Media (General)

[frail mulch]

I mean, it's a good time to ask with a lot of movie watchers currently typing lol

[ivory night]

Barbie

[frail mulch]

Is this a reference to that park Chan woo film

[feral grail]

Uh citizen kane

[muted solar]

Please watch Arrival 🙏

[agile drift]

No this is obaa

[spring barn]

Frankenstein 2025

[feral grail]

Maybe tarkovskys stalker actually thats a good one

[agile drift]

I love stalker

[feral grail]

idk im bad with movie recs of people idk the taste of

[wet quest]

The Gamers: Dorkness Rising
It's about this group playing DnD and it's free on YouTube and it's the best movie ever

[dusk hound]

I am DAMN happy that Jordan and Coogler got their awards tho

[buoyant scroll]

Skinamarink
Longlegs

[distant birch]

I'm glad they at least got recognition

[feral grail]

One friekorps after another one more than it shouldve but at least chalamet didnt get best actor

[wet quest]

I Lied To You >>>>>> Golden

Golden isn't even the best song in that movie

[dusk hound]

It was over when OBAA got Best Casting tbh

[hushed moss]

Please tell me that last Conan skit isn’t serious. I know it is not but if next year is hosted by… Mr. Beast it would be the end of cinema

[molten jetty]

I wish Wheel of Time would have gotten some emmy noms because S3 was great

[red nacelle]

Oh wow thanks for the recs guys! Yall are goated

[turbid narwhal]

https://x.com/davidehrlich/status/2033367928167342367?s=46

david ehrlich (@davidehrlich)

suddenly terrified that Chalamet might be about to make a movie with Alejandro González Iñárritu

X · Mar 16, 2026, 2:21 AM

[red nacelle]

That movie is fantastic, think I watched it in 2024

[feral grail]

Make hideo kojima host the oscars i think

[ionic lily]

watch Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

[feral grail]

that would be really funny

[red nacelle]

Golden is lowkey overrated

[distant birch]

Golden's popularity is funny to me in a meta sense

[molten jetty]

Remember when TGA ended with Highguard announcement? Good times

[wet quest]

Well, yeah. Every song that gets played endlessly is overrated, that's sorta how it goes.

[feral grail]

KPDH getting so popular is odd to me tbh

its like a solid 7/10 kids movie but not much more

[molten jetty]

Yeahhhh What It Sounds Like is my favorite from the movie. Golden is pretty low on my personal list

[distant birch]

They made this song to be a top-of-the-charts streaming-everywhere song of a fictional world and then it also hit that IRL

[wet quest]

It's very similar to Hakuna Matata in that a lot of people love that song even though it is the antithesis of the theme of the movie

[red nacelle]

Nah that’s not why. I just prefer What It Sounds Like

[frail mulch]

Yeah, like it is deliberately hard to perform so they've pitched it lower in live performances

[keen flax]

4/16 is better than 0/11 (the color purple was genuinely just robbed)

So like I wish they won more too but I also didnt realize how stacked this year was

[ionic lily]

What it Sounds Like is my favorite

[molten jetty]

There are a lot of movies releasing this year next year’s Oscars will be interesting

[frail mulch]

Which doesn't change the range for difficulty but maybe not as straining on the voice

[feral grail]

OBAA shouldve just gotten 0/0 man that movie is horrible

[wet quest]

And hey, 16 nominations ain't nothing either

[molten jetty]

Also need to mention Your Idol because that’s tied for first

[dusk hound]

I’m glad Marty Supreme walked away with nothing, annoying movie made by annoying people

[feral grail]

tbh def a nom for best director and maybe a win for that

i like PTA

[frail mulch]

I forget, how many did OBAA get out of their 13 noms?

[spring barn]

I blacklisted it when I heard it had Kevin O Leary

[ionic lily]

tbh I dont like Your Idol

[agile drift]

Here's an overly long and all over the place list of movies I love: Alien, Treasure Planet, 2001 a space Odyssey, zathura, 28 days later, city of god, portrait of a lady on fire, raiders of the lost ark, amélie, get out, SLC punk, stalker, rocky horror picture show, star wars of course

[feral grail]

hes the shark tank dude right

[spring barn]

Among many worse things

[wet quest]

I don't know that I'd say it was horrible, but Sinners was absolutely the better movie

[distant birch]

I think they said 6

[keen flax]

Zathura mention in 2026??? Oh you know ball my friend 🥴🫱🏽‍🫲🏾

[spring barn]

It's best to look it up cause his crap goes way outside the server's bounds but he's a garbage human being yes

[wet quest]

Hey let's not throw around accusations of pedophilia just because someone "looks the type"

[spring barn]

Idk if he's exactly that though

[feral grail]

oh not his looks just that kind of rich people tends to be that

[frail mulch]

Like this outfit also just screams annoying

[spring barn]

Dubai rich aesthetic

[wet quest]

Yeah, but the internet exists so you could look it up instead of just throwing it around like that

[distant birch]

I'll be interested to see next year's, coz there aren't tons of movies I'm interested in this year that seem like fits, but also I didnt expect to see a lot of the ones I did last year

[wet quest]

Especially given the current climate

[feral grail]

what movies are this year

[feral grail]

Amelie i really need to get on to watching tbh

[spring barn]

Can't wait to see PHM get borderline 0 noms while Spielberg wins everything for the same type of movie

[distant birch]

I'm mainly looking forward to PHM, supergirl, and dune 3

[keen flax]

Mortal kombat 2!! XD

[turbid narwhal]

Odyssey is the big one but I’m not really interested in Nolan that much after his last few movies

[ivory night]

Dune 3 is this year??? Sick

[ionic lily]

Watch Hans Zimmer win another award for a score he didnt write

[wet quest]

Project Hail Mary, Dune Part 3, Supergirl

[keen flax]

DUNE 3 IS THIS YEAR???

[feral grail]

oh odyssey is this year

[small quarry]

none, they are not doing movies anymore

[keen flax]

Mama mia

[feral grail]

thats gonna sweep

[distant birch]

Dune 3 december this year!!

[frail mulch]

Wait really

[ivory night]

Denis time to cook

[frail mulch]

I didn't realize Dune Messiah was so soon

[distant birch]

December 18

[keen flax]

Dude I gotta dune it up, I haven't seen the second one

[distant birch]

Same day as avengers 5

[molten jetty]

Movies: Dead Poet’s Society, Pride and Prejudice, End of Evangelion (watch Evangelion first), Star Wars, Dune, LotR

[wet quest]

All of the directors saw Chainsaw Man and declared, "cinema is over, we've done it all"

[molten jetty]

Can’t wait to watch them butcher the story

[turbid narwhal]

Digger with Tom cruise is one I’m really hoping is good because I think if it’s executed well it could be one of my favourites

[frail mulch]

I just finished reading Circe today lol

[molten jetty]

Yessssss

[burnt shale]

hate the guy he actually did a pretty solid job

[feral grail]

dont care if its that accurate to the poem

[distant birch]

I think seeing timmy go from Marty Supreme to Dune 3 will be... interesting

[wet quest]

Girl that's the good one

[frail mulch]

So I am mildly fresh on my Odysseus lore

[molten jetty]

The more I see of the Odyssey movie, the less excited I am

[distant birch]

I'm really excited for Dune though

[feral grail]

hes probbly gonna swap back from his pretentious arthouse aesthetic to his So Relatable gamer aesthetic

[molten jetty]

It just seems very “look we have all these hot cool stars come see”

[wet quest]

It would depend, really. I think if it's gonna deviate a bunch just make a different movie

[distant birch]

It'll almost certainly be my favourite movie of the year

[ivory night]

Don’t worry spider verse 3 will surely come out this year after all the last movie said it would be out in March 2024…

[feral grail]

i wasnt the biggest fan of dune

[molten jetty]

Dune 3, new Star Wars, Spiderman, Avengers

[distant birch]

There's a good chance I won't see Odyssey tbh

[wet quest]

Oh Brother Where Art Thou is, to this day, one of the best adaptations of The Odyssey

[distant birch]

Nothing about it has interested me

[molten jetty]

Now, if Epic the musical were a movie instead…

[dusk hound]

Milly Alcock Best Actress nomination #incoming 🙏 🙏 🙏

[placid river]

Idk if you knew this but that movie has a June 2027 release date now

[wet quest]

Person, do you like movies?

[oak ivy]

You were excited?

[molten jetty]

I saw Odyssey

[buoyant scroll]

Every decision ive seen and heard is so perplexing

[molten jetty]

Odyssey is cool

[molten jetty]

Yeah… yeah

[ivory night]

-# yes that was the joke

[turbid narwhal]

Matt Damon lead movie in 2026 is bold I’ll give it that

[molten jetty]

Zendaya as ||Athena|| is a choice

Definitely a choice

[feral grail]

its a 3k year old poem its just as much a poem as its a cultural touchstone tbh

im not that excited for it but deviating from the peom a lot is fine

[feral grail]

yeah

[ivory night]

I don’t have any particular attachment to the source material

[turbid narwhal]

I don’t either but Nolan’s recent track record hasn’t been great

[ivory night]

Tenet was incoherent but fun!

[feral grail]

i dont think i like any of nolans movies

[oak ivy]

What

[buoyant scroll]

The Odyssey has been retold a buncha different ways over time like, a lack of complete adherence to the original epic isnt what's of particular concern here

[ivory night]

Hmmm I need to watch Mickey 17 at some point

[feral grail]

openheimer is probably my favorite

tbh

[wet quest]

The third line of the movie: Don't try to understand it, just feel it
Me: Oh okay cool brain switch off now

And then I loved it

[buoyant scroll]

I love Tenet it's so fun rewatching it

[ivory night]

That movie had such fun vibes

[ionic lily]

you should watch Real Steel

[turbid narwhal]

Memento and Oppenheimer are probably his best movies

[feral grail]

i never got to tenet

its been on my backlog for a while

[buoyant scroll]

Yo Real Steel is fire

[turbid narwhal]

Tenet sound mixing is a crime

[feral grail]

i only watched openheimer because of the barenheimer thing

barbenheimer was super fun tbh

[molten jetty]

Barbie was goated

[ionic lily]

https://giphy.com/gifs/robot-real-steel-gigantes-de-acero-fyJDqH8W0CwGZXG1Mq

[molten jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/barbie-girl-gif-gif-8238651546754993630

[feral grail]

i didnt really like barbie but it was fun

[buoyant scroll]

Barbie is so damn good my god

[frail mulch]

I fell asleep during Oppenheimer when we watched at home lol

[dusk hound]

Out of all the CBMs this year I could actually see Clayface getting some Oscar noms

[molten jetty]

Yeah in the new Odyssey ||Zendaya is Athena ||

[oak ivy]

Barbie was really good

[wet quest]

Same. It was nice to have a detox after such an emotionally wrecking movie, I'm def glad I watched Barbie first

[ivory night]

Did they keep Alan Tudyk

[buoyant scroll]

Greta's doing the Magician's Nephew adaptation and i really hope it's good

[ionic lily]

im looking forward to it

[buoyant scroll]

ive heard some :/ things from interviews, but she's bought some benefit of the doubt for now

[molten jetty]

We also have (Odyssey) || Anne Hathaway as Penelope, Tom Holland as Telemachus, Matt Damon as Odysseus, Robert Pattinson as Antinuous, Charlize Theron as Circe|| so uh yeah. Definitely a movie of all time.

