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The ending's pro-Big Brother, anti-free market sentiment ; BARF!


I reall HATE it when politics invade my movie viewing experience. It was so much easier to enjoy flicks as a kid. Ignorance is bliss.

For older me, the fates of Ralph and Vanellope represented two sides of the same coin. The winners in a leftist, big government society and the losers.

Ralph was living a life that was not a reflection of his true values and aspirations. Some people want to see the world crumble and fall. That was not Ralph. He wanted to not just BE a hero but more importantly PURSUE the life of a hero, regardless of what level of greatness he achieved. The freedom to pursue your dreams is what matters. THAT is the beauty of free market society.

What he is stuck with at the end is his assigned lot in life. And he accepts the Big Brother system of winners and losers that put him there. But take heart Communist peasant Ralph! In his moment of humiliation, he gets to look out on Vanellope, an ASSIGNED winner.

I cannot emphasive the word assigned enough. Vanellope is practically guaranteed to win every time because of a glitch that allows her to cheat. In a game where all the other racers have to play by the rules, her character dictates that if the gamer wants to win they MUST choose her.

What gamer would want to play a piece of crap like that?! A game like that would have ZERO staying power. King Candy was right. At least in reality. His touching speech to Ralph was the most HONEST part of the film. Which is why the lying Marxist writers of this film had to make sure he was a fraud. What a convenient plot twist that was.

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I took Vanillope's glitch to be a bit of a take on the positives of being a misfit, of which she'd been treated by most of the characters in her own game, punctuated by her home, her messy appearances which were very oddly mismatched compared to the more "pristine" and "balanced" look her fellow racers had. Little details like her hair, mismatched stockings, even her race car had that "misfit" way about it, in how it was made with Ralph's "help" and how it turned out.

As for your take on Ralph I almost totally disagree. Just my thoughts, he didn't want to be a hero, he wanted to not be the perpetual outcast, unappreciated, and just plain treated poorly by the Nicelanders. Remember how he tried to fit in at the party? How he wanted a place on top of the cake rather than in the mud? From the start he acknowledges what he is and that he's really good at it. When he tried to do something outside of his true nature and be the hero he made things worse for himself and everyone else. The only irony to this was the end when, in finally accepting what he was he did a heroic thing and saves the day.

A simpler way of explaining my point would be to say that not everyone that want's to be a rock star will be a rock star, but when a person figures out what they're good at they're usually happier and better off than chasing an unattainable, impractical, or difficult dream.

Consider to that the other racers seem to have their own abilities "Cherry bomb!". Odds are that like with many kart style racers they may have all had their own unique ability that balanced things out, or Perhaps Vanillope was the easy character for "noobs".

Not sure if you're trolling, but I have chosen to think you aren't and attempting to offer a different perspective on things.

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The only thing I agree with is the last point you made. That Vanellope was OP, and pretty much ruined the game by refusing to be the princess and turned back into her glitchy self. Since it was an arcade game she obviously could not be nerfed. However, are you against the end also when she changed sugar rush from a monarchy to a constitutional democracy?

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I choose to believe that this movie implys that you can aspire to be more than "what you are", but you cannot surpass your own inherent limitations.

It's like what Zangief said...just because I'm crushing someone's head between my thighs might make me the "bad guy" but not a "bad...guy".

All of us dumbasses are not living...we're all "playing roles". It doesn't matter if that role is due to your job, or what you want in life...but it's the culmination of your job role and your "not job" role that define you as a person.

And there lies the problem...we need to make a living, but we also must be a good influence on our families...That's the conundrum...how do we work, and yet raise children? Both are full-time jobs.

We're all massively failing at it and I can't wait until the next extinction level event....which WILL come someday :) Who's gonna stop it? You dumbass? Al Gore already failed with that dumbass movie that won him a pulitzer!

Anyone who can read what I type is smarter than Al Gore...

If anyone I angered does not have kids...bite me! :)

If you DO have kids, and I angered you...well...that's interesting...and it brings up several points...like...how old are you, and did you WANT your child, and what is your job, and are you happy doing it?

The "happy" factor is the most important, I would guess "no" if you are angry. But you have a child, so...that's YOUR fault! I wouldn't worry, that's why humanity is so f---ed up...we put "banging each other without protection" above logic!

Bottom line...don't raise a child if you're not committed!

OH and this "Big Brother" bulls--t!...you're full of it! Ive never seen one example of someone not affiliated with terrorism that was apprehended by a "big brother" federal government operation...if it had happened, we'd have heard of it...do you really think it would be a secret that would escape conspiricy nuts?

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I don't think this was a case of politics invading the OP's movie viewing experience... I think it was more a case of ones own bias' wrecking a perfectly good childrens movie.

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Wow, didn't know this was still running! Heck, I just liked the movie. I didn't choose to look for deep meanings in it -I loved the nod toward nostalgia for all of us who are old enough to have dumped so many quarters into those old games back when coin-op videogames were the 'new thing' competing alongside the old-school pinball machines (the ones that didn't have digital displays and digital audio). Its also extremely rare (even for disney, sadly) to find movies that aren't full of sexual innuendos and just plain foul language. It was a movie I'd be perfectly fine with taking a young niece to.

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LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

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Do you not realize that these characters are not people w/ actual lives, but VIDEO GAME characters who can only do what they are programmed to do? It's all in the code.

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You are a sad, strange little man and you have my pity.

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