PREVIOUS CHALLENGE b4p6o
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find a movie for each task, first-time watches only, feature-length (unless stated otherwise):
โค๏ธ task 1 โ a film that is another wikian's favourite (to help with this, please put your own personal favourite as the 1st film and/or mark it with an appropriate note so others may choose it, and then put the film you're going to watch as the 8th, although it doesn't have to be from someone doing the challenge)
๐ task 2 โ a film with a one-word title
๐ task 3 โ a documentary film
โฉ๏ธ task 4 โ a film set in a non-European country at least 300 years ago (help)
๐ฆ task 5 โ a film that involves isolation (help)
๐ญ task 6 โ a film that is an adaptation of a play (help)
๐ task 7 โ a film where a real-life star other than the Sun plays a significant role, or there is a character sharing a star's name (help) (help)
My favourite film.
A film with a one-word title.
A documentary film.
A film set in a non-European country at least 300 years ago. It is loosely based on Investiture of the Gods, set in late Shang Dynasty.
A film involving isolation.
A film that is an adaptation of a play.
A film where a real-life star other than the Sun plays a significant role, or there is a character sharing a star's name. Bellatrix Lestrange shares a name with the star Bellatrix, "warrior woman" and the left shoulder of the constellation Orion - many characters of the House of Black have astronomical names, including, of course, Sirius.
One of Starieena's favourite films.
find a movie for each task, first-time watches only, feature-length (unless stated otherwise):
๐ task 1 โ a film directed by someone whose first name starts with the same letter as yours
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๐ป task 2 โ a chick flick. something you'd watch at a sleepover with your girlies (help) ((i reserve the right to reject your choice if i don't consider it a chick flick, e.g. Maleficent))
๐ฎ task 3 โ a film that is a video game adaptation (help)
๐น task 4 โ a film considered surrealist (short help, long help, jan svankmejer)
๐คฎ task 5 โ a film that is really awful (help)
๐ต task 6 โ a film that won an oscar for best original score (help)
๐ช task 7 โ a film chosen for you by your family - no influencing!
I'm not sure how common knowledge this is but real starfish could regenerate like that, it's cool. A bit of a shame the opening credits is the most intense and exciting part for like a third of the film.
The comic screen wiping is getting on my nerves after 10 seconds.
Hey, is Stan Lee the security guard?
Wow the love interest is awkward and wooden. But she's cute so I'll let it slide.
Oh, blonde guy shows up as asshole rival...well that is not unexpected. Hot though.
Wait, the same guy who fired Banner's father is the love interest's father? And they both lived on the same desert base?
...Why is she seeing Bruce as an adult smouldering her damn that's weird.
Goddammit now I'm starting to get flashbacks to Nostalgia Critic's review and his repeated tired yells of "The Huuuulk!"
Betty is surprisingly chill about a random green giant showing up on her doorstep.
...Wait, why did the military just let him out to wander outside??
This is one damn melancholic film for being a rage monster.
"I like crossbows", casual racism, statue to himself, Black Mask is a funnier Joker than Joker.
Waiting for Harley to have some comeuppance for her litany of atrocities...waiting (Harley feeds a man to a hyena)...still waiting (Harley bombs some woman)...any time now...
How does Black Mask not kill and/or mutilate Erika? Not that I'm a fan of excessive violence, but this film has a lot of that and the scene feels unfinished without it.
Ah, Amusement Mile, a place I only knew from DC Universe Online before, nice.
I kinda like the foggy pier scene, it reminded me of the fear gas induced hallucination of the Joker Harley sees in Injustice 2 - for a moment I thought that's really what is going on.
The post-credit scene is a bit low-effort, but good troll.
I think this film is pretty well made, it is just not for me.
Picked this one because Kanto legendaries are the only ones I had any childhood memories of. And this film is definitely a kids thing judging from the level of boy/girl drama. However I do like the overarching mystery of the film, even though it is revealed to the audience in the very first scene.
I swear Pikachu is the most stoic and serious character in the team.
Wow, their depiction of deep ocean currents in a worldwide circulation disrupting global climate is ahead of its time.
Okay, the fourth wall breaking is cheesy but I'll allow it.
Zapdos effortlessly booping Pikachu ahahaha.
Goddammit Lugia can't you have carried him to the ice island in the first place?
...Man, I almost forgot the bad guy existed.
I'm a big fan of classical music but now I'm sitting here being nonplussed over trippy imagery played with classical music.
"Tchaikovsky didn't like Nutcracker" Okay. "There won't be any nutcrackers on the screen" What a surprise. The most interesting thing about this bit is how the film shows its age (1940): it says the whole Nutcracker is not popular and no one performs it any more.
"However, the complete Nutcracker has enjoyed enormous popularity since the late 1960s and is now performed by countless ballet companies, primarily during the Christmas season, especially in North America. Major American ballet companies generate around 40% of their annual ticket revenues from performances of The Nutcracker." -Wikipedia
...Okay, can you get the excessively elegant sexy fish out of my face now?
Why is there a still image of some flowe- gah! (my actual reaction)
Ooh, Waltz of the Flowers, that's a good one I didn't know is included.
Ah, the Sorceror's Apprentice, literally the only part anyone knows. I like how the narrator says the whole plot beforehand.
