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ow... right in my trauma...
Pfft whatever. I grew up with super friends. It was the most watered down, sanitized version of super hero action you can get. My daughter watches kids superhero stuff and they actually fight all the time. She reads the warriors books that have parts where cats rip each other to shreds.
Things are different these days of course, but this post is horseshit.
Pfft, probably wouldn't recognize a carebear stare if it hit ya in the face.
Amateurs.
Side note: it never fails to miff me, that bible bashers burned women and children alive at the stake, and instead of seeing that as a travesty, media backs up the bible bashers and demonises witches. People who were mainly midwives and healers. It hurts my brain.
First generation MLP is literally like Trolls (left pic) in terms of color and spirit
Let's skip to generation 4
One oft the Spykids Movies has these bizzare Creatures, the stuff of Nightmares
It's from the movie The Witches, rewatched it a couple years ago as an adult, still a fun movie.
Y'all youngins had it easy. Give Rikki Tikki Tavi a spin. Orson Well was a horrifying narrator for a children's cartoon. I had nightmares forever behind that show.
The witches. Mother fuck that movie. This scene, and really the whole movie gave me the creeps as a kid. Charlie and the chocolate factory weirded me out too. Fuck Roald Dahl.
Best movie for 8 yr old me. Watch it at least 8 times over a course of a 3 days.
Would have watched it more if I didn't have to return it.
Note: I was into anything scary or creepy as a kid
It's basically because of grandpa Joe
I used to love his books as a kid. It was only as an adult that I realised that torturing and murdering children was his favourite theme in his kids books.
Oh, I very much caught that as a kid and it was part of what weirded me out.
Mine was Time Bandits.
Horrid recurring nightmares of either being chased or stuck in the cage floating over an abyss.
People talk about how stuff from the 80s and 90s was nightmare fuel, or too uncanny to be charming, or just plain strange. I contend that there was more creativity in the 80s and 90s and we were seeing performance artists and craftspeople at their absolute peak. When I look at something like Dark Crystal and compare it with something like the latest sterile CGI pixar or dreamworks movies, I feel sad.
I fear for the day Hollywood decides to remake Labyrinth. Amazing movie with some of the greatest puppetry ever. Today it would probably be a 3D CGI crapfest. Also who could ever replace Bowie? Somehow I think they’d get Will Smith in there.
1000% they would cast Will Smith.
Labyrinth is one of my favs, I rewound the tape so many times it broke. But I don't see a movie getting made today about a grown man kidnapping a baby so that his 16 year old sister will come be his captive "obedient" lover in his castle where he keeps his riding crops but no horses. Just sayin.
I don't know, they did a solid with the Dark Crystal prequel.
Fun note: we bought a dragon puppet at renfair from a guy who made puppets for Jim Henson's son.
We also have the caterpillar and Ludo from Labyrinth on our oddities shelf. Oh, and I named our dog Fizzgig because that's what he looked like as a pup: all mouthface no body.
Through adult eyes, absolutely.
As a child, fuck the Skeksis.
Artax died from sadness.
It's kids movie, let's start it out on a happy note, eh?
Nah, horse dies of sad right off the bat.
Dream a dream
Coreys ASSEMBLE!
"Heh"
-Feldman
My kids still watch Witches. They love that and Labyrinth.
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