Did not expect to be cut so deep by Inside out 1. Mstr 11 and Miss 8 clearly got the message from the film too. Any younger and I doubt they would have understood and just been sad instead. With a daughter that struggles with sadness, anger, and joy, I think she felt represented.
Not quite sure what inside out 2 brings. It might be too soon for miss 8, but mstr 11 is just about to enter the gauntlet that is teenhood. Hopefully. this eases the passage somewhat
Itās not as gut wrenching as the first. There is nothing that compares to that Bing Bong scene. It also isnāt too complex for even the younger kids. Even though it involves the added emotions that come with growing up and puberty, I donāt think it is anything younger kids wonāt understand. Riley is torn between her friends and her opportunity to play hockey at a higher level. She makes some questionable decisions that are very easy for kids to understand and she then questions if that makes her a bad person. Plus there is enough zaniness that if the subtleties of the emotions go over your kidsā heads they will still enjoy the movie. It isnāt as good as the first movie but it is still heaps better than a majority of the animated movies that are churned out these days.
Apparently it just became the highest-grossing animated film in history. Thatās crazy. Never would have guessed itād be doing those Frozen and Mario numbers.
Thanks for mentioning the bing bong scene. It makes me feel my emotions were valid. For the kids it was over in a few seconds, but as an adult we knew exactly what was happening the moment he stepped out. We all have our own versions of self sacrifice burnt into us from whatever show we watched as kids. I didnt think they made shows like that anymore.
Regardless, eventually I could explain to my kids what happened without my voice cracking, but I definitely needed a hug afterwards.
So Im glad inside out 2 wont be so brutal. Thanks for the reassurance
I wanted to like Demeter so much. I thought it was a cool idea, to take a small part of the source material and maybe turn it into an Alien-like period-piece horror movie. I think I fell asleep watching it.
No one seems to have mentioned Deadpool & Wolverine.
With the massive caveat that you will almost certainly need to enjoy previous Deadpool humour, then Im comfortable to say this is a Very Good Deadpool movie. Great action, superb villain. Possibly the best Deadpool movie yet.
Any recommendations for demons/ hell based movies? Im playing a game about demons, Im watching Constantine, but think I want more.
Im more interested in the deep lore, like perhaps in Dogma. While I thoroughly enjoyed the devils advocate, Im more looking for hellscapes and named demons that would upset my Christian friends
Ninth Gate, As Above So Below, Event Horizon, ā¢Rec (Spanish), When Evil Lurks (Spanish), 30 Coins (Spanish series), Hereditary, Late Night With The Devil, Errimentari (Spanish), The Wailing (Korean), Angel Heart, Prince of Darkness, Belzebuth (Spanish), Blackcoatās Daughter, Fallen, Hellraiser, The House That Jack Built, The Dark and the Wicked.
The Sandman and Good Omens series both go to hell at points, and characters in hell are more than simple caricatures. Iāve not been following the sex crime allegations carefully, so I get if people arenāt feeling like supporting his work.
As with most news, I feel like itāll be best for me to digest after some time passes, if for no other reason than to allow my initial desire that it not be true to give way to acceptance.
You mean these:
Yes, I was also shocked ā¦.
Yup. But Iām noticing myself latching onto concerns about the impartiality of the person who broke the story, and some odd quotes/facts. So, while Iām in a position to acknowledge that there is this issue, I donāt feel like Iām doing a good job of evaluating it (and, really, itās not like my opinion matters). But, since it was shows derived from his works which came to mind when I was thinking about visual media which explores hell and demons, I thought I should flag that thereās an evolving and important story which might affect oneās decision about whether to consume that media.
Thats sad news about Giaman being #metoo -ed. I dont want to believe it, but even accusations tend to stick.
And thanks for the recommendations OhBollox, I knew I could count on you
Many, many years ago, I worked in the comic book industry. And I knew a lot of comic book artists and writers and editors, etc. I was friends with some of them, many others were acquaintances. It was a great job, in some ways, but also one of those jobs that showed me everything about how the sausage is made, at a lot of different levels, and it eventually ruined me for comics for a while. I honestly hate talking about this experience because it tends to make me want nothing to do with comic books whenever I think of it.
But in the course of my time doing that, I met a lot of really interesting people, including Neil Gaiman. And we got along. He was a generally nice guy, intensely creative, funny, and very literate about a lot of topics. He was also very pleased about how smart he was, he liked his status in the industry a lot, and he certainly enjoyed the attention he got from fans. All of which is very forgivable and understandable. And we got along well; we were friendly acquaintances. He introduced me to people, weād make time to talk at cons, and for some time, we had each otherās home phone numbers and would talk infrequently. He was married to his first wife Mary back then, and she would often answer the phone and was quite lovely. He had kids, and he was an attentive parent, from what little I knew.
At a certain point, something changed about him, though. The celebrity and adoration seemed to mean a lot more to him. There was a lot of gossip for a while about him and the musician Tori Amos, and he refused to dispel any of it. He was still the same nerdy smart guy, but he seemed a lot more occupied with escaping comics (I could hardly blame him), perusing wider fame, and garnering the attention of other women. Again, these were only my observations, and these are by no means uncommon or even ābadā characteristics. But there was an aspect to him that I quickly grew to dislikeāsomething about his personality felt more unscrupulous and even cut-throat. I had left the industry around that point (so it is easy to understand why he may have been less interested in me), and we stopped staying in touch.
I heard a lot of things about him from lingering friends I knew in comics and publishing, and all of it was what I can best describe as being said very carefully. The messages and implications were fairly clear, though I had stopped caring about anything related to comics, honestly, so I never knew what to believe and didnāt track it. But none of it made me doubt in any way what I had felt changed about him. He soon left his wife, and that was sad to me, but not really surprising.
Now, for what itās worth, the current news has also been sad but not surprising to me either. I am only (mildly) surprised it took so long.
And now I see the meaning of your username.
Obligatory I did not subject myself to this level of masochism
