prokopetz:

avienbgwp:

prokopetz:

Comparisons between Detective Pikachu and the Super Mario Bros. movie are really kind of uncharitable. I mean, one’s an Americanised adaptation of a colourful, family-friendly Nintendo game that recasts its source material as a gritty investigative action-adventure piece featuring a pair of emotionally dysfunctional protagonists navigating a noir cyberpunk dystopia populated by grotesque monsters, and the other is… hm.

You’re really funny and original, you know that

The Silence of the Lambs stole its plot from Care Bears: A New Generation.

Consider:

• Both stories feature a young woman who excels in her field, but is not taken seriously by her peers (Christy/Agent Starling)
• Both protagonists cut a deal with a socially awkward monster (Dark Heart/Hannibal Lecter), who demands an unsettling but seemingly innocuous quid pro quo for his assistance
• Both realise too late that the monster’s apparently disinterested aid is actually part of an elaborate scheme to draw out an older mentor who’s been watching over her (True Heart Bear/Jack Crawford)
• Both are forced to enter a dangerous situation alone after the monster sends her allies on a wild goose chase (hunting Dark Heart’s shadow to the ends of the earth/investigating Buffalo Bill’s former Illinois residence)
• Both plots come to a head with a final confrontation in an underground lair where young people are kept imprisoned for sport (Dark Heart’s pocket dimension/”Jack Gordon’s” basement)
• In both cases, the monster walks free at the end, having never truly been called to account for his crimes (self-explanatory)