There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
I was probably a teen by the time I saw WILLY WONKA on T.V., but I knew it was creepy. And if I had been younger I would have realized that, too. It's not hidden at all. If kids don't get it, they must be psychopaths. I thought maybe I was seeing something that others didn't see--but now I know everyone sees that it's a horror story. Some people just like horror stories.
Actually, Sammy Davis, Jr. had a hit with "The Candy Man" and I heard that before I ever saw the movie. The song is nice and happy when sung by Sammy. But in the movie, it's creepy as everything else.
No one is saying that My Neighbor Totoro should reference Hiroshima. In fact I'm not advocating any kind of change in children's entertainment. I just find a lot of them weird for the reasons I mentioned. That's just a emotional response.
You could say that ignoring Covid is "ignoring reality" but it's mainly for pragmatic reasons not because it's too dire a topic. It's much more difficult to do a conventional film with characters going from location to location and interacting with strangers when you have covid as a backdrop.
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Looper already cover this about the series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu98gITAnhs
I remember this as well, also isn't that the episode that Craydon creed tried to inject himself with the legacy virus on live TV, claiming it was beast who infected him because all mutants are sick with it and must be got rid off before they infected the entire population?, Even as an adult now, it still is disturbing.
Also, I never understood some of the things Apocalypse said in the series, I will say he was speaking gibberish but now he was speaking in big metaphors. Why would a kid know who Sisyphus was. Most adults don't even know who Sisyphus is, it's was too much for a children series but I like that now as an adult.
He had other strange quotes you dont really understand as a kid. You only respect and know what they mean now as an adult. examples.
"Evil? I am not malevolent. I simply am!"
"I am the rocks of the eternal shore. Crash upon me, and be BROKEN
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Yeow, I didn't know my 10 yr old - to modern day self was competing with a YouTube channel this whole time. I should have known better back in 1992.
But while I appreciate that video, it's not really saying anything new -- Honest Trailers and even Marvel's own channels have done that adult retrospective. And that's okay.
Those are fairly obvious lines. I understood them perfectly as a kid."Evil? I am not malevolent. I simply am!"
"I am the rocks of the eternal shore. Crash upon me, and be BROKEN
no i usually cant sit through childrens movies i find them boring but i wouldnt say disturbing either
Pinocchio. kids turning into donkeys after drinking beers.
I saw My Neighbor Totoro for the first time ever earlier this year - the only thing I found disturbing was how wide his mouth would open and how big his teeth are, but other than that? Meh.
I also don't find it that sanitized. The real day to day world isn't all about wars and famine and poverty and horrible depressing shit. Sure, if you watch the news daily, yeah there's always some awfulness happening somewhere on the planet. And we're so torn by divisive politics now, and we're all tired of dealing with the pandemic. But most of the time, most of your life? Stuff's usually not that bad. Most of the actual, real stuff that matters to you is smaller and personal. Look at Totoro, the girls' mother is sick in the hospital throughout the movie, and there's the worry she might die. The sisters love each other, but they still fight. There's that scene where they find a shoe near that lake or whatever and there's a tense moment where you're worried the little sister might've drowned. That's not sanitized. That's the stuff that really gets to kids.
It's not bitter, cynical, nor depressing, but it isn't a sanitized world free of pain and fear either. It tends towards optimism and is balanced for kids and ends with a happy ending, but it still shows the worries and fears and problems that resonate with kids - and most adults if we're honest. It's just smaller scale, more personal, balanced. If that's disturbing to you, you might need to turn off the news for a while, watch some sitcoms or something.