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No. 511229
What have you watched? What are you looking forward to?
>What's a movie that left an emotional impact on you?>What is the worst movie you've ever seen? Have you ever walked out of the movie theater?>Who's an actor you enjoy watching?>How do you choose which movie you're going to watch next?>Name a movie you think everyone should watch at least once in their lives.prev:
>>440730 No. 511235
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I was babysitting my nieces and put this on solely because of how absurd the title was. It was actually pretty cute and entertaining, though.
No. 511317
Just finished watching the 2019 Batman vs. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. It's actually good. The animation during the fights is so cool. The art style and character designs took some time to get used to though, and the continuity of either franchise is a bit confusing because there's mention of one of Batman's sons dying before but it's not clear who, while the Turtles are a mix of the 2003 and 2012 ones, while Shredder is the classic 80s one but he's actually serious and evil and doesn't have any mutant henchmen other than Dr. Dexter Stinkman as a fly, no krang working with him or anything, but he has the mutagen. The story was good though and both characters worked so well together I started believing they do exist in the same franchise for a second lol. There was lots of blood and gore with occasional swearing and neither Batman nor the TMNT hesitated in killing the henchmen. They truly did it the ninja way, which is killing because ninjas are assassins. Yes Batman killed people in this. Crazy. There was a post credits scene showing the Shredder turning into a samurai/ninja Joker and now I need to know if there was a sequel.
>>511235Watches the trailer to see if I'll like it. The premise kinda reminds me of WoW so I kinda like that. But the rendering that's super smooth is so disturbing. They look like AI generated CGI lmao. The male characters voices are also very amateur sounding, like some random faggots from YouTube, but I'll give it a shot for the story and fashion/aesthetic. I'm not fond of the song snippets because I dislike modern kpop but I'll try to sit through it.
No. 511434
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>>511295>Just a small detail but I loved that they actually looked barefaced when they weren't wearing makeup.me too.
https://x.com/maggiemkang/status/1936319052638789848 No. 511536
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This movie is unironically great and I'm genuinely upset that it's ratings are so low. I sincerely hope that everyone involved in making it realizes that critics are pompous assholes and that their film nails goofy humor without stumbling into dorky millenial territory. Did I mention the asshole bf who rejected Ginormica/Susan doesn't come back in the end and she learns to enjoy an independant life through self-acceptance? Also Insectosaurus is adorable and I wish I still had the McDonalds toy of her that I had as a child.
No. 511846
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Been rewatching some Christopher Guest movies lately - Best in Show and Waiting for Guffman. So good and so stupid. Rec if you're needing something funny and cozy.
No. 512878
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I really admire what The Ugly Stepsister was saying, but it hit too close to home. I couldn't finish watching it, it upset me too much. Not the gore or the gross stuff, but just the actual situation and emotions. Obviously it would ruin the story and message if it went this way, but I just wanted Elvira to murder that fucking prince.
No. 512900
>>512885>men value women solely for their beauty and looks are the most expedient tool for female upward mobility, it drives increasingly damaging competitive behavior between women, while moids don't give a fuck >women attack each other because they want retarded moids attentionThat's women's fault and I'm so tired of women constantly painting themselves as
victims here (while putting other women under the bus because "muh patriarchy made them do it"). I hate the brand of feminism that strips women of all agency ("socialization made me do it") thus never holding them accountable for anything they do. There was never any solidarity between women and as long as women care about dick they are doomed.
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The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century list from New York Times wrapped up recently, and it of course reads like any other list from NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/movies/best-movies-21st-century.html>>511235I liked it, some of the ideas seemed like they were underdeveloped for the sake of time, a lot of the humor felt overly millennial, and the lead trio often acted like three copies of the exact same character imo
Also wish they changed hairstyles up some but that's more of a nitpick
No. 513205
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I recently watched My Mom Jayne, Mariska Hargitay's documentary on her mom, and it was beautiful. I cried so many times. It made me so sad and angry for Jayne Mansfield because she just wanted to be an actor but moids only cared about her body and took advantage of her. It also made me sad that Mariska never got to know her mom.
