was warner bros saying they weren't moving

[topaz oyster]

WB messaging being a hot mess certainly does track

Especially now

[winged mountain]

I don't remember where I heard it so I can't say for certain but they're not likely to win that contest if they stand pat

[forest wigeon]

Dunesday

[winged mountain]

they might give it a try but part of Barbenheimer to me was just the contrast between the two entirely different movies and entirely different audiences

[forest wigeon]

Yeah

idk if anyone will ever be able to replicate Barbenheimer

But the name does write itself

[cold sequoia]

Also WB owned both of those so they could control theater stuff

Directly competing with another company trying to control theater stuff is a different beast

[minor ledge]

marvel is doing everything to make me as least interested in doomsday as possible

its incredible lmao

[stoic falcon]

Yeah, i was already at a low interest level, but then the cap teaser killed it completely

[distant birch]

The Thor trailer sounds interesting enough that maybe ill watch some clips from it or catch it on streaming

[minor ledge]

its just them focusing on steve rogers instead of sam 😭

setting up new charactesr just to not use them is

incredible

[winged mountain]

It’s such a comic book thing to do

[cold sequoia]

Yeah, I feel like Sam's been replaced by Steve at least twice in the comics

[minor ledge]

okay so the MCU arent comic books

[winged mountain]

Not even Marvel exclusive, DC changes flagship heroes then changes them back constantly

[minor ledge]

and also this is one of the worst parts about marvel and DC

[winged mountain]

I don’t think there’s an argument you can make that’s going to make this bother me tbh, because that’s basically how I see them

[distant birch]

Is it good when the comics do it?

[winged mountain]

It is appropriate for the format and the franchise. If I wanted a story that didn’t do it, I would look elsewhere. I would not want Dick Grayson to be a permanent Batman

[stoic falcon]

See, I guess for me one thing I liked about the mcu was the meta character arcs. And this kind of thing feels like backtracking

[winged mountain]

It’s absolutely backtracking. It’s ’we tried something new, we failed, let’s have one big party and throw out the rules before we start over in 2028++

[molten jetty]

Exactly how I see it

[distant birch]

Tbf it's not like Sam's even had a proper chance to be cap

I don't going back to Steve after a while, but sam got like... half a series and 1 movie of questionable quality

[molten jetty]

Best way this turns out is both are Cap in the movie. Prob not gonna happen tho.

[distant birch]

I don't mind him (or any of the new cast) not being permanent, but it feels like they backtracked before they even had a chance to settle in

[winged mountain]

He got a series and a movie, and while they certainly weren’t Marvel’s best I just don’t know if the third chance would have been better

[dusk hound]

I do find it interesting that the trailer said “STEVE ROGERS will return” and not “CAPTAIN AMERICA will return”

Just a thought

[winged mountain]

That’s another thing, it’s entirely possible Steve will try to back up Sam

[distant birch]

Admittedly I don't think they'll bring him back as cap

I think he's just gonna be Steve

[molten jetty]

It is hard to say definitely that they are doing something in the movie one way or the other on anything. We kinda have to ride the wave. I for one am intrigued to see a massive epic or enormous trainwreck, whichever it might be.

[winged mountain]

Pretty much how I feel, just go with it, if Doomsday sucks I won’t watch Secret Wars

[novel bear]

i am excited to not see the massive epic or enormous trainwreck

[dusk hound]

I’ll be seeing Dune 3 instead that day

Real cinema

[distant birch]

I think I just dislike that the first thing they market is Steve being back, because no matter what role he plays its just showing them backtracking to familiar things they know will work

Which... I kinda get it, you wanna promote the film. But it feels like a show of how little confidence they have in anything they've done recently

[distant birch]

I'm so excited to see what they do with dune 3

[west escarp]

https://www.tumblr.com/augustheart/776249035509088256/this-tweet-is-ruining-my-life-rn

Sue Dibny Enthusiast

this tweet is ruining my life rn

-# #literally so real tbh

Tumblr · Feb 23, 2025, 5:32 AM

[stoic falcon]

See, I'm weird in I'm not watching either . Dune has a lot of cool moments, but is too dark for my tastes

[placid river]

People on this server are saying that Doomsday marketing is making people less interested. I wonder if there is literally any evidence to back that up, at all?

