rose byrne gossiping incessantly IN EVERY SINGLE SCENE to the point where sometimes its only in the subtitles because you cant actually hear anyone, is fucking hilarious. she deserved to get jesus in charades!
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i donât think anyone is saying itâs homophobic to joke about buttplugs? the homophobia comes in when the joke is that itâs Weird & Unusual for a cis straight guy to like butt stuff
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that might be. I canât remember the bit too clearly but I donât think it came across like that to me when I saw it is all.
but mostly I was baiting felix to give me a blood potion with that post
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best thing about watching EEAAO was that it got me to revisit The Joy Luck Club the following day and then watch Ang Leeâs The Wedding Banquet not too long after and my heart was shredded and gently put back together by both re: mother-daughter relationship/immigrant experience/generational trauma/coming out to your parents
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both of those are far better films, yeah
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the presence of buttplugs by themselves isnât homophobic, even played for laughs, but when the joke is âhaha look at these guys putting stuff in their butts isnât that so gross?â thereâs no other word for it
I especially see no reason to trust the intentions of the guys who made the epic bacon meme incel apologia, swiss army man
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that bit is so reddit isnât it â a website full of buttplug enthusiasts asking each other some derivation of âfellas is it gay toâ
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I mainly approached it as a bit of nostalgia for all of my favorite Michelle Yeoh movies, and it felt nice to see her again in a goofy action comedy. And like Cuba, it manipulated me like a film is supposed to
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i recently watched crouching tiger hidden dragon with an ex and i have to say that movie is incredibly fucking good⌠ang lee boss of wuxia and american action tell me gemini man doesnt fucking bang (dont bc youd be wrong)
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EEAAO is fine but I prefer UUAAA or AAIEE in the category of sounds to make when I bang my knee on a drawer
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sadly, my time on sb has made me unable to say UUAAA without immediately yelling âSavage!â afterwards
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Watched Maniac Cop and Maniac Cop 2 and every single character gets wrecked constantly. No one is safe. It rules.
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your reviews on letterboxd made me crack up
Watching âThe Sweatboxâ which is basically a bunch of animators try to make âThe Emporerâs New Grooveâ while Sting shows up now and again. Bachelor was talking about it on the discord, and because I am a sucker for documentaries on long suffering creative projects, I had to check it out. This is the 2nd animation documentary Iâve seen via archive.org. The Sweatbox, because it contains Disney BTS stuff, was never released to the public and because itâs Disney it will never ever see the light of day.
One of the interesting things is seeing how the studio leads try to makeâŚpossibly the most generic story possible. Then all the animators who are assigned individual characters try to bring the most out of them. It also contrasts the creative process between Sting making music, and the kind of industrial approach that the rest of the team has. I think this is a pretty good insight into Disney circa 1999 when a lot of people said it was kind of at itâs low point and losing creative ground to Dreamworks.
The film is named after the titular âSweatboxâ where, after about 3 years of production, the animators show off the entire film in progress, and the studio leads tear the entire thing down and everyone is forced to pick up the pieces and make another one.
Anyway, Sting and his collaborator goof off a bunch, itâs fun. They have fun trying to make songs for The Emperorâs New Groove. Sting at one point sends a letter to the animators saying he hates the ending, but he doesnât use the coached language that the animation team uses, so itâs incredibly blunt and itâs fascinating to see them react to it.
The final scenes are of the marketing push and they have a small section where theyâre going over the McDonalds happy meal toys, I would probably feel incredibly guilty knowing a character I made is going to end up as several hundred tons of plastic that would eventually probably end up in a landfill, but thatâs capitalism baybay.
Yeah ok, one gripe I have about Cartoons is: why are so many of them musicals!?! I hated them as a child. The entire film grinds to a halt so they can sing and it sucks nearly every time. I canât think of one musical cartoon I ever liked the songs to. I never understood why theyâd be in a kids cartoon because what kid likes showtunes?! IDK
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ohhh that sounds GREAT. i love behind the scenes stuff where people like, arenât even thinking about if other people will see it, thatâs why the like 500 page book about the making of the bonfire of the vanities is completely deranged. how many people are REALLY going to put in effort to see how fucked up the inner workings of hollywood areâŚthe more of this stuff i see and read the more i fuckin hate art as an industry. im definitely gonna watch that
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I FUCKING LOVE THE SWEATBOX. i remember watching it when it came out because the internet was like DISNEY DOESNT WANT YOU TO SEE THIS!!! DOCUMENTARY BURIED BY DISNEY THAT TELLS THE TRUTH!!!
sting in the fucking hot tub being the fucking whinest baby quitter ever!!!
that llama-rama song gets stuck in my head CONSTANTLY too
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You might also like Persistence of Vision, which is a documentary about Richard Williamâs 30+ year quest to make âThe Thief And the Cobblerâ
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YES ive been trying to get veronica to watch both of these!!!
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i only remember daphny mentioning the sweatbox to me a long time ago but FINE ok you guys got me
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I think that Emperorâs New Groove is one of the better disney films, and I think it is because the end product came from such a troubled and chaotic production. Turning a self-important and over-serious project into a self-parody was the best possible result from the studio that produced something as risible as Pocahontas.
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