How did the cameramen not burst into laughter everytime they had to film her😭

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https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/hollywood/gal-gadot-s-acting-skills-in-viral-scene-snow-white-draws-comparisons-to-scooby-doo-101743255098643.html

https://whereisthebuzz.com/rachel-zegler-called-the-fall-guy-for-snow-white-flop-fans-say-gal-gadots-acting-was-the-true-poison-apple/

Gal Gaddot drinking male tears

I see redditors felate this movie all the time and I finally watched it. It was kind of mid tbh. I kept waiting for it to get good and then it ended. People were gushing about the credits sequences too and after I watched them all I could think was, "That's it?" It's not a terrible movie or anything just incredibly slow and not all that amazing. I don't know how it gets onto so many "best found footage movies" lists.

It also isn't a horror movie at all, more of a mockumentary family drama with some supernatural elements.

Or maybe the studios could try making movies that are enjoyable to watch?

It's time to give movies a makeover

Total zoomer death

Preface

Sundance, the long running movie festival, has been held in Park City, UT for over 40 years. Today, the festival has announced that the 2027 festival would be hosted in Boulder, CO. The move has been a long time coming as the consideration for the new site has been going on for almost a year. Unsurprisingly, they went with the state that offered them 34 million in tax credits over the next 10 years. The move was supposedly uninfluenced by local political climate as stated by Sundance Institute board chair Ebs Burnough: "This process started 18 months ago and we've been in Utah for 40 years. So politics really didn't guide the process, it was really and truly about evolution. That's where it landed." Despite this, Redditors argue the contrary, among other things, in the post announcing the change.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Sundance/comments/1jl9uox/sundance_selects_boulder_colorado_as_new_host/

Some comments about local business

I do think we'll see a lot of those "launder money to stay in business" spots struggling post-Sundance. The housing impact was shitty with the profitability of short-term rentals impacting long term availability, but it was great some local businesses could afford to stay open by renting their space out for two weeks in January. Talked with several boutique owners who said they basically made their rent/mortgage for the year via Sundance space rentals.

As a business owner on Main St. I would say you're really overstretching here. If anything we'll have more consistent business on the street. (Neg voted)

Lol remind me in 4 years

Talking about Boulder itself

Boulder is very white, wealthy, and liberal but they're surface-level liberal, like from an ideological viewpoint, where

they're more concerned about appearing tolerant than meaningfully interacting or coexisting with marginalized folk.

As a gay person of color, going there, I often meet two types of straight white liberal Boulderites:

(1) They're overly nice to you, you know, like almost in a performative way to overemphasize they're not "those type of

white people". It's coming from a well-meaning place but it's still awkward and othering.

(2) They're nice to you but they also don't know how to interact or relate to folk that look like you so they'd rather avoid > you than risk looking uncomfortable or accidentally saying something ignorant/offensive.

Spot on. Why I left Boulder for SLC

Is this a joke?

Great description of Boulder.

It's like Get Out but a whole city.

Boulder sucks

Too bad we have to be gaslit into thinking white-butt Boulder is a better city.

It's not. It's way worse. I wanted Santa Fe. I'm from Denver, a born a bred Boulder hater. You're not going to see me defend that place ever.

Ah yes, Park City and Santa Fe are staples of diversity.

I mean you can look up the diversity percentages yourself. (-1)

Totally. Park City is right up there with keystone and telluride, tied for most diverse in the country!

Whining about state politics

Utah wanted to pass an endless amount of bigot bills to own the libs. Consider them owned

Can we please stop pretending politics had anything to do with it? Bobert came out of CO. Sundance would move to Mar a lago if they were offered $500 million. It's a capitalist exercise. (-8)

Meh. Still doesn't excuse Utah lawmakers passing bills openly hostile towards the artists Sundance purports to celebrate. The criticism is valid.

Finger pointing

Utah deserves this.

Utah is made up of people, all kinds of people, just like Atlanta and Idaho and any other red state. And we did not deserve this. Our legislators are trying to kill us, can we not have one god dammed nice thing?

No you can't. Complain to your friends, family, neighbors, and co-workers of which you must know some that voted for Trump.

Perhaps if you all laid out more personal consequences for their votes you wouldn't constantly find yourself in these situations where your legislators are set to frick with your life.

But you'll go to your Trump loving Grandma's house for Christmas, hug them, kiss them, say you love them and then go on the internet to complain that you can't have one nice thing. Maybe talk to the Trump voters first.

Incredibly disappointed in the Institute. 40 years of history doesn't seem to matter when you have corporate sponsors to please. What happened to the art?

"What happened to the art?" Are you an idiot? The state of Utah is regressing faster than any state in the country, with attacks on voting rights, the trans community, public lands, education... it's the former host that forgot about the art.

