The image of a brand of canned soda kicking a can down a road was a lot to take in, ngl

That was definitely my first thought.

So Ralph is Dorian Grey and Pat was the picture. Not exactly what I thought the nature of the sensei/senpai relationship was, but then again I quit karate when I was 12, so maybe that comes later.

I think I think I see your point, but unfortunately I haven't seen those latter two movies, so I can't add much more than that to the conversation.

90% when I hear somebody praise an author’s “world building,” unless they’re talking about JRR Tolkien, what they really mean is “this author types a lot of words.”

Picture somebody tall enough that they don't even have to get on tiptoes to dunk. I think that person could dunk "relentlessly," but also effortlessly enough to be "bemused" by the task.

Lol that's terrible. I used to do subtitles and captions for rev.com, and they would fire your ass for that.

Has for a while now, right?y daughter watches everything with subtitles, and we watch a lot of stuff on Prime together.

I LOVED Coloring Book.

Fair enough. I followed Disney as a whole even less than I follow Pixar, so I don't really have an informed response. I appreciate your reply.

“Bureaucratic look at the world” is a great way to paraphrase what really niggled at me about Coco. That's a charmin movie in a lot of ways, but the afterlife was so driven by arbitrary rules, it felt kind of "off" to me.

From what I can tell reading the review, it sounds very much like this movie is trying to draw from certain real-life spiritual traditions, so my hunch is that this “obsession” is more some kind of representation of the pull of karma, or the Thelemic idea of True Will.

I hear what you’re saying, but it’s not like white human protagonists get a lot of screen time in Pixar, either. We have cars, fish, robots, toys (white toys, granted). Inside Out was a human protagonist, but iirc most of that movie was spent inside her head, right?

Not just Disney. Isn't that every Harry Potter movie, too? And Star Wars? And the archetypal hero's journey in general? 

I feel you. On the one hand, my comment was clearly just a snarky joke. On the other hand....was it, thought?

If Mia Farrow doesn’t beat Davidson to death with her shoe while Ed Begley Jr holds her purse, it will be better treatment than he deserves from this.

O, if not him, Bob Odenkirk as Jimmy McGill. Tell me that guy doesn't OOZE talk show harm. 

If we're going that route, I'd go with Doug Stanhope instead. every time somebody gets an answer right, Doug mocks them for being smart-fuck nerds.

Oh God, now you've got me worried somebody will suggest Jimmy Kimmel

No, you’re rembering correctly - it's not just "schtick."