It used to be, but then electrification became practically universal.

Because Will Smith is the lead and he’s not an orc.

Such kids could wind up less prepared since they’re unfamiliar with the warning signs. Of course, attentive parents have long sought to screen their kids’ peer group to protect them from influences they don’t expect kids to be mature enough to stay away from.

Cory Finley has the one girl who didn’t cry at the story say that the tree is a sap to be content to be exploited by the boy, but it’s implied that this just reflects her own inability to grok the selfless love presented as the standard interpretation for schooldchildren.

The connection is somebody brought up The Giving Tree and then I said that another work of pop culture explained to me something that was supposed to be obvious about it. In case you were similarly dense as me when you read it as a child, it’s apparently supposed to be a metaphor for being a parent. The character in…

Grave of the Fireflies is good enough that I’d be willing to rewatch it, if not for that taking up time I could use to watch movies I haven’t already seen.

I have. It’s the only anime I’d recommend.

I didn’t know that The Giving Tree was supposed to be metaphorical until I read the original stageplay version of Thoroughbreds (just titled “Thoroughbred”). I’m glad the final filmed version was more subtle about that aspect.

I don’t rewatch a lot of movies, and the reason not to do so for Hard Candy is that it’s just ok. The movie that stuck out to me on the list above is Turtles Can Fly, which might be the most depressing movie I’ve seen.

I bet he fought a voodoo witch doctor at some point who tried cursing Batman.

Anybody remember that really scary bit in Signs where all of a sudden Joaquin Phoenix is onscreen?

I think the country is too old (in terms of the average age of its citizens) for that. Wars are fought by young men.

The secret to understanding mankind is to break it down into its root words: “mank” and “ind”. What do they mean? It’s a mystery, and so is mankind.

I read both Candide & Huck Finn in school. The former struck me as so funny it was hard to believe it was written centuries ago, while the latter seemed an overrated book which really wasn’t much better than The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

I’d take X2 over First Class any day of the week.

Cloud?

She’d killed a significant number of them, and they react inconsistently to being stabbed with dragonglass.

I think he’s directed more tv than films.

My understanding was that the scene was not intended to come off as a rape and that Cersei was supposed to be seen as actively participating it, but the execution of it was botched.

I suppose it comes down to what one means by “elevate”.