If you don’t like Marvel that’s fine, but I think y’all will be surprised if you think the general audience is rejecting this

[distant birch]

I've gotta say I don't actually mind the chair stream

[placid river]

The chair stream was objectively great marketing. Made sure they dominated the conversation for an entire day

[distant birch]

I also wouldn't be surprised if there is a decent chunk of general audiences who don't have the same negative reaction to the Steve trailer

[placid river]

Views and likes on the Steve trailer seem to indicate that this is the case

[distant birch]

It's also like... it's optional, it was a one day thing, it went up on yt after in short form, and it didn't have any major plot content in it

I don't really see any harm in them announcing the cast in a bit of a funky way

[distant birch]

I do wonder how much of the general audience even cares or knows about things like nostalgia bait or Sam's arc or whatnot. Are they following the mcu closely enough to care? Or is it just a cool face you remember liking

[winged mountain]

I think they may have done things that feed the hate-tubing industry but as far as having a measurably negative impact, I severely doubt it.

That said I don’t think Doomsday’s success is assured. I don’t know how to measure success for this movie but I wouldn’t be shocked if it did, like, 800 million and gets labeled a disaster for not reaching a billion

And I don’t honestly know how Disney would actually feel about that

[crystal brook]

Just watched La Chimera

Not the best film ive ever seen however its the kind of film that makes me want to re-rate a lot of other films ive seen because they dont feel better than that

[distant birch]

Does anyone know a website or something where I can find episode by episode content warnings for a show?

[fair dirge]

Judging by how they're running their marketing campaign, I think they need more than 1 billion

[buoyant scroll]

omg
https://twitter.com/agraphafx/status/2005132237805895830?t=d1r_lQsCXOhaloETTPJChA&s=19

johnnyB (@agraphafx)

This actor, Lance Reddick (R.I.P.), was so stoic in some scenes for FRINGE that when we did VFX paint-out of objects in front of him — we occasionally replaced him with a still and no one noticed.

X · Dec 28, 2025, 4:22 AM

[winged mountain]

I think that’s perfectly plausible that it’s their goal

[fair dirge]

I think they're waiting for the 2 billion

[winged mountain]

I think they’re probably self aware enough to know that much is unlikely

[fair dirge]

Hmm, actually Infinity War did a little more than that amount

[buoyant scroll]

DoesTheDogDie and Common Sense Media

...iirc

[fair dirge]

If they manage to get people to come back for the same reason that made them go to the movies in 2018 and for the X-Men with Deadpool combining both parts

[winged mountain]

A lot has changed since then, the China market is basically gone for one…. They have no serious chance of reaching their peaks again

[buoyant scroll]

so common sense doesnt have the episode breakdowns but dtdd does

[fair dirge]

Maybe ,I'm just trying to gauge their expectations, Deadpool and Wolverine are in the top 22

[buoyant scroll]

dtdd website is a little funky on functionality unfort

[distant birch]

Thanks! Ill check them out

[tight dove]

i love kinger

[minor ledge]

common sense also sucks and is run by horrible people

DTDD isnt run by horrendous people who use there influence forh orrible thing sthough

[distant birch]

What did common sense do? /gen

[minor ledge]

lobbied for censorship a couple times

[distant birch]

Ah

[minor ledge]

DTDD is such a good website though bc they put trigger warnings for bigoted stereotypes etc which si great for watching any comedy produced before like 2015 lmao

[stoic falcon]

It's making me less interested at least . But probably not overall

[oak ivy]

Watched Sing Sing. A really quality movie, very emotional. Interesting experience bc i volunteer in a prison, and i think it does a good job of communicating the heart of those programs

Also really excellent performances from actors playing themselves

[crystal brook]

Sing Sing is the best film I watched this year

Highly recommend

[oak ivy]

Crazy acting in it too

[crystal brook]

Im not sure ive seen Colman Domingo in anything before but he was soooo good

And I was pretty gobsmacked at the end when I realised a lot of characters were playing themselves

I teared up a little bit during the film

It looks so good too, maybe someday Ill get to watch it at the cinema

[empty locust]

hmm

The best movie I watched this year would be..

