[ SECRET POST #3102 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3102 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Zack and Miri Make a Porno]


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03.
[Video Games Awesome]


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04.
[Steven Universe]


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05.
[House MD]


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06.
[Blazing Saddles]


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07.
[My Love Story]


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08.
[Gordon Ramsay, Kitchen Nightmares]


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09.
[Robert Vaughn, Jack Lemmon, William Shatner]


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10.
[MMOs]


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11.
[Death Note]









Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 019 secrets from Secret Submission Post #443.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, I disagree. Their films are pretty, but I found, with the exception of Finding Nemo, that they're pretty standard fare.

Take Brave, for instance. First female protagonist! Yay! And what do they do? Make it yet ANOTHER story about a princess that doesn't want to get married.

Such creativity...

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT but originality and emotional stakes / intensity aren't necessarily that closely related.

Whether or not you can describe the plot of Brave in such a way that it sounds unoriginal isn't great analysis because it doesn't actually try to understand the reasons that people liked it.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, but I didn't care about the characters and I was so fucking disappointed in the plot that the whole film fell flat for me.

[(Anonymous)]

I love Merida, but the plot was weak and uninteresting. There was nothing that really "grabbed" me about the movie. Take Merida out of Brave and put her in a different movie, and maybe we'll talk.

[(Anonymous)]

I bawled like a baby watching Merida because of the heavy focus on the mother-daughter relationship, something you really don't see often.

[(Anonymous)]

This. Also I was really upset I'll never get to see it with my mum because she passed away just a few months before. I would have liked to share it with her.

[(Anonymous)]

I had issues with Brave's plot structure but it really annoyed me how many reviews I saw complaining that the focus on the mother-daughter relationship was something they'd seen too many times, considering how few mother-daughter focused kid's movies there are compared to a zillion father-son focused ones (yet no one ever complains when there's yet another movie about daddy issues).

[(Anonymous)]

She's the first Pixar female protagonist in 13 movies. And that's all they could come up with for her conflict. That's pretty pathetic. Other protagonists have conflicts that are totally unique to their interesting circumstances: toys being separated from their owner as a metaphor for change/growing up! An overprotective father fish loses his son to scuba divers and overcomes his own fears retrieving him (and learns about letting go)!

Brave is like...a straight-up fairy tale? The kind that made me shake my head as a kid because the plot makes no sense? And why can't Merida be non-human like in all the other Pixar movies? A young bat who wants to fly during the daytime instead of only at night? Or, I don't know, a chameleon trapped in a botanical garden who wants to see what real nature is like?

Why is she a damned princess who has to get married? It's just so cliched I get sick to my stomach thinking about it. Is that really where Pixar goes when they think "oh, we have to make a movie with a girl in it."

So sad.