[oak ivy]

He just cast all of his friends lmao

[ionic lily]

That is some insane casting

[molten jetty]

I agree with this. I’ll watch and see but I’m hesitant.

[spring barn]

Oh right Odyssey exists

[dusk hound]

This just sucks https://x.com/geoffkeighley/status/2033350009857663040

Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley)

So incredibly disappointed and heartbroken that the #Oscars and AMPAS chose not to include my father, David Keighley, and his immeasurable contributions to IMAX and cinema in the In Memoriam segment in the broadcast.

I will never forget.

X · Mar 16, 2026, 1:09 AM

[molten jetty]

Yeah what are the chances of a ||Athena Telemachus romance||

[dusk hound]

For those who don’t know David Keighley was literally one of THE driving forces behind IMAX

[molten jetty]

Not 0 I tell you that

[frail mulch]

This feels like a startling large omission

[dusk hound]

It is completely asinine he wasn’t included

[oak ivy]

Good kpop won

[wet quest]

My fan theory is that Nolan is gonna shadow drop The Illiad month before The Odyssey comes out

I have no evidence to support this

[feral grail]

i am not lying i will straight up give you all of my assets if you are correct on this

[dusk hound]

Fun fact: this is an Oscar winning film

[feral grail]

wasnt it best make p?

[dusk hound]

Yup

[wet quest]

Do we have a lawyer in the chat?

[feral grail]

Oh god no

im not a lawayer

ugh

ew

bleh

[feral grail]

I mean make up looks solid enough from what ive seen

[frail mulch]

https://bsky.app/profile/audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app/post/3mh5hya6wek2l

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app)

Michael B. Jordan should get two of them lil Oscars trophies. One for each brother

Bluesky · Mar 16, 2026, 3:05 AM

[hushed moss]

Something interesting is that with the Best Casting and Best Cinematography wins a woman has now won every non-gendered Oscar.

And a man hasn’t as this is Castings first year.

[dusk hound]

This is officially an Oscar winning line delivery

[stark crag]

what's wrong with lawyers

[feral grail]

a lot of them are just not good people

[stark crag]

even if we took that as true, they are not all bad people and there's nothing inherently wrong with being one. you don't need to express disgust at the idea; that can be kept as an inside thought. 🙂

[feral grail]

no but there is something inhernetly wrong with being a lawyer in the law system of most countries because said law is injust and horrible in most countries

[placid river]

Okay this is a discussion for another channel now

[novel bear]

most of what most lawyers do is extremely mundane stuff like "hey can you write up standard contract for this thing" and "hey can you read this contract i have to sign to make sure it's fine"

[placid river]

You know is a really good lawyer though?

[novel bear]

few do criminal work

[placid river]

https://tenor.com/view/smiling-matt-murdock-charlie-cox-daredevil-born-again-giving-a-smile-gif-6514427862240295591

[novel bear]

and there's y'know. defense lawyers.

[ionic lily]

https://giphy.com/gifs/marvelstudios-marvel-studios-she-hulk-attorney-at-law-marvelstudios-V8BKCZ88Yu2TJsVFVM

[feral grail]

oh i wasnt even refering to criminal work lmao

[stark crag]

Peculiar, you're making some pretty vast generalizations. If you're interested in being open-minded about this, we can talk about it in DMs. If you're not, we'll drop the subject here. Regardless, in the future, don't express disgust, or the opinion that they're inherently immoral, at large groups like careers in this server. Feel whatever you want, but be kind out loud.

[keen flax]

REAL STEEL MENTION IN 2026??? oooooooo you know ball good sir

[novel bear]

real steel went hard i watched it last year

[red nacelle]

GoT s2e1 || Goddamn this show knows how to hook you in. It’s easily the most dense live action show I’ve tried to watch all the way through. Which isn’t a lot, but still… the density works to its benefit.

I honestly don’t know how to summarize my feelings towards each plotline and I LOVE that goddamn||

[ionic lily]

It’s soooo good

[keen flax]

It is astonishing at how well real steel holds up

Like I also watched it last year while I was getting my hair braided and me and my braider were locked in 🤣

[red nacelle]

What is? Game of thrones or real steel?

[ionic lily]

Real Steel

But also GoT

[red nacelle]

Dude that’s just wicked

GoT s2e2 || I have a feeling something really bad will come from Arya telling that boy the Gold Cloaks are looking for her||

|| Also it seems Joffrey has issued an order to kill all of Robert’s bastard children||

[red nacelle]

GoT general || Game of Thrones is the second show I’ve seen that acknowledges people’s bowels void when they die ||

[heavy anchor]

Can confirm am real

[placid river]

What’s the first one?

[red nacelle]

The Venture Bros.

I just took a peek into the first ASOIAF book and learned Daenerys’ nickname is Dany

Well that makes it easier to talk about her in messages 😂

GoT s2e2 || Also I wonder if the books go into Dany’s psychology. I don’t get why she grieved for Drogo despite him being her rapist||

[lucid haven]

your zooming, any predictions so far about the future or what happens next ?

also in reply to your question, because thats a realistic thing that happens irl

[red nacelle]

Quick pivot, just learned || the Night King is an original character that appears in season 4… i thought season 4 was supposed to be a faithful adaptation of storm of swords ||

|| So when the heck am I supposed to stop watching the show for an adaptation of the books? Btw I haven’t read the books yet ||

[red nacelle]

Hmmm nothing comes to mind yet, I’ll tag you when it happens

[lucid haven]

i think around seaosn 2 i was deep in predictions

since i haddent read the books yet

[red nacelle]

GoT s2e2 || I have never seen a character simultaneously humanize and dehumanize someone else. It’s terrifying. Littlefinger is terrifying ||

[ivory night]

|| don’t stop watching the show. Good adaptation changes things to fit the medium. You watch the show because it is largely an excellent show. You read the books because they are largely excellent books. And you get to experience new and different things in each || thrones adaptation general

[lucid haven]

dont even listen to anything you learn online

ppl are VERY jaded about the show

[red nacelle]

GoT s2e2 || Holy hell even Tyrion is competent and terrifying?! He just sent Lord Janos to his death. Why is everyone on Westeros so backstabby? 😟||

[lucid haven]

watch the show all the way through

[lucid haven]

GoT s2e2 ||legit because we were so backstabby back in the war of the roses times, humans be stabbing each other in the back much lots||

[ionic lily]

Today is the Ides of March

[red nacelle]

I’ll try. What do you think of the show?

[lucid haven]

i loved the show all most all the way through

there are some issues when they go beyond the books and when they wrapped it up imo one or two seasons early but nothing but good htings to say before that point

really good adaptiation before it got bad and imo thats only once like i said they got beyond the books and even that wasnt too bad untill the last season or two

this summs it up nicely

[topaz oyster]

Beware

[ivory night]

-# honestly I think a lot of problems with the end of the show was that they were tired of making the show

[lucid haven]

i dont really know or care, i just know that the last season mega bad and they needed at least a season or two more to do it justice and to not have both season 7 and 8 be low on the epp count

[ionic lily]

Those season 7 scores are delusional

[lucid haven]

https://seriesgraph.com/show/1399-game-of-thrones is there a better site to be looking at

[ivory night]

7 was fine. Honestly the wheels don’t come off until || season 8 episode 3-4 || all

[topaz oyster]

The wheels were wobbling for at least two seasons before they actually came off though

[ivory night]

6 is well regarded

So the math ain’t mathing on two seasons

[topaz oyster]

6 is controversial

[ivory night]

To who?

[topaz oyster]

5 is the last universally regarded Good Season

[ivory night]

It literally won the Emmy for best drama series in season 6

[lucid haven]

i enjoyed and thought 7 was pretty good at the time

and still do

7 isnt as bad as everyone makes it out to be

[topaz oyster]

To be clear I don't dislike 6

I think 6 is fine but you can see some of the faults that would become fissures later on

I'm not terribly minded to give "won an Emmy" a ton of weight because that was the era when it was kind of everywhere but also before it openly started being bad

[topaz oyster]

GRRM pushed heavily for 13 seasons, that was his ideal number

Which does kind of say a lot about how much his last two books have to do

I wasn't ever clear if that was 13 full size seasons or if that was reactionary to the truncated seasons they started doing

[lucid haven]

i think with were we were by the end of season 6 that 10 seasons would have been good

[ivory night]

Honestly if they had done full seasons for 7 and 8 they’re probably fine

[lucid haven]

that too

[ivory night]

(Assuming D&D aren’t mailing it in)

[lucid haven]

which they clearly were post season 6 imo

even if 7 is good in my eyes

[ivory night]

The big complaint about 7 at the time was || people on the internet being mad about “teleporting”|| which like… I never really understood.

You can literally look at graphs of reception of each episode and the drop is ||8-3|| all

[red nacelle]

See that’s why I’m hesitant to go beyond season 4. I wanna watch shows that get better, not get worse

[lucid haven]

nah nah nah, show good dont let the final season ending poorly keep you down

like jm said it raelly and truly only goes off the rails in the final few epps

[ivory night]

The worse for later game of thrones is still better than like 95% of tv shows

[lucid haven]

[red nacelle]

Okay I’ll trust your word and watch the whole thing. Maybe it’s better if I view the show as its own thing rather than an adaptation

But I’m reading the books afterwards

GoT s2e2 || Geez now we got the Greyjoys and Stannis Baratheon in the mix. Everyone’s fighting for the Iron Throne and control over who sits on it. Though I’m not sure if Dany wants it, and Jon will probably be against the white walkers||

[ivory night]

Like if you were to stop after 4 you’d be missing…. Like maybe 5 of the best television episodes ever. And like 20+ incredible ones after

[minor isle]

GoT all not safe for Ale || Does Dany not talk about taking back the iron throne by that point? ||

[red nacelle]

I’ll trust your word too

And I ain’t a quitter. I try to finish whatever media I start

[minor isle]

I personally think it has some good scenes and cathartic scenes after s4 too, but the quality drops severely

[red nacelle]

I’m getting the vibe there’s a quality drop after s4, but it still contains some of the best TV ever

[topaz oyster]

I think its an entirely reasonable criticism. The passage of time and the distance between characters and events is something that Game of Thrones regularly interacts with. For distances that might have been a half-season arc to suddenly be inconsequential felt jarring

[minor isle]

For me I think it was worth it cuz I binged the whole thing in 5 days. But for watching over extended time, Idk if it would be good or bad

[green fjord]

Pretty much everything about the show except the writing stays overall good throughout, the writing just gets notably bad.

[topaz oyster]

To be fair, it is a problem GRRM set up and that he doesn't exactly have great answers for

[minor isle]

Eh. Lighting and scene composition also experience noticeable drop

[topaz oyster]

I mean, yes and no. There's stuff like the coffee cup that felt like there was a general lack of quality control

Yeah the lighting too

[red nacelle]

Started watching Thursday. Already on s2

[topaz oyster]

Dispirited actors give worse performances too and some of them were given really nothing to work with unfortunately

[minor isle]

I had a goal of catching up to final season 3rd ep so I just binged non stop

[green fjord]

Allow me to clarify: Overall pretty good, but not necessarily as good as it was earlier.

[minor isle]

also being in HS without any responsibilities helped

[green fjord]

Definitely got the impression that most of the cast and crew were pretty tired by the end of it from interviews and such though, for sure.

