T. Strange's Blog, page 121

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"What bothers me more is the critical attitude that reads a film like Dark Knight Rises as nuanced or..."

“What bothers me more is the critical attitude that reads a film like Dark Knight Rises as nuanced or complex due to its moral ambiguity… rather than, you know, a film that contradicts itself on literally every conceivable thematic level, to the point where the film is a giant grimdark mess of growling and posturing, sound and fury saying nothing. The flip side of that, of course, is that a film like Pacific Rim is treated as somehow naive or insignificant because it dares, gasp!, to have not just a unified message, but a quite positive, affirmative message, spoken not in the language of Lifetime movies or this year’s crop of Oscar-bait, but in the language of Metal, the language of force and bombast and people in giant fucking robots punching Godzilla in the face.”

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Sam Keeper on Pacific Rim (x)

Yes.

(via cherno-alphas)

I know I’m late to the party here. I’d always hesitated to reblog this because it felt a bit too much like patting ourselves on the back, but it’s just such a well-written piece and it has, I think, lots of salient insights into the way we intellectually digest all the movies we watch, not just Pacific Rim.

(via travisbeacham)

Oh my god, I’ve been having this exact discussion all week (I think. I’m pretty sleepy, so I might have misinterpreted it).

Anyway. It drives me crazy when people are like, ‘Wow, that was so deep…’ And then I watch and I’m like, no, it just didn’t make sense because the plot was shoddily constructed and the ending was poorly executed, but you don’t want to admit that you didn’t get it, so you take the stance of intellectual superiority and claim that it was ‘deep’.

There are deep movies, absolutely. Film is no more or less an artistic medium than any other.

But there are also movies that just fucking didn’t make sense, no matter what the filmmaker was going for.

Let me repeat: not understanding a movie doesn’t always mean a movie was intellectual and deserves deep pondering. Sometimes it just really, truly didn’t make sense.

catbountry:Imagine Soldier getting this on a card for Demo for...

catbountry:

Imagine Soldier getting this on a card for Demo for an intervention. Imagine it.

alternativepokemonart:In case any of you were thinking about...

alternativepokemonart:

In case any of you were thinking about being sad today..

Finding Nemo is secretly depressing

dunesen:

'Nemo' means 'no one.' Finding Nemo is the story about a father having to come to terms with letting his son (standing in for his entire family) go. Deep down he knows ‘Nemo’ doesn’t exist, but he fights this knowledge by trying to find and save him.

Oh, it gets better. (Or maybe worse?)

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sambamkablaam:fuckyeahdragons:The Second Mango, by Shira...

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fuckyeahdragons:

The Second Mango, by Shira Glassman
It’s hard to find a girlfriend when you don’t know any other lesbians, so the young, nerdy Queen Shulamit hires the legendary warrior Rivka to take her around the kingdom on the back of her dragon in search of other girls like her. But the simple quest quickly turns into a rescue mission when they discover a temple full of women turned to stone by an evil sorcerer.

$5.99 eBook download on the publisher’s website Prizm Books, and on Amazon Kindle. Print release coming in mid-September.

Poster artwork above credit Erika Hammerschmidt and Jane Dominguez.

Also, this dragon massively needs some chin-scritches. WHAT A CUTIE

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This is my biography.

jayrockin:Snowflakes are actually the perfect metaphor for people. Each one IS unique, but we all...

jayrockin:

Snowflakes are actually the perfect metaphor for people. Each one IS unique, but we all have the same structure and are pretty similar in spite of our differences. And really, with as many around as there is, aint no one gonna notice your differences unless they care enough to look closely.

People are also similar to snowflakes in that it is difficult to drive when there are too many of them piled up on the road.

derpycats:This is Nonna… a.k.a. Lucipurr. She got herself...

derpycats:

This is Nonna… a.k.a. Lucipurr. She got herself stuck in the trash can.

Wife: Phantom has been doing a sub-par job of sweeping.

Wife: Phantom has been doing a sub-par job of sweeping.



Me: It's pretty sad if we have to rely on a cat to do our housework.



Wife: He's a very clean cat!



(He usually sweeps all the spilled kitty litter into a pile)