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I enjoyed this movie as it's gorgeous and I love Guillermo Del Toro as a director, but I was pretty hung up on the ending especially.

Did anyone else feel like themes of mortality were weakened considerably by the handling of Pinocchio's >!immortality!<?

>!Especially when it's revealed that he's able to become mortal whenever he wants. And when he becomes mortal to sacrifice himself, he's brought back to life and made immortal again. And it seems to be implied he can also choose when to die as well?!<

>!After eternal life being brought up as eternal pain, the brevity of human life's importance to being human, and the threat of being alive until the end of time, I was extremely disappointed and slightly bothered this was all just written away by the ending.!<

I really liked this one, definitely a great recommendation for anyone who enjoyed Bone Tomahawk.

no one is insecure here. Its not a kids movie. Animation is not just for children. Animation is a MEDIUM. This movie hes said himself is not a kids movie. That if you do show it to your kids that it would bring some good talks but that its not made for them. And its not about me "liking it", I worked on it. I will PROUDLY say that Lion King (the original) Is one of my favorite movies. I got to disneyland every few weeks im not embarrassed by what I like.

It's a world class kitchen and the chef said they had everything, so that's the answer.

If you want more of an explanation than that, keep in mind that the restaurant had been up and running for a while, serving any number of diners any number of dishes. Plus, everyone who was living on the island would need a variety of food to eat themselves.

Any theorizing about why he had the ingredients other than "it's a kitchen and they have ingredients for food so people can eat" is nonsense.

As to your second question, the answer is No. She found a way to play his game and get out according to dining rules, plus she gave him back something he had lost: the joy of cooking. He never wanted or intended to kill her, so he was happy to find a loophole to let her leave.

I’ve seen him talk about it. There’s nothing in the film that was particularly deep and the film has absolutely no restraint in how it works thematically.

It’s absolutely is a children’s movie come on dude lmao. I like the film as well, you do not need to be so insecure about liking a kids movies that you need to pretend it’s not one.

yeah and those rocky sequels were forgotten as mediocre too lmao

Could summarize Reddit in general with that one sentence lol. Look at Velma for example.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

I hear a bunch of alcoholic hacks destroyed every known copy.

that was the 3rd one, Last Stand

But this isn’t that? It’s the government trying to get these companies to create and/or platform local productions that benefit the local film and TV industries. They don’t give a fuck if you watch it.

Xennials represent!

Have you seen GDT talk about the film? there is actually a lot of deep stuff there that doenst just hit you over the head. Also this isnt a childrens movie. Its not even aimed at children. So maybe you might need to look through another lens

I wouldn't attribute that to CanCon. Canada has always punched above its weight in that regard. Most of the artists they play the most (Bieber, Drake, The Weekend, etc.) became famous by promoting their stuff online and by signing with big labels in the USA. There were plenty of Canadian music icons before the rules also.

CanCon is just a way of our government giving more handouts to all the legacy media corporations who would otherwise fail.

Not even a criticism, it’s truly a feature of the film. I love when movies really use the music and Garden State does a few times really well

What does any of that have to do with me explaining Stallone's consistent descents into unentertaining solipsism as the primary creative choice?

"Dragos" wasn't an inevitability at all. It was simply the first idea Stallone had pop into his head, and so it was the only idea he ever pursued. And it shows.

This shot was included with the Great train robbery (1903):

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z4T1RC4uXQA

It was not connected with the film’s narrative and was generally shown after the main film had concluded.

It is the inspiration for this shot (and many others):

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf-bF_IQi6M

which was show at the end of Goodfellas.

It’s weird because I think Zach is almost anti-establishment/anti-pretense in this but because his family and town is relatively wealthy that people read the movie as pretentious instead of the environment/characters?

> I have watched thousands of movies and own ~500 and could not force myself to sit through the whole movie.

Congrats?

I see this a lot. People come up with an observation that isn’t wrong but people pretend it’s a complete eye opener and all media must now be assessed though that (one) lens so things are still inaccurate (lol) but consistent to a certain angle/take

Makes me think a bit of how Malcolm Gladwell is mostly fluff on top of common sense but the fluff is what really engages readers

I turned it off half way through.

I have watched thousands of movies and own ~500 and could not force myself to sit through the whole movie.

Not G's best work.

Is MBJ playing a don in this movie?

As if rocky has never been the bad kind of melodramatic before......

> “‘Oh God, Nukie!’”