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Think Pietro will ever show up?
Children birthed at home?!
Nice movie, not great, had some problems (SPOILERS!)
Cute movie with one HUGE flaw (Spoilers!)
That ending made no sense
During the big battle, why didn't....*spoilers*
*Spoiler* So where was...
Wait...they had a helicopter?
How did Coco not...(spoiler!)
Kind of false advertising...
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I enjoyed the period-style comedy too...for about 10 minutes.
Then I wanted them to just get the heck on with the story. Anyone who's watching knows what they're seeing isn't real; that it's a fake, because Vision is dead. Once that's established, I really didn't want to watch 20 more minutes of the same 50s-sitcom setup. I got it; I wanted to find out why I was watching Wanda and Vision maneuver through this universe.
The story didn't move any in the second episode either. It's the EXACT same setup, just a different era of sitcom. There were a few clues as to what was really going on, but during the 25+ minutes where that didn't happen the story didn't move AT ALL. We just got more of what we already knew: Wanda and Vision were both moving through a 1960s sitcom universe.
At this point I'm frustrated, because it looks like the rest of the series is going to be the same: Wanda and Vision walking around in different eras of sitcoms for 25+ minutes, combined with about 1 or 2 minutes where we get more clues to what's really going on.
That's WAY too much fat. By the end of the first episode my guess is most viewers got the premise. Get on with the story already.
I just watched this episode last night, and when I reached that scene I had two thoughts:
It's daylight. June is a red blotch on a brown landscape, not far from the airport. How is it that NOBODY in the airport guard towers saw her lying out there? Somebody must have heard the gunshot when she shot the Gaurdian. Nobody went and looked?
Wait a minute - nobody went looking for the guard she shot? Didn't anybody notice that Guardian Bob never came back from the woods? For like, hours and hours AFTER he said it was all clear?
Also, did those other handmaids just hang out in the woods all night? Don't they have households who are wondering where the heck they went?
I don't think this storyline was really thought out...
My guess is they settled out of court. There are enough similarities that she could say they used the van as inspiration, but as has been pointed out, you can't copyright a general idea. And, good luck to anyone suing Disney. They have VERY deep pockets!
Hmm...probably not. It's not new like 'Frozen' was, and it lacks the "wow factor" song that the first movie had. Sorry, "Into the Unknown" ain't it.
Also, not to spoil anything, but many early viewers expressed disappointment with the ending, and that's not going to encourage repeat viewings.
It will do OK, I mean anything Disney with Elsa in it will do OK, but it's not going to be the blockbuster the first movie was.
That's an urban legend, though. It didn't happen. One of many associated with the movie.
It was released during the summer because Disney had another Halloween-themed movie that year, "The Nightmare Before Christmas". They didn't want the two movies competing against each other, so they released Hocus Pocus during the summer and Nightmare in October.
That part where the fake cop asked Max if he was really a virgin would not be part of the movie if it was made today. It comes across as kind of pervy. Would any adult ask a child they didn't know that question?
I don't think Billy was actually cursed. He died, became re-animated as a result of Winnie's spell, and at the end of the movie presumably went back into the grave and died again.
Having just seen the film recently, my guess as to why it's popular are
- The strength of the performances of the three leads, Bette Midler especially. They're all very good. It's very hard to pull off being comic AND scary (but not too scary.) They nailed it.
- It's got a cute talking cat. That's probably about half of it right there.
- The story goes down like soft vanilla ice cream. There's no real peril, no blood, and a happy ending. Nothing cringeworthy, in other words. Although if it was made today, I don't think they'd put bright red lipstick on Dani at the beginning of the movie and I'm pretty sure they would have that scene with the fake cop asking Max if he's really a virgin. That comes across as somewhat pervy these days. (in fact, the emphasis on Max being a virgin came across to me as a bit odd. It's even the last line of the movie!)
- Fortunately, the adults are depicted as responsible adults and not morons. I think that helps, because a lot of kids movies lose their appeal when the kids who watched them grow up and realize that the adults in the movie are idiots. Makes the film a lot less nostalgic!
- It's only an hour and a half long and moves quick. There's not a lot of wasted scenes or slow-moving dialogue.
- There aren't that many Halloween movies for kids, so what there is tends to stand out.
Not having a 1950s voice box/pull string would have meant ZERO to any modern-day child, not in this day of computer-chip driven vocals. To a collector, of course, yes, but the fact that Woody was cut open to remove his voice box destroyed his value to a collector anyway. Even if he got his voice box back, or got another one, he's got a huge vertical cut in his costume.
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