babble, at least they got the name right...
Posted on 11/26/2011 6:04:44 PM PST by DemforBush
There are those who believe we must guard and protect children from the hurts and traumas of the big bad world for as long as possible. Then there are those people who believe we should toughen kids up by exposing them to and even pummeling them with terror and depravity. Those people become children’s filmmakers. Don't believe me? Gaze upon the list below and find a hall of horrors to give Wes Craven nightmares...
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I have the same reaction. I can’t even talk about that scene without getting teary-eyed.
babble, at least they got the name right...
Tell me about it, E.T. without a doubt the most over-rated movie in the history of film. I absolutely hated it when it first came out in 1983 and hate it today, just cringe when I have to watch even a scene from it. It is without a doubt the most pathetically patronizing movie I have ever seen in my life “Isn’t ET cute! Isn’t ET cute! Isn’t ET cute! Isn’t ET cute! Isn’t ET cute! Isn’t ET cute!” That is the WHOLE freakin’ movie!
I knew I was raising him right ;-)
BAMBI
As bad as the Star Trek game for the 2600.
Only Asteroids and Missile Command were worth a damn. I had an Intellivision, a far superior platform.
I suspect he was being deadly liberal serious with his trashing of Song of the South.
Wht the writer of the article neglects to realize is that kids LOVE to get “scared”. There is a physiological reason for that delight in scariness. Adrenalin is released to the brain, and targets the “Fight or Flight reaction.” This is actually quite pleasurable! In my Nursery school class, the most requested song for me to play on the guitar or piano is John Williams “Theme from JAWS”! As soon as the scary half-steps ring out the kids shriek and stamp their feet, and laugh hysterically. They LOVE it. They would much rather have me play that spooky song than “Twinkle twinkle” or “Old MacDonald”.
And when we do “old MacDonald”, they end up putting Dinosaurs, Sharks, Tigers, and Alligators on the poor Guys farm!
However, Dumbo visits Mom in the slammer or Mrs. Bambi being SHOT, are traumatic scenes of loss and sadness. Spooky and Scary are fun. Traumatic Loss, death, and sorrow are NOT.
Anyway, just some observations from a preschool teacher.
I’d have to agree. The critics don’t see themselves as deliberately suppressing carefully-preserved post-bellum black culture but that’s exactly what they’re doing. Mark Twain’s children thought the stories were delightful. Modern kids won’t get the chance.
When liberals attack artists, you know the end (for them) is near.
The Sin Eater episode on Night Gallery is the one that still haunts me.
“Seriously, who really believes Dumbo and E.T. are “traumatic” to children?”
I don’t know about ET and I can speak as to children but I saw Dumbo (for the first time) when I was pregnant (it was on TV, I think it was the first time shown on TV) and I cried hysterically throughout the ENTIRE MOVIE.
I thought my husband would leave me, he must have thought I was out of my mind.
I still can’t explain it, but yeah, that movie is pretty traumatic.
And don’t even TALK to me about “Little Mermaid”.
OHMIGOSH, when I watched that for the first time with my daughter, who was 8, who had already seen it I basically threw myself in her lap and cried “TELL ME IT COMES OUT ALRIGHT!!!”
I was pretty sure my child would leave me, thinking I was crazy.
Years later I couldn’t even listen to an interview on Sirius Radio’s Broadway Channel with the actress who played the evil witch Ursala in the B’way production.
Ursala is the most evil of all the Disney witches.
Now I think the Freepers will leave me because I’m crazy.
But Dumbo and Little Mermaid scared the daylights out of me.
“The third story about the Zuni Warrior Doll”
OY, this is really freaking me out now!
Again when I was pregnant (same pregnancy I only have one kid) I woke up in the middle of the night and that scary movie was on.
JUST AT THAT PART !!!!!!!!!!!
I turned it off right away.
I can’t believe I’m on this thread after I watched 4 episodes of American Horror Story on HULU.
And I avoid Horror, you see I have no stomach for it!
Plus, anything with Jack Albertson in it is automatically worth watching to me (loved that crusty old buzzard!)
While the original movie was a terrific family movie (though there were a few scary parts), the movie with Johnny Depp was actually much closer to the book, in just how dark the character and story were.
Mark
“Isn’t ET cute!” That is the WHOLE freakin’ movie!”
ROFLMAO!
Funny post, you are right, thanks for giving me a laugh right about now!
‘Bambi Meets Godzilla”! Around ‘72 or so. A short animated type thing, funny as hell to the olders but terrifying to the kidletts!
Great! Yeah, but the scariest one must have been one with Michael Jackson!
The Flying Monkey scene in Wizard of OZ scared the crap out of me... but I watched the movie every chance I could as a kid.
That was one of two things in particular I noticed about this ass-hat's list... The other was "Labyrinth," where he referred to (I believe) "the lovely Jennifer Connely." While JC IS a lovely lady now, in "Labyrinth" she was a little girl, I believe about 11 or 12. When I read that I was rather "creeped out."
Mark
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