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.
That scene with the cars in the junkyard doing a whole ass musical number (“Worthless”) about how they were going to die freaked me out as a kid.
Gather round, children, it’s time to learn about existential dread!
That movie is actually incredibly depressing at times.
That movie is gold. The themes are kinda heavy and much more than relatable to adults. The air-conditioner meltdown and the toasters clown/bathtub nightmare scene always freaked me out but I still watched it over and over when I was a kid.
Missing Fern Gully, but a pretty good list nonetheless.
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.
Kids are human people, and can experience the feeling of catharsis through art.
Controversial I know, but there you have it.
As a child I was watching ANIMALYMPICS I think I probably will recover any day now.
Can confirm, my memories of Rock a Doodle are incredibly fever dreamy. I remember watching We’re Back as well, but I think I remember the story beats well enough to not feel so weird about it.
All I remember about Rock a Doodle is like, “I’m pretty sure the world was on the brink of total destruction and Chicken Elvis somehow saved it.”Yeah, something about the sun never coming up again because of… ??? Industrialization? Demons?
Yeah I went to Youtube and the whole movie is just available “for free with ads” so I kinda skimmed it lol
I want a hug.
Son of the mask was like that, that movie felt like a bizarre dream I had.
There’s no way drugs weren’t involved in the creation of that movie.
This one is 2000s, but I remember my family renting a Red Riding Hood movie from blockbuster. It was extremely weird and creepy, and I always struggled to find details of the movie online. I recently found it again and watched it, and it’s still weird and creepy (though that makes it fun to drink and watch as an adult.) I then learned Henry Cavill and Joey Fatone were in the movie, which didn’t sit well as an adult.
There was a version of Peter Pan on Fox back in the 90s that I’d thought I’d dreamed but it turns out it’s real.
I liked that show. I still remember the theme song. I remember being annoyed that the animation went to crap later in the series.
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.
I mean… we sat through Rock-a-doodle and loved it
Okay now what was the one where the kid can step into the art on a stamp and get mailed around the world? I watched it around the same time as Explorers, which is also a fever dream.
That was a trip to remember. I actually thought it was a cartoon from my memory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Tricker_and_the_Stamp_Traveller
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.
