this is every marvel trailer ever im sobbing ont he floor i can literally envision steve rogers narrating while tony stark punches something in rhythm of the beat
1. A dark fairy tale as a metaphor for the effects of war on children, set in the midst of the Spanish Civil War 2. A superhero movie that features a war between mankind and magical creatures 3. An action movie where the heroes have to share their minds and bond emotionally so they can punch aliens from the sea better. Also Charlie Day is a scientist. 4. Basically what would happen if all three Bronte sisters got hammered and wrote a book with Lord Byron. and 5. An adorable woman falls in love with a fish man. Not a merman. A FISH MAN.
also while this does say master list it doesn’t mean that every hockey movie is here because some just,, aren’t worth mentioning. however, if you feel a movie that i missed should be on here feel free to suggest it to me here.
this includes fictional movies and documentaries
documentaries
the last gladiators (2011)
filmmaker alex gibney explores the history of the hockey goon
hockey captain slava fetisov and four other players form a nearly unbeatable unit known as the “russian five,” but their coach’s brutal regimen leads fetisov and others to defect from the soviet union
on-ice enforcers struggle to rise through the professional ranks of the worlds most prestigious hockey league, only to be confronted with a new found fight for the existence of the role itself
I had a very interesting discussion about theater and film the other day. My parents and I were talking about Little Shop of Horrors and, specifically, about the ending of the musical versus the ending of the (1986) movie. In the musical, the story ends with the main characters getting eaten by the plant and everybody dying. The movie was originally going to end the same way, but audience reactions were so negative that they were forced to shoot a happy ending where the plant is destroyed and the main characters survive. Frank Oz, who directed the movie, later said something I think is very interesting:
I learned a lesson: in a stage play, you kill the leads and they come out for a bow — in a movie, they don’t come out for a bow, they’re dead. They’re gone and so the audience lost the people they loved, as opposed to the theater audience where they knew the two people who played Audrey and Seymour were still alive. They loved those people, and they hated us for it.
That’s a real gem of a thought in and of itself, a really interesting consequence of the fact that theater is alive in a way that film isn’t. A stage play always ends with a tangible reminder that it’s all just fiction, just a performance, and this serves to gently return the audience to the real world. Movies don’t have that, which really changes the way you’re affected by the story’s conclusion. Neat!
But here’s what’s really cool: I asked my dad (who is a dramaturge) what he had to say about it, and he pointed out that there is actually an equivalent technique in film: the blooper reel. When a movie plays bloopers while the credits are rolling, it’s accomplishing the exact same thing: it reminds you that the characters are actually just played by actors, who are alive and well and probably having a lot of fun, even if the fictional characters suffered. How cool is that!?
Now I’m really fascinated by the possibility of using bloopers to lessen the impact of a tragic ending in a tragicomedy…
Executive: “I guess movie critics just don’t like DC superheroes.”
The Lego Batman Movie:
Executive: Holy shit.
AND
It’s like you have to make a good movie in order for it to be…good.
i am not at all clear on how that would work. wouldn’t it be easier if you could just say how good they were by budget or something, not relying on some fuzzy abstract notion of quality to determine quality? it just sounds really complicated.
just moving along like everyone else 