Tangled isn't a Pixar film. It was made by Disney themselves. I still think it is good though. Better than Frozen (also a Disney production). I have seen them both and cannot understand the hysteria over Frozen.
I did actually think Let It Go was quite a nice song when I first heard it, so that would be my unbiased opinion.
But since then I have heard the song and the film mentioned so many times (mainly in Facebook posts) that I refuse on principle to listen to it again. It doesn't deserve the hype
Someone at work told me the local commercial radio run a regular competition where Dads have to phone in and sing it in a silly voice. Apparently this has come from the USA, where Dads singing Let It Go in a silly voice is the new national sport.
Luckily, my kids are boys, so they don't particularly want to see the film again. They prefer Despicable Me.
No, that one's fair enough. Though what about the reveal at the end of Sleepless in Seattle that all the kid packed in his rucksack was his favourite teddy-bear? Or the end of Stardust?
Personally I think the charge on the castle in Shrek II as Jennifer Saunders belts out Holding out for a Hero is one of the finest bits of cinema ever put together.
I haven't seen many of the more recent Disney films but I thought Holes was very good. I'm surprised at how few people I've mentioned it to have actually seen it. Sigourney Weaver was really good in it.
Toy Story 3 in particular - just when I've recovered from the furnace scene, there's the bit where Andy hands over his toys to Bonnie - gets me every time!
I haven't seen many of the more recent Disney films but I thought Holes was very good. I'm surprised at how few people I've mentioned it to have actually seen it. Sigourney Weaver was really good in it.
I've read the book. Really enjoyed that. Very quirky. I might have to check out the film too.
Its a kid thjng I think. I agree that I couldnt figutr what all the hype was about after watching it. The nipper though, not even 2.5 years yet loves it. That and despicable me
Toy Story 3 in particular - just when I've recovered from the furnace scene, there's the bit where Andy hands over his toys to Bonnie - gets me every time!
Yes... first watched that with the kids a year or so ago, wasn't expecting that :-o
Mind you, I even welled up a bit at the end of Cars where Lightning McQueen pushes The King over the line!
Blokes definitely become more like that after the birth of your first child. I never used to cry at anything before that. It changes you, I tell ya.
I think you could be pronounced a replicant if that doesn't make you well up.
Absolutely. You'd have to have zero empathy for that not to choke you up. It's opening 10/15 minutes does for sadness what the opening 10/15 minutes of Saving Private Ryan does for harrowing.
Oh lawdy. I just looked on the internet to see if there was anything else on parallels between the characters behaviour and onset of puberty and where there is, it's massively drowned out by another agenda.
There seems to be this huge right-wing conservative Christian led conspiracy theory that every Disney movie in the last thirty years or so has been pushing an increasingly liberal pro-gay agenda, and this is just the latest and worst of them all - because it features two women in the lead (err - they're sisters?) and one of the voice actors is openly gay (err - when his character isn't). Presumably they just want to get back to those mythical 'good old days' of free and open racism and anti-semitism that Disney is supposed to have supported (but actually didn't).
I've read the book. Really enjoyed that. Very quirky. I might have to check out the film too.
You should. It's well worth seeing. Just watched a clip of the nail polish scene and it still makes me jump. Very unexpected and surprisingly violent for a kid's film. :)
I haven't read the book but I think I will check it out too.
I'm not sure a bunch of middle aged blokes should even have an opinion on an animated musical aimed at young girls :o
Er, I'm assuming you meant that tongue-in-cheek, but there's a fair few of us on here who's kids are the targeted demographic. We don't just give 'em a tenner, tell them to make their own way to the cinema and be back before it gets dark...
Er, I'm assuming you meant that tongue-in-cheek, but there's a fair few of us on here who's kids are the targeted demographic. We don't just give 'em a tenner, tell them to make their own way to the cinema and be back before it gets dark...
It was just a cheeky little dig. However,
I am aware that people will be pestered into taking children to see this kind of thing, I was just surprised to the degree that WoS members were engaging with it in this thread, given my assumption that they are far from the 'targeted demographic', as you put it.
Thankfully, my own kid is now in his twenties, with his own house and car, so keeping kids occupied is one thing I no longer have to worry about. When he was growing up, I tried my best to spend any quality time with him in engaging activities. I actively avoided taking him to the cinema, finding there were female family members who were far more able to stomach such things than I.
