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MrCooper2012 t1_j6lc5wl wrote

Reply to Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022) by Huevos___Rancheros

I'm clearly in the minority but it just didn't do anything for me. I tried to stick with it, but it didn't pull me in whatsoever. The animation is well done, and I liked the art style quite a bit, but I didn't have the emotional reaction that many other people seemed to. Maybe I'll give it a go some other time, but as of now not my favorite from GDT.

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Huevos___Rancheros t1_j6lc574 wrote

Reply to What tf do you think was going on in “The Lighthouse”? by Conscious-Scale-587

I think it’s about a man struggling with his self identity, I think Thomas Howard is struggling with his sexuality and murderous past. As his alcoholism gets worse Thomas Wake becomes a manifestation of the guilt and disgust he has for himself. As Howard begins to drink again Wake becomes increasingly more unhinged and I don’t think that’s a coincidence. I think Howard is projecting his true self onto Wake, he views Wake as a disgusting man because he is disgusted with himself, he pretty much admits this when he confesses he changed his name to Winslow to give himself a clean slate.

Like I alluded to before I don’t think that Winslow actually died in an accident. I think that Howard had sexual relations with him and couldn’t take the guilt of this anymore so he murdered Winslow and covered it up with some bs story about a logging accident. Winslow’s ghost haunts Howard throughout the movie (his face appears on the face of the mermaid he is fucking and I don’t think that’s a coincidence at all) if Howard was so unbothered by seeing his death like he said he was why would Winslow be haunting him? It doesn’t make sense. To go back to the point of Howard’s guilt of his sexuality, this was made clear to me when he almost kisses Wake but then fights him instead. He rejects his homosexual urges and “re establishes his masculinity” by fighting him which is typically seen as a very masculine act.

By the end of the movie he gives in to these homosexual urges like he did with Winslow and he rapes Wake in that scene where he tells him to roll over (this is a little bit out there but you can see him fiddling with his crotch and he’s stood over him as he tells him to roll over). I think the ending is supposed to represent Howard attempting to come to terms with the truth (finally seeing the light) but he can’t handle it so he rejects it and dies.

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TehNoobDaddy t1_j6lbzms wrote

Reply to Avatar: The Way of Water was boring by Movie_Advance_101

I really enjoyed the film, didn't feel like a 3+hour film, visually it was beautiful, 3d was 3d didn't really add anything for me personally but when done well like in avatar i guess it's a fun change.

There were a few issues I had with the film though.

  1. where did all the water navi go at the end? They just straight up disappeared lol.

  2. why were all the kids using earth slang words like bro and cuz, didn't really make much sense or fit in with the avatar universe.

  3. the whale brain goo stuff, only being worth 80mil lol, seems like something that stops human ageing would be worth a lot more. (This is a minor nitpicky issue I'll admit lol), they don't explain how they randomly discovered this either considering how much effort it takes to get, and they leave the entire corpse after also so seems like a very specific thing to get without knowing about it prior or discovering it whilst they farmed whales for other purposes.

  4. this is probably the biggest one for me. They downloaded the bad guys memories and then put them in avatar bodies. So basically there is no risk/reward factor to them dying now as they can just come back with a new avatar body repeatedly. Making a big deal of the main bad guy seemingly die and then be saved doesn't have as much impact when he could just come back anyway (granted his memories from last download to death would be missing, but you'd assume they'd download regularly).

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