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Does anyone else feel like we're becoming a nation of thumbsuckers? Blockbuster films now are almost all children's fables or cartoon characters. (OK, Private Ryan, exceptions do occur...). I want my Blade Runner, 2001, Alien, etc. You know, no cute little kids inserted in the film for no plot reason; no cute little dreamworks creatures, no schmaltzy music to cue my emotions, no adults acting like nervous teenagers as romantic scenes unfold, etc. If Spielberg made Jaws today, he'd have a young boy along on the boat for the last scenes.
Follow Ups:
If I tune in to watch Frasier, and his pukey little kid is on the show--I turn it off--nothing can overcome that!What kids do in ADULT sitcoms: Somewhere in Time--Christopher Reeves looks at a penny from the modern world and is immediately transported out of his wonderful dream land--to a time/place of emotional barreness.
Thats what these cutsey kids do to me when I see them in my sitcoms.
Hoping against hope it doesn't happen to my new favorite sitcom--BBC's Coupling. I hope this cancer does not spread
I kid you not.
That could be fun. But it would probably end up like "Bugsy". Wasn't that the gangster movie with the cast of children?
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