For whom is “spirit animal” a cultural term, though? The Natives i know (Northeast north america, mostly) have clans with animal totems, but they don’t hold those animals in particular reverence, nor do they equate “clan animal” with “spirit animal”, as the former is familial, and the latter, personal.

I want to…

I mean if we go back long enough all of humanity was descended by cultures who wondered their spiritual connection with animals through art.

Every once in a while there’s a contestant that really plays along and feigns a bit of “ow that’s hot!” when they get splashed.  I appreciate that.

I had really hoped that they would push the whole “lava” thing, like if a team won but two contestants fell in the trophy would be presented to the remaining player and two burnt skeletons.

“Why don’t they just release it on HBOMax? “

I think they would like to make some money.

This is one of those comments that are just self-reviewing

So you’re saying the more we are asked to notice when people make mistakes, the better we’ll learn, privacy be damned?

What you do in your personal life and what you film and upload to the internet without people’s permission are entirely different things. Also, just because something exists in the entertainment sphere doesn’t always make it ok (see hidden camera prank shows).

Sure, we all laugh at people’s foibles, it’s human nature…

Yes.

Yes, it’s very -- uh, I did this already.

Is this some kind of joke?

Yeah, I just don’t agree with that at all and I wish people didn’t take it as such as given. There’s absolutely wonderful stuff in the whole movie that builds on and pays off the themes set up in those perfect first five minutes.

I’d argue that Up is one of their most daring films because it manages to not have any real rules about how it’s world works, establishes nothing but Carl’s backstory, and we still buy it because it grounded itself so well at the start.

The montage is achingly real. Then, after grounding you, it increases the strange…

I would agree with that assessment. The opening earned Up all its good will. And good will goes a long way. The flim basically got a free pass after that, and it is a little strange people are so hesitant to criticize the rest of it, which I would say, is the actual movie.

I love the talking dogs and I think the first five minutes lends transcendence to the entire movie.

I kinda thought it was more “I was just looking for a quiet night out and he recognized me.”

“It’ll open the right doors. Also some of the wrong doors. Like cat-flaps, for example. You can’t use a cat-flap, but it’ll open up anyway.”

They’re ideology is stupid, but they aren’t exactly getting the reference wrong. The red pill in The Matrix was always a symbol for the process of radicalization, on a literal level in the movie it’s the process of discovering that the machines control people and deciding to rebel against them, but the allegory can…