I think I've seen this part before, but I only noticed now there are no sound effects, only music. It is weird how even by the second time the broom empties water into the cauldron it already looks like it is overflowing.
...The Avatar. But when the world needed him most, he vanished.avi
They have a segment on the evolution of life in billions of years? "Science, not art"?? Ooh, this 80 year old film gonna be good. I did not expect a scientific documentary in this surreal Disney film.
Fun fact: the Chicxulub crater was not discovered until 1978 (and it took some time to be recognized as due to the K-T extinction event), which is surprisingly recent and why this film doesn't know what killed the dinosaurs.
I now want to see a list of films featuring the Hadean period.
I appreciate how a reasonably realistic portrayal of ancient or deep sea life is still pretty surreal. Sci-fi aliens are so unimaginative visually compared to real world creatures.
That's some brutal predation set to soothing music.
Wow that stegosaurus is pretty fat. I don't know why but the T. rex looks wacky af. But that's some heavy stuff. Even though in real life as far as we know, the stegosaurus went extinct so long ago before T. rex appeared, it is more distant from the T. rex than the T. rex is from us.
Man, the orchestra warming up again is giving me school flashbacks.
"The soundtrack" okay we're back to the weird visuals again. It does remind me pleasantly of listening to some
Okay, why does every Olympian is referred to their Roman name (Bacchus, Vulcan, Diana, I believe Iris and Apollo have the same name for both Greek and Roman), but Zeus uses the Greek n- what on Earth is this MLP sh*t??
"the female centaurs were originally drawn bare-breasted, but the Hays office enforcing the Motion Picture Production Code insisted that they discreetly hung garlands around the necks" ...There is still a part where they didn't wear anything though. And stop drawing them so seductive goddammit. This whole thing is somehow cute and somewhat disturbing at the same time.
* Zeus throwing lighting bolts at random just to be an asshole * What do I even say about this.
"In the late 1960s, four shots from The Pastoral Symphony were removed that depicted two characters in a racially stereotyped manner. A black centaurette called Sunflower was depicted polishing the hooves of a white centaurette, and a second named Otika appeared briefly during the procession scenes with Bacchus and his followers." Dude, US didn't even outlaw racial discrimination until 1964.
Bit ironic for it to mention Dance of the Hours' popularity that most people would know Nutcracker nowadays, but not this (even though it still sounds familiar).
Hippo...croc...whatever that scene was gross.
Oookay, that's some spooky scary skeletons/ghosts...
Dancing naked fire women turns into animals...turns into demons... this whole segment is pretty grim.
I'm not sure if they are still trying to court the church crowd by having them banish the evil...especially after the whole evolution thing.
...Oh. It just kind of ended. Nothing indicating anything?
It doesn't seem quite as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Far from great as the animated series, but not absolutely horrible. The common criticisms are kinda exaggerated. The bending is a bit slower and takes more movements, but I don't find that too bad either. I think perceptions may be coloured by the animated series, since obviously the bending becomes more and power powerful and skilled towards the end (especially with Sozin's Comet).
What's with Zhao's weird Zuko roasting session?
Why does kid Azula's laugh sound like Teemo's???
Iroh is still pretty cool.
Why doesn't Iroh stop Zhao before they go to the Oasis if Zhao already told him the plan to kill the Moon spirit? Also, it is kind of lame he didn't get to fight there.
The fights scenes in this film in general is still decent though.
Tsunami scene and especially the music unironically gave me chills. This whole film is unironically okay. Not as great as the animated series, but okay.
Who does woodworking in their wedding dress??
Hey, that's Habanera from Carmen when Carl goes downstairs. A bit standard snippet but nice.
Okay, I'm halfway through and I'm not digging this film. Almost everything is either repetitive, ridiculous, contrived, grating or unfunny. Every companion is annoying in their own way, to the point where the gag of them being annoying is the only genuinely funny thing in the film so far.
Apparently a big deal was made of Russell being Asian American. I didn't notice at all. He just looks like an incredibly annoying blob (a couple shades paler than than voice actor too).
The film becomes so, so much better when it is not trying too hard to be funny. It is perfectly fine being touching, introspective, and the old adventurer turning out to be crazy was great (even though his villainous motive is...not really that evil).
Literally every time her eyes are on screen they are freaking me out.
Also Doc looks like at least 20 years older than the woman he had a kid with.
Red smear on her face is dog blood?? Only that once? What significance does it have?
"NO MORE FREE REPAIRS!" Okay, that was hilarious.
Doc's character is really growing on me.
His hammer/scythe thing reminds me of Steel's hammer (it is most recently in Reign of the Supermen). I kind of wish they only blast their exhaust when using it to propel the weapon and not when just holding it still, though, it'd feel more real and kinetic.
"Better rule in hell, than serve in heaven" reference, nice.
There is no ending in this film?? I felt like I only watched half of a story and this film already dragged on quite a bit as it was. I feel like I barely know what is going on beneath the surface. What's the villain's evil plan, what happened at all in the past?
Oh and they made a lot of trouble with making a new life with the boyfriend (screw that guy tbh) only to kill him again after like 1 minute of screen time wtf that was pointless.
This film is shockingly violent and bloody. It is PG-13 but I think it is worse than the R-rated Birds of Prey. Maybe part of it is because having seen a real-life beheading video that scene in the film is giving me some traumatic flashbacks.
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