#76

Only film that has ever moved me to anything like tears. After the first watch I was struck completely dumb for more than half an hour.

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#77

ok fair, I think people, in general, are aware it’s a pretty “brutal” adaptation (but perhaps not!) I guess I was just surprised that you just blurred out “scene” rather than describing what was disturbing about it and then blurring that :slight_smile:

#78

This is both a silly answer and (kind of) serious - Madagascar 2.

I’ll try to explain - I love some of the Pixar stuff but don’t have kids and I’m not that big of an animation person to go and see a lot of the big animated movies that come out. So I saw this quite randomly just because it got good reviews. So I guess this is the first of this type of animation I’ve seen.

So obviously part of this is just that it made me feel really old - I found the whole film just utterly bewildering and bizarre, it is like a complete assault on the senses. But at the same time I could kind of understand that it works really well for kids because it has a kind of kid playing games logic to the narrative - so the story makes no sense at all in any real sense but somehow the story progresses.

It seems like it’s been deliberately designed specifically for kids to eat an enormous bag of hairbo & drink a giant coke whilst watching and spend the movie going ballistic before collapsing in some kind of sugar comedown.

I’m guessing a lot of these films - ice age et al - are essentially the same but this is the one I’ve seen.

A lot of ultra-fast cutting & cgi dependent action movies leave me equally bewildered tbh but it’s being made specially for kids that freaked me out about this.

Honestly if I had kids of the age this is aimed at I would much rather they watched a lot of 15 or even 18 rated movies.

Would probably still choose this over a Matthew Barney film though.

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#79

Grave of the Fireflies sounds amazing - going to add it to my ‘To watch’ list.

#80

Yeah, sequels to mid-level unloved animated films are often incredibly lazy. Usually just really episodic and full of callbacks to the first film. No real plot.

I sat through Despicable Me 3 the other week.

#81

it’s really good but definitely not an easy watch.

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#82

I know!
what the wtAf??!

#83

I grew up in Sheffield on the 1980s so I saw Threads at school 2 or 3 times. Weirdly that just sort of neutered it - cause it just meant watching a film rather than having classes. I think I’d probably find it way more disturbing now than did when I was 13 or whatever.

#84

So we watched the princess bride last night because its the anniversary of it. The bit where Wesley is getting the life sucked out of him is genuinely disturbing and discomforting yo.

#85

just realised how weird it is that the only films we ever got shown at school were Threads and Grease

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#86

The public safety films they used to make us watch at school were probably just as depressing as Threads. You’d always have kids getting horribly electrocuted or having their legs cut off by trains.

#87

That’s actually just reminded of the massively depressing ending of the Selfish Giant

#88

This is how I felt about The Lego Movie :+1::-1:

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#90

Some of those 70s films are just amazing.

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#92

That’s the first one that popped into my head. As if it wasn’t creepy enough they throw in the grim reaper

#94

Happiness.

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#95

This is the one that gave me nightmares as a kid-


Electrocution scene about 9 minutes in.

#96

Saw Cronenberg’s The Fly when I was about 8…