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I just finished watching it and enjoyed it. There’s been a lot of backlash on Youtube, even before the movie was released, from people who assumed that it woud be just one more in the growing list of Disney’s failures.
The script the animators were given to work with could have been far better. In particular, the lyrics of some of the songs were quite cringeworthy. (I’ve seen it suggested that Artificially Intelligence may have contributed to their composition. That’s quite plausible!) Yet the animators did a marvellous job of conveying convincing emotional reactions through the gestures and facial expressions of the CGI characteters.
A lot of people seem to have misunderstood the message conveyed by the basic plot, claiming that having everyone’s wishes granted is not a “good thing” and so in the beginning the king was “right” and that Asha was “wrong” to rebel against him. Those people have missed the point. My interpretation is that in the beginning the king was a “benign dictator” who “meant well” but was infantilizing his subjects. When Asha opposed him he became an evil dictaror. I believe, as did Asha, that the “wishes” (aspirations) of free individuals are things they strive to achieve through their own efforts, not things “those in authority“ have any right to manipulate. The “moral” of the fable has obvious parallels in the real world.
A <i>lot</i> of publicity about the new thriller Psycho preceded its release in the UK. The brilliant ad campaign generated mystery and curosity; <i>it gave nothing away </i> about the plot, you just had to come and see it to find out! Everybody had heard about it and keen movie-goers (like myself and my friends) eagerly awaited it and flocked to see it. <i>None of us had any idea what it was about.</i> Indeed, a major part of the publicity centered around the unusual ‘mandate’ that <i>no-one would be allowed into a cinema after the film had started!</i>
The shower murder <i>did</i> came as a big surprise to audiences in the UK.
Could it be that the trailer had very limited circulation, or was <i>not shown at all</i> in UK cinemas?
What kind of antisocial nincompoops would spoil a movie for others by talking audibly in a cinema?
The film <i>didn't</i> show an elderly woman with Alzheimers "like" she was possessed by an evil entity.
She <b><i>was</i></b> possessed by an evil entity! <i>That</i> was the horror, <i>not</i> the Alzheimers - which aroused sympathy and compassion.
"I don't go to the movies to solve a puzzle, I go there to be entertained."
Some of us are entertained by puzzles. Just because you're not doesn't mean we're faking it to "feel superior".
Brilliant female mathematicians are rare, but they DO exist!
https://www.famousmathematicians.net/famous-female-mathematicians/
He didn't "previously" drop it he dropped it in the backward-flowing time if the bullet.
!f you could run that scene backwards you'd see him drop it!
If you "prefer to go into movies fresh" why would you come into discussion about a movie you haven't seen yet?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375735/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Don't be silly. The universal popularity of this movie is evidence that your statement that <i>"there was nothing about this film that would appeal to anyone outside of Latin America"</i> is utter nonsense.
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