No. 513219
>>512878Same, as an ugly girl who found some safety in physical changes, it hurt so much. I felt awful for every woman besides the older ones (the
toxic teacher, Elvira's horrible mother). Loved how it showed ways in which women ourselves uphold patriarchal values, and how being pretty isn't success when it opens you up to abuse and exploitation from gross men. Also loved the focus on sisterhood and solidarity, I was pissed off that The Substance didn't have that and felt so ageist and misogynistic in comparison. Plus on an aesthetic level this film was stunning, it had a very soft but creepy 70s feel, very Borowczyk.
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I watched Phantom of the Opera (2004) and I really enjoyed it. The art, music, and story were all great. I can really see why this is considered a classic.
I actually liked the story more for its themes of tragedy rather than romance. I would really like to check out some more gothic films like this one. Any recs?
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>>511235I watched it and found it a lot of fun. The music was catchy, the outfits were cool, and I loved the protagonists. I hope they make a sequel in which Zoey and Mira get more screentime, though.
I rewarched picrel yesterday for like the tenth time. It’s a very fun romp, in my opinion, you just have to check your brain in at the door and not be squeamish. I mean, the characters wear “breathing masks” outside, since they’re on Mars and the air is
toxic, and the masks are literally just… glasses. Not even scifi goggles. They’re just glasses, it’s really funny.
I usually watch it dubbed, but this time I gave it a try in English and it made me realize that the reason Desolation Williams has few lines, and other characters talk for him most of the movie, is because Ice Cube is a terrible actor, kek. It’s fun how he seems to move around mostly by bouncing on his feet.
No. 514879
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Kpop Demom Hunters was slop. It was made for people with tiktok ADHD who probably watch their movies on 1.5x speed, and I say it as someone who was actually diagnosed with autism and ADHD. The pacing was way too fast, I didn't even finish processing one dialogue and they were already moving to another quip (oy vey, so many quips!). That's why I prefer to watch old movies, especially those made before 2000, the pacing was way slower. I don't like the low fps choppy excuse for animation. This shit will continue to plague us because of Spiderverse (which was slop, too). The characters were undeveloped, especially Zoey and Mira, we are told what their characteristics are but we are not shown enough of them and the emotional progression of their characters is too fast and feels unnatural. If Rumi was written by a 13 year old girl on deviantart in 2010 everyone would call her a Mary Sue KEK. The music was garbage and my ears were bleeding. If this is how K-pop actually sounds like, I never want to try it.
I was wondering if I should watch The Ugly Stepsister, some people recommended it to me, saying it was better than the Substance (which I didn't like), but I think I will pass. I hate the basic premise of those films. Just another movie where the main problem of the female protagonist is that she's not attractive/popular/young enough… Doesn't matter if it's a drama or a comedy, almost every fucking female character revolves around that (and romance and/or having children). That is all we are ruduced to, and it seems like most women are content with it, because they continue to watch and praise those movies and then cry how poorly they are treated because the "society" forces them to perform brutal beauty rituals and spend hundreds of dollars on make up, and they continue to support this system and fight with other women for scrotes' attention because of intersexual competition, bullying the very few women who refuse to compete and reject the whole system and criticize it (calling them "NLOGs" etc.). They use their victimhood as a masturbatory tool. I started refusing watching movies with female protagonists because in 99% cases I will be hit with a bunch of disgusting, boring stereotypes. "AH yes this is very subversive actually! Through flaunting of the tools of our oppression we actually criticize it, you see! What's the commentary on that? Le cultural expectations bad! Are we going to do anything about it, besides showing miseryporn? Absolutely fucking not lol!". Well, I disagree with that premise. Anyway, male characters have much broader spectrum of "problems" and hardships to overcome, and they are more interesting because of that, they also have more introspection etc. Of course I prefer if their journeys also don't involve romance. Romance is slop… movies are fucking garbage now. My local cinema will be showing a bunch of old classic movies this month and I'd rather pay for that
No. 514881
>>514879why do you think spiderverse is abysmal slop,
nonny?
