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idk it feels like a movie that wants to draw attention to actors working rather than one that wants to distract you from them. too many movies these days just feel like I'm looking at video game backdrops and occasionally i'll notice "oh there's an actor there. okay"
November 23, 2025 at 7:28 AM
idk it feels like a movie that wants to draw attention to actors working rather than one that wants to distract you from them. too many movies these days just feel like I'm looking at video game backdrops and occasionally i'll notice "oh there's an actor there. okay"
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Also, look how the camera just... lingers and lets an actor just work? The lighting, the sound design, the music... it all feels deliberate to support tim curry's performance
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksk7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksk7...
Legend (7/11) Movie CLIP - Darkness Seduces Lili (1985) HD
YouTube video by Movieclips
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Also, look how the camera just... lingers and lets an actor just work? The lighting, the sound design, the music... it all feels deliberate to support tim curry's performance
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksk7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksk7...
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I also watched Legend (1985) and, while Legend is NOT a good movie, i was really struck by how every scene just felt so... human? It felt like scenes were designed to support the story and characters, rather then the other way round. It's like, oh wow, it reminds you there's an ART to making film
November 23, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I also watched Legend (1985) and, while Legend is NOT a good movie, i was really struck by how every scene just felt so... human? It felt like scenes were designed to support the story and characters, rather then the other way round. It's like, oh wow, it reminds you there's an ART to making film
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There was ONE scene where the movie very briefly came to life, when Frankenstein was inspecting potential bodies at the gallows. not sure if it was something about grisly content of the scene, the up-close way it was filmed, or just a scene-stealing cameo by burn gorman, but this bit was INTERESTING
November 23, 2025 at 7:14 AM
There was ONE scene where the movie very briefly came to life, when Frankenstein was inspecting potential bodies at the gallows. not sure if it was something about grisly content of the scene, the up-close way it was filmed, or just a scene-stealing cameo by burn gorman, but this bit was INTERESTING
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Like so many movies nowadays, it just felt like an endless vista of scenic perfection where everything is equally stunning and there's no place for the eye to settle, like a kind of inverted wabi-sabi. the human actors just fade into the ether
November 23, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Like so many movies nowadays, it just felt like an endless vista of scenic perfection where everything is equally stunning and there's no place for the eye to settle, like a kind of inverted wabi-sabi. the human actors just fade into the ether
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I'm a curmudgeon for matte paintings and physical sets, but I don't think it was the fact that it was CGI that made it feel off. I think it was just... i don't know, it felt like they designed an environment to look cool to the audience without any thought to its thematic significance to the film?
November 23, 2025 at 7:07 AM
I'm a curmudgeon for matte paintings and physical sets, but I don't think it was the fact that it was CGI that made it feel off. I think it was just... i don't know, it felt like they designed an environment to look cool to the audience without any thought to its thematic significance to the film?
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It really struck me when they showed Frankenstein's castle with that big weird pit. All I could think was "oh i guess that's supposed to look cool," but it just felt like a weird empty nothing floating in the ether. it felt like AI art, a form without purpose.
November 23, 2025 at 7:05 AM
It really struck me when they showed Frankenstein's castle with that big weird pit. All I could think was "oh i guess that's supposed to look cool," but it just felt like a weird empty nothing floating in the ether. it felt like AI art, a form without purpose.
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I don't know how to explain it, but there's something profoundly boring about Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein. I'm not even talking about the dumbing down of the novel's moral complexities or anything, I just mean something about the way it looks
November 23, 2025 at 7:03 AM
I don't know how to explain it, but there's something profoundly boring about Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein. I'm not even talking about the dumbing down of the novel's moral complexities or anything, I just mean something about the way it looks
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Wanna know how I got these scars, Charlie Brown?
What’s The Most You Ever Lost In A Coin Toss, Charlie Brown?
You Will Live To See Man-made Horrors Beyond Your Comprehension, Charlie Brown
November 23, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Wanna know how I got these scars, Charlie Brown?
WE CUT ALL HIS EYES WE DID SQUEEZED THE LIDS AND DOWN THE GROG INTO HOLE HE SKIP WTH COW-EYED SMILE TO THE BLISSFUL INTO CRAGGY DRESS AND WE WILL PRAISE HIM WE WILL PRAISE HIM OFF HIS PINS CLEAR HIM OF ALL SINS OH MY WE SANG WITH STRENGTH TO CARRY ON ENCOURAGED HIM TO SING ALONG WE SANG OF ALL THE
November 23, 2025 at 6:39 AM
WE CUT ALL HIS EYES WE DID SQUEEZED THE LIDS AND DOWN THE GROG INTO HOLE HE SKIP WTH COW-EYED SMILE TO THE BLISSFUL INTO CRAGGY DRESS AND WE WILL PRAISE HIM WE WILL PRAISE HIM OFF HIS PINS CLEAR HIM OF ALL SINS OH MY WE SANG WITH STRENGTH TO CARRY ON ENCOURAGED HIM TO SING ALONG WE SANG OF ALL THE
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“There are some stories where there are no winners—only losers. This is one of those stories.”
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Epstein’s journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
“There are some stories where there are no winners—only losers. This is one of those stories.”
