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Moana 2 teaser trailer out today
Why isn't the pig growing at all, yet it looks like Moana now has a sibling?
#i am still very scared#moana 2#but at least it looks pretty#also it looks like she got a new sibling
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Furiosa thoughts
About 48 hours after watching, I think my take on Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is coalescing into: I enjoyed it as a Mad Max movie but found it disappointing as a Fury Road prequel.
Any Mad Max movie made after Fury Road was always going to suffer the fate of being compared to Fury Road, which is the best action movie ever made. So like, compared to any other action movie you can think of, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (we'll call it FMMS going forward) is very very good! It just isn't Fury Road.
The rest is under the cut for spoilers:
The action sequences were compelling. (I was aware I was hunched forward in my seat in tension/anticipation almost the entire time.) Some of them were even brilliant. That long sequence where the Octoboss and the Mortiflyers (yes those are their names) are attacking the War Rig with all kinds of airborne contraptions? Phenomenal. I was like yes okay now we are in a Mad Max movie! Other than that one sequence, though, in which we see Furiosa and Praetorian Jack begin to trust each other, I thought they rarely achieved the kind of wordless advancement of character relationships through action beats that is the lifeblood of Fury Road. So the action was good, but it was just normal-good, not Fury Road transcendent.
I did miss John Seale's cinematography. While I thought the action choreography was great, the shot selection was just not as dynamic and interesting as in Fury Road. I also really did not vibe with so much of the musical themes being recycled from Fury Road. The Fury Road score is SO memorable and the music is such an integral part of the momentum and feeling of every scene in the movie; I can play that score and see every beat of the action unfolding in my brain now. I wanted new score that felt like it was a part of this new action that we were seeing.
I loved all the new worldbuilding details and finally getting to see inside Gastown and the Bullet Farm. Those locations and their unique features were utilized really well for the action that took place in them. Loved the new details we got about the Citadel. The grappling hooks just dipping down to yoink people's vehicles during battle? Fantastic. The hidden Citadel ledge with the little pool of water?? That was such a fanfic-ready location. Pretty sure I already wrote at least one fic set there back in like 2016.
The Green Place! Very different from what I imagined but so much worldbuilding in just a few shots.
In general I thought the new cast rose to the challenge. Alyla Browne who played little kid Furiosa I thought was phenomenal actually. That's a tough role, both emotionally and physically, for a child actor and she slayed it. Casting Indigenous model and actress Charlee Fraser to play Furiosa's mother certainly made the Stolen Generation parallels more obvious. I'll have a lot more to say about Dementus down below, but Chris Hemsworth brought a great combo of bonkers and menacing.
I never doubted that Anya Taylor-Joy could bring the emotional intensity needed to the role--she can do crazy eyes like nobody's business, and with the growl she put in her voice she really did sound like Charlize Theron a bit. I found her physicality convincing for a young Furiosa. But she is not Charlize, through no fault of her own. Charlize is tall and she has broad shoulders and she just takes up so much space when moving and fighting as Furiosa and I think it was always going to be hard to replicate that. As long as they didn't try too hard to bridge the gap between the characters I was fine with it. But that one scene at the end where she's bringing the Wives to the Rig I was very viscerally like that is NOT our Furiosa. (I almost wish they would've used Charlize's stunt double for that scene the way they popped Jacob Tomuri into Max's place.) They could have simply left a time gap--based on the "15 years" she says to Dementus and the 7,000+ days we hear about in Fury Road there should be at least a 4-year gap between the film timelines, although in terms of bridging the look of the two actors it feels like it should be more like 10 years.
If FMMS had been a self-contained movie about a character named Furiosa in the Mad Max universe, I think I would have found it very satisfying. But as a prequel to Fury Road there were a bunch of ways I thought it was lacking on a story level.
I think it's pretty clear that this is not the backstory, or at least not the complete backstory, that Charlize Theron was imagining while playing Furiosa. Which...there's nothing objectively wrong with that; word of God and what actors think about their characters doesn't supersede what's on film for determining what is canon. However, Fury Road positions Joe as Furiosa's main antagonist, and while we don't get the full story behind the incandescent rage she directs at him, we know that rage is there and is a big part of her motivation. In interviews at the time, Charlize talked about the idea that Furiosa had been stolen to be a Wife but then was discovered to be infertile and discarded, how she survived by hiding in the Citadel and eventually rose to a position of power, how she saw her actions not as saving the Wives but as stealing them, and that her motivation at least starts out as more about hurting Joe than helping these women.
