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June 2013

18 posts

OH MY GOODNESS! I THOUGHT SUPER MAN WAS AWFUL TOO. It had a messy plot, i saw what they were trying to do but they did not deliver. Some of the most important moments were lost that could of made the movie great due to the lack of development and dialogue on key issues.

EXACTLY. I liked you pregnancy in reverse simile quite a lot. I think part of the tragedy of the film was that it had some of the potential for a good film or three, but opted for explosions and shitty dialogue instead.

Jun 17, 20130 notes

“We are apt to be angry with this cruel hardness in our life–this unflinching regularity in the smaller wheels and meaner mechanisms of the human machine, which knows no stoppage or cessation, though the mainspring be for ever broken, and hands pointing to purposeless figures upon a shattered dial.
Who has not felt, in the first madness of sorrow, an unreasonable rage against the mute propriety of chairs and tables, the stiff squareness of Turkey carpets, the unbending obstinacy of the outward apparatus of existence? We want to root up gigantic trees in a primeval forest, and to tear their huge branches assunder in our convulsive grasp; and the utmost that we can do for the relief of out passion is to knock over an easy chair, or smash a few shillings’-worth of Mr. Copeland’s manufacture.” —

Lady Audley’s Secret, by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Copeland & Garett made porcelain trifles.

Jun 17, 20131 note

#theturtlemoves #lady audley's secret #quotes

Jun 17, 20131,514 notes

#appropriation #I think I sometimes have trouble with this too #because religious dress teachnically was appropriation #for me #like is that how it works? #maybe I should worry about this somewhere besides the tags

Jun 17, 201364,073 notes

#joan crawford #possessed #gifset #feminism #film

Jun 17, 201314 notes

#ahaha #nia king #qtpoc #qtpoc comics #comic #social media

Jun 17, 20138,027 notes

#can art #mydogsighs #oh yay appropriation

Jun 17, 20133 notes

#alison bechdel #appreciation life #how fucking pretty can you be #stop it #ily

Jun 17, 201354,495 notes

#when people say punk is dead they're ignoring the parts of the world that still need it #not that we don't #Indonesian punks #Indonesia #punk

MAN OF STEEL WAS AWFUL.

I saw it at 12:01 am Friday and wasn’t going to say anything, but then tumblr liked it and it got good reviews and I’m uncertain we watched the same film.

There were some very cliched pithy moments and a lot of explosions that someone handed to a two year old and said “make a collage” - this passes for plot logistics.
The technology - I’m sorry what? You did how now?
Lois Lane was a frigging case study in how to write a “sassy” female character and then make her utterly useless, fall through the air as many times as possible, and lose all personality partway through. She could not even put a key in a hole without a doctor’s help.
The one female soldier’s only line was “he’s hot.” The one female who manages to be in a corporate office building then gets trapped in a cement structure to be rescued by male colleagues.
Oh look a stereotyped Jewish guy we assume is a scientist. Were you even trying? Is that the same guy from Captain America?
Oh look ~~New York~~ Metropolis is being completely destroyed in a way that is a lot like Avengers except less interesting. Funny how Clark Kent can destroy an entire city plus Smallville and still have a moral crisis over breaking a guy’s neck…but does it anyway. They kind of missed the point of Superman’s personality.
It was too big. They tried to cram five plot lines and an hour of climaxes into one film, and I got bored and nauseous, my adrenals overloaded, and I almost walked out.
There were some well-executed derivative gimmicks, and a lot of “ooh shiny”. I would love to work with their visual effects team. If that’s what passes for a “good” movie…go fuck yourself.