DominicCobb said:

darthrush said:

Zootopia- 6/10

Not very fun. Sloth scene was hilarious but I felt it forgot about being a good movie and spent more time beating you over the head with its political messages. Pixar films like Wall-E, Toy Story, Monsters Inc, Up etc. present touching and resonant messages without making things too political. I agree with some of the messages but the line where she gets called cute and she says “it’s ok for other bunnies to call me cute but not you” (something along those lines) goes too far. I think that’s actually a genuinely bad things to teach kids. Not very fun. My mother and I were so excited for this but it overall was dissapointing.

Thought that line was a pretty funny joke.

It’s sad that nowadays a movie with a message about being nice to others and treating people who are different with respect is seen as political.

And I don’t really get what you mean about “forgot about being a good movie.” It created a fun and complex world with interesting characters. The story was engaging, well structured, and with significant thematic depth. The dialogue and humor was clever and the actors were at the top of their game. It’s not my favorite movie but the makers certainly remembered to make sure it had all the things a “good movie” needs.

  "...It created a fun...." I agree with all of that and I might have enjoyed it more than you DURING my first viewing. I try not to let careful analysis spoil the first viewing for me.

  SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS

  The movie is not about "...treating people who are different with respect....", it's about viciously HATING anyone who DARES to recognize that a predator is a predator. And, also, it's about the prey trying EVERYTHING.

There are three types of PEOPLE in the world, there are sheep, wolves, and sheep dogs(pathetically few in number). Like TOMORROWLAND, ZOOTOPIA posits a PREDATOR's idea of utopia where all sheepdogs are liquidated and the surviving prey are programmed to believe that the greatest possible evil is anyone who might DARE to harbor the least doubt about their predators.

Like TOMORROWLAND, ZOOTOPIA is a VERY impressive work of mass-psychology programming.

  Well, they are the most vicious and depraved psychopaths.

 X-MEN: APOCALYPSE
 Not bad. Not great either. A lot of set-up for the pay-off. The Silver Streak might be an example of where to go in the future.

 BATMAN V SUPERMAN
 Messy. SPOILERS The big fight was about five minutes and failed in it's causes and execution. I liked the cast in their roles, particularly Eisenberg (though noses running like that should never again be shown on screen.) Lois lane was good but unnecessary. Needed more WW.


 What is Whedon doing these days? He could be helpful in DC or the Xverse.

 INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE
Get ready folks! Looks like the Fourth will bring some deep-drilling aliens to cause havoc.
The established black lead Smith could have helped. A tighter focus on Smith, Goldblum, Pullman and Spiner might have helped, as well. Good to see Hirsch still kicking but his subplot could have been replaced with a simple cameo. They were stuck with the alien creature and ship designs from the original (I would have preferred something closer to the popular greys/little green men and saucers.) Great world building otherwise. I would have liked a montage/vignettes tour around the world showing how everyone was a reservist/defender. A simple shot of pilot trainees flying Foo Fighter simulators might have helped sell the sequences. Missed opportunities. Some Pandering and run-downs leave me uninterested in the obvious sequel set-up.

Smithers said:

I think you’re reading too far into this. The movie was pretty well written and was about equality and acceptance (which is a huge value these days so why not utilize that to make it evermore popular). Unless you have any articles or other information to back up your strange conspiracy. I don’t want to hear any more about it.

 A miniscule fraction of government budgets to emergency stockpiles for the ENTIRE population and their dogs (for security and morale) could prevent a democidal holocaust come 'The BIG GLITCH' and 'The Great Culling'. Instead, they use massive government funds to provide for themselves and the few they find useful in the aftermath. Also, they arrange funding for pop-entertainment propaganda, massive blame-shifting and projection onto the regular people they have set-up and consider useless eaters.

moviefreakedmind said:

Smithers said:

I think you’re reading too far into this. The movie was pretty well written and was about equality and acceptance (which is a huge value these days so why not utilize that to make it evermore popular). Unless you have any articles or other information to back up your strange conspiracy. I don’t want to hear any more about it.

I’ve never actually read one of his posts because it’s in a different formatting (I don’t read any post in an outside format simply based on principle), but from what I’ve heard from everyone else he is either a troll, crazy, or both.

He’s a crazy anti-Catholic internalized homophobic conspiracy theorist asshole troll.

He’s a CACIHCTAT.

LOL. I was actually going to use that acronym, but then I thought it’d be too clunky to be amusing.

Dragging this increasingly disturbing derailed train back onto the tracks I just watched a movie!

“Hush” (2016)

It’s a very familiar home invasion thriller plot (that must surely qualify as a genre in its own right by now?) and all the usual things happen. But the twist with this one is that the protagonist is deaf and it really makes a difference to how the two main characters behave. I can’t say more without spoiling it but this is a well thought out, smart movie. It mercifully doesn’t give the villian any kind of backstory or motive - he’s just some lunatic doing bad things because he likes to do bad things.

And at just over 80 minutes it doesn’t overstay its welcome either! It’s worth your time if you’re in the mood for a bit of tension!

I give it 5 creepy remote cabins out of 5.

yhwx said:

That didn’t land the way I expected.

No one expects the Goat Blowing Inquisition.

Neglify said:

He blows goats, I have proof.

 OOOHH, yeah, that's what it is! What a relief! I forgot about my...proclivity. All that huffing induces hallucinations.

 I was having delusions about the whole "conspiracy" being played-out in KINGSMAN, complete with an "Obama" stand-in to take the fall for the purposefully set-up violence after the Glitch in the tech they give us.

If only they made a patch for this kind of thing.

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