Pyrian on 27/1/2017 at 16:48
Quote Posted by demagogue
...the scenes that aren't the big ones -- hanging out in the university or Cairo -- were kind of just ok...
The scene with the apple still makes me laugh just thinking about it.
Sulphur on 29/1/2017 at 12:58
Yeah, I can't nail down what it is that makes movies as good as the day you first saw them, it's a variety of things all tumbled up into plain ol' gut feeling for now until I find a specific way to articulate it.
Anyway, *batteries not included was pretty great. Not a classic, and definitely not the greatest story in the world, but full of heart-warming little moments and actual pull-no-punches issues: extortion, loss of family, Alzheimer's, corporate ruthlessness -- heavy stuff for a family film, with a lot of bite. If they'd made it today, it'd be a defanged fable for a semi-comatose audience. Also, when was the last time a PG-rated movie showed someone painting a nude and almost managed to pass it off as a character moment? Titanic? Meh. As a bonus, I couldn't help but notice from the opening credits that this movie was one of Brad Bird's earlier screenwriting contributions. I hear he went on to do a few interesting things in some animation studio afterwards.
