@miragewizard
When I was in my 20s, I left college to help my grandfather deal with cancer, driving him to appointments and such. When I was in my 40s, I had to deal with losing a child due to cancer. These types of real world tragedies put things like a movie in its proper place. In this life, you will experience disappointment and hardship. If a movie, something that you can voluntarily watch or not watch, is listed among your greatest hardships in life, then you really have another thing coming.
@austin.luther
Regarding Go Tell A Watchman, I think it has legitimate value. Scout is an adult and has a better understanding of the nuances if the world and can see that her father, while still a decent man, is not perfect. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout is a child. The book is told from the perspective of a 6yo girl who idolizes her father and sees him as the best person ever. I have a similar relationship with my own father. When I was a kid, he was my hero. He even felt like a literal superhero because he was a Navy rescue swimmer. He taught me how to swim, surf, cliff dive, start fires, climb mountains, all kids of crazy stuff. He also studied history, was a military veteran who was outspoken about the horrors of war, encouraged me to think critically and question authority (even him), and to always learn more. He was my hero. I, like Scout, grew up. And learned that my father wasn't perfect. He could be sexist without realizing it, he could be homophobic without realizing it. He doesn't take much value from fictional stories and art in general, he only sees value in nonfiction and real world artifacts. He'll watch a movie and enjoy it (he's a big Star Trek fan), but he likes it because it reminds him of life on a ship and the conflicts play out like submarine warfare (he was a sonar expert and sub-tracker). He doesn't engage with the core stories that question what it means to be human, he just likes seeing a good portrayal of how people act on ships. My father is my own Atticus Finch, and Go Tell A Watchman made me feel like Scout. I didn't lose my father and the way I idealized him as a child still shaped me into the person that I am. But he's more complicated than that, as are we all, and it took adult me to realize that.
@spawnofmelkor
This echoes conversations I've had with friends who've said that RFK Jr has ruined the legacy of JFK and RFK, and i think, "No. Anyone can have a shitty child, and it's not his ability as a father that i ever appreciated about RFK."
@joshuasims5421
24:00 to be fair, all dvds of TNG being enigmatically blank after the release of the Kelvin timeline sounds like a pretty good episode of Star Trek.
@petesime
I've only really felt that kind of loss when an artist died before their time. Jim Henson died when I was 11, and I felt like I lost a piece of my childhood. I had a similar sense of loss about Robin Williams and Terry Pratchett. The fact that a movie or show or book was made that didn't appeal to me is entirely inconsequential. There's so much good stuff out there that it's laughably easy to move on to other stuff and chalk up that two hours watching a movie as lost time.
@allenwilson5235
The last scene of Atticus in Watchman is very moving for me. He is not as good as the hero of Mockingbird, but his pride in his daughter redeems him. He is proud that his daughter can go farther than he can. He raised her to be better than he is.
@allonszenfantsjones
I have a knitting buddy (only known her for a year or so). Imagine my utter bafflement when as a result of me recounting (or starting to recount) a funny story about how my little brother when he was 6 was trying to sing "jingle bells" and got stuck in a loop going round and round "o what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh-ay!" As the sound came out of my mouth (imitating my brother) this adult woman stood up from her chair and yelled I CAN'T TAKE IT! I HAVE TO LEAVE! Well thanks a lot for taking the wind out of my reminiscence (never got to finish). Turns out her bastard of an ex-husband was really into Christmas.
@Deondre_Clark
I made a conscious decision a few years back to stop saying a piece of entertainment was bad and instead saying its not for me. I walked out The Rise of Skywalker 30 minutes in and was not really that upset because it just was not for me. Nothing personal. Maybe some people love it. Just not for me and I get to go on with my life.
@GregStachowski
It would have been great stroytelling if, in the Rise of Skywalker, Rey had indeed been nobody, born of nobody, as Kylo said, but through her journey and choices become all that being a Skywalker represents, and thus adopted the mantle of the name. Like Banderas' vagabond nobody assumed the mantle and then the name of Hopkins' Zorro.
@JJ-qo7th
If watching TLJ was the worst experience of your life, you've had it really darned easy.
@Netherfly
On the other hand, maybe it's a good thing if a movie/tv show/game/whatever "ruins your childhood," because that can only mean you were fortunate enough to live a blissful, utterly contented and fulfilling childhood. Imagine, living a life so bereft of trauma that fiction can injure you so profoundly. It's a blessing, is what it is.
@LawrenceHItchcock-c2h
I had the exact conversation (almost verbatim) with my friend in regards to the Netflix Series “Lost in Space”; where he was almost in tears because, “Dr. Smith is now a woman?!” and I asked what he thought of the 1998 Matt LeBlanc movie? He said that he boycotted it ~ meaning you didn’t go and see it, I queried… No, he actually was involved in an internet urge to destroy the film that (he never saw by~the~way) that “RUINED HIS CHILDHOOD”❓❗️
@SamBryans128
The thing is your childhood can't retroactively be ruined, so by saying that something from now ruins your childhood is actively admitting that you are acting like a child.
@Jabrwock
I grew up up with the SW “sequels” that were in the “expanded universe” books that are no longer canon. Luke agonizing about his failures and running away from the academy after a failed attempt at resurrecting the Jedi Order while the Empire attempts to bring back the Emperor is nothing new.
@njp4321
I agree with very nearly everything you say here. The sole exception is that the theatrical versions of the original Star Wars trilogy is, in fact, not readily available (through legitimate means) for us to get hold of anymore. I totally respect the right of Lucas as an artist, to modify his art to his liking, but I do think it was a very poor decision to make the versions that many people originally fell in love with inaccessable.
@jeannefoster5594
“I am….. and always shall be… your friend.”
@archdeaconslag805
7:22 it also falls in line with the whole "conservatives don't get subtlety" thing. They don't get allegory, or hyperbole, or sarcasm, or whatever, when it's on the screen in front of their face. They don't think that way, so why would they talk that way?
@elaine_of_shalott6587
If seeing movie is the worst experience of your life you've lived a charmed life.
@Boonehams
"Go Set a Watchman ruined Atticus Finch!" Yes. And that's the point. The story is about how we shouldn't hold our personal heroes up to unattainable standards. We are all human, as was Atticus Finch. Scout, and the audience by proxy, saw her father as Superman in To Kill a Mockingbird, and in Go Set a Watchman, we learned he was just... man. Faults and all. We are all capable of screwing up depending on whose eyes are on us.
@MrSomnus2001