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ArousedByDougFunnie t1_j9rrpw3 wrote

Listen Giulermo Del Toro is great director, I absolutely loved what he did with the Hobbit movies. But to call Pinocchio groundbreaking is like calling Mary Had a Little Lamb groundbreaking because you give the Lamb PCP before you put on your tap dancing shoes 🙄

Pinocchio is one of the most basic and worn out stories out there. There’s been at least 7 or 8 Pinocchio movies, some of them adult films sure, but those are still stories. We all know about the tiny wooden boy who lies so much thst his nose turns into a oak tree. We all know that Gepetto is a bitch, and hems and haws all day about a basic boy puppet. Completely bog standard yawn fuel at this point. 🥱

I wish Guillermo would take on more challenging projects at some point. Maybe a movie about The Trail of Tears? It’s a fascinating historical event that could really become a great epic action thriller. And it could give us as a society a prime opportunity to cast Native Americans in prominent roles, to make up for past injustices. You can’t undo smallpox, but you can at least give out a few “my bad” tokens. I think it’s a great start.

If on an off chance Guillermo is reading this, please start being more adventurous in your movies. If you or one of his agents wants to pm I have plenty of ideas.

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slamdanceswithwolves t1_j9s7701 wrote

>Listen Giulermo Del Toro is great director, I absolutely loved what he did with the Hobbit movies.

You mean his partial screenwriting credit before he dropped out of the project?

>If on an off chance Guillermo is reading this, please start being more adventurous in your movies. If you or one of his agents wants to pm I have plenty of ideas.

Haha.

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ArousedByDougFunnie t1_j9sne2w wrote

Well of course I know he left the project obviously. I meant the work he did before he left the project, obviously. 🙄 It was very good work.

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sugarfreefixsuxshit t1_j9sw27w wrote

yea, you definitely did not know that

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ArousedByDougFunnie t1_j9swpwt wrote

Wrong, just completely and provably false 😼 I’m not sure how I could prove it to you exactly, but if you asked my friends they all know about how much I would read up extensively on Guilermo’s inside work for the picture. The dragon designs, the sweeping vision, the dwarfs, it was all set to be so great. The fact that you think I would not only not know this but not be following the ins and outs of the production process is simply flabbergusting if you actually knew how deeply I study films.

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axiomaticIsak t1_j9sv6pi wrote

Did you- Did you watch the movie? It was incredibly creative,in adaptation, absolutely masterfully animated and completely different from any other Pinocchio from before it. To say that it isn't challenging or original is just so patently ridiculous almost to the point of parody

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pawnografik t1_j9tl23u wrote

Is it kid (11yr olds) friendly? Or some grim child abuse story?

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axiomaticIsak t1_j9u2rrk wrote

Well, that does kind of depend on the child, the movie does get... intense, but there isn't ever anything that would be called 'explicit' in the traditional sense. Depending on how resilient your child is, I would air on the side of yes, it probably is appropriate, but remain cautious.

Like, it features heavy themes like death, grief and fascism, all of which it handles very well, but I would say they are made child-accessible, if not necessarily 'child-friendly' per se.

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