We need to ban Disney from making movies personifying emotions.

Putting aside the fact Pixar/Disney depend on a lot of goodwill from fans and when they take chances with something "new" they always have something "familiar" in the pipeline to placate audiences, I don't see any need for an Inside Out 2.

I refused to watch the original. I just don't want to watch anything new by Pixar, I haven't for ages, the animation is kinda lazy, I don't enjoy them. I won't watch Up or Soul, to me they seem kind of manipulative and contrived. So when they did the whole "personifying emotions" angle, I was annoyed by it. It reduces feelings and memories down to digestible forms. So, bittersweet isn't a thing? (I suppose it is according to the lesson of the plot). Now I'm going to sound like Donnie Darko going on a rant about fear and love. It's a nice idea for a story, it's also reductionist. I guess it hinges on accepting sadness is necessary for life.

Now they've decided anxiety, ennui, envy and embarrassment are "new" emotions associated with puberty/adolescence. Which suggests none of those can exist within a child. I call bullshit, I had anxiety as a kid I couldn't accurately identify and I described as shame and guilt since I hadn't the tools to deconstruct my emotions. I know I get shit for  not watching a movie and forming an opinion but I won't watch this to see if I like it. I don't know why it bothers me other than neurodivergent kids might not relate to this, or best case they do and realise their anxiety isn't a healthy thing to be burdened with constantly and it's more common than people realise. You should only feel guilt when you've done something terrible, it shouldn't be a persistent thing that doesn't abate for weeks over something trivial. Embarrassment isn't the same as shame, you're more self-conscious as a teen so yeah, more embarrassment would be an issue but why not explore what shame (which would relate to disgust) is in comparison?  I'm asking way too much from this, I want people to know feelings are nuanced and complex, I don't think a movie that personifies certain feelings is going to address it. I guess it's not supposed to.

Okay, I found a really useful chart that shows which orbs can work together but I don't know if that's factored into the movie since one is actually anxiety, which they've correlated to fear and sadness. I don't usually attribute my anxiety to sadness, it makes me depressed if it persists and way before that it makes me angry and uncomfortable. I've seen people turn fear into aggression/anger, which leads to hatred blah blah... I think the original movie is more a metaphor for memories rather than emotions. It's nice you want to say you can't be happy all the time, but they also don't offer many other positive emotions, people are asking "Where's love? You're doing a sequel, where's that? Is it a reveal?" (To be fair they're only introducing four new emotions not five). 

It's a pretty way to dress up schema issues and core memories. I think most of us dump boring memories and mundane moments, so what's boredom (sorry, ennui) going to contribute to the cause? Ennui is usually associated with a sense of tiredness, so will we get lackadaisical as an emotion? I'm too busy granulating this entire premise instead of letting it live superficially. Which is why I can't watch them, I'll just be ranting, "Okay, but what about this?" I write and use synonyms for most emotions, I never say sad, I say lachrymose, I never say joy, I say exuberant. I'm a pretentious dickhead and this movie will annoy me. Is annoyed an emotion we can personify?

These movies aren't for me. I don't like Pixar's keeping sequels in the chamber for when original ideas don't do well. I hate Disney's remaking everything as a live action film cash grab. We get nothing new, and when we do, it's subpar because the effort goes into the existing franchises, and the "new" ideas bomb at the box office or wind up on streaming, so they need to admit those movies are intended as filler content for their platform, not as something designed to make a proper profit. Yes, they want to cultivate more, newer franchises, but we have to suffer a Frozen live action remake on top of a third sequel as well. I keep wanting these movies to fail so they'll just fucking stop.

I'm going to post this chart I found here because I'm so fucking fascinated and I can't figure out if some fan just made it up or if it was incorporated into the movie. Calling joy and anger "righteousness" is kinda silly, shouldn't that be arrogance? Joy and disgust wouldn't necessarily make "intrigue" unless you equate it to morbid fascination, but I wouldn't attribute joy to that at all. Sadness and disgust would make self-loathing, so anger and disgust would be loathing, that kinda tracks. I want to see how they incorporate the "new" emotions into this when you've already found anxiety anyway, and where does boredom and disgust unite, I can't even think of an emotion that can marry boredom and become something else, unless boredom and anger lead to destruction. People of course were asking where's horny, like that's even an option. Envy and anger would be very destructive, but where would envy and joy correlate? Or envy and disgust? See where I'm going with this, it's too hard for me not to over-analyse  this entire premise. Will the new movie be about how you can learn to live with envy and accept what you can't have? That's important to learn. Will it be that boredom leads to you being unpleasant to be around, so joy has to kick their ass?  I stopped watching someone's vid on why this sequel will "work" compared to others, so far anxiety having "baggage" is so relatable to everyone. We're not going to look at how you can have nervous excitement which is like anxiety too? Because people don't want excitement and anxiety in the same bucket. And we'll never get to the bottom of the very essence of mania. (I've also heard the argument the comment sections of Disney trailers are always positive and full of very superficial feedback so if I went in there saying something stupid and negative it might get removed or downvoted into oblivion, which is why I rant here and not there).

Yeah, I realised why I'm pissed about this, it's all people new to the mental health party celebrating a movie that validates their emotions. Yay, good for you I guess. Apparently Inside Out is also one of their "old" movies from 2015 (yeah okay 8 years is "old" if you saw this as a kid. My point is, this shit doesn't leave so it never gets "old" before there's another sequel). I feel like you're supposed to be excited for the emotion characters and nobody seems to care about the little girl growing up. But yeah, "The feel ennui movie of 2024". Ugh okay, Disney. Keep being "clever". (Also, is Ennui going to be a pompous, French existentialist with a beret? So far they look like a little emo bitch, way to miss an opportunity to introduce them to Camus and Sartre). And I'm not being represented by my core emotion: fucking cynicism. 

Also, also, I keep forgetting how the Endless in the Sandman books have made a much more fascinating examination of states of being in humans personified. I feel like people knew this had been "done" before so it was irritating to have people think it was a genius concept from Pixar. It wasn't just, "Oh, this is Herman's Head". There was also the Oscars just giving this Best Animated because it's a Pixar movie and popular, it had to trample on more interesting animations. I saw right through The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse from the trailers, too.