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[pedanther]

Important public service announcement for people who have embarrassment squick like me:

There was a stretch in Pixar's new movie Coco where I was shrinking in my seat with dread, and seriously weighing up the pros and cons of fleeing the cinema -- but it turns out fine in the end: the situation is resolved gracefully and nobody actually suffers any of what I was dreading.

Also, Coco is a marvellous movie and well worth seeing.



(Context footnote: I don't recall if I've told the story here before that when I was a kid it was comedies like I Love Lucy, and not sci-fi monster shows like Doctor Who, that made me hide behind things and watch through my fingers. The feeling of impending doom that's usually associated with a plucky protagonist exploring a dark and seemingly deserted old house is for me the feeling I get when a character strides confidently into a situation, firmly grasping the wrong end of the stick.)

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[fred_mouse]

Warning appreciated.

My whole family have that response to 'argh, someone is about to do something stupid they don't need to'. At least one of them will pick the start of the suspenseful section to suddenly need to go to the 'loo, and so they never find out whether it really was that bad or not.

[ariaflame]

I also have bad reactions to 'someone is going to make a really stupid decision and I can see the trainwreck coming' style of things. Which is why I avoid most USA based sitcoms.

I cope better when it's a character doing it who isn't meant to be that bright, but when they're supposedly intelligent I get close to shouting at the screen.