[topaz oyster]

I was in the Navy when the last season was about to air and I'm pretty convinced there was a couple of months were at least one person was watching Game of Thrones on the ship at any given point in time

[topaz oyster]

D&D sure were. I get the impression from the cast more that they were upset that they were being unceremoniously dropped because the showrunners were bored and wanted to do a Star War

[green fjord]

That was the impression I had at the time it ended, but a lot afterward seemed to indicate a lot of other people were pretty exhausted too. Going many more seasons probably wasn't realistic regardless of whether D&D were interested in doing that.

[ivory night]

I think they wanted to do their confederacy alt history show

[topaz oyster]

They had several irons in the fire and only the Three Body Problem one panned out

[ivory night]

They should’ve just left

[topaz oyster]

Star Wars was the highest profile of them and I think Disney was pretty unguarded about pointing at how GoT ended for shredding the deal, however

So it tends to be the one that sticks in memory for me

[ivory night]

I’m still pissed at how stupid the whole thing was

[topaz oyster]

As I recall that was before Disney cancelling and/or repurposing Star Wars projects was relatively commonplace as well

[ivory night]

I think timeline wise Star Wars was announced midway through filming on 8. But they announced shortened 7 and 8 in like 2016

What’s funny is they still took two,years between 7 and 8

[ivory night]

Hmmmm this sent me down a rabbit hole about hbo’s current programming and uh wow that cupboard is a bit empty

[topaz oyster]

Its like four boxes of Game of Thronesios and two boxes of Pitt Flakes

They also forgot to buy milk so they're eating it dry

[ivory night]

They don’t even have like the comedy depth they used to

Like hacks is it

[red nacelle]

GoT s2e3 || If anything happens to Jon or Sam, I’m killing everyone in Westeros and then myself ||

[ivory night]

Genuinely concerning that their non-Pitt dramas are not original content.

[red nacelle]

|| They’re some of the few good people in this crapsack world ||

[ivory night]

No wonder they’re throwing all this money at Harry Potter

I guess white lotus counts but that show takes as long as a game of thrones show to make

[distant birch]

I don't like the discourse I'm already seeing about chalamet's Oscar loss

He didn't lose it because of the opera/ballet comments, he just wasn't chosen

He just wasn't the best actor there

[stoic falcon]

Honestly, I think people get too worked up about awards in general tbh.

Its ok if your opinion doesnt align with the judges opinion

Doesn't mean there was some injustice

[west escarp]

https://www.tumblr.com/zoesupreme/811207100363685888

the Roger Ebert of basketball girlblogging

Tumblr · Mar 16, 2026, 2:16 AM

[keen flax]

My parents didnt rock with Pedro's fit last night and im like "guys, It was nice"

-# I did not mention Pedro Pascal was fine af

[west escarp]

https://www.tumblr.com/amaltheas-garden/811207460397400064/dont-worry-guys-i-fixed-it

[distant birch]

The os and the car

[lone canyon]

Buffy reboot cancelled 😔

[cold sequoia]

finished watching Shogun last night and I have a question for people [Shogun All] ||do you think that Toranaga told Maria that she had to die in Osaka? I feel like her initial plan was for her to kill herself but Ochiba prevented that by getting Ischido to give out the permits. Then Ischido was an idiot and sent in ninjas and Maria saw the opportunity to die anyway. I think that Toranaga knew that her dying was the best way to drive a wedge between Ochiba and Ischido. ||

Overall I really liked the show
The writing, characters, and production design was all top notch

[west escarp]

Probably for the best. They’ve run out of new ways to punish her for being sexually active

[steep bramble]

It’s so good.

I should rewatch it

[frank quail]

Shogun all ||I don't remember enough. Didn't Toronaga say he would grant her wish (to die)?||

[cold sequoia]

||yes but it was ambiguous as to whether it would be a reward for her bringing back his wife and concubine or in some other way ||

[dusk hound]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/s/9vCy3gdUy2

Why does every Oscar winner go to In N Out after the ceremony

[wet quest]

Awards are really big markers on people's careers and can help a lot with them getting work going forward, so at least within the industry there is reason to be concerned, especially when awards panels have a history of kinda openly take bribes.
Whether or not there was injustice kinda depends on your scope. It's really easy to look at one specific Academy Awards list and not see much, but patterns start to emerge when you look through all of the history.
At the risk of getting too political, One Battle After Another is the latest of a series of academy award winners that is "about race and political tensions" that primarily stars and was directed by white men. That doesn't mean it was a bad movie or didn't deserve to win, but when the same thing happens again and again it's worth calling out.
But also, like I said earlier, Sinners got nominated for more Academy Awards than any other movie in history, which is it's own rather unique kind of prestige and shows that the way the people on the inside think about the awards is changing for the better

[minor isle]

lol

also nice he won

First Naruto fan to win Best Actor in Oscars huh

we moving uppp

[wet quest]

Sucks that the guy who played Stack was the only one who got to go to celebrate, guess the guy who played Smoke was busy

[molten jetty]

if he’s even writing them

[toxic spruce]

Kpop DH winning over Sinner's music , I don't really look at the Oscars but this struck a nerve in me I wont lie

[paper hull]

Sinners won Best Original Score

[wet quest]

Absolutely agree
#1364954411582885899 message

I'm happy to see an animated movie get major recognition and all that, but "I Lied To You" removes my soul from my body every time I listen to it

[oak ivy]

golden had the pop appeal

[frail mulch]

I think the cinematography goes a long way in the I Lied to You scene (which Sinners also won for, deservedly). I rewatched the oscars performance a couple times because it was such brilliant staging/camerawork to replicate that sequence irl

[oak ivy]

I think purely as a song golden probably gets the edge for me

[keen flax]

My mom said it would win for that reason, but she called it "pop mess" 😭

[oak ivy]

I think lie to you works so well bc the scene it is in goes hard

Also

Sinners all ||he really kept performing after that lmao||

[silver bronze]

so Sinners is good?

[midnight compass]

I really gotta watch that

[wet quest]

Best movie ever

[dusk hound]

Oh yeah this is EXTRA crappy https://x.com/geoffkeighley/status/2033602235004031062?s=20

Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley)

The Oscars’ response?

AMPAS/Oscar CEO Bill Kramer apparently blocked me on Instagram last night after seeing my post expressing disappointment about the broadcast’s In Memoriam omission of my father.

You truly can’t make this stuff up.

X · Mar 16, 2026, 5:52 PM

Instead of an apology you block him?

Crazy

[oak ivy]

I enjoyed it, def worth a watch

[muted solar]

You know what would be funny? If the E33 movie actually releases one day and sweeps the Oscars

[spring barn]

I genuinely don't see how an E33 movie works without ||making up a whole new ending||

To me a huge part of the game's quality hinges on the fact that ||there are two thematically distinct endings and you can prefer one over the other based on your opinions and experience||

||Canonising any one of the endings would completely take away from that||

[topaz oyster]

For as much as I think Geoff's dad probably did deserve a spot in the In Memoriam I also think publicly beefing about it is in as bad or worse taste

[topaz oyster]

It got snubbed at the Grammys, is fantasy, and is based off a video game. I don't think there's a world where it gets significant Academy attention

Could be the best movie ever made

Don't think it'd matter

[muted solar]

Oh I mean sure, I just said it’d be funny

[spring barn]

Why do the Oscars hate speculative fiction so much

[sacred slate]

Ryan Coogler with a great analogy here no spoilers for Sinners but language warning. Looking forward to what he does next.
||https://www.instagram.com/reel/DV6xTdijiWd/||

sinnersmovie

In conversation with actor Ben Stiller, SINNERS Director/Writer/Producer Ryan Coogler offers an unexpected yet revealing metaphor, comparing the film’s intricate, interwoven themes to the layers of a croissant, meticulously shaped to create depth, texture, and resonance. The layers of which are hailed by The Wrap as a “gigantic cinema, liter...

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[sacred slate]

Because they seek "art" not entertainment....

Really because they don't actually watch much of them so they vote for their friends and the ones that had the best PR.

[naive mica]

Everyone knows things with swords and spaceships can't be cerebral or make you feel things. 🙄

[west escarp]

They also regularly snub horror outside of the technical awards

Toni Collette was robbed for best actress for Hereditary

They didn’t even nominate her

https://tenor.com/view/upset-crying-fine-toni-collette-a24-gif-16693965

[muted solar]

Love a good croissant

[spring barn]

No Frankenstein yet?

RIP

[west escarp]

Maybe they wanted to wait until they could print the number of academy awards won on the cover

[terse crystal]

likely staggering it

[spring barn]

Lmao

But like

Does Criterion do that?

Aren't they more artsy than that

[keen flax]

YES

Genuinely the greatest movie ive ever seen

[paper hull]

Unironically a lot of people think exactly that. Also animation is for kids. Also video games are for kids or immature men and cannot be art.

[paper hull]

It's fantastic.

[wide stag]

Better than Shrek?

[cobalt onyx]

E33 all, Clue movie ||Just do what the Clue movie did! Each viewing gets one of a variety of endings, and decline to declare any of them "Official"!||

[naive mica]

These people need to be locked in a room with the Outer Wilds for a weekend.

[dusk hound]

Chair Company on HBO is great!

Just finished it and highly recommend it

Reminds me a lot of David Lynch films and shows, but much easier to follow

[turbid narwhal]

https://x.com/filmupdates/status/2033650086417469626?s=46

Film Updates (@FilmUpdates)

First look at Timothée Chalamet in ‘DUNE: PART THREE’

X · Mar 16, 2026, 9:02 PM

[turbid narwhal]

Great show

[acoustic pewter]

Is that really what they're calling the movie?

[turbid narwhal]

Not my favourite Tim Robinson but has some of his funniest bits

[cold sequoia]

there was no way they'd call it dune messaiah or something after they called the first sequel Dune Part Two

I feel like there's a very good chance that the Mistborn movies get numbered as well and we'd be luck to get subtitles for them

[acoustic pewter]

😔

Fair, but it doesn't seem right to me.

[naive mica]

DLSS on

[dusk hound]

https://fxtwitter.com/CultureCrave/status/2033630008024174849?s=20

Culture Crave 🍿 (@CultureCrave)

Michael B. Jordan was asked to name his favorite movie 🎞️
︀︀
︀︀"Princess Mononoke"

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FxTwitter · Mar 16, 2026, 7:42 PM

Based

We’re just fully in the generation of Oscar winners who grew up watching anime

[muted solar]

Heading out to go see PHM in IMAX

I can’t confidently say whether I’ve seen a movie in IMAX before tbh. Probably have when I was a lot younger

[frail mulch]

my husband's thinking about going up to Portland to see PHM in 70mm at the Hollywood Theatre, but that depends on if we can find someone to hang out with the 3 year old

I don't know that I've seen anything in 70 mm? though this is reminding me I never watched the "Ryan Coogler talks aspect ratio" video that kept getting recommended in my youtube feed

[muted solar]

Dang I managed to get what seems to be a pretty good seat for PHM right in the center of the theater

Oh dang this theater doesn’t have reclining seats. Wild

[keen flax]

That isnt standard??? 😵‍💫

[muted solar]

No wonder so many tickets were available here

[muted solar]

I thought it was these days

$27 for a ticket by the way with no reclining seats Highway robbery

[lucid haven]

i also got a pretty good seat

we go in on thursday at 7pm

[muted solar]

Meanwhile the local theater I typically go to has the best popcorn and food of any theater I’ve been to, has $7 Tuesdays, has fantastic drinks, reclining seats and all that.