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Reposted by Samuel Pflugrath
📌 Hello, I'm Kitan! I'm a beautiful and bubbly queer nonbinary Japanese person from Japan! ٩( ᐛ )و
ALL OF THE SOCIAL LINKS:
💗 linktr.ee/mishimakitan
Website:
💗 mishimakitan.com
Please check out the thread below for some of my notable credits! 😊
ALL OF THE SOCIAL LINKS:
💗 linktr.ee/mishimakitan
Website:
💗 mishimakitan.com
Please check out the thread below for some of my notable credits! 😊
November 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
📌 Hello, I'm Kitan! I'm a beautiful and bubbly queer nonbinary Japanese person from Japan! ٩( ᐛ )و
ALL OF THE SOCIAL LINKS:
💗 linktr.ee/mishimakitan
Website:
💗 mishimakitan.com
Please check out the thread below for some of my notable credits! 😊
ALL OF THE SOCIAL LINKS:
💗 linktr.ee/mishimakitan
Website:
💗 mishimakitan.com
Please check out the thread below for some of my notable credits! 😊
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// Fist of the North Star / Hokuto no Ken: Seikimatsu Kyuseisyu Densetsu | 北斗の拳 世紀末救世主伝説
// PlayStation
// OP
🎵 Ai o Torimodose!! | 愛をとりもどせ!!
🎤 CRYSTAL KING | クリスタルキング
Reposting full version of this spectacular PSX rendition of the spectaculor OP!
#YouはShock
// PlayStation
// OP
🎵 Ai o Torimodose!! | 愛をとりもどせ!!
🎤 CRYSTAL KING | クリスタルキング
Reposting full version of this spectacular PSX rendition of the spectaculor OP!
#YouはShock
November 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
// Fist of the North Star / Hokuto no Ken: Seikimatsu Kyuseisyu Densetsu | 北斗の拳 世紀末救世主伝説
// PlayStation
// OP
🎵 Ai o Torimodose!! | 愛をとりもどせ!!
🎤 CRYSTAL KING | クリスタルキング
Reposting full version of this spectacular PSX rendition of the spectaculor OP!
#YouはShock
// PlayStation
// OP
🎵 Ai o Torimodose!! | 愛をとりもどせ!!
🎤 CRYSTAL KING | クリスタルキング
Reposting full version of this spectacular PSX rendition of the spectaculor OP!
#YouはShock
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Amazing incorrect lyrics on the karaoke machine yesterday
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Amazing incorrect lyrics on the karaoke machine yesterday
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it won’t, because they are deeply dedicated to destroying this country on their own terms, but it would be nice if the world historic crashout Trump is about to have when his tariffs get struck down would negatively polarize a couple of the justices against him
“To Leonard Leo, Koch, and all of the Countries and Slimeballs that have ripped off the United States of America for years through the use of their own Tariffs, we don't have a Court System that's going to let you destroy our Country any longer.”
November 23, 2025 at 2:14 AM
it won’t, because they are deeply dedicated to destroying this country on their own terms, but it would be nice if the world historic crashout Trump is about to have when his tariffs get struck down would negatively polarize a couple of the justices against him
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Thinking about Pieter Bruegel’s “rebel angel” painting
November 23, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Thinking about Pieter Bruegel’s “rebel angel” painting
Reposted by Samuel Pflugrath
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Reposted by Samuel Pflugrath
Reposted by Samuel Pflugrath
somebody on here suggested awhile back that a pretty compelling 2028 Democrat campaign promise would be "on day one I will deploy a WPA-scale army of forensic accountants across every square inch of the federal government" and I think about that every day
It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
November 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
somebody on here suggested awhile back that a pretty compelling 2028 Democrat campaign promise would be "on day one I will deploy a WPA-scale army of forensic accountants across every square inch of the federal government" and I think about that every day
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The Polish word for "hangover" is "kac," a shortened, polonized version of the German word for "hangover": "katzenjammer," literally meaning "cat wailing."
So that's fun!
So that's fun!
November 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
The Polish word for "hangover" is "kac," a shortened, polonized version of the German word for "hangover": "katzenjammer," literally meaning "cat wailing."
So that's fun!
So that's fun!
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Some of the alt-health grifter TERFs I used to track, like Mary Lou Singleton & Isabella Malbin, used to have ties to the Free Birth Society but even they're denouncing it now while still pushing their own version of "natural/wild birth". Lierre Keith also did an interview on FBS podcast.
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Some of the alt-health grifter TERFs I used to track, like Mary Lou Singleton & Isabella Malbin, used to have ties to the Free Birth Society but even they're denouncing it now while still pushing their own version of "natural/wild birth". Lierre Keith also did an interview on FBS podcast.
Reposted by Samuel Pflugrath
every liberal who helped justify this by talking about what a threat maduro was or presenting trump's attacks as anything other than murder and piracy because of fears of 'cartels' or who backed the CIA attempts to topple the maduro government before has blood on their hands going into this.
US operations against Venezuela to begin within days.
Covert ops the first move.
Covert ops the first move.
www.reuters.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:33 PM
every liberal who helped justify this by talking about what a threat maduro was or presenting trump's attacks as anything other than murder and piracy because of fears of 'cartels' or who backed the CIA attempts to topple the maduro government before has blood on their hands going into this.
Reposted by Samuel Pflugrath
Reposted by Samuel Pflugrath
GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository
www.animal-photo-references.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.