We get only the tiniest suggestion of Furiosa's backstory in Fury Road ("I was taken as a child, stolen") and the rest we piece together by implication. She is a healthy full-life woman working for a man who keeps healthy full-life women as sex slaves, hoping one of them will produce a viable male heir for him. She is effectively a general in his army, projecting his power on the wasteland, a position no other woman seems to occupy. She tells Max she is seeking "redemption." Redemption for what? She doesn't say. But "whatever she has done to win a position of power within this misogynist death cult" seems like a pretty obvious answer.
And that's interesting! That's an interesting backstory that engages with some of the core themes and moral questions of the Mad Max universe. These movies deal a lot with the tension between self-preservation and human connection. Do you screw someone else over to protect yourself? Even if it means putting them in the terrible position that you yourself have clawed your way out of? Even if it means enforcing your own oppressor's power over them? Or do you take the risk of helping people and caring enough to connect with them, even though this carries an emotional and physical risk?
FMMS doesn't really engage with Furiosa's relationship to Joe like, at all. It's not like Joe comes off looking like a good guy. He's just hardly in the movie. I don't know if this would have been different if Hugh Keays-Byrne were still alive. I don't know if there was pressure from the studio to cast an A-list male lead actor alongside Anya Taylor-Joy (who's a hot commodity now but wasn't what I would call an A-lister when she was originally cast). I don't know if, once Chris Hemsworth was cast, that affected how central his character's role became, since he is certainly the biggest name attached to the film. I would have actually been fine with Chris Hemsworth or another actor of his ilk playing a younger Joe, and us getting to see some of the charisma that attracted followers to him.
But the end result is that we have Dementus, who is a perfectly fine Mad Max villain, and quite entertaining at times! But not the most compelling antagonist you could give Furiosa.
The four Mad Max movies that feature Max go through an interesting evolution. In the first two movies, the villains are people "outside" society--criminals and roving gangs--and the people Max is defending are "civilization." So we have Mad Max where Max is a very fucked-up cop, and Road Warrior where Max is the prototypical western gunslinger, riding in to town to protect the settlement from an outside threat, but ultimately unable to accept any of the comforts of civilization for himself.
Then in Thunderdome and Fury Road, the dynamic switches. Now the antagonists are warlords and dictators. They are civilization. And the people Max ends up helping are trying to escape them.
To me, Dementus feels much more like the earlier kind of Mad Max villain. If there's another Mad Max movie I can most compare FMMS to, it's the first one. Dementus is Furiosa's Toecutter. (Kills her family, gives her her signature disabling injury, movie ends with her seeking revenge on him but it doesn't feel heroic or triumphant.) The whole end of FMMS when Furiosa is implacably hunting down Dementus? Extremely Mad Max 1.
But violent revenge holds a different symbolic place in Furiosa's story than it does in Max's. The end of Mad Max is a tragedy because Max tells us it is. He explicitly states, early in the movie, that he needs to stop being a cop or he'll become no different than the violent criminals he's pursuing. So he leaves his job and goes on an extended weird vacation with his wife and child, trying to get away from the violence of a collapsing society. But that violence finds him anyway, and by the end of the movie, Max has become the exact thing he said he didn't want to be. It's a tragedy not because the people Max kills in revenge for killing his family don't deserve it, but because seeking violent sadistic revenge is damaging to Max. That is not what he needs in order to heal from the loss of his wife and child. What he needs is to take the risk of human connection again. This is what he starts groping toward in the following two movies and fully realizes in Fury Road.
But Furiosa doesn't have the same arc. Her story in Fury Road is about how a few people struggling against their oppressor can be the catalyst that brings down a whole regime. Furiosa getting to rip Joe's face off is fucking satisfying, and it's supposed to be! So it's a bit weird, then, to spend an entire movie giving her a backstory that not only is not about Joe at all, but implies that seeking and getting revenge against Dementus for killing her mother and Jack is what made her into the person we see in Fury Road.
Aside from questions of revenge, what I thought Furiosa's goal was going to be is set up in the beginning of the movie. "No matter what happens, find your way home." Very clear objective there. And then we see her try to get home like, 1.5 times. I thought we were well set up to follow the tried and true film story format of "simple goal, big obstacles, high stakes." I wanted to see her trying over and over again to get home, and being thwarted in different ways every time. I wanted to see grief and guilt over her mother's death turn her mother's last command into a mission for which she would sacrifice anything (and anyone) else. I wanted to see her justify working for Joe and accumulating power in the violent world of the Citadel as what she has to do in order to get home. I wanted to see "Have you done this before?" "Many times." But we didn't really get that either.
