Posted on 11/27/2019 12:10:24 PM PST by Borges
I seethed and boiled with disbelief at this narcoleptically inane puppeteer and his just-regaining-consciousness-post-coma manner of speaking. I did not yet know the word “condescending,” but the way Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood talked down to children as though we were stroke victims made me want to set cars on fire. I’m not saying Mister Rogers was so boring that he inspired the The Warriors generation of marauding youths to go out wilding, but I’m not not saying that.
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The writer’s very first sentence is hilarious, with each adjective worthy of deep analysis.
This is the time for stars.
I enjoy a well written rant.
I’m confused. Wasn’t there another movie about Fred Rogers that came out earlier this year?
I remember reading that Trump Attorney Pam Bondi was harassed when she went to see this movie. This was in April or May.
If there are indeed TWO such movies about Mr. Rogers in the same year, that’s poor planning. Not that I would be seeing it anyway.
It was kind of stupid but kids loved it, and probably it didn’t hurt them at all.,
I was working in a group home for what we used to call “retarded” adults, and we watched it every evening because it really calmed them down. My kids, too (we were resident managers) would all sit out there and just kind of forget about everything except this fantasy nice world, So I don;t see that it was harmful at all.
There was a documentary, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” that came out in 2018.
I seethed and boiled with disbelief at this narcoleptically inane puppeteer and his just-regaining-consciousness-post-coma manner of speaking. I did not yet know the word “condescending,”
But you knew the word Emetic....
Oh, I see. Well, that may explain why this Tom Hanks movie is not exactly lighting fires at the Box Office. The market hunger for Fred Rogers has already been fulfilled, just last year. Nostalgia can only take you so far, as what happened with the newest Charlies Angels movie.
Today’s chief demographic (18 to 54) does not have many direct ties to Mr. Rogers OR to Charlies Angels.
Since the Last Jedi I’ve not been in a movie theater voluntarily. My boycott of big entertainment is pretty wide in scope now. If I was still in my movie buff days this movie would be a borderline pick at best. If it won some Oscars I probably would have given it a shot. In my current state of mind I expect to go to my grave never having seen it.
I always found it mind numbing, but it’s true that for small children with dysfunctional mothers and no daddy, Mr. Rogers was the only adult in the room that wasn’t screaming at them all the time.
A little piece of sanity in an insane world.
This is quality writing. “Punatively earnest” is a phrase for the ages.
I was a wee lad in the 70’s, and my impression was that Mr. Rogers was a very nice, very boring fellow. I’d watch a little from time to time, but inevitably the knob would get turned to some Looney Tunes or Three Stooges.
Or, as the other poster mentioned, good ol’ Captain Kangaroo. I’ve always had a thing for ping-pong balls since then.
:P
Well, it’s a fun read across the board, but my favorite lines come near the end: “There are a few dozen scenes, all of which reiterate the same point, in which Fred Rogers gently counsels Lloyd Vogel to not be such a nimrod, jerkwad, and dillweed. (Come to think of it, I think I’d be better at this game than Fred Rogers, though my therapeutic technique would borrow heavily from Sam Kinison.)”
"Smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo,
Don't tell me I've got nothing to do."
I was always partial to The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. And Sherman and Mr. Peabody. Great for kids and adults(who were the real target audience!)
Enough of the reruns already!
BTW....my kids didn’t watch Rodgers, who actually was a Minister. He was just too much a girly type of guy as I saw him.
Enough of the reruns already!
BTW....my kids didn’t watch Rodgers, who actually was a Minister. He was just too much a girly type of guy as I saw him.
That’s what my late mother said too.
He was too effeminate, was the term she used.
She didn’t want us picking up his ‘fluttering hands’ habit.
Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Greenjeans were okay with her.
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