Turning Red thread

starborn427614 said:
I've seen plenty of praise for the film from the audience it's actually aimed at. I'm not its target audience either but managed to enjoy it just fine, maybe it's just not your cup of tea.
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It's not. I wouldn't have hated this film as much as I did if it wasn't so goddamn creepy with minors. Even Inside Out was more tasteful about the concept of a young girl growing up. It didn't involve twerking minors.
 
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Watched it, i didn't like the designs of the characters, i thought the whole panda metaphor for reaching teenage years was weird, the real villain was the grandma lol, i am getting somewhat tired of "generational trauma" being the conflict of many modern disney pixar movies. coco, encanto, this one, meh, i wish villains like scar or frollo made a comeback.

Also, am i the one who dislikes the weirdly high quality textures and details in simple designs?
 
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“For it to hold his attention was amazing in itself and then he got it,” the 45-year-old from Everson, Pennsylvania, told TODAY Parents. “He goes, ‘So let me get this right. Was that movie about big feelings and that it’s OK to have them?’ And I was like, ‘Absolutely.’”
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“I find the criticisms surprising because Meilin's experience is rooted through the very specific lens of her Asian-Canadian family,” Misa Sugiura, 52, a young adult author from Los Altos, California, told TODAY Parents. “But so much of what she experiences is universal.”
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“People talk about how cringy it is and it’s not surprising because we live in society that has a fundamental disrespect for teenage girls and the things they love,” she said. “It speaks to the way we see teenagers and teenage girls ... and their experience is undervalued.”
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Laura Rihn’s children Cameron, 10, and Olivia, 4, loved “Turning Red.” While Cameron knows about periods, Olivia doesn’t. Still, neither noticed the scenes mentioning pads or periods. Like Adyn, the movie helped Cameron address the feelings he has been experiencing lately.

“He’s been very interested in learning how to manage his emotions,” Rihn, 39, of Pittsburgh, told TODAY Parents. “I was like, ‘Hey do you guys want to watch this new Pixar movie that’s coming out on Friday?’ My son was like, ‘Absolutely. I saw it’s about a girl who has big emotions.’”
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GeorgeBushDid711 said:
For some reason meme edits about this film kept appearing in my Youtube recommendations even though I had never heard of this awful movie or clicked on anything related to it.
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I checked in this thread because of this fact. It seems like YT is pushing this to everyone or their system is broken as usual. I don't care about the movie and from what it looks like and things I've been hearing from it, I don't like it.
 
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I agree with all the posts saying the movie is mediocre/too tailored to the director's experiences, but the ones that weird me out are the Cuties comparisons.

Like yeah the metaphor for puberty and all, but the selling pictures/merch stuff isn't like she's posing with her legs spread or whatever other sexually charged positions you could imagine, it's treated more like that kid at school who squirreled their pet cat away into their backpack and hey do you wanna cuddle it? It's how kids would act if you brought an animal to school. Teachers would shut the whole thing down and send the pet home ASAP, so you hide it away. The panda is treated like and shaped like a Marketable Plushie, you can't even force unfortunate angles to pretend cleavage or ass exists. It gets hugged like a giant mascot character, no one rubs on it in an especially concerning way (not even a belly rub iirc).

Similarly, the main character shaking her butt at her mom during the movie's climax is also just because butts are funny, shocking your mom with it is funnier.

The only way it comes close to Cuties is if you want to read the worst possible interpretation into every scene, which I think a handful of people here are doing.


Anyway, there was another post mentioning they thought the mom would also join the main character in keeping the panda, which I was also surprised to see she didn't since an entire scene is dedicated to how the mom and the daughter actually had really comparable experiences (where the grandmother didn't approve of mom's then-boyfriend-now-husband at the time and she really had to fight for him and hurt grandma in the process). The message of the movie is basically "it's okay to be yourself" so it was a little unexpected. I guess I can see why, the mom already repressed everything, she's happy with her life as it is, plus the technicality of her panda naturally being giant monster sized so it's not as easy to pop in and out of.
 
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patchwork said:
I agree with all the posts saying the movie is mediocre/too tailored to the director's experiences, but the ones that weird me out are the Cuties comparisons.

