Did anyone else find Happy Feet, uh, deeply problematic? I couldn't finish it, just sent it back to Netflix with a "Begone!" hand gesture.
Book: Where's the doctor? Not back yet?
Zoe: (beat) We don't make him hurry for the little stuff. He'll be along.
Book: He could hurry... a little.
'Safe'
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shrift - Aug 09, 2007 6:02:02 am PDT #748 of 10000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Cashmere - Aug 09, 2007 6:08:46 am PDT #749 of 10000
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I found it deeply stupid, shrift. And yeah, best not to waste any more time on it, after that realization.
shrift - Aug 09, 2007 6:21:19 am PDT #750 of 10000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Oh, bless you. I thought the musical numbers were pointless and interminable, I had a lot of rage for the overt racism, and the fact that they presented the protagonist as mentally retarded because he was different made me want to stab the moviemakers in the face.
Cashmere - Aug 09, 2007 6:30:31 am PDT #751 of 10000
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I have a three year old that keeps asking to watch it but I hope Surf's Up comes out on DVD or PPV soon so I can show him penguins and he'll be happy.
Aims - Aug 09, 2007 6:35:26 am PDT #752 of 10000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
My mind is odd sometimes.
"Layla" was just playing on Launch. And it gets to the instrumental part at the end, and the images that run through my mind are from Goodfellas and all of those dead people that were involved in the airport heist.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 09, 2007 7:41:15 am PDT #753 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
"Layla" was just playing on Launch. And it gets to the instrumental part at the end, and the images that run through my mind are from Goodfellas and all of those dead people that were involved in the airport heist.
Not just you Aimee, not just you.
beekaytee - Aug 09, 2007 8:51:12 am PDT #754 of 10000
Compassionately intolerant
Did anyone else find Happy Feet, uh, deeply problematic?
Really. Really. Really disturbing. At the time, I thought it was just me thinking too hard.
§ ita § - Aug 09, 2007 8:52:54 am PDT #755 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Tell me more about the problems with this movie. I'm very curious.
juliana - Aug 09, 2007 8:58:37 am PDT #756 of 10000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
8 months late to the party, but I saw Pan's Labyrinth last night. Um. I didn't like it very much. I can see how I would have liked it, but the nose-breaking scene damn near made me throw up (and thinking about it now upsets me to the point of tears), and I couldn't step out of that headspace to enjoy anything else. I can see what del Toro was doing, and I appreciate his genius, but that scene and a couple others killed any enjoyment I had of the rest of it. IOW, I agree with SA's assessment: SA "Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell" Dec 27, 2006 8:36:50 pm PST
Did anyone else find Happy Feet, uh, deeply problematic?
Yeah, me too. I could gloss over it in the theater, but as soon as I started thinking about it outside, I got cranky.
Cashmere - Aug 09, 2007 9:07:12 am PDT #757 of 10000
Now tagless for your comfort.
Tell me more about the problems with this movie. I'm very curious.
The tale of alienation, I could swallow. The ending just...I dunno...seemed too ridiculous. And that's in a movie with a Penguin voiced by Nicole Kidman singing Prince's "Kiss."