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littledeerxing9
just like the rest of the world i watched squid game like a that friday it kind of blew up??? i just kept getting tiktoks related to the first game and i was like what the fuck?! then i ended up watching the series in it's entirety 5 different times, every time with someone new i was introducing it to. i loved the story, the set pieces, the heartbreak, none of the characters are without flaws but like everyone's said it 's what makes them so likeable. im just gonna stop here because im sure i dont have a single original thought in my head about such a worldwide phenomenon like squid game but unpopular opinion, i dont want a season two.
maid, 2021
talk about heart fucking break!! god, i dont think ive ever spent the entirety of a show frustrated and angry consistently. i didnt know anything about this show going in and it truly surprised me how much i came out of it loving it and appreciating Margaret Qualley, who i had only seen prior in the us live action Death Note (2017). i remember having tweeted that i wanted alex and nate to fuck only for that tweet to age so bad... yeah like what the fuck goes on but damn, is it good drama. it's basically about a mother, Alex, trying to leave her abusive boyfriend with her daugther and all the very realistic and fucked up way she has to accomplish this. we have like a ton of little wins for her and then suddenly a very big loss and it fucking annoyed me to no end but it's good. you feel for alex, her daughter and later on, her mother as well (who ends up being a victim as well but in a situation that feels helpless)
you s3, 2021
i've always loved you as a show. the idea of taking romantic movie tropes, cranking them to the extreme, and showing just how creepy it is is genius. it's sexy, but, we didn't need this season. i would've loved if this season was what it was kind of marketed, murderous spouses and them dealing with covering up murders but also raising a child and the hardships of being a good parent. like babes that sounds like a good fic idea and a good idea that would lean itself well to this shows previously set perimeters. but it's definitely not that and it sucks. nothing wrong with Victoria Pedretti, my wife, her portrayal of crazy and sexy milf is so *chef kiss* but damn Love does get annoying. don't even get me started on current resident tumblr sexy man Theo. fuck theo and his whiny bitch ass, he should've died dude and i know that's harsh but we literally don't gain anything from him surviving that fall other than Joe finding out Love cheated too and he gets a big fucking head about it. left the season annoyed at the cliff hanger and the way everything perfectly wrapped up, i really thought Love was going to be the one to get Joe caught or something. but will i be watching season 4? yes! Penn is hot and im a simple man.
fiddler on the roof, 1964/2021
i have a confession to make, before we went to go see the show, i didn't know shit about the musical besides the song 'if i was a rich man' and that's just because we learned it for orchestra in like eight grade. i didn't expect the musical to just capture me and hold me in a chokehold the way it did. damn! first of all, my mom is the cutest, during the wedding scene, she leans over and whispers 'my first jewish wedding!' and i mean, is she wrong? i adore the songs, 'tradition' being the opening number... the pussy part!!! a lot of the songs are accompanied by the most elaborate dance numbers and the actors we saw were going hard as hell, i think i sat there for the entirety of 'to life' with my mouth open. perchik is a baddie!! i love that man, would trust him with my drink kinda man. and the actor playing Motel... he was hot as fuck!! phew when they came out to the lobby after the show to greet everyone, i shook his hand but behind my mask, i was sweatingggggg!!!! i love this, i loved this experience, i love motel.
➣MOVIES
eternals, 2021
this is spoiler free...i went into this with no expectations and i believe that's the best way to go into this movie. despite what cis white men say about this movie, it's good. it's all the drama and similarish formats to what a slice of life fic would be. it's a large multi-character study of a millions of years old family and their drama and their bonds. a lot of the context is implied through touches and actions and not shown and that makes it feel a lot more intimate than other marvel movies, we see their bonds through their actions and the way they treat each other versus an exposition dumb that marvel movies like to show us or rush us through a romance. i love the time skips, the score, the way everything is shot and yes, i love slow movies. some of the marvel humor doesn't fit in here but it's not a big turn off. i did spend the first thirty minutes of the movies trying to catch up and understand but that's exactly what it's suppose to do, you start in the middle of the story, there's already years and years of history between these characters and the flashback serve as a way to get us caught up. i think i liked that a ton because i use this exact format for most of my recent fics. starting with the characters i didn't care for too much, but sorry, ikaris and sprite dont do shit for me lol. i wanted to like sprite so much but, i couldn't. now, just by the gif choice alone, me and many others on tumblr have chosen druig as the newest tumblr sexy man and damn he's so. i remember mid way through he shows up in a leather jacket and i sat up, literally sat up in my seat, leaned over to my friend kinda mildly shocked: "why was that kinda attractive?" and she rolled her eyes at me and said that was typical of me because hes "my type" and she's right lol queen!! i love the relationships between all the eternals and the pseudo mother ajax. i especially love the deeply devoted friendship of gilgamesh and thena and the underlying tone of mental illness and acceptance. and yes, my beautiful makkari and druig!!!!!! i think out of the new phase of marvel media coming out shang-chi is still number one, followed by eternals and then wandavision. you can tell this was my favorite thing the last two months because of how much i wrote for this alone. watch eternals now please!!