Just no IMAX there. Pretty sure they use some newer Samsung Onyx screens?

But I figured I’d do IMAX this time

Well guess it’s time

Preview time at least

[oak ivy]

OPLA S2E3 ||the zoro fight scene is so good||

@keen flax watch OPLA

trust

[keen flax]

👀👀👀

[wide stag]

what's the LA stand for

[lucid haven]

live action

one peice live action

[turbid narwhal]

These first look character images for dune look so good

[red nacelle]

GoT s2e3 || Tyrion is playing Varys, Littlefinger, and one other council members for fiddles 👀||

[oak ivy]

some of the hottest busty babes of all time

also it has women

OPLA S2E3 || @novel bear zoro mihawk ptsd flashbacks works really well ||

[novel bear]

||it's not ptsd it's the swordsman grindset||

[oak ivy]

character development

[molten jetty]

OPLA ||she will love Zoro ||

||I am bummed that we don’t get Zoro’s cool speech “I’LL TAKE YOU ON BAROQUE WORKS” but someone in the writer’s room loves Zoro ||

[oak ivy]

||i think the show overall has done a really good job of communicating that zoro luffy and sanji are far stronger than normal humans, and so zoro killing 100 dudes at once makes a surprising amount of sense logistically. he is just faster than everyone else. i love that when he clashes with someone, the other person gets visibly knocked back||

[oak ivy]

||honestly i think zoro's dialogue is consistently the worst in the show||

||also the direction is a misfire for me||

||i wish he was a bit more energetic||

[molten jetty]

||Mackenyu is doing better with it in S2 but yeah it’s a writing thing||

[oak ivy]

||at least bloodlusty||

||he can emote in interviews||

[buoyant scroll]

||Yeah the show seems to struggle with how Zoro swings between stoic and manic||

[molten jetty]

OPLA S2 and OP ||Zoro should be more epic and have his badass speeches and yell his moves||

||ONIGIRI||

[novel bear]

||manga zoro is able to smile when he sees a challenge in a way that doesn't feel psychotic, just ambitious. live action zoro is just full stoic when it's time to fight.||

[oak ivy]

||i wish he was a bit more angrier||

||it should be that zoro loves fighting ||

[molten jetty]

||and yeah I REALLY miss the “I count a hundred of you…” because that is such a cool Zoro moment and he’s arrogant and bloodthirsty and he grins. ||

[oak ivy]

OPLA ||i also think sanji's relationship with women hasnt translated at all, and makes some scenes come off far differently than i think they were intended||

[buoyant scroll]

||I feel they're deliberately trying to tone him down but idk||

[red nacelle]

GoT s2e3 || I love that everyone in this show is competent or dangerous in their own right ||

[molten jetty]

OPLA + manga ||I mostly like Zoro more this season because he is funnier but the writers still don’t get how his arrogance and love of combat fuel him||

[lucid haven]

GoT s2e3 || yeah like sometimes i love when a story only exists because everyone involved is so dumb that it just falls into place. But hyper competence is also fun at times. I will say that they all have failings and shortsightedness which makes them more realistic imo||

[gritty sierra]

opla s2 ||they upped zoro's dorkiness quotient this season which is great, that feels like it's getting closer in line with the og||

[oak ivy]

OPLA ||the show overall has done a great job of making at least lateral moves. i think we just have an inferior zoro compared to manga or anime||

[buoyant scroll]

OPLA+OP All ||My favorite hilarious random nitpick i saw on Twitter was someone complaining they had Sanji wear a ring on his ring finger when in the manga/anime he was always deliberately never shown with a ring on that finger||

[oak ivy]

||i would have preferred if they replaced his personality instead of just numbing it||

[molten jetty]

||yeah he just needs more stupid arrogance. Like not yelling his moves is such a loss. He doesn’t get his cool one liners ||

[buoyant scroll]

||Like, if I thought the LA was gonna get to Pudding then maybe id care but it's so funny||

[gritty sierra]

||i can live without those; it's just different from the manga, and there are differences in all the strawhats from the manga||

[buoyant scroll]

Speaking of One Piece
The channel Blind Wave has been reacting to the dub, and the channel Normies x Anime have been reacting to the sub, and it's been really fun watching them

[gritty sierra]

i like badd medicine's reactions to one piece, they're fun 😊

[sage finch]

Opla s2||the actor needs to switch up, him going back to his regular zero inflection after he got rid of the green paint which made him laugh etc, was so jarring it gave me whiplash.

Feels like he's sleepwalking through the role||

[gritty sierra]

||i don't think it's on him and i don't dislike the performance, i'm not the one for this argument||

[molten jetty]

||it feels like a director / writer choice not a Mackenyu thing to me||

[red nacelle]

Well said dude 😍

[oak ivy]

OPLAS2E3 ||igaram better stay dead on god||

[spring barn]

when Frankenstein gets its Criterion release I hope this is the cover (tagged for artistic gore)

[heavy anchor]

Imax tickets for PHM on Friday secured

[crystal brook]

Dune Messiah character posters (there are higher quality individual images on the Dune account) || https://x.com/FilmUpdates/status/2033683157560791493?s=20 ||

Film Updates (@FilmUpdates)

The character posters for ‘DUNE: PART THREE’

In theaters December 18.

X · Mar 16, 2026, 11:13 PM

Are they actually just calling it Dune Part 3 though?

[lucid haven]

yes

[crystal brook]

Lame

Dune Messiah clears exponentially

[lucid haven]

i like dune messiah as well

[distant birch]

Definitely seems like they're going for a darker vibe

[crystal brook]

Dune Messiah Book ||Id hope so ||

[crystal brook]

DM Book ||I expect they are going to obliterate Pauls eyes and not just leave it like this, they better anyway||

[naive mica]

Damn everybody except not-Sting has stuff on their face.

[buoyant scroll]

ill have to try and find a time to check them out

[naive mica]

It's probably a consistency thing, my guess.

[crystal brook]

DM Book ||Also no idea why Princess Irulan has that on her face||

[distant birch]

DM book ||from that and the Irulan one, I'm thinking maybe the two took some damage from some other incident, and the blinding will come later. Unless they've shifted the timeline and changed the nature of that moment to also involve Irulan...?||

[lucid haven]

is there any word on them adapting the books post messiah

[crystal brook]

Denis is stopping after this one, I expect theyll try

I am fascinated by them trying to do GEoD

I think it will be a much hated film, even if its a good film

[crystal brook]

DM Book ||I just straight up have no clue what the Irulan one could possibly be portraying 😂 ||

[crystal brook]

But also note it says the epic conclusion on the posters sooo... 🤷

[distant birch]

I heard somewhere that they might pull some elements of book 3 into this one but I dont know how legit that was

[lucid haven]

it will be interesting how much they pull in

[red nacelle]

GoT s2e3 || Another good man dies. RIP Yoren 😔||

|| Absolute unit of a man too||

GoT s2e4 || Okay, that talk between Robb and the amputator shook me… ||

|| Another day, another scene of Joffrey being nothing but a monster||

|| Which part of Westeros is Dany located?||

[ionic lily]

||She’s on a different continent off to the east||

[red nacelle]

|| Same question for the Greyjoys, Stannis, and Renly ||

[lucid haven]

@red nacelle here's a decent map

But it is almost literally just an earth analogue

[ionic lily]

||Renly is in the southeast, greyjoys on islands to the west, Stannis on island to the east (Dragonstone)||

[lucid haven]

These are some of the key places around the time of the story you are at

There we go found the map I was looking for

GoT Season 2 episode 4.

[red nacelle]

GoT s2e4 || Arya’s essentially at a concentration camp, right? ||

[red nacelle]

|| GOOD LORD?! WHAT IS THAT?! WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING?! ||

[lucid haven]

Your gonna need to be more specific

[red nacelle]

|| Sorry lol. A shadow came out of the red woman’s womb ||

[lucid haven]

That was a bit nuts yes agreed

[ionic lily]

Oh that lmao

[ivory night]

Oh right

[muted solar]

They gave out pins at the end

[ionic lily]

Amaze!

I didn’t get one 😭

[muted solar]

So I’d say PHM was good as far as adaptations go. They did a good job. I do think the book is WAY better, but I enjoyed the movie and I don’t really have gripes or anything that upset me. I think it respected the source material well and the changes they made + what they focused on do make sense

It does kinda reinforce my whole “I wish we weren’t getting Cosmere adaptations” feelings though

Like even a fantastic adaptation is never going to come even remotely close to the books

At least when you’re talking about films

TV shows at least have more breathing room

[buoyant scroll]

xDD
OP All (a LA casting joke) ||https://twitter.com/strawhats/status/2033620829162881053?t=U4ie0wAH9Nkqb9UL3AGSkQ&s=19 ||

One Piece Daily (@strawhats)

Perfect Rob lucci doesn't exi...

X · Mar 16, 2026, 7:06 PM

[hushed moss]

Oooo that is cool.

[muted solar]

IMAX was cool and all but I think it’s not something I actively notice when watching. At first during previews and stuff I was like huh this does look quite good. And the movie did look very nice visually. But I don’t know that it’s a big enough deal for me to be paying so much more to see a movie

Seeing a movie again without reclining seats though was ROUGH lmfao. Wow what a difference that makes

[muted solar]

Yeah it’s definitely neat! I’m not much of a pin guy but I do like that it’s Amaze Amaze Amaze. Very cute

[wet quest]

I like the amc Dolby theaters more than the imax ones. Big screen, really good sound, reclining seats.
If I can get to a real imax theater that's worth the two hour drive and lower tier seat, but certainly not for every movie

[muted solar]

PHM book and movie spoilers || Definitely saw the movie focus heavily on character and the relationship between Grace and Rocky. I do think it was the right call for the movie and everything worked.

Obviously the book just gives you so much more of everything. And the science in the book is fun ||

[hushed moss]

I can’t wait to see PHM this Saturday, didn’t get IMAX but it is a Dolby Atmos theater with recliners. But this is probably my most anticipated movie of the year.

[wet quest]

My wife hasn't been convinced to read the book until she saw the movie trailers and now she worries it's to late to do so before the movie, what are your thoughts on someone seeing the movie first?

[muted solar]

That’s fair. My typical local theater does Dolby atmos showings but not IMAX.

