Okay can yall reblog this to share something that’s actually helpful? There are two websites that can assist people with triggers to know whether or not a movie is going to be something they should avoid. The first one is:
Originally created to list whether or not the animals in movies were harmed, it has expanded to list a number of triggering things like people being cut, jumpscares, strobe effects, vomit, deaths of children, and many more. For some categories it links to:
which has a similar format to Does the Dog Die but deals with a variety of sexual themes. It even elaborates on some of the checked categories just to let you know how serious or in what way the category is expressed in the movie.
I don’t like the environment of tumblr scaring people into thinking they don’t have the help or resources they need to live happy and without anxiety unless the right PSA floats across their dash. If there are any other databases anyone knows of that provide more info about media or elaborate upon MPAA ratings, please comment. Let 2018 be a year of empowerment.
some other sources:
common sense media is a generalized and well updated site that gives content warning as a guide to parents, but is also relevant and very helpful if youre looking for your own uses
also all IMDB movie pages have a ‘parents guide’ section that is extremely thorough and gives a description of all potentially disturbing scenes grouped by sex, violence, drugs/alcohol, etc
and wheres the jump is great for horror movies, it gives an exact timestamp and description of any jumpscares in the movie
Mad Max Fury Road: women, and a man with disabilities, defeat the embodiment of male entitlement Star Wars the Force Awakens: a white woman and a black man defeat the embodiment of modern male entitlement Ghostbusters: women defeat the embodiment of modern male entitlement Bitter Fanboys: do not like this one bit
Except Mad Max and TFA were good movies. Ghostbusters was a sad excuse to pander for representation.
Funny how the first two just made strong characters and didn’t just point out their gender every five seconds while the last one never shut up about it and defeated a ghost with a crotch shot but hey. Also? The villains in the first two weren’t embodiments of male entitlement. One was a guy running a cult that had a lot of sex slaves and the other was a villain that I’m pretty sure would do the same if he was a woman. That’s not really gendered entitlement. That’s just bad people doing bad things.
Funny how bitter fanboys are ok with two disabled people take down the epitome of male libido and machoness. Funny how they’re ok when racial barriers are broken as our heroes take down the obsessed fanboy with abusive tendencies. Funny how when it’s a band of strong women from diverse backgrounds take the lead to save the world from a former bullying victim who thinks the world owes him something and interact with gatekeepers (Bill Murray’s character), entitled fuckboys (Chris Hemsworth’s character), and a paranoid government trying to cover up the pressing issues in the world THAT is where the line is drawn.
The new Ghostbusters deserves love and attention for a poignant storyline as well as representing another set of demographics in comedy which?? Why would that ever be a bad thing?????
It passed the Bechdel test, the Sexy Lamp test, the Furiosa test, and one or two more internet spawned tests that I can’t even remember off the top of my head.
It is a damn good film, and the people who can’t see the tropes of society being put on display and destroyed onscreen in the form of both characters and the actions they take sound no better than the villains themselves.
Most people I know had that one movie as a kid; that one movie that they would watch over and over and over to the resigned acceptance of their parents. I’ve always thought that movie says something about a person. What was your movie?
