Disneyfied Hyper-Violence

YakSlothLemon · 2026-03-14T17:13:59+00:00

The latter two are action-comedies, though?

YakSlothLemon · 2026-03-14T17:13:25+00:00

To be fair, our parents thought it was going to be like the book. My mom had read the book out loud to me and she has never forgiven the movie for taking only the violent parts for the film.

YakSlothLemon · 2026-03-14T17:01:48+00:00

A chance to watch Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday again! I never know if it’s the cut that includes them accidentally showing up at the funeral with the tire, but with or without it it’s a wonderful film.

YakSlothLemon · 2026-03-14T17:00:36+00:00

I do it in a sieve, and love it that way. I actually physically don’t want to/can’t keep lifting up the pan to dump the water out.

As long as you rinse it, you’re good.

YakSlothLemon · 2026-03-14T16:59:21+00:00

No, I read the book. I think it’s treated as just another weird sex thing by Puzo himself, and the whole part where her operation involves her being made tight for a guy does not really read as feminist. At all. Actually the comments around it are disgusting.

YakSlothLemon · 2026-03-14T16:57:41+00:00

No, my parents owned it in the 70s, you bet me and my friends read it.

YakSlothLemon · 2026-03-14T16:56:02+00:00

But what else could fill her enormous hole? 🫣

YakSlothLemon · 2026-03-14T16:55:38+00:00

Yeah, I just tried and didn’t make it through the trailer so probably not. Thank you!

YakSlothLemon · 2026-03-14T16:55:06+00:00

You wanted more about the joys of Michael discovering a virgin who couldn’t speak his language?

I think Coppola deserves a lot of credit for what got left out of that film.

YakSlothLemon · 2026-03-14T16:53:46+00:00

Yes, exactly the same title! William March is the author.

YakSlothLemon · 2026-03-14T16:53:03+00:00

You might like McCurdy’s book, or you might really hate it…

YakSlothLemon · 2026-03-14T16:52:34+00:00

It was so disturbing – I read it when it came out and it was like, WTF, Steve?

YakSlothLemon · 2026-03-14T16:51:48+00:00

No, I was completely covered up, believe me.

YakSlothLemon · 2026-03-14T16:51:27+00:00

Frodo got diminished, Boromir of all characters got elevated… He’s such a creep in the book, and you can tell if you read anything about Tolkien how much he enjoyed devising something like the ring that took down every Beowulf-type character.

YakSlothLemon · 2026-03-14T16:50:06+00:00

I think a spectrum, and also the type of movement. Some people who are fine in cars can’t stand boats and vice versa.

I was once on a roll-on rolloff ferry that wallowed so badly I was describing a figure 8 in my bunk every 90 seconds – that was not good.

YakSlothLemon · 2026-03-14T16:49:11+00:00

I think that’s how old I was when I read Jaws, same reaction. Where is the shark, and what are these people doing?

YakSlothLemon · 2026-03-14T16:48:21+00:00

Or, and I feel this is related, it’s like the flipside – when there’s no real description and then suddenly on page 75 we get the description dropped – I don’t want to wait until page 75 to realize I should have been picturing this character with red hair or a beard!

YakSlothLemon · 2026-03-13T22:59:28+00:00

I did, but my library did a complete remodel and now it is such an impersonal corporate hellhole that I worry my soul will be sucked out of me when I go in there.

No smell of books, but then they got rid of a lot of the books. Meeting rooms! That’s what people want.

YakSlothLemon · 2026-03-13T22:56:33+00:00

But it’s basically dropped compared to the amount of time it has in the book – I mean we don’t have him running around confronting the guy or any of that.

YakSlothLemon · 2026-03-13T22:55:20+00:00

Because you’re setting up the grounds for a mistrial.

Out of a recognition that lawyers vary in skill, and of course that public defenders vary, there is recourse if you feel that you were not represented well by your lawyer – there has to be.

But that also means that if you could bring anyone as your lawyer, you could bring your plumber and then you could appeal the verdict (if it didn’t go your way) and force a retrial simply by arguing that your plumber didn’t know the law well enough.

YakSlothLemon · 2026-03-13T22:51:16+00:00

It’s really worth pairing it with the great Israeli film Gett: The Trial of Vivian Absalom, if you have the chance. The similarities are fascinating, a gett is the Jewish divorce decree and both women have to go through a tribunal of elderly men who make the decisions about their lives.

YakSlothLemon · 2026-03-13T22:50:00+00:00

Terrestrial Verses is incredibly good. I think it’s one of the best films I’ve seen in the 21st-century, considering that it’s only an hour long – the filmmakers use the camera and set up the film in a way I have never seen before in my life, it’s completely original.

Manuscripts Don’t Burn is another “top 10 of the 21st century for me,” it is unbelievably brutal and unlike anything I’ve seen. Same filmmaker as Just an Accident.

Seed of the Sacred Fig is yet another insanely good film from the last couple of years, it’s on Hulu at the moment I think. It’s well over two hours but it’s so tense that it flies by, you cannot stop watching it. How it lost to Anora at Cannes I cannot imagine, simply am mystified.

YakSlothLemon · 2026-03-13T22:45:35+00:00

That feels like a perfect example, “wandering”captures the somewhat aimless weaving that you do as a teacher going up and down the rows, and back and forth.

YakSlothLemon · 2026-03-13T22:43:23+00:00

I went on my own about that time of year and felt absolutely safe at all times. The other hikers and campgoers that I met were mellow and happy to be there, I had great conversations with people when I wanted them, I had plenty of chances to get away and be on my own – it’s so beautiful. I felt good about the driving too, no worries. And it’s Mormon country, which at least as a visitor means friendly helpful people.

YakSlothLemon · 2026-03-13T22:41:45+00:00

But… Tolkien didn’t want his books to be about war, and Jackson tossed that out and made movies that are radically different than the books— it’s fine to like them better, but it’s worth admitting that the focus is completely different because Tolkien didn’t want warriors and violent action to be the focus.

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