No. 514883
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>>513793Agreed! I prefer it over the musical production because obviously better setting lol. I saw people complaining about the singing not being good enough, which is fair. But I liked that the Phantom sucked at singing and had unhinged emotions in his voice, it shows his insanity better and makes him more menacing and pyscho. I also headcanon that he can't sing his own songs because of how bad he sounds, he's aware of that and he hates it, and it's part of why he is going insane because he can't do the one thing he's passionate about, so when he sees Christine and hears her voice, he starts living his dream vicariously through her, which is why he gets obsessed with her and makes her sing his songs and he mistakes it for love. It didn't make sense to me in the original musical why a guy who can sing very well needs someone else to sing his songs other than his face issue, but then just sing with the mask on lol. Haven't read the book though so maybe it's explained better there. Although the actor who played the Phantom said he couldn't sing and had to learn that for the movie and was very insecure about his performance, which is why the singing is meh in the movie. Side note, I've seen people saying the musical adaptation of the story is ALW projecting onto The Phantom because of his messy relationship with Sarah Brightman and her choosing another guy over him or something like that and that he has beef with her ever since. Explains the sympathetic portrayal of The Phantom I guess. Another movie adaptation I liked is picrel, the 1983 TV movie adaptation. Where The Phantom was a normal composer and was married to a singer who tabloids sabotaged her debut stage and she
killed herself so the Phantom takes revenge on them but ends up crazy and stalking Christine who happens to look like his wife. There's no singing or music here but it's a good psychological horror movie.
No. 514887
>>513793Samefag as
>>514883 but wanted to show you this song that was cut from the movie. They used the melody of it for the endinh credits song, which was performed by the woman who played Primadona. An opera singer sang the Primadona role and they dubbed it over though.
>>514879>re: kpop demon huntersFair enough. I think the story and idea has potential, but it was indeed underdeveloped and rushed to fit the 1+ hour mark. It's why I'm not fond of movies in general, they always leave something to desire. The characters were also underdeveloped, true. I wanted to know more about Celine because she seemed important to the plot but nope, nothing. Same about Zoey and Mira and their insecurities. The idea of music being used in battle is cool, I'm into that, but yeah the songs were trash and unfortunately modern kpop does sound like that lol. Golden and What it Sounds Like were decent. The rest are trash and the performers were all lacking and autotuned to oblivion. The animation and art style aren't my thing but the weapons, lighting and outfits looked cool. The final battle was underwhelming and the demon king wasn't that much of a threat and was easily defeated with the power of love lmao. The romane between Rumi and Jinu was also rushed af and unconvincing. It's not bad as a watch while you're snacking or something, and I did get emotional and moved by some moments, but I wish they had more time to develop it and round it better and get better music lol. And I wish the designs of the girls and boys and animation was better and more rendered and realistic, I dislike the stylization and how kinda racist stereotypical they look. Especially Mira, literal caricature design.
No. 515055
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Thanks Lawrence-anon for igniting a flame in me (like 2 years ago). I finally watched Lawrence of Arabia today and loved it. Absolutely beautiful film, true cinema.
For immersive experience I also chose a terribly hot heatwave to do it.
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>>514879You're speaking facts. Movies are slop right now. I really enjoyed seeing The Substance in theaters because the wild audience reactions were novel and it is so shocking. But I walked out of the theater thinking "well, that was fun. whatever" and then I go online and people are praising it for its intellectual themes and deepness, when Margaret Qualley was doing shots of tequila before her scenes because she found them so degrading. I went from feeling lukewarm about that movie to disliking it the more I saw how people interacted with it. Imo it's an example of the fact that film does not exist in a vacuum. If you make a movie about objectifying young women, then the young woman you cast in that role is going to be humiliated on camera and she will suffer for it.
Anyway if you like old movies and want female protagonists, you should watch Diabolique (1955)
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>>515087Thank you for recommendation nona!
