What kind of idiot takes a toddler to a movie? They're not wired for that yet...
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Probably someone who wants to watch toy story 5 in the cinema.
Movie theaters aren't for toddlers, no matter what the movie...
Could be one of those special screenings for parents to bring thier squealing children to 😅
Possibly, but people don't seem to give a shit.
I can't really complain, the last movie I saw in the Theater was Avengers, EndGame...
The same idiots who bring a toddler to the art museum. I can keep myself together when I follow my girlfriend 3 hours walking at the slowest possible pace through a boring ass exhibition; the toddlers, not so much.
But maybe it was an employee and the screams of the child enhance my art experience somehow.
That's not what the film is about though.... spoilers ahead
spoiler
Bonnie is struggling to make friends because she still plays with toys but all the other kids play online games together. So her parents get her a tablet. However, the other kids find out that Bonnie still plays with toys and they start to cyber-bully her
Eventually the toys realize that the tablet is a toy and they become friends with the tablet and use it to help Bonnie find a long-distance friend that also plays with toys. The two girls become friends and they use the table to play online games when they're apart and use it as a physical toy when they are together... like using it to play music for their wedding or pretending it's a UFO abducting the other toys.
In the end, when the other kids see Bonnie and her friend playing outside they too want to go outside and join in
The movie straight up starts out with the toys thinking the tablet is bad because the kids aren't playing like their previous owners did and eventually they realize that the kids are playing, they're just playing in a different way and that's OK
At one point the tablet thinks it's bad for Bonnie and literally tries to throw itself away and the other toys rescue it.
The movie doesn't say, "tablets are bad", it encourages you to use it as a toy... both as something to play games on but also as a physical toy that you use your imagination with. Use it to put on a light show for your dance party... that kind of thing
Also, Wall-E. And maybe Idiocracy.
Maybe?!
I want to place a bet for when Brawndo comes out unironically as a brand.
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Wack, the definition I have here is
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I miss the good ol' days when mass-market TV is what rotted kids' brains. Brain-rotting TikTok slop is totally different from that.
yeah, but those of us who grew up on tv didn't have ubiquitous access to screens either.
I've seen parents pushing toddlers around strapped into a stroller with a tablet mounted on an arm right at the kid's eye level. Even if the kid wanted to stop looking at the tablet, they'd have a hard time. They're basically Ludovico Technique-ing their own kids.
this is what i'm talking about. i watched A LOT of tv, but there were no tablets to shove at me while shopping or traveling. is the portable screens available to or pushed on kids 24-7 that seems fundamentally different to me than what i experienced as a kid.
I grew up in the '70s. My parents limited us to one hour of TV per day, but I had friends who spent nearly every waking hour when they weren't in school parked in front of the television. Like, six to seven hours per day and more on the weekends. The stats back that up, too.
i grew up in the 80s, i was a latchkey kid and i had a tv in my room and in the living room. but there were no screens to hand to me while driving, shopping, attending social or family functions. if i was bored somewhere, my options were to engage, explore, observe, read, or draw.
i think there is something fundamentally different about the relationship cultivated between small people and small, ever - present screens than the large stationary box we had at home.
Though pre-DVR TV and especially a household too poor for cable the television was... a bit less continuously interesting. Having even a VCR was just amazing and that was a royal pain meaning you really had to pick and choose what to record. Most of the time you didn't even have anything you wanted to watch that happened to be playing right then. Even when you did want to watch, good chance it is a rerun and you only half paid attention if you bothered at all.
The on-demand nature of it and the volume of it are really what makes it just constant.
Lol I spent almost a year living in a part of Florida that had two broadcast stations, ABC and PBS. And I had a TV without a remote, just the two old-fashioned dials. And I would spend entire fucking evenings just flipping between those two channels. The weed helped, but I finally gave in and paid the $100 or so installation fee to get cable.
It definitely seems more... Distilled? Concentrated?
There's also much less opportunity for regulation and a far more rapid response to shifting incentives
yeah, no. tv was a lot better than how fucking tiktok is today.
The short form really fucks people up. Tiktok specially is less important. Reels and youtube shorts both as well
Exactly, my generation grew up with the good brain rot, we all knew the same marketing jingles and all made our parents spend their money on the same toys the cartoons told us to get.
What's funny is my generation's brain rot was mainly Looney Tunes and The Three Stooges. So technically it was actually the brain rot from forty years prior.
toy stories was suppose to be more adult/teen friendly than kids. actually most og pixar and disney mark tend to be more dark than all the MCU-esque, babiefied crap.
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