Everyone deserves a Lea, what a sweetheart.
AMAZING! So well played and written. So many emotions and definitely makes you think.
Very upset to hear it's cancelled. The absurdity of it all is actually really refreshing. Hopefully someone is smart enough to pick this one up.
I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. Lots of fun and, as always with superhero movies, not to be taken too seriously.
A very comedic Disney film, Baymax is the hero we all didn't know we needed. This film is so heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time.
So sad and beautiful. I loved the ending, very realistic.
This is an incredible show, not at all what I was expecting when I started watching it, I’d hoped for light entertainment and got a super fun but touching experience from watching it, and I learned a lot in the process, so not bad.
I cried a little on the train while watching the fourth episode, so the guy next to me probably thought I was crazy, but who cares? It was worth it.
If this story was about a girl and a boy, nobody would care about it. Even though the movie is quite long, you don’t really get to understand, ehst attracts them to each other, which is the ultimate downfall. Some good acting though and the movie manages to transport an interesting mood throughout.
I stumbled across this little gem, probably because Netflix has bought the international streaming rights and were promoting it's release (29 June 2018), but I was able to watch the first season as broadcast on UK's Channel 4. What fascinated me was the way the film makers moved between the real and virtual worlds. Both the leads (Tallulah Haddon, Simona Brown) have such striking facial features that even in the live action they seemed to have a flawless animated quality. Dark themes akin to Dark Mirror. Excellent acting. Good writing (although there were some flawed logic jumps in episodes 5 and 6). This is quite an unusual thriller and I was giving each episode solid 7s (good) out of 10. If this series is renewed (no news yet but the finale set us up for another season) I will definite be rewatching it, which bumps up my rating to an 8 (great) for the series so far. (AN ASIDE - Beyond the presence of a reoccurring song in the sound track, I can't quite figure what the title has to do with the story). CAUTION: a fair amount of nudity. [SciFi Mystery/Triller]
I enjoy bullshit. This is good bullshit. You should be watching.
Meghan is a sweet girl. And Marlon, gush... hawt. pseudo-teenage mode ON
Like, seriously. Oh, man. Marlon and Meghan. I can't... afheirbgrhvbreuwbvuohbvrohuiebvro
Quality entertainment.
I like the whole concept of SKAM; the original was way better than this. I'm liking this Marlon more though. meow
Honestly, I'm not really sure what the hype was about. The movie dragged, the prolonged sex scenes were unnecessary, and like in many other LGBT/queer films the story ends in calamity. It romanticizes the all-too-common gay/lesbian tragedy theme we see over and over in queer films without so much as a strong representation of the gay community. Also, I'm not a fan of the bi-erasure and misogyny portrayed in this film. The only reason my scoring isn't any lower is because Seydoux and Exarchopoulos' acting were exceptional.
god it's probably just me but i really thought that sierra and veronica were gonna completely forget about jamey and get together by the end of the movie
Michael Langdon's entrance was phenomenal! Can't wait to learn more of him. Also, really digging this new Sarah Paulson character as a vilain instead of her usual crying and screaming. Let's see what's next episode is like... can't wait. Also, also. I am so giddy to see the opening credits with elements from Coven and Murder House, always loved how different it is every season, i hope this season lived up to what those 2 season gave!
Almost glad they cancelled this. While the premise sounded intriguing and fresh to begin with it turned into the same mess as pretty much any CW show these days and that stupid will they/won't they nonsense got on my nerves quickly. Lucy Hale will find something new soon anyway, good luck girl!
This movie is still fun, all these years later. Watched it with my kids last night and they laughed at a lot of it. Even my littlest twins (3 yrs old) found some funny parts. A little crude at some moments and the premise is a little more disturbing in this day & age than it seemed at the time, but it's a good reminder of how fun Goldie Hawn & Kurt Russell were to watch in their prime and the chemistry they had together.
My sis and I used to watch this movie all the time when we were kids. It'd been enough years now since I'd seen it that I'd forgotten a lot of it but still remembered some of the classic moments. Definitely an icky premise (as a kid you don't notice these things!) but if you can manage to set that aside and suspend a certain amount of belief, it still holds up pretty well.
Pretty solid film overall. The acting was really good, especially from Chloe Grace Moretz, John Gallagher, and Sasha Lane. Like others have said, I do wish they dove a little bit deeper. At some points it feels like they're only scratching the surface. I think the movie definitely could've benefited from being longer. Interesting perspective and glimpse into the crazy world that is conversion therapy centers.
Nicole really annoys me but the concept is fun!
Ed: So ... it's an anti-banana ray.
Kelly: That's really interesting.
Ed: We need no longer fear the banana.
Kelly: Does it work on all fruit?
Ed: What about salads?
I just can't stand with the comments calling her a slut, etc. I think she's free to live her sexuality and have sex with whoever she wants. She's not officially dating the weird guy. So, stop judging her.
Giving Beck a voice was great. It removed the creepy idolization stain on her from seeing her only from Joe's perspective. It gives her agency that is starting to be needed to take this show to a new level.
The first episode was so much better than I expected it to be. Definitely a must watch for fans of The Fosters and anyone who might be interested. You might not know enough about the individual characters if you did not watch The Fosters, but you should be able to start this series without too much hassle! Incredible! Cured my illness! Cleared my skin! Queens of sticking it to the (literal) man!
[9.2/10] Avatar: The Last Airbender has been scary before. There’s moments where our heroes are under threat or some strange new monster or power is after them, or some freaky thing called “the face dealer” is in play. But never before has the show been as downright creepy as it is here. “The Puppetmaster” plays like an episode of Tales from the Crypt, with a mystery, a friend turned tormentor, and a dark secret.