One of my favourite movies that also feature women as main characters is the Miracle Worker (1962). It's about young Hellen Keller and her tutor Anne Sullivan. If someone doesn't know, Keller lost her sight and hearing when she was 19 months old. Sullivan essentially awakens her soul when teaching her how to navigate through the world, learning sign language etc. I LOVE how not a single fucking person in this movie says shit like "oh this poor girl will never be able to be a mother/have a male love interest" and other bullshit like that. Because so often while talking about female disability the first thing people lament on is their possible lack of ability to be "loved" by a scrote/give birth to his spawn/have sex etc… I cried at this movie like a bitch tbh. Please please people watch this film
No. 516101
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Just watched the live action how to train your dragon movie, why the fuck did they remove all the blonde characters? Literally just get a fucking wig if you don't want to bleach their hair. Bizarre to make a viking movie with blonde characters when you hate blonde hair.
And why is the skinny twig shaped girl now obese while her twin is still a skinny guy who now looks nothing like her? Really shit casting/styling.
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it's been too long since i've watched a hammer film, so i sat down and gave dr. jekyll and sister hyde a watch. it was such a treat, and i enjoyed the gender-bender play more than i thought i would. martine beswick is one of the most gorgeous women to ever exist, and deep voice and self-assuredness had me enraptured, and i found it a pretty interesting play with sexuality, as dr. jekyll was quite obviously a gay man, who found freedom in his attraction when perceived as a woman. fun and pretty surprising, especially since its from 1971.
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>>516101I don't get why casting directors (and stylists) don't get that when casting a kids movie, one of THE most important factors is the hair. It's like how every anime character or every barbie doll can have the exact same face but kids still instantly know that the one with bright red hair is Ariel, the blonde with a braid is Rapunzel and so on. Even if they're in a new outfit! Just make them look like the characters we love for fucks sake.
More rants about what I don't like:
>The color-grading is shitIn a dark cinema with optimal conditions there were still several scenes that looked dark and muddy so watching at home would be painful
>Random ass POCs insertedThey have no plot relevance. They're just there so the chief can go "your people came from the far east and now you're here and vikings too but also I'm explicitly pointing it out for some reason" to explain why there's like 2 black people and 2 asians in the movie. Can't have an all white movie based on real life all white people, that's racist!!!
>Bad actingEspecially the girl who played Astrid. There were moment where she would have to call out something emotional and she literally sounded like she just read a script louder with no emotion. It's a kids movie so I can let it slide to some degree.
>The twins don't match in looks but they keep jokes like "our mom can't tell us apart"The whole point is that they look and act the same! Ruffnut is tall and skinny, why randomly make her alone fat? For "fat representation"? Yet the love interest is still super skinny of course. Can't have the love interest be ugly and fat, but gotta make her look even prettier by making the only other girl a fattie!
>Astrid has a pretty "black coded" hairstyleMaybe they're implying she's part of the "far away" people or whatever but it feels so idk "woke", for the lack of a better term. Just give her the original hair!
>lacks "it"Muddy-lit live action just can't achieve the same heights as animation. It doesn't have "it", it lacks magic. Probably partly because most scenes are just CGI with CGI backgrounds that give off an uncanny valley feeling of something missing.
Your average cosplayer do a better job portraying the characters than these supposedly paid actors.
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>>516676I’m more surprised you managed to go in blind, considering that “the movie with a 10 minute long single-cut rape sequence” is basically all anyone knows about it.
Which I think is kind of a shame because the scenes playing out in a reverse order is an interesting concept, it’s just ruined by the author being a gross coomer who 100% wrote that scene so he and other creeps could jerk off to it.
He managed to keep it in his pants (for the most part) in Climax, which I found to be a really good movie.
>>516706It had the occasional good one! Julia Ducornaou’s “Raw” is neat.
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>>516772>cannibalism as a metaphor for obsessionthat isn't that raw is about, or I really didn't see it that way, imo its more about becoming a woman/awakening sexuality, which is a bit played out as well (aside from cannibal rich people, which I find even more exhausting). I like Ducournau and even if Titane was messier, I'm still looking forward to more movies by her. She definitely enjoys exploring female sexuality, in all its messiness, and what it means to become a woman experience the 'horror' of being female (all the ways your body changes and betrays you).
