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[Movies] When Dinosaurs Ruled the Box Office

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited July 2015
    Bridge to Tarabithia is an extremely, extremely, famous book about helping young children cope with death.

    It was literally written by the author as a way to explain death to her kid after he lost his best friend.

    I never saw the marketing for it, but I don't know how you could either be old enough to not have some familiarity with it or young enough where the marketing of what happens in the story wouldn't ruin a lot of its importance.

    oh no no no, the marketing for that movie makes it look like Transformers crossed with Narnia, it's super misleading.

    It's like THESE KIDS GO TO A MAGIC LAND AND HAVE CRAZY ADVENTURES, COME SEE THIS FUN MOVIE WE PROMISE NO ONE DROWNS

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Langly wrote: »
    hahah oh man bridge to tarabithia, I read that book when I was a kid and then I saw the trailer whenever it came out and my thought was "hahahaha oh shit some parents are going to be fucking pissed"

    Is the relationship between the kid and teacher as creepy in the book

    There isn't really one at all?

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Langly wrote: »
    hahah oh man bridge to tarabithia, I read that book when I was a kid and then I saw the trailer whenever it came out and my thought was "hahahaha oh shit some parents are going to be fucking pissed"

    Oh wait, did they market it as a fun romp through Narnia?

    Oh boy.

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Bridge to Tarabithia is an extremely, extremely, famous book about helping young children cope with death.

    It was literally written by the author as a way to explain death to her kid after he lost his best friend.

    I never saw the marketing for it, but I don't know how you could either be old enough to not have some familiarity with it or young enough where the marketing of what happens in the story wouldn't ruin a lot of its importance.

    It was marketed as a bar is clone

    These kids go to a magical land

    I had never heard of it

    So... Easily

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Langly wrote: »
    Bridge to Tarabithia is an extremely, extremely, famous book about helping young children cope with death.

    It was literally written by the author as a way to explain death to her kid after he lost his best friend.

    I never saw the marketing for it, but I don't know how you could either be old enough to not have some familiarity with it or young enough where the marketing of what happens in the story wouldn't ruin a lot of its importance.

    oh no no no, the marketing for that movie makes it look like Transformers crossed with Narnia, it's super misleading.

    It's like THESE KIDS GO TO A MAGIC LAND AND HAVE CRAZY ADVENTURES, COME SEE THIS FUN MOVIE WE PROMISE NO ONE DROWNS

    The book is an extremely mature look at children, escapism, death, coping, and moving on.

    So yeah, if they filled that shit with CGI monsters and other wacky bullshit then I am just laughing.

    I mean, I didn't really figure how the fuck they were going to make a movie out of it anyway. You can't really make a kids movie out of that book anyway. I mean, the book is meant for kids to read, but depicting it on the big screen is uh...different.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    I looooooooved Grand Budapest Hotel

    I thought it was charming and funny in a way that the vast majority of movies that hope to be charming and funny can barely hope to kiss the feet of

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Bridge to Tarabithia is an extremely, extremely, famous book about helping young children cope with death.

    It was literally written by the author as a way to explain death to her kid after he lost his best friend.

    I never saw the marketing for it, but I don't know how you could either be old enough to not have some familiarity with it or young enough where the marketing of what happens in the story wouldn't ruin a lot of its importance.

    It was marketed as a bar is clone

    These kids go to a magical land

    I had never heard of it

    So... Easily

    Aren't you younger than me? This is a book that was on my summer reading list in the 4th grade.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2TDSEG57hI

    here is the original trailer, it is amazing.

    it's like if they made old yeller today and the trailer was just, like, a dog fighting ninjas

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Jesus Munkus, he hadn't read the book. Does it really matter if his school failed to run their reading list past you fifteen years ago?

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    There are a couple books that I just assume people my age have either read or know the jist of.

    The Giver. Animal Farm. To Kill a Mockingbird. 1984.

    Bridge to Terabithia I don't expect people to have read it, but I figured everyone had heard of it at some point.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    tynic wrote: »
    Jesus Munkus, he hadn't read the book. Does it really matter if his school failed to run their reading list past you fifteen years ago?

    No, it means that the book went off the reading lists after I got past that age. Which sucks.

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    well I've never read The Giver, it seems to be an American thing? I'd never heard of it before these forums. Yeah there's a western canon of sorts when it comes to children's/YA literature but it's definitely not gonna be universal.

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Langly wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2TDSEG57hI

    here is the original trailer, it is amazing.

    it's like if they made old yeller today and the trailer was just, like, a dog fighting ninjas

    Jesus fucking Christ.

    Talk about burying the fucking lead.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    tynic wrote: »
    well I've never read The Giver, it seems to be an American thing? I'd never heard of it before these forums. Yeah there's a western canon of sorts when it comes to children's/YA literature but it's definitely not gonna be universal.

    You could read it in an hour at this age. It's pretty neat! I think they made a movie out of it? Which I do not understand at all because the thing is like 75 pages double spaced, and half of what makes the book work is that it's written in first person perspective.

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  • YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    The Giver suuuuuuccckkkksssss that is all

  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    I cannot remember the last time I saw a movie with a sex scene that added anything to the story or couldn't be accomplished by the characters stumbling out of bed half dressed the next morning.

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Also, I really do hope that the tagline to Bridge to Terabithia was We Promise No One Drowns

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    I cannot remember the last time I saw a movie with a sex scene that added anything to the story or couldn't be accomplished by the characters stumbling out of bed half dressed the next morning.

    I dunno. Some people enjoy those scenes, and that's entirely fine. I feel that people should be more open about their occasional voyeuristic desires.

  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    I cannot remember the last time I saw a movie with a sex scene that added anything to the story or couldn't be accomplished by the characters stumbling out of bed half dressed the next morning.

    Hot Shots! Part Deux.

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Bad-Beat wrote: »
    I cannot remember the last time I saw a movie with a sex scene that added anything to the story or couldn't be accomplished by the characters stumbling out of bed half dressed the next morning.

    Hot Shots! Part Deux.

    Naked Gun

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  • Bluedude152Bluedude152 Registered User regular
    Explicit sex scenes completely take me out of movies

    Same reason I couldn't watch orange is the new black and game of thrones

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  • RainfallRainfall Registered User regular
    I cannot remember the last time I saw a movie with a sex scene that added anything to the story or couldn't be accomplished by the characters stumbling out of bed half dressed the next morning.
    Shoot 'Em Up and Drive Angry.

    Other than that, yeah drawing a blank.

  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Also when doing right, a sex scene can add a lot of passion and excitement to a movie, it can make it more emotionally engaging as the intimacy of the characters is displayed so powerfully to the viewer.

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