Ultimately, I think the least frustrating way to think about the film--which the film itself encourages--is as one of many possible Wasteland legends about a character called Furiosa. Maybe it happened this way. Maybe it didn't. Maybe this is the Furiosa we see in Fury Road. Maybe it isn't. It all depends on how much you believe of the History Man's tales.
#same#furiosa#famms#mad max#fury road#mmfr#its good but not brainrot good#and ok as a movie but severely lacking as a prequel#7/10
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What Bridgerton edits out 👗
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“If you replace Dementus’ gang with muppets it’s still the exact same movie”
#furiosa#famme#dementus#omg#true#i still would like to see fury road entirely with muppets except for max#muppets
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Not really Furiosa spoilers (I did see the movie I did have thoughts) But I distinctly remember a scene in which supplies, including a whole cartful of cabbages were flying/wasted everywhere and I thought
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UPON CLOSER INSPECTION
IT IS HIS MIDDLE AND RING FINGER HE DOESN’T USE
Kinda blurry but
HE USES HIS THUMB TO PULL THE DRESS UP AND POINTER FINGER TO MOVE THE HAIR
COLIN DID IN FACT SPIDER-MAN HER
THE RING. THE RIIIIIIIIIING.
( @dollypopup you inspired me to investigate…)
#this fandom is unhinged#but there are important scientific discussions being had#bridgerton#bridgerton s3#polin#penelope featherington#colin bridgerton
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☝️☝️
#bridgerton#luke newton#nicola coughlan#he looks so pleased with himself#gif#they were just down and dirty but colin bridgerton is a gentleman
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UGH Thinking about when all the admiring girls calling Colin Brave for the Hot Air Balloon incident and where he finds such bravery and he is going into his suave retelling until he sees Penelope across the room--and everything fades away and his facade slips because the real reason he did it was because he only thought of saving the woman he loves in that moment. But he then tries to go back to his bravado retelling and say that "courage is within us all." but then falters once again when he says that if "we are honest with ourselves and with our feelings, it is possible to do anything." He's once again looking at Pen--because the honest truth is that his feelings for Pen was what made him the hero. And yet at the same time he feels the hypocrisy of that moment because he still can't be honest with himself enough to find the courage to pursue her.
And to add to the layers, Penelope is also listening to his words and interpreting it as a sign that she needs to be honest about her own feelings for Colin, and that they will never be returned. She needs to take action and secure her own future. So she turns in that moment and resolves to go to Debling. UGH I AM NOT WELL.
#bridgerton#bridgerton spoilers#bridgerton season 3#polin#penelope featherington#colin bridgerton#text post
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Okay so we jest about a kiss being all it took for Colin to absolutely plummet into his feelings, (as we should it was so very entertaining), but theres also something so sweet and tender and heartbreaking about it.
Colin has been with many women during his travels, and this ill fitting attempt at preforming what he thinks people want from him and what will carve him a place in society has led to all of them being casual. He dose exactly what boys his age talk about, what his older brothers did and told him to do, what he thought would put things in perspective and make them make sense. The casual distance of it all with his caviller attitude was, as Violet said, armour. Armour that is certainly saver than true genuine feelings, especially after the hurt of season one and his feelings of a complete lack of purpose in season two, but not what he actually wants or desires.
Colin is sensitive, he's loving, he's romantic. We can see from his journals how poetically he writes of the woman he was with even in a casual, non romantic setting, and it is a steep difference to how his 'friends' speak of the woman they were with. He questions how something can be so intimate and yet so distant, so lonely, because that's not what he wants. He wants a genuine, bone deep connection. He wants to know the person, he wants to love them and be loved by them, he wants to care, he wants it to be a mutual act of emotion and passion and feeling and tenderness and love.
And he felt more of that from one kiss with Penelope than any woman he slept with in months. And that's only like half of what he realised in that moment. No shit the boy was down bad waking up in sweat and sprawled across his blankets. Who wouldn't be?
#bridgerton#colin bridgerton#bridgerton spoilers#season 3 has it's flaws#but ppl slandering Colin cuz they have reading comprehension problems I will not stand for it#I think we can all universally agree tho that nobody cares about the mondrich storyline
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Bridgerton S3 spoilers!!
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Not Lord Debling spending a whole dance telling Penelope "I might never love you cuz I'll be away all the time so this works out for us" but then finding out Penelope could have feelings for her childhood friend whom she has known longer than she's known him is now a problem. Like SIR. You can't say "Romance is not an important/necessary factor in a marriage for me" and then turn around and say "But also you cannot have romantic feelings for the rest of your life while we're married, I'm possessive" like. pick a lane.
