Turning Red thread

I'm not even mad about the mentioning of pads. I actually will praise the film for having the guts to mention that menstrual cycles are an actual thing that happens. It's a natural part of growing up as a woman. Some might disagree with me but I didn't take issue with that.
 
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LETTER BOXD is a treasure...
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Muttnik said:
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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Yeah, I mean I don't think your standards are unreasonable or anything like that, the fact that you can be able to read those interpretations into the scenes even without the "coombrains" glasses on is worrying and should've been delivered more mindfully. It just makes me scratch my head because I didn't think anything in the movie was really that deep or stuck out to me as something I wouldn't want kids to watch.

(I don't particularly remember the party scene but with that said,) Similarly, I'm not entirely sure where the "horny" idea is coming from unless the whole thing with the girl group of friends being at the age to start having interest in boys/boy bands somehow counts because I don't particularly remember anything but girls drooling over abs. And that's, like, nothing. It's not too different from the 90s/00s anime the movie is aping where similar sight gags would be used.
 
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wtfNeedSignUp said:
You know, once upon a time you needed to make multiple high grossing films until the studio would greenlit your vanity project that's mostly about your life insecurities (in this case tiger mommy and having boys joke about her bloody underpants), nowadays they'll just burn down a 1/3 of a billion dollars just because you are an asian women.
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Musker and Clements had to do like 5 masterpieces of animation before they got to have fun and go do Treasure Planet.
 
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Muttnik said:
I'm not even mad about the mentioning of pads. I actually will praise the film for having the guts to mention that menstrual cycles are an actual thing that happens. It's a natural part of growing up as a woman. Some might disagree with me but I didn't take issue with that.
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yeah the whole "sell pictures of your special new body" seems way more sus than a period joke
 
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Kari Kamiya said:
And look how they were repaid with that one. Treasure Planet is a masterpiece and Disney fucked that movie in the ear.
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Treasure Planet is about a disaffected and disadvantaged young white man, who gradually works his way through said problems. Disney doesn't market it effectively, releases it against two big blockbusters (Santa Clause 2 and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) and it bombs.

Turning Red is about a Chinese-Canadian adolescent who has to deal with POOBERTY (OH NOES) and HORMONES (YIKEROONIES) and a MOM WHO JUST DOESN'T UNDERSTAND (MY PANDA MY CHOICE, MOOOOM). You can't go 5 seconds on JewTube without tripping over a Turning Red clipshow and critics slobbering over its dick. Any critic who actually criticizes the movie (or even just says "it's not for me") is hounded and canceled. Really makes you think.
 
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Muttnik said:
The virgin Turning Red, the chad Spirited Away.

One handled "Young girl coming of age via supernatural anime shenanigans" way better.
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ehh, tbdesu Spirited Away was about where I wandered off from Miyazaki
it was nice from a technical level to have a bunch of well-animated monsters everywhere or whatever but it struck me as a more over-complicated Totoro
 
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Muttnik said:
The virgin Turning Red, the chad Spirited Away. Only Yesterday.

One handled "Young girl coming of age via supernatural anime shenanigans" way better.
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FTFY.

While you’re not wrong with that choice, something tells me the director of this movie would totally miss the point of Spirited Away entirely, and think that the ghost with the funny white mask and black robe was only for comedic effect.
 
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albert the programmer said:
FTFY.

While you’re not wrong with that choice, something tells me the director of this movie would totally miss the point of Spirited Away entirely, and think that the ghost with the funny white mask and black robe was only for comedic effect.
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yeah and there was Porco Rosso which also pulled underage girl taught me to recognize my true face and that had airplane fights and shit too
 
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I finally asked my boss at work what she thought of it. She's one of those Disney adults who has merch everywhere and has made multiple vacations to Disney World with her wife and left her daughter at home.

She didn't like it and her eight year old daughter stopped watching it half-way through. Not even the target demographics are that invested in this movie.
 
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This is a movie that takes place in 2002 yet they barely touched on it, besides the whole 4 Town/Backstreet Boys and Tamagachis.

No mention of the war in Afghanistan, the original Xbox and PS2(missed console war opportunity there), no mention of the hit cop show The Shield, no mention of Pokemon, Yu Gi Oh, Digimon, Transformers( I grew up watching Armada), Sailor freaking moon.

The late 90s to 2000s was the beginning of the internet age and this movie was fucking squandered on telling a story about puberty.
 
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bebopsingh said:
No mention of the war in Afghanistan
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To be fair, this takes place in Canada, so that may lessen the impact of the war as it was an American thing, but not by much. It also follows children, which at that time, did not have the greatest exposure to politics compared to today. Still pretty weird to have it not included though besides this being a family picture.

bebopsingh said:
No mention of the war in Afghanistan, the original Xbox and PS2(missed console war opportunity there), no mention of the hit cop show The Shield, no mention of Pokemon, Yu Gi Oh, Digimon, Transformers( I grew up watching Armada), Sailor freaking moon.
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The early 2000s had quite a few cultural landmarks that seem to go unmentioned in this movie. I can forgive Hot Topic as that was a later 2000s thing, but the Tony Hawk skater culture was a large aspect of early 00s that seems barely mentioned. The 2000s had a more punk culture seemingly not captured by the film.

You could also mention the cultural explosion of SpongeBob during the time, he’ll even Rugrats managed to pull unreal viewership numbers back then. There also seems to be no mention of Guitar Hero/ Rock Band, Spider-Man, Star Wars prequels, etc..
 
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Basic Blonde Boy said:
To be fair, this takes place in Canada, so that may lessen the impact of the war as it was an American thing, but not by much. It also follows children, which at that time, did not have the greatest exposure to politics compared to today. Still pretty weird to have it not included though besides this being a family picture.


The early 2000s had quite a few cultural landmarks that seem to go unmentioned in this movie. I can forgive Hot Topic as that was a later 2000s thing, but the Tony Hawk skater culture was a large aspect of early 00s that seems barely mentioned. The 2000s had a more punk culture seemingly not captured by the film.

You could also mention the cultural explosion of SpongeBob during the time, he’ll even Rugrats managed to pull unreal viewership numbers back then. There also seems to be no mention of Guitar Hero/ Rock Band, Spider-Man, Star Wars prequels, etc..
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tbf this was in Canada so they probably were just getting copies of Independence Day smuggled through the vast wilderness to what few population centeres existed there at that point
 
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