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Post by Dr. Doofenshmirtz on Sept 14, 2019 21:03:41 GMT -5
Hello friends
My boyfriend is ill so I put him to bed tonight and then I watched Wreck-It Ralph 2. I love Wreck-It Ralph. I want my hour and 56 minutes back, with the exception of the time I spent listening to the cover of Slaughter Race by Julia Michaels. I'll take that.
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Post by Wreck-It-Ralph on Sept 14, 2019 21:17:08 GMT -5
is this a really elaborate 8-d chess passive aggressive slam
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Post by Dr. Doofenshmirtz on Sept 14, 2019 21:19:18 GMT -5
If I got some shit to say to you imma say it to your FACE IN PMS, BOY no it's not I just needed to vent about this movie, it's bad but that bit where Amazon gets taken down? that's praxis baby!
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Post by Dr. Doofenshmirtz on Sept 14, 2019 21:21:13 GMT -5
also vanellope is gay for the slaughter race lady and you will not convince me otherwise!!!
ralph is a straight ally who doesn't understand the possible connotations of e-boy and Felix is going to have to gently correct him at some point
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Post by Dog with a Blog on Sept 14, 2019 21:29:03 GMT -5
I liked wreck it Ralph ii. I have no idea if me not seeing the original makes that better or worse.
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Post by Queen of Hearts on Sept 14, 2019 21:39:39 GMT -5
I got like halfway through Wreck It Ralph 2 before having to turn it off. It was really disappointing because the first movie was a lot of fun and really funny and the sequel just kind of...wasn't? Maybe I'm too old and crotchety at this point to be hip and with the Gen Z movie-going crowd.
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Post by Dr. Doofenshmirtz on Sept 14, 2019 21:49:00 GMT -5
Okay here I have made a numbered list of my problems with the film: 1. Incoherent story - apparently the script went through, like, three iterations, the final film credits two different writing teams for a total of five people, and honey can you ever tell. Maybe I would appreciate it on a second watch knowing where it's leading me, but the themes? the structure? they were not there!
2. REFERENCES, SO MANY - I am Hip To The Kids and I was like "please, stop, I beg you." MirandaSings cameos! Apparently the eboy was voiced by YouTubers? Why did the climactic scene have to start in the Pinterest office? It did not! But, hey, Pinterest is a thing! The Moms will love it! It's very Ready Player One, no "hey, thing exists, let's discuss," it's "hey, thing exists. You remember thing, right? You like thing! So you like this because it knows about thing!".
3. Everything about the Princesses was bad and cringey and I hated it. Why did they have to be the ones to save Ralph at the end? Because that's feminism, baybee! (that's not how feminism works)
4. you completely sidelined calhoun & felix and pretended they had some subplot about becoming good parents and nope! they didn't! you just wrote them out! and every character that was not Ralph or Vanellope! The Surge Protector had more screentime than they did, Tapper had more screentime than they did.
5. tra la laaaa we'll just handwave away all the problems at the end. Vanellope wants to go into Slaughter Race? Won't she die? No it's fine Gal Gadot wrote her code into the game! (sidenote: I cannot for the life of me keep her name in my head and I have the TVTropes article open in another tab). Won't anybody notice that Vanellope is gone? Nah, she's not the most popular racer canonically, it's fine. It's...fine.
also I guess nobody noticed Ralph was gone from the game for an entire day, but we've done that plot I guess okay this concludes my rant I'm gonna go get a root beer from Tapper's now
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Post by Dr. Doofenshmirtz on Sept 14, 2019 21:51:14 GMT -5
That being said I DID like Vanellope's Princess song, I thought it was a fun genre shift, and I do think the theme they were going for is good and definitely Toy Story 3-esque and COULD'VE made me weep, I just...didn't feel it!
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Post by Wreck-It-Ralph on Sept 14, 2019 22:30:31 GMT -5
hey i've been gone for the game for like a month in order to be here, nobody seems to care
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Post by Alex Trebek on Sept 14, 2019 23:54:55 GMT -5
hey i've been gone for the game for like a month in order to be here, nobody seems to care Did you tell your boss you were going to be stationed in Germany and could work from home but then fly out to Disneyland and just not work?
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Post by Wreck-It-Ralph on Sept 15, 2019 0:06:17 GMT -5
hey i've been gone for the game for like a month in order to be here, nobody seems to care Did you tell your boss you were going to be stationed in Germany and could work from home but then fly out to Disneyland and just not work? Shhhhhh
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Post by Prince Naveen on Sept 15, 2019 6:40:29 GMT -5
I still need to see the first one tbh.
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