So I guess that rules out most of Disney for Dylan? Oh, and Babar books.
That's my girl, large and in-charge. Okay, teensy-weensy and in charge.
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megan walker - Jun 17, 2012 7:34:27 am PDT #21217 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
§ ita § - Jun 17, 2012 7:42:18 am PDT #21218 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm pretty sure John Travolta and his representatives have no idea about what is or isn't a good movie
I just mean about the box office and the run Kitsch has had so far this year. Nothing to do with quality.
JZ - Jun 17, 2012 7:47:02 am PDT #21219 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Matilda's pretty good at dealing with people-in-peril storylines as long as someone else is spoiled and can promise her that everything turns out okay. When we're reading chapter books with suspense or even potential peril, I have to reassure her that I've read ahead and that it turns out okay; if we're both unspoiled and I can't make that promise, she flips out.
So I think, with some prep beforehand reinforced with in-movie reassurance, she should be okay with Brave.
And, man, she has absolutely no concept of the badness of spoiling plot twists, which has been an issue when she and Emmett watch episodes of Korra and Adventure Time together as he's fairly spoilerphobic but his objections are completely baffling to her. And amusing to me, since he did the exact same thing when he was her age. He gripes and grouses about her spoilage, and when I point out that he did it to me all the time himself, he says, "Yeah, but that was when I was five!"
"And she is how old now?"
"But that's different! Don't ask me how! STOP JUDGING ME OKAY!"
Jessica - Jun 17, 2012 12:03:45 pm PDT #21220 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
So I guess that rules out most of Disney for Dylan?
If it's quick or offstage (Bambi, Finding Nemo), it doesn't register too much, so most Disney is ok. In Brave, probably 75% of the movie is the mom-as-a-bear being pursued and almost killed by everyone else ever, and it's not even remotely clear (except that since it's a kids movie it must be) that it will be okay in the end.
le nubian - Jun 17, 2012 12:11:55 pm PDT #21221 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
that's uh, quite a twist. I never would have guessed that the movie was about THAT.
§ ita § - Jun 17, 2012 12:17:14 pm PDT #21222 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah, that's sure not set up in any way by the trailers. Huh.
Liese S. - Jun 17, 2012 3:43:59 pm PDT #21223 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Huh.
Zenkitty - Jun 17, 2012 7:18:27 pm PDT #21224 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Actually, I figured that out from the trailers. Mainly from the part where Merida is leaping and reaching out to the bear. Had to be either her dad or her mom, and since her relationship with her mom was more fraught... yeah.
askye - Jun 19, 2012 8:07:45 am PDT #21225 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
I need the buffista hivemind for recommendations. Mom wants to add more movies to my nephew's video library library. E will be 4 in August. He's got some Disney stuff, most Pixar, and he likes Backyardigans, Blues Clues, Bob the Builder, and Fireman Sam.
She really wants to find things with very little violence (or, at least, no more than you'd find in Finding Nemo or A Bug's Life, or something), and NO DEATHS. Especially NO PARENTAL deaths.
So, any suggestions? (movies or tv shows)
Jessica - Jun 19, 2012 8:13:58 am PDT #21226 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Wallace & Gromit. Miyazaki (Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Ponyo).
Nightmare Before Christmas, unless "no deaths" eliminates it since the main character is a skeleton...
For TV shows, he probably knows all the PBS Kids stuff already (Dinosaur Train, SuperWHY, Sid the Science Kid, etc). I don't know what's on the other kids networks these days because I'm trying to avoid letting D watch commercials unsupervised.