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Jamie went to the MS Paint school of "graphic design is my ion" and I'm HERE for it. The old fashioned surface laptop/tablet? Sold!
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Certified Fathers Day film
I'm a big fan of Liesl asking all the right questions as we go through this journey. She is me and I am her.
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The coolest onion of a film that starts from "bro I don't think it's a joke anymore" into serious conversations about capitalism
I'm so here for this!
Compensation because I unlocked this whole thing so I could make funky novelty DVDs
Which I argue is up there on masterpieces of yours truly because the DVD covers are WORKS OF ART if I say so myself.
I am amazed by how beautiful this is. I've seen this before and I'm on the verge of tears as if this is my first time.
We talk about the vintage animation, voice acting, pacing, and artistry of early disney movies. But what I miss the most is the way that the score is composed and played in sync with the movie. It resembles loony tunes shorts in the way that action sequences have their own horn blast for each hit. But also nothing beats the old fashioned quality of the orchestra.
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Love how the budget doubled, it really showed ($5 to $10)
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Nothing makes me more happy than the fuckass editing and the sparkle effects after each episode.
Best ing actor goes to the wind fan.
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- "He has the face of a friend"
"The force darkly near a creature that's about to kill"
DO YOU KNOW HOW CRAZY IT IS THAT CASSIAN KILLS SO EASILY, YET THE ONE TIME HE HAS ORDERS, HE DOESN'T DO IT
- Cassian not letting Jyn go with him because he insists she's the messenger to her fathers message. NO SIR, THAT'S YOUR JOB. SHE'S THE MESSAGE. YOU'RE THE MESSENGER. YOU'RE IN DENIAL.
- "You're not the only one who lost everything. Some of us just decided to do something about it." A line that already hurt, but hurts so much more now that we've seen it all happen. He's a survivor.
- Krennic's story is so interesting after watching him be the higher up in Andor, just to be placed in the rankings. If you're not the very top, you're at the bottom. Climbing is a major theme amongst many characters.
- "And every time I walked away from something I wanted to forget, I told myself it was for a cause I believed in. A cause that was worth it. Without that, we're lost. Everything we've done would have been for nothing. I couldn't face myself if I give up now." WHAT IF I KILLED MYSELF. If you squint your eyes and look closely, the ghosts of everyone that Cassian has lost is right there, pushing him forward.
- I just know Cassian was getting pissed off not understanding how to use the empire claw machine^TM. Too many flashbacks to the tie fighter.
- I'm just now realizing the full effect of CASSIAN killing KRENNIC. Two major characters in this overall story only meeting then. Krennic has met Mon, Luthen, Kleya. These people are all intertwined.
At the end of it all, I can only say goodbye. What an incredible story of a person that changed the galaxy. Hard to grasp sometimes that he isn't real when I know so much of his life. Goodbye Cassian Andor.
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those New York fuckass winds carried me all the way to Halifax
Lilly was watching A New Hope next to me. Duality of man.
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Every time I try to how gay this movie is, I'm shown it's MUCH gayer.
Also Anne Hathaway plays Scorpio really well.
I have a lot of thoughts, many of them don't need to be stated on the silly movie website. But as someone with a knowledge of mental health and a dad who struggled with addiction and depression, some things in here sink way down deep in your soul if you have ANY connection to the characters in this show. It's haunting, it's deeply disturbing, and it does an amazing job making you feel uncomfortable, raw, and vulnerable. I Dreamed a Dance into There's a World is still a very hard watch all the way to Diana's ECT scenes. No doubt one of the most human and alive musicals I've ever watched.
One that stands out is Eleanor's Natalie, an actor that I can't look away from when she's on screen. She's all face, every single emotion conveyed so big it's near perfection. I believe her anxiety and stress, and her American accent is addicting to hear.
In addition, I'm VERY happy that PBS decided to air this publicly. In a world where theater becomes less and less accessible, a show of THIS severity in topics is incredible to be available to a larger audience. I hope other companies and distribution sites follow in their footsteps. Most importantly, it's resources like PBS that makes media accessibility possible, and I hope it receives the help it needs to continue making that happen.
Representation matters! (short person in a big person world)
Also that dome epais jumpscare was unnecessary
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I aspire to have Charlie Brown's level of manifestation with a girl's iration.