Honestly I think it’s hard for me to really compare without seeing a movie each way. But I’m plenty happy just seeing movies at the local theater atmos or not and IMAX isn’t such a big step up for me that I think I’d choose it again

[muted solar]

I mean it depends on the person. I think seeing the movie before the book will lead to greater enjoyment of the movie because the book is just imo superior

But I can’t say if seeing the movie first would lessen the book experience in any way. I don’t think it would though

[wet quest]

Best movie experience I ever had was Dune in 3D because the main 3d effect was making spice float around the theater.
Seeing Dune 2 in Imax was really good for the scene where ||Paul rode a worm for the first time||
I think every other movie I've seen has been perfectly fine in whatever theater

[wet quest]

Solid, that means I can drag her to see it with me

[muted solar]

The movie is definitely very well done. Like I can’t really find argument or fault with the way they adapted it

Which is probably the most positive thing I will ever say about a film adaptation haha

I don’t think I’ll ever see a film adaptation for a book I’ve read and think the book isn’t just better

[wet quest]

That's good. There were enough little things with The Martian adaptation that I didn't care for that it kinda ruins the movie for me, so I'm hopeful that I'll like this one. I really really liked the book

The Martian has the benefit that I can read it in a day, so I'm fine with the movie being fine

[wet quest]

Forrest Gump is the only one that I can think of

[muted solar]

Ahhh gotcha yeah I would say that the movie isn’t 1:1 the book. But it’s faithful to it and they obviously have to make some changes and condense things. But I think the way they chose to do so makes complete sense imo

I do think the Eragon TV show has the chance to be much better than the book

[oak ivy]

jurassic park is a well known one

all the harry potter movies tbh

[wet quest]

That makes sense.
For the Martian it's not that they changed things, it's the way they changed things. Some of the set design was different in a weird way but they still kept in parts from the book that didn't make sense with the new setup, some of the jokes didn't really land because they took out certain segments, and the entire climax sequence was extremely frustrating to me with the specific way it was different

[oak ivy]

starship troopers is another canonical example

[wet quest]

I love both the book and the movie version. They're in a strange category for me because I don't even think of the movie as an adaptation. It's just a really good movie that happens to tell the same story as a really good book

[cold sequoia]

Godfather as well

[wet quest]

I just read that the Dune Three trailer is coming out tomorrow, someone please tag me when it drops

[oak ivy]

lotr would be better for me

[burnt shale]

naw i prefer the book both are just different

[buoyant scroll]

Starship Troopers is such a funny example cause it's so fundamentally opposed to the themes of its source material

[burnt shale]

thats not uncommon in adaptations for it to be a commentrary on an original work

You see it all the time but just normally in media that has become a social icon that people are aware that its parodying or in response to the origonally

[muted solar]

I think it’s just hard for me to separate the book from the movie typically

[ivory night]

No country for old men

[muted solar]

Haven’t read Jurassic park. Will never touch anything in the HP IP again

I could give LoTR another watch now that I’ve read the first book

I don’t think I’ve seen No country for old men and I definitely haven’t read it. Didn’t know that one was a book

Also didn’t know Godfather was an adaptation

[ivory night]

To kill a mockingbird is probably arguable

Both the book and the movie are great

[agile drift]

I thought the mockingjay movies were better than the book, the book was too boring for me to even finish and the movies weren't

[oak ivy]

I was going to mention hunger games but i havent read the books in so long

[ionic lily]

Id say the Princess Bride is better than the book

[oak ivy]

@molten jetty do you watch k dramas

[red nacelle]

GoT s2e5 || The shadow thing killed Renly 😟||

|| All of Renly’s bannermen are already on Stannis’ side? I see loyalty doesn’t exist in this world 😂||

[molten jetty]

Not really

I’m open to watching anything tho

[molten jetty]

||I was rooting for Renly||

[red nacelle]

|| Saame smh ||

[oak ivy]

i just started the business proposal bc i bought netflix for one piece

you should watch it

you would call the two main guys twinks and it would make me angry

[red nacelle]

GoT s2e5 || I feel like Catelyn’s scenes with her family are the ones that make me tear up. Though there’s nothing so far that has me wailing ||

|| Dany’s rape scenes made me tear up too, and when Sansa was hurt under Joffrey’s orders ||

[ionic lily]

||Stannis was the rightful King, but Renly would have been the better one||

[burnt shale]

||church of the 7 propoganda||

[molten jetty]

GoT S2E5 ||yeah and Renly would’ve figured out the heir situation. Loras and Margaery were willing. Tbh that would have been his biggest hindrance. He was such an inspirational leader, willing to work with people smarter than him. Plus he put a woman on his rainbow guard. Based. ||

GoT general ||I also just love the Tyrells as a House||

[ionic lily]

Same

||I do think Stannis would have been a fair king, just not a great one||

||Get him away from Melisandre at least||

[willow fjord]

whaaaa I am so jealous!!! We got a poster but it was just a print of the movie poster

[ionic lily]

We got free popcorn and candy

[burnt shale]

sounds like heresy

Got all||How many more shadows babies must a woman make to prove the supremacy of her god||

[ionic lily]

||At least 7||

[willow fjord]

PHM book to Movie comparison with movie spoilers ||I think it was a really good adaptation and I am very happy with it. The book is indeed better though, because the movie cut quite a lot of the science-ing. For example I didn't like how the first taumeoba scare and the breeding program were removed/heavily abbreviated. That being said, they got Rocky so incredibly right, he and his relationship with Grace were literally perfect, and that was the most important thing to get right. Also, visually its just a very pretty movie from start to finish||

so tldr; is it a perfect adaptation? No, but its hard to ask for much better I think

[ionic lily]

||One thing I missed is the efforts to warm the Earth. I felt like it really added to the desperation in the book||

[molten jetty]

ASOIAF general ||I always wondered what gods actually existed in the world of ASOIAF because the Red God clearly has something and so do the Old Gods. ||

[ionic lily]

||All of them||

[willow fjord]

This might be crazy to say becasue the movie was already like 2:38 (I think) but I wish it was like 10 minutes longer? lol

maybe I am in the minority here, but I don't care that much how long a movie is as long as every second is intentional and adds something meaningful to the story, you know?

[ionic lily]

Same

[willow fjord]

I would gladly watch a 3.5 hour movie as long as the plot justifies it and the pacing is good

[ionic lily]

Bring back intermissions

[ivory night]

One piece love action. 2-2 || so like… they couldn’t get the real Slash to play the pirate Slash ||

[willow fjord]

Audience reviews coming in now 🔥 🔥 🔥

[green fjord]

Similar thing with disability, able-bodied actors playing disabled characters in tragic or "inspirational" films is like a cheat code for awards. 😒

[minor isle]

lets gooo

[red nacelle]

GoT s2e5 + stormlight and lotr general || The First Men. The white walkers. Children of the Forest. I’m getting the impression that like Middle-Earth and Roshar, the planet used to be full of magic thousands of years ago ||

|| Are there any magic users in the present day?||

[ionic lily]

WAFO

[hushed moss]

I decided to start Firefly and ||Alan Tudyk playing with dinosaurs is very funny||

[ionic lily]

Wait a second

[ionic lily]

||What did you think that shadow baby was??||

[red nacelle]

|| My mind is fried by the many plots and overlooked the fact that was magic 😂||

|| Now I gotta know… what’s the source of that magic and who tf is that red haired woman?||

|| Does it come from the various gods? 🤔||

[ionic lily]

||Shes a priestess of the Red God||

[hushed moss]

The ship design of the Serenity is really cool.

[main dew]

All the character posters for Dune Part Three

As someone who only read the first book, I am unbelievably excited to watch the conclusion to this story with no idea where it goes

Like, Dune Books ||I know something something jihad that burns the galaxy but like... I have no idea of the details||

[burnt shale]

I’m deeply intrigued because some of the set up just isn’t there yet and characters are simply in different places

They are gonna have to do some creative liberties and I have no idea what those will be

[green fjord]

Yeah I'm very curious to see what the adaptation of Messiah ends up looking like. It has to be pretty different in some aspects, and I think I'll be glad for it.

[burnt shale]

Like the big one is I have no idea what they are gonna do with chani both becuase the actress is so popular that she’s certainly getting a larger role and becuase she’s in a very very different place

[green fjord]

Dune general || Mmm and she's basically a completely different character. Mostly by virtue of actually having character in the films. ||

[muted solar]

Pretty much my thoughts yeah. Like they knew what to cut and what to keep to do the story right given their constraints. And it was still nearly 3 hours

Probably the best film adaptation I’ve seen for a book I’ve read

[wet quest]

Dune Three movie Speculation and book spoilers ||One of my guesses is that she's already pregnant||

[crystal brook]

Dune 3 + Dune Messiah ||and misscarries I guess?||

[wet quest]

||No, the idea is that Dune Messiah is compressed to 9 months. I'm not really sure how well that would work, but it's possible||

[crystal brook]

||So do you mean already pregnant at the start of the adapted events of Dune Messiah? Or pregnant at the end of Dune 2?||

||because Alia is being played by Anya Taylor Joy so youd expect 18 years to have passed at least||

||I think I took what you said as, at the end of the dune 2 film||

||because in general idk what theyre going to do to bridge chani at the end of 2 to the start of dune messiah||

[wet quest]

Dune books and movies spoilers ||Pregnant at the end of Dune 2, since she left Paul at the end of that movie. Really I had this thought when Dune 2 came out, so Anya Taylor Joy playing an adult Alia wasn't really a factor at the time. Yes she was in a vision in the movie, but there were already changes with how she was being portrayed.||

||It's been a minute since I've read Messiah, I don't know if I've re-read it since Part 2 came out. I know that for the most part her role was "be Paul's concubine and take contraceptives" so I'm eager to see what Denis does with her. I think the changes to her character have been among the best improvements to the story||

[distant birch]

Saw Sinners again

It still hits

Might be my favourite movie oml

Such a good time

[crystal brook]

||Yeah Chani very much needs an update ||

[wet quest]

I keep refreshing YouTube, I want that trailer

I know they have it, why aren't they giving it to me?

[crystal brook]

It releases 9am PT apparently

So in an hour

[spring barn]

Literally me ratings

Tagged for language

||https://www.instagram.com/p/DV1YcUgE8wd/||

gwar

You puny humans and your moving images and awards for those moving images. Our ratings are clearly much better.

Likes

14444

Instagram

[buoyant scroll]

Some rad as hell TMA merch that references something specific
||https://vxtwitter.com/knockthrice/status/2033929711697428621?t=_0ToP6hThWhMA4YSVHQ3_Q&s=19 ||

✶ Knock Thrice ✶ (@knockthrice)

Infinite space backpack that you should NEVER open (especially when it’s raining 🌧️)

vxTwitter / fixvx · Mar 17, 2026, 3:33 PM

[wet quest]

"Where where where where?"
-Taravangian

[crystal brook]

Apparently on tiktok 😭

[buoyant scroll]

the spiderman trailer?

[crystal brook]

Dune

[buoyant scroll]

ah
the Spiderman one is also releasing on tiktok...cut up into multiple pieces

[turbid narwhal]

It’s an interview with Denis right now

[minor isle]

still not out

[crystal brook]

Smh

[wet quest]

Where?

[minor isle]

tiktok

[wet quest]

I have downloaded tiktok for this

On the account DuneMovie

[dusky flint]

they released a shot of the new spiderman movie bc trailer tommorow and

ugh jesus christ

[turbid narwhal]

What a trailer

[dusk hound]

Don’t know how to feel about this

Why is the color grading so grey man

[wet quest]

AHHHHH

https://youtu.be/3_9vCamtuPY

[dusky flint]

tbf its a reference to a comic cover

[dusky flint]

But also im not confident

[oak ivy]

Terrible color palette, ripping off an iconic image for mo reason, no character shining through. Tough look.

[dusk hound]

Well yeah

I knew that

Don’t know why they didn’t stick with the gold color palette from the BTS stuff

https://tenor.com/view/spider-man-brand-new-day-filming-spider-man-film-tank-gif-1006693766433608725

[dusky flint]

im not that confident

[dusk hound]

Should have been this

[dusky flint]

because i havent been the biggest fan of MCU recently

[novel bear]

I like how the comic cover has a sense of composition; he isn't exactly centered, and he fills the frame well. Meanwhile the movie just plops him in the center of the frame. Hideous.

