just something so off and dystopian about how many movies are just cynical IP melting pots now but i had fun
edit: just learned about bobby driscoll. how the peter pan plot point went through conceptualization, writing (it was allegedly a re-write after test audiences reacted negatively to the first villain), shooting, etc. without anyone thinking about how disgusting and insensitive it is is beyond me
this is the first movie based on a sarah dessen novel in 20 years, and its source material came out in 2009. i was worried that it would feel like it was made a little too late (*cough* stargirl *cough*), but it had everything i loved about how to deal and dessen's work: small towns, late nights, secret hangouts and favorite haunts, introspection and friendship and romance. even the music had a 2000s soundtrack quality about it, although none of…
F.H. Batacan began writing as an outlet, at a time in which she had been "very disillusioned, very frustrated, very angry." On a night when she couldn't sleep, she started writing a very vivid, very chilling scene: At a garbage disposal site, a priest is led by a group of children to a small, unmoving hand sticking out of a trash pile. Beneath it, he finds a young boy's corpse, mutilated beyond recognition.
It's a prologue that immediately sets the…
you signed it neil adventure. you crossed out adventure and wrote adventure again
