Hi, Bex! Hope you’re doing okay :) So, every time someone mistakes Eugene’s age in the movie a part of me dies lol. I think I remember how the rumor of his age begun but I can’t find it anywhere. Do you have it? Sorry if you already answered that before
Boy, that's a mood. And no worries!
Okay, so many years ago, when the fandom had no glimpse of a canonical age for Eugene, and talking to movie crew on social media was in its infancy (I think I aged a decade typing that), people started asking Tangled crew questions about the movie, including Eugene's age.
One person who worked on it (unfortunately, I don't know who it was and have no links to the source) said that they personally felt that he was about 26.
That was all the fandom needed.
It was a number, and it got latched onto. Even when later Nathan Greno and Byron Howard said that they thought he was 22 to 24, but that he had no canonical age, everyone just went with 26. It became so widespread that people took it (and still take it) as canon.
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For the movie asks: 3, 11, 17
Thank you, @smalltownfae!
3. A movie you think is overrated?
Oh, the words I had about Lost in Translation right after watching it? Maybe it was because I was buzzed on an edible, but I absolutely thought that felt really overrated in the watching. Not bad, Johansson and Murray give some top-shelf performances, that choice of ambiguous dialogue at the very end is a great one, and I dig the point of this being a temporal crossroads between one's beginning and one's end, and the alienation behind being alone in a foreign country... but, by god, Japan's way too caricatured in this, especially the "lip my stockings" scene and the bit with the dart guns, and you can tell Sofia Coppola's still a bit inexperienced in not trusting the audience, given the on-the-nose A Soul's Search tape.
It's probably objectively artsy and "good," but compared to Paterson, First Cow, and even The Station Agent, it doesn't do that much for me.
11. A movie you wish you could un-watch?
Before yesterday, Encanto. The songs are catchy, I love the colors and visuals of this movie, Luisa is an all-timer design alone, so that's why I'd purge it and avoid a movie that needed either 10-15 more minutes to pace out the climax better, to prune out a few family members to give more narrative breath to the remaining ones, or turned into a Disney original TV show, an episode focused on a family member.
However, Ghostbusters: Afterlife made a solid case as a movie that I was better off not watching. Maybe I was just in a very tired mood by then, but it just rung as the most cynical "loving" nostalgia-bait cash grab, and that's even before you get into the ethical ramifications of CGI Harold Ramis of it, with a self-defensiveness streak to its jokes and a tepid climax that doesn't rise above the more dynamic middle part of ghostbusting.
17. A movie you never get tired of talking about?
Pig, Pig, Pig, Pig, Pig. Holy shit, Pig is really great.
I could go a lot into Nicholas Cage's acting (just a papered-over, stoic split scar of a man), Alex Wolff's acting (he's great all across, but his last scene is perfect, beautiful and gutting), the forest visuals, the parts' food titles, the way the foodie world there pops alive, the dialogue about the persimmon tree, the palpable grief intertwined with wounded nihilism suffusing the narrative, the restaurant scene, and its entire second half, and what it says about masculinity, prestige, performance, and art. All in a tight about 90 minutes? Hard to believe it's Sarnoski's directorial debut, but easy to believe Cage saying it's his best performance, hands down. There's such lovingly subtle and trusting collection of details for the audience to cotton on, I don't think I can ever shut up about it, given so few people have watched it, compared to Everything Everywhere All at Once.
I hope more people watch it, it's so textured and tender, just an amazing movie.
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