#and thats it tbh if you have daddy issues dont watch it youll be mad

[jolivira]

movie rant

I just finished the mitchells vs the machines and i have no friends to rant about it to so im making a tumblr post!!!

disclaimer: this is just MY opinion and if you liked the movie that’s great! keep scrolling

disclaimer 2: this will have spoilers about the movie

got all that? still here? oK LET’S GO

okay so things that I liked:

the animation style was incredible

the humor was great (most of the time)

i would die for those two robots

the mum is amazing

and yea...

the plot of the movie in general was fine too but what got me MAD was the father/daughter plot

lets make something clear: in the beginning of the movie katie TRIES to show things to her dad, and we see her easily bonding with her brother over his special interests, meaning if the dad tried to share stuff about carving and crafting with her too it woud probably work out. katie has always made an effort to connect

BUT NO, the dad is super annoying, acts like a boomer with the hating phones thing and in the end of the day simply doesn’t care about katie’s movies, he only cares about the time before she had a personality and loved everything he did. shes what 17 now? and he keeps bringing up stuff from when she was a baby

then we see katie’s dream being to leave and to create an independent life for herself, and for some reason its framed as a bad thing???

OH and when she lies and says what her dad wants to hear and its played like an awful decision. you know, many kids like me have to do that to survive in their family, please their parents to avoid arguments and fights

also why is the movie obssessed in forcing her to feel things that she doesnt feel? her father never cared about her interests, he literally watches one of ther videos for the first time in the last 15 minutes of the movie, why should she force herself to feel those things when her dad only started caring once she was leaving?

and his ““effort”“ is so painfully average. he isnt even bothered to know what she likes or wants to do, just shoves his own nostalgia on her and then gets upset when she doesnt like it

fucking get to know your daughter maybe?? and dont try to bond with her just because shes moving out and you feel guilty????

(im so mad omg dkjfhdjfgjkfg)

no but the worst part of this movie is the message, oh boy

they keep talking about katie finding her people, only for it to turn out she just had to realize her people was her family all along!!!

that is such an awful message to kids!!!! “your people are your family! if you dont fit in with them then theres something wrong with you” and “if youre upset with your parents dont be because family is the only thing worth fighting for” which she says in the speech to the villain

WHAT THE FUCK??

god and that scene where katie is supposed to feel guilty cause the dad sold the house and its suggested it was to provide for her. well, movie, thats not katies fault! stop guilt tripping her cause thats what asshole parents do to you when they feel you arent giving them attention

*takes deep breath*

honestly Im usually all for rooting against disney movies at the oscars, I really really am. and i decided to watch this movie exactly because i saw so many people say it deserved the oscar more than encanto

and i honestly went into it really hoping to enjoy it, but almost every scene with katie and the father began to hurt something inside me....I think if i watched this movie as a kid i would have thought the state of my relationship with my father was my fault, and i had to “give him the benefit of the doubt” and accept his half assed attempts to connect with me

and honestly, as much as disney makes me angry, their movie about a latino family coming together, apologizing and healing from trauma is much more beautiful and important than whatever this trainwreck tried to talk about

UNRELATED but i also heard so much about the lgbtq rep in this movie and I was so looking forward to it and it ended up being 1 (one) rainbow pin and 1 (one) line said super fast at the end.... I was really disappointed tbh but thats the internet’s fault not the movie’s i guess

i think im done now, if you reached the end WOW im honestly impressed heres a gold star ⭐