Willow ,'Storyteller'
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Merciful heavens. When I saw first saw the trailer, I watched with my mouth hanging open...and not in a good way.
I've loved each of the three leads, but they are NOT mixy things. No. Not. Never.
Throw in the 'it's so EPPPIIIIICCCC' story and it just gets worse and worse.
Maybe it will become a cult classic of badness.
Maybe it will end up being like Jupiter Ascending and surprise us by being cheesy, but charming at the same time.
I can see no way to rescue that epic.
I did however see Inside Out today, and while I don't cry in movies, I got seriously sniffly there. That is a HELL of a great movie. Just stellar: great voice acting, beautiful animation, fabulous characters with a creative, fun plot. Also apparently fairly accurate, according to the therapist I saw it with.
Definitely see it, you won't regret it, unless you hate all things Pixar, in which case you have no soul.
From the trailer it looks like it is a story about clashing weapons. Humans are attached to end of the weapons and grimace a lot. I don't know if it ever occurred to anyone that the cute "cars" universe has a major horror undercurrent. The human race is extinct. The earth is populated by adorable self-driving cars running around with their own civilization. I think the movie makers are planning a competing franchise "swords" where humanity has become extinct, and adorable animated swords float around clashing with each other. Dragonsword is the prequel to that, showing how the humans became extinct in that universe.
Definitely see it, you won't regret it, unless you hate all things Pixar, in which case you have no soul.
I wouldn't say I regret seeing it, but I wasn't totally impressed. I cried at all the crypoints (which is to say, basically the entire movie), but thinking back I'm not sure I actually liked it. Because the entire movie is built on pretty high-level metaphors, the characters spend a LOT of time explaining the meaning of what they're doing instead of actually doing the things. And there were a couple of places where the metaphors were ignored in service of the plot, which I found annoying and lazy. (Like when the Train of Thought fell off the rails, it had no consequences in the real world. She *literally* lost her train of thought, but she didn't lose her train of thought? COME ON MOVIE. )
Three things in this movie which were sheer unequivocal brilliance: Lewis Black as Anger, the bit with the gum commercial, and the bit with the cat (stay through the credits!). And I do think the world would be a better place with Leslie Knope in charge of our brains.
I will say, Dylan loved it and it's given him some really good tools for talking about emotions. So it's an overall good thing that this movie exists, in spite of my reservations.
I just read that there's going to be a second Top Gun movie (apparently with Tom Cruise). And I just have to say -- if it's as homoerotic as the first one, I am ALL IN.
No one Cruise's age would be flying in the Navy as a fighter pilot, would they?
No one Cruise's age would be flying in the Navy as a fighter pilot, would they?
Nah, but he could be a Colonel giving shit to all the young guys.
I wouldn't say I regret seeing it, but I wasn't totally impressed. I cried at all the crypoints (which is to say, basically the entire movie), but thinking back I'm not sure I actually liked it.
Thank you! The more I think about it, the more problems I find. Especially after rewatching most of their other films.