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In fairness to Elizabeth Olson, don't most Marvel actors look miserable making their movies? The entire acclaimed cast of "Eternals" felt as if they were in "blink twice if you're in danger" mode.

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ABSOLUTELY it’s mostly just that she’s somehow become my top example when i think of “out of place indie actors in marvel movies”… i want to say it’s because of her calling the raccoon a squirrel

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amazing boy movies as always. my boyfriend’s biggest complaint about gladiator 2 is also that those two didn’t kiss. glad we’re all on the same page about this!!!

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if ridley was gonna insist on editing out denzel’s big gay kiss he at least could’ve let paul do some gay kissing!!!!

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At one point one of the characters says “hose him off” and I got shushed for saying “hose??” under my breath

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saw gladiator ii last night and cosign all of this…. i do think it’s not totally paul’s fault (having first watched and had a good time with the first gladiator recently it stuck out to me that nothing in this movie is as tender and human as russell crowe’s little doll family he carries around or the close-up on a huge trail of snot all over his face when he finds them dead)… but like. simply not the one.

also i didn’t do this as a bit but i did see wicked today and if i say that denzel (genius, visionary, i read this post before having seen the movie and kept thinking about your line about how he speaks shakespeare like he was born talking like that, literally you watch him and it feels like he’s making everything up right then for the first time) is to gladiator ii…..as ariana grande(???) is to wicked…………..

also also i meant to say this on a previous boy movies but forgot bc i deleted the substack app bc accidental exposure to notes is bad for my wellbeing: truly the apprentice is a movie that is fine as a movie but top fucking tier as an experience to have watching the two non-one direction men i have spent the most hours of my life reblogging act their sad-eyed faces off 💜 i joke a lot about the culture now just being tumblr on a ten year delay but the sebstanaissance of 2024 makes me feel like that really is what’s going on… hollywood didn’t see it back then but we did!!!

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Seeing Gladiator II for free-99 (thank you AMC A-List we looooove you!) in two days but kinda overjoyed to recieve a boy movies review to brace myself going in. Poor Denzel, let him play bi!!!!

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LET HIM SPEAK!!! i hope you had some fun with it!

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Sending this to Paul, his agent, his manager, and Gracie Abrams’ team for good measure

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let’s get it to jj for good measure!!!

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thank you for consistently validating my opinions and putting things into words in a way that i am unable or unwilling to do myself! you are the oracle of girls who are boy movie enjoyers

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omg 🥹 this is such an honor and i do not take it lightly!!!

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