Why are you offended that she has feelings? She told you she likes romance. You guys just spent your courtship saying you'd be fine with never feeling that way with one another cuz it's practical and convenient for both of your lifestyles. You even had a whole convo where maybe you could have feelings for each other later but that's not like, even a factor you really want or care about going INTO a marriage I'm just so confused.
Like, I get that they needed a reason to not have them get together but you can't build up over several episodes that love/feelings was not important to him and then make it his deal breaker!! It would make sense if he was offended if he actually did have affection for her in that way and is jealous but he was like nah we compatible cuz we both have hobbies to fill our time, separately.
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Idk if I should be asking this and don't know if you aware of this for the past few days, have you seen the trailer of Transformers One yet?
Of course! It looks fun, I look forward to seeing what they'll do with it. The only nitpick I have maybe is that I'm not super crazy about Keegan voicing Bee. I think it sounds too old for the character--but in this universe it seems that Bee is about the same age as Optimus, Elita, and Megatron. Which is wild to me. The character designs, animation, and everything looks pretty neat. I dunno, I don't really have a lot to say lol.
I know the director has stated that this is a completely separate thing from any of the other movies, etc. (though I'm sure a certain producer will insist otherwise but he's delusional, and everyone just wants to be free of bayverse) so we'll just have to wait and see what it brings.
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Someone pointed out the kid and Mackenzie both have bent ears
lol I'm sorry I'm making a bit of fun. (relax, I drew bluekenzie art, of course I'm on his side) Yes, while that is a point in Mackenzie's favor, I don't think it's very concrete in saying that's definitely Mackenzie's kid, because let's not forget all of puppy's features including the bent ear, are found in Bluey's family.
Stripe has a bent ear. All of puppy's colors including the "lavender" color everyone is so keen to call Jean Luc's color I personally don't buy because that is Bluey's shade of dark spots and can also be found in Stripe and Nana/Bluey's patrenal side of the family. All of Puppy's color shades favor the blue heelers.
Do I still think it's Mackenzie's--well optimistically yes. Not just cuz puppy does look like it can be a fluffy border heeler mix, but narratively as well as character wise I think Bluey and Mackenzie are better and more realistically suited (and suspiciously they played Barky Boats right after airing Surprise! But I can take that with a grain of salt)
But for real for real, I think Puppy's features are way too ambiguous and generically blue heeler to draw any actual conclusions unless we get confirmation from the creators themselves--which I highly doubt we'll ever get anthing. And that's fine, cuz you can have your own headcanons about it however you want and that's great.
#bluey#text post#ask#i have never had any fans be as aggressive in my DMs lately as the bluey fans about shipping#im so used to ppl just letting you ship whatever the hell you want lmao#ship and let ship you young fans need to learn to chill#relax guys i'm still a bluekenzie shipper#but also I don't care what anyone else ships it's all in good fun#surprise
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#watcher#looks like they walked it back#from my earlier breakdown of their earnings and expenses I have sympathy for their position#but the execution was indeed poor and abrupt#so I'm glad they're compromising and hope the best for them
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Doodle cause after the episode Surprise, where I personally see the Bluey's kiddo as hers and Mackenzie's, I just thought "Winton is a master"
(No worries, parents covered their kids' ears at the wedding)
#im not saying it's canon but#winton has been surprisingly integral in altering the course of bluey's life#winton the prophet#bluey#art by op#mackenzie#bluekenzie#bluey heeler#mackenzie border collie
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Was reading comments on instagram. And the stark difference between the comments under Steven’s and Shane and Ryan’s posts is crazy. The way people are putting ALL the blame on Steven and babying Ryan and Shane is mindblowing. They might not be the CEOs but they are cofounders of the company. Ain’t no way they didn’t have ANY say in the matter and it’s 100% Steven’s decision.
“Is Steven holding you guys hostage?” “We will support you if you(Ryan) and Shane go off and do something of your own” “this isn’t you” etc
At the end of the day Shane and Ryan are strangers to us, what we see and know about them is what they want us to see. Get a grip and realise that, thanks.
#lol yeah#watcher#please stop putting your faves on pedestals guys#you don't really know them#just cuz one has the ceo label does not mean the others didn't also agree to it cuz they are collectively in it together#i see ppl do this every time and then get disappointed like they didn't do this to themselves#parasocial relationships
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