Did any of you see Watership Down? It released in the theaters when I was 7 and I had nightmares for weeks afterward. Apparently (according to IMDB) it's considered the most violent animated PG movie ever.
Did any of you see Watership Down? It released in the theaters when I was 7 and I had nightmares for weeks afterward. Apparently (according to IMDB) it's considered the most violent animated PG movie ever.
KyAllroad wrote: Did any of you see Watership Down? It released in the theaters when I was 7 and I had nightmares for weeks afterward. Apparently (according to IMDB) it's considered the most violent animated PG movie ever.
Never saw the movie, but I read the book and I get the impression the movie was in exactly the same spirit. Doesn't really sound like kid material.
I can still rather vividly recall one time my mother accidentally read me a translation of the original Grimm's Fairy Tales when I was 5. I was very upset about the part where the price fell into a rosebush and lost both eyes.
That crash at then end for some reason reminded me of Talledega Nights. I didn't think it was dark at all, guess I look at the world differently.
Of course Disney movies are a little dark. You can't have a hero without a villian.
KyAllroad wrote: Did any of you see Watership Down? It released in the theaters when I was 7 and I had nightmares for weeks afterward. Apparently (according to IMDB) it's considered the most violent animated PG movie ever.
Also saw it when I was about 7. Yeah it was pretty grim and grisly but it didn't bother me that much. I think All Dogs Go To Heaven was my favorite movie at that age.
I used to watch The World At War on PBS with my dad around the time I was in kindergarten. It's hard to get all worked up about Old Yeller or How Green Was My Valley after watching a bulldozer push a pile of real bodies into a shallow grave.
An animated car that sounds like a blond guy with a big nose crashing is not even light gray.
Get off my lawn.
Huckleberry subscribes to the Chopper Reid philosophy of Harden the Berk Up.
In reply to Huckleberry:
My dad did the same with us and I turned out just fine.
D2W wrote: Of course Disney movies are a little dark. You can't have a hero without a villian.
Pixar seems to be more likely to wander into darker territory than the regular Disney movies - especially before they were bought by Disney, but still after that as well. For example, Cracked had one criticism after Toy Story 2 where they pointed out that when Andy grows up, his toys are likely to end up either stuffed in an attic to be ignored or donated to a day care center and abused by a bunch of toddlers. (I think that was the same article which suggested that the hyenas disappeared from The Lion King because the lions ate them.) While Disney didn't have anything about a hyena meat feast in any Lion King sequels, Pixar either thought the same thing themselves or read the article... and decided that would make a great premise for Toy Story 3.
Wall-e wrote: In reply to Huckleberry: My dad did the same with us and I turned out just fine.
"Fine" uh, yeah. 
Yesterday my almost 14 year old daughter was excited to point out LM in the Disney parade at Disneyland. I'm still singing the "Life is a highway" song.
KyAllroad wrote: Did any of you see Watership Down? It released in the theaters when I was 7 and I had nightmares for weeks afterward. Apparently (according to IMDB) it's considered the most violent animated PG movie ever.
Never saw the movie, but when I read the book I realized that Watership Down was near where we would hunt rabbits when I lived in England about the time the book was written. We would ride around at night in a farmer's Land Rover, me and his son sometimes standing in back behind the cab and sometimes sitting in the spare tire on the bonnet. When the headlights hit a rabbit they would go "tharn" and we'd blast 'em with shotguns. I remember getting two in one shot once. Rabbits were a huge problem pest across England then. The British government even introduced Myxomatosis, a virus, into the population. We saw a lot of sick rabbits. Believe me, shotguns were much less cruel.
Looking forward to this. Also, I didn't think Cars 2 wasn't that bad..
can not wait to see what happens, the planes movies i thought where cool. the first cars movie was great, number two, not as much. still cool but not as good as the other movies set in that world though.
Showed it to the kids last night and they are shocked and dismayed. My ten yo immediately said "just like doc." Meanwhile, the anatomy of a modern stock car would juat have another identical chassis rolling out of the shop... not sure what happens when the chassis has a soul.
Read another preview last night and they mentioned something that gave me a "duh..." moment: The car that comes up through the pack in the trailer is electric.
Paul_VR6 wrote: Meanwhile, the anatomy of a modern stock car would juat have another identical chassis rolling out of the shop... not sure what happens when the chassis has a soul.
One requirement when watching Cars is completely suspending the need to ask "how?"
Ian F wrote: Read another preview last night and they mentioned something that gave me a "duh..." moment: The car that comes up through the pack in the trailer is electric.
Not "duh" at all, it has "IGNTR" written on the back, there's no ignition involved with EVs unless something's gone horribly wrong
Maybe the FFZero resemblance isn't just a coincidence then...
In reply to GameboyRMH:
Maybe... but when I watched it again after reading that, the car sure sounds like an EV. 
Sure could be (I just assumed heavily boosted, like a Koenigsegg), a better sign is that there are no visible exhaust outlets.
Ian F wrote: In reply to GameboyRMH: Maybe... but when I watched it again after reading that, the car sure sounds like an EV.
My guess had been some sort of high winding, twin turbo six, something like the Ecoboost powered Ford GTs. But it does sound like it could be electric now that I listened to it again.
Perhaps "IGNTR" is short for Ignitron.
I took the kid to see it because I wanted to see it.
It was good! Plus there's lots of car nerd stuff under the surface and references to stock car racing history.
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