I haven't necessarily left the forum, but I did want to take a hiatus after stepping down from my post. Sorry for leaving this thread dormant for so long, and a big thanks to [MENTION=46382]hutz[/MENTION] for updating the OP while I was gone. He was amazingly thorough in adding everything, I was totally expecting to do a lot of additions to the list.
I was also in the middle of a lot of writing last month, for the two Pixar reviews and the Simpsons Histories. The writing of these projects was becoming increasingly stressful and I started avoiding situations where I would need to write anything. It's a really difficult thing to describe. There is something about constant content creation that just makes you... tired after awhile. Maybe it is just spending too much time working behind a computer between my day job and this hobby. Maybe it is the expectation of having a new take on something, or the expectation of providing commentary. I'm not saying I dislike doing the videos or want to quit or anything. But it has led to this situation where, in my free time, I would rather just lurk and enjoy other people's contributions.
I know [MENTION=17229]CousinMerl[/MENTION] had been a big supporter of my work from very early on, and I should have at least followed up with him to let him know what was going on. Sorry about that. Please forgive my usual aloofness.
I put together recent reviews of
Coco (#4) and
Ratatouille (#3), in case people had missed them. I struggled a lot with the writing of the Ratatouille review, but working on it made me kind of fall in love with the film all over again. Such a good film. The only stuff left are the Toy Story 3 and WALL-E reviews which will be another double feature in August. I am really excited to write the Toy Story 3 review, but have absolutely no idea what to say about WALL-E.
This is going to be a busy week as well, as I am editing a way-too-long Simpsons Histories and be having another podcast appearance soon.
It's been a few months since the last thread update and for someone who doesn't keep an close eye on the channel except for this thread I see there's been several new videos to check out, including another Pixar review for Inside Out which I'd like to comment on;
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I think that is maybe Pixar's most adult movie in a sense. It is fairly deep and cerebral and requires a bit of thinking to understand everything (and it also does deal with an emotional breakdown of someone whose world is falling apart) so I think that older teens and adults might understand and enjoy it more than kids.
Also, just a little thought I have about it (and I'm spoiler tagging); If Riley by chance is reminded of Bing Bong somehow, will he be resurrected? I think that would make sense unless unless there is some unspoken rule against that . What do you think, [MENTION=13536]Jims[/MENTION]?
I dunno if I would agree that Inside Out is their most adult movie, but I completely agree that kids and adults will have way different experiences watching it. It's a lot like Toy Story 3 and Finding Nemo in this regard. I actually bought this movie for my older sister for Christmas (since, as a mom with a baby, she couldn't see it at the theater). And she had actually moved states as a young child around the same age as Riley. So the movie really hit her personally as an adult in a way it didn't exactly hit me.
As for the plot question...
Yeah, that is an interesting question or plot point. We could have a situation where the parents show her a picture of her drawing Bing Bong or something and it could awaken some dormant memory, or maybe he's somewhere in one of those colored balls. But he's not technically in her "subconscious" locked away with the clown, he's technically not in any of her memories. Is it that the original feeling she had toward Bing Bong that is erased, would any future memory just be a conceptual echo? This is probably going waaaaay too deep into this plot point, but I would think that in some way, it would be possible to resurrect him as a concept.