Is this a parody? It was about $$$$ (-4)

You'd like to think that because it absolves you of your worldview. No, it wasn't all about the money.

It's cuz Utah is on an anti-DEI tirade. They had to pick somewhere a trans or minority filmmaker might actually feel like they're not under attack. Blame Utah's legislature.

This is honestly great in my option, Sundance has long been constrained by Utahs strict liquor laws, having in boulder brings back the option for many new venues to open up and allows the "Main Street" area to Have more public events.

Liquor laws? Really? The most drunk, belligerent people are sundancers.

Polis is an annoying homo

I hope you all know that Boulder got Sundance because the governor threw $34MM of taxpayer money at it. Also the governor and his husband live less than a quarter mile from the main venue - and he will be there in force gladhanding all the attendees to support his run for president in 2028. This has nothing to do with the event, and everything to do with politics. And when attendees have to navigate the clusterfrick Boulder is, it'll be a short run for Sundance there.

There's more in there, but I think I got most of the best stuff.

Addendum: As someone who has been to both cities, this move is probably for the best. I've never been to the festival, but Park City is constrained by it's geographical location and has become more ritzy and expensive since the buyout in 2014. Not long until it becomes like Aspen with Moncler and Prada within walking distance of the resort. Boulder is an annoying city full of mouth breathers and people huffing their own farts, but is much bigger and can probably handle large crowds better. Boulder and CU still suck though.

Reading reddit has made me understand this issue less.

In the pantheon of parodic filmmaking, Joel Gallen's 2001 magnum opus "Not Another Teen Movie" stands as an unparalleled deconstruction of adolescent cinema, a meticulously crafted palimpsest that simultaneously venerates and eviscerates the tropes that defined the teen film genre from the 1980s through the millennial threshold.

The film's narrative architecture—superficially derivative yet deliciously subversive—centers on the quintessential wager plot wherein football luminary Jake Wyler (portrayed with incipient star power by Chris Evans) undertakes to metamorphose the ostensibly unattractive Janey Briggs into prom queen material. This narrative scaffold, appropriated from "She's All That," serves as the armature upon which the filmmakers drape their tapestry of intertextual allusions to works ranging from John Hughes' oeuvre to the more salacious teen comedies of the late 1990s.

Among the film's most philosophically audacious moments is the geriatric osculation sequence featuring Mia Kirshner as Catherine Wyler and Beverly Polcyn as Sadie Agatha Johnson. This scene represents a multivalent satirical assault on the "Never Been Kissed" archetype, wherein Polcyn portrays an elderly journ*list transparently masquerading as a high school student —"even more obviously not a teenager". The extended French kiss between Catherine and Sadie deliberately subverts the "Girl on Girl Is Hot" trope, as the film renders this interaction deliberately "repulsive" rather than titillating, challenging viewer expectations through its transgressive inversion of conventional teen film eroticism.

The visual composition of this sequence—with its unflinching maximalist approach to the representation of intergenerational intimacy—creates a synaesthetic experience that confronts the spectator with the arbitrary nature of cinematic desire. The scene's calculated grotesquerie earned Kirshner and Polcyn a nomination for "Best Kiss" at the 2002 MTV Movie Awards —a metareferential accolade that further underscores the film's commitment to collapsing the distinction between parody and pastiche.

Kirshner's Catherine embodies the "Depraved Bisexual" archetype with virtuosic commitment, her character having "slept with everyone in school" and willing to "sleep with any hot stranger she hasn't slept with yet". The film's most incisive commentary emerges through Catherine's polymorphous concupiscence, which extends beyond mere promiscuity to encompass incestuous designs on her brother and the aforementioned septuagenarian journ*list. This hyperbolic characterization functions not merely as comedic excess but as pointed critique of the sexual politics that undergird the teen film genre.

Evans' portrayal of Jake Wyler transcends mere performance, achieving instead a state of meta-performative hyperreality that simultaneously embodies and critiques masculinist hegemony in high school narratives. His character's transformation from unthinking jock to self-aware romantic lead serves as microcosmic representation of the film's larger project of generic deconstruction.

"Not Another Teen Movie" thus ascends beyond the limitations of its satirical origins to achieve a state of cinematic sublimity. By rendering explicit the implicit conventions of teen cinema—from the arbitrary nature of physical attractiveness to the absurdity of stock character archetypes—the film offers a profound meditation on the constructed nature of adolescent identity. Its ingenious subversion of generic expectations, exemplified by the boundary-transgressing Catherine-Sadie kiss, establishes this work as an essential text in the metafilmic canon, one whose grotesque excesses ultimately serve as profound philosophical inquiries into the very nature of representational cinema itself.