[wet quest]

We should talk about the Dune trailer instead

[dusky flint]

NWH was a pretty bad movie but it was really fun to watch the first time

[turbid narwhal]

Dune messiah ||Was really worried we wouldn’t get Edric but man, so hyped now||

[dusk hound]

Make movies colorful again PLEASE

PLEASEEE

[dusky flint]

that opening weekend theater experience when ||andrew garfield and tobeys spiderman appeared|| was just great

[oak ivy]

Also the guy he is caring has so much more personality. You look at that guy and get something

[wet quest]

Dune Three Trailer
||Looks like Paul and Chani are back together, I wonder how that happened||
||Also, "How did father handle it?" "Father never started a war." This is gonna be so good||

[turbid narwhal]

Looks like Sandgren is doing a great job filling in for greig Fraser

[dusk hound]

Also WHY is it so far away

It should be closer

[cold sequoia]

Because its taking an image drawn for a comic cover ratio and putting it in an imax ratio

[turbid narwhal]

Because he’s far far from home or something

[dusky flint]

worst case scenario is spiderman PS4 2 but a movie tbh

[west escarp]

This is super cool but not very convenient as a bag

[dusk hound]

https://tenor.com/view/spiderman-brand-new-day-spiderman-spider-man-spider-man-spider-man-brand-new-day-gif-17489424197167271689

Still don’t know why it isn’t this color grading

[turbid narwhal]

Denis said the score is going to be very different from the first two movies and Zimmer is cooking with that trailer music

[wet quest]

Think I'm gonna watch this again, it's been a hot minute since I've seen it

[dusky flint]

the quick costuem reveal thats all we had for a while was alright

but im not that confident

[frail mulch]

mm I didn't reread Messiah last time but I mostly do not remember what happens in that book

dune books ||I assume we'll see a Navigator in the film, right? kind of hard to avoid and I'm so curious what Denis' take on them will be||

[turbid narwhal]

||Yeah I think he shows up in the trailer for just a second||

[wet quest]

Dune trailer
||Herbert: The navigators look all kinds of messed up. The spice has mutated their bodies. They're no longer recognizable as human.
Denis: So... floating box?||

[frail mulch]

dune 3 trailer ||well... they haven't open the coffin yet so they could still be very weird inside||

[wet quest]

||I miss the days of spoof movies because it could be a perfect gag in one of those for a character to go, "here comes a navigator, though I warn you it's the most hideous creature you'll ever see" and then another character opens the coffin and it's a mirror||

[dusky flint]

I have cofnidence in the action choreography at least

not really the writing

[crystal brook]

Fire trailer, Dune Messiah book ||seems to show almost nothing from the book lol, maybe Chani getting ready to go on a worm is from basically the end though||

[minor isle]

|| two goats in one image ||

[crystal brook]

Dune 3 ||I wonder if theyll half and half it between things before the book or if the bits before will end up being quite short||

[minor isle]

I don't follow

[crystal brook]

||they look to be showing bits and pieces of the war and the build up to the events of dune messiah, which isnt in the book at all||

[minor isle]

oh

yeah

I mean, messiah is very short

[frail mulch]

it really is dune part 3 because if I recall it's like [general dune thesis imo for Dune + Dune Messiah] ||"no wait, the ending of dune is not necessarily a good thing"||

[minor isle]

you messed up spoilers
Dune messiah/dune part 3 || I mean, it's obvious it's not a good thing, but people didn't understand it so he had to go write another book ||

[frail mulch]

mmm i wasn't sure if thematics was something to spoiler but I will concede the choice

[minor isle]

dune part 3 || I mean, it would atleast spoil the direction book 1/movie 2 would go ||

which is critical part of the experience imo

[frail mulch]

DM ||like it's an answer to the "ugh paul is a white savior" like yes, actually it's bad that he's leading them on jihad||

[minor isle]

DM/dune movie 3 || I like the way he's approaching it. More focus on Paul as it's Paul's arc trilogy rather than Dune trilogy ||

[dusk hound]

Sad part is that Doomsday is gonna make more money sadly

[spring barn]

Love how Giger some of the designs are

[acoustic pewter]

One of my problems with the Dune: Part Two movie is that it diverges from the book so far that I can't tell how they'll be able to effectively translate Dune; Messiah into film form because of how different the movie's ending is. I'm skeptical of how they'll be able to pull it off, if they do at all. At this point, it almost looks like Part Three will be a large-scale fanfiction filling in the blanks between books one and two, because how are they going to adapt book two at this point.

We'll see. I hope it will be good, but I was kind of disappointed by Dune; Part Two diverging as far from the source material as it did.

[muted solar]

Oh yeah I saw the other day that Ready or Not 2 comes out this week!?

Please be good

[west escarp]

Shoutout to Kathryn Newton for being the only supernatural alum to pivot being on that show into a film career

[wet quest]

Nah we're getting another Barbenheimer.
Avengers: Dunesday

[topaz oyster]

Duncsday

[wet quest]

Releasing both movies on the same day is certainly one of the choices of all time.
I doubt this will be the end of Dune for Warner Brothers even with the competition, though. I'm really hoping we get Children and God Emporer, but really I just love seeing this universe portrayed

[frail mulch]

I remember liking the SyFy miniseries for Children with James McAvoy

[wet quest]

Oh right I gotta watch that

I'll do that after my Firefly rewatch

[cold sequoia]

last I saw they are doing Dune Part 4 but Villeneuve isn't doing it

[crystal brook]

What?

[wet quest]

There were a lot of differences. Personally I thought they made the movie stronger than if they had been faithful.
||Stuff like cutting the time-skip and having Chani be a voice against Paul. And having the emporer be Christopher Walkin instead of not Christopher Walken||

[wet quest]

I wouldn't be surprised, but I'm not gonna hold my breath. Especially with all of the merger stuff, who knows what plans will or won't get scrapped

[steep bramble]

I am very excited. I need to rewatch the first two

[dusk hound]

Wait wait wait https://x.com/heyitsjennalynn/status/2033946124382306736?s=20

Jenna Anderson (@heyitsjennalynn)

Just when I thought I couldn't possibly be more excited for #DunePart3...

X · Mar 17, 2026, 4:38 PM

Brian K. Vaughan??

THE Brian K. Vaughan??

[crystal brook]

Dune 2/Dune Messiah ||Yeah I mean the major major difference for Dune to Messiah is Chani going off on her own, but its not particularly inconceivable that they get back together in 18+ years||

[wet quest]

Who's that?

[dusk hound]

That wrote Saga??

And Paper Girls?

Oh hell yeah

[dusk hound]

Amazing comic writer

He’s responsible for some of the greatest indie comics of all time

[cold sequoia]

I don't really see them dropping a successful franchise because of the merger

[steep bramble]

WHo?

[cold sequoia]

Saga is very good

[crystal brook]

I just cant see them doing a dune 5, despite how much I want them to

Dune 4 maybe

[cold sequoia]

unfortunately I think this is the closest we'll get to a saga movie though, it's totally unfilmable

[burnt shale]

||My understanding is this isn’t true by the way. || dune messiah

[dusk hound]

Holding out hope for an animated adaptation some day

[topaz oyster]

Huh I wonder if he got into screenplay writing because of that Y The Last Man adaptation that cratered

I was so hype for it and it was actually okay (not great) but it was poorly advertised, on a bad channel, and released in 2021

[cold sequoia]

no he did screenwriting for another adaptation of his before that

[topaz oyster]

The Yorick casting was spot on

[wet quest]

I never read Paper Girls. Funny enough, my best friends dad got me into Dune and his mom has said several times that Paper Girls is the only comic she's ever enjoyed

[turbid narwhal]

Jon Spaihts bravo

[acoustic pewter]

So it wasn't "Alas, poor Yorick" this time?

[topaz oyster]

There are several jokes about it in the comic, yeah

The character's father is an English professor and had a fixation with Shakespeare so Yorick and his sister Hero are named after more obscure Shakespeare characters

[dusk hound]

I never thought that my thoughts on social media would be summed up in a single post but here we are https://x.com/therightram/status/2033923894663430522?s=20

Ram V (@therightram)

Watching the film discussion on twitter only cements the idea that social media discourse is the bane of having anything truly thoughtful or interesting to say/discuss about art.

I've never seen more reductive takes in my lifetime.

Like to talk movies? Go call a friend.

X · Mar 17, 2026, 3:10 PM

[acoustic pewter]

I know nothing about this character and yet I'm right on the money? Nice.

Then again, I've never heard the name in any other context.

Sigh... okay fine, Dune; Part Three looks epic

I just saw the trailer

Dune Messiah ||I'm assuming Robert Pattinson's character is Scytale? That's the vibe I'm getting.||

||Right on. Nooice.||

The sound for that trailer was immaculate. I can always count on these Dune movies to have incredible music and sound design.

[turbid narwhal]

||need them to release the soundtrack with the chant so I can listen to it more||

[wet quest]

Perhaps the issue is being on social media instead of deleting your social media

[crystal brook]

Dune 3 🔥

[wet quest]

She so me fr

[midnight compass]

Aight I just watched Sinners while on a plane ride. No real clue what to expect, just "good" "some horror" and "music"

So at around 40 minutes in ||I was quite surprised to find out that this is actually a vampire action horror movie : ||

Good movie

[keen flax]

GOOD MOVIE :3

[wet quest]

It's funny because that's literally the only thing I knew about the movie going in. ||"Michael B. Jordan is a vampire and he hunts the KKK or something yeah sure that sounds awesome"||

[red nacelle]

GoT s2e5 || I just remembered a character mentioned the giants are gone. I think it was the old man telling Bran about magic. I’m really curious about what happened to magic in this world||

|| Btw I have a theory that the man Arya saved, and now is offering to kill on her behalf, is a member of this Brotherhood mentioned during torture ||

[muted solar]

Fun fact. || The review I saw that led to my gf and I seeing it on release was one where the guy didn’t want to spoil that twist for people who hadn’t seen the trailers so he decided he’d refer to it as a marshmallow movie throughout the review. So each time he said “marshmallows” my gf and I were just so curious what the “marshmallows” would be ||

[dusk hound]

PHM tickets secured for Sunday!

At 2 PM

[red nacelle]

GoT s2e5 || Brienne just swore fealty to Catelyn. I’m liking Brienne’s character and her dynamic with Catelyn ||

[wet quest]

||After the movie: Now that I think about it, the review mentioned that the marshmallows kept biting people and couldn't have garlic, so I guess I shoulda put it together||

[red nacelle]

GoT s2e5 || It seems Bran had a dream that predicted the future of Winterfell. I think it was a dream of it being destroyed by a wave. I bet that future will be somehow fulfilled by Dany’s mission to take the Iron Throne ||

[red nacelle]

|| I have no idea what Tyrion is truly planning, but I’m loving his competence this season ||

|| Ooooh, that man who owes Arya killed the Tickler ||

[red nacelle]

|| This is from an earlier episode, but “The queen mustn’t know” is a goated quote ||

[turbid narwhal]

The wire s5e8 ||Brilliant episode. Didn't expect Omar to go like that but it's fitting that he went out to a character that he directly inspired.||

||McNulty in the behavioral profile scene is probably the funniest scene in the show too||

||Really like how this show shows the mirrors between the different institutions of Baltimore in some of the scenes. Last season had some cool parallels between the children and the politicians and this season it’s the journalists and the police force||

[west escarp]

https://www.tumblr.com/blue-crow/811379573823504384/incorrect-the-people-yearn-for-the-worm

[burnt shale]

||Not enough Duncan Idahos|| god emperor of dune

[spare creek]

The second season of one piece was so good

[ionic lily]

https://fixupx.com/guyfieri/status/2034019819142484452

Mayor Guy Fieri (@GuyFieri)

He who controls the spice controls the flavor

Quoting Flavortown (@flavortown)
︀
First look at Guy Fieri as the Duke of Flavortown in ‘Dune: Part Three.’