I only remember watching 3 movies

Superman

Zootopia 2

Avatar Fire and Ash

[keen flax]

Mine is easy

S I N N E R S

[empty locust]

hmmm

[crystal brook]

Still havent seen Sinners

[empty locust]

havent even heard of sinners

[keen flax]

Lloyd pleaseeeeeee it's so tasty

You too angry, it's fantastic

[distant birch]

I don't have anything to add but I second all of this

[crystal brook]

Wait, did I watch Look Back this year or last year 🤔

Google says it was last year cool

I dont have to pick and winner between Look Back and Sing Sing for favorite film this year, that might have been impossible

[distant birch]

My 3 favourites/best of this year are Sinners, Superman, and Wake Up Dead Man

[empty locust]

I slept through Zootopia 2. Tbh I only watched it because I missed the taste of popcorn

I guess... Avatar Fire and Ash..? I didn't really love it though

[distant birch]

-# Sinners gets my stamp of "best", Superman of "favourite", WUDM is second in both

Although my favourite is pretty much a tie between a few xD

[placid river]

Sinners is easily my favorite

Wake Up Dead Man and Superman are definitely up there too

[distant birch]

Superman got me into comics so it gets a lot of points from me

Even if it wasn't the best movie of the year, it clicked with me enough to introduce me to a whole new medium basically xD

WUDM I really liked and might be even higher if it had been out longer

[dusk hound]

Sinners was just straight up a masterpiece

I haven’t watched anything like it ever

[distant birch]

I've gotta get my hands on the DVD so I can rewatch it

Did nosferatu come out this year? Or was that a late late 2024 release

[placid river]

Other 2025 releases I thought were pretty good:

• Predator Badlands
• Fantastic Four First Steps
• Thunderbolts*
• K-Pop Demon Hunters

[distant birch]

I don't think I disliked any new releases this year that I saw

They were all enjoyable. Though I do tend to enjoy most things

[ionic lily]

I’m watching Now You See Me 3 right now

It’s bad

[dusk hound]

My 5 favorite releases of 2025 have to be:

• Sinners
• Superman
• The Long Walk
• Weapons
• K-Pop Demon Hunters

In no particular order

[distant birch]

I think Frankenstein, One Battle After Another, and F4FS would be a little on the lower end of my list, with KDH, Thunderbolts* and the chainsawman movie in the middle

[placid river]

Oh yeah Frankenstein was another good one. Knew I was forgetting something

[distant birch]

My top 5 would probably be:
Sinners
Superman
Wake Up Dead Man
Nosferatu (if that was a 2025 release?)
KDH
And maybe csm if nosferaru wasn't this year
-# in no order

[dusk hound]

I honestly could switch out KDH with Frankenstein or Thunderbolts but I liked KDH more than them

[distant birch]

I liked Frankenstein but I feel like it didn't work quite as well as the book did, so I'm ranking it lower because I don't quite have the same excitement about it as some other releases

[topaz oyster]

How "Now You See Me / Now You Don't" wasn't the title of the second movie (or, perhaps, just Now You Don't) is one of the more baffling decisions of our time

Obviously the idea was kicked around at some point, they used it for the third movie

Also, why they decided to franchise this of all things is another, almost unrelated baffling decision of our time

Were people asking for more of that?

