VIXI·RISI·AMAVI

i was on the way to the movies & i saw an old guy with a piece of wood over his shoulders. it was huge -- a pole several feet long with a kind of wide fan at the end of it. and i said "what the hell is that?" and he looked at me and had this kind of ear to ear grin, and he said "what do you mean 'what the hell is that'?" and he sat back on his heels, still with that big smile like the sun spilling from the underside of a cloud and waited for me to answer and i said "i mean i don't know why you're walking around with that thing, whatever it is." and he laughed and put down his pole and kinda clapped me on the shoulder. "can i get you a drink?" he said. and i said "no, the show's in ten minutes," and he said "oh? what are you seeing?" and i said "christopher nolan's odyssey, i'm pretty excited," and he sighed and picked up his oar and kept walking.

THAT MEANS WRONGO'S GOT THEM. THIS ISN'T GOOD

imgonna throw up laughing theres a cat outside my apartment complex and i was trying to get a picture of my hand on him for size comparison and my phone decided im the whitest person ever like literally #FFFFF 0% saturation 100% lightness i put it in my art program and color dropped itthis is so funny why . Why did this happen

love when i'm reading something from the ancient world that would still work today. rn i'm reading some poems from the greek anthology and there's one by lucillius about a rich man who loves his money so much that when he gets sick and finds out it would cost him one drachma more to get healed he decides to die instead. and i could see ancient roman galfridos bezos doing the exact same thing

Pretty much. Except 90% of the dialogue is in their heads, so they're just staring at each other with unresolved sexual tension

You're telling me these "trans sisters" are switches? Intriguing. Y'know, I think I'm beginning to understand these computer-things.

Our age of reblogs is collapsing

In terms of establishing the fundamental aesthetic of the 1990s strand of cinematic cyberpunk, the 1993 Super Mario Bros. adaptation is probably up there with Johnny Mnemonic and Lawnmower Man influence-wise, as much as we all hate to admit it.

Welcome to the "learned from this post that the first major live-action feature film adaptation of a pre-existing video game franchise was a dystopian cyberpunk AU of Super Mario Bros. for some inexplicable reason" club.

I do believe the stink of this movie saved us from some far worse projects. I have no idea what those would have been, but I believe.

Are you kidding? This film was the vanguard; it may have tanked in theatres, but the novelty of it led to a number of bandwagon-jumping projects in following years. After Super Mario Bros. dropped in 1993, we had Double Dragon and the Jean-Claude Van Damme Street Fighter in 1994, then Paul W S Anderson's Mortal Kombat in 1995; the unexpected commercial success of the latter film was reportedly the deciding factor when Angelina Jolie accepted the lead role in Tomb Raider a few years later, which in turn kicked off the second wave of major live-action video game adaptations in the early 2000s that gave us the Resident Evil films

Don't forget the 𝘋𝘰𝘰𝘮 Movies

I prefer to focus on positive outcomes.