that's uh, quite a twist. I never would have guessed that the movie was about THAT.
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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."
§ 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.
Consuela - Jun 19, 2012 8:15:29 am PDT #21227 of 30000
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askye - Jun 19, 2012 8:23:40 am PDT #21228 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
Thanks for the suggestions! I hadn't thought about Nightmare before Xmas or the Miyazaki, those might be good choices.
Actually I don't know if he knows those PBS shows, they don't want a lot of tv and don't have Netflix. Mostly he just watches dvds he owns or are from the library. I'll have to point her towards those.
E's mother and her fiance died suddenly earlier this year and he's still trying to understand what happened. Mom said she thought he had enough movies where someone dies and it would be nice to have movies where everyone lives.
Jessica - Jun 19, 2012 8:32:34 am PDT #21229 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Huh. I spent the entire screening wishing I was watching the film this review describes.
Merida is a standout, memorable character.
She is?
Elinor is a well-rounded character that has hopes, a past, and dreams for the future.
Elinor was my biggest disappointment of all. She could have been this, but instead they just pulled her off the shelf labeled "Stock characters: Moms" and gave her a Scottish accent.
It is, in its best moments, about complete, flawed women of different ages and mindsets, trying to meet each other in the middle
That is exactly the movie I wanted.
As for "what equality really means," I think it means not giving Pixar bonus points just because their protagonist is a girl. It means demanding that their female lead characters be as memorable and richly developed as their previous male leads and previous female supporting characters. Don't be so thrilled that the princess has a bow and arrow that you ignore the fact that that's all she does. Ellie showed more personality in a 20 minute montage than Merida does in an entire 90 minute film!
(Sorry, apparently I'm really angry about this film being mediocre instead of great.)
Atropa - Jun 19, 2012 9:09:25 am PDT #21230 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Miyazaki (Totoro
Um, if she's looking for no parental deaths, this may be one to skip. The girls' mother doesn't die (IICR), but she is in a hospital. And while I know I have a library full of issues around that sort of thing, I didn't know about that plot point when I first saw Totoro, and it kinda blindsided me.