While writing the recent pairing for Return to Oz, I did a lot of thinking about the movies from my childhood that were ostensibly designed for children. They were a far cry from the movies being churned out for kids today. Movies today are toothless. There is no danger, and therefore no deeper connection. When Kevin performs a heroic sacrifice at the end of Minions, there is never any doubt that he will survive. Illumination Entertainment would never kill one of its main protagonists, even if it is just one out of a horde of identical sentient yellow blobs. That might upset someone, and you don't hit a billion dollar worldwide box office gross by upsetting people. And why even bother making entertainment for children if you aren't going to make insane amounts of money by doing so?
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I hate spoilers. I don't understand people who say they aren't bothered by them. I won't even spoil movies for people when they want me to. Especially if they say they're never going to watch the movie, so it doesn't matter if I spoil it. If you want to know what happens, watch the fucking movie yourself. I'm not your own personal CliffsNotes for movies.
Having said that, I have learned to regulate my disdain for spoilers. They are simply a fact of life in this day and age (fuck, that phrase makes me sound like an old man). But some spoilers are unavoidable. And, largely, they don't really matter. But other times spoilers do exactly what their name implies: they spoil otherwise fine entertainment. |
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