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Its a california rent joke. Rent is high in SF. That townhouse is a unbelievable find that could easily go for $4000 per month.
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I think it is reasonable that an 11 year old girl didn't research comparative rents in the region that her family moved her to. She was comparing a smaller place that hadn't been decorated or fixed up to her old home that was familiar and comfortable. Of course she might judge it negatively. Personally I liked the Lava short. It wasn't as good as what they usually do, but it was charming and had a real feeling of being a Hawaiian myth.
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KirbyKhan posted:Its a california rent joke. Rent is high in SF. That townhouse is a unbelievable find that could easily go for $4000 per month. I honestly don't think it's a joke. I mean, I live in California and am well aware of housing costs et cetera. I just don't think there was a joke there to be had. A kid isn't going to care. And I don't really think it could even be a hidden 'adult' joke, because okay, so what, they live in a potentially expensive place and...their daughter is unhappy by the move, ha ha ha?
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When I was 10 years old I moved from a two story house in Kansas with a backyard big enough to play baseball to a 1 story house in Los Angeles with a backyard that felt like an alleyway with grass, and 10 year old me absolutely hated it. As an adult now I'm glad I moved to Los Angeles. I dunno if it was meant to be a joke, but it felt like a pretty good joke. Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Jul 1, 2015 |
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Jul 1, 2015 05:18
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Drifter posted:A kid isn't going to care. I'm guessing you didn't move (far away from home, at least) when you were that age. They care a whole lot. Edit: Oh, you meant she wouldn't care about the rent issue ... sorry. That's undoubtedly true. One's parents' money situation tends to be mysterious voodoo stuff until you move out on your own and finally realize how money actually works. Chicken Butt fucked around with this message at 05:26 on Jul 1, 2015 |
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Jul 1, 2015 05:23
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Chicken Butt posted:I'm guessing you didn't move (far away from home, at least) when you were that age. They care a whole lot. I'd care about what it looked like, not what its market value was.
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Jul 1, 2015 05:26
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LORD OF BUTT posted:...holy poo poo. So Joe Ranft is Bing Bong then?
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Jul 1, 2015 09:11
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With the concern over whether Riley properly understands the real estate market I'm now pretty sure that goons aren't born, but emerge fully grown from fluid sacs.
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Surlaw posted:With the concern over whether Riley properly understands the real estate market I'm now pretty sure that goons aren't born, but emerge fully grown from fluid sacs. There goes my spore theory. 
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Drifter posted:I'd care about what it looked like, not what its market value was. Yeah, sorry, I misunderstood your post – I thought you meant that kids don't care about being moved far away from their hometowns. They do care about that, obviously, that's kind of an essential plot point of the movie. Would be very hard to find a kid that cares about real estate values though
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Drifter posted:I honestly don't think it's a joke. I mean, I live in California and am well aware of housing costs et cetera. I just don't think there was a joke there to be had. A kid isn't going to care. And I don't really think it could even be a hidden 'adult' joke, because okay, so what, they live in a potentially expensive place and...their daughter is unhappy by the move, ha ha ha? I didn't think it was a "joke" in the sense that it was supposed to provoke like, actual laughs, but I do think that it was a kind of Easter Egg for adults who have lived in or around metro California. They certainly went to more trouble than they had to to make their townhouse look like a very specific (and very expensive) neighborhood. It's not that I expected Riley to know it was expensive, or expected her to react positively, I just was agreeing with the guy who said that since I've lived there I was like "holy poo poo I'd kill for that place". Mexican Deathgasm posted:I think it is reasonable that an 11 year old girl didn't research comparative rents in the region that her family moved her to Chicken Butt posted:Edit: Oh, you meant she wouldn't care about the rent issue ... sorry. That's undoubtedly true. One's parents' money situation tends to be mysterious voodoo stuff until you move out on your own and finally realize how money actually works. Surlaw posted:With the concern over whether Riley properly understands the real estate market I'm now pretty sure that goons aren't born, but emerge fully grown from fluid sacs. And I'm pretty sure that goons extrapolate the most ridiculous extreme position possible from every post.
