Let's overanalyze movies

Anyone who's ever dealt with raccoons living in their walls knows how much of a pain in the ass it is. You try to go to sleep, they fight, mate, kick and scratch; sometimes it's terrifying. I hear raccoons trap other raccoons, or maybe squirrels, in the corner; they growl and growl while the injured or afraid prey whimpers and cries.

Therefore, I submit my conspiracy theory that the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, as much as I enjoy them and I truly do, are also shameless pro-raccoon propaganda propped up by pro-raccoon lobbyists and interest groups.

Proton Packs: How did the former professors pay to build the proton packs? How did Egon condense a particle accelerator into such a small containment unit? How would Egon have obtained a license for a nuclear accelerator?

Tarantino makes movies with a puzzle in them that bespeaks that they need to be "overanalyzed."


For instance, PULP FICTION clearly mixes early seventies themes with nineties themes. The rotary phone, the retro music, the song people sang along to in the late sixties, the lack of billboards, the clothesline, all definite characteristics of the sixties-seventies.
PULP FICTION is actually a "make believe" saga of kids in the late sixties and early seventies, imagining their life as adults in the eighties and nineties. As kid, they imagine everyone is a high stakes player, everyone carries a gun or is a boxer, etc., and there was always that weird kid that turned make believe into a homosexual rape theme (though never really doing it, just saying it).

INGLORIOUS begins with the woman running from the Nazi, and he spares her, and that's where it gets surreal, as though the rest of the movie is her fantasy while she's being hunted down, maybe shot down, but certainly fighting for her life. It's like one huge fantasy dream sequence, because nothing else makes sense.


HATEFUL EIGHT is typical Tarantino in the way he seems to appease the Beavis and Butthead fans, but he's always making fun of them, while seeming to appease them.  They don't know he is laughing at them. Here, we have the complete formula Hollywood movie, where all the likable characters are immediately killed in the most contrived ways, leaving only a hateful eight or so. He even titles it so there's no confusion. Hollywood has always done this a lot, and 95% of critic choices since 1960 have been this way, alienating the audience, and trying to force people into choosing which hateful character to like. 

Most movies are made for overanalyzing in what they really are there for. Very few movies actually use the plot to purport what they preach. There's always "sales" going on. Take WAR OF THE WORLDS. I thought it was obvious, but many don't, that in the scene where the men all look at their watches, the only one who doesn't have a wrist watch, using a pocket watch instead, is the only man in the scene who is killed in a horrible way. Even as a kid, I knew a wristwatch company had a hand in this, and this was an advertisement for them.

I see raccoons every day almost. Baby raccoons show up in the summer.
Rocket Raccoon is such a badly animated raccoon.
They could have made him look more like a real raccoon.
More bear-like in posture instead of a regular biped.
And made the mouth less cartoony when he talks.


On the subject of over-analysis and watches--there's a textbook used in film studies classes which suggests DIE HARD is an anti-feminist film. It uses the fact that John McClane is upset his wife is using her maiden name-and there is also the wrist watch she got from the Nakatomi corporation as a gift. At the end, McClane unstraps the watch in order to get Hans Gruber to fall to his death-and when she is asked her name, she says Holly McClane.

I wouldn't put that much faith in Starfleet engineers of that era. Remember they built the Enterprise-A, replete with exploding transporters, a semi-functional viewscreen and automatic doors that repeatedly jammed. 

Raccoons are the closest version of a monkey that Canada will ever have, so props for them learning how to open garbage can locks with their bare claws.

Don't remember what movie it was BUT

someone IMDb posted as a goof that the sticker on a car license plate was the wrong color for the year that movie was taking place.

Pinocchio is a ultimately a sad movie because as a REAL BOY he will see his ancient father Geppetto die and he too will age and die with Cleo and Figaro having died before him.

300 -- Who wants to drink out of that well now that it's filled with dead Persians?