I know that realistically you can only fit so many movies into a list of approximately 100, but I cannot take that “How many of tumblr’s favorite movies have you seen?” list that’s been going around seriously because there are some truly egregious omissions.
Some of it is very clearly recency bias, which makes me wonder if the op truly wasn’t on here in 2013 or so, but you’re telling me you made a list of “tumblr’s favorite movies” that doesn’t include Pacific Rim or Mad Max: Fury Road? Because, like, I was there, Gandalf.
I’m a ridiculous human and genuinely couldn’t sleep until I tried my hand at a better, more balanced list – though of course, I have my own biases when it comes to what corners of this website I’ve lurked in over the years. For what it’s worth, I did consult the last several Years In Review, while also drawing on the fact that I’ve been here for over a decade. But if there’s anything that truly doesn’t feel like it should have made the cut, blame my mutuals for putting it on my dash all the time.
(And apologies, but I couldn’t seem to find Goncharov among the website’s listings)
I know the focus of the movie was roz and brightbill mother/son bond but I wish fink got a “platonic love confession” scene as well. He’s clearly pining for it too. I watched it in French so I don’t know the exact wording, but there’s this scene where she ask him “how do you know when you love someone?” and he answer with “maybe you should talk with this person” and his body language makes me think that part of him wish she meant him. And then at the end, when he practically beg her to stay, he say “and what if I have something really important to tell you?” I kinda wish she would understand and say “I love you too” but maybe it would come off as cheap.
I don’t mean it necessarily as shipping but fink clearly love and want to be loved by roz.
I recently watched The Wild Robot in the cinema, and it was a good I’d recomend. But today I got to thinking about a possible conflict in the Rozzum robots we see in the film.
Rozzum units are programed to complete their assigned task with maximum efficiency. They also have an inhibator that stops them from deliberatly harming a living thing. How is this an issue? In an ideal situation, it isn’t. But what about a less than ideal situation?
Say a Rozzum ends up in an abusive situation. A house with a bratty bullting kid who’s always harressing them, making things needlessly hard. The Rozzum asks the parents to stop the child, but they either can’t or just won’t, even when it happens right in front of them.
Oh well, guess the Rozzum will just have to suck it up and keep working regardless. But then the child’s actions result in them only completing taskssub-par, or worse, not at all. That’s unacceptable, a Rozzum always completes it’s task.
The family starts to complain, and the Rozzum has a problem. In order for their tasks to be completed to standard, the child needs to stop bullying the Rozzum, but the child won’t listen to the Rozzum and their parents aren’t helpful. So the Rozzum will have to make the child stop themself.
But the only way to do that would be to harm the child, and a Rozzum’s programing forbids harming a living thing. But if they don’t harm the child, it’s tasks aren’t completed satisfactory, if at all.
Do you see the problem here? It’s own programming is at war with itself, and when that happens, what will the Rozzum do? Will it do no harm and allow their tasks to be hindered? Will it harm in self defense to be more efficiant? Either way, it’s failing. And what might happen when the programing fails?
One of the things I loved about The Wild Robot from a writing/world-building perspectivewas that it was clearly set in a post-apocalyptic world, but the details were very vague, and you don’t even know until about an hour in:
“Beautiful shot,” you think, and then it hits you that the whales are swimming over the Golden Gate Bridge.
Abandoned, crumbling satellites and a sunken city. And then when we do see the human city, they freak out at the sight of geese:
Animal-derived plague? Global warming? We don’t know. We only know that something has happened. But like the general theme, whatever bad has occurred, the natural world is thriving. An unexpected positive from a history of tragedy.
Why is it that my Star Wars and SWTOR post never seem to get attention unless I tag people in them? Even then, it’s like my posts just don’t get exist.
You know the Grimm version of Snow White makes more sense than most versions if only because in that version Snow White was like 7 years old.
Like imagine you find a 7 year old in the woods and she’s like my mom is gonna kill me because I’m prettier than her and she’s not kidding. You know this queen is that sort of person. So you and your roommates adopt the kid and tell her don’t talk to strangers. And she keeps talking to strangers and getting poison combs stuck in her hair and whatnot.
Like yeah that’s kinda stupid but also she’s seven. She likes apples.
