Movie rants

[unbibium]

Anyone seen the "Lady in the Water" trailer?  When did we, as a society, decide that the voice of a singing little girl was universally creepy?

Speaking of kids, is it just me or are there way too many Pixar-style computer-animated movies coming out?

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[mezdeathhead.livejournal.com]

You can probably blame the nightmare on elm street girls, what with their slow motion jumprope action and their "one, two, Freddy's coming for you..."

At least that's as far back as I can think of.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Don't forget the slow running down of tinkly music boxes.

And Kibo pointed out years ago that empty-but-moving rocking chairs fall in the same category.

I remember first encountering these creepiness tropes not in horror movies, or horror-movie ads, but in PSAs about child abuse and other horrible things that happen to children, as a way of tugging the heartstrings. Maybe that was the route.

[schwa242.livejournal.com]

Anyone seen the "Lady in the Water" trailer? When did we, as a society, decide that the voice of a singing little girl was universally creepy?

Don't forget children whispering. M Night Lastnamehere seems to like that as well.

Speaking of kids, is it just me or are there way too many Pixar-style computer-animated movies coming out?

Yes, and there has been for the last couple years or so. There was some family-oriented Mez and I saw last summer (I forget which) that had, and I counted, seven computer-animated movie previews, and they all looked obnoxious. I remember being so damned excited about computer graphics when I was in my single digits. Things change though.

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

THat was when computer graphics were cutting-edge.

I want to see a feature film done on a Commodore 64.

[piehead.livejournal.com]

"Speaking of kids, is it just me or are there way too many Pixar-style computer-animated movies coming out?"

I'd rather have more "Pixar-style" movies, rather than ass-ugly Pixar plot rip-offs.

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

What exactly is the distinction here?

[piehead.livejournal.com]

Watch Finding Nemo and then A Shark's Tale. That ought to illustrate the difference.

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

eh. But then I'd have to watch A Shark's Tale.

I notice a lot of these CGI movies also involve creatures cohabiting when clearly one should be eating the other. There's an entire cartoon series about an alligator who lives with ducks and tries not to eat them. These kids are going to grow up to be those hardcore vegans that never bathe out of respect for the bacteria that live on their bodies.