No. 516814
>>516781That's the literal interpretation of it. Tbh cannibalism as a metaphor for
anything is played-out at this point.
No. 517396
>>516771>Men love to make shocking "films" and then insist that feeling disgusted and horrified is a highbrow metaphor or something.Yet somehow those "shocking" things are always things that are sexually appealing to men like rape and violence against sexy young women, they never for example make something like an ugly old man shitting on the male protags face or even just a
man getting raped. So transparent really.
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I just saw Sunset Boulevard for the first time and well… holy shit. Even though I don't think it's "the best movie of all time" and I wouldn't put it in my top 5 etc., it evoked feelings in me that most movies never did, definitely none of those made after 2000. I know it was one of David Lynch's favourite movies and some people compare it to Mulholland Drive, but MD relied too much on shock value and porn, I don't know how but despite not having "shocking" scenes involving sexual content and more violence (like in Mulholland), Sunset leaves me with more unsettling feeling than MD. And nothing in Mulholland made me think "absolute cinema", meanwhile the entire ending sequence in Sunset was the essence of pure "kino" to me (yeah I know this word is a meme but it was made for THAT kind of scenes). And it was shot SO beautifully. If "magic of cinema" exists, this is it. I was literally Martin Scorsese absolute cinema meme during those last minutes. I don't want to get into details because I don't want to spoil anything, I recommend anyone to watch it, if you haven't already. Anyway I fucking hate Lynch and how his movies oozed with perversion and misery porn. A movie made 75 years ago BTFOs his entire movie career!
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>>517438old movies are really amazing. You'd think they'd be campy or whatever considering the times but its the opposite, films back then were much more bold and smartly written.
No. 517455
>>517446> Today's movies really feel like they have to rely on sex, violence, "twists" or "subversion" in order to pose as "mature". But the writing itself is not mature at all.exactly. I only realized how pretentious modern cinema is when i started going back to classics. All the greatest character studies are on old films, good writting and compelling character development was what they had and they made the most out of it.
Even the social commentary is more hard hitting and daring. I love the really old hollywood before the Hays code, like I was a prisoner from a chain gang.
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>>517438>go looking it up to see if its on any streaming site I can access or do i have to find it elsewhere>showtimeTHEY PUT IT BACK IN THE CINEMA
NONNIES IM GOING SEE THIS ON THE BiGS SCREEN
YEEEE
No. 517799
>>514879>>515087>>515258It would be nice to have a "films about women that decenter men" thread. Not saying it would be successful, but it would just be nice.
I also have this issue with a lot of media generally targeted at women – sure the protags are female, but they still always feel like they were written by a moid. Which means none of them speak about anything other than "Oh, this moid doesn't want me" "Oh the moid i'm married to/I birthed hates me" "Oh how will I ever be pretty enough for moids". I didn't particularly like "Nomadland" but i only remember it because the MC being a woman isn't related to the plot at all. She's just a woman and that's it. You could have easily replaced her with a moid and nothing would change.
I mean if women aren't ready to write actually compelling characters that just so
happen to be female and give them problems that focus on their
person, not their
gender, I would be consuming exclusively female media by now.
I've been so assmad about this for so long and I just had to let it out
No. 517808
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>>517799i think that'd make for a good thread. it's this exact frustration that got ms bechdel and her friend liz wallace to come up with the bechdel test
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>>517789so cool when synchronicity works in our favor
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I wanted to vent about Superman bc I just left the cinema and it was literally every single thing that's wrong with modern mainstream flicks but I'm so overwhelmed by how cringe and bad it was I literally need to take a nap just to detox my brain and be able to gather my thoughts on it…
No. 518206
>>517438I watched it for the first time recently and loved it too. I really liked that despite being the stereotype of a ‘past-her-prime’ lonely middle aged woman and a hysterical BPDchan the film is still very sympathetic towards Norma. When she bursts into tears and you see how lonely and insecure she is inside it’s just heartbreaking.