(Article is in moon runes)

Hollywood, which has been the center of film production since the early 20th century and is synonymous with the American entertainment industry, is beginning to lose its dominance. Once known for exporting grand-scale films and accounting for about 90% of global box office revenue, its influence has been gradually declining. Although Hollywood has long been a source of the United States' soft power, its global market share continues to erode.

According to the U.S.-based research site The Numbers, American films held a 69.5% share of global box office revenue in 2024. This is a significant drop from over 90% in 2009–2010 and even from 85.6% in 2014—a decline of 16 percentage points over the past decade, falling below the 70% mark.

Just like in politics, division is growing in the world of cinema as well. China, one of the largest markets, has nurtured its domestic film industry, boosting its global share from 5.5% to 16.5%. India, a major film power in Asia, still holds a relatively low share of around 2% in terms of box office revenue, but its presence is steadily increasing.

Japan has also seen its animated films gain popularity worldwide, raising its global market share from 0.6% to around 5%. Once a major market for Western films, Japan in 2024 saw no live-action foreign film make it into the domestic top 10 for the first time since 2000.

These rankings also suggest France is losing its touch

2014

United States – 85.6%

China – 5.5%

France – 4.5%

United Kingdom – 3.1%

New Zealand – 3.1%

South Korea – 2.2%

Australia – 2.1%

Canada – 1.8%

Hong Kong – 1.5%

Germany – 1.4%

2024

United States – 69.5%

China – 16.5%

United Kingdom – 5.6%

Japan – 4.9%

India – 2%

South Korea – 2%

Hong Kong – 1.5%

France – 1.5%

Russia – 1.1%

Canada – 1.1%

So what do we think !dramatards !kino !hatewatchers Is this just the inevitable result of other countries developing their own film scenes or is there some !chuds !nonchuds culture war angle we can spin?

I think it's notable that both Japan and China are rising up the rankings. With Japan it's obviously because of foreign weebs buying their schlock. China seems to be actively rejecting modern American movies. Long gone are the days of Transformers releases being like holidays over there

Leo is also doing a movie with Paul Thomas Anderson too

https://rdrama.net/h/kino/post/351391/one-battle-after-another-marseybountyhunter-new

guess this is breaking his "only one movie every five years" streak that he'd been on

!kino following our /lit/ discussion from yesterday, what are the films you consider as pleb filters?

Pic related is the list made by the of /tv/

https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/1jklwu2/avengers_doomsday_cast_announce/

Basically Fantastic Four + 2000s X-Men + the leftovers from the MCU.

!kino how hopeful are you for this next slop?

Chris Hemsworth as Thor

Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm / Invisible Woman

Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson / Captain America

Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes / The Winter Soldier

Letitia Wright as Shuri / Black Panther

Paul Rudd as Scott Lang / Ant-Man

Wyatt Russell as John Walker / U.S. Agent

Tenoch Huerta Mejia as Namor

Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm / The Thing

Simu Liu as Shang-Chi

Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova

Kelsey Grammer as Dr. Hank McCoy / Beast

Lewis Pullman as Bob / Sentry

Danny Ramirez as Joaquin Torres / Falcon

Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm / Human Torch

David Harbour as Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian

Winston Duke as M'Baku

Hannah John-Kamen as Ava Starr / Ghost

Tom Hiddleston as Loki

Patrick Stewart as Professor Charles Xavier

Ian McKellen as Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto

Alan Cumming as Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler

Rebecca Romijn as Mystique

James Marsden as Scott Summers / Cyclops

Channing Tatum as Remy LeBeau / Gambit

Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards / Mr. Fantastic

Robert Downey Jr. as Victor Von Doom / Doctor Doom

I can't wait for Fraser Crane to punch Doctor Doom in the face

meanwhile on the more wholesome rotten tomatoes Snow White has a modest critic score and a high audience satisfaftion rating. Its funny how chuds think that just bc they feefees are hurt movie or that a kods movie would even hurt they feefees

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/disneys_snow_white

also the real reviews written by decent human beings say its stunning, valid, and brave

https://rdrama.net/h/kino/post/352496/snow-white-soyegirl-review-rachel-zegler

you cant expwct a lot of of chuds tho bc they brain is broke and they dont wash they peepees

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/s/h4gNzRp1F3

Drama in foid sub

FRICK YOU IF YOU LIKE THEM

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FYI btoh TMIE magzaine and Entertianment weekly say its a hit with the ltater descrbiing it as Disney's bset lvie actoin remake eevr

https://time.com/7270401/snow-white-review-disney-remakes/

https://ew.com/snow-white-review-best-disney-live-action-remake-rachel-zegler-11700231

Sonw Wihte review: Disne'ys bset live-action remkae is the fairest of tehm all, thanks to Rahcel Zegler

Trailer:

Who else ended up seeing this? I thought it was gorgeous.