[oak ivy]

It somehow has brand recognition

It over doubled its budget

So it at least broke even

[topaz oyster]

Sure but the decision to franchise it feels like it has the weight of corporate soullessness pushing it forward and not much else

[dusk hound]

If you guys think Superman was something, just wait till Supergirl tbh

If they just adapt the comic the that movie genuinely has a good chance to be legendary

[empty locust]

Oh yeah

I watched KDH too

[distant birch]

I worry my expectations are too high because of the comic xD

But supergirl will very likely be my #2 movie of next year

[empty locust]

I think I liked KDH the most this year now that I think about it

[dusk hound]

I’m excited but I’m definitely keeping my expectations low

I’m going in just expecting a fun space adventure that has emotional story beats

[distant birch]

I'm trying to reset my hype after the teaser

[topaz oyster]

https://tenor.com/view/skeptical-futurama-fry-hmmm-i-got-my-eyes-on-you-gif-17101711

[distant birch]

I think some of the visuals from the comic had me hyped for a movie on that level visually, and so I was a little disappointed by it

[muted solar]

My top 5 of the year is just Sinner 5 times

[dusk hound]

Shush

[distant birch]

But the actual trailer content was solid, so I'm trying to just go back to being excited for a solid space adventure, like you said

[dusk hound]

I have not had the bare minimum as a DC fan in decades, let me have the bare minimum smh

[empty locust]

oh its that guy from black panther

[distant birch]

Nonetheless supergirl will probably be my second favourite of next year, to dune 3

[empty locust]

Dune 1 and 2 holds a special place in my heart

I watched both of them with someone I loved on the same day, and it was one of the 2 most happiest days of my life

[muted solar]

I hope next year is a stronger one than this year. Thinking back there wasn’t much that really blew me away this year

[placid river]

Which guy are you talking about?

[empty locust]

Sinner

[dusk hound]

2026 is LOADED with movies tbh

[distant birch]

Ryan coogler(sp?)?

[empty locust]

Micheal B Jordan

[distant birch]

My prediction for 2026 is dune 3>supergirl>>>spiderman>>>odyssey>>>>doomsday

[oak ivy]

Wait spiderman is next year?

[distant birch]

Oh and the new hunger games will probably be alright so maybe throw that in above odyssey

[muted solar]

I haven’t been too aware of what’s coming out next year. Didn’t know doom 3 or doomsday or Spider-Man were next year. Knew about odyssey.

Saw a trailer for disclosure day and that looked interesting.

Was hyped for the ATLA movie but… yeah…

[distant birch]

I could be wrong but I think so

[oak ivy]

I sill be stunned if that is good

[empty locust]

Tbh I'm not that excited for movies anymore. I'm more excited for video games and books

[distant birch]

Oh I liked nosferatu so I might like the Robert eggers werwulf

[muted solar]

I’m ready for 2027 and spiderverse 3

[distant birch]

There's quite a few things I recognise coming out 2026, though I'm not super hyped for all of them

2027 with spiderverse, batman 2, and man of tomorrow is gonna be crazyyy for me

[winged mountain]

Spider man Holland 4 is summer and Doomsday is Winter

[muted solar]

I should finish Batman one day maybe

[winged mountain]

I don’t think Spider Verse has a firm date yet

That seems to be a franchise in development hell

[distant birch]

-# really the 2026 release I'm most excited for is Interview with the vampire s3

[muted solar]

I don’t think I’ve seen Holland Spider-Man 3

[muted solar]

Ehhh I think the second movie took a while to make too? 2027 was dated for the movie a few years back. I imagine it’ll hit the date

[dusk hound]

Absolutely sucks that the ATLA movie isn’t getting a theatrical release

[distant birch]

Tbh I think the spider verse franchise isn't in hell so much as they were just far too optimistic initially

[muted solar]

There’s a lot of work that goes into the spiderverse movies and it really shows. They can take their sweet time imo

[winged mountain]

It was originally dated as like a year after the second, which was said to be absurd since they had made no real progress on it, spending all their time in the second

[distant birch]

No way BTSV was meant to come out like... was it 6 months-a year after ATSV?

[winged mountain]

Point is they’ve had fake dates before and I’m not inclined to believe a date for that movie until they say it’s actually ready

[muted solar]

Yeah the original date for a year after was a bad call

[dusk hound]

I literally laughed to myself when I saw that in the theater, I remember looking to my friend and said “No way they make that release date”

[muted solar]

Yeah I was so pumped to hit that on a midnight release

[distant birch]

Apparently 2026 has the clayface movie??