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How lucky I feel to have MY favorite Tinker Bell movie to be the one that they make a WHOLE ASS NOVEL to expand upon 2.5 of the characters. Which then makes this movie 10x better with more story and context.
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Commenting on this because Cruisin for a Bruisin is one of the best DCOM songs of all time
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With this cast and this story, this is either gonna be the worst thing ever or the best thing ever.
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I would give anything to be one of the Italian ladies building a plane for someone opposing my fascist country. This movie was MADE for me.
Ghibli never fails to surprise me with who they get to voice act these characters. I argue it heightens the experience tenfold.
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So far down in the Andor rabbit hole that I forgot this movie is half Obi-Wan being the coolest person ever and half crying at the fall of democracy.
Loving the powerpoint-ass transitions. I'm crying but I'm laughing.
Heidi's first viewing! In theaters!!!
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I didn't think this was worth logging until my girl Hanna showed up at the last 5 minutes and I did a full lap around my living room. THAT'S A CELEBRITY TO OUR FAMILY!!
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I, too, contributed to the statistic of watching this after the news of the Pope ing.
That was one of the coolest fucking movies I've ever seen. Never have I seen art and language move so smooth and connected. Maybe it's because I've been exposed to Latin since I was little and have many hours of spanish behind me, but they really took "speaking in tongues" to a different level because if you have subtitles on, you forget the characters are going in and out of different languages. It all becomes one.
It's a real shame it didn't win as many awards as it should have.
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I can't believe how much of this I could quote until I said every other line. And GOD DAMN is this funny.
Cheers to the third one this year!
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Live in Concert!!! WITH JUSTIN HURWITZ!!
He was there to conduct, and what a TREAT it was for him to be there. Didn't think I would be crossing off a bucket list item tonight, but I was able to meet him <3.
This was an incredible and magical experience! There were so many times where I forgot that the music was live, it felt so well blended with the movie and I got lost in it.
This hits so much harder when you understand how Mia and Sebastian felt at the end. An artist's nightmare to choose between their dream and the dreams of other people.
RIP La La Land you would've loved Come Hang Out by AJR
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"Just to set the record straight, I DO wash my clothes"
Literally nothing beats the fuckassery of this movie.
Lilly & Will's first viewing. We collectively agreed that Courtney is gay
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Me and Lilly accidentally got immersed in this again at the same time.
- This is so much fun when you're older, when your brain is developing more and you're understanding what love is as a young adult. When Yuri is 23 during this time, it all looks so differently than when I watched it the first time at 13. Specifically, how I can't believe I didn't let myself believe how gay a lot of the actions and manerisms were between Yuri and Victor. Back then it felt so ambiguous, but now it's SO much clearer to me.
- In addition, the way the story is told through Yuri's point of view and narration highly suggests the way that he's ace in some way. This show is so ace coded it's insane, and you don't really see it until you're in the heads of the other skaters and you realize how Yuri has been trying to understand and intellectualize what love means to him.
- Rip Yurio you would've loved the Palmetto State Foxes.
- Do you know how good your story has to be for the final twist to not be the damn rings but the FUCKING BANQUET???
- I can identify the single frame of where Yuri and Victor's love is shown the most, and it's the picture of them at the banquet dancing (specifically the one with Victor's leg straight out, and Yuri's hand on Victor's face). THAT is the most comfortable position I've ever seen the two of them in.
- Honorable mention goes to the airport scene because NOTHING ever beats that scene for me. That is peak love; hot take, a better exchange of love than their ring exchange at the cathedral.
There's a part of me that's okay with the cancelation because what we have is so perfect that I'm satisfied every time I rewatch it. There are some shows where I rewatch and I'm constantly being reminded of "what we could've had" because it was dependent on those extentions. This is not one of those times. When a show is this well done in only 12 episodes, a lot of it is because it concludes nicely.
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I'd love to know the opinion of this movie from a bisexual man's perspective. I fear it's a demographic that isn't touched on as much, especially when discussing the impact Howl has on people.
I fold every time we get to the moving day scene :')
Favorite quotes:
"She likes my SPARK!" (lmao)
"Your hair is just like starlight, it's beautiful" (kms)
The two have great visual chemistry. Like, they look great on screen together. The one-liners and delivery of the comedy was fantastic.
