I just saw Metropolis. It was the version with the Buenos Aires footage added back, and very coherent. I found it really engaging and interesting.
I just said that you're pretty. Even when you're covered in...engine grease, you're... No, especially, especially when you're covered in engine grease.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
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Calli - Jun 15, 2014 5:18:15 pm PDT #27079 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Kalshane - Jun 15, 2014 5:42:42 pm PDT #27080 of 30000
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Okay. Thanks, Hec.
beekaytee - Jun 15, 2014 8:15:37 pm PDT #27081 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
A friend mentioned this evening that her 9, 7 and 6 year olds (the last a boy) were all okay with HtTYDragon 2.
When I mentioned the bit in question, she seemed confused. "Oh, they were fine with that. Since it was paired with something else that happens, they were unfazed."
Kalshane - Jun 16, 2014 4:52:14 am PDT #27082 of 30000
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Good to know, bonny.
Where I initially saw the spoiler, it was presented as "OMG, this is the most traumatic scene in a kids movie ever. The theaters will be flooded by the tears of anguished children." but without any actual context.
It's sounding like the writer took it harder than the actual intended audience.
We'll still probably talk to my son about it beforehand, though.
DebetEsse - Jun 16, 2014 5:11:44 am PDT #27083 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
It's sounding like the writer took it harder than the actual intended audience.
I think this happens a lot.
Jessica - Jun 16, 2014 6:49:08 am PDT #27084 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I think this happens a lot.
Totally. Disney movie deaths off the top of my head which, IME, only upset adults:
- Pre-credits massacre of 500 babies in Finding Nemo
- Parents drowning in Frozen
- Mufasa murdered in The Lion King
- Bambi's mom
Honestly, I think if I'd warned D ahead of time that there would be a traumatic scene, it would have just primed him to be traumatized by it.
sj - Jun 16, 2014 6:52:43 am PDT #27085 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
The Fox and the Hound is the one Disney movie that I remember crying and begging to leave as a child.
Amy - Jun 16, 2014 6:59:24 am PDT #27086 of 30000
Because books.
I hated The Fox and the Hound. I didn't see it until I was an adult, but Jake LOVED it and wanted to watch it all the time. Hearing Jack Albertson as the mean old man just horrified me.
sj - Jun 16, 2014 7:40:00 am PDT #27087 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Honestly, I don't really remember anything about it. I never attempted to watch it again after making my mother leave the theater.
§ ita § - Jun 16, 2014 7:46:52 am PDT #27088 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Let's have an Old Yeller slumber party!