[winged mountain]

I think the studio wanted them to work on the two simultaneously but the first sequel was such an effort

[placid river]

Now watching The Glassworker!

[winged mountain]

And it was worth it because it was great, but still

[distant birch]

2027 has minecraft 2 xD

[dusk hound]

Btw if the DCU Batcave doesnt have a giant penny and dinosaur then I don’t want it

[winged mountain]

2027 is definitely plausible at least, I hope they manage it

[muted solar]

So I see a tentative June 25th, 2027 for spiderverse

Still a year and a half away so it’ll be a while before we know for sure

[winged mountain]

Four years is at least theoretically enough time to make a movie like that

[dusk hound]

Can’t believe the amount of people who think the giant penny comes from two-face, so I have to sit them down and explain “so there’s this guy named Penny Plunderer….”

[distant birch]

I'm ngl part of me wasn't sure if it came from a villain or was just something Bruce had for some reason

[muted solar]

Yeah. I don’t care how long it takes tbh. I just want it to live up to the first 2 movies

[ionic lily]

Who plunders pennies?

[dusk hound]

Look, it was the Golden Age ok

His whole thing is that he’s just really obsessed with Pennies

I honestly want him to make a comeback with the recent news that the U.S. won’t be making Pennies anymore

[burnt shale]

||Sex scene on the giant penny? ||

[burnt shale]

And is canonically in hell

[agile drift]

Watched goonies for the first time tonight. The way people talk about it I thought it must be one of the absolute greats of the 80s but I didn't care for it at all. I think it might be one of those ones that you have to have enjoyed as a kid first before enjoying it as an adult

[dusk hound]

I JUST opened up Discord

[topaz oyster]

I've never gotten the Goonies love

Its enormously influential and I can't for the life of me figure out why

Mid feels like a bit of a compliment

[gritty sierra]

so much 80s media be like

[inland jetty]

My dad made me watch it when I was younger (alongside a couple other movies he loved when he was my age), and its definitely the one that stuck with me the least

(The others being Aliens and Starship Troopers, both of which I wanna watch again some time, because I was barely attention through either of them. Goonies though... I just don't care)

[gritty sierra]

oh, love those

[minor ledge]

at least with DC you dont have to worry about synergy with movies affecting comics

vc the movies are ass but hey at least theres a positive to that

[burnt shale]

At what age did you watch it?

[keen flax]

My 80s movie was definitely Teen Wolf 😂

[topaz oyster]

Like 10-12ish I think

[keen flax]

And The Outsiders but that doesn't count since im obsessed with the book

[gritty sierra]

mine was return of the jedi

[oak ivy]

I never liked the goonies tbh

[burnt shale]

Outsiders will have the stink of me being forced to watch it in school

[empty locust]

One of my favorite movies is live action Cinderella and I'm not even joking

[minor ledge]

oh my god yes ive jsut never gotten why people like it

ive always assuemd it was just it inspired so much media that it seems unoriginal because it was so influential

[sonic trench]

I assume people like it because of either nostalgia or because they're a fan of 80s campiness but both of those require a modern day perspective so I'm not sure what the selling point would have been when it came out

[buoyant scroll]

it was a movie kids liked cause it was about kids being kids and going on an adventure

[empty locust]

any1 watch culinary class wars?

[lucid haven]

My sister still loves it because she was just a couple years yonger than those kids ages when it came out and grew up with all that culture and all that stufff. Its simular to the Harry potter stuff for a lot of millennials who were simular ages to the cast. Kids your age going on adventures and the culture at school talking about it all the time has lasting cultural impact

[ionic lily]

Love it

[buoyant scroll]

https://vxtwitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/2005641631551373415?t=ZWSG2amTrlF40F7J4MELIA&s=19

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

First trailer for the ‘MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE’ sequel series

Releasing April 10 on Hulu

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · Dec 29, 2025, 2:06 PM

[cold sequoia]

legacy sequels legacy sequels we all love legacy sequels

[ivory night]

I think the justified one is the only legacy sequel I didn’t hate on sight

And that’s because it was only 7 years post finale

[buoyant scroll]

I really hope this is good

Honestly im mostly just happy for Frankie Muniz

[cold sequoia]

malcom in the middle's finale came out in 2018?