Shout-out to the "A Thousand Miles" jumpscare that occurs. I was DYING.
Hey wtf is with the irregular accents used in this film? ESPECIALLY for Ro. Chances are, she would've picked a hybrid version from Sagi or Azul. But NOPE.
Roni's first viewing
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Ty to Cinemark for doing a rescreening. I only wish I could be there tomorrow for MJ1. I haven't sat down and watched this one fully in quite a while, and my head is very sensitive from the current political climate, so I was a lot more emotional this go around. Here are all the new things (NEW THINGS!!) that I noticed this time:
- I'm realizing that an important part of Kaniss and Peeta as victors is that they're one of the only district citizens that know what each of the districts are like because they've visited and interacted with all of them. The way they look at 11 when they're on the train, first arriving, is the look of culture shock. that in the first book, Katniss learns a lot about 11 only because Rue shared a lot about her life at home. Whatever they decide to air to the viewers of the games, it's the only knowledge they gather about other places of Panem.
- The victory tour this go around really fucked me up. Katniss was only ever speaking her mind; it wasn't necessarily that she was doing it as an act of rebellion- she is a rebel nonetheless- but a lot of it was out of survival, not out of a secure place in life to contemplate political ideology. I always go back to a quote from Gale in MJ1, "No one told her what to do." It's a consistent theme throughout Mockingjay, as many people believed that a lot of Katniss' actions and speeches were purposely crafted, a PR stunt. Even Haymitch said that their purpose is to be a distraction each year when the games come by so that they don't focus on the real issues. The capitol citizens each day are looking less and less like exaggerated aliens and more like our celebrities today. They are our distraction from each horrible event that occurs so that our full attention is never on that.
- "How can we live like this? How can ANYONE live like this?" Hits so hard.
- Yes, I do think Peeta painting Rue was a hard hitter emotionally, but I think it would've been more impactful if they had taken time to show Peeta and his paintings, especially since it's his was of coping with his nightmares and trauma from the games. In reality, this poor man got shafted by this adaptation and could've had better development as a character. He's amazing in the book <3
- As Cinna is adjusting Katniss's dress for the last time, right before Effie comes to see, he says "I think I'm done". OOOOOOH DOUBLE ENTENDRE GOOD SIR
- "Let's go show them what real beauty looks like" has always been my favorite quote from Effie. Best way of looking at her character throughout the series, it's perfect.
- Ain't it crazy that when finnick says " who the real enemy is" at the end to Katniss, it's also a message to us that we're transitioning away from the distraction of the games and towards the root problem of the cause once again. This movie is an uprising sandwich with some entertainment sprinkled in between, and we ate it up, we continue to eat it up, and we will ask to eat more of it in the future.
- One of these days I'll write out my full thoughts about Plutarch's character. I have so many opinions about them, most of them are negative (in a good way, he's a REALLY good character), but I'm not quite there to give my full cents yet. Maybe one day. But I noticed that fire much more here when he's in the background.
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As an editor, I empathize with the amount of time that it look to put this together. That alone deserves appreciation just as much as the end product.
Saw this instead of Starry Night at the MOMA, was worth every minute. ~2:16-2:37 pm
BACK IN THEATERS BABY!!!
I love how the entire theater was full of young gays who knew every word and was typing "you'll always be famous in my heart" on their insta stories.
That shit is amazing when blasted at max. Ty AMC <3
There are tears on my face, but I am empowered and free.
I'm not going to survive season 2 of Andor AT ALL.
The heteronormativity is a little much but I understand why it is the way it is.
The music selection in here is wild and I love it. Wall-E? Sound of Silence? FLYING THEME FROM ET???? ROXANNE FROM MOULIN ROUGE?
The editor in me really appreciates this, the effort it takes to put something like this together isn't easy.
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- The most definitive part that helps you understand this is 2013 is the slow mo camera, which I was NOT expecting
- The entire time I was wondering where tf this was filmed. Like GODDDD beautiful locations
- The only thing that sucks so hard is the score. Takes me out of it more than it already does
- “I’m gay. My lungs fill up with fluid every time the seasons change” “Pretty sure that cystic fibrosis” LMAOOOO
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Every time Tashi opens the door to Art sleeping with Lily, my heart breaks into a thousand pieces.
Untangling my ball of strong emotions by junk journaling and watching the crack movie again. Y'all ever read a fic so good it fucks with your perception of the characters?
