• edric
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    Just watched Elemental last night. The marketing really was the reason it bombed. The trailers made it look like a forbidden love story, but it was actually about the struggles of immigrant families and 2nd generation immigrants’ pressures of living up to their parents’ dreams.

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        192 years ago

        If you enjoy animation, yes. It’s not the top tier of Pixar but it’s not near the bottom either. I was pleasantly surprised.

      • edric
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        102 years ago

        I’d put it in the ran-out-of-other-things-to-watch category. It’s not bad, but not the best either. It had pacing issues, inconsistencies with how their world works, and some plot holes, but the animation was great and there were some genuinely funny lines.

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      102 years ago

      That is 100% why I didn’t care. Hell a friend of mine had a copy and I wasn’t even interested cuz the trailer made it sound like the most 2008 thing to ever exist

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      Yeah they really dropped the ball there. I wasn’t interested at all by the trailer. It looked like their least inventive yet.

    • @banneryear1868@lemmy.world
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      It lacked the wide age range appeal other Pixar movies manage to pull off. I didn’t like the fundamental elements as a metaphor for race/culture either, it’s sort of racist to imply people of different backgrounds are so fundamentally different like that, although it did serve as a strong visual for the story. It would have been more accurate if the characters were projecting fundamental differences on to the same element, like different phases of water or something. That was the only real thing I thought was actually wrong with it, otherwise it just lacked the magic that other Pixar movies have.

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        82 years ago

        Lmao I saw that meme a while ago but completely forgot about it until the scene came up. Honestly, the character wasn’t on it enough to be annoying. He had like less than a minute of total screen time even with all the dumb pickup lines.

    • We don’t really read the reviews for anything. We pirate everything cause fuck corporations. Our kids never saw anything about elemental but the cover. They love it.

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    Canadians only have two feelings. Being apologetic and being happy to see ya.

    Sometimes blood thirsty lumberjacks in a diabetic rage without the diabetes, but only when ya fuck with the maple.

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    These all boil down to “People have feelings and we’re going to explore them.”

    Sure, this is a meme, but every movie can basically be reduced to “what if [type of person] has feelings.” Because stories are always about the human condition.

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    432 years ago

    Tim Hortons is low-mid tier at best… Did you feel anything?

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      Have you talked to a Canadian in the past 15 years? Tim’s is low tier. Perhaps the bottom. McDonald’s coffee is even leagues ahead. Tim’s changed their bean supplier years ago and I’ve heard McDonald’s now uses it.

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        Kinda, what happened is Tim Hortons used to get their coffee from a supplier that would roast the beans for them, when they were bought out they switched to roasting their own beans which was cheaper.

        When McDonald’s entered the market they approached that same supplier and a blend was created for them, its not the same roast as Tim Hortons. But it is a premium roast vs Tim Hortons roasting on the cheap. Which is why Tim Hortons coffee got weaker. McDonald’s coffee is more akin to what Tim Hortons used to be.

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          12 years ago

          Ah, I knew there had to be more to the story. Thanks for the info.

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        Anyone who thinks that was the main plot point didn’t actually watch it and just listened to crazy people complaining about the movie.

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        Turning Red (2022)

        Also forgot “Pixar, 2020: What if nerds had feelings”

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          Turning Red

          Takes place in Canada, not America. So more accurately it should say ‘Chinese-Canadians’ instead of just Canadians.

          2020: What if nerds had feelings?

          Onward?

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            Yeah makes sense, for 2022 they actually didn’t list Lightyear, but that doesn’t match the “Chinese” part in the parent comment.

            Yes Onward, I love that movie :)

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    Should probably just keep listing movies back a century, and then books back for centuries before that, since “having feelings” is just how you tell stories that people like