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it's Roald Dahl.

i agree about the aunts. it's one of my favourite bits when they turn up at the end in that old piece of shit car. and i also wanted to know more about that FUCKING AWESOME ROBOSHARK THING

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No fuck that I don't care if it's a kids' film or story or fucking tv series or anything. Being targeted at kids is NEVER an excuse for a sloppy piece of shit for a story, or being completely incoherent or campy or overall horrible.

If you're producing a story or film or game or anything targeted at kids, and it's nothing but garbage, you're conditioning them to like garbage and they will always like garbage and then the rest of us have to deal with the evolution of this garbage. Saying 'oh well it's for kids therefore it doesn't matter' is the absolute laziest and dismissive excuse you can pull out of the book regarding any form of media.

Also, that's not even a good example. They even make fun of the underwater fires in the show. The entire point for a lot of the nonsensical stuff in Spongebob is there specifically to be nonsensical and zany, and that was there from the get go. There's reasons why the things that happen in Spongebob happen. And for the things that flat out don't make a damn bit of sense, it's pointed out and mocked throughout the show.

It's about believability within the world presented. Spongebob gives us an idea of what to expect and how things work in the first handful of episodes alone, and sticks to these general rules. When things don't make sense in-universe, it's picked fun at.

James and the Giant Peach doesn't do this. It kind of gives you somewhat of an idea of how things kind of work not really then doesn't abide by any in universe laws and the story is all over the place. It takes itself very seriously. Everything's presented in a way that makes it seem like it knows what it's doing. Not to mention, it's not even that light hearted of a movie. It's pretty damn dark, which only makes this whole thing worse.

I hate plot holes so large they bust a hole in the fabric of time and space and that's pretty much what came out of this movie/story/whatever.

huff

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Yeah that was a really bad example STM. You should have used the pineapple than isn't really a pineapple.

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Urgh, look, it's a film. I had a nostalgia trip watching it, I enjoyed watching it. Then I promptly stopped caring about it. It really doesn't bother me that much to entertain an argument over it. If you don't like, if you think it's crap, fair play, you're so entitled to your opinion.

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The story was incoherent. The goal was made clear, but the entire journey leading up to the goal didn't make a damn bit of sense. Why did anything that happened in the movie happen? Where the fuck did that mecha shark come from? Why was it attacking them? how did they end up in the arctic over night, and how were they able to breathe under water/ not die from the extreme cold of being submerged in that water? Where was the character development? What the fuck did the spider, the only one there that can only survive off of meat, eat? What exactly was the rhino? Why did all of the bugs want to go to NYC as well? Where all those seagulls really okay with being forced to lug around a massive peach for days on end?

And the most important question of all: Why would James turn down those delicious looking fish heads I mean really they looked fantastic I would have eaten them pff smh

They made no effort to explain anything, and as a result, every couple of minutes I'm asking questions with no closure and that's something that I personally am not fond of. Also, I don't like coming up with my own explanations for why everything happened in a work of fiction. If I really had to guess, the entire story was just one massive fever dream of Jame's or maybe the damn kid was on the verge of death or in a coma because of abuse, while his parents were just taken by a storm and the whole rhino thing was a fabrication of his aunts'. But what if the original intent was just to show off a wondrous, fictional world where anything could happen? Well, now I'm just a cynical douchebag who can't enjoy the fun fantasy elements of the movie.

The musical bits were awful. You know when you watch a show that shoves in random musical bits for the sake of it to entertain children but they're always so horrible and campy you have a hard time sitting through them? Every musical bit in the entire movie in a nutshell.

There was no flow. Every major event in the movie outside of the very beginning and very end just felt like filler. How does that even happen? I don't know but this movie sure pulled it off.

The characters themselves had no depth. None of them were memorable as their own individual beings. The only thing that stood out about them were their designs. Every character interaction in the movie didn't read as natural. It was all very forced.

In short: It was a poor story poorly executed and as a result I CRINGE



Despite all this, I'm totally okay with the aunts literally driving through the ocean to get to New York. That was hilarious.

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My brother keeps telling me to watch Space Dandy. Is it really good?

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Agreed, it was Howl's Moving Castle and FMA: B (don't cringe)

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And I was of the opinion that people tended to look down on anyone who enjoyed FMA because it's too mainstream an anime to warrant status as one of the best. :P