I just want to say that I feel bad for creating an environment where people are maybe getting distracted from processing stuff that’s happening around them, and maybe to people they know. I can sometimes dig into the wrong thing at inappropriate times, that’s a me problem. Here’s a meme, and sorry if you’re going through something awful right now.
The Brave Little Toaster would probably be at the top of my list. I can still hear that Jon Lovitz radio.
It had way more fear inducement than any ‘children’s movie’ had a right to.
Rock-a-Doodle was the shit, so many unhinged lines for a kids movie and Goldie was definitely a prostitute. “If I killed my nephew, would that be murder or charity?”
I showed my kids Rock-a-doodle as a joke and they sat through the whole movie and loved it.
All Dogs Go To Heaven. That shouldn’t be a kid’s movie.
If you know the lore about the voice actors and you still feel that way I’ll just go fuck myself, but the fact that it has so much emotional impact comes directly from a very painful tragedy, and I think we’d have to be fools to let the work be cast aside.
Kids used to be raised on far more terrible stuff, Grimm’s fairy tales and all. I tend to agree with Don Bluth that you can show kids a lot of ghastly stuff and they’ll enjoy it, so long as you give them a happy ending.
RIP Judith Barsi.
His films are classics and still fondly remembered for a good reason, he didn’t shy away from the hard life lessons. Sure, we don’t always get a happy ending, but kids deal with death, sickness, loss and bad people all the time. They need media that shows they’re not alone.
Rover Dangerfield was just “What if Rodney Dangerfield was a dog?” and as I kid I loved it. I had a vague idea of who Rodney was so this was the perfect transition film for a kid. Arguably I watched his career in reverse, but because of this film I watched it.
To see the reviews on this film and that it did so poorly, no respect at all.
Missing Fern Gully, but a pretty good list nonetheless.
