I'd have had Fido's flaming skeleton finish his leap into that maintenance tunnel.
I'd make the argument that I was also nine months pregnant at the time I saw it, but that would be a huge lie of an excuse. I'd have reacted the same way preggers or not.
I've thrown books about fucking brutal genocide across the room for mentions of animal cruelty. It rather embarrasses me, because I find the human-on-human brutality offensive, but I can endure it. Critters-not-of-the-eating? I go nonlinear.
I'm the same way-- I also react very, very strongly to brutality against young children. I think DebetEsse hit the nail on the head in that we're talking about creatures bi or quadriped, that don't have the ability to make choices. They're trusting the people around them to keep them safe.
Especially the thing that was just arms that beat the crap out of anything in its way with every last bit of its energy.
The masseuse with anger issues! Emmett and I love him.
The masseuse with anger issues! Emmett and I love him.
Especially that brief moment when he's exhausted and just "pants" and droops. Then goes right back to beating the crap out of things. Loved it!
Especially that brief moment when he's exhausted and just "pants" and droops. Then goes right back to beating the crap out of things. Loved it!
Seriously, they should have done a short about him.
While I like Wal*E, I
adore
the short that came with it.
Presto
is possibly my favorite Pixar movie ever.
With that said, we watched the documentary on Pixar that is part of the Wal*E bonus features, which is fascinating and left us with an urge to watch Toy Story again. (The documentary, in the stuff about Toy Story 2, had a snippet about "Jesse's Song" and everyone's emotional reaction to it. I, predictably, started sniffling.)
ION, oooh, Blu-ray of
The Lost Boys.
Yes, it does look better. My gothy heart is full of glee and clichés!
I adore the short that came with it. Presto is possibly my favorite Pixar movie ever.
It's definitely my favorite Pixar short.
I read Bambi at some point in elementary school, and I only remember a few bits but isn't there
a deer that's caught & tamed, and then used as a lure by hunters
? So, yeah, the movie's got nothing on it.
But I think a lot of children's fiction section at the library could have been called "horrible traumas inflicted on animals." The fact that the animals can't control what happens to them is, I suspect, a large part of the appeal for kids.
I read the original Bambi novel and was taken aback at how strongly anti-hunting it was.
But that was as nothing compared to reading the sequel to
101 Dalmations,
The Starlight Barking.
The Starlight Barking.
That book was rather trippy, wasn't it? I'm glad to hear that someone else has read it, because it was just so bizarre that at one point I wondered if I'd simply
dreamed
about it.
I just googled, and I think I may have found the hidden source of my recurring 101 Dalmations nightmares that I had as a child...