I enjoyed Beyond so much more than the last four Trek movies. So so so much more. And, much more than recent fan film attempts, definitely.

It was a genuinely exciting movie. The callbacks were great but not obtrusive. And, the new girl didn't have to take off all her clothes to defuse a bomb or whatever.

This guy makes a very good case that the realism of Saving Private Ryan's famously horrific opening sequence is misleading and that it really just serves to make the film as a whole one of the subtlest pro-war propaganda pieces ever.



This goes into a larger point, that war hawkish political behavior is almost always accompanied by unrealistic depictions of violence/strength. Think military parades. They look strong, but if this were a real wartime scenario, they could all be taken out by a single bombing run or a couple of gunships.

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sailor-anthy wrote:

I just recently saw Whiplash (2014). And HOOO BOY... I gotta say, most intense drum solo ever.

That is literally the most intense film I've ever watched in my life.

Last year's Cinderella still has the ability to make me blush and sigh a little too much considering I'm just a few years from forty.

Bill Condon is amazing! And, everyone else working on Beauty and the Beast seem to really be throwing themselves into it. I'm thrilled about it.

I'm not a fan of live-acton Disney remakes in general so maybe I'm biased but I thought the CGI characters in Beaty and the Beast look freaking creepy, uncanny valley level shit.

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“Yeah,"  Emma Watson told EW, “we made Belle an inventor."

That reinvigorates my interest in the movie.

Hopefully she pays for materials and then complains about her dinky little town, as opposed to cartoon Belle who borrows books from the bookstore, then complains they don't stock enough.

I've been doing Japanese horror (and horror-comedy, horror-adventure, etc) with a friend, recently, one movie every few days, usually alternating whether we do Chinese or English subtitles (or Chinese or English dub), so one of us has to constantly catch the other up. The latest was Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl, which was a rewatch for me, but I'd completely forgotten the twist ending, so it surprised us both. I'll have to find Arcana in English, because even explained, I'm not sure I got it, but it was fun as a little investigative mystery thing. Neither of us had seen Ringu in forever, so it was nice to know it holds up fine.

I watched Storks - I'd heard it was pretty good as kids films go, so I gave it a watch. It was surprisingly funny, it made me laugh pretty hard at some points. I have a few nitpicks about the movie, mostly because I liked it enough to care. XD

If Storks have stopped delivering babies, where have people been getting them from all this time? If the awkward conversation in the car is any indication, natural birth? It just doesn't make sense. They have supposedly been delivering babies since Pharaonic times, they just one day stopped and everyone was ok with that? It annoyed me because they could have made a good joke instead of leaving it hanging.

The baby could have been given a personality! It was basically just a pair of big shiny eyes to make audiences go awwww. Even something generic or one-sided like 'mischievous' or 'funny' would have worked.

There's a point in the movie when the girl's 'maternal instincts' kick in and it's a fairly funny visual gag; I think it would have been kinda funny if the stork had later had a similar one (like one about stork instincts or dad instincts).

Also I know its weird to write another comment right after I did another one but WATCH la la land. Probably one of my favorite films of all time and is deserving of any praise from anyone. If you like musicals and bitter sweet romances with an incredible message that in no way you can predict with one of the saddest and most perfect endings I have seen since... utena. So you know this is the real deal. 10/10

Malna I found a movie I think is the same movie. Is this it?
https://youtu.be/4VMLzNjdUA0

The Ghostbusters thread got me thinking, as I'm watching Bride of the Monster just now, about how much of a goddammed full-on genius Ed Wood was. Now, Ed Wood was not a polymath, certainly; he wasn't good at everything or even nearly just a lot of things. But, he had a genius. Look at his 50s films (as director or writer), particularly, and there are pleas for tolerance and acceptance of transvestites and transsexuals, open criticism of the military-industrial empire-minded American ethos, crooked police, women in actual agendas and agency...

Awkward editing, low budget fx, and unhelpful background music can't take away how brazen and smart that is, especially deep in blacklisting and government investigation 1950s Hollywood.

SaigonAlice wrote:

Word of advice, don't refer to Transgender people as "Transvestites" or "Transexuals." Those are generally considered as very harmful slurs.

I'm going to take some time for this, because I think it needs addressing.

Ed Wood was a transvestite. He was a man who felt most comfortable in what are traditionally considered women's clothing. His first major production was a pseudo-documentary on transvestism and on mtf transitioning of transsexuals.

As someone who is intersex who wears a lot of "women's" clothes, and has many close acquaintances who are transsexual or transvestites, I'm not going to let anyone take the blanket term, transgender, solely for their own. Period.

Transgender is an umbrella term, under which the categories intersex, transsexual, and transvestite fall. Should they be grouped together? Maybe, maybe not. Clinically, they are increasingly being distanced, and that makes sense. Sociologically... who knows. However, transsexuals, being people whose gender does not conform to societal expectations of their sexual characteristics, do not have sole claim to transgender, nor can they erase other transgender categories for their own gain.

So, when I'm discussing a transvestite filmmaker and novelist, whose work often dealt openly with transvestites and transsexuals, I'm going to do him the respect of referring to those as they are and not erase his identity or existence, and the existence and identities of his subjects.