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FixupX · Mar 17, 2026, 9:31 PM

[dusky flint]

https://x.com/HollywoodHandle/status/2033656774511788055

The Hollywood Handle (@HollywoodHandle)

Jim Carrey is reportedly set to return in ‘SONIC. 4.’

Currently shooting his scenes.

(Via: @DanielRPK)

X · Mar 16, 2026, 9:28 PM

Sonic 3 + 4 Speculation ||tbh i wish they didnt bring him back i liked his death in 3 and there probabyl adapting heroes where metal is the main villain anyway||

[red nacelle]

GoT s2e6 || Oh shooot. Littlefinger is in the same room as Tywin and Arya ||

[distant birch]

Dune 3 + Messiah book ||from the trailer, I wonder if they're bringing the Messiah plot forward to fit in the war time period? Or maybe this is a misdirect...||

[red nacelle]

GoT s2e6 || So far I’m liking season 2 more than 1, but it hasn’t reached the heights of Ned’s betrayal and death yet ||

[dusky flint]

Sonic 3 + 4 Speculation ||Have agent stone replace eggman in the nessecary parts too tbh||

[naive mica]

I haven't watched the movies (I'll get to them at some point) but I do love that he loves the franchise enough that it's the thing he keeps coming out of retirement for.

[dusky flint]

From what ive heard its because of his kids

He does a pretty good job as his version of eggman tbh (nto a good job at the character of eggman but i like his version of eggman)

[minor isle]

|| Messiah plot is like barely 2 hour length. They would show 1/3 as Dune-Messiah gap and then go to Messiah I think || Same tags

[distant birch]

Could do, yeah

[oak ivy]

OPLA S2E4 ||really good episode. best usopp showing so far @novel bear. Vivi's actress is killing it. Mr 3's actor is having too much fun. Overall shocked at how well this translated to screen||

[novel bear]

||I have my beef with how they handled Usopp but they're doing damage control from S1 and it's one of the better outcomes we could have gotten. Definitely just a really fun arc where every part they bring to life was enjoyable to see.||

||Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine were highlights imo.||

[oak ivy]

||the actor does a really good job when they give him material to work with||

[burnt shale]

||the mr. 3 casting was perfect||opla all

[main dew]

Guess who was watching a random youtube video about space fascism yesterday after posting this that just casually dropped Pauls ultimate fate without spoiler warning

[ionic lily]

Dune ||Iirc it timeskips over alllllll of it||

[main dew]

Oh fun

[ionic lily]

IMO Dune has a serious timeskip problem

dune ||Even in the first book, there’s a massive timeskip over a bunch of interesting stuff||

[green fjord]

Dune ||My gut guess is that was, to some extent, a case of him realising the book was getting too long and just jumping to the conclusion. The quality of the book dips dramatically at about the two thirds mark imo. 😔 ||

[crystal brook]

Dune Messiah ||Its also stuff we dont really need to see though, Messiah gets the message across perfectly fine||

||Unless youre going into the dune series looking to read a series about on the ground space wars||

[sonic trench]

dune books ||yeah, the off screen stuff in messiah is off screen for a reason. Messiah is a very tight story, and showing more on screen would only really serve to distract from the book's focus on the aftermath and what Paul and his empire have become
As for the latter third of dune, I think it works there as well to have the timeskip. We see the trajectory of Paul's character arc before that, and when we pick back up after the timeskip the point his character at is exactly where the book showed his character would be. It provides a really good separation as the book shifts PoV from a more true omniscient view of everyone present in a scene and starts pointedly avoiding giving the reader insight into Paul's interior thoughts, a stark contrast to the rest of the book that really emphasizes the way other characters are seeing his transformation. ||

[distant birch]

Dune 3 / wotshow ||seeing the buzz cut Paul look immediately makes me think of rand||

[wet quest]

While I can understand the disappointment there, I personally don't think it's possible to spoil the experience of reading a Dune book even if you know what happens.
[tagged for reccuring themes throughout every book] ||Every book is about characters seeing their fate and failing to change it. Imo the books "spoil" themselves, but that's kind of the point||

[sonic trench]

yeah, there's a lot of dramatic irony

[wet quest]

Like [Dune 1: First Dune book] ||Book one opens with Baron Harkonen explaining exactly how the Atreides have been set up to be wiped out and then we watch that unfold. Then Paul gets a vision of exactly how he's going to take over the Fremen and spread war across the universe, and then we watch that unfold.||
||Knowing where the story goes absolutely does not ruin the reading experience.||

[sonic trench]

dune book 1 ||epigraphs also tells you far in advance that yueh is a traitor and that leto dies||

||You know so far in advance that it's almost disarming and remains surprising when it finally happens||

[wet quest]

Also, so much happens in the Dune series that it's genuinely hard to stumble into everything from people casually talking about the series. It would be like if you learned before reading the first book that ||Duke Leto gets a fake tooth and tries to poison the Baron||
Sure, you know a thing before reading it, but that's like one of a thousand things going on in that scene alone

[sonic trench]

yeah

[wet quest]

I love these books in part because I don't care about spoilers anymore for anything. If a book can be ruined by simply by knowing what was going to happen it's a bad book. So spoil away

[minor isle]

Spider-Man Brand New Day full trailer
|| https://youtu.be/BwntXFBNfOA?si=V0EYCN-A6dnJFymq ||

IT LOOKS SO GOOD

[main dew]

Oh looks dope

[muted solar]

Oh yeah, previews during PHM the other day:

• He-man actually looked pretty neat and fun
• This sheep detective movie looked cute
• Supergirl unfortunately had a pretty bland and forgettable trailer in that all I remember from it is that there was a trailer with supergirl and her pupper (I’m so sorry Ryan)
• Hunger Games actually didn’t look terrible?

I don’t remember what else was shown

[muted solar]

Trailer || Oh Parker looks big upset at the start of this. Did he and MJ break up in the last movie? I haven’t seen it ||

Oh literally question answered in next part of trailer lol

[minor isle]

well big spoiler lol

nwh isn't good but you are spoiling yourself

[muted solar]

Ehh I don’t really care lol. If I haven’t seen it yet after however many years, it’s fine

I’ll throw it on one day maybe

[stoic falcon]

Dang, nwh is seen as bad in general? Interesting, I actually thought it was one of the better marvel movies myself

[minor isle]

not really

I don't like it

many people do

[frank quail]

NGL, my first thought on seeing the thumbnail was "oh is Sony doing another tie in videogame?"

I enjoyed NWH, the nostalgia bait worked pretty well on me

[stoic falcon]

Ah, gotcha. Fair enough

[silver oyster]

I didn't like the multiverse one, but I'll probably go see this one just for Jon Bernthal. Loved every minute of him in Daredevil

[wet quest]

A big thing to remember with No Way Home is that it was one of the first Blockbusters to come out after covid. There are a lot of moments in the movie that are designed to let the audience cheer, so watching it after the fact it feels like there are just long pauses for no reason.

But it truly was a theater experience like no other. I still like the movie and think that it was good even despite that, but looking back at it most of my enjoyment came from being in the theater with a bunch of people who were just excited to go and see movies again.

So, is it a bad movie? I don't know, maybe. I don't think it's entirely fair to call a movie bad for openly celebrating being able to go to the movies again after years of not being able to

[cold sequoia]

NWH ||I have only seen it once, in theaters, which definitely colors my view of it. I do think that Holland and Defoe have several good scenes. The 3rd act fight is fine which is better than most of the recent MCU movies. The conceite of the movie with the Dr Strange stuff though is really dumb and it definite had too much fan service||

||if they weren't cowards they'd have included Mephisto||

[runic pollen]

I also loved it a lot

[runic pollen]

You know how I was kinda effed of Avengers doing a Duology where 1st leaves at a low point and next one resolves it?

Yeah I weirdly NWH with that Structure would have been even better

[cold sequoia]

idk what you mean

[lucid haven]

That trailer is sick. I wish we got more like that. Almost 0 plot and all hype

[sacred slate]

Yeah Dune books 1-5 ||Paul can't actually commit to the horrors of the golden path so his whole effort only causes pain and suffering despite his good intentions. The path of violence and subjugation terrifies and paralyzed him till he becomes a burnt out junkie. He knows how to succeed but can't actually do what the visions say he would need to. (Not everyone can be worm)

So they can give all of the framing of plotting and what will happen and the books are about how no one can account for everything because white savior is actually as bad as his evil grandpa because of the decisions he makes.

I do think for the 3rd film they felt they need to show the fighting and terrible outcomes across the galaxy because while it's not shown much on page you also won't have the time to internalize that in the theater without the visual showing.||

[stoic falcon]

Nwh ||see, for me, the redemption aspect with the villains was the main thing I enjoyed about it. Though I will admit the hype played a large role in it too.||

[wet quest]

I think you may just be describing the structure that most duologies use. Typically the first one ends in a real low point so that there's tension between releases and then stuff gets resolved by the end of the second one.
That being said, getting tired of certain rhythms is valid criticism when you have a series that's been going on for so long. I spilled a lot of digital ink talking about how every MCU movie followed the structure, "good guy introduced and gets powers, bad guy introduced and gets powers, good guy and bad guy meet, bad guy almost kills good guy, good guy saves the day."
There's really nothing wrong with that structure, that's kind of what action movies always do. I think the MCU was the first time I noticed it simply because there were so many movies so it was easier to get tired of it

[runic pollen]

It is more like I feel it is a bit too early for Avengers to use the same structure for the current MCU cast as it was for Infinity Duology.

All the specific cast has not fully matured yet

[wet quest]

No Way Home and Sam Raimi Spiderman ||One of the things my mom always criticized about the Raimi movies was that "the villains turn into good guys right before they die" so when I saw No Way Home I texted my mom, "hey, you should watch this because it gives an answer to why the villains suddenly turn good right before they die. They were fixed and then dropped back into the final scenes of their movie!"||

[runic pollen]

In contrast , Spiderman's story had been much more fleshed out and we care for him.

NWH || having two movies where 1 part is about meeting all these new villains and then befriending/reforming them

While the next is about meeting the Peters and then giving him guidance and also the Peters getting some more substantial talk with their respective villains that is just not one or two lines is something that I need||

Currently it was just rushing through a checklist

[frank quail]

not to excuse it, but that's because all the early MCU is introductions, right?

[wet quest]

Ohh, I see what you mean yeah.
It gets into where I think DC failed. They saw the success of the MCU and tried to replicate it, but they jumped the gun and introduced Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman all in one movie and tried to move imediately into Justice League.
The slow buildup was part of what made the MCU so good. We had like 5 really good movies before Avengers where each hero got their own time in the spotlight

[runic pollen]

Yeah and I actually like that format.

When you do the introduction of the villain and hero in the story itself you can get a chance to explore their character in more detail.

SM FFH || of course you can also alter it the way FFH did by having the villain origin story happen after the introduction. But personally since Mysterios powers are tech based. We never get a scene of him building his powers because that is something that would be redundant to them.

