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.
I miss this kind of artwork style and design for posters of children’s movies. The colourful and detailed imagery is really inviting and tells you that you’re in it for something magical. I have no problem with posters these days, but today’s counterparts pare minimalist and less uninviting if I’m a child.
For me this was The Phantom Tollbooth, but that’s a 70s film, so muc older. Actually, the year I watched it on midday television after school was closer to 1970 than to the present.
I want a hug.
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.
Tim Curry screaming, “my scratchy cat will rip yer bones bare!” Is great if you’ve never run into it
That said I’ve never heard of any of these movies
All these were excellent, FYI.
The fuck is the associated text? Just shit on us dude
As a child I was watching ANIMALYMPICS I think I probably will recover any day now.
Also what about games?
I still vividly remember some old poor graphics racing game that featured (Gary the Snail or Turbo?), but there were other characters as well. The race had twists and turns, there were rocks around. I swear that was not a weird child dream!
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.
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.
I watched it as a kid but don’t remember it at all.
I only remember that I always wanted to watch it but never did.
Raggedy Ann was a movie meant to advertise dolls that somehow turned into an acid fueled mindfuck.
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 word 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?
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.
If I remember correctly, I think the reason is that it wasn’t originally meant to be a children’s movie but for adults.
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.
Brave little toaster, and We’re back. As well as those Disney Live Action movies that slapped.
That was my child hood.
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.
For some reason the part with the meadow/pond really freaked me out as a kid. Especially when it gets all quiet with the flower that falls in love with the reflection in the toaster and then dies when the toaster leaves.
Is The Brave Little Toaster that unknown? I know it’s no Disney film or Anastasia but I thought it was more beloved (and known) than all the others listed here.
Missing Fern Gully, but a pretty good list nonetheless.
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.
I thought I was gonna be playin’ god. Turns out I read it backwards, I’m playin a dog! I tell ya, no respect.
