Okay, y’know how vanilla is very mid? Go buy a pint of vanilla yogurt, a bowl and a spoon and have it for breakfast or brunch. Or as a late night snack. My wife had a pregnancy craving for vanilla yogurt one evening and we’ve just kept a pint in the fridge ever since
It was dark. I was expecting cartoon fun. I watched an animated shoe get executed.
I had a good laugh. You’ve got me there, it does get really quite brutal.
Honestly, I think the gumshoe is the protagonist and noir is the genre, and I think Hoskins nails it in that context: a hard-boiled 40s private eye struggling with the weighty awfulness of the world, in a world whose weighty awfulness happens to be the result of getting mixed up with cartoons. But yeah, if you’re expecting a muppets comedy instead of film noir, it’s a hard rugpull.
It’s definitely a film where, in hindsight, I still go “they rated that PG? That should’ve been PG-13 easy”
Bob Hoskins was fine, but I feel that the script did him dirty, in light of the execution scene.
Me the viewer found Valliant doing a funny slapstick vaudville performance to stop more executions felt sickening.
I wouldn’t be fixating on the word execution, if the antagonist didn’t drive home the existential point. To further enhance what I’m getting at, think of the specific actions committed by that shoe that cost it its life.
One of my all-time favorites. I liked the dark tone, and Roger acts about how you’d expect a Looney Tunes style cartoon character from the 40s to act. Most of them are assholes.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Oh damn I think this is the only film where I’m like “Damn, you didn’t enjoy that?”
But hey, that’s why they make vanilla and chocolate, right?
Okay, y’know how vanilla is very mid? Go buy a pint of vanilla yogurt, a bowl and a spoon and have it for breakfast or brunch. Or as a late night snack. My wife had a pregnancy craving for vanilla yogurt one evening and we’ve just kept a pint in the fridge ever since
Oh damn I do the strawberry kefir (the drinkable yogurt) but haven’t tried the vanilla, I’ll have to give it a swig for sure
I feel conspicuous too, given how beloved the movie is.
I’d say Jessica Rabbit voiced by Kathleen Turner, is the singular thing that I enjoyed when I went to the theater to watch this.
I had 2 major problems with the movie.
It was dark. I was expecting cartoon fun. I watched an animated shoe get executed.
I found Roger to be intensely unlikeable. I think he acted like shit, and treated the PI character that was trying to help him like shit.
Unlikeable protagonist in an unnecessarily dark movie.
I had a good laugh. You’ve got me there, it does get really quite brutal.
Honestly, I think the gumshoe is the protagonist and noir is the genre, and I think Hoskins nails it in that context: a hard-boiled 40s private eye struggling with the weighty awfulness of the world, in a world whose weighty awfulness happens to be the result of getting mixed up with cartoons. But yeah, if you’re expecting a muppets comedy instead of film noir, it’s a hard rugpull.
It’s definitely a film where, in hindsight, I still go “they rated that PG? That should’ve been PG-13 easy”
Bob Hoskins was fine, but I feel that the script did him dirty, in light of the execution scene.
Me the viewer found Valliant doing a funny slapstick vaudville performance to stop more executions felt sickening.
I wouldn’t be fixating on the word execution, if the antagonist didn’t drive home the existential point. To further enhance what I’m getting at, think of the specific actions committed by that shoe that cost it its life.
One of my all-time favorites. I liked the dark tone, and Roger acts about how you’d expect a Looney Tunes style cartoon character from the 40s to act. Most of them are assholes.