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The joke is that the new house is a shithole. The meta-joke is that adults are willing to pay millions of dollars to live in a shithole.
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Jul 1, 2015 17:04
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Sounds like Riley and company should check their privilege.
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computer parts posted:The joke is that the new house is a shithole. If they were going with that they should have had them move into Brooklyn then.
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Surlaw posted:With the concern over whether Riley properly understands the real estate market I'm now pretty sure that goons aren't born, but emerge fully grown from fluid sacs. Folks are saying that they - i.e. the adult people watching the film - understand the real estate market. The movie is entirely about a fairly rich kid and her dad's soon-to-be-massively profitable tech startup - which is not that unusual. It's the present-day equivalent of the usual Disney Princess.
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I'd like to add a note of appreciation for the made-up business names that are 100% believable: Brang (What did you bring?) and Yeast of Eden.
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Yoshifan823 posted:So Joe Ranft is Bing Bong then? U motherfuckre
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Vegetable posted:What does it say about depression that it relies on the adventures of yellow and blue blobs of things in your head to fix you? I don't think the film is meant to say anything about mental illness; if it is, then it's not doing a great job at that. It's obviously not a movie about the mental illness of depression but the way it portrays how "core memories" can turn sad and stay that way, and Joy being taken away from headquarters where her emotions ended up "not being able to make her feel anything" really resonated with me.
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I saw this last week with my wife because of the good reviews. While I'm usually up for any non-Cars Pixar, this concept just didn't excite me going in, but the buzz got me to give it a chance. I was pretty happy with it even if I thought it was a bit by-the-numbers. It was a cute film that had its fair share of emotional moments. I wouldn't rank it in the top tier of Pixar films (Wall-E/UP), but it wasn't too far outside. I thought it was kind of weird that Riley was the only character whose emotions were both male and female. I assume its a byproduct of the fact that the non-emotion/non-Riley characters aren't particularly developed, so they wanted to hit the limited notes they were aiming for hard. Still, it was a little odd.z Going in my wife had a lot more reservations than I did. She has a PhD in cognitive psychology, and she studies memory. However, she read an article about the film makers consulting experts, so she decided to give it a shot. I think she was presently surprised at how they did even if there were inaccuracies to make for more cinematic moments (your memories don't just disappear, but that would undercut the Bing Bong scene if you stuck to it). All-in-all, I'd say it was worth seeing.
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This was a really uneven film, there are parts that are pure brilliance, and other things that are just sorta sloppy, the trampoline with the fantasy boyfriends things wasn't very good, which when something like that mars your climax it sorta taints everything else. Running Joy and Sadness through the abstraction chamber was pretty brilliant, if just because that's what this whole movie was doing anyway. The ability to walk the line of being extremely self aware and not annoying was really great. Just wish the weaker moments had gotten some attention. Did anyone else get the feeling that Bing Bong was written with Dom DeLuise in mind?
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Anti-Citizen posted:Did anyone else get the feeling that Bing Bong was written with Dom DeLuise in mind? Only when he faded away.
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Yoshifan823 posted:So Joe Ranft is Bing Bong then? I could buy that, actually. This is a really interesting reading and I really wanna see the movie again/learn more about Pixar's history so I can click it together a little more snugly. e: okay, yeah, I just googled Joe Ranft not knowing very much about him and this is very possible.
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Anti-Citizen posted:Did anyone else get the feeling that Bing Bong was written with Dom DeLuise in mind? Yeah  Mostly cause he reminded me of Koosalagoopagoop and I could remember him but not where I'd heard Richard Kind's voice. Turned out it wasn't anything animated, his voice just sounds like it should be animated.
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Chicken Butt posted:Yeah, sorry, I misunderstood your post – I thought you meant that kids don't care about being moved far away from their hometowns. For that matter, I imagine it'd also be hard to find a kid who cares about the things that make people tolerate San Francisco housing prices. precision posted:If they were going with that they should have had them move into Brooklyn then. But then the "You ruined pizza!" scene couldn't have happened.
