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The Dysfunction Disjunction

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Lake Mungo (2008)

I'm gonna do something slightly different from my usual stuff with this post, cause yesterday I was in a horror mood. And I watched the horror mockumentary Lake Mungo (2008), and now it's one of my favorite horror movies of all time.

POSSIBLE MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD. NO JUMPSCARES.

I mean where do I start from? The way the interviews define the characters and their relationships? Their acting? The Nolan-style time paradox of Alice seeing visions of her future?

Of course what solidified it for me is that one scene from Alice's trip to Lake Mungo, around which the whole plot revolves. Also known as, the single most well built jumpscare of all time. Not because of what she is but because of what it means for the plot. Because of what it meant for her.

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So, how canon should it be that Sonic is made of jelly? Cause I guess not only it makes sense for a creature that has to absorb the colossal force of spindashing his way through any opponent or obstacle, but it also kinda explains the Werehog.

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Voiced by Jean Reno (Le Frog from Flushed Away), Officers Chèvre and Bûcheron may just be my favorite relatively silent characters in the film.

For most of the movie they are just sitting there, vibing, but when they spring into action, god darn it they SPRING. Through the whole Honeymoon lodge fight, they jump around like giant grasshoppers. I mean real goats are agile and capable of climbing, but come on now. What do these two take?

Also, from standing front seat when the whole squad is mocking the duo to shoving Nick in a police van and nearly sending Judy plummeting to her death, Nick is gonna have a really hard time forgiving these two.

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OK, so... to sum up Judy Hopps:

animals talk to her (well of course, cause she is a rabbit, but she befriends unlikely animals like foxes and snakes)

she was poisoned

kidnapped

she has some issues with her parents

and Nick has already proven himself to pretty much be her big strong man that she largely depends on.

So... they are prince and princess!

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Why does it seem to me like ungulates stand out a bit too much in the ZPD?

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If you were a therapist which of these villians do you think you could (eventually) redeem?

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Maybe it's because I like him or because he is actually the only one that was redeemed (albeit a little hastily), but I bet on Tai Lung.

Tai Lung basically has daddy issues, but he also has plenty of reasons to be proud of himself. He is strong and skilled, he used to be a hero, that's the part of him that he needs assurance for.

Randall is a narcissist and he has pretty much always been since he was at Monsters University. Pitch is the embodiment of something evil, literally, Hal is an incel that would take WAAAAAY to long to correct and that would possibly never fully work, Prince Charming's therapy should start from his mother and Baxter Stockman is kinda like Hal and Randall. A loser, feeling embarassed, thirsting for more power.

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"The Choice" New Zootopia comic that you can read here: https://www.deviantart.com/thalafictionfan/art/The-Choice-1312032828

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As I wrote in a comment, Zootopia 2 also deserves some credit for taking a stance against media manipulation, mass displacement and genocide. I honestly expected Disney to cancel the movie altogether just to avoid insulting a specific nation that holds power in the Western World.

The "don't bring politics into this" narrative needs to go. The world must become more political again.

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If the Zootopia team could substitute Shakira with another eponymous musician, who should it be?

My pick: Nine Inch Nails. They already worked for Disney in Tron: Ares and they could make the 3rd film feel a bit more edgy.

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"Personal space"

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My favorite piece from the old concept art. It's just so adorable 🥺

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Maybe we should mention that Nick in this scene is about to get forked or his ass whooped.

If the buck across the table is supposed to be Stu, whopping may not be very uncommon in the family.

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"Friendship goals"

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Zootopia AMV - The Spoils

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I just watched a video on why Chantel DuBois from Madagascar 3 could take out the entire city of Zootopia.

And if the video was painful to listen to, the comments were ten times as painful to read.

I mean where does one start from?

DuBois isn't the damn Hulk, nor Omniman. Just because she smashed through three office walls (that were probably just drywall, cause there was no rebar in there) doesn't mean she can like nuke the whole city or something.

According to the video, the circus animals only outsmarted her because their actions were unexpected whereas Zootopians couldn't do that. Dude, they are civilised, sentient animals. Nick and Judy chased down Pawbert with a bulldozer. Literally nothing stops any Zootopians from making up a plan to catch her or, if needed, just kill her.

I mean objectively, Zootopians have a ton of advantages. They are a population of millions, they have their own police force with tranquilizers and poison, many of them are actually trained in fighting (Judy took out two hippos and a rhino to run to Nick's rescue). So the above argument is basically "I think they can't beat her cause I haven't seen them do it".

Just because she LIKES hunting animals doesn't mean she can kill any of them, regardless of the number. Or the species. That's kind of the point of her failing to kill a single lion.

Seriously, the glazing for some characters when it comes to battles is just mind numbing. Especially those characters that are perceived as "edgy".

I mean let me guess. No, LET ME GUESS. If it was Dubois VS The Bad Guys, Diane Foxington would one-shot her cause she is a martial arts expert. Right?

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Both Nick & Judy at different points knocked down someone standing in their way, before running desperately up a flight of stairs to try to save each other.

THEIR MATCHING FEARFUL EXPRESSIONS 😭😭

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Everything pertaining to this case was orchestrated as if actively trying to keep these two apart. Their personal fewd, the goat cops tearing apart the lodge and cornering them separately, Pawbert taking Judy away, the Lynxleys arresting Nick and actually TELLING him that he is gonna lean about her death from the news, and then Pawbert and the whole police force holding them in separate rooms at the brink of death.

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New artwork of two Kung Fu Panda characters.

Mei Tian lives in a heavily fortified Fujian tulou along with her family and some more families. With the small community suffering of constant collective anxiety because of attacks from bandits, she tries to cheer them up and make her living by serving tea and food at her small tea shop.

Lately, the arrival of the mysterious warrior Li Tao has captivated her, as she decides to take it upon herself to help him integrate into the small, enclosed community.