On the topic of Lynch i find it admirable that he only ever made movies about his own autistic obsessions with hollywood and suburbia. Besides that I agree that he’s overrated. I hate that people act like he was incapable of being a misogynist because he made laura palmer, I get that she resonates with a lot of sexual assault survivors but just because a moid was sympathetic towards a non-perfect female
victim of rape/trafficking doesn’t make him some feminist saint. That part in Inland Empire where women randomly started taking their tops off irked me so bad. I see people being like “lol he inserted himself in twin peaks and then made his character kiss the prettiest girl! So quirky!” as if that isn’t perverted as fuck. I saw that some of his books were being sold in an estate sale earlier this year and someone pointed out that not a single one was written by a woman, people got so angry kek. And of course if you criticize the obvious male gaze sexualization of women in his films you’ll get accused of hating both sex and art.
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>>518658rope is incredible! you might like purple noon if you liked the strangers, they're both based off stories written by patricia highsmith. it has some homoeroticism as well, but not as much as rope does. i'd also recommend compulsion!
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Just watched death of a unicorn, tbh it was mid I know from the title it's supposed to be absurd but it's not one of those movie that is so bad it's good, i think the best thing out of this movie it the scenery, i thought it looked really nice especially when it's supposed to be night, apart from that it was like a nothing burger, i know horror is misogynistic but something that seriously made me mad is that the women got the most brutal deaths, while the main antagonist and other men kinda got killed fast, as always jenna ortega is final girl which isn't surprising tbh but i had my hopes up until the end that they killed her character since that woul've actually been a plot twist, also the protagonist is supposed to be her dad and she has a strained relationship and the dad is shown to be an asshole the most of the movie but then he does a sacrifice and is redeemed of everything he did which was corny imo, also there was a bald head character that i'm sure is supposed to be a self-insert of the director or whatever guy is watching the movie, which of course survives in the end. like i said it was just mid the plot was rushed which i understand i don't think it was a serious project but it was soo bad it wasn't even good.
No. 518708
>>518701Most of the A24 movies are really shitty, their model is throwing everything at the wall until something ends up being good, so i don't bother most of the times, last few A24 movies i watched burned me. Even seeing A24 involved kinda puts me off knowing only like one in a dozen will be good.
I want to watch the new Ari Aster one though.
No. 518742
>>518136I liked it!
Guy Gardner was very entertaining
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i feel stupid about it but 'Conclave' has been occupying my thoughhts ever since i saw it back in may.
it's well acted and beautifully shot but even then idk why i'm so into it, this is not the first time i see a good movie. i'm just obsessed with these characters and their stupid drama. i'm glad there's a fandom so i'm not alone but most of the fic sucks
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Rewatched Bend it Like Beckham since I hadn't seen it since its release and distinctly remembered it being a lesbian movie. A bit disappointed it's not, especially since the actors playing Jess and Joe didn't have chemistry. With the current trend of generational trauma in movies (especially movies by/for women), I thought that this was a pretty grounded take on that theme that wasn't so black and white, probably because the main character wasn't an only child so there was no "I'm the ONLY first-gen kid in my circle" conflict. I liked the B-plot of Jess's older sister Pinky balancing her traditional Indian engagement with Western social/dating culture. I also liked that the rest of the football team was kind of irrelevant to the plot I was dreading some isolating pack dynamic bullshit when Jules and Jess had their fight. I wish the story would've played out more like Jess only had a fleeting unserious crush on Joe because he was the first guy she was hanging out with outside of her community. Jess and Joe should've left things at the field and not met at the airport. Again, I know the movie wasn't written to have serious lesbian undertones, but still I would've much preferred an open-ended ending with the girls on the plane looking forward to take on this new chapter of their lives "together". On the more technical side I felt the pacing was a bit "scene-next scene" but overall, it's a decent feel-good movie. Absolutely nostalgia inducing too for the fashion, music, and camera work.