Robindaybird posted:

Could we just do away with the concept of 'your true love is the first guy you locked eyes with'?

Ghost Leviathan posted:

I keep telling yas that romantic comedies and cartoon subplots have done way worse in warping young people's ideas of relationships than porn ever could.

Pick posted:

And I keep thinking you're wrong because as romantic comedies have died and porn has become omnipresent, young people have not become emotionally healthier in any readily identifiable way.

Das Boo posted:

There has to be some weird old folk tale about this being insisted on so much that the young lady stabs her eyes out.

Space Cadet Omoly posted:

And I keep telling EVERYONE that all movies (including both romantic comedies and pornographic ones) are a reflection of society as a whole and that rather than simply teaching lessons they reinforce ideals that are already prevalent in our culture and that we must figure out WHY these ideals exist before we can improve things in any meaningful way! Which in turn leads to people telling ME "Ma'am, this is a Cracker Barrel, please stop yelling at the customers"!

....wait, what was the question?

Barudak posted:

Despicable Me 2 is such a loving regressive film it still astounds me.

Barudak posted:

Despicable Me 2 is such a loving regressive film it still astounds me.

Phylodox posted:

I don't think any media is ever really going to get healthy relationships completely right because they don't really make good entertainment. Real life healthy relationships are all about boredom, and that's not a bad thing. Most people outside of war zones and other horrible places probably spend 90% of their time being bored. The secret to a good relationship is finding someone you're okay being bored with. Someone you can fold laundry with on a Sunday morning or shop for blinds on a Tuesday afternoon. Movies and television compulsively focus on the beginning of relationships because that's the part that's new and exciting and so people get this idea that the whole relationship is supposed to be like that and when it's not they think there's something wrong with them or their partner and they try to inject drama into things.

We need to teach kids that entertainment is entertainment, and has no real bearing on our real lives.

Pick posted:

and nurturing is boring to you, huh

Space Cadet Omoly posted:

Honestly, I find the opposite situation to be much more annoying, were you have characters in a clearly toxic relationship (Rick and Morty, a disturbing amount of mid-2000 sitcoms, later seasons of The Simpsons) and they keep fighting about the same things over and over again and there's no reason for them to stay together yet they do and it's VERY boring and unpleasant to watch.

LORD OF BOOTY posted:

I feel like Rick and Morty is better than usual for the trope you don't like; the family dynamic is honestly pretty well-thought-out and consistent, and there's a clear and I believe directly stated reason (Morty's well-being) why the family sticks together.

e: Also, Beth and Jerry don't fight often, so much as their personalities clash hard and they don't actually like being around each other. It's a depressing situation, definitely, but it's one that's pretty relatable.

Robindaybird posted:

Let's not forget the sheer amount of "My wife the battleaxe", and "The Ol' Ball of Chain" jokes that's been around since at least the 1920s if not way earlier, and even to the point you can get wedding cake toppers of the bride dragging the groom, or even have him tied up.

There's way too much culture baggage that every woman should and must get married and it's their ultimate goal in life, and while every man must settle down, but marriage means the end of fun times and must be put off as long as possible.

Ccs posted:

Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law is coming back as a special on adult swim (its animated, and a special is sorta like a movie...)

In terms of joke density that show was up there with Arrested Development, only packed into 11 minutes. It'll be interesting to see if it can work as a standalone special and how many callbacks it'll include. Hopefully it wont be as disappointing as Arrested Development's comeback.

Robindaybird posted:

Let's not forget the sheer amount of "My wife the battleaxe", and "The Ol' Ball of Chain" jokes that's been around since at least the 1920s if not way earlier, and even to the point you can get wedding cake toppers of the bride dragging the groom, or even have him tied up.

There's way too much culture baggage that every woman should and must get married and it's their ultimate goal in life, and while every man must settle down, but marriage means the end of fun times and must be put off as long as possible.

resurgam40 posted:

I just got back from Smallfoot, in a matinee showing with me and like two other people with a kid (because it was a nice day outside and everyone apparently wants to take walks or play outside during those). And yeah, it was cute!

I knew I would like the animation and character designs going in, due to the previews, but the set design and lighting are genuinely very nice, baking really good use of lighting and color to establish tone and mood. It's also a musical, which still surprises me when any movie not Disney does it, and the songs are all... OK? I guess? (One was a remix of Ice Ice Baby/Under pressure, which I found "Eh", and the one I liked the most is a rap song, presumably written by Common...) They didn't impress me, but they weren't bad, and stayed on message. Which was a good message, to be sure: don't fear the unknown, be open to communication- probably all of the things you surmised from the trailer. That's no surprise, but what is a surprise is just how dark they were willing to go- the invocation of dark humor to underline the potential dangers of the status quo, in the descriptions of Migo's family and what being the Gongringer entails over time, the harshness of the scene in which the Stonekeeper reveals the truth about the village and why they live there (probably my favorite scene in the whole movie, the cinematography is very good), and a fairly intense and final action beat that is played straight and sincere (beyond a pretty funny Pac Man gag). Sincerity is pretty much the watchword of this movie; it's earnest in a way that I haven't really seen in a lot of kid's movies, eschewing sarcasm and times for gags and scat humor* for plot and character development... which will probably cost in the box office, as gag a minute dance raves a la Trolls is "what the kiddies want", according to the reviewers who asserted that their own kids were bored when they took them. Wonder if that's why it got the dreaded PG rating... no, that was probably the aforementioned thematic elements. (But given that both Trolls and Wreck it Ralph, as well as every other animated movie I've seen, has a PG rating, the MPAA may have just gone ahead and retired the G rating.)

Also, would you look at that: no dance party ending, just a cheesy group shot photograph one. All in all, liked it, would recommend, hope it does very well so more movies like it will be made.

*Although the way they use that humor is my preferred method of doing so: second or two gags that are integrated subtly and not highlighted at all by anyone. And, Yeah! Thumbs Up! That's how you do it.

Macaluso posted:

ThermoPhysical posted:

Didn't Sony do Smallfoot? If so, they apparently didn't have much confidence in it.