aphanon_meme ([personal profile] aphanon_meme) wrote2017-12-31 06:04 pm
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part 367 bears and wolves oh my

YOU DID IT, I'M SO PROUD OF YOU. Well, it's been a year. I hope it was a good one for you--and that 2018 is even better! And maybe we'll finally get that fansub of even one of the musicals... just maybe.

Enjoy part 367!

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itt: movies people dislike that you like

(Anonymous) 2018-04-06 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
for me, it's the 2002 Count of Monte Cristo movie!

Re: itt: movies people dislike that you like

(Anonymous) 2018-04-06 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
also I wish this scene was in the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcl8gnmzcjc

if there's a door to be slammed, I'll slam it; a scene to be made, I'll make it; a mistress's face to be slapped, I'll slap it

Re: itt: movies people dislike that you like

(Anonymous) 2018-04-06 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
The Hobbit movies. Well, the first one.

Re: itt: movies people dislike that you like

(Anonymous) 2018-04-07 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
i liked the first two. which was surprising to me, because i didn't like the hobbit book to begin with oops. that might be why others didn't like the movies, if they loved the book.

but yeah, they really dropped the ball with the third one and anyone could see that. i was probably imagining it but i felt like the entire theater got up with this big wave of awkward disappointment.

Re: itt: movies people dislike that you like

(Anonymous) 2018-04-06 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Titus (the film with Anthony Hopkins, based on arguably Shakespeare's worst play)

I can see why people are like wtf with this, it's very over the top and frequently unintentionally (...?) hilarious, but I kind of love it. I am probably not supposed to view it as a comedy, but just thinking "sticks for hands" makes me already smile.

Think of it as Shakespeare's Tarantino phase.

Re: itt: movies people dislike that you like

(Anonymous) 2018-04-06 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I feel like I've heard of that but never seen it. I'll have to check it out, maybe I'll like it too!

minor tealdeer as anon has Feelings about this

(Anonymous) 2018-04-07 10:22 am (UTC)(link)
!!!

I. Had no idea people despised this film...? My English professor showed it to the class since it was the Shakespeare play he chose as the required reading for that particular semester. (He did not want to teach Romeo & Juliet, because he thought it was over-taught, and "that's not the only flipping thing he wrote, jfc") I recall he said he wanted us to decide for ourselves if Titus Andronicus really was Shakespeare's most gratuitously violent work, and while I did find it quite violent and gory, I. Don't think it was gratuitously violent?? (I could go on for ages about how the violence contributed to the play's major themes and the general feeling of the atmosphere of the work...anon is a huge f*cking nerd fjdkljaf;) And it was definitely funny, but in a dark/black, gallows humour sort of way?? Definitely not for everyone, but fits perfectly considering the sorts of characters in it, as well as the...rather intense revenge plot.

Lavinia sure showed those f*ckers, eh?! She had no hands and they still died like the wretches they were, take that! anon is petty and vindictive and Lavinia deserved BetterTM fjkdlajf;

OTL

Re: minor tealdeer as anon has Feelings about this

(Anonymous) 2018-04-07 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Er... "despised" is rather strong, I don't think anyone feels that intensely about it. I'd say people just don't like it because it's frequently riding on the borderline of campy or pretentious, not because of objections to violence (which, honestly, is unexceptional and largely off-screen, aside from the Evil Dead level absurdity of STICKS FOR HANDS).

To me, the entire thing plays as dark comedy and I like to think the campiness and over-the-top theatricality was intentional. But even with all the silly melodrama, the very ending scene with the music and the baby and walking into the horizon genuinely touched me.
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