Meanwhile in old Marvel movies we see a guy and then he somehow interacts with an element that gives him a chance to become villain but before that we get to experience that person not as a villain
S

So we see them with more layers and makes the final fight a bit more meaningful||

[wet quest]

Yeah 100%. It's the kinda thing where I watched Iron Man and went, ||"oh no, Tony Stark doesn't have his arc reactor, is he gonna make it? OH DANG HE PULLED THE OLD ONE OUT OF ITS CASE LETS GO!"|| but then I watched Black Panther and went, ||"T'Challa get thrown over the cliff, there's no way he actually died from that I've seen enough of these to know this by now. Oh look, he's still alive. Why are these movies still doing fakeout deaths?"||

[runic pollen]

|| this is also why I personally never clicked with Iron Man 3 and 2 villains. Even though you can say Iron Man 3 does follow it.

Even Dr. Strange doesn't follow it as we never get an origin for Kaecillius or Dormamu but that didn't matter. ||

[wet quest]

It's the kind of criticism that doesn't apply to a movie in particular, but to a series. Black Panther is not by any means worse than Iron Man, but by the point of Black Panther being out I had seen the same thing done a whole bunch before.
I wound up becoming a big defender of the movie for this exact reason. A lot of people were saying similar things to me and using that to say the movie sucks, and I countered every time with, "this movie doesn't suck, this movie is really good. The criticisms you have can apply to any MCU movie, so I'm sure it's just a coincidence that you only apply it to this MCU movie

[wet quest]

Dormamu is the first (that I can remember) instance of a different pattern in the MCU that I came to dislike.
All of the strange places look very same-y. Dormamu's realm, the quantum realm, the planet from Guardians 2. Looking at one is interesting, looking at all of them back to back just gets a little old

[runic pollen]

I won't fault Knowhere as much but yeah Quantum World should definitely have looked very different

[wet quest]

Knowhere I thought was distinct, I meant Ego's planet

[dusk hound]

Cinematography looks great actually, such a massive improvement from the Home trilogy

[wet quest]

MCU movies are really good at set designs, but sprawling landscapes are always a struggle for them imo

[runic pollen]

Wait Ego's planet was definitely not samey to Dark Dimension

[wet quest]

Maybe I've gotta go rewatch it

[fair dirge]

The BND trailer makes many references to the comics

I think it's something that surprised me a lot, they're 1:1

[oak ivy]

BND trailer ||that looked way better than i thought||

that one shot really is the worst in the trailer

[cold sequoia]

BND leaks ||I am curious how they are even going to tie in the xmen to this||

[oak ivy]

||i hope very little||

||there is so much stuff in that movie||

[molten jetty]

BND ||Eman Esfandi being MJ’s boyfriend was true lolol||

[novel bear]

https://tenor.com/view/paul-rabin-spider-man-meme-paul-infinity-infinity-paul-gif-9835998570033141753

[west escarp]

||Paul enters the MCU!!! ||

[naive mica]

||🥰 Paul 🥰 ||

[oak ivy]

||cosmic is loving this i can just feel it||

[dusk hound]

https://tenor.com/view/paul-rabin-superman-2025-james-gunn-superman-starman-spiderman-gif-12361787373068212077

[molten jetty]

BND leaks ||this movie is gonna be cluttered lmao. Scorpion, Tombstone, the Hand, Jean Grey, Punisher, the Hulk… it does feel kinda like a random comic issue with a ton of crossovers. I wonder if they’ll pull it off. At the least I’ll finally be getting my Xmen||

[oak ivy]

BND ||surely the third spiderman movie with overstuffed villains will be good right guys||

||although i do think the peter-mj-thatOtherGuy emotional core is far stronger than the other movies had||

||ideally the movie is centered on that and the other villains just intersect ||

||but def not lmao||

[molten jetty]

I think I’ll like BND more than NWH lol

[dusk hound]

BND Trailer ||It’s ok Peter, you don’t need MJ anyway, I know a certain blonde that you can date 👀 👀||

[oak ivy]

Poll NWH + BND ||click option 1 if you would have told mj and the other guy immedietely after the events of NWH. 2 if not.||

[dusk hound]

||Actually I know about two blondes you can date Peter ||

[fair dirge]

BND ||Paul in the MCU before Harry Osborn||

[novel bear]

||I've always wanted one that has a lot of villains just as various adventures along the way, just without trying to develop them all as plotlines which doesn't work imo||

[dusk hound]

BND Leaks and trailer ||I think that scene in the trailer with the soldiers being possessed is Jeans doing? Although I don’t read enough X-Men to know if she can control somebodies body||

[oak ivy]

||i think the best version of this film is the main arc being sad peter and his friends and this repeatedly getting interrupted with random one or two scene villain fights||

[molten jetty]

This was my assumption yeah

[wet quest]

That's kinda how I'm feeling about all of the stuff about Avenger's Doomsday as well. ||It seems like there's gonna be a lot happening in a single movie. I'm hopeful, but concerned.||

[buoyant scroll]

NWH+BND
||Them splitting up Peter and MJ in the MCU is so, odd to me.
Cause capitalizing on Tom and Zendaya's actual relationship would be the sorta thing id expect theyd want to do for marketing and optics ||

[dusk hound]

BND Trailer ||Didn’t notice Peter has a flip phone, oh that man is BROKE broke||

[wide stag]

I quite like Zandeya's MJ

[dusk hound]

She’s great

She got so much hate for no reason

[west escarp]

I can think of a fairly likely reason

[buoyant scroll]

I see 3 common reasons.

1. Just not liking what's been done with the character.
2. Not liking that she's just not the same MJ as comics.
3. Racism.

[wide stag]

Yeah, I should say that I have very little context around how "true" to the character she is or w/e; I just like the character she is portraying, and the fact that she is MJ is kind of immaterial to me

[dusky flint]

tbh i dont really like her MJ but also shes a lot better than the tobey era MJ

[dusk hound]

She’s technically not even Mary Jane Watson, she’s a different character

[west escarp]

||Youre so right, but consider: it’s funny to do this after they (possibly) got married in real life||

[buoyant scroll]

BND trailer+leaks? ||Huh. Saw a theory they're doing the Man-Spider storyline which will be...interesting||

[forest wigeon]

She's definitely enough of an original character that they could have (and maybe should have) given her a completely new nane

[topaz oyster]

They kind of did, the M stands for Michelle iirc

I've never entirely been clear on what they're trying to do with her as a character

[cold sequoia]

most of the mcu spider-man characters were changed a lot from their comic equivalent as of homecoming

like the guy who is peter's friend in the movies is a friend of miles morales in the comics iirc

[topaz oyster]

That's true but I feel like I'm normally a lot clearer on what they're going for with the MCU versions of the characters than I ever really have been with MJ

[cold sequoia]

mcu spider-man ||I think it's basically the same thing that we see in the Raimi movies: "love interest who provides conflict to peter's dual identity". Her characterization is a bit closer to the comics than Raimi's version was but I think it's a pretty consistent role. Like she's occasionally damesel in distress and at other times makes him have to pick between being a spider-man and going on a date. Classic comic stuff||

[west escarp]

I've never entirely been clear on what they're trying to do with her any MCU spider man characters as a character

[dusky flint]

BND trailer ||oh god they gave him natural webshooters 😭 ||

||MCU Comic synergy if you can hear me, i need your gifts for this one thing MCU comic synergy if you can hear me i need you now||

7/10 trailer

tbh

ill probably see in in theaters but im not too excited

[thin ridge]

I really liked NWH, so I'm actually excited for this one.

[silver bronze]

oh wow new Invincible season releases 3 episodes at once, didnt know that, cool

[dusk hound]

BND trailer @molten jetty ||I found Rogue ||

[dusky flint]

i really didnt like the previous MCU spiderman movies but this seems to walk back on a lot of my problems with them

[ionic lily]

Episode 1 of the new JetLag season is out!

[burnt shale]

Is it I thought just the trailer?

[wet quest]

It's out on Nebula

[burnt shale]

Ah

[wet quest]

Time to speedrun a reread of Project Hail Mary before seeing the movie on Friday

[wide stag]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlFJDrq3sU was fun

[west escarp]

https://www.tumblr.com/spring-ephemeral/811388572629450752/me-when-i-like-the-2-3h-movie-directors-should

W pervert women

me when i like the 2-3h movie: directors should never have to compromise their vision to appeal to something as fickle as people's "patience". anyone complaining about the movie's length is simply a tiktok-addicted philistine.

me when i don't like the 2-3h movie: once i become god emperor of earth anyone trying to make a movie longer than 90 minutes will be shot.

-# #rina.txt

Tumblr · Mar 18, 2026, 2:20 AM

[wet quest]

The funny thing is every movie can be capped at 90 minutes if you simply turn it off

[topaz oyster]

I think being a Lord of the Rings Enjoyer at a young age inoculated me from seeing the clock as a useful metric for evaluating a movie

Runtime doesn't matter its how you use it etc

[oak ivy]

runtime is also heavily dependent on pacing too

two and a half hour action film is different than a political thriller of the same length

[topaz oyster]

It is, but I also find that my response to pacing is mood and expectations dependent

Which isn't to say there aren't poorly paced movies, that's unarguably true

[oak ivy]

pacing is an element of story i still dont fully have my head around

people blame pacing a lot when i dont think it is deserved

pacing is a lot more moment to moment than it typically gets credit for, of that i am sure

[topaz oyster]

But sometimes a two and a half hour political thriller doesn't land for me because my expectations are bad or I just wasn't looking for a political thriller right now and then a year and a half later the same movie really does work for me because I have a better idea what I'm getting into

[oak ivy]

i think with the more extreme forms of art you have a higher chance of just not being in the mood

same with albums too. there are some really slow paced ones i listen to like once a year but when i do they hit

[topaz oyster]

A long [thing you weren't really looking for] often lands much worse than a short [thing you weren't really looking for] because by volume its more of the bad thing

[burnt shale]

I’m fine with longer movies but can we bring back the intermission with goofy animations looping

[oak ivy]

where as the ideal 2 hour action film is so cookie cutter i can watch it whenever

like eating burgers and fries

[topaz oyster]

Jack Nicholson walked out on Return of the King's premiere because he said "it ended too many times"

[oak ivy]

fair and based tbh

[topaz oyster]

Which like sure I can see that, I can also see being really annoyed that this thing you don't care about is still happening, its a long movie

Return of the King also cuts some of the book's endings

[cold sequoia]

I like Return of the King extended edition but it's badly paced

[oak ivy]

like 50% of the return of the king book is the ending

[cold sequoia]

I haven't seen the theatrical cut in forever

[topaz oyster]

I don't know if I've seen the theatrical cut since the theatrical release

[oak ivy]

lotr films also have a reputation for being marathons, and people rewatching them want that. on first watch i am sure it is painful

[topaz oyster]

I am also confident that if Jack Nicholson wasn't at the premieres of the first two movies that he didn't watch them at all and if he was he put them out of his mind as soon as he left the theater

Not really his scene

So a what, three hour and change original cut? is gonna be a total slog for him

3hr 21min according to IMDB

Prison sentence if you're not into it

[azure fern]

Man, speaking of...in about a month me and another friend are getting a 3rd friend to watch Lotr for the first time

my friend wants to do extended but I'm really uncertain

cause while there are some very important scenes in the extended edition that, imo, really enhance certain characters and plotlines

there are some scenes that imo are just... bad

[verbal lintel]

This makes more sense when you know Tolkien originally wanted the entire trilogy bound in one massive book, but broke it up after finding it too impractical for book manufacturing techniques in his day