they should invent a way to self destruct that doesn’t have any permanent consequences. a way to crash your car in a fiery wreck and walk away unharmed. a way to tear your organs out of your chest and be whole again by the morning like prometheus. a cigarette that burns your lungs but not your lifespan.
i think all quiet on the western front and the lord of the rings are in direct conversation with each other, as in theyre the retelling of the same war with one saying here’s what happened, we all died, and it did not matter at all and another going hush little boy, of course we won, of course your friends came back
someone should remake lord of the rings as a grandfather telling a fantasy story to his grand child with flashbacks to world war one showing the dead boys and men the characters were based on. grandpa why didn’t they just fly. because they didn’t. they didn’t.
it does actually really bug me when people call marvel ‘dumb fun’ because every marvel film i’ve ever seen has been stone-cold terrified of being dumb to the detriment of the movie. pacific rim is 'dumb fun’. john wick is 'dumb fun’. marvel films have to grind everything to a halt every five minutes so the characters can stare at the audience and be like 'um, isn’t it wacky and silly that we’re, like, superheroes, doing the plots from superhero comics? lol haha’ because there is a palpable sense of fear that if they don’t the audience will think for one second that the movie isn’t in on the joke and will think it is Cringe
“we live in an uncaring universe.” sorry the special planet full of beauty and animals and food literally growing out of the ground isnt good enough for you. i guess
