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Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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I've never actually seen either movie, but I have read Old Yeller. Kat says "Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry" isn't sad, but I think she's crazy. We could just have a weepy reading club.
I also thought Enough Said was both great, and pretty absent some big Trailer Moment, which is kind of what I liked about it.
Where the Read Fern Grows was my big childhood introduction to animal death-based trauma. Not the best choice for my four-year-old self's first movie at the theaters.
The only Disney animated film I recall being bothered by as a kid was Peter Pan, when the alligator was trying to eat Captain Hook. And that sequence is still pretty disturbing to this day.
I was really scared of the big black dragon in Sleeping Beauty.
Dumbo.
Singing flowers in Alice in Wonderland. I was three, my mom had to take me out of the theater, and I had nightmares about being chased by people-sized singing flowers for a long time after.
I always cried at animal deaths, but I was never traumatized by them. But when I was around 7 or 8, I watched a movie w. my brother called The Odessa File, about the Nazis operating in modern day that gave me lifelong nightmares.
My first movie in a theater was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, when I was about 5. I remember the Child Catchers as slightly disturbing then, more disturbing when I watched it again a few years ago. But not as disturbing as the idea of naming a character Truly Scrumptious.
Meanwhile, Ryan's traumatic Disney moment is: when Lightning McQueen was chased by the police car. He has quite the bar for trauma.