Whatever. Whenever.

them: you don’t watch game of thrones?? really? how come?

me: 

@scarcity-of-cats @annajanes

It’s called Unconsenting Media 

Oh my god, this is going on my list along with doesthedogdie.com

Holy shit that’s useful

I probably won’t find myself using this but for my followers: if you can’t handle this shit, USE THIS. If you think a movie or tv show may be hard to watch, do your homework.

1 - the very reason why I don’t watch GoT

2 - This and rotten apples are some of the best sites ever

3 - Does the dog die have a TON of subcategories, such as jumpscares, strobe effects, does a kid die, does an LGBT person dies and many, many others (they actually link to unconsenting media under “someone is sexually assaulted”). Please save it to tour favorites is really freaking usefull

Useful info. But… (and I sort of doubt it) is there a database like this for car and/or motorcycle accidents? I end up having to give up on lots of movies and shows because there’s often too much for me to handle still. Don’t really like playing the guessing game of “how traumatized is this gonna make me”

Does the Dog Die has car crashes, and if someone gets hit by a car

Seriously, they have a ton of things, and if they don’t, you can reach out to them and they’ll add a category

Hey y’all I know I haven’t posted in literal ages but here’s a bunch of sites who do this way better than I do!

I have epilepsy (among other things) and use these sites. When friends haven’t seen a show/movie and can’t inform me if it’s safe, I browse these sites. Saved me from having seizures.

as someone who never even realized there were websites with trigger warnings, this is absolutely incredible information

this is absolutely so helpful for a lot of people!! reblog to get this out more.

Once again, I hope SAG strikes too

We could lose acting, filmmaking, television as we know it.

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For when you just need to get rid of as many arrows as possible...

This demonstrates that the theoretical limits of archery are so ridiculous that it’s hard to come up with something that’s so completely off-the-wall ridiculous that it’s truly impossible while still looking like archery.

So what I'm taking away from this is that everything in Robin Hood: Men in Tights is completely realistic.

TIL To create an accurate depiction of a black hole in the movie Interstellar, Kip Thorne, a theoretical physicist, wrote pages of theoretical equations to help the VFX team. The resulting visual effects provided Thorne with new insights, resulting in the publication of three scientific papers.

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because this and also because Jurassic Park–related advances in paleontology, et cetera, anyone who devalues the arts in favor of the sciences demonstrably has the wrong end of the stick

Science and Arts are not opposites, they are not rivals, they are the neglected siblings of the egotistical and over-indulged Sports and his best friend Money.

We, as scientist and artists, must unite. Science is an art, and art is a science. We hold hands and we make the world a much better place!

When Interstellar came out, every single undergrad at my university who was doing work for a LIGO project, half a dozen assorted physics majors, and half a dozen engineers all went out to watch it with the explicit intent to talk about the physics of it. It was at an IMAX and we were basically the only people there, and we asked the few who were if they’d be okay hearing us talk during the movie. (They said yes, I think they were interested in what we’d say.)

We also happened to love the movie along the way, but we got deep into the physics of it. Like, deep deep. General relativity shit, the math of causality violation, so much deep niche physics. And then one of the engineers casually commented, “Hmm. None of those are the big problem though.”

All us general relativity people: “Oh?”

Engineer: “Yeah. The real problem was that they needed the really big rocket to get off of earth but only those tiny itty bitty landers to clear a gravitational field so intense it causes massive time dilation.”

All us general relativity people: suddenly and intensely coming to terms with how obvious that was and how badly we missed it

Engineer: “Physicists.” (affectionately derogatory)

great lines to use for picking up men at clubs

bonus:

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY CELEBRATION WEEK day 2: favourite female-led film/show ↳ Charlie’s Angels (2000) & Charlie’s Angels Full Throttle (2003)

Kristen Stewart as Sabina Wilson in Charlie’s Angels (2019) dir. Elizabeth Banks

The funniest sword fight scene in the history of cinema. 

BEST. SWORD FIGHT. EVER.

Let’s be honest, this is how I would sword fight.

@warmageragnar Lewis Vs Otranto, a realistic version.

#what on earth is this?

The Court Jester starring Danny Kaye, Basil Rathbone, and the amazing Glynis Johns, and Angela Lansbury and it is all around a fun time.

All kidding aside, watch Basil Rathbone’s foot work. He knows fencing, and sets up the form even though he’s still playing up the stage blows for Danny Kaye to flail at for comedic effect.

Okay, but I need to talk about this because it’s even funnier if you know the context... Basil Rathbone was one of the greatest swordsmen in Hollywood history.  Which is why he almost never won any of his onscreen fights–he was good enough that he knew how to effectively make the other guy look even better.  That’s why the swordfight in The Adventures of Robin Hood looks so awesome even though Errol Flynn is nowhere near Rathbone’s level.

