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Air Bud...made money?
I was maybe 11 when that movie came out, just slightly past the age group that finds movies like that entertaining, but I recall - even at that young age - feeling my head almost explode when I saw the first previews for that movies. I weep to think that there have been more.
How can one determine the race/ethnicity of a dog? I mean, is a golden retreiver a "white" dog because of the color of his coat? Would the puppy in question not have been a wigger if he had been a black lab or something? Of course, I can't help but wonder if the appearance of said hip-hop puppy was a) a lame-ass attempt to be "inclusive" so black kids would have a dog they could "identify" with, or b) a lame-ass attempt at race-based humor. (i.e minstrelsy... like the whole "Al Jolson" thing you mentioned).
Disney has opened a can of worms here. I'm sure this sort of thing happens all the time, but thankfully, I rarely watch these sorts of movies. I'm going to go check my copy of Babe: Pig in the City and see if maybe there is a street-wise beagle or corgi who runs a 3 card monte scam...
as someone who was recently a child and even more recently as someone who worked in the children's room at a library and babysat a lot in highschool, i can absolutely feel you with the newer set of kids' movies.
the movies i watched growing up were aladdin, lion king, little mermaid- movies that have parts that would be seen as wayy to scary to be made for kids today. and ill admit it, i probably cried the first few times i saw that octopus lady from the little mermaid, but did it really scar me and my peers enough to bring disney to an 8-peat of air bud?
ps- the original air bud, far as i can recall, did not speak. i guess his offspring were more talented than their old man.
I had something profound to say but I lost it while this comment window was loading. So screw it. I'll just sing a song instead.
...some men hunt for sport,
Others hunt for food.
The only thing I'm hunting for
Is an outfit that looks good.
See my vest, see my vest,
Made from real gorilla chest.
Feel this sweater, there's no better
Than authentic Irish Setter.
See this hat, 'twas my cat.
My evening wear, vampire bat.
These white slippers are albino
African endangered rhino.
Grizzly bear underwear,
Turtle necks I've got my share.
Beret of poodle on my noodle it shall rest
Try my red robin suit,
It comes one breast or two...
See my vest, See my vest, See my vest.
Like my loafers, former gophers,
It was that or skin my chauffeurs,
But a greyhound fur tuxedo would be best...
So let's prepare these dogs,
Kill two for matching clogs!
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Okay, I remembered what I was going to write. It's not actually profound at all. It's actually a bit scary.
Although I enjoyed that schlocky cinema when I was a child, I don't think I would ever let my children (if I ever have any) watch that stuff. I would make my kids watch only quality movies. Stuff like Clash of the Titans and Scarface. I don't really care if violence, nudity and curse words are inappropriate for children. I don't want them watching crappy movies.
Maybe it's a good thing that I don't have children and by the way my love life is going, I never will, get laid, nevermind get a woman pregnant..
my pibbles are prettier than Ice-T's pibbles
So is your Air Bud story really just an analogy for something or someone else?
Frank -- in this age where kids movies are played in cars for kids and everything's cross marketed so heavilly that no idea is dropped until it's totally milked -- yeah, Air Bud made a shitton of money.
Adam -- I see what you're saying, but this is after all Disney we're talking about here. Rodney Dangerfield's hit song "Rappin Rodney" had more soul than the lines this puppy was trying to work with.
JerseySjov -- The "dad" Air Bud in the movie I watched with my kid did talk, but you're probably right about the original only being able to bark. It reminds me of one of the last Godzilla movies they put out in the 60's, where of all things -- Godzilla could talk, and actually held conversations with other monsters. Talk about blasphemy!
Wigsf #1 -- Love that episode of the Simpsons. Classic stuff.
Wigsf #2 -- My kid is possibly a bigger Star Wars and Transformers fan than I ever was growing up, which is really sayign something. But like a lot of kids, there's still a space in their imaginations for stuff like this. I mean yeah, you and me know it's a piece of crap film, but he LOVED it.
And my hope is that it sticks with him just enough that when he gets old enough to maybe want to read Jack London's Call of the Wild, that in some small way this rip-off version will peak his interest enough that he will discover how good that story really can be.
ps -- gotta lose that negative attitude about your romantic future, bro. That's half the battle.
unmuse -- they get a bad rap because of the way some people train and treat them, but even with all that, pibbles are cool.
[Cherry] Ride -- Parts of it are, as a lot of my writing is, but for the most part this time -- it's just straight up venting towards the mouse.
down with the mouse?
a 2 year old rode my boy oz like a horsey today. he frickin loved it. he was so proud, like he won a prize.
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