As a Canadian, I was shocked to learn I had feelings : memes

[-] scytale@lemm.ee 144 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just watched Elemental last night. The marketing really was the reason it bombed. The trailers made it look like a forbidden love story, but it was actually about the struggles of immigrant families and 2nd generation immigrants’ pressures of living up to their parents’ dreams.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 year ago

Yeah they really dropped the ball there. I wasn't interested at all by the trailer. It looked like their least inventive yet.

[-] banneryear1868@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

It lacked the wide age range appeal other Pixar movies manage to pull off. I didn't like the fundamental elements as a metaphor for race/culture either, it's sort of racist to imply people of different backgrounds are so fundamentally different like that, although it did serve as a strong visual for the story. It would have been more accurate if the characters were projecting fundamental differences on to the same element, like different phases of water or something. That was the only real thing I thought was actually wrong with it, otherwise it just lacked the magic that other Pixar movies have.

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

That is 100% why I didn't care. Hell a friend of mine had a copy and I wasn't even interested cuz the trailer made it sound like the most 2008 thing to ever exist

[-] Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

We don't really read the reviews for anything. We pirate everything cause fuck corporations. Our kids never saw anything about elemental but the cover. They love it.

[-] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

Is it worth watching, though?

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago

If you enjoy animation, yes. It's not the top tier of Pixar but it's not near the bottom either. I was pleasantly surprised.

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[-] scytale@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

I'd put it in the ran-out-of-other-things-to-watch category. It's not bad, but not the best either. It had pacing issues, inconsistencies with how their world works, and some plot holes, but the animation was great and there were some genuinely funny lines.

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[-] sirico@feddit.uk 42 points 1 year ago

Tim Hortons is low-mid tier at best... Did you feel anything?

[-] Stamets@startrek.website 60 points 1 year ago

Frustrated that you marked it mid-tier. Tim Hortons is utter trash.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Have you talked to a Canadian in the past 15 years? Tim's is low tier. Perhaps the bottom. McDonald's coffee is even leagues ahead. Tim's changed their bean supplier years ago and I've heard McDonald's now uses it.

[-] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

Kinda, what happened is Tim Hortons used to get their coffee from a supplier that would roast the beans for them, when they were bought out they switched to roasting their own beans which was cheaper.

When McDonald's entered the market they approached that same supplier and a blend was created for them, its not the same roast as Tim Hortons. But it is a premium roast vs Tim Hortons roasting on the cheap. Which is why Tim Hortons coffee got weaker. McDonald's coffee is more akin to what Tim Hortons used to be.

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[-] Cstrrider@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

Only Chinese-Canadians that turn into red pandas though.

[-] bi_tux@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

Can we sue pixar for copying from a flash game?

[-] nxfsi@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

Fire and water aren't even real elements 🤷

[-] Stamets@startrek.website 60 points 1 year ago

[-] optissima@possumpat.io 21 points 1 year ago

No they're right fire is just triangles

[-] idiomaddict@feddit.de 16 points 1 year ago

They’re elements of a good sauna

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[-] TheCannonball@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

What if dinosaurs had feelings? Or are we collectively ignoring that one's existence?

[-] Rinox@feddit.it 12 points 1 year ago

The second one

[-] FuyuhikoDate@silkky.pub 20 points 1 year ago

Can somebody explain the scotland Thing to me?

[-] ratz30@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago

Brave

[-] FuyuhikoDate@silkky.pub 63 points 1 year ago

Thanks for calling me brave because i asked the question!

[-] Thassodar@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago

Listen here you little shit...

[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

You are brave! Proud of you my boy.

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[-] Batman@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago

Thicc moms also have feelings

[-] giocaps99@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Italian mermaids?

[-] medusa@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 year ago

Luca

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[-] Crystalizts@startrek.website 18 points 1 year ago

They forgot: what if Colombians had feelings

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

🎵We don't talk about Columbia, nah, nah, nah! We don't talk about Columbiaaaa! 🎵

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[-] protist@mander.xyz 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Should probably just keep listing movies back a century, and then books back for centuries before that, since "having feelings" is just how you tell stories that people like

[-] frippa@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Yoo they did a movie about that flash game

[+] Kalkaline@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] Stamets@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago

Chop 'em, boil 'em and stick 'em in a stew.

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[-] HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 year ago

Oh, so that's why I didn't understand what was going on.... Someone swapped my maple syrup with feelings.

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[-] Wage_slave@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Canadians only have two feelings. Being apologetic and being happy to see ya.

Sometimes blood thirsty lumberjacks in a diabetic rage without the diabetes, but only when ya fuck with the maple.

[-] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Oh sorry eh, my feelings are showing.

[-] GlitchSir@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Forgot Chinese Americans

[-] idiomaddict@feddit.de 17 points 1 year ago

They’re Canadian

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[-] ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I am shocked that young children's movies are centered around emotions. Shocked!

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[-] original_ish_name@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

The dress looks photoshopped

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[-] mihnt@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

What film is about Canadians having feelings? All I see is Lightyear and Turning Red in 2022.

[-] Stamets@startrek.website 17 points 1 year ago

Turning Red takes place in Toronto

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