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Lilo & Stitch

I have posts to make so I'm gonna make them! Let's see if I can get back in the swing of posting regularly.....

So at what is at this point ages and ages ago, I was hanging with some friends when it came out that I've never seen Lilo & Stitch, and they immediately decided this lack had to be RECTIFIED. So within ten minutes we were all sitting in the living room watching Lilo and Stitch.

And it IS a very good movie! I'm very happy to have seen it! "This is my family. I found it, all on my own. Is little, and broken, but still good. Yeah, still good." ALKDFHLDSHFDJ SO MANY FEELINGS. THIS FOREVER.

I love Lilo, and I love how Lilo and Nani love each other but also have problems, and I love how Lilo teaches Stitch about love and family, and I love how David is just so.... complaisant*, so even-keeled, and so genuinely nice. And I love how Lilo is so CUTE, and I love how Nani is drawn with such strong and sturdy legs (which MAKES SENSE given the way she can run!), and I love David's adorable floppy hair, and I love how Stitch regrows his middle pair of legs whenever he needs to do some good scurrying. And I love Mr Cobra Bubbles, who at the beginning of the movie looks like he's going to be some awful stereotype of the Scary Big Black Dude, but turns out to be, like, human, and genuinely means the best for Lilo, and clearly has an interesting history. (and, okay, I totally ship Mr Bubbles and the alien-lady-in-charge, I mean SERIOUSLY. How could I not!) And I love how it is a popular, mainstream movie with exclusively POC main characters!

But mostly I love how this movie is a movie about LOVE AND FAMILY IN ALL ITS FORMS. <33333

*...sorry, using old-fashioned vocabulary that nobody says these days. BUT IT IS WHAT I MEAN SO I WILL USE IT ANYWAYS SO THERE.
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[personal profile] verity 2012-06-06 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG! I must watch this!
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[personal profile] sophia_sol 2012-06-06 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
YES YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST. This is actually a movie I kind of assumed you'd CLEARLY ALREADY SEEN because it is so much up your alley!
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[personal profile] calvinahobbes 2012-06-06 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay, I am glad you will be posting again. I think I would have been REALLY WORRIED if I didn't see you on tumblr :o)

Lilo & Stitch are golden. It's such a surprisingly sad movie. At least, I am surprised every time. Not the ending, of course, but still! And you are of course right about all the things that are awesome about it.

IDK, basically I am just here to say Hi!
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[personal profile] sophia_sol 2012-06-06 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
<333 HI BACK!

Yeah, Lilo & Stitch really surprised me in tone and content and all sorts of things. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but what I got definitely wasn't it, and it is SO MUCH BETTER than I rather thought it would be!
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[personal profile] aria 2012-06-06 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
LILO AND STITCH! Possibly in my top five favorite comfort movies? (And by "comfort movies" I mean that it is fuzzy and delightful and then I also sob helplessly at least twice every time I see it, without fail.) FAMILY. <333

...this has been a totally inarticulate comment, but wow I love that movie SO MUCH.
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[personal profile] sophia_sol 2012-06-06 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
YESSSS I totally understand why it would be a comfort movie (of exactly that type)! It is worth SO MUCH LOVE slkdfhjsdkf

what would you classify as your other top comfort movies, btw? If there are other movies out there as awesome as Lilo & Stitch that I am missing out on then I WANT TO KNOW
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[personal profile] aria 2012-06-06 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh man, um. Both Road to El Dorado and Labyrinth are definitely also comfort films for me, although they do not make me cry! Those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head, but I'm sure there are others; I'll let you know if I think of any of Lilo & Stitch caliber. :D
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[personal profile] sophia_sol 2012-06-06 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! <3

Road to El Dorado, from everything I've seen, looks like it would trigger my embarrassment squick too much to enjoy, but omg LABYRINTH I HAVE BEEN MEANING TO WATCH THAT FOR AGES. I really do need to get on that one of these days
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[personal profile] aria 2012-06-06 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Labyrinth is adorable and delightful and full of Muppets and David Bowie and ALL THE GLITTER MANUFACTURED IN 1985, it's pretty great. Meanwhile -- oh man, okay, I don't know what trips your embarrassment squick, but [personal profile] polarisnorth with whom I live has a really easily triggered one, and Road to El Dorado is one of her favorite movies. I adore it because it mooostly sidesteps all of its potential fail, and has a nearly-textual queer threesome, and generally brings me joy, but perhaps it would embarrass you too much to enjoy. ANYWAY YES LABYRINTH AT LEAST. :D
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[personal profile] sophia_sol 2012-06-06 07:25 pm (UTC)(link)
GLITTER AND MUPPETS AND DAVID BOWIE, yep! I look forward to when I finally watch it :P

And Road to El Dorado... well, embarrassment squicks are by no means triggered by the same thing between different people. But pretty much the entire premise of the movie (them being mistaken as gods and having to keep up the ploy) is one I could never ever ever bear because I'd be constantly cringing with the feeling that THEY'RE GOING TO BE FOUND OUT ANY MOMENT NOW AND EVERYTHING WILL BE TERRIBLE. Alas!
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[personal profile] aria 2012-06-06 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Be warned that you may have ALL THE SONGS stuck in your head for days afterwards. :D

And alas indeed! Yeah, I think that does mean it's right out. Ah well.
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[personal profile] surexit 2012-06-07 10:27 am (UTC)(link)
I saw it on the flight back from Tokyo and OMG WHY HAVEN'T I SEEN IT BEFORE? OH, IT WAS SO FUCKING ADORABLE.
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[personal profile] sophia_sol 2012-06-07 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I KNOW RIGHT? I was EXACTLY THE SAME when I finally saw it! I mean, I did not grow up on Disney movies like it seems like a lot of people did, so Lilo & Stitch wasn't even on my radar as a thing to consider watching. But WHY DID NOBODY MAKE ME WATCH IT EARLIER?
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[personal profile] surexit 2012-06-07 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I never watched it because it just looked so uninteresting and bland, but it's huge in Japan so on the flight back I was kind of like, "okay, I'll try it."

I ENDED UP IN TEARS.
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[personal profile] china_shop 2012-06-06 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ohana" means family, and family means nobody gets left behind. *sniffles*
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[identity profile] sophia-sol.livejournal.com 2012-06-07 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
ALL THE FEELS
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[personal profile] neveralarch 2012-06-07 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
Oh man, Lilo and Stitch is one of my favorite movies. I think it's one of only a couple animated movies I've actually seen in theaters, but it was an awesome experience to be see it as a kid with my brother and my parents. I should dig out our copy of it and see it again sometime soon.

ETA: just remembered that one of my friends regularly played as Stitch in the D&D game I ran from ages 12-16. It was interesting for us/frustrating for all the other players, and she could never find armor that would fit the extra arms.
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[identity profile] sophia-sol.livejournal.com 2012-06-07 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Awww, that's awesome that you got to see it in theatres and enjoyed it so much! The only animated movie I saw in theatres as a kid was Mulan and it scared the living hell out of me, so I'm willing to bet I wouldn't have liked Lilo & Stitch as a kid. But I'm glad I got the chance to see it now!

And that is SO ADORABLE, you and your friends' D&D game with STITCH!
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[personal profile] neveralarch 2012-06-08 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
Haha, that game was kind of a mess - I was the only person who knew any rules, so it basically became a strictly roleplaying game, with a brave group of adventurers and then my friend alternately playing as either Stitch or the Phantom of the Opera and hardly ever on the same side as the rest of the group. But it was a lot of fun!
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