Just ‘bomb’ random areas in the house by throwing confetti? Hmm, much less death than the real version. I like it

Tricking and distracting toddlers works better, I wonder if this applies to adult arguments

But seriously. You gotta wash your hands

Our kids have their own different tastes, I’m not entirely sure how to define it, but our 5 year old recently cried saying “you always make me watch sad stories!” while 3 year old wanted to keep watching abd (apparently) wasnt affected by the 2 scenes that annoyed her

Upon rewatching I still like Ralph 2 (I like Mulan ok too but oh well)

I saw it before the original, so zero attachment (but having seen it now I also like the original)

Rewatching it now— honestly I agree that the product placement throughout for every random Internet thing is a little annoying. But still I respect the movie for trying something interesting plot wise

That is true, but I actually watched 2 first so I didn’t think about it. 🤪 I think they coulda solved it (for me anyway) with just one line of dialogue. They leveled up and got new powers

I’m totally fine with the main plot where Ralph turns toxic and Vanellope leaves, criticism of this is the usual fan “characters can never change or I’ll get mad” stuff

Thank you! I haven’t actually seen either of those films, I need to remedy that!

Did post WW2 post-Holocaust nuclear bomb blues really create a media attitude downstream where super bleak & despairing images could be committed to film? Am I stretching here? I dunno

There must be fascinating analyses of this era’s horror out there… I wonder… not just moral pressure issues (even prior to the Hayes code), but maybe the theater-derived forms of early movies, the (still existent) expectations that movies must be a tentpole with something for the whole family etc

Basically to my admittedly limited film knowledge it’s only post WW2 that I start seeing things on screens that actually feel scary… some Noirs, Twilight Zones, then the explosion of essentially ‘modern’ horror in the 1960s

I can get behind the idea from “Gods and Monsters” that the Frankenstein movies were intended as camp, not to be scary. (Though audiences still felt they were scary..??! I think…?) I know ~1900 people were fainting when a prop gun was fired at the screen so I assume their nerves were wired different

I feel horror movies from that era are so much less scary than horror fiction from even the late 1800s. (Admittedly I’m talking the very best fiction— EF Benson etc). Maybe I’m not watching the right ones? But also I intellectually know ppl’s relation to film was just totally different than today

I’m listening to it as an audiobook so in that way the baby talk blends in at least. Digression but that reminds me, I also was not a fan of “The Nursery Alice” (my parents have a copy) because it is so twee, the attempts at talking down to children date the book much more than “Alice” itself

Thank you! Yes, it does feel kind of like a gallimaufry.

Thanks! I’d never heard of it before…