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.
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.
Look, you smug little green bastard, you can’t be all “Do or do not; there is no try” out of one side of your mouth and “The greatest teacher failure is” out of the other. To learn from failure, you have to be willing to put yourself out there and try even with no guarantee of success. It pisses me off because so many of my own teachers loaded me up with similar crappy mixed messages. If you’re disappointed with how your student turned out, you smarmy old geezer, take a look in the nearest ghost mirror.