I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS WAS AN OPTION TO LOG AND REVIEW
BLUEY YOU BROKE MY HEART IN HALF I LOVE YOU
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30% of this is whiplash for chorus kids
All jokes aside, visually stunning, making me choke up after a whole day of crying. Emilia Jones is a star, I wish she had more chemistry with her love interest.
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8 tissues and a whole sweatshirt sleeve. I barely got through the opening before I started crying and it didn't stop the entire way through.
A tough story to connect to as I was born before 9/11, but nothing makes me more emotional than community. The ability to communicate and come together regardless of language and culture.
When the bus driver asked for the African family's bible and turned to Philippians 4:6 because the numbers would be the same regardless of the language, I fell apart. Religion the way it's meant to be.
They're gay, your honor.
the artstyle & jazz in this is so beautiful I love it
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Thank you Apple, 20 more of these please!!
The stock sound effect of the kids cheering SENT ME.
Won at rummikub twice and skip bo once while this was playing in the background and I recited every line.
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"WOOF! MEOW! MOO! Whatever"
Shouldn't be that funny. Peppermint Patty your impact <3
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RIP Charlie Brown you would've loved Stick Season by Noah Kahan
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Was making a Mr. Beast style dumbass thumbnail this morning and this so happened to be on.
And I accidentally watched all of it (osmosis by Heidi and mom, otherwise I would've shut it off)
But now that I have watched all of it I can say that this is no different than American military Star Wars. Very well shot though
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She can do this with every holiday and I'll eat it up
THAT'S MY WIFE!
Double feature!
You ever watch a movie so beautiful you forget they're not real people? Like you have to remind yourself this is animated fantasy?
Finally finished my reread & annotation, figured it would be easier to watch this in one sitting. And I was right. Not only was I right, but I found it much more enjoyable when the events are fresh in your mind, including Snow's internal thoughts. A tough piece of work if you want to reread it each time, but the best way to enjoy the final product.
Having Jason Schwartzman be Lucky Flickerman was the best decision in change that the producers had. I still hold true to my original criticism that the only thing I wish had made it in more was the story of Snow and the Jabberjays/Mockingjays. Other than that, every decision was perfect.
I really enjoyed the descriptions (and in this case, display) of 12 in this story. Each character in 12 had their own accent in my head. Appalachia, you are so important to me.
Have we also noticed that at the end, when Snow is talking to Highbottom while he explains how he created the game with his dad, that it's like if Highbottom is the Sejanus to Crassius's Coryo? 2 generations of rebels and Snows, with Coryo pretty much looking at a different kind of Sejanus?????? HELLO?
"Mysteries have a way of driving people mad". Can't believe that isn't in the book, it lives in my head rent free.
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CINEMA
IT GETS BETTER EACH TIME
AND IT'S ABSOLUTELY GOREGOUS
Hate to be pretentious but MY childhood movies were goated
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The last story with Mickey and Minnie is so real I'm always in tears. Aged like fine wine
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peep the 5/5 rating change (it really is that good yall)
- "You're playing percentage tennis. Waiting for me to fuck up" DUDE MAYBE IT'S MY FRONTAL LOBE DEVELOPING BUT THIS REALLY CLICKED THIS TIME WOAHHHHH
- Trying to manifest the energy from 1:17:03
- Can you imagine being the location scout trying to find the coolest Applebee's in the area?
- I saw that Art's Jeep has an Ohio license plate and I know this isn't how they do things on film but I like to think this is Mike's jeep and they said "eh we can use that" since he lives in Ohio
"I will decorate this tree with the corpse of me" PAPAGENO YOU ARE TOO HOT AND SEXY TO DIE
The set design is absolutely stunning
This definitely was a "bro I don't think it's a joke anymore" but I'm the one out of the 4 in our group to most likely see operas so I'm not surprised. It was actually really good. Much better when you don't have hogwarts music school happening in between and not-Wylan pretending to be a prince.
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- Challengers
- Luca
- Turning Red
- Kiki's Delivery Service
- Howl's Moving Castle
- Your Name.
- Yuri!!! on Ice
- Moana
- The Hunger Games
...plus 27 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Honorable mentions to go Hadestown the musical and King's Tide from Owl House (including that hiatus)
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