So many human capacities need to be strained and developed just like muscles. If you've never smelled different flowers and figured out how to notice their differences, you just live with sucky olfaction. If you've never had a safe way to taste the bitterness of grief and process it, then the first time you lose someone for real you don't have that emotional muscle to actually grieve and move on. Stories like this have the power to humanize us on a subtle but crucial level.

kids are pretty resilient as long as you give them a happy ending

I think this is the key.

I took my 9 year old nephew to watch it and he loved it even though a few moments were intense for him.

As others have mentioned there are some mature themes but it's not really gory or particularly scary. Ultimately it depends on how the parents have raised the kid and if they've talked about things like death and grief. My nephew has lost one of his grandparents so it's not like he's unaware of these concepts or doesn't still enjoy things even if it has elements that make him sad.

I'll have to finish this after work, but halfway through it's really good!

My 8 year old saw it last weekend. He covered his eyes for a few things, but he walked out of the theatre happy. I think the MPAA/PEGI play it too safe a lot of the time, kids are pretty resilient as long as you give them a happy ending. I tend to side with Don Bluth on that. For example, we watched Robot Dreams (2023) and even though it was a cute story with no wars or suicides and the ending was merely bittersweet, he still bawled his eyes out and was really broken up about it.

I've been there before, it hurts to feel so invisible. But it's not necessarily about me, I decided. I think a lot of people are just burned out and running on autopilot.

There’s a few on screen deaths that they take head on unapologetically. There’s no euphemisms nor off screen death nor other ambiguity. I wouldn’t say there’s anything particularly gory.

The themes are dealing with grief and loss of innocence. So you’d have to gauge how well a kid could handle those things because they’d have to be fairly mature.

To me it kinda feels like the kind of movies they made in the 80s in terms of how scary (for lack of a better word) it gets

Depends on what you're comfortable with them seeing. Characters are shot and killed. There's blood. And >!there's kind of a suicide scene. It's not a real person though. Kinda like a machine. With a hole in their chest. It's a pretty short scene, but still. !<

What's the youngest appropriate viewing age for this movie? I know it's PG-13, though. I read it had "intense" scenes, but not sure how that translates to viewing age.

was a great movie

I've been wearing my friends down to get interest in seeing it in the theaters.

An incredible film. But I'm constantly shocked no one I've recommended it to has even heard of it.

I followed the production, talked about it constantly, shared the making of videos, announced the release to the group chat. Invited them to an actual showing. Then when it was released, no one else came. I told them how good it was, and they acted like this is the first time they've heard of it. I've tried not to read into it too much, but damn, that really hurt.

But my son loved it too. He was so excited to rewatch some of the behind the scenes content.

I think it's good to keep it here so people know. Thanks for following up.

Public to @darakan@piefed.social - Let me know if this needs to be removed. I generally try to avoid publicizing and sharing slop content, but the Dior and Chomet team were deliberately sneaky about this one and it fooled me (and the people at Cartoon Brew). I feel like a bit of public shaming is in order.

That's a lot of data for just-sbemail. Not sure if that's 1 set for ~16GB (there are 480p MP4s and 1080p MKVs, both are h.264) but the sbemail SWFs I have (up to 205) are ~135MiB. (~336MiB total for all/most of HSR).

Also yeah, Ruffle works great on HSR's site when offered (click HSR icon, when it doesn't just embed the YT player). I still kinda like the original standalone player (on Linux) as it still has arbitrary zoom, though Ruffle does have better view options (letterbox, scale mode) just don't maximize before fullscreening.

Thank goodness for archive.org!

Also look for the Ruffle OSS flash player, to play flash on modern systems...

He's right. I miss when the internet was pretty and amusing

I want to know, too.

I know nothing about it so sure

Wanna hear about the original book's opening scene? 🤓

Iron Giant is one of those movies that I watch maybe once every ten years and every time I wonder why it isn't higher on my list. It's a great movie, well done, my kind of style and story. It really is a wonderful movie.

Right up there with The Iron Giant, IMHO! And, that one has great sentimental value to me! 😁

Stop-action, tbf. 🤓

Also: a great flick, for sure! 🥰

I've been looking forward to this for a while. Going to see it as soon as possible.

Just saw it last night. It's real easy to see why it's doing so well. A lot of people have mentioned the gorgeous animation but I feel the story and themes should get equal credit. It felt like they didn't shy away from anything and were willing to tackle some dark topics and show some of the weight of them. Genuinely think this is a top 5 movie for me.

It is such a good movie!