This week in the Deep Hurting Project, Dia of the Dead, a ripoff of Coco and I think The Book of Life.
- Well, at least they're demonstrating a deeper knowledge of Mexican food than usual, but seemingly limiting their knowledge of Mexican culture to food.
- God-Damn, is this what Strong Bad has reduced himself to?
- So, Mom killed herself, Grandpa let her, and if their eight-year-old luchador son sleeps hard enough, they'll meet in the afterlife for a concert?
- You know, I've never watched The Book of Life, but I have watched Coco a couple times, and I can't help but notice that it had a very imaginative setting. This time, it just looks like a normal Mexican town that just happens to have crappily-animated skeleton people.
- So, Mom's still alive, but she's in the afterlife for some reason?
- Is this just going to be a bunch of scenes of two people delivering exposition? The first nine minutes, it was the boy and his grandpa giving a very muddled explanation of what's going on, then it's the long-running queen talking to a bat about past compeditions, and then it's Mom and a mummy?
- Huh. There's radio stations with connections to the Great Beyond. Since when did Art Bell become a Mexican?
- I remember the Aaliyah movie just assuming that because she was a great singer, she'd be a great actress, and now we have people who think being a luchadora translates into a great singer.
- So, by being there, Grandpa and Sonny Boy are breaking rules?
- Is it just me or do the skull heads all look like they came from Duane Dibley?
- So, I know that in Anime, the Osaka has enough cultural similarities with the American South that when they're dubbed into English, Osakan characters are dubbed with a Southern Accent. What part of Mexico would be that equivalent?
- So, it starts with five separate scenes of two people talking (with no overlap) before it starts. Why is this reminding me of Glengarry Glen Ross?
- What do you want to bet that the claim that being a luchador gives you special powers doesn't come up in the movie? Or that, because it's done by the same people who brought the world Zoo Wars and Finding Jesus, it's still nothing?
- So, there's a great big clock where she lives? For all you know, she could be from London.
- Wanna bet that the talk about how this concert will be for nothing will be foreshadowing.
- That's not Momo!
- Why are they shocked by the fact that a dead person is performing in the land of the dead?
- They're really skirting Disney's copyright with that "When You Walk ON the Edge of The Cemetery"
- Why do Mom's completion of Fredo's songs sound like they're from different songs?
- Incredibly, it looks like this movie understands the term "Groomer" better than most of the American political right.
- There was a fucking manual for crossover into the Great Beyond?
- So, their presence in the audience could make Mom overpowered, but they're going for having the Gods of the Dead turn her into their puppet?
- Is there a reason a native Spanish speaker doesn't know the word "Amor"?
- Is this what Laurie Anderson's take on "Habanera" would sound like?
- How is there a contest with no contestants?
- So, is there a reason they didn't actually announce that Mom won?
- So, she won the contest, but she just decided to retire? So, it's nothing?
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.