Also imagine it from the hunter’s perspective. The queen tells you this bitch is prettier than me I need you to take her out in the woods and kill her. And then you see who you’re supposed to kill and it’s a 2nd grader. Like how are you supposed to react to that sort of situation? Kill a human child? No. Because you’re not a brainless evil minion you’re just some guy dealing with a cartoonishly evil monarch. Of course you let her go.
Bad look for the Prince of course. Even if she did age while she was in that glass case. He saw a dead woman and just decided to keep her. And once she stopped being dead he was like we’re married now
He did cause the evil queen to dance to death in red hot shoes though. That was kinda cool.
With the acknowledgement that I’m grasping at straws, is it ever directly confirmed that the Prince wasn’t also 7?
See, I think that still works.
You are the guardsman assigned to protect the eight-year-old Prince. You are currently in the middle of the forest because he absolutely had his heart set on “going hunting”, and the royal second-grader should definitely not be traipsing around the woods on his own. You let him go a little on ahead and he comes running back talking about how there’s a dead girl in the clearing and there’s no-one else around and he wants to take her home because she’s really pretty, Hans, and she’s all alone!
You let him drag you to said clearing and okay, that is one angelic-looking dead child alright, and on the one hand the quality of her clothes and the craftsmanship on the coffin (who builds a see-through coffin?) speak to potential Consequences if you simply carry her off, but also for the amount of vines that have grown on the coffin she looks extraordinarily un-decayed, so you should probably get the court alchemist’s opinion on that, and there’s no way he’s going to come all the way out here in his embroidered velvet curly-shoes. And also this kid is technically assigned by God as your natural superior, or something.
So fine. You hoist the coffin onto your shoulder (it’s not like the Prince can do it. He’s eight.) and head back toward the castle, Prince chattering blithely all the way. And then you turn your ankle on a rock and suddenly there’s a thump and a cough and a lot of shouting from inside the coffin and you have now become a key player in a tense political incident with the next kingdom over.
You should probably ask for a raise.
I’m sorry, where did we get the idea that she was 7 in the original Brothers Grimm version? And is it ever confirmed by official Disney sources that she was 14 in their version?
“As written, the ray-shield scene was longer than what ended up in the movie, and I was sorry to learn that one bit of humor was cut. Originally, the trio discuss how they might escape, and Palpatine has a suggestion: surrender and work out a negotiation. He gives his whole pitch to the Jedi and, once he’s finished his speech, Anakin and Obi-Wan turn and look at each other as if nothing had been said.” (via john knoll, visual effects supervisor, creating star wars)
we were ROBBED i tell you. robbed. i want the significant eye contact and ignoring darth sidious to his face.
I’ve made this poll before, but it got almost no attention, so I’m going to try again.
One complaint I’ve seen about Star Wars media made after the original trilogy is that it made The Force too powerful. In the films it’s just an energy field that connects all things, and all we see it do is move objects, mind trick people, show the future, and fill people with lightening.
In the expanded media however it can be used to pull down Star Destroyers, look into the past, cheat death by moving a persons soul into another body, and alter materials or living things. Some Sith can even destroy whole planets.
So I thought I should try to get as many peoples opinon as I could.
Was The Force made too powerful or ruined is expanded media?
I’ve made this poll before, but it got almost no attention, so I’m going to try again.
One complaint I’ve seen about Star Wars media made after the original trilogy is that it made The Force too powerful. In the films it’s just an energy field that connects all things, and all we see it do is move objects, mind trick people, show the future, and fill people with lightening.
In the expanded media however it can be used to pull down Star Destroyers, look into the past, cheat death by moving a persons soul into another body, and alter materials or living things. Some Sith can even destroy whole planets.
So I thought I should try to get as many peoples opinon as I could.
Was The Force made too powerful or ruined is expanded media?
Out of 310 votes, 69% voted no, but it seems that some people have a more complicated view than just yes or no. I know that one person said that Anakin as The Chosen One was supposed to be a living terror and that EU powers made him look weak.
Another pointed out how Darth Vader in A New Hope said that The Death Star’s planet destroying abilites were insignificant next to the power of The Force, and a few people mentioned how The Force itself isn’t too powerful, it’s the people who use that are.
If anyone has futher thoughts, I’d like to hear them. But please don’t put your thoughts as hashtags. It doesn’t help anyone to see a load of ’#I reckon this thing shouldn’t have been done #because it goes against this thing here’ and it just completly misses the point of hashtags.
