I loved this movie when I was six and this was not confusing? I’m not trying to use myself as the measure of everyone else, but this feels to me like broken adult logic applied to the mind of a child. Kids just go along with fantasy stuff, they don’t give a shit.
What the duck were they thinking?
The near “love scene” between Lea Thompson (65 today) and Howard the Duck is played almost completely straight. It confused the hell out of younger audiences, and still ranks as one of the most bizarre moments in cinema history.
NEW TRAILER - From the director of It Follows, THE END OF OAK STREET arrives in theaters August 14.
A cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports an entire neighborhood to someplace unknown.
J.J. Abrams produces.
@piff_da_god No! In world they are not literally “of fantasy,” but as a meta sort of thing it works. “Science fiction and fantasy.” I’m cool with it. Marvel was running “Amazing Fantasy” when the Fabtastic Four were created. It gets by in my head.
I only use the word “fantastic” to mean that something is fantastical or out of fantasy. I don’t fuck around with this “fantastic means very good” nonsense.
The success of Backrooms and the box office pattern for Obsession are both really great things that happened. But sometimes people will see the tiny pattern and jump right into the think pieces & grand declarations. I just think people ought to chill a bit.
@staidindoors@woop54 Once I resigned myself to just accepting the awful storytelling decisions, I found I was able to like TROS on the most basic level for having cool creatures and laser swords and stuff. But zero investment for any of the storytelling or characters. A bummer.
@piff_da_god I’ve seen people react to Revenge of the Sith being like “no one would react that way. You’re don’t lose the will to live when you have a child.” Like dawg, there are lots of things you can fairly criticize that movie for, but have you never read a fairytale???
Haven’t seen Mandalorian & Grogu yet because I’m catching up on the show. Have seen some posts saying that it is unrealistic that any creature would still be developmentally a baby at 50+ years. If this is how you engage with fantasy stories, stop engaging with fantasy stories.
I should add—if you are only going to the movies to see big blockbuster popcorn films on weekend nights, that number is going to increase. But still, most people get it.
The thing about bad audience behavior—yes, depending on the movie/location, some audiences are downright awful. But for the most part, I think 95% of people still have good theater etiquette. The problem is that the 5% who do not can ruin the entire experience for the rest.