I am aware of my own tendency to be a grumpy old git, so I had managed to skip over this thread until the point where posting all but ceased for a couple of days and curiosity got the better of me.
In short, you're all a bunch of girls ;)
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My mistake, I was thinking of Brave, not Tangled!
Can't be bothered editing my post now!
Let it be on record that you asked for it then:
- IONIAN-GAMES.com -
No! I won't!
I had a quick listen to the song (the original one).
Once.
Now it's stuck in my head.
I blame joefish.
But since then I have heard the song and the film mentioned so many times (mainly in Facebook posts) that I refuse on principle to listen to it again. It doesn't deserve the hype
Someone at work told me the local commercial radio run a regular competition where Dads have to phone in and sing it in a silly voice. Apparently this has come from the USA, where Dads singing Let It Go in a silly voice is the new national sport.
Luckily, my kids are boys, so they don't particularly want to see the film again. They prefer Despicable Me.
Quick, play "Smurphs in Prison" by The Baron Knights!
1. Only girls understand it
2. Big sister - suddenly moody, self-isolating, horrified to touch anything
3. Little sister - left behind and confused
Altogether now, "Let it flow, Let it flow..." :D
- IONIAN-GAMES.com -
Who knew Myke was a big girls blouse! :p
(runs off to make a crap game about it)
The first person to make a beeper version of "Let if go" wins a [strike]prize[/strike] slap round the head...
That's a Spoons magnet if ever I saw one. Challenge accepted (even though I've never heard the bloody thing!)
I think that's a fair comment and, if I get another CGC entry out of it, all the better. :)
Other kids films I've gone all wobbly at include;
Personally I think the charge on the castle in Shrek II as Jennifer Saunders belts out Holding out for a Hero is one of the finest bits of cinema ever put together.
- IONIAN-GAMES.com -
I think you could be pronounced a replicant if that doesn't make you well up.
Me too... sniff... sob :(
Toy Story 3 in particular - just when I've recovered from the furnace scene, there's the bit where Andy hands over his toys to Bonnie - gets me every time!
Yes... first watched that with the kids a year or so ago, wasn't expecting that :-o
Mind you, I even welled up a bit at the end of Cars where Lightning McQueen pushes The King over the line!
Oi..! Spoiler alert..! :razz:
Blokes definitely become more like that after the birth of your first child. I never used to cry at anything before that. It changes you, I tell ya.
I've got 3 kids and I still say you're all a bunch of girls!
Absolutely. You'd have to have zero empathy for that not to choke you up. It's opening 10/15 minutes does for sadness what the opening 10/15 minutes of Saving Private Ryan does for harrowing.
There seems to be this huge right-wing conservative Christian led conspiracy theory that every Disney movie in the last thirty years or so has been pushing an increasingly liberal pro-gay agenda, and this is just the latest and worst of them all - because it features two women in the lead (err - they're sisters?) and one of the voice actors is openly gay (err - when his character isn't). Presumably they just want to get back to those mythical 'good old days' of free and open racism and anti-semitism that Disney is supposed to have supported (but actually didn't).
- IONIAN-GAMES.com -
I haven't read the book but I think I will check it out too.
And I maintain
you are Shania Twain
again!
Er, I'm assuming you meant that tongue-in-cheek, but there's a fair few of us on here who's kids are the targeted demographic. We don't just give 'em a tenner, tell them to make their own way to the cinema and be back before it gets dark...
It was just a cheeky little dig. However,
I am aware that people will be pestered into taking children to see this kind of thing, I was just surprised to the degree that WoS members were engaging with it in this thread, given my assumption that they are far from the 'targeted demographic', as you put it.
Thankfully, my own kid is now in his twenties, with his own house and car, so keeping kids occupied is one thing I no longer have to worry about. When he was growing up, I tried my best to spend any quality time with him in engaging activities. I actively avoided taking him to the cinema, finding there were female family members who were far more able to stomach such things than I.
I am aware of my own tendency to be a grumpy old git, so I had managed to skip over this thread until the point where posting all but ceased for a couple of days and curiosity got the better of me.
In short, you're all a bunch of girls ;)