[ivory night]

No Justified the tv show had a sequel called prime evil that came out 7 years after the first show ended. And that’s the only sequel I didn’t hate on sight.

Malcom in the middle ended mid 2000s

[novel bear]

Okay so milking legacy sequels is bad

But there is something funny about Cranston going back to comedy now

[ivory night]

He’s probs bored and they gave him a big check

Dude has to do something between dodgers games after all

[cold sequoia]

he's done a few comedies after Breaking Bad

[winged mountain]

I've never been opposed to them making 'legacy sequels', if that's what we're going to call them, but I also very rarely actually watch them

someone's gotta watch them if they're gonna keep making them, but also they don't usually seem to last long

[cobalt onyx]

Wait, releasing <date> on Hulu? Wikipedia said the reboot was for Disney+...

(also 4 episodes, originally planned to be a movie)

Ah, Hulu and D+ are some level of entangled...

[cobalt onyx]

Interestingly enough, from what little research I've done, it looks like Cranston might've been the driving force behind getting this to happen

[minor ledge]

Cranston is a really good comedy actor

[west escarp]

I am now going through his filmography and he was a bit character in two episodes of the power rangers

Also he was in this episode of the xfiles which got him his drug lord role https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_(The_X-Files)

[burnt shale]

I’m just finding out the European versions of demolition man dub over Taco Bell with Pizza Hut

This is going on my top 10 reason to hate Europe

[crimson kelp]

speaking as a lifelong UK resident I only ever herd Taco Bell (and never knew what that even was for a long ass time)

[crystal brook]

As a Brit im struggling to parse this sentence

[burnt shale]

in teh movie the european versions dub over every mention of taco bell with pizza hut and also any visuals are changed in post

[crimson kelp]

honestly it seems like a reasonable change and I would have understood the scene better since we actually have pizza huts here

[burnt shale]

until you realize that requires dubbing over the acting and it sounds terrible

[crystal brook]

Ah im not sure ive heard of the movie

Thats why it made no sense to me 😂

Ironically in the past decade ive seen more taco bells in the UK than I have pizza huts

(Which is like 3vs1)

[crimson kelp]

it's a fun/silly early 90s action movie

[buoyant scroll]

https://tenor.com/view/tacobell-restaurant-dinner-lunch-food-gif-11175361

They won the restaurant wars

[minor ledge]

ST 5x6 ||Best episode of the season tbh||

||Dont like the rest of the season though||

[minor ledge]

but also jesus christ elevens actor (i dont remember her name lmao) cannot act at all

[sage finch]

They all got worse as they aged lol

Either that or it was less noticeable cuz they were kids

[distant birch]

ST ||god Mike gets literally nothing to act these days||

||could replace Finn with a cut out and nothing would change||

[minor ledge]

ST||Yeah him and el are by far the worst offenders its so bad||

[distant birch]

ST ||I feel like the show has slowly just been dropping a lot of the old cast out of the spotlight. Like Mike and El and Joyce barely get anything to do in s5, while Robin gets tons||

[sage finch]

ST s5 ||The show turned into a meme of itself after that coming out scene ||

[minor ledge]

ST||Especially when winona ryder is the only one who can actually act too so idk why shes getting pushed out||

[minor ledge]

I havent gotten there yet thats next episode but ive seen the memes lmao

[sage finch]

Isn’t there a theory that it’s cuz she was high as a kite during that one awards show

[minor ledge]

yeah

but its wild how much ST fell off after s1 lmao

[distant birch]

I'm kind of glad I didn't rewatch before s5

[dusk hound]

Season 4 was the only season of ST that rekindled my enjoyment of the show

It went back to the shows roots of horror sci fi