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Pavlov wrote:
i find his movies so overrated lmaoo everyone is like omg!! quentin tarantino!! this movie is made by quentin tarantino!!!!11111 and im like o k
like theyre so forgetable

onlyfans wrote:
it really takes me out sometimes now that i started noticing it after the margaret qualley scene where she just slams her feet right up against the windshield and the camera sits there for the whole car ride which is unfortunate bc i like a lot of his movies but just as a human being he is so... odd. just prepare to say the N word and show ur feet if u wanna be in a QT movie

MasileinDE wrote:

exactly
like he has a great way of telling stories and usually the composition of scenes is quite appealing, but there's just these scenes wedged in there, that make you feel like an unrequested voyeur?
like I remember back in high school, we once attended a very famous play and there is a rape scene in it, that they kinda showed in abstract with the dude touching the gal with a 2 meter stick from across the stage and when he goes between her legs, she grasps it and holds it and when she holds her hands up, you can see red paint there and on the stick like a mark of blood. it was rather tastefully done for a rape scene (a phrase I never saw me user ever, but well, I guess you could call it that? because it wasn't grafik, it got the point across and it made all of us fucking uncomfortable and wanting to egg the actors to just skip it and go ahead). And when I say high school, we were 18/19 back then

onlyfans wrote:
oh i 100% get you there. tht sounds really fascinating and i could only imagine watching that scene in high school!! but oh yes the unrequested voyeur thing is soo true. it just taints the experience when you can go from something like the crazy 88 battle scene in KBV1 which is like meticulously choreographed and shot to just weird shoehorned in foot fetishism. and to bring it back to the topic as well kinda, as soon as i went and rewatched some of the nickelodeon shows i hold dearly knowing that dan schneider was a foot fetishist too just totally made me SO uncomfortable in some shows. the fact that the nickelodeon logo was also a foot at one point just makes it all worse!

MasileinDE wrote:

yeah, there's just this awkward "ew" moment you get in hindsight, that might have been preceeded with a bad taste in the beginning (if by then you were already old enough to get what might have been going on)
like, I remember that I kinda liked the show Braceface in the beginning when it aired in Germany, but then it started to get weird and somehow sexual in a way that didn't convey "hey, teenager girl trying to figure out her life", but more of the "look, she's a blonde teen and we know you want to see her freak out over getting boobs, because it means bra scenes" so I stopped watching it. but that sentiment only got clear to me when I rewatched it a few years ago to figure out why I stopped liking this show from like a week to the next. (I think Braceface was Nickelodeon as well?)

onlyfans wrote:
omg love braceface. its a canadian cartoon tht wasnt nickelodeon but definitely couldve been. i havent watched it since i was a kid so i never noticed those things but i 100% believe it. its just weird to think that a lot of the people that are working so hard to get into these industries is because they have these very unmentionable desires and they could do some real harm because of it. really really troubling.

i am reminded now of one guy who got onto the powerpuff girls remake and he made a character that was essentially himself in the show as a kid and then made his own character start dating blossom in the show? like he was basically writing fanfiction of himself dating one of the main little girls? so gross

MasileinDE wrote:

exactly
I also feel like it's a very dangerous path to trudge, because you want to make something that's appropriate for children / teens, that they feel they can rely to and you want to be on their level and not make it feel weird to them, because they have a different view and feeling about things. like, let's be real, awakening sexuality is a very tough subject that just begs you to invite pedos in to write the plot (for instance the power puff girl thing, or other creeps) and live out fantasies and even if not, it is so difficult to handle it.
like when I first saw Big Mouth on Netflix, I was very put off by it being really not suitable for kids because of the language. But the more I watched it, the more I had the feeling that the sentiment and the story behind it all actually would benefit a lot of children and that it's just the world and the jokes around the "message" of the show that truly make it adult themed. I never got creepy pedo vibes from that show (frankly, I don't know what to make of the shame wizard and his nazi dildo collection, because I feel like it might just be a visualisation of people having to feel ashamed of fetishising nazis - which, you know, they def should - and then in the same breath make him this pityful creature you kinda are compassionate towards?) like if I'm being real, there's a few things I have mixed feelings about when it comes to the show, but funnily enough, it's purely on a political level and sometimes personal emotional, but never on the "sexual level" the show kinda opens itself up to. I'm still a bit on the fence about the show, but I feel like season one is something you could show kids aged 16 and up to give them insight on some more intense subjects about puberty that might not be adressed in sex ed, because there it's an adult teacher and it oftentimes feels weird and too sterile for truly personal questions. (well look me raving about big mouth now this whole thing truly is a very difficult subject and the worst part is having to find the right words and vocabulary - for the portrayal as well as the discussion around it)