scream, 1996/2021, the 25th anniversary
so this is more about my experience of going to see this movie in the theater for the first time in imax and wow wowow oowowowowowoow. i adore this movie, and going the theater to see this was a bunch of other people who love it just as much as me was delightful. they showed a ton of bonus features before the movie and some people had dressed up as characters, it was overall just a good time. i was sitting next to my aunt's best friend and i felt bad because i kept just reciting lines along with the movie which usually isn't an issue because i watch it alone but she said it was funny so i guess it's okay.
luca, 2021
shape of water, 2017
it's been my mission since i've seen this movie to recommend this movie. im going to be honest, the only thing i knew about this going in was "she fucks a fish" and i was like oh a monsterfucker movie but lord, it's so much more. this is a romance that i can get behind. there's so many themes of otherness, loneliness, found family and etc. eliza and her relationship when the amphibian man is so wholesome and kind and its built and mutual respect and comfort. my favorite line is when she's trying to get giles to break him out and she says, "When he looks at me, the way he looks at me... He does not know, what I lack... Or - how - I am incomplete. He sees me, for what I - am, as I am. He's happy - to see me. Every time. Every day." i love the movie asmr of this given that our protag is mute, there's a lot of her scenes that are just the surrounding sounds and the way she hears them and it's so nice. there's a lot of theories about the ending especially with the way giles phrases things... i just wanna believe eliza got to live a wonderful life with her amphibian man and his cock.
➣MUSIC
dimension: dilemma - enhypen
let's start this with i brought nine copies. yeah. im down bad. i know. but since they had said we were done with the border duo albums, i didn't know what to expect for the dark moon storyline or for the sound of their newer songs and that's not to say i was going to think this album was bad because enhypen are my boys, this is my current main group. but this album exceeds all my expectations. firstly, congrats to my boys for 900k preorders and overall 1 million sales in total!! secondly, hybe seems to like the alternative sounds because we got another hybe group doing a sorta mix-mash of rock with pop that's not entirely pop-punk. i loved tamed dashed but some of the b-sides are the true gems on this album. it was a bit obvious this was targeted for september but because they got covid, it is just a tad bit odd for this to drop in october. i did purchase tickets to en-connect: companion both days, and funnily enough, i forgot the first day was going to simultaneously happen while i was at work and i just literally streamed from work and i almost broke down when they all cried. polaroid love is such a sweet song oh my god and yes, im going to include it in my ranking. just because something is ranked low doesn't mean i hate it, i just didn't listen to it as much as others. there's also three different ranks lmao
based off the preview alone:
1. go big or go home 2. blockbuster 3. tamed-dashed 4. upper side dreamin 5. attention please 6. interlude: question 7. intro: white out 8. just a little bit
upon first listen:
1. go big or go home 2. attention pls 3. blockbuster 4. upper side dreamin 5. just a little bit 6. tamed-dashed 7. intro 8. interlude
and now after like a month i think this is definite:
1. blockbuster 2. upper side dreamin 3. go big or go home 4. attention pls 5. tamed-dashed 6. polaroid love 7. just a little bit 8. intro 9.interlude
savage - aespa
finally!!! more than one (1) song. i think prism said it best but like everything down to concept that i want in a girl group, it's aespa. this is like everything i thought they would've been since black mamba. sm has gotten way too good at have their standard sm sound/vocals mixed with a groups individual sound. like listening to this album im like oh yeah that's definitely an aespa song, ya know? i truly dont know what else to add besides the styling is godsent for this era also all my coworkers texting me on thanksgiving because of aespa at the macy's parade. im glad that's what im know for at work now i guess lol
my definitive rank:
1. aenergy 2. yeppi yeppi 3. lucid dream 4. savage 5. ill make you cry 6. iconic