The very idea of bloodbenders, of someone who can control other life forms, be they animals or human beings, is intriguing and haunting in turn. The episode builds up to that nicely, with Hama initially taking water from plants, and seeming slightly unnerving in her presence before the big reveal. One of the things I like about Avatar is that it takes the natural nerd-y questions about these elemental powers and takes them to their logical, sometimes disturbing extremes, whether that’s Toph being able to bend metal or Hama being able to manipulate human beings filled with fluid.
But what I like about Hama is that the show doesn’t make her just an evil witch. For one thing, she is a link to Katara and Sokka’s history and tradition. She is, for all we know, the last water-bender from the southern water tribe. There is a sense of communion with her and Katara, a connection between them that Katara cannot forge with anyone else given the circumstances and what the Fire Nation did to their people. That immediately makes her reveals, her attacks, and her methods more damning and haunting – because she is, at least nominally, on the side of the good guys.
And yet what I love about Hama is that she’s basically Magneto from X-men (right down to breaking out of prison built to evade her powers using substance contained in a human being). She does terrible things and she has a binary, retributivist view of right and wrong that perpetuates the cycle of violence. Still, you absolutely understand who she is and what she does and why she is that way given what she’s been through and what’s been done to her. She’s seen the worst of the fire nation’s trespasses against her people; she’s seen the way they wiped out her brothers and sisters, and she has no forgiveness in her heart for them or anyone who bears their brand. She is a victim rounding up the descendants of her tormentors. That is horrifying, but complex.
It’s also unnerving because she tries, and arguably succeeds, in passing that legacy down to Katara. Hama is worried about the practices of her people dying out, and so works to teach bloodbending to Katara, to force her to use the techniques. The very sight of her controlling Aang and Sokka and using their bodies to attack Katara is creepy enough, and the same goes for the way she contorts Katara’s arm. But the real tragedy is that she forces Katara to use the bloodbending to stop her, passing this terrible mantle down to her in the process.
AtLA can be scary, but it can also be much deeper than that. “Puppetmaster” succeeds at telling a horror story as good as any that could be whispered around the sort of campfire at the beginning of the episode, but it grounds it in complicated notions of vengeance, legacy, and agency that take a horrifying thing and given it an unavoidable human dimension.
Twilight becomes both much more funny and much more bearable when you are familiar with the genre and take it as the film equivalent of a shōjo manga or otome game, including all the same tropes. Under these criteria, it's actually a pretty fun movie.
Hot Take: If you can tolerate James Bond movies but this one somehow makes you feel weird, perhaps it's because you're more used to or more comfortable with male fantasies of sexual desirability. Either way, I used to hate Twilight because I felt superior to all the stupid girls who liked it. Now I just accept it for what it is: wish-fulfilment. Sure, Edward would be a creepy stalker and borderline abusive if not for story mechanics that tell us he can be trusted because he's a good guy, but that's the beauty of fiction: in real life there's no such thing as "good guys" and "bad guys," but in stories, there is. Similarly, James Bond would be a serial sexual harasser if not for the fact that all the women he encounters are super into him, but again, that's the beauty of fiction: they always are, and we know it's okay for him to be a dick sometimes because he is, you guessed it, a good guy. And yes, there's some weird puritan ideology here about the dangers of male sexuality, but that's still a hundred times better than for instance the subtext of Bram Stoker's Dracula (which, funnily enough, is about the dangers of female sexuality).
So, once more for the people in the back: Twilight is silly, implausible, and often ridiculous. And that's absolutely okay.
That being said, things I like about this film: the great way in which it captures teenage awkwardness (which I find hilarious and at this point have to believe is intentional); the fact that Bella just accepts he's a vampire because it's the most logical conclusion, and there's no drawn out "I can't believe this guy stopped a car with his bare hands, I'm going to tell everyone about it - oh no, no one believes me!"; the quotability of so much of the dialogue (coming close to the SW prequel trilogy in that department); the absolute dead-pan way in which everyone delivers their lines ("It's like diamonds. You're beautiful." - "Beautiful. This is the skin of a killer, Bella."); The way literally no one looks like they want to be there; the fact that Bella does not seem to be able to fully close her mouth; the implication that vegetarians are "never fully satisfied"; Seemingly endless scenes of piggyback rides (now I finally know why they never actually show how The Flash carries people - it just looks so fucking weird); the shot of Bella's father rolling his friend in the wheelchair right in front of the stairs leading up to his house, followed by a cut so that it's never explained how he actually got inside; the fact that Bella just seems absolutely chill with everything ("I don't sleep." - "Never?" - "No, never." - "Okay.").
Things I don't like about this film: how everyone takes it so goddamned seriously. Oh, and that there is absolutely no instance of "What are you?" - "A waitress."
Despite its evident flaws, I'll always have a soft spot for The Vampire Diaries: it was the first Tv series I started following, the first I fell in love with which also led to my first binge and of course my initiation to "shipping my OTPs" ... it's a lot to live up to I guess!! So I don't really care about the inconsistencies, the obvious hypocrisy, or how annoying some characters were, taking turns throughout the seasons. That's all true but I decided I want to remember how much I got swept up by the various storylines they told in eight years, how much I cried during emotional episodes ( guys when Liz Forbes died I thought I'd never stop, I can't listen to that song without weeping ), how insanely hot and definitely talented the cast was and how taken I've been from the beginning to the end no matter what ... this show deserves all my praise!!
Is this gay?
I'm only watching if it's gay
"I am so over Sookie and her precious fairy vagina and her unbelievably stupid name. FUCK SOOKIE!"
-Pam de Beaufort,
expressing the feelings of every single True Blood viewer EVER.
It amuses me no end that when searching for this to check in, the other shows that come up are various Christian Veggy Tales ROFL
Anyone else kinda wants Adam and Eric to get together? Adam is super mean but I can't help it
