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...
But I think a lot of children's fiction section at the library could have been called "horrible traumas inflicted on animals."
Where The Red Fern Grows. Old Yeller.
There's a book that I need to read someday, because the title is just perfect. It's called
No More Dead Dogs.
It's about a kid who, after reading a few of the afore-mentioned books, refuses to read any more. I'm sure it can't be as brilliant as it is in my head, but I less-than-three the concept.
What movie was it that the main character looks at the dog and says, "You know the ending of Old Yeller? I. Didn't. Cry."