Like yeah the metaphor for puberty and all, but the selling pictures/merch stuff isn't like she's posing with her legs spread or whatever other sexually charged positions you could imagine, it's treated more like that kid at school who squirreled their pet cat away into their backpack and hey do you wanna cuddle it? It's how kids would act if you brought an animal to school. Teachers would shut the whole thing down and send the pet home ASAP, so you hide it away. The panda is treated like and shaped like a Marketable Plushie, you can't even force unfortunate angles to pretend cleavage or ass exists. It gets hugged like a giant mascot character, no one rubs on it in an especially concerning way (not even a belly rub iirc).

Similarly, the main character shaking her butt at her mom during the movie's climax is also just because butts are funny, shocking your mom with it is funnier.

The only way it comes close to Cuties is if you want to read the worst possible interpretation into every scene, which I think a handful of people here are doing.
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Yep, I noticed this as well. Some of these same people are in discords or use 4chan where animated/cartoon porn of kids are posted on the regular. It seems their coom brains are fried and they go straight to sexual implications with child friendly media. Then you notice their other main complaint is that the kids aren't attractive enough and you realize what's really going on.
 
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big ups liquid richard said:
Yep, I noticed this as well. Some of these same people are in discords or use 4chan where animated/cartoon porn of kids are posted on the regular. It seems their coom brains are fried and they go straight to sexual implications with child friendly media. Then you notice their other main complaint is that the kids aren't attractive enough and you realize what's really going on.
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Dude. People had to animate kids shaking their asses at their moms. And getting sweaty over erotic art. Did the party scene REALLY need to be playing Bootylicious? Did there need to be a direct "my panda, my choice" line?

It's not Cuties level obviously. I think it would fly over most kids' heads. But it is creepy. And with critics gushing over how "horny" the film was, what other impression are we supposed to glean?
 
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The simpsons had animated kids shaking their bare asses over 20 years ago.
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This was on network television.
I don't see how this film is any worse.
 
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big ups liquid richard said:
The simpsons had animated kids shaking their bare asses over 20 years ago.
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This was on network television.
I don't see how this film is any worse.
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The Simpsons is an "adult" comedy show that satirizes suburban living. Or at least it was back in the day. It isn't a general-audience movie targeting children with a main focus on puberty.

Tbh I would rather not have sexualized minors in any capacity. The Simpsons doing it doesn't make it okay either.
 
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Adult? It's rated PG. Always was. This film is also PG. And considerably tamer.
Muttnik said:
Tbh I would rather not have sexualized minors in any capacity. The Simpsons doing it doesn't make it okay either.
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Yeah and I suspect the same puritan busybodies coming for this film, would probably try to get The Simpsons cancelled if they did it back then, or today. Those scenes are funny. I thought so when I was a kid too.
 
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big ups liquid richard said:
Adult? It's rated PG. Always was. This film is also PG. And considerably tamer.
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Note the quotes. And that also doesn't address the fact that I said the Simpsons shouldn't have done it either.

Like I said, I don't think kids would notice the creepy shit. But they had the option to tone down the overt creepiness and didn't. There are tons of other coming of age films and stories that handle the concept way better.
 
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big ups liquid richard said:
Really? Those scenes are funny as hell. I'm glad people like you have no real power so we could at least get the good years of Simpsons before it went to shit.
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I never watched the Simpsons. I have literally no emotional attachment whatsoever and its humor does nothing for me. So make of that what you will.
 
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big ups liquid richard said:
Adult? It's rated PG. Always was.
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>The Simpsons
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^Literally in the first goddamn season.
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I never watched the Simpsons. I have literally no emotional attachment whatsoever and its humor does nothing for me. So make of that what you will.
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Meh, your loss. Early Simpsons (seasons 1-8 or so) is actually legit kino.
 
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I'll be nice. I think the film had potential. With better writing and directing, you could have made something really charming out of this. Maybe not the best looking film but enough to make up for it.

The problems with the film isn't just with the creepy stuff. The film just... doesn't hit. The emotional scenes are either rushed or just don't come off strong due to the pretty mediocre voice acting. The film meanders in parts, has weird messages, and overall seems really unfocused.

Again, you COULD have made something out of this. But it just doesn't land.
 
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