As a kid one of my favorite movies was Ratatouille (and it still is!), And one of the reasons for that is because the stakes are so low. The worst outcome is that Remy doesn't get to realize his dream of being a chef, or maybe that he's killed but that doesn't seem likely for the movie. Contrast that with something like WALL-E, where basically the continued existence of the human race and the planet Earth hang in the balance, or the scene in the Garfield Movie where he almost causes several passenger trains to crash and potentially kill dozens.
As a kid, I remember thinking that having such extreme life or death or even apocalyptic stakes for kids movies was unnecessary, it just made me feel stressed out and upset rather than excited lol
Hey now, let's keep Wall-E out of this, that movie's based.
Oh it's one of my favorite films, but damn is it dark if you think about it
Didn't actually watch that one as a kid (or ever now that I think about it)
Amazing how french food has this reputation that it's so fancy and stuff and the mother fuckers are just eating bugs and raw beef
let me just crack a raw egg on top of this perfectly good pizza :france-cool:
I was the opposite. If the stakes were anything less than planetary annihilation I got bored
At least that prepared you for the current generation of general news cycles I guess
it just made me feel stressed out and upset
Really cool how all these absolutely worthless boomers/millennials are pushing responsibility to "save the world" (from them I guess? Apparently everyone above the age of 35 is an enemy of humanity)
You have to save the world! I will of course do everything in my power to stop you.
This is why Johnny Tsunami is a top tier film. The stakes are literally getting to snowboard on a different slope.
interesting take and i like it. anyone remember 2009's G-Force with the action guinea pigs?
Yes, what a great movie. It's surprising how it has been erased of the public conscience. Did it bomb?
i hope you mean what i mean when i say it's a great movie. they chose to include not just "I Gotta Feeling" by the black eyed peas, but also "Boom Boom Pow", and one of those they used in two completely separate scenes. good god what a 😎 level film.
Yes because I fucking loved guinea pigs at that age. Went to the premiere at the El Capitan and visited some attraction they had set up across the street even
Brave Little Toaster has relatively low stakes and I love it, but I can't say it's not a distressing movie
Big stakes are fine in kids movies imo. It's more about the way those stakes are presented to the viewer. In Star Wars the stakes are galactic, but they don't spend time showing you suffering, starving aliens being brutalized under a magical Fascist Space Regime. They just kind of go "Hey Empire Bad". Through an adult's scope of reference the stakes wil seem higher because they have more knowledge of Fascism.
In Monster's Inc they don't have to explain that monster society will break down without energy. Having Boo in the wrong universe away from her parents is enough for kids to understand that she needs to go home.
That Mr Bean episode with the oysters (despite the stakes being so extremely low) was extremely distressing for me as a child, I had multiple nightmares about oysters, to this day I frequently have to repress a gag reflex if I even look at oysters.
Oh my god if you mean the Holiday movie then same. I've always been terrified of missing flights and such and that whole movie was agony for me
I can't remember if its that one but I do remember that in the same episode he ends up naked in the hallways of his hotel for some reason so he covers his privates and bum with a NO ENTRY sign and a ONE-WAY SYSTEM sign
I am 23 years old and thus an old curmudgeon but I say with resolute confidence that Ratatouille is the best Pixar film and they haven't made a good one since UP