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Cockmaster posted:But then the "You ruined pizza!" scene couldn't have happened. Agreed – that would have instead been a scene of Joy saying, "Congratulations, Brooklyn – you have made pizza… unbelievably awesome!"
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Good point, California ruining pizza was one of the funniest parts of the movie because it is so, so loving true. That said there is one pizza joint in San Diego that I've found that actually totally rocks and is two blocks from our apartment. Surf Rider Pizza, check it out!
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I was at Subway and some guy in front of me was getting a kids meal. He told the guy behind the counter (middle aged Hispanic guy, not likely to have seen the movie) that it was for his son, so he grabbed the Sadness tote bag because blue = boy. Made me chuckle, and also appreciate that the emotions aren't really colored coded in a gendered way.
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Jul 3, 2015 03:31
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Joy is colour coded to be Marge Simpson.
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IM_DA_DECIDER posted:Joy is colour coded to be Marge Simpson. Only in some instances of rule34 with Sadness.
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I really liked this movie. After five years of sequels and princess movies from Pixar, this was the first original thing they've made since Up, which was, unsurprisingly, directed by the same person. John Lasseter is the worst thing for Pixar right now as all he cares about is building franchises, and they need to keep him and his ilk (I'm looking at you, Lee Unkrich) far away from the director's chair if they want to make original films. I thought that the movie's overall message about how growing up comes with emotional complexity was gracefully done, especially in the relationship between Joy and Sadness. As has been said here before, Lewis Black and the peeks inside the mother and father's heads were the best parts of the movie; that dinner scene was one of the best-written pieces of a movie I've seen all year, as it turned what would otherwise be a very standard "You guys just don't understand!" conversation into an action scene. As a native of that city, the little jokes about San Francisco were spot-on. They snuck in a joke about bears! Surlaw posted:With the concern over whether Riley properly understands the real estate market I'm now pretty sure that goons aren't born, but emerge fully grown from fluid sacs. And that only came after a page of argument over whether the 11-year-old girl in the movie is bisexual!
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Steve Yun posted:I'm curious how toys are doing for this movie. It seems like a not-very-marketable movie. At Subway they had tote bags, each one with a different Emotion on it, and I thought, why in the world would anyone want Fear or Disgust or Sadness merchandise? It's me. I'm the one that wants a Sadness plush. 
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Spatula City posted:It's me. I'm the one that wants a Sadness plush. That's like a half-step away from being a furry. Get your poo poo together, guys.
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I came to this subforum for the first time to discuss Inside Out because it resonated with me so strongly because I was depressed for most of my life, and then I left after there was a multi-page argument about the sexuality of the child character even after the creator said that there was nothing in the movie to do with her sexuality. Creepy. Still, awesome movie and I can't wait to buy it on blue-ray.
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Mexican Deathgasm posted:I came to this subforum for the first time to discuss Inside Out because it resonated with me so strongly because I was depressed for most of my life, and then I left after there was a multi-page argument about the sexuality of the child character even after the creator said that there was nothing in the movie to do with her sexuality. Creepy. Hi, you must be new to the Cinema Discusso forums. 
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Spatula City posted:It's me. I'm the one that wants a Sadness plush. Disgust is my spirit animal. The Disney toy machine will absolutely destroy with this movie. I dont think it'll hit Frozen levels of merch saturation, but it'll do really really well. Anyone seen how Tumblr reacted to this movie? I see this film giving flimsy validation that the headmate community will latch on to. Its like the 11 year old demographic from 10 years ago never stopped buying.
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the idea that a child being LGBT and aware of said LGBT-ness is somehow creepy needs to die yesterday, regardless of whether it applies to this movie. def want a Sadness plush though
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KirbyKhan posted:
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LORD OF BUTT posted:the idea that a child being LGBT and aware of said LGBT-ness is somehow creepy needs to die yesterday, regardless of whether it applies to this movie. I'm open to the idea that Riley is something other than 100% hetero, which is well past due, I just don't think the argument was convincing.
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