I just watched this movie. It’s so bad! Why? What am I missing?

  • fsxylo
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    6 days ago

    The original.

    Don’t get me wrong, the songs are lit, but when Nala tries to eat Pumba and then the next scene they just brush that off in 3 seconds I realized the movie is taking a backseat as a vehicle for the songs. Actually most of the movie is filled with these fast moving segways to the next scene… and the next song, and the story suffers for it.

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      6 days ago

      fast moving segways

      Believe it or not, “segues.”

      I am reminded of the sheer optimism of a late-90s American search engine called Beaucoup, which assumed English speakers had any god-dang idea how to spell Beaucoup.

      Anyway, yeah, it takes some railroading to make kids sit through Hamlet.

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        6 days ago

        segues

        …In my defense, Segway is a real word that is a form of transportation, and I meant “move from one scene to the next”, I guess I just never questioned if there’s a different word.

        Edit: after some quick googling, the company did that on purpose. https://eu-en.segway.com/about-the-brand bastards. Lmao.

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          Haitian Creole is always fun to see because the whole language is like that. It’s nearly French, but it’s spelled according to English spelling rules… unlike English.