I just saw The Incredibles and it was very good!

interesting. I do know that every time I see a concert these days most the time they have a notice posted if there are strobe lights involved, for that very reason.

I thought this one was not as good as the first probably slightly, but still pretty fun (esp. the raccoon sequence) and I could kind of watch these characters do anything.

Short OTOH featured someone in the audience out loud saying "What the fuck??!?!" I mean okay the theme at the end is fine (had my wife in tears) but what a weird/dark turn.

And yeah it's a short sequence I could see it being problematic. Definitely got the full warning at A Place To Bury Strangers earlier this week so yah weird oversight.

Nobody told me this was the fucking animated adventures of Better call Saul

Ermantrout sounds like he’s on the verge of death

I’m taking kids to this later in the week. How nervous should I be about the opening short?

(the kids are 5 and 8, btw)

Arrive 30 minutes past the starting time and miss nothing.

Fuck John Lassiter, fuck the Opening short. No one gives a shit about your fucking clever crap. There were audible groans in the theatre today that echoed my sentiments.

The theatre I saw this in had a warning up in the lobby

About strobing, or about the short?

There's no way the short gets a warning, as fucked up and weird as it is. I bet we're talking about the strobing.

More I think about this movie, less I like it. Just kind of a predictable mess, albeit a ... highly competent mess? Would have been satisfied with Jack-Jack v. raccoon standalone short.

there was a note about the strobing.

the short: it's just a metaphor. I agree that moment was ... shocking but also funny? yeesh you guys.

She missed her son, so she imagined a life with a bun-son ... and then eats him, the relationship ending (metaphorically) the same way as her relationship with her real son? I guess what makes it awkward/confusing is that her real son still looks like a bun-son, and also that we never find out what left them estranged. Might have needed a beat at the beginning to establish her son was MIA.

Maybe I missed it. I miss a lot. Like the plan/motive of the villain in "The Incredibles 2."

jesus calsters why did you even see this movie?

i don't believe it was that she missed her son. you see the life of the son growing up with him as a dumpling because that's how she perceived him. the 'eating' him moment was just the point where her over-protectiveness reaches it's peak.

So why were they estranged? I almost got the impression that it was because he brought home a westerner! They make a point of showing them bonding at the end, when the son makes messy bao and his wife makes perfect bao.

Anyway, I didn't like it. And the eating was a fucked up metaphor made more fucked up by the fact that the actual son looked exactly like a bun. Would have been better if the bun-son left and the short flashed back to her at the table, staring at the suddenly mundane bun, then sadly eating it. Then the husband seeing her sad and making a phone call and the *real* son showing up to comfort his sad mom. Something like that. The way it is, too jarring and weird and unnecessarily elliptical. Imo. Obviously my audience was not the only one that reacted in horror.

having seen Dementia 13 three days earlier, I enjoyed the "Dementia 113" joke.

Apparently the 113 is a reference to a classroom in the California Institute of the Arts? Apparently there are lots of references to "113" in this and other animated shows and movies.

A-113 is the like classic Pixar Easter egg yes.

OK really who cares about Bao, because the main attraction is GREBT. Unfortunately, noticeably unwoke, too.

Better than the Randian sociopathy of the first one!

can't believe a Pixar movie is unwoke

First one isn't fully fleshed objectivism, though, as it characterizes private corporations as inclined to evil (Syndrome, Bob's insurance company) and the government as sympathetic (the G-man who's a decent guy just doing his job). That said, I can buy that Bird probably has inchoate views that veer toward social Darwinism.

It's not about them being coherent Randians, just having general shitty instincts

Lisp of adult elastic girl was so grating

can't tell if that is a joke or not.

Not

That's just how Holly Hunter talks.

She has been appearing in successful, internationally-distributed films for 30 years, and also played "adult Elasti-Girl" in The Incredibles.

Ha, I thought he was talking about Sarah Vowell, who has one of the most famous funny-sounding/annoying voices.

Was it a joke someone made here? Anyway. Someone noted that Holly Hunter's two most famous roles are now for one where she appears and does not talk and one where she talks but does not appear.

I didn't love the first Incredibles, but I'm tentatively excited about this one because - is this the first Pixar movie in 10 years that won't make me bawl like a shithead?

I fucking love a good cry but Pixar movies make me nervous now because I'm always waiting for *that* scene

Not including Cars because I don't count them in my Pixar mind-canon

I sincerely hope this one does not make you cry. It's totally goofy.

You will cry tears of laughter.

Tears of indifference.

Tears of remonstration.

At least Toy story had a shining reference

Does the first movie have as many obvious '60s signifiers as the sequel does? My memory of it placed it as contemporary.

Yeah, a slew of 'em.

So this was the Cineworld's secret screening number 8 (most of the theatre cheered, I was just happy as it could have been a lot worse) and ya silby the nominative determinism ruined this a little on watching. Still I laughed a fair few times.

Didn't really think anyone needed the Guy Fierri biog that was Bao.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/voyd-from-incredibles-2-looks-like-kristen-stewart-2018-6

Man! I thought this to the point where I convinced myself she was actually the model for the character. Even the mannerisms seemed v awkward Stewart-esque.

Voyd's a good character with a good haircut

she didn't look or act anything like kristen stewart, people just make shit up

just like how anthony lane’s review of this sounds like he woke up from a sex nightmare

this is off topic but how the hell did Anthony Lane get his job

That makes me want to read his review (and then hate myself for doing so). xp

prescient post

OTM. Has Anthony Lane weighted in yet?
― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, November 10, 2004

I think Lane is funny, though I frequently get the sense that the jokes come before the review.

there's a whole separate department in the New Yorker for jokes