Haha I was just talking to someone the other day about how much I loved Howard the Duck growing up. She was like “uhh… that wasn’t really a kid’s movie, was it?” Maybe not. Maybe it and similar movies are the reason us millennials are the way we are.
And cartoons based on even less appropriate movies! It’s a wonder there was no Terminator adaptation airing between Starship Troopers and Robocop. Ghostbusters was at least deliberately goofy, but the movie was nnnot for kids.
I blame advertising. There was no fine-grain data on demographics, and minimal control over when a station would air your blip of corporate propaganda. So anything big was plastered everywhere. Naturally, anything targeted at men aged 18-35 with disposable income also sounded cool as fuck to boys of any age. Why not cash in and make a beloved Saturday-morning distraction out of the movie where Michael Keaton plays a vulgar corpse?
… oh god, they’re doing a sequel now. At least Keaton’s getting work.
Haha I was just talking to someone the other day about how much I loved Howard the Duck growing up. She was like “uhh… that wasn’t really a kid’s movie, was it?” Maybe not. Maybe it and similar movies are the reason us millennials are the way we are.
We’ll never again have such insane inapropriate movies! the 90s were a special moment in time lol
Me too! Love me some Howard!
And cartoons based on even less appropriate movies! It’s a wonder there was no Terminator adaptation airing between Starship Troopers and Robocop. Ghostbusters was at least deliberately goofy, but the movie was nnnot for kids.
I blame advertising. There was no fine-grain data on demographics, and minimal control over when a station would air your blip of corporate propaganda. So anything big was plastered everywhere. Naturally, anything targeted at men aged 18-35 with disposable income also sounded cool as fuck to boys of any age. Why not cash in and make a beloved Saturday-morning distraction out of the movie where Michael Keaton plays a vulgar corpse?
… oh god, they’re doing a sequel now. At least Keaton’s getting work.
For some reason, I had the book version at a young age and I’m not sure if it was a weirder experience than actually watching the movie.