Tag: movies

cute-necromancing-misanthrope:

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girlfriendluvr:

REVIEWS FOR VENOM JUST CAME IN AND IT’S A 28% ON ROTTEN TOMATOES!!!!!! THIS MOVIES GONNA BE SO FUCKIN FUNNY IM SO EXCITED. GOD I LOVE TERRIBLE SPIDERMAN MOVIES

“If you replaced Tom Hardy for Steve Martin in “All of Me,” and switched out Lily Tomlin for a wad of chewed-up black licorice, you’d have “Venom.”“

“When a major fight scene resembles a pair of black pants caught in a white wash, it’s fair to say you haven’t taken the audience with you.”

“It’s a train wreck of a movie, mixing and matching wildly dissonant tones, bizarre plot contrivances, and a truly unique lead performance.”

“Tom Hardy seems to be trying to be the first actor to win an Oscar and a Razzie for the same performance.”

“A film that feels like what you’d expect from a below average superhero flick circa 2004, like Ghost Rider or Fantastic Four.”

^ some of my fave critic review excerpts. i have never been more excited

some more

“The movie is so ridiculous that many viewers will at least be entertained in a dumbfounded way.”

“Think Affleck Daredevil. Think Ang Lee Hulk. Think Halle Berry Catwoman. That’s… I mean, that’s really all there is to be said, I think.”

“This is a movie that somehow slipped through a wormhole from 2004. That’s my biggest take. It’s a movie that spilled from the pre-MCU era through a crack in time and space… The humor, the story beats, everything right down to the Eminem theme song feels like it emerged Kimmy Schmidt style from a sealed off early ‘00s bunker.”

“Sorry to say that Venom is pretty much a complete failure — a tonal mess that feels 15 years old, ignoring the storytelling strides that the superhero genre has made in recent years.”

“Not sure I had the intended reactions to some scenes, but fun is fun — even when it’s totally ridiculous, right? It’s too bad they didn’t go for the R rating, though.”

“The cast seems to all know they’re in a darker superhero movie, except Tom Hardy who is basically remaking Jim Carrey’s Liar Liar.”

“At one point Tom Hardy and Venom make out.”

gonna go see it just for the make out honestly

I was completely fine and then “At one point Tom Hardy and venom make out”

I now what to see this movie more than ever.

pacific rim commentary

flaminghobgoblins:

i took a few notes from guillermo del toro’s commentary on pacific rim:

  • gypsy danger was designed to look like a machine from ww2 and to have the gait of a “gunslinger” 
  • he talks a lot about how in movies “form is content” and that he designs not for “eye candy, but for eye protein”; narrative is submerged in the audiovisual details and the details are everywhere in pacific rim
  • he is constantly juxtaposing massive elements w small details for scale; like a giant battle and a little red shoe, to contribute to the sense of “awe and majesty” 
  • the movie deals w types “the pilot…the scientist” so the characters had to be textured w minimal gestures; mako and raleigh (two of the main characters) have some of the fewest lines in the film 
  • ww2 aesthetics; bomb refuge, overalls, working for rations were all incorporated
  • not a movie about one hero but a composite of humanity; the world saving the world; a movie about togetherness, connecting, and trust
  • Mako is coded blue bc of her origins in the kaiju; blue stains her heart and her hair
  • every character has to learn to trust all the others 
  • all the characters get a Hero Moment
  • re: the fighting stick scene; “if this was a 19th century movie they would be dancing the waltz” 
  • the little red shoe is the absolute heart of the movie 
  • quiet power is still power; mako as a strong character w quiet determination 
  • the Russian jaeger team are so hard-core they have no escape pod
  • some of the Battle of Hong Kong was done in miniatures and models not just cgi 
  • “This film is the most controlled joyful exercise in image creation of my life” 
  • one of guillermo’s fave moments is when newt and hermann drift 
  • “No one carries the suit like idris elba” 
  • “No matter how many times you drift with someone you still have to say I love you”
  • structured the three fights for raleigh as; losing a partner; gaining a partner; saving a partner (”it won’t happen to [him] again”) 
  • it was important to guillermo that the humans saved the world, not machines or ballistic power; humanity.

nonasuch:

Yesterday I overheard someone talking about how he was taking classes at the University of Maryland because they offer free tuition if you’re over 60. 

My brain IMMEDIATELY began scripting a screwball comedy in which a broke millennial who desperately want to finish his long-abandoned degree but is drowning in student debt pretends to be a senior citizen in order to attend college for free.

I’m picturing someone Channing Tatumesque, applying age makeup every morning before he heads off to class. It’s sort of a cross between 21 Jump Street and Mrs. Doubtfire. He keeps forgetting which hip is supposed to be his bad one. His classmates laugh every time he uses slang. There’s definitely a scene where he attends a college party and busts it up on the dance floor.

He catches the eye of a fellow returning student, a woman in her 50s, but she thinks he’s like 70 and she’s already buried one husband, you know? She’s not interested in doing that again. When his charade unravels (hilariously) at the end of the movie, though, she finds out he’s actually like 30 and has abs you could bounce a quarter off. And he’s still super into her. And really, maybe it’s time she gave May-December romance a chance.