But this fight, right here?  Was one of the only fights where he needed a stunt double.  Because while he was able to keep Danny Kaye from being seriously injured, Rathbone himself nearly got skewered a few times by Kaye’s flailing around.  So in a bizarre way, this is probably the closest to an even match Rathbone had in his career… just not for the reasons you’d expect.

The origin of a saying I’ve seen quoted in various works of fiction - “The best swordsman does not fear the second best, he fears the worst since there’s no telling what that idiot is going to do.”

I feel like nobody talks about this but remember Jay’s “job interview” in the original Men in Black movie? Sure, they play it for comedy, he’s a smartass cop surrounded by all these elite military graduates. But he was also literally the only one in the room smart enough to bring the table over so he had something to write on. And he offers it to the other guys too!

And in the shooting test, on the surface it just seems like a goofy joke when he shoots the little girl cutout in the head, but look at the way he responded to the situation.

The test starts immediately without any warning, we can see that everyone is caught off guard. The other candidates immediately open fire on what they perceive to be threats, but Jay takes a second to assess the situation. He sees he isn’t in any immediate danger, and in a handful of seconds he’s able to scope out several minor details about the targets and hit one with a near-perfect headshot. Jay showed he was an innovative, quick thinker with situational awareness, attention to detail and high-level marksmanship skills, and they never say it outright but I think that’s probably why Zed picked him. (Zed never actually says anything negative about Jay’s performance, just that he has a problem with authority.)

This is highly underrated writing but, then again, this is also the movie where Tommy Lee Jones says “A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago, everybody knew Earth was the centre of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat and 15 minutes ago, you knew humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.”

This movie is so underrated.

Plus, the stuff he says about the alien “targets?” You can tell that he isn’t the sort to attack anyone without a DAMN good reason. Which is how we know that the movie is fiction, because an actual cop shoots first and asks questions later.

When Jay is introduced he is running down a fleeing suspect. He chases the guy so long and so far that the MIB are like “Whoa, that’s double-tough”, and I think he threatens to shoot him a couple times, but he never actually shoots him.

In other words, Jay did NOT shoot the fleeing suspect in the back, which 99.99 percent of his coworkers would have done.

I just watched the beginning to check. Jay doesn’t even unholster his gun until the alien pulls a weapon. He doesn’t escalate until the suspect does.

the only thing he shoots is the glass out of a door to continue the pursuit.

not to mention he had the observation skills to identify an alien gun, after seeing it once, for about 2 seconds in the dark, before he even knew aliens were real. It’s easy to miss because Jay spends most of the movie seeming out of his depth with all this alien stuff being so new to him, but he’s actually excellent at his job

Titane (2021)

directed by Julia Ducournau

So now that halloween is over i’d like everyone to watch a trailer for one of the worst thanksgiving movies ever made

What do you mean, it's the best

Here’s the thing about Jareth from Labyrinth right?

He’s made up.

That’s not necessarily the same thing as not REAL. But he, just like all her friends who show up in her room before her adventure as toys and figurines, exist in relation to her, in response to what she wanted and needed. She told the story and there he was, there he always had been. But she’s a teenage girl who doesn’t know what she wants yet, and Jareth kind of pays the price.

“but the king of the goblins had fallen in love with the girl, and had given her certain powers.” He’s an archetypal oxymoron. He’s both the dastardly baby stealing villain and the royal love interest trying to relieve the heroine’s suffering, Cinderella style. He’s fucked either way by being both. She doesn’t know if SHE wants to be the villain or the heroine until he shows up and then she decides on the heroine, so he has to sneer and menace and challenge but it’s too late for him!! it’s too late, The King Of The Goblins Had Fallen In Love With the Girl, he’s Cinderella’s prince too and he has to try, he gives her a poofy dress and takes her to fucking goblin prom, sweeps her around the room like a music box with perfect posture and room for Jesus.

But it doesn’t work buddy, it can’t work. You’re just a story for a teen girl to grow up in, and as the villain you have to be defeated. He’s so complex because his tropes contradict themselves, and he doesn’t understand why he has to lose when he was only doing the job he was given. In his last scene he is pale as death with shadows under his eyes, backing away and begging for his happy ending with nonsense mishmash promises that belong to both halves of him.

“I am exhausted from living up to your expectations of me.” I’m sure you are, Jareth. No wonder.

im totally fucking serious i want the next sci-fi movie blockbuster to be about exorcising the ghosts of malevolent dinosaurs

i just lost a follower well guess whos not getting tickets to the opening night of velocigeist: revenge of the cretaceous 

What about Tyrannosaurus Rexorcist?

And there’s that classic scene that’s in every horror movie when the character goes to the bathroom and opens the mirror

and everything seems fine

but then she

closes it

Has Syfy not already done this one? How not?

They were left behind on the island. They weren’t prepared for…

THE VELOCIRAPTURE

Better start to prey.

I feel like, while not the same as the ideas discussed here, this movie might still be something that people in this thread might want to know about.

Me before seeing this post: ehh I’m not that interested in movies