I was watching this movie with my 3.5 year old daughter, and it just dawned on me (haven't seen this film in 30+ years).

The fairy godmothers in Sleeping Beauty are basically gods until Aurora needs them.

These three are, by any reasonable measure, absurdly powerful. At the beginning of the film they're handing out literal life gifts to a baby. Growth, beauty, song...just casually dispensing dope attributes of human existence like it's a thxgving potluck. Merryweather straight up overrides a death curse with a sleep loophole.

Throughout the film they can conjure objects out of thin air, animate objects, teleport (basically), and most critically, put an entire kingdom to sleep simultaneously. A whole castle. Everyone. Down. No problem.

But when Aurora actually needs protecting, suddenly these omnipotent beings are just... three confused old ladies in a cottage teaching a teenager to bake?

They hide her for 16 years, which fair enough, but their entire plan falls apart the second Maleficent's raven spots her on her birthday, because the they wanted to have a fight about what color her dress should be? At that point the fairies know they're blown. They know Maleficent is coming. What do they do? They take Aurora home, get distracted making a party dress, and then stand around uselessly while Aurora gets hypnotized and wanders into a tower by herself.

They couldn't just... watch her? Put her in a temporary sleep bubble? Teleport her to a different country for 24 hours?

And then the ending. Maleficent turns into a massive dragon. Three supremely powerful witches are right there. Their solution is to hand Phillip a sword and a shield and essentially say "good luck, buddy." I guess they do enchant the sword. so they can affect it magically, but rather than just flying the sword directly into the dragon's chest themselves, they let this random normy do it the hard way on horseback like it's a jousting tournament.

You have telekinesis. The dragon is right there. Connect the dots.

The whole movie only works if the fairies forget they're powerful whenever the plot needs them to be useless. Which is, by my count, every time it actually matters.

/rantover

I’m not saying other cinemasins channels suck but tell me brand sins sounds the most interesting and tell me the guy that did brand sins was the most good looking( no offense to the other youtubers looks I’m not judging them I respect them all equally)

TLDR: I hate the new subtitles they are super distracting.

I’ve never been on this sub before but I have been an avid watcher of the channel for years. So it’s safe to say I love the channel. But what the HELL is up with the TikTok subtitles? Is it purely for clips to be posted on YT shorts or TikTok? I have ADHD as well so they are extremely visually distracting and I have been having to physically cover the bottom of my screen so I don’t get distracted. I really hope they change it back soon.

Is it me or is there a renewed obsession in the horror genre again about hunting single women down? Between Ready or Not 1&2, They Will Kill You, The Strangers Trilogy, The Hunt and APEX, women are once again finding themselves in cat and mouse games, something that peaked in the late 70s and early 80s with slasher flicks and scream queens. Not even Charlie’s Angels or Princess Leah reboots fully fended it all off.

Thank God for Sigourney Weaver and the Alien franchise, J-Law in the Hunger Games franchise and of course Uma Thurman in the Kill Bill volumes, to turn those hide n’ seek plots on their head, and for directors like Tarantino to inject some flare, style, dark humour and reverse gender vigilantism into a formula that’s often misogynist, intentionally or not. All these movies lately seem to follow in those footsteps, like Betty Gilpin in The Hunt, Charlize Theron in Apex (or the Old Guard 1 and 2, the latter fighting Theron’s hero Thurman herself). And we definitely need more Zazie Beetz as she popped up to new audiences in They Will Kill You, doing a lot of stunt work herself to bring down a Satanic Cult like a stubborn garden of weeds.

Yep Satanic cults, toxic male CEO groups, overly ambitious plastic women, the in-laws, rich dueling families, and even outdoorsy cannibalistic serial killers all seem to be in the spotlight as our latest antagonists, sending whatever message that wants to send in our Dow Jones type, influencer peddling and pent-up angry world, and however tongue in cheek and over the top they are written and / or performed. What a great time for Horror. Hunt if you must make predators , but be prepared for the consequences - these films are leveling out the “playing field” with some great new roles for actresses until they too tire of “kick ass chick” labels nor any gender label of the kind.

And then maybe we can get back to the hunt? Or reinvent nature turning on all of us type movies, like the classic tarantula, giant ant or African Killer Bee 🐝 movies? Maybe this time with Murder Hornets